Foodie afficienado thread.

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Sick of foam parties.
For the first five days they were ok.
The youngsters would come to pick us up and give us backies to Big Ben and Malia-Mission club land.
The crack is you get merry with them on campus as club land is expensive.
And after much Raki off you wobble to dance the dance.
House music is intense but the dance is mellow and anyway you get strobe lights to help out.
Make a prayer hand and then seperate them and cut through the air with slicing movements.
After a bit you chill out with water and then comes the foam.
Rinse repeat and we felt our jollies were slipping away from us.

So we had to change our ways..
We went for a posh meal tonight at an open air restaraunt.
Three courses for 12 euros and the best seats in the house.
I had meatballs on skewer and a steak for mains and a cheese cake.
A splendid evening of small talk and feasting.

We got merry on the wine and have just come back home.
On the balcony we loudly gave our ratings on the meal over another pack of Mythos bottles.
I thought the meatballs was rather splendid and I scored them a firm 9
Wife had tommie soup and was convinced the basil additive made it a winner scoring a 10 as her baps were luke warm.
I thought my steak was undercooked and lacked character.
She thought the fat content was disconcerting but said it was nice anyway.
My cheeses cake was served in a glass wtf ehh it came in a glass and there was nothing there to evaluate.
The other half had the same and she agreed that although Greece was having financial problems they should still be giving better portions sizes eh ?

Anway I scored 7.5 and she said 7 and was still well happy .
Then just then Graham from the balcony next door popped his head round and said he was a foodie like us : /
Apparantly they go to restauraunts back in UM and engaged us in pleasanteties concerning fine dining and etiquette.
Fact of the matter is we both would not know a spud from a turnip as we get all our scran from Iceland.
We just had to blag our way through his busy body lecture on hoers des overies and canopays and what wine goes best with chateues briiand etc etc.

Are you a foodie afficienado and do you like fine dining ?
What is you favorirete high end dish or would you sooner just get a kebab on the way home.?
 
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Is the skewer just to stop the meatballs from rolling around?

I just had a bagel with cream cheese and am waiting for the wife to get home so we can go to the pub for fish and chips.
 
Ffs Taxi i still have posts of yours from a year ago i still need to read xD

I have 3 specific potato varieties growing right now and some rare fruits, white strawberry's for example. The thing is i like growing stuff for a technical excellence perspective. I have a digital meter to tell me if the soil is off or not. I keep a load of high quality nutrients from when i grew my own smoke to. I have also dug a meter down and hand sieved the soil out and laid a base of gravel and added 400 litres of pearlite to veg and flower beds where i sieved and appropriate ratios of potash and fish blood and bone, well dug in. I have a fine compost heap for seedlings and a main one to dig in for longer term nutrient release also. My soil is now perfect after 3 years of conditioning.

(this has made me fussy, not snobby but fussy)

I take herbs right from the plant turn around and rub straight onto meat after a rinse, asparagus straight from the garden onto the bbq with a squeeze of lemon juice, feels nice to do.

This has given me an appreciation for veggies more but i am partial to a kebab to. My burgers have to be just so, i can't get shitty take out ones.

Sorry you got the 'Russel Brand' steak, it happens sometimes but it should not. How long are you in Greece for boss?
 
These fuckers are the modern foodie, probably lovely people but ffs look at his hair and how much they fawn over stuff, shut up and stick it in yer gob ya pair of fuckers :-)

 
TCIB said:
Get a... umm 'micro ponytail'? and beard trimmed to the point everyone knows you just love looking at yourself in the mirror and you shall have the same it looks like :-D
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I can't grow (much) hair on the top of my head mate, I'm bald as fuck! Got a shit beard as well! Looks like Sterlings!
 
We went to a high end AA rosette restauraunts once in Newby Bridge.
It was to be a wonderful evening of ambience and fine dining.
Seven courses no less with all the trimmings.
The menu was all foreign sounding like with a lot of French poetic license.

I said on the second course that I asked for fish and the waiter said had sir lost his sense of smell.It was fish soup but I thought it was leek and potatoes.
Other course quickly came and went until it was the time for the piece du resistance.
The main course had arrived and the posh waiter said madame et monsieur presente au pleasoire. Fillet of Aberdeen Angus et petit poi..
He lifted up the silver lid and there was hardly any Angus there.
It was a small bit of meat and tiny courgette an Carrott and sweed joined together with artisticly drawn gravy.

After that we had a few more courses and then went to sit by the fire with coffee and a mint.
After that we both went straight to Windermere chippy in the car because we were so hungry.
Sometimes posh is not best

Our balcony is on the main strip and the clubbers are just coming home.
A few I know just waved.They will sleep all day now.

Tonight were having Greek..
Another week left tcib
Adio Kalimera Yassou.
 
