You know what they call a Quarter-Pounder with cheese in Paris?
 

Well...do you?!

hmmm...they call a Big Mac a Royale.....

Wrong, very wrong

hmmm..a Royal with cheese....Pulp Fiction

le Big Mac...

:super: Lol, i wonder how many :google: results came up after THAT search.
You know what they put on Fries instead of Ketchup in Amsterdam?

I admit to having to Google it....my first response was from memory, and I did know what movie it was from...

I would guess vinegar, I know the brits do that and it tastes pretty good actually

Hold up... you DON'T put vinegar on your fries!!
That's illigal in my book.

So what DO you put Vinegar on?

It's mayonnaise, they put Mayonnaise on their chips *cough* fries :)

I put white vinegar in my coffee machine to clean it out....I don't drink it of course...

Fish and Chips
 

Well Guys

I have just finished my fish and chips lunch, sprinkled liberally with low sodium salt and malt vinegar, which I heartily enjoyed.

That said, I do think that what you call "fries" in the US is somewhat different to what we in the UK call "Chips". For example, fries are the thin potato chips you get in McDonalds' which are crispy and are only eaten with some salt. While chips are thicker cuts of potato (2 to 3 times as thick), not as crispy as fries on the outside, soft on the inside and taste great with onion or malt flavoured vinegar.

And as usual, chips can be eaten with any meat, fish, poultry or (yuck) vegetarian dish



UK Bob

Anything goes here. Except vegemite on fries lol :D
Vinegar, tomato sauce (our version of ketchup), mayonaise or white sauce (which is actually a type of mayonaise but intended for adding to fish.)

Likewise ukbob, chips can go with most meat dishes.

Anybody for fries covered in vegemite? :p

You said it for me UK Bob :xeri_ok1ani:

I wish the fries I got from McDonald's were crispy, but they are not even close, because the eastern-european behing the counter serving me doesn't really care :rolleyes:
Some of the food we eat over here gets very weird, and even the names.
"Toad in the hole", yes that's what it's called... Mmmm, sausages in Yorkshire pudding :D

And do not even get me started on Pie and Mash. :biggrin:

Hey LOTR

What is vegemite, is it some kind of vegetarian marmite?


UK Bob

Marmite is vegetarian to start with Bob.
Or was that a sarcastic joke? If so, forget i wrote this.

The Sheikh

Lord, i do believe the "White sauce" you speak of which is used with fish is called "Tartar sauce". And it is beautiful

Sheikh

I'm quite sure that Marmite is made with beef extract, whatever that is.


UK Bob

Hmm, I'll have to look that up, i just thought it was sugar and yeast....and a little bit of tar :biggrin:

Sheikh

Sheikh

I was wrong, it's made from "Yeast Extract" and not "Beef" as I originally thought, I still hate the stuff.


UK Bob

Well you either hate it or you love it, eh...
I love the stuff, i even add it to my Spaghetti Bolognaise sometimes... :super:

Tartar sauce that's it. ;) Yes it is great. Properly made. My father used to make his own from home grown herbs which was superb.

Echo both of you, you either love or hate it .. well .. strangely I'm in middle. I sometimes like it when in mood. And it is a yeast extract, obviously giving it the sharp flavor it has. It's supposed to be applied very thinly. But some people trying it for first time use lots & get a culture shock rock them & never touch it again. When applied lightly, it still has a touch of sharpness in flavor yet a subtleness as well.

Mmm :) home made Tartar, sounds exquisite.
You can't be in the middle, Lord, you either love it or hate it, just like the advert says...so make your mind up :tongue:

The hardest thing in the world is trying to spread Marmite over toast, it's like trying to spread wet mud over sand. :shoot:

You know Guys

I too like tartar sauce and even sea food sauce, even though it's basically coloured mayonnaise.

And I love that good old favourite, Heinz Tomato ketchup.


UK Bob

haha .. haven't tried marmite for a few years. Melted butter on the toast might help. Obviously need to use a very thin scoop to spread delicately.

I guess you could always have toast in one hand, a teaspoon of marmite in the other & taste each after each other. :p :rofl:

Likewise UKBob .. that is about what it is .. but tastes great. We had a locally made version only findable at special food outlets .. is even better.

Heinz over here also, I buy both/either Heinz tomato & ketchup .. depending on my mood at the time, alternating. Ketchup is not quite as sharp in flavor as tomato sauce, but both very very similar.

