What do 8 year olds think of food?
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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!
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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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!
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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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!
The smugness will last until your daughter tells you a Big Mac is delicious.
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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!
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
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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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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
It was broke, so I fixed it.
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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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....
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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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
MCAD --- To paraphrase Fred Dagg - the views expressed in this post are bloody good ones. --
Our kids books :The Snot Goblin, and Book 2 - the Snotgoblin and Fluff The Snotgoblin for the IpadHmm, god I hope not! :omg:
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The smugness will last until your daughter tells you a Big Mac is delicious.
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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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
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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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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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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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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The Reincarnation wrote:
Your about to get flamed.
And you're about to get berated for your appalling grammar! ;P
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Specifically the States, a certain 10 year-old, who I will leave nameless bought a King Sized Twix candy bar. (For those that don't know it contains four large pieces). He dropped the first piece on the ground in a wet parking lot and then picked it up and said, "Five Second Rule". I stopped him and asked, "Are you really going to do that?", He said, "Why not" and plopped it in his mouth. I suppose, our taste buds on this side of the pond are less sophisticated.
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I don't drink, but every once in a while I have tasted wine out of curiosity (like, what's the big deal why does every one drink it?) and it is nasty. Probably due to the fact that the only sips I took were from under $20 bottles. Recently I had an opportunity to taste some ice wine, that stuff is good. So, yeah, there is a difference but I think most just drink it to be different from beer swilling dolts. Nascar is to beer as ? is to wine. (I think you will find it doesn't matter :) )
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Personally, I go by taste. Quite often, I find in-a-box tastes better to me than an expensive bottle. Of course I don't pass myself off as an expert on wine either. That's what is funny about him praising the wine, since it would taste completely different to him if he saw it come out of a box.
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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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