Miscellaneous Links 2009 - The Re-Vengeance

[Captain K.]

Allow me:

"AMERICA!  FUCK YEAH!"

[Grefter]

POUTINE IS AN ABOMINATION.

I am so glad you have been exposed to this stuff so quickly.

[Ultradude]

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20091015/ap_on_re_us/us_chinese_drywall

Crazy China's done it again...

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

This is honestly closer to IotD material.

[Ultradude]

This is honestly closer to IotD material.

More like 'collect articles about buying poison from China, make Idiots of the Decade'

[Excal]

If there was chile on it, it wasn't poutine.  Poutine, better known as Ambrosia, or food of the gods, is quite simply fries, cheese curds, and gravy, typically a type of turkey gravy for best results, though I haven't been in a place where you get the true poutine gourmets in many a year.

As for mayonaise on chips...  that sounds utterly disgusting, and I have never actually seen anyone do so.  So, I'm kinda thinking that's a myth.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Both of those ideas sound rather foul, but less horrifying than ketchup on ice cream.

[Luther Lansfeld]

It may have not had chili, I was too busy throwing up to care.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

* Jo'ou Ranbu checks what the fuck is gravy anyway.

... what in the flying fuck makes you maniacs think that adding -that- to something as greasy as cheese is a good idea!?

[Taishyr]

Gravy is sickening and I only ever use it in one dish I cook, period. That being shepherd's pie, because it helps the stuff coalesce.

[Excal]

Canadian winters.  -30C makes the ability to produce a lot of internal heat very appealing.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Swallowing lit candles sounds more appealing than that, though.

EDIT:

Not to mention you could, just, you know, make a warm, steamy soup or something, which would actually be edible.

[Ultradude]

Don't even go deriding gravy guys.

Just... don't go there.

[Excal]

Eh, like I said earlier.  Food of the gods, and a delicacy like few others.

...  man, we totally got the wrong kind of cheese in the house right now.  And used up all the potatoes.

[Ultradude]

Eh, like I said earlier.  Food of the gods, and a delicacy like few others.

...  man, we totally got the wrong kind of cheese in the house right now.  And used up all the potatoes.

I totally need to make sure we have leftover gravy after Thanksgiving so I can make this. Fries + gravy is already good, so hey, adding something I've never had (cheese curds) totally can't be a bad idea.

[Cotigo]

As for mayonaise on chips...  that sounds utterly disgusting, and I have never actually seen anyone do so.  So, I'm kinda thinking that's a myth.

Actually, that's because you misunderstand.  In American/Canadian, Chips refer to those sliced-and-fried potatoes that are really greasy and salty.  In British, chips refer to what Americans call French Fries.  They call American chips "crisps."

The more you know~

(Note:  This makes putting Vinegar on "chips" acceptable but mayonnaise is still really weird.  Saw people eating that in France.  Not so much England.)

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

I'd say eating mayonnaise with anything (or eating mayonnaise at all) period is really weird~, but hey.

[Anthony Edward Stark]

Gravy is sickening and I only ever use it in one dish I cook, period. That being shepherd's pie, because it helps the stuff coalesce.

If there were any justice in the world, you would have been kicked in the head by a horse afterwards for typing this.

[Taishyr]

Meanwhile I consider it justice that I wasn't.

[Excal]

Huh, never actually tried gravy in sheperd's pie.  Mostly because the potatoes are what I use to jam everything together.

As for Zenny, I realise there is a difference in what is meant.  However, they both sound equally unappealing to me.

[metroid composite]

British food is fucking amazing, if only because we steal all the best foods from everywhere else. (So, uhh, a lot like the Americans really!)
Except we have much more tea instead of coke. Hence, better.

Food you steal doesn't count as your food.  I could go into most first-world countries and find sushi.  Doesn't mean sushi belongs to that country.

When I think British food, I think of the kind of food I get if I sit down in a British...well pub/restaurant would probably be a more accurate description than restaurant (god forbid there be a place where you can't buy alcohol).  They tend to be focused on stuff like Steak and Kidney Pie, Fish and Chips, Yorkshire Pudding, Scones.

I don't have a high opinion of it in general (though I'll give a nod to the Scots--Haggis done right is actually quite good).


Anyway...

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/10/11/the-11-creepiest-unintent_n_316963.html
11 creepiest unintentionally sexual ads.

http://photoshopdisasters.blogspot.com/
photoshop disasters.

[Jo'ou Ranbu]

Those are just gold.

[NotMiki]

Food you steal doesn't count as your food.  I could go into most first-world countries and find sushi.  Doesn't mean sushi belongs to that country.

America, in large part, takes other people's food ideas and unashamedly makes them our own.  I mean, California rolls, anyone?  (Chesesteaks are all us, though.  Go team!)

British food is fucking amazing, if only because we steal all the best foods from everywhere else. (So, uhh, a lot like the Americans really!)
Except we have much more tea instead of coke. Hence, better.

I agree that more tea = better, but the UK (and Ireland especially) mangles tea leaves to such an extent that you NEED milk in it because it's so damn bitter.  So there's room for improvement.

[Captain K.]

People don't like gravy?  Huh, we eat it quite a bit here.  Goes on chicken-fried steak, or on biscuits for breakfast.  (and that's the bread-type biscuits, not cookies you Brits)

[Cmdr_King]

Most regions of the US, in my experience, have some variety or other of gravy it favors.  Disliking it is more an individual thing.

(Like most other things in the "high-fat goop" catagory, I don't mind it incorporated into cassarols or the like but never add it directly to food)