I've tried all sorts, I'm only one step away from spreading grease on it...:blink:

Another Pulp Fiction Quote:
"Mama potato, papa potato, and baby potato are walking down the street, but the baby potato starts slowing down. So the papa potato walks up to it, squashes it, and says "Ketchup"." :D :aweof:

Bovril
 

TheFakeSheikh

It's "Bovril" that's made from beef extract, I got Bovril and Marmite mixed up because they use the same shaped jar as packaging.


UK Bob

LOL! This is a great thread!

Vegemite is a product made in the US and sold throughout Australia. I am told it can be found in virtualy every home there. I think they spread it on bread or crackers. I don't know if it is sold anywhere in the US. (Unlike Spam, which seems to sell in the US almost as well as it does in the UK. We even have a Spam museum.)

British-style fish and chips never caught on in the US. I guess our newsprint doesn't have the same flavor.

What the Brits put into pies is almost as disgusting as what the Scots eat (I'm of the Craig clan). "Apple pie", an american food, sounds yummy. "Steak & kidney pie"...

And I don't even want to think of the possibilities of "beef extract".

Anyone for Velveeta "cheese product"? It's made from cow extract and I think something from Dupont.

Vegemite was originally a product from Australia but a USA company bought the rights to produce it. Had to say that. :p lol :D
We used to have fish n chips wrapped in newspaper also once upon a time. Now it's just a plain white'ish paper (lack of so many chemicals I guess.)

A slightly different type of pie here. Meat pies; which are about 4 inches (9-10 cm) in diameter, an inch (2.5 cm deep) which make a small handy meal usually for lunch. Traditionally they were a beef gravy. Nowadays they might be a mixture with lamb or kangaroo meat depending on brand. There's also other meat flavors such as chicken or chicken with vegetables. Or curry flavored or meat with mushrooms, etc. Traditionally pies have a dipping of tomato sauce on top, whether the person wants sauce or not.
Then there's 'Party Pies' which are miniature versions of the above meat pies (about 1/2 size, perhaps 1/3 of weight).

LOTR

I tried kangeroo meat once and I liked it, I wish I could get it in my local supermarket.


UK Bob

Kangaroo meat is nice. Similar to beef except minimal fat. It's much better for you than beef. I've only bought actual kangaroo meat a couple of times. It's usually rather expensive.

I've had kangaroo tail (no, not that way!). It was canned, and tasted like a canned lean beef.

Had alligator tail a few years ago. Made me feel like a cave man.

I learned that people in Hawaii consume more Spam per capita than anywhere else in the US (according to Cash Cab). They obviously have a cattle shortage.

Spam
 

Guys

You know, there is a reason why unwanted email is named after a fake meat product, as well as that "Monty Python" song, and that's because it is so awful.

I used to get spam (the fake meat) in primary school, and believe me, I never ever want to taste that foul tasting fatty conglomeration of meat again.

I understand that spam was invented (or thrown together from leftover scraps) during the second world war to feed a population suffering from a (real) meat shortage. So this "thing" from a bygone era should have been consigned to the history books but, due to something mysterious, people like it.

Yuck.


UK Bob

You should look into a class action lawsuit.

And I think punitive damages are in order; after all, they packed the stuff in gelatin!

I think the popularity was continued because it helped remind people of the sacrifices they made and the unity brought about during WWII. Many here say that the war years were among the best years (everyone had a job, and shared a common enemy). Of course, that generation is dying out (too much canned meat?).

They like SPAM in Hawaii??????
 

Well Guys

It might be a fact that they like (love) spam in Hawaii but can anybody say WHY?


UK Bob

PS. May be a forum member from Hawaii can answer that one.

New Vegemite puts Kraft in pickle
 

Well Australian Forum Members

It seems that apart from cricket you really love your Vegemite :xirokrotima:, so much so that any suggestion of renaming the product :peep: is treated as heresy :rifle: :frag: :peep:

BBC NEWS | Asia-Pacific | New Vegemite puts Kraft in pickle




UK Bob

Vegemite originated in Australia but the rights to it were bought over by USA company Kraft. And now many of our other inventions or expertise in development ... becomes USA property. We so luv the USA trade agreement. Giving us little and them the right to change our laws. :( Somehow I think we were greatly shortchanged there. But Howard's Liberal government was so .. pfft !!! The Australian Liberals always were a bunch of arrogant dogmatic prikss; short-sighted & selfish; seeing themselves 'only' in the world.

Lol I donot know!!!!!!!!!