What's the difference between heaven and hell?
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Before reading your post I was going to say that Hell[^] is near Trondheim in Norway and Heaven[^] is just across the Bay from San Francisco.
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There is also a Hell in Minnesota - and it had frozen over many times http://www.funnyjunk.com/p/hellfrozeover-jpg.html[^]. Here's a classic Is Hell exothermic (gives off heat) or endothermic (absorbs heat)?"[^] - an actual question given on a University of Washington chemistry mid-term exam Steve
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I like snails, particularly the turbo ones in marine aquaria :) designed and directed by his red, right hand - top song by the way :) As for French food, they make nice bread but that's about it. I've always been disappointed whenever I've ventured into a French restaurant. In fact I remember one time, having had a starter, I decided I didn't want anything on the main menu and left the restaurant to go across the road for a pizza instead. I find just about any other nation's food preferable to French food, and the latter doesn't even come close to the fantastic flavours and variations avaiable in (say) Indian cuisine. No longer eating meat also puts one in a difficult position when eating in France. The French simply feel sorry for you :) "Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff! In jail we had to be in this dumb kabuki play about the 47 Ronin, and I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!"
phykell wrote: I decided I didn't want anything on the main menu and left the restaurant to go across the road for a pizza instead. Ah, well - when compared to pizza, most foods start to look a bit lack-luster. Throw in a good beer, food of the gods right there... :D :-O
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I like snails, particularly the turbo ones in marine aquaria :) designed and directed by his red, right hand - top song by the way :) As for French food, they make nice bread but that's about it. I've always been disappointed whenever I've ventured into a French restaurant. In fact I remember one time, having had a starter, I decided I didn't want anything on the main menu and left the restaurant to go across the road for a pizza instead. I find just about any other nation's food preferable to French food, and the latter doesn't even come close to the fantastic flavours and variations avaiable in (say) Indian cuisine. No longer eating meat also puts one in a difficult position when eating in France. The French simply feel sorry for you :) "Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff! In jail we had to be in this dumb kabuki play about the 47 Ronin, and I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!"
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Before reading your post I was going to say that Hell[^] is near Trondheim in Norway and Heaven[^] is just across the Bay from San Francisco.
"If a man empties his purse into his head, no man can take it away from him, for an investment in knowledge pays the best interest." -- Joseph E. O'Donnell Not getting the response you want from a question asked in an online forum: How to Ask Questions the Smart Way!
There's also a hell in Michigan MapQuest...[^], and it does occasionally freeze over;)
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Heaven: German engineering, French cooking and English literature. Hell: German literature, French engineering, and English cooking. :-D A friend told me this joke about 15 years ago and it popped into my brain this morning for some reason. (apologies to the usual offended parties) David
The happy man has An English house, a Chinese cook, a Japanese wife and an American salary The unhappy man has An English cook, a Japanese house, an American wife and a Chinese salary. "One of the Georges," said Psmith, "I forget which, once said that a certain number of hours' sleep a day--I cannot recall for the moment how many--made a man something, which for the time being has slipped my memory."
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David Cunningham wrote: German literature, French engineering, and English cooking. Goethe Mann Remarque Hesse Kafka concorde? hmmm mash pseudonym67 My Articles[^] "They say there are strangers who threaten us, In our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness too dangerous In our theaters and bookstore shelves. That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves." Rush
I think Kafka was not german. He wrote in german, but if I remember correctly, he was from the Czech rep. ( I don't know the name of the country at his time)
Stephane
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I think Kafka was not german. He wrote in german, but if I remember correctly, he was from the Czech rep. ( I don't know the name of the country at his time)
Stephane
Yeah and Jozef Teodor Konrad Korzeniowski was born in Poland but he's still a writer of English Literature as he wrote his books in English as Joseph Conrad. pseudonym67 My Articles[^] "They say there are strangers who threaten us, In our immigrants and infidels. They say there is strangeness too dangerous In our theaters and bookstore shelves. That those who know what's best for us Must rise and save us from ourselves." Rush
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Oh, I'm sorry for you :sigh:
Tu tues une baleine, t'auras les écolos, t'auras Greenpeace, t'auras le commandant Cousteau sur le dos! Mais décime un banc de sardines, j'aime autant te dire qu'on t'aidera à les mettre en boîte!
