Thread: Dinner

Perhaps the mountain of mash is hollow.


^ I'm feeling better again. Hello everyone.

^ I find that a decent home cooked meal wards off the panic attacks.

Oh, and glad you're over it...

Originally Posted by Edmond

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Holy-schmoly.

I don't know which plate is whose, but there's enough food and calories on each of them to fuel an Arctic explorer for 2 days.

And his huskies.

I can't find the original post but my god that sausage and mash looks good.

That's Friday evening dinner sorted.

Originally Posted by armstrong

but my god that sausage and mash looks good.

No, it really doesn't. You have the most vile diet on TD, so I can understand why you would think that garbage pail of slop looks good.

Funnily enough, I had bangers and mash the other week for lunch in the pub, but with peas and onion gravy.

It was lunch and should go in the lunch thread, but we're here and the point was this fish and chips...I really am in the wrong thread, aren't I? Anyway, the point was fish and chips and if ever a picture does not tell the story of what we post on here, it is this one:



Hand cut thick chips with tartare sauce and mushy peas, but the fish looks like there's too much batter on it with barely any fish. The batter was actually perfect and the cod was the tastiest we'd ever eaten- and a good amount of it. The cook came out to chat with us and he was adamant that cod makes the best fish and chips by some distance, but it (obviously) has to be fresh.

Honestly, if you're ever in Weymouth, check out The Park and order the fish and chips.



Ask him to sling that fucking side salad though when your order.

Originally Posted by hallelujah

The cook came out to chat with us and he was adamant that cod makes the best fish and chips

In most cases, I would agree, but Halibut is actually better but more expensive. As you well know, I only eat fish caught locally or in Alaska as it is the best in the world, hands down.

Looks good to me….except for those mushed up peas. Why mushy? Can’t we have some nice perfectly cooked solid peas?

Cod for fish and chips, please.

Originally Posted by misskit

Looks good to me….Can't we have some nice perfectly cooked solid peas?

I'm on it Misskit!

Originally Posted by misskit

Looks good to me….except for those mushed up peas. Why mushy? Can’t we have some nice perfectly cooked solid peas?

Cod for fish and chips, please.

Mushy or pureed peas go particularly well with most fish and seafood such as scallops, smeared onto the fish which you can't do with solid peas.

Originally Posted by misskit

Cod for fish and chips, please

Try Pangasius. You will be pleasantly surprised.

Originally Posted by Norton

Try Pangasius. You will be pleasantly surprised.

It's OK, most places here advertising 'fish and chips' use Pangasius or Dory fish. It needs to be really well dried before being battered and fried as it's quite a wet fish, and helped along with a good side of tartar sauce.

Originally Posted by misskit

Cod for fish and chips, please.

Oh Yeah MK. Of course being we lived on the Pacific Ocean, some of the best fish and chips can be found along the coast, especially at the various piers and water fronts from Southern California to Washington My wife really enjoys the snapper and yellow cod fish. She can't stand what is available around here in Thailand. Tilapia and other farmed fish here have zero flavor as noted by my wife.

^ I have a source of organic tilapia that are full of flavour when compared to the farmed fish, but they don't come close to sea fish.

Originally Posted by bsnub

No, it really doesn't. You have the most vile diet on TD, so I can understand why you would think that garbage pail of slop looks good.

BREAKING: AMERICAN DOESNT UNDERSTAND BRITISH FOOD.

next up, the weather.

Originally Posted by armstrong

BREAKING: AMERICAN DOESNT UNDERSTAND BRITISH FOOD.

There is nothing to understand what you eat is far removed from anything that Gordon Ramsay cooks, and it is disgusting.

Originally Posted by armstrong

next up, the weather.

I live in Seattle, dipshit. The weather is almost the same.

Originally Posted by Mendip

^ I have a source of organic tilapia that are full of flavour when compared to the farmed fish, but they don't come close to sea fish.

While I do not eat Fish and Chips often as I do not like deep fried food, there is really is no comparison to a good ocean snapper or yellow tail cod Mendy. Fresh water fish, other than wild caught Trout or Salmon, lack flavor.

^^ Umm... hello, I'm still here. It's a good job I have a thick skin.

After referring to my bangers and mash with beans as a 'garbage pail of slop', I checked Google Translate and it reckons the English is, 'rubbish bucket of waste water from a kitchen, bathroom or chamber pot'.

Surely there is some mistake?

^^ Yeah, I agree, trout and salmon are the exceptions.

I remember that large freshwater eels also had a great flavour, although maybe due to spending part of their lives in the ocean. Sadly they have all but disappeared in the UK and may well be on their way to extinction.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Surely there is some mistake?

I stand by my statement, Mendy.

Originally Posted by bsnub

here is nothing to understand what you eat is far removed from anything that Gordon Ramsay cooks, and it is disgusting.

I am being honest and if you are offended I already sent you a green to try to mend/mendy the fence.

Someone of your education level should have a far more sophisticated, proper diet, Armstrong is just a dumb tefler so it is expected from him. You are a geologist.

Originally Posted by Mendip

Maybe the oil was too hot?

Your batter is too thick so it is burning before the fish is cooked. The beer has not done it job properly so next time chuck in a quarter teaspoon of baking soda / bicarb and that will do the job.

Originally Posted by bsnub

There is nothing to understand what you eat is far removed from anything that Gordon Ramsay cooks, and it is disgusting.



I live in Seattle, dipshit. The weather is almost the same.

Gordon Ramsey is not a typical full time working person from the United Kingdom.

And well done on missing the weather joke.

^^ Thank you Reggie, this I will try. I wasn't sure about using Leo for the beer batter but Stumpy assured me that it was the best beer for the job.


^^^ Snubs... it is rare that us 'geologists' get put up on a pedestal and I thank you for that, although I think you may overestimate me.

Our diet is pretty good... fruit smoothies and maybe some porridge for breakfast; since the wife went AWOL, a sandwich with maybe a cup of soup for lunch and plenty of veg with whatever meat or fish comes to mind in the evening, after my aperitif of either Japanese Blended Whisky or Serbian Apricot Brandy. My daughter happily (kind of) eats more fresh fruit veg than any of her classmates and I am proud of that.

But... you can't escape your upbringing and bangers and mash, pie and chips, liver and onions, mince and tatties is an inescapable part of being brought up in the UK in the 70s. This is my generation's comfort food and I love it... now and again. Wouldn't it be boring if I only posted up my perfectly presented, international meals?

This is tongue in cheek of course (and I love a tongue sandwich, btw) but on a more serious note, many of my daughter's classmates eat practically no fruit and veg, are given a burger for dinner and maybe a ham and cheese toastie for breakfast. None of these feature in our normal diet but the occasional pizza or MacDonalds are a rare treat for the daughter when we visit the Mall... how on earth kids want a MacDonalds is beyond me, they must have done some serious marketing on the kids but kids need their treats.

Rant over. It's steak and kidney pie with chips and gravy tonight.

With green beans and peas!

Originally Posted by bsnub

I stand by my statement, Mendy.



I am being honest and if you are offended I already sent you a green to try to mend/mendy the fence.

Someone of your education level should have a far more sophisticated, proper diet, Armstrong is just a dumb tefler so it is expected from him. You are a geologist.

The guy looks at rocks for a living. I change lives.

^ Aah, I see where this is going...

If it wasn't for me, how would you get to school to change these lives?

Originally Posted by armstrong

The guy looks at rocks for a living. I change lives

And dogs vulvas. Doesn't make him a bad guy though. We all need hobbies.

I had a teacher who traumatised kids too. Mr Griffiths. He used to stand in the doorway to the showers so you had to rub past him.