ha! nothing wrong with a roo sausage or wallaby pie. why not eat your national emblem?
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Well I spose Roast Beef and Yorkshire pudding with roast tatties buttered carrots and a few greens; being traditional English fair ....another cut of the old cow is pretty national...

All this talking of food im getting hungry ....

Its time to set the charcoal alight and get the steak out, put the wine in the fridge...catch you later after I have eaten and had few glasses of the old grape juice.
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Yeah I'm getting hungry too. Potnoodle I reckon - programmers food. It will have to be the old classic "Bombay Badboy"

Try adding a bit of extra chilli powder and soy sauce!
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I'm going to hope and pray you all are talking about food! At least nobody is having a Donner kebab.

The appetizing names. Another reason the English are not known for their cuisine!
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oh yes we are Joseph...it's just that what we're known for is drowning it in lard!
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I love making Prime Rib of Beef with Yorkshires! They are great for sopping up the juices! add a little horse radish sauce and a cesar salad and I am in heaven...
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The difference between heaven and hell

Heaven-

An English manor
A Chinese cook
A Japanese wife
An American paycheck

Hell-

A Japanese house
An English cook
A Chinese paycheck
An American wife
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Don't know about you guys over there but with the price of things like meat at the moment ill soon be living of baked beans and toast....yum yum.
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Price of meat? People still buy meat? Gosh, that reminds me to collect the bugs and rodents for dinner.
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yes...u would think that the sheep or cow is becoming a rare species but the amount of energy costs to get the meat to the supermarket has risen so much its no wonder that bovine costs $6-7 aud for a small serve of serlion I think ill have to eat organic meat made from soya products...
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Yea, they're pulling the same crap on us over here. I cringe when I go to buy groceries. Hamburger is selling for what steak was going for, a year ago. Forget veggies and fruit. We grow it here, and it costs us more than the rest of the country. 5-6 oranges for $5 and everybody's got an orange tree somewhere near them. It's just crazy now.
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Very funny Joseph as usual

I dont think any of the NEW generation are good cooks in any country, with all this pre-cooked pre-prepared food and meals ready to just pop in microwave..
All the takeaways on every corner, people are too busy; they dont even make basic things like coffee or sandwiches anymore.

All wrapped in plastic which adds to the rubbish mountain
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At this juncture Id like to point out my mother and father were cook and chef ( females not allowed to be chef back then)

They taught me the ART of cooking and I passed on this very ancient art on to my daughter.... needless to say she is the only one of her peer group who can cook....hence she is probably in the takeaway now getting hers and her managers breakfast.

What are we like?...


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I think the 'fast food' trend is just indicative of a cultural shift from workmanship to ease of consumption. There will always be a niche market for high quality workmanship, but the general populace don't have the funds (or time) to attain it, so they suffice with mock quality.

They buy take out foods for 'special nights', frozen entree's for quick meals at home. It may not taste really really good, but it's fast and easy.

They buy prefab furniture to get a bookcase really easy, even if the shelves will start sagging in a few years.

They buy compact cameras even though some shots will be impossible to record correctly because it has no manual features, but they won't know how to calculate the f-stop and speed to use anyways... At least they don't need to lug around a 35mm, 2 1/4, or 4x5 camera (or gasp an 8x10 like Ansel Adams).

We like our stuff fast and easy.
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Well, I got to disagree with you partially. I'm born and raised in New Orleans, and men tend to do a lot more cooking than women. And cooking a proper meal is still a habit there. Fast food doesn't really do well there(except with the tourists). I avoid fast-food when at all possible. And I still make my own coffee in the morning(I don't get in my car until I'm coffee'ed up, in Florida. A good way to get yourself killed.)
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I meant culturally, not individually.

I percolate coffee in a stove top caraffe, but don't grind the beans.

The last fast food I had was a middle east food called falafel a few years ago. It was mediocre, so I just prepare the sauce myself at home, and buy some precooked patties (I have never been able to cook them at home for some odd reason.) We do eat out though about once a week.

The funny thing is, that with all the 'time saving' devices we use (cars, microwaves, dishwashers, laundry machines, computers...) you would think we would have lots of time to relax and enjoy quality foods, take extra time to hand make those bookshelves and starch, iron and fold the laundry...
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I agree Antony with dishwashers and washing machines, digi cameras etc.

We should have more time to relax and really enjoy food and drink( we better not forget the drink in the Voodoo pub) ...because the prices going up in leaps and bounds; its going to be a luxury soon.
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I must disagree too. I am 21 years old and i only ever cook from scratch.



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Im glad to hear that; Stacey, my daughter is 21.....

and you have some wonderful vegetables and fruit that grow in Spain; you must have a good repatoire of recipes...

Maybe we should do some swaps!!
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Are you married, Stacey?!!!! lol

I would say a good digital camera is an improvement on cameras. The time and money I wasted on film development, only to get packs of bad picks of my art. Half of the problem is developers. Not having the ability to do it myself, I suffered thru years of badly cropped pics.
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