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Seems to be an ongoing thing in these forums Recently..
So what do you prefer The fish? Or the Chips?
Well, being diabetic I have to stay away from the potatoes, so it's the fish for me. If I didn't care about my blood sugar it would have to be BOTH!
Sometimes Americans are such idiots. I ordered fish and chips the other day (substituted salad for the chips), and the waitress had no clue what "malt vinegar" was. Took her and the manager 10 minutes to find a crusty old bottle.
Sometimes Americans are such idiots
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Lets try and stay away from rash and general statements. Not all American's are idiots.
Anyway, Fish and Chips is the embodiment of British Culture, along with the pinstripe suit... How... cultural.
well chips as brits call it or frenchfries as some others call it was invented in Belgium ....
What..? You mean it wasn't invented in Yorkshire!???! :shock:
i fink you got the wrong end of the stick jupiter Yorkshire puds came from Yorkshire!
Sounds like a Belgian conspiracy to me.
This can help...?
For also in the 1840s, pomme frites ("fried potatoes") first appeared in Paris. Sadly, we don't know the name of the ingenious chef who first sliced the potato into long slender pieces and fried them. But they were immediately popular, and were sold on the streets of Paris by push-cart vendors.
Frites spread to America where they were called French fried potatoes. You asked how they got their name--pretty obvious, I'd say: they came from France, and they were fried potatoes, so they were called "French fried potatoes." The name was shortened to "french fries" in the 1930s.
By the way, the verb "to french" in cooking has come to mean to cut in long, slender strips, and some people insist that "french fries" come from that term. However, the French fried potato was known since the middle 1800s, while the OED cites the first use of the verb "to french" around 1895, so it appears pretty convincing that "french fried potatoes" came before the verb "frenching." The origin of the name is thus the country of origin French and not the cooking term french.
In the U.K., fried fish had been on sale by street vendors since the 1600s. In 1864, a brilliant (but, alas, unknown) Brit teamed French fried potatoes (called "chips" in English) with fried fish, to create the famous and popular fish and chips.
Lets try and stay away from rash and general statements. Not all American's are idiots.
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I'm American. Well, by birth I'm Cuban, but been here for 35 years and consider myself and American. Sometimes Americans are quite clueless, and I provided the anecdotal evidence. People in other countries can be clueless too, but in general I think we in America are exceptionally clueless on things that aren't American. Like malt vinegar on your fish.
Damn it. Now I'm hungry.
I have to take issue with the use of chips and french fries as synonyms. (Sorry, that sounded a bit snooty).
Proper chips from a chip shop (and how my granny makes them) are much thicker than the stringy french fries you get from the likes of McDonalds or Burger King and do not come pre-covered with a salt/sugar coating. They are chipped potatoes not re-constituted potato matter and therefore taste more "potato-y".
As a matter of personal taste, I have to have salt and vinegar - the proper malt vinegar, not the french stuff made from wine that's gone off - with my chips. If bought from a chippy, they should be eaten from a newspaper, generally a tabloid, and on the way back from a football match.
I'm going to stop now 'cos I'm ranting on and getting very hungry!
Yiu cant beat the smell of freshly fried fish and chips..
hmmmmm.....
Fook me I Invented this Topic and now I'm getting a bloody history lesson!!! :shock:
Are you averse to education?
Averse???
Averse
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Having a feeling of opposition, distaste, or aversion; strongly disinclined: investors who are averse to taking risks.
I quote the belgian fries site :
Of course, in good food tradition, the French claim to be the inventors of our beloved fries: they originated in Paris on the Pont Neuf (fries are still called like that in the chique French restaurants) somewhere in the middle of the 19th century. As with most "French" inventions, they forgot to note the name of the inventor and they are still searching for proof. .
Anyway, we modest Belgians, don't mind the French claim, because we know that fries are Gods gift to our people.
Pictures and texts proof that fries were all around our country in the second half of the 19th century. The oldest written proof is dated 1862 and mentions a certain Fritz and the widow Descamps as owners of a fry stand on the Liège 'kermis'. In 1891 a picture of both stands was taken.
Jo Gerard, a famous Belgian historian, claims to have proof that fries were invented in the region of the Meuse in 1680. Based on an unpublished document, he writes that the poor inhabitants of this region ate mostly fish. When the river frooze, they cut their potatous in a fish-shape and fried them.
