Coming to America

Originally posted by Phlabibit
I've a large number of Italians where I am, and they call tomato sauce "Gravy".

Very confusing, because I like chicken with gravy but NOT with a red sauce.

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Is chicken all'arrabiata the most overrated dish EVER?

Originally posted by Phlabibit
I've a large number of Italians where I am, and they call tomato sauce "Gravy".

Very confusing, because I like chicken with gravy but NOT with a red sauce.

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well, because wat they call Gravy is something similar to what we eat here... We call it in Italy "ragù" and is typical from Bologna... it is not just tomato souce... tomato is just an ingredient... a good ragù must cook forf a longer period nof time... depending on how much it is... and on how fat is the meat you use.... and a suggestion... you should eat either with Fettuccine (it's a long pasta little larger than spaghetti) or torettlini with meat inside...

but i understand that is confusing

Originally posted by Palynka
If you go to the US looking for good Irish cheese then you must have forgotten almost everything you knew.

i wasn't looking for irish cheese, i was looking for any decent cheese. it just happened that the best i could find was imported from ireland for bad american tastes. it's not their fault their milk isn't good enough to make quility cheese.

Originally posted by trev33
i wasn't looking for irish cheese, i was looking for any decent cheese. it just happened that the best i could find was imported from ireland for bad american tastes. it's not their fault their milk isn't good enough to make quility cheese.

And do you think that if I go into Asda I'll find good British cheeses?

Originally posted by Palynka
And do you think that if I go into Asda I'll find good British cheeses?

better than the crap i found in american supermarkets.

cathedral is a decent english chedder, last time i was in asda they sold it...

Originally posted by trev33
better than the crap i found in american supermarkets.

cathedral is a decent english chedder, last time i was in asda they sold it...

Come on, Cathedral is pretty bland.

Seriously, Britain has amazing cheeses but you don't even find a sniff of them in a major supermarket. Passable, maybe, but not even close to the real thing.

Originally posted by Palynka
Come on, Cathedral is pretty bland.

Seriously, Britain has amazing cheeses but you don't even find a sniff of them in a major supermarket. Passable, maybe, but not even close to the real thing.

i was making a comparison with the american supermarkets, it might not be the best we have to offer but you can get a decent cheese at a supermarket here, not the case in the states. plus i wouldn't be surprised if these great deli cheeses were mostly imported, not the case here.

so I have a day to kill in London before going to india, where do i go to get my last good cheese for a while?

Originally posted by trev33
i was making a comparison with the american supermarkets, it might not be the best we have to offer but you can get a decent cheese at a supermarket here, not the case in the states. plus i wouldn't be surprised if these great deli cheeses were mostly imported, not the case here.

so I have a day to kill in London before going to india, where do i go to get my last good cheese for a while?

OMG! Stop it.

Do not tell me you visited every market in every state in the US. It would be like me looking at your car and your neighbor's car and saying all the cars in Europe are junks.

The markets in the next state over are even different than the markets in my state. Cross the country and they're totally different than anything imaginable here in the east.

Stuff it Trev!

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Originally posted by trev33
i was making a comparison with the american supermarkets, it might not be the best we have to offer but you can get a decent cheese at a supermarket here, not the case in the states. plus i wouldn't be surprised if these great deli cheeses were mostly imported, not the case here.

so I have a day to kill in London before going to india, where do i go to get my last good cheese for a while?

Man, there's an amazing place near Covent Garden. Neal's Yard Cheese Shop. They get it from small producers and it's really good. You can taste everything and I even met one of the producers there once. I asked about a cheese and the guy said "Let me get the guy who did it". Good stuff and very fairly priced.

They have this variation of Stilton called Stichelton, which they make with unpasteurized milk, which is pure delight. Apparently they can't call it Stilton because of the unpasteurized milk but I even prefer this variant. It's blue but incredibly smooth (but not in a greasy way).

Give it a go if you're there. There are other places, but overpriced and maybe even not as good.

http://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/shops_covgarden.html

Originally posted by Palynka
Man, there's an amazing place near Covent Garden. Neal's Yard Cheese Shop. They get it from small producers and it's really good. You can taste everything and I even met one of the producers there once. I asked about a cheese and the guy said "Let me get the guy who did it". Good stuff and very fairly priced.

They have this variation of Stilton called St ...[text shortened]... iced and maybe even not as good.

http://www.nealsyarddairy.co.uk/shops_covgarden.html

looks good, will be giving it a try for sure. thanks.

Originally posted by Phlabibit
OMG! Stop it.

Do not tell me you visited every market in every state in the US. It would be like me looking at your car and your neighbor's car and saying all the cars in Europe are junks.

The markets in the next state over are even different than the markets in my state. Cross the country and they're totally different than anything imaginable here in the east.

Stuff it Trev!

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lol

Originally posted by trev33
i wasn't looking for irish cheese, i was looking for any decent cheese. it just happened that the best i could find was imported from ireland for bad american tastes. it's not their fault their milk isn't good enough to make quility cheese.

It's not really your fault. In order to find decent food, you have to be aware of the horror that is the American factory farm system and work to avoid it. It can be very difficult.

And it is our fault that our milk supply is low quality. We allow the genetic manipulations, stress and massive drugging of the cattle we force to overproduce the muck that passes as milk. We're right back where we were when Updike wrote The Jungle.

Originally posted by Mimor
It's not really your fault. In order to find decent food, you have to be aware of the horror that is the American factory farm system and work to avoid it. It can be very difficult.

And it [b]is our fault that our milk supply is low quality. We allow the genetic manipulations, stress and massive drugging of the cattle we force to overproduce the muck that passes as milk. We're right back where we were when Updike wrote The Jungle.[/b]

Very true!

Originally posted by Mimor
It's not really your fault. In order to find decent food, you have to be aware of the horror that is the American factory farm system and work to avoid it. It can be very difficult.

And it [b]is our fault that our milk supply is low quality. We allow the genetic manipulations, stress and massive drugging of the cattle we force to overproduce the muck that passes as milk. We're right back where we were when Updike wrote The Jungle.[/b]

it's the farmers fault and possibly the government, not your avarege americans... that's what i was saying.

are you reading this phlab? 😏

(hey, where's sunburnt? i spelt your name right lol)

Originally posted by huckleberryhound
Woohoo.


That is all.

be sure to watch the movie before you come over.