totally dig, collard greens (for the dark complected fellas in our midst), stuffing, mac n cheese with gruyere. all kinds of wine and sh!t.
Aww yeea.
totally dig, collard greens (for the dark complected fellas in our midst), stuffing, mac n cheese with gruyere. all kinds of wine and sh!t.
Aww yeea.
Are you one of them darkies then, e?Quote:
Originally Posted by eastgermanautos
The grub sounds great. I have to marshal all that tomorrow.
We "celebrate" Thanksgiving in my house too nowadays, for some mysterious reason, so I just use it as a dry-run for Christmas dinner.
Careful, the anti-turkey brigade will be on your case. Pwopah food snobs have goose, or manderin duck or something.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
:vsign: :driving:Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
;-)
I doubt even my best friends would describe me as a food snob, to be honest. Or, indeed, any other kind of snob. In fact, **** all snobs.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Game, goose, rib of beef, duck - anything but bloody turkey, a. Even the smell of turkey depresses me. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
That's all everyday stuff, whereas turkey is special. Just for Christmas, in fact.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
And thanksgiving too, of course. Anyway, point is, it isn't about liking it.
No. I have too few meals left in my life to go around eating stuff I don't like just because it's tradition, I'm afraid. It's like all those chaps round your way eating slimy, bony, muddy-tasting carpe frite just because it's Easter. Balls to that.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I'm the head of a family though; tradition is sort of important.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
People don't want to travel halfway around the world to the trough here bearing wondrous gifts without knowing in advance that they're going to find an enormous fat turkey done up with all the trimmings and lashes of the best strong drink.
And if they don't come then everybody's kiddies don't get all their presents and there's no family anymore.
The whole point of turkey is that, if properly cooked, it is very nice without being overwhelming and therefore it compliments all the trimmings beautifully. Not to mention that as a slightly gamey bird, it makes wonderful gravy. Crown and roast the breast, braise the legs, make a wonderful gravy and serve it with creamed sprouts, fried bread stuffing, roast potatoes and vegetables and a chipolata.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I fail to see how any man could not like that, Burney. It is certainly far superior to roast duck, which is always disappointing because the breast tastes like liver and there only so many things that go with it. Roast goose or a rib of beef, I will give you, are wonderful options. But turkey is wonderful, if properly prepared.
That is to say, not very appealing.Quote:
Originally Posted by eastgermanautos
Collard greens are basically turnip tops aren't they?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
How was your evening?
I think he has just gone off to be sick
Or to look at the dents in his car
It was utterly rank, thank you. I think I have alcohol poisoning.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Turkey is merely a tedious lump of protein that has the sole virtue of size. Its only flavour is a rather foetid one that is quite distinct from that of game. The reason it requires so many 'trimmings' is because without them, no-one would bother eating the filthy thing.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
People who claim to like turkey have little or no palate in my experience.
Gosh. I gathered you might not be in the whole of your health from your late appearance.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Was there lots of sexism and racism? Are you strong enough to talk about it yet?
Did your w-c friends encourage you to down your drinks in one and cheer?Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
Light and frothy racial abuse bantz?
I'll let Raymond Blanc and Gordon Ramsay, to name but two, know how you feel about their palates.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
As bad as that, eh. Actually, I think I agree with B after all.Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
There was Sambuca :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I have dim recollections of a particularly offensive rant about 'queers and faggots'. Still, at least I didn't get racialistic.
There was quite a lot of downing drinks in one. Oh God it was so horrible.Quote:
Originally Posted by Viva Prat Vegas
"Gordon, we need a turkey recipe for Christmas"Quote:
Originally Posted by World's End Stella
"But turkey's ****, you can keep your 20 grand."
When did this obsession with drinking Sambuca start? I remember it being something my father might drink in a bar on holiday in the Med if he was already pretty far gone, but a few years ago, people seemed to decide it was something to drink in shots. I can only assume there was some canny marketing behind this because Christ knows it can't be because of the flavour.Quote:
Originally Posted by Sir C
I'm going to do your lamb kebab thing tonight, I think.
I remember drinking quite a lot of it in the 90s. Probably explains a few things. As evil as it is, it is still better than the obsession with ****ing Jägermeister. I had both in one evening a couple of weeks back - the result was not prettyQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Oh, I can't drink Jägerbombs ever again. Any combination of alcohol and Red Bull seems to cause me to have psychotic episodes. :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Of course the drink that started all this shots nonsense is tequila, which - as I've explained many times before - is pure, liquid evil.
Bear in mind the importance of the red onion, yoghurt, chilli sauce and big handfuls of mint and coriander. Without these it wouldn't have worked so well.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
I haven't touched Sambuca since that night in the Drum & Monkey after the 2-2 with Barcelona. :-( :puke:Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Oh christ - I wish I could say the same but I blocked that out of my mind.Quote:
Originally Posted by Ash
Preaching to the converted here, b. Beyond evil. One of my first weeks here, we had a big function in a Mexican restaurant - there was a tequila tasting (laughingly we were told this was the good stuff). Being new I didn't want to seem out of place*. Don't think I have touched it sinceQuote:
Originally Posted by Burney
* yeah right
Nah, I'm a white dude. But my longtime pal from college is a black fellow from Shreveport, LA. He represents a mix of things: total rich kid, as his pops was a sort of mafioso of sludge contracting in Louisiana. On the other hand my friend, effete and probably embarrassed by this source of wealth, is a major gourmand and world traveler. He brings the Southern cooking -- collard greens, grits I guess -- but also provides the fancier items.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
Tequila is indeed the devil's beverage of choice.Quote:
Originally Posted by Luis Anaconda
Yeah, I think turkey is unfairly slammed. You need to slather it in other stuff, but that's exactly what gravy and above all cranberry sauce is for. Plus the volume: you have enough flat-out food to provide for the troops.Quote:
Originally Posted by redgunamo
I think you're, perhaps wilfully, missing the point. The jamboree is all about extravagance, opulence, conspicuous consumption and waste. Overdoing it, over-indulging with a guilt-free, fat *******-style frilliness.Quote:
Originally Posted by Burney
Not because it's right or anything, or because anybody actually likes it, but simply as a way of demonstrating, saying we *can*, aren't we terrific!
Your best friend is black :-(Quote:
Originally Posted by eastgermanautos
You wanna be careful; the Trump-folk will be after you.