Who cares who made them. They are the most unhealthy things you could eat, dipped in oil.
Who wants to admit to inventing the biological cause to the worlds obesity problem!!!!
Fook me i'm enjoying this post its probably the most entertaining historical insight into anything on here
In the US, it was basically impossible to find something labeled "fish and chips" anywhere, until recently. If you ordered some sort of fish meal, then it would come with mashed potatoes or some other "more cultured" side. Likewise, bangers and mash is basically unheard of, though a few places will feature it.
Battered fried fish is generally considered of low value here, I guess due to being associated with garbage like fish sticks. These are nasty little bars of compressed fish meal, battered and either fried or baked. Very cheap, very bland. Served with "tartar sauce" to try to give them some flavor.
Last night I battered up some catfish in corn meal. That's a typical meal from the Southern US (Cajun). You guys on that side of the Atlantic ever eat it that way (or eat catfish at all)?
Have you ever tasted Fish and Chips?
You think fish and mash is cultured?
so bored...
Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet.. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
what...can you do better than "The poster above me...." ????
Bored uh?
Here´s something to read:
The word "queue" is the only word in the English language that is still pronounced the same way when the last four letters are removed.
Beetles taste like apples, wasps like pine nuts, and worms like fried bacon.
Of all the words in the English language, the word 'set' has the most definitions!
What is called a "French kiss" in the English speaking world is known as an "English kiss" in France.
"Almost" is the longest word in the English language with all the letters in alphabetical order.
"Rhythm" is the longest English word without a vowel.
In 1386, a pig in France was executed by public hanging for the murder of a child
A cockroach can live several weeks with its head cut off!
Human thigh bones are stronger than concrete.
You can't kill yourself by holding your breath
There is a city called Rome on every continent.
It's against the law to have a pet dog in Iceland!
Your heart beats over 100,000 times a day!
Horatio Nelson, one of England's most illustrious admirals was throughout his life, never able to find a cure for his sea-sickness.
The skeleton of Jeremy Bentham is present at all important meetings of the University of London
Right handed people live, on average, nine years longer than left-handed people
Your ribs move about 5 million times a year, everytime you breathe!
The elephant is the only mammal that can't jump!
One quarter of the bones in your body, are in your feet!
Like fingerprints, everyone's tongue print is different!
The first known transfusion of blood was performed as early as 1667, when Jean-Baptiste, transfused two pints of blood from a sheep to a young man
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Most dust particles in your house are made from dead skin!
The present population of 5 billion plus people of the world is predicted to become 15 billion by 2080.
Women blink nearly twice as much as men.
Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
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Adolf Hitler was a vegetarian, and had only ONE testicle.
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Hahahahahah...ROFLLMFAO
Breaking the law!!! Breaking the law!!!
read below....double post...
Breaking the law!!! Breaking the law!!!
Texas:
A city ordinance states that a person cannot go barefoot without first obtaining a special five-dollar permit.
It is illegal to take more than three sips of beer at a time while standing.
It is legal to commit a homicide as long as you tell the person when, and how you are going to kill them.
In Houston you cannot buy beer after midnight on Sunday, but you can buy it on Monday.
There is an old law in Texas that states you are unable to tuck your pants into one boot unless you own ten or more cattle.
It is illegal to spit on the sidewalk.
If two trains going in opposite directions on the same track meet each other, one can't move until the other does.
It is illegal to carry a pair of wire-cutters in your back pocket.
In Dallas County it is illegal to own any realistic looking, phallic shaped, personal massager more than one foot in length.
In Corpus Christie it is illegal to raise alligators in your home.
It is illegal to have an open container in a car. (It doesn't specify alcohol, it just says an open container.)
It is illegal to have anything protruding from your bumper unless it is attached with a chain (so bumper stickers are a no-no).
It is legal for the blind to go hunting as long as they have someone with them who isn't blind. (Compare with the similar law in Michigan.)
It is legal for a husband to beat his wife as long as he uses something no bigger than his thumb.
When you are released from jail, you must be given a horse and a shotgun, if you request it.
It is legal to fire a gun at someone if they are handed it to them by the victim first.
In Galveston, if you sit on the sidewalk, you could be fined $200.
It is illegal to milk another persons cow.
It is illegal to shoot a buffalo from the 2nd story of a hotel.
