[HUG] Re: British cooking
- From: "BOB KISS" <bobkiss@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 26 Oct 2007 17:36:33 -0400
Why not just go to Italy? Everything is less expensive and you get much
better value for your money!
BOB
-----Original Message-----
From: hasselblad-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:hasselblad-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of flexbody
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 4:50 PM
To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [HUG] Re: British cooking
Hello Tom,
I do not know which one because I never met the guy.
As far as my memory goes he was there sometime in the 17nd century.
When used to decent meals, nothing *** Michelin, England is a disaster zone.
No wonder Italian, Thai, Greek, French etc. restaurants
do well in England.
Richard
----- Original Message -----
From: "ivan" <shukster@xxxxxxx>
To: <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, October 26, 2007 7:16 PM
Subject: [HUG] Re: British cooking
> Six King Georges
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: hasselblad-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> [mailto:hasselblad-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Tom Just Olsen
> Sent: October 26, 2007 10:56 AM
> To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
> Subject: [HUG] British cooking
>
> Which king George was it? They had five altogether. What Joanne might
> find
> suprising is that sheep, cooked to glue in Australia, actually is eaten in
> Britain. Tasts
> good when you get used to it. And all the wool is removed.
>
> Tom of Oslo
>
>> From: flexbody [flexbody@xxxxxxxxx]
>> Sent: 2007-10-26 01:16:12 CEST
>> To: hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> Subject: [HUG] Re: Per Nordlund is back...and nervous
>>
>> Dear Uncle Dick,
>>
>> Forgive me for the intrusion I happened to see the mail you addressed to
> my
>> cousin Ulrik.
>> I think no warning can be sufficient to prepare Joanne and others for
>> that
>
>> matter concerning British cuisine.
>> While still in college at the end of the sixties I made my first trip to
>> England with a couple of good friends.
>> We were om a tight budget and got used to super artificial looking green
>> peas served at dinner
>> On the last day of our stay we decided to have a decent meal at a
> restaurant
>> that used to be visited by some King
>> George a few hundred years before us.
>> We were glad to get some nice fresh vegetables at last.
>>
>> Some time after we ordered the waiter appeared again and informed us the
>> cook was very sorry but the only vegetables available were peas.
>> Our faces must have shown shock and horror as we discovered we got the
> same
>> ugly green looking peas we had during all our other meals this time at 4
>> times the price of the other meals.
>>
>> Take as much fresh fruit that you can carry and a lot of good chocolate
> bars
>> when preparing for a short stay in England.
>> Those who are enough foolish to plan a longer stay I recommend space
>> food.
>> It is tasteless but little harm can come of it.
>>
>> Richard.
>>
>>
>> ----- Original Message -----
>> From: "Stein" <rstein@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> To: <hasselblad@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> Sent: Thursday, October 25, 2007 12:21 PM
>> Subject: [HUG] Re: Per Nordlund is back...and nervous
>>
>>
>> >
>> > Dear Nephew Ulrik,
>> >
>> > You have to remember that these are British people we are talking
>> > about. It is best to have no illusions about convenience and ease of
>> > supply.
>> > Of course one should not tar the whole nation of 80 million for the
>> > behaviour of a mere 79,900,990 individuals, but it would be best to
>> > prepare
>> > Joanne - a mere slip of a girl and quite unused to foreign parts - for
>> > what
>> > she will encounter.
>> >
>> > I will leave it to you to describe the cooking - and the hospitals -
>> > and Heathrow on a hot afternoon. I will merely endeavour to ease her
> shock
>> > at the ways of the British camera shop.
>> >
>> > She would do well to ease into it slowly, lest the shock cause
>> > cramping. A few minutes spent in the local Jessops being glared at will
>> > harden her surface enough to enable her to attempt a visit to Bond St.
>> > After
>> > this wears off - a warm pack and massage helps - she can steel herself
> to
>> > visit Grays of Westminster. I believe this is the store that Captain
> Scott
>> > used to train himself at..." I'm just going inside for a while. I may
>> > be
>> > some time..."
>> >
>> > Uncle Dick
>> >
>> >
>> >
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