KaЯl wrote: Oh, I'm sorry for you Don't be sorry for me, I love my food! :) I love all types including Japanese, Thai, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Cajun, you name it, but next to any of those, French and English food both seem pretty bland. Having said that, there's no substitute for good quality food and even the simplest things can be fantastic. Just recently, I was in a hotel with a French menu and because I couldn't face yet another dish covered in mayo I asked them to do me egg and chips with bread, butter and ketchup. The kitchen was run by a French chef but despite this ( ;) ), the food was perfect, once I'd scraped all the hollandaise that they'd insisted on using, from the eggs! "Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff! In jail we had to be in this dumb kabuki play about the 47 Ronin, and I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!"
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KaЯl wrote: Oh, I'm sorry for you Don't be sorry for me, I love my food! :) I love all types including Japanese, Thai, Indian, Italian, Mexican, Cajun, you name it, but next to any of those, French and English food both seem pretty bland. Having said that, there's no substitute for good quality food and even the simplest things can be fantastic. Just recently, I was in a hotel with a French menu and because I couldn't face yet another dish covered in mayo I asked them to do me egg and chips with bread, butter and ketchup. The kitchen was run by a French chef but despite this ( ;) ), the food was perfect, once I'd scraped all the hollandaise that they'd insisted on using, from the eggs! "Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff! In jail we had to be in this dumb kabuki play about the 47 Ronin, and I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!"
Most of the time, the french cooking I've tasted outside our borders was a shame. I guess they use word "French restaurant" or "french bakery" to scam the consumers. I wouldn't want to generalize, maybe some are honest. If a day you come this side of the channel, I would suggest you to try a "farm inn" (ferme auberge), with natural products made in the farm, so much tastier than the crap sold elsewhere.
Tu tues une baleine, t'auras les écolos, t'auras Greenpeace, t'auras le commandant Cousteau sur le dos! Mais décime un banc de sardines, j'aime autant te dire qu'on t'aidera à les mettre en boîte!
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Most of the time, the french cooking I've tasted outside our borders was a shame. I guess they use word "French restaurant" or "french bakery" to scam the consumers. I wouldn't want to generalize, maybe some are honest. If a day you come this side of the channel, I would suggest you to try a "farm inn" (ferme auberge), with natural products made in the farm, so much tastier than the crap sold elsewhere.
Tu tues une baleine, t'auras les écolos, t'auras Greenpeace, t'auras le commandant Cousteau sur le dos! Mais décime un banc de sardines, j'aime autant te dire qu'on t'aidera à les mettre en boîte!
KaЯl wrote: Most of the time, the french cooking I've tasted outside our borders was a shame. I guess they use word "French restaurant" or "french bakery" to scam the consumers. I wouldn't want to generalize, maybe some are honest. Well, I guess it depends on the restaurant. Generally speaking, French restaurants in the UK are owned and run by French proprietors and many hotels have French chefs. I don't see why they can't bring their cooking skills over with them unless we Brits manage to "taint" them somehow ;) KaЯl wrote: If a day you come this side of the channel, I would suggest you to try a "farm inn" (ferme auberge), with natural products made in the farm, so much tastier than the crap sold elsewhere. Now that sounds more like it! :) A friend of mine moved to Southern France recently, and he does say the food is fantastic, but then he lives the farm life there. My idea of staying over in France is waking up early and going to the patisserie for some fresh-baked bread and taking it home to eat with strong, black coffee having drunk a little too much red wine the night before of course ;) "Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff! In jail we had to be in this dumb kabuki play about the 47 Ronin, and I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!"
