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Warnings about ordering certain foods in certain cities
Dav wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 08:11:40 +0100, "Andrew @ Rockface"
> > wrote:
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>> Dav wrote:
>>> On Fri, 21 Apr 2006 07:45:02 +0100, "Andrew @ Rockface"
>>> > wrote:
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>>>> wrote:
>>>>> First, if you are not from St. Louis, don't even THINK about ordering
>>>>> St. Louis Style pizza. It's made with slimy process cheese.
>>>>> In Cincinnati, they put all kinds of weird shit in their chili, and it
>>>>> tastes awful to nearly everyone who didn't grow up on it.
>>>>> In Memphis, be aware that if you order a BBQ sandwich, they will put a
>>>>> plop of coleslaw right on the sandwich if you don't tell them not to.
>>>>>
>>>>> Anyone have other cities to add?
>>>> Cornish pasties made anywhere outside Cornwall always have carrot and
>>>> minced beef in them. Satan's pasties! Correct ingredients: beef steak
>>>> (usually chuck), onion/leak, turnip (what everyone else seems to call
>>>> swede), potato, salt, pepper.
>>> Ginsters pasties seem to be 'correct' in that regard. Used to eat
>>> stacks of them (the shop across the road from me would always have
>>> loads that were just about to go out of date and they'd sell them
>>> three for a quid in the evening)...
>> Awful pasties! No one, and I mean no one in Cornwall eats those
>> *******ing things. If you ever come down I'll buy you a proper one.
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> What's so bad about them? I think that they're quite nice, considering
> that they come in a plastic packet...
If you'd ever had a locally made pasty you'd know what's wrong with
them. I guess it's a little like comparing a shrink-wrapped frozen pizza
with a freshly made pizza in Italy. They really are horrible next to the
pasties we eat down here.
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Andrew @ Rockface
np: Yellow 6 - Tomorrow [stopped]
www.rockface-records.co.uk
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