Winter Sucks

[Stefan Mikes]

We use our mild weather to practice so we can beat other peoples weather.

Mad dogs and Englismen go out in the midday sun.

The cold is handled by Newcastle lassies.
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Well, Liverpool lassies are not afraid of 5 C temperature either (April 2005, own photo)

While Liverpool lads practice burglary since their childhood (April 2005, own photo)

I need to mention Liverpool is my favourite city of England! @Chargeride: did you pass Baltic Triangle on your last Liverpool ride? (22nd of May 2022, own photo).

they have rain so there.

It's disputable. Last summer in England meant drought.

"The land of bad food and worse weather"

Again, it's disputable. I'm fond of English food and also can tell you the weather in South England is actually very nice. Even England (which is a pretty small country in the UK) is pretty diversified. Newcastle is not London, for instance.

 

[RunForTheHills]

Again, it's disputable. I'm fond of English food and also can tell you the weather in South England is actually very nice. Even England (which is a pretty small country in the UK) is pretty diversified. Newcastle is not London, for instance.

Perhaps, but you also like hot drinks made from fermented black bread and ride your bike in blizzards. My mother's parents were from England. I can live without the liver and onions and boiled meat. That said, I didn't have any trouble finding good food on my one visit to the UK. It's actually a quote from a movie.

 

[Stefan Mikes]

It's actually a quote from a movie.

Ahaha A myth!

@RunForTheHills: you see, I like good things and am not prejudiced. Yes, I'm proud of sausages and cold meats we enjoy in Poland but I also love English sausages, Full English, meat-pies, Ploughman's Sandwich and other inventions of Dear Good Blighty While -- and I'm not gonna lie -- the American food makes me starve when I'm in the United States

 

[RunForTheHills]

While -- and I'm not gonna lie -- the American food makes me starve when I'm in the United States

Something is missing from the translation. Starve, meaning you can't find anything to eat? Or starve meaning you are craving it? Because it is pretty easy to find just about anything you want in the United States. Most American barbecue restaurants even feature kielbasa sausages on the menu among other good stuff like smoked brisket.

 

[Chargeride]

The worst Steak Ive ever had, apart from France obviously, was in a huge Steak bar in Flagstaff, it was beef flavoured gristle.
The best was in the Lamb and Flag, Wales.
French food is mostly fluckin awful, it goddam stinks and the whole country has brain parasites from not cooking anything properly.
I think its actually what makes them French.
Kwasonts are nice though

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Starve, meaning you can't find anything to eat?

Precisely. Let me be blunt: The American food is tasteless, and it is very far from what we can get in Europe. Pancakes with syrup, really? A T-bone steak that bleeds or is a piece of char? Tasteless salads made with no condiments or olive? Smoking, burnt Mexican barbecue? Pappadeux? I have been to the U.S. for three times and never could find food I liked. Moreover: Some time ago I was invited to an American restaurant in a hotel in Frankfurt/M. It was a genuine American restaurant (I dined with Americans there). Fancy the only food I could eat there was Mac & Cheese...

Damn! Even McDonald's in Europe is better!

Because it is pretty easy to find just about anything you want in the United States.

Like, decent coffee? (OK, Starbucks is a safe haven).

French food is mostly fluckin awful

I have actually never stayed in France for more than a day so I can't tell. But... Italy? (P.S. Never take a pizza in Italy: The rest of the world do this better)

 

[RunForTheHills]

Precisely. Let me be blunt: The American food is tasteless, and it is very far from what we can get in Europe. Pancakes with syrup, really? A T-bone steak that bleeds or is a piece of char? Tasteless salads made with no condiments or olive? Smoking, burnt Mexican barbecue? Pappadeux? I have been to the U.S. for three times and never could find food I liked. Moreover: Some time ago I was invited to an American restaurant in a hotel in Frankfurt/M. It was a genuine American restaurant (I dined with Americans there). Fancy the only food I could eat there was Mac & Cheese...

Damn! Even McDonald's in Europe is better!

Like, decent coffee? (OK, Starbucks is a safe haven).


I have actually never stayed in France for more than a day so I can't tell. But... Italy? (P.S. Never take a pizza in Italy: The rest of the world do this better)

I am afraid there is no help for you then. Charcoal flavored coffee from Starbucks is a safe haven? Really?

 

[Stefan Mikes]

I am afraid there is no help for you then. Charcoal flavored coffee from Starbucks is a safe haven? Really?

It is real coffee

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

The silly sweeping generalizations I see in this forum — from ostensibly intelligent people — are utterly mind-boggling — especially the ones based on nationality. And frankly not a good look.