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KaЯl wrote: Most of the time, the french cooking I've tasted outside our borders was a shame. I guess they use word "French restaurant" or "french bakery" to scam the consumers. I wouldn't want to generalize, maybe some are honest. Well, I guess it depends on the restaurant. Generally speaking, French restaurants in the UK are owned and run by French proprietors and many hotels have French chefs. I don't see why they can't bring their cooking skills over with them unless we Brits manage to "taint" them somehow ;) KaЯl wrote: If a day you come this side of the channel, I would suggest you to try a "farm inn" (ferme auberge), with natural products made in the farm, so much tastier than the crap sold elsewhere. Now that sounds more like it! :) A friend of mine moved to Southern France recently, and he does say the food is fantastic, but then he lives the farm life there. My idea of staying over in France is waking up early and going to the patisserie for some fresh-baked bread and taking it home to eat with strong, black coffee having drunk a little too much red wine the night before of course ;) "Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff! In jail we had to be in this dumb kabuki play about the 47 Ronin, and I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!"
:cool:phykell wrote: French restaurants in the UK are owned and run by French proprietors and many hotels have French chefs The reason they went in UK is obvious, a cook with poor skills has more chance of being successfull in a country where people aren't used to eat good food :-D;) (Just kidding! I know I shouldn't use all these clichés, especially the year we celebrate 100 years of Entente Cordiale...I can't hardly resist temptation, sorry :rolleyes:) phykell wrote: A friend of mine moved to Southern France recently If he moved to the South West, Perigord[^] for example, then he reached "a small corner of Paradise" on Earth :-D phykell wrote: he lives the farm life there What a lucky guy! phykell wrote: and going to the patisserie for some fresh-baked bread and taking it home to eat with strong, black coffee If you aren't single, and because after an abuse of wine, mornings can be difficult, there's an alternative: your spouse (man or women, no machismo there) does all the stuff, and when you wake up you just have to enjoy your Café-Croissants on the Terrace, under a sunny blue sky, surrounded by the beauty of the countryside...ah, the simple pleasures of life!
Tu tues une baleine, t'auras les écolos, t'auras Greenpeace, t'auras le commandant Cousteau sur le dos! Mais décime un banc de sardines, j'aime autant te dire qu'on t'aidera à les mettre en boîte!
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:cool:phykell wrote: French restaurants in the UK are owned and run by French proprietors and many hotels have French chefs The reason they went in UK is obvious, a cook with poor skills has more chance of being successfull in a country where people aren't used to eat good food :-D;) (Just kidding! I know I shouldn't use all these clichés, especially the year we celebrate 100 years of Entente Cordiale...I can't hardly resist temptation, sorry :rolleyes:) phykell wrote: A friend of mine moved to Southern France recently If he moved to the South West, Perigord[^] for example, then he reached "a small corner of Paradise" on Earth :-D phykell wrote: he lives the farm life there What a lucky guy! phykell wrote: and going to the patisserie for some fresh-baked bread and taking it home to eat with strong, black coffee If you aren't single, and because after an abuse of wine, mornings can be difficult, there's an alternative: your spouse (man or women, no machismo there) does all the stuff, and when you wake up you just have to enjoy your Café-Croissants on the Terrace, under a sunny blue sky, surrounded by the beauty of the countryside...ah, the simple pleasures of life!
Tu tues une baleine, t'auras les écolos, t'auras Greenpeace, t'auras le commandant Cousteau sur le dos! Mais décime un banc de sardines, j'aime autant te dire qu'on t'aidera à les mettre en boîte!
KaЯl wrote: The reason they went in UK is obvious, a cook with poor skills has more chance of being successfull in a country where people aren't used to eat good food You've got me there! :) KaЯl wrote: What a lucky guy! And doesn't he enjoy tellin me so! Another friend of mine is visiting soon, and he'll be telling me about how great his move to NZ has been as well! KaЯl wrote: If you aren't single, and because after an abuse of wine, mornings can be difficult, there's an alternative: your spouse (man or women, no machismo there) does all the stuff, and when you wake up you just have to enjoy your Café-Croissants on the Terrace, under a sunny blue sky, surrounded by the beauty of the countryside...ah, the simple pleasures of life! Oh God, I need a holiday :( "Oh, I'm sick of doing Japanese stuff! In jail we had to be in this dumb kabuki play about the 47 Ronin, and I wanted to be Oshi, but they made me Ori!"