What's this current obsession with Pulled Pork all about?

[Pat Vegas]

I've had pulled pork in London a few times and it's crap a pale imitation of the real stuff.

KFC doing it, Subway doing it.
Same goes for this street food craze.

Stop nicking the US's gimmicks and making them **** and weird.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Classic Jorge]

http://theyoutubebuzz.com/site/wp-content/uploads/2014/11/EpicMealTime.jpg

or this guy

http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2013/09/18/article-2424441-1BE5E56D000005DC-762_634x417.jpg

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

All great cuisines have a history of doing this.

Tha Yanqui was probably the first to add a sauce of ketchup, sugar and extra sugar, of course.

[Monty91]

Try the version at Pitt Cue Co, or even the less food****ish Bodeans, and you may feel differently.

[Luis Anaconda]

It is also big here as well for some reason and you can hardly call the Germans ones for jumping on the foodie bandwagon. They pretty much still expect you to catch and kill your own food here

[Pat Vegas]

and it was bland and boring including a wedding.

Now if you want a good sandwich there is an Italian chap in Angel who does a good porchetta panini.

[Pat Vegas]

this too, All these hot dog crusts, cheeseburger crusts. A lot of them are made for the UK market. But the perception is it's those fat ******* Americans who invented it.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

[Berni]

Ribs, on the other hand...

[Luis Anaconda]

I imagine if you were one of those here you would probably turn into some sort of lunatic

[Pat Vegas]

Some of them I had were soggy is it supposed to be like this?
I know it's soft but not soggy.
Like when you get a soggy kebab.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

So food retail outlets, both fast and otherwise, can provide the product and a large amount of the purchasing public think they are getting a luxury product even though it isn't.

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

All 'carnists' as I saw meat-eaters being disparagingly called the other day :-)

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

able to produce such a thing, of course. The accompanying sauce, however, is a dentist's retirement plan.

What IS this obsession with sweetening the savoury? I'm pretty sure we can lay that charge at our transtlantic cousins.

[Luis Anaconda]

[71 Guns - channeling the spirit of Mr Hat]

habit. Fish are used to make the glue for the bottle labels apparently...

[Berni]

their pizzas are sweet!

There doesn't seem to be an item they don't believe can be improved by the addition of sugar. You come back from a week in the place on the verge of diabetic coma.

[Monty91]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Well, Thai cuisine is predicated upon the balance of sweet, sour, salt and bitter. I would say that Smoking Goat has the balance pretty much right.

If you are referring to the sweetness of the chicken wings, I turn my back upon you and piss in your mum's handbag, because you're too stupid to waste further words on.

[Jake]

V nice contrast to the slow 'n sweet.

Mind you, they didn't invent it did they.

[Luis Anaconda]

or starve basically

[Berni]

spicy and delicious (as long as you stopped the Yanqui putting their sweet sauces on it, of course :rolleyes: ). Such a contrast to the truly awful Tex-Mex style stuff you get in...well... in Texas.