If you can't find good food in the US or France or wherever, I'd say you didn't stay long enough, gave up too quickly, went looking for it in all the wrong places, were somehow expecting to find your homeland food styles in faraway places, or brought along a set of unshakable prejudices that no actual experiences could have altered.

I've traveled extensively in North America and Europe. Also in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Sure, I've encountered some bad food along the way. But finding good food just isn't that hard.

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

The cold is handled by Newcastle lassies.

I've tried dressing like that in the cold. It's not as warm as women make it look. More evidence, if you need it, as to how differently men and women are wired.
;^}

 

[PedalUma]

Premice: All North Americans from Southern Mexico to Northern Canada, do not know how to eat.

 

[Chargeride]

The silly sweeping generalizations I see in this forum — from ostensibly intelligent people — are utterly mind-boggling — especially the ones based on nationality. And frankly not a good look.

If you can't find good food in the US or France or wherever, I'd say you didn't stay long enough, gave up too quickly, went looking for it in all the wrong places, were somehow expecting to find your homeland food styles in faraway places, or brought along a set of unshakable prejudices that no actual experiences could have altered.

I've traveled extensively in North America and Europe. Also in Australia, New Zealand, and the Pacific. Sure, I've encountered some bad food along the way. But finding good food just isn't that hard.

Jeremy...
We are bantering...your American literalism is leaking

 

[RunForTheHills]

Jeremy...
We are bantering...your American literalism is leaking

I thought British humor was supposed to be dry and sarcastic.

MTA: Try this "Jeremy, you totally get me. You are a brother from another mother. Speaking of which, remember that time you tried my mother's cooking? Good times!"

 

[Stefan Mikes]

If this menu looks normal to you then you must be an American
Corn soup, eheheheheh (Yes, I had it, too).
(No split bills, thank you!: Germans love split bills).

P.S. I don't eat poultry.
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Jeremy took it hard. As for me, I was to the U.S. for three times and once to Canada (an average stay of 2 weeks). The only food I was happy with could be found at a countryside golf club we were invited to: European size tasty food. It was Virginia, Washington DC and Houston TX where I was to. On the last return trip, we went in a café in Heathrow Airport, took Full English, and the oldest of us, John, whispered: 'Home, sweet home'. I almost cried from happiness!

The only other country I was hungry in was China: I was not treated as a "westerner" there but as a "foreign Chinese national", making a big difference (such a person will never see a fork while there in China). Even Israel with its kosher food was better!

It is easier to accept people from outside North America might have different culinary views. (I have been to at least 30 world countries).

 

[Chargeride]

Food is earned location location to me.
I can reach peak culinary satisfaction with a cheese and pickle sandwich at the top of a hill with a scenic vista, and wouldnt swap it for a five course in a Michelin.
The amount of money Ive been pressured into spending on faff food in a room full of people pretending to be sophisticated...it makes me weep ,

 

[Stefan Mikes]

Food is earned location location to me.
I can reach peak culinary satisfaction with a cheese and pickle sandwich at the top of a hill with a scenic vista, and wouldnt swap it for a five course in a Michelin.
The amount of money Ive been pressured into spending on faff food in a room full of people pretending to be sophisticated...it makes me weep ,

I begin and end every and each visit to the UK with a triangle sandwich. A BLT or Ploughman's. It sets my culinary sensors in the right place

Posh restaurants are a disaster although we could find a really nice Gordon Ramsay restaurant in South London! A good Sunday Roast is what I love!

 

[Jeremy McCreary]

As for me, I was to the U.S. for three times and once to Canada (an average stay of 2 weeks)

And apparently that makes you an expert on American food from coast to coast. Quick study!

 

[Stefan Mikes]

And apparently that makes you an expert on American food from coast to coast. Quick study!

No Jeremy.
I cannot eat American food. What's hard to understand? For instance, I'd like eggs to have some taste.

Why personal?

 

[BlackHand]

No Jeremy.
I cannot eat American food. What's hard to understand? For instance, I'd like eggs to have some taste

You're Polish, so I assume you mean pickled eggs.

Here in America we only eat those in dive bars after you've had enough Coors Light to sufficiently dull the senses.

 

[Chargeride]

Obviously I dont actually believe all French food is awful, but Im coming from personal experience from ten years of riding the area with locals and visiting places they consider high end food.
My friends are not picky at all, in fact they will eat anything, but it got so bad we were only going in courtesy.
The smell..jesus, they flat refuse to cook anything properly and thats why half the country has toxoplasmosis for life.
Theres rarely a menu, you just get what theyve 'cooked', one meal was offal wrapped in lamb intestines, when I say 'cooked'...it was warm.
Have you ever been to a tannery where the boil pig skins, the smell is skunk level of baulk..well thats what it smelled like.
I guess what I mean is French food outside of tourist areas can be of a level beyond what most non French people can tolerate.