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  • P PecuniousPete

    I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!

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    PecuniousPete wrote:

    "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something."

    My college age daughter says the same thing about French men.

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    • C Corporal Agarn

      In America it would not surprise me if the kid asked for a Bud[^] and McDonald's chicken nuggets. For those of you who do not know chicken may or may not be used to make "chicken" nuggets.

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      Budweiser = X| I only drink imported beers ;P

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        Budweiser = X| I only drink imported beers ;P

        "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

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        Corporal Agarn
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        So questionable food is okay, but beer has standards? :laugh: I actually have not had a beer for 30 plus years, so I do not know what is out there. Just thought Bud was a good redneck beer. Guess I should have said Duff's.

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          So questionable food is okay, but beer has standards? :laugh: I actually have not had a beer for 30 plus years, so I do not know what is out there. Just thought Bud was a good redneck beer. Guess I should have said Duff's.

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          :laugh: I used to like Bud Light, but my preference these days is Guinness :-\

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          • J Jimmy Savile

            PecuniousPete wrote:

            To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food,

            Your about to get flamed.

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            Your about to get flamed.

            And you're about to get berated for your appalling grammar! ;P


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            • P PecuniousPete

              I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!

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              First - how can you put 'boil-in-the-bag' and "dinner" in the same sentence, wherever you currently live or hail from? Second - 'mint sauce' is an abomination that perfectly ruins any food it accompanies (though it might improve boil-in-the-bag...) Third - you think the British like sweet? Visit NZ and try some kiwi versions. They even put sugar in their marmite, the most savoury of savouries. And don't get me started on them putting vanilla in EVERYTHING....

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              • P PecuniousPete

                I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!

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                PecuniousPete wrote:

                She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!

                no dude, she wanted some booze to drink to mask the food- you have created another english lush ;) Bryce

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                • P PecuniousPete

                  I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!

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                  Joe Woodbury
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                  The smugness will last until your daughter tells you a Big Mac is delicious.

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                  • P PecuniousPete

                    I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!

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                    Mycroft Holmes
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                    I have a photo of my grandkids, about 2 and 4 chasing my wife down the hall demanding an olive. They also have the habit of raiding the cheese bin for the "special" cheese, the stinky one and sharp cheddars. They have never eaten at a Muckers but then thay haven't started school yet either :sigh: Start em young, teach them right to enjoy good food, worked for us and our kids!

                    Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                      Budweiser = X| I only drink imported beers ;P

                      "Any sort of work in VB6 is bound to provide several WTF moments." - Christian Graus

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                      PecuniousPete
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                      Paul Conrad wrote:

                      Budweiser = X|

                      I went to the original home of Budweiser, in Hungary (place called Budowice). I stayed at a hotel there. It ran out of beer.....

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                      • S S Houghtelin

                        Ennis Ray Lynch, Jr. wrote:

                        I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.

                        You know as well as I do, America has food snobs too. ;) Makes me think of a “high toned” person I used to know who would at every opportunity would spout off about how sophisticated his tastes were. He had invited my brother and me to a grooms dinner for his daughters wedding and he was going on about the wine we were served about how it was dry and this that and whatever else they say about wine and declared it a good wine. Several people around him were nodding their heads in agreement. I didn’t particularly like it myself. I had a good laugh when I went to the bathroom later and happened to see the server through the kitchen door refilling the bottle with wine from a cardboard box. Made me wonder how many other sophisticated connoisseurs of finer spirits approved of the wine

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                        PecuniousPete
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                        Ha ha ha! Classic! I hate wine snobs who get misled by the label and ignore the taste. I remember as a lad at a dinner party with my dad and one of the guests served up a supposedly good claret. Tasted like vinegar to me so I told them all. I was the only one with the honesty of child to call it what it was, spoiled wine! :laugh:

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                        • K Kyudos

                          First - how can you put 'boil-in-the-bag' and "dinner" in the same sentence, wherever you currently live or hail from? Second - 'mint sauce' is an abomination that perfectly ruins any food it accompanies (though it might improve boil-in-the-bag...) Third - you think the British like sweet? Visit NZ and try some kiwi versions. They even put sugar in their marmite, the most savoury of savouries. And don't get me started on them putting vanilla in EVERYTHING....

