This concerns me, too. Not sure what happened there. The picture you posted is what I'd call a "hot dog" (although I'm not a fan of mustard), so I think that's down to the place they chose to eat. I'm not saying every eatery in Britain produces food fit for the Royal Family. And yes, we do eat apple pie. The serving mash with hot dogs thing was a joke. I think someone who did that would be pretty much universally dubbed a weirdo. Bangers and mash is something else entirely. Never liked brown sauce either. I guess what I'm saying is that you lumping every morsel produced in Britain together and putting its quality or lack thereof down to the country in which it was produced puts my back up somewhat. I spent two weeks in America and found that the food there tasted largely the same as any restaurant food in any country that I've visited.
I'll stop poking fun at you @EstherMayRose and your country's cuisine. Certainly didn't intend to get your back up and I have no wish to be banned or blacklisted.
Ranch dressing, according to an NPR story I heard a few weeks ago. America's unique contribution to world cuisine is ranch dressing. I have Bipolar type I; had it all my life, but was only diagnosed and put on medication for it about a year ago. I can certainly help with any questions!
There's a pun about heating up food in there somewhere, but I can't put it into a neat little sentence, which annoys me...
Haha, it only slightly annoys me. I'm not some kind of deranged, invading lunatic as my previous posts seem to suggest. I should go to bed. It's half past two in the morning and I have a tradition of watching my favourite show before bed, so that's an hour since I missed an episode the other night so am catching up. I have no idea what I'm typing any more...
In Britain hotdogs are highly processed tinned "sausages" in brine, which generally require some form of sauce and bread to make them taste edible. Bangers on the other hand vary widely, depending on where you go, but are generally full of flavour and delicious alongside mashed potato (which is best if made with plenty of butter and a bit of milk). Gravy would also be considered essential here. We do have apple pie, but I think our equivalent of that is likely to be apple crumble.
This is just wrong. Cucumber or Zucchini on a hot dog? Just wrong, just wrong.... And the bun, oh my. This must have been what my brother-in- law meant.
Oh...that's a debate of it's own. There are people sitting in Topeka, Kansas that would say that type of hot dog is Un-American. But if it is the only exposure people in other countries have of a hot dog, I can see how my brother-in-law got a plate of confusion. I swear I saw green beans in there on your picture.
I know, right? He pops up on the telly every now and again as an astrophysicist, it's what he does now.
And Robocop Peter Weller has a Ph.D in Art History, pops up on the "educational" cable TV channels from time to time (when they're not trying to prove Uluru is an alien spacecraft, that is.)
Thanks to my ex-wife (who married the detective she'd been dating), who decided to call me out of the blue. I now know that you can get wine in a can. Why and who decided wine should come in a can?
This I have not tried, this wine in a box. Does it differ from the wine that is in a bottle? Perhaps at some point I shall have to try both the boxed and the canned, to see which is preferable in that regard (though I think most would agree the best way is from a bottle.)
Boxed wine is generally what I'd call "house" or "table" wine, not bad, but not the centerpiece of the evening. I believe the Gallo Bros and Carlo Rossi, among others, sell it. If "California Red" is sufficient for your evening and you're hosting a larger group, or someone who drinks like a large group, it can be quite convenient: Here in Japan you can get single-serving wine in a pouch, similar to the picture below (couldn't find one of the local ones):
Oh, my God, adult Capri Sun! Also there is a video on Facebook that I see occasionally of a I think a comedienne taking cartons of juice out of a plastic bag to give to her kids, then says "And now here's one for Mummy" and takes out a box of wine, which she then pokes a straw into and starts drinking. Always cracks me up.
They WERE toxic because the acids in the tomatoes used to leech the lead out of the pewter plates popular at the time and people would get lead poisoning. Once people started replacing pewter with ceramics and wooden serving vessels, the problem went away.
I went to a party last year and found out the host was a canning scientist. His latest endeavour was putting wine into cans and he rambled on about it for 2 hours while the rest of us were a captive audience. The host claimed he locked the front door to prevent intruders getting in, but it seemed to work equally well at keeping us in place as well, but I digress. I now, unfortunately, have more knowledge about canning wine than I ever wanted to.