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Good call Gabriel.
We are going to one tonight called Odas.
It's just a five minute walk away and is set in a beautiful courtyard with flower trees a type of cherry blossom I think but more purple?
It comes number ten on Tripadvisor and looks nice.
About a ten spot for a nice lamb dinner which is value.
I was sent out to Find it and just had a few scoops with the family who run it.
Cretions to a man and always lived here they said..
A litre Carrif of house wine is for pennies.
Hope they do that traditional act with the plate breaking.
Yammos pal Yammos et Adio.

Have peep at this ..

https://creti.co/blog/top-10-cretan-food-specialties/
 
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Taxi said:
Sick of foam parties.
For the first five days they were ok.
The youngsters would come to pick us up and give us backies to Big Ben and Malia-Mission club land.
The crack is you get merry with them on campus as club land is expensive.
And after much Raki off you wobble to dance the dance.
House music is intense but the dance is mellow and anyway you get strobe lights to help out.
Make a prayer hand and then seperate them and cut through the air with slicing movements.
After a bit you chill out with water and then comes the foam.
Rinse repeat and we felt our jollies were slipping away from us.

So we had to change our ways..
We went for a posh meal tonight at an open air restaraunt.
Three courses for 12 euros and the best seats in the house.
I had meatballs on skewer and a steak for mains and a cheese cake.
A splendid evening of small talk and feasting.

We got merry on the wine and have just come back home.
On the balcony we loudly gave our ratings on the meal over another pack of Mythos bottles.
I thought the meatballs was rather splendid and I scored them a firm 9
Wife had tommie soup and was convinced the basil additive made it a winner scoring a 10 as her baps were luke warm.
I thought my steak was undercooked and lacked character.
She thought the fat content was disconcerting but said it was nice anyway.
My cheeses cake was served in a glass wtf ehh it came in a glass and there was nothing there to evaluate.
The other half had the same and she agreed that although Greece was having financial problems they should still be giving better portions sizes eh ?

Anway I scored 7.5 and she said 7 and was still well happy .
Then just then Graham from the balcony next door popped his head round and said he was a foodie like us : /
Apparantly they go to restauraunts back in UM and engaged us in pleasanteties concerning fine dining and etiquette.
Fact of the matter is we both would not know a spud from a turnip as we get all our scran from Iceland.
We just had to blag our way through his busy body lecture on hoers des overies and canopays and what wine goes best with chateues briiand etc etc.

Are you a foodie afficienado and do you like fine dining ?
What is you favorirete high end dish or would you sooner just get a kebab on the way home.?
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As I read that, I thought it was a fucking poem! Half way down, I realized it was just a long series of one liners cobbled into a post. No wonder I can't make head nor tails of it!!

I hope your food goes down well.

P.S. If you like meat....Austin, TX. La Barbecue (food truck) on Cesar Chavez Ave. Arrive at 10:30am or you will be 50th in line by the time they open at 11. Bring money, shades and shorts, as it can get hot waiting, even under the canopies, and you will want to try everything. Personally, I believe you have to have the brisket, center cut, not too much bark (but enough to add what little flavor it might need) and some pork ribs. Brisket is $20/lb and is a huuuge eat, so maybe half a pound, plus half a pound of ribs. I did 1lb of brisket and 1/4 ribs and couldn't eat the rest of the day, so be warned. Next time, I'm doing 1/2 & 1/2. You won't be sorry if you are ever in Austin, which is foodie heaven.
 
I am getting a penchant for this foodie business.
Before I came here I just ate shit and never gave flavours or colours a second thought.
Their oil dressing is passed down from generation to generation.
Lots of herbs and spices are utilized.

In Benidorm we both just ate pies and chips and kebabs.
Well think on this one then.. ..
You should never eat anything unless it lives in a zoo.
Been to Chester and Knowsley safari park and I have never seen a Kebab enclosure ?
What does it look like and how many legs has it got eh ?
Donnar Kebabicus. . Habitat Indian serangett ..Population plentiful...I do not think so !

Why not educate your stomachs and stop eating crap.
We have just thrown all our biscuits in the bin.
This is a new start for us both and you are what you eat !
 
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Sos Chicago with my composition but I only did a GCSE English but anyway the locals understand us.as we both speak fluent Euros.
It's what you have in your pants that matters.

The Alamo is on our bucket list.
Davy Crocket was a legend.
Yammos pal.
 
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Taxi said:
Sos Chicago with my composition but I only did a GCSE English but anyway the locals understand us.as we both speak fluent Euros.
It's what you have in your pants that matters.

The Alamo is on our bucket list.
Davy Crocket was a legend.
Yammos pal.
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No worries, mate!

Alamo is in San Antonio, so make sure you do the river walk, too.
Alamo is a half day event, if that, but the riverwalk is the place to enjoy libations.
Austin is not too far away, in American terms.
I highly recommend a visit if you are in that neck of the woods.
Other than that, Texas is pretty much a wasteland!
 
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