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                          PecuniousPete
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                          Kyudos wrote:

                          First - how can you put 'boil-in-the-bag' and "dinner" in the same sentence, wherever you currently live or hail from?

                          Well, that is the UK. Actually these lamb shanks aren't too bad themselves, just the sauce that is wrong.

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                          Second - 'mint sauce' is an abomination that perfectly ruins any food it accompanies

                          WRONG! POLICE! QUICK, PERSON TALKING TREASON AND HERESY! :) Mint sauce is great with lamb. Actually, think of it as a cut down salsa verde. Just add some parsley and anchovy and olive oil to mint sauce and you have a salsa verde which like mint sauce goes well with all sorts of things.

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                            PecuniousPete wrote:

                            She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!

                            no dude, she wanted some booze to drink to mask the food- you have created another english lush ;) Bryce

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                            PecuniousPete
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                            Hmm, god I hope not! :omg:

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                              The smugness will last until your daughter tells you a Big Mac is delicious.

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                              PecuniousPete
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                              Actually she does like their kids meals, nuggets and chips, well, she often cant eat the chips they are so gross, but she much prefers home cooked chicken goujons! :)

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                              • M Mycroft Holmes

                                I have a photo of my grandkids, about 2 and 4 chasing my wife down the hall demanding an olive. They also have the habit of raiding the cheese bin for the "special" cheese, the stinky one and sharp cheddars. They have never eaten at a Muckers but then thay haven't started school yet either :sigh: Start em young, teach them right to enjoy good food, worked for us and our kids!

                                Never underestimate the power of human stupidity RAH

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                                PecuniousPete
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                                Cool, good one! My daughter also loves green olives. She isnt terribly adventurous with food, but she loves vinegar so olives, salad dressing, skate in brown butter, all that kind of thing she loves.

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                                  :laugh: I used to like Bud Light, but my preference these days is Guinness :-\

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                                  If you like Guinness, you should try Marston's Oyster Stout[^].* If that's not what Guinness should be, I'm a pastafarian. * No, it doesn't actually contain oysters. You have to buy them separately.

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                                  • P PecuniousPete

                                    Kyudos wrote:

                                    First - how can you put 'boil-in-the-bag' and "dinner" in the same sentence, wherever you currently live or hail from?

                                    Well, that is the UK. Actually these lamb shanks aren't too bad themselves, just the sauce that is wrong.

                                    Kyudos wrote:

                                    Second - 'mint sauce' is an abomination that perfectly ruins any food it accompanies

                                    WRONG! POLICE! QUICK, PERSON TALKING TREASON AND HERESY! :) Mint sauce is great with lamb. Actually, think of it as a cut down salsa verde. Just add some parsley and anchovy and olive oil to mint sauce and you have a salsa verde which like mint sauce goes well with all sorts of things.

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                                    Kyudos
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                                    Don't get me wrong - I like mint. I can get away with mint jelly. A mint raita is nice. Fresh pineapple dipped in mint sugar is awesome. But that runny green diarrhoea they call mint sauce? Non!

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                                      Budweiser = X| I only drink imported beers ;P

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                                      I'd just like to point out Budweiser is most definitely NOT a beer. It is yellow-ish water in a bottle or can purporting to be such. The same can be said for Miller. :)

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                                      • P PecuniousPete

                                        I was having dinner with my wife, daughter, and mother on a recent trip to the UK (from France). My mother had prepared some boil in the bag lamb shanks (the end of the leg) which had a sweet minty sauce (the British like sweet sauces) and my daughter says: "It is too sweet, it needs some red wine or something." I could have hugged her! To have brought her up in a country that appreciates food, cooking restaurant quality food for my family every night, red wine and orange sauces to go with duck, scallop bisque sauces to go with salmon etc, and my 8 year old daughter has such educated taste buds she can identify an unbalanced sauce and suggest cure! What an epicure! What a gourmet! My 8 year old! :) She is a star act, she REALLY knows her food!

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                                        Mark H2
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                                        After two holidays (two months each) to France and Italy my 12 year old son has developed similar abilities.. :)

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                                        • Richard DeemingR Richard Deeming

                                          The Reincarnation wrote:

                                          Your about to get flamed.

                                          And you're about to get berated for your appalling grammar! ;P


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                                          Shoot. I can't vote a 5.

                                          Richard Deeming wrote:

                                          And you're about to get berated...

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