It is illegal to drive without windscreen wipers. You don't need a windscreen but, you must have the wipers.
The entire Encyclopedia Brittannica is banned in Texas because it contains a formula for making beer at home.
"It is legal to commit a homicide as long as you tell the person when, and how you are going to kill them."
made me laugh!!!
"It is illegal to carry a pair of wire-cutters in your back pocket." -- so its legal if you carry them in your front pocket??
telegraph0000 said:
Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet.. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
what...can you do better than "The poster above me...." ????
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Dear Telegraph,
Pl speak on ur own self..Not on others..When u show a fingers to others at the same moment four fingers are ur side..
psolunke said:
Dear Telegraph,
Pl speak on ur own self..Not on others..When u show a fingers to others at the same moment four fingers are ur side..
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Sorry......HUH????
telegraph0000 said:
Mahatma Gandhi, as you know, walked barefoot most of the time, which produced an impressive set of calluses on his feet.. He also ate very little, which made him rather frail and, with his odd diet, he suffered from bad breath. This made him a super calloused fragile mystic hexed by halitosis.
what...can you do better than "The poster above me...." ????
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"'Ghandi' is what you said...
An Indian with a bald head...
And he was a bit underfed,
Write it down, mother f******!
Yeah, FIRED, from that job..."
Lol, as soon as I saw "Ghandi," that's what popped into my head. That's from a skit/song of Stephen Lynch's called "History Lesson." He's a funny man.
telegraph0000 said:
Sorry......HUH????
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I think what he was trying to say was when you point your finger at somebody, there are always four fingers pointing back at you. Why he was saying that, I have no idea.
fiktion said:
I think what he was trying to say was when you point your finger at somebody, there are always four fingers pointing back at you. Why he was saying that, I have no idea.
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Okay..thanks...(you should censor part of yo' rap my vanilla bro')
So...If I point a $10 bill at someone...what will happen????
How do we get 4-fingers pointing at ourself? unless I bend my thumb into a weird position, I can only get 3.
Florida:
Women may be fined for falling asleep under a hair dryer, as can the salon owner.
A special law prohibits unmarried women from parachuting on Sunday or she shall risk arrest, fine, and/or jailing.
If an elephant is left tied to a parking meter, the parking fee has to be paid just as it would for a vehicle.
(SARASOTA) It is illegal to sing in a public place while attired in a swimsuit.
Men may not be seen publicly in any kind of strapless gown.
In Miami, it is forbidden to imitate an animal.
It is illegal to fart in a public place after 6:00pm on a Thursday.
It is illegal to have sexual intercourse with a porcupine.
It is illegal for a woman to bungie jump naked on Sunday before midday.
In Miami it is illegal to park your elephant on 8th Street on Sundays after 1pm.
It's illegal to purchase alcohol before 1pm on Sundays in the city of Coral Gables.
California:
Many animals are illegal to own as pets, including snails, sloths, and elephants.
Bathhouses are against the law.
In an animal shelter, lizards and snakes are treated under the same guidelines as cats and dogs.
No vehicle without a driver may exceed 60 miles per hour.
Women may not drive in a house coat.
It is a misdemeanor to shoot at any kind of game from a moving vehicle, unless the target is a whale.
Arcadia
Peacocks have the right of way to cross any street, including driveways.
Alhambra
You cannot leave your car on the street overnight without the proper permit.
Baldwin Park
Nobody is allowed to ride a bicycle in a swimming pool.
Belvedere
City Council order reads: “No dog shall be in a public place without its master on a leash.”
Blythe
You are not permitted to wear cowboy boots unless you already own at least two cows.
Burlingame
It is illegal to spit, except on baseball diamonds.
Carmel
Ice cream may not be eaten while standing on the sidewalk. (Repealed when Clint Eastwood was mayor)
Women may not wear high heels while in the city limits.
Chico
Detonating a nuclear device within the city limits results in a $500 fine.
Downey
It is illegal to wash your car in the street. (Passed 1995).
Hollywood
It is illegal to drive more than two thousand sheep down Hollywood Boulevard at one time.
Lafayette
You are forbidden to spit on the ground within 5 feet of another person.
Lodi
It is illegal to own or sell “Silly String”.
Lompoc
It is illegal to posses, own or raise roosters. This is considered disturbing the peace.
Long Beach
It is illegal to curse on a mini-golf course.
Cars are the only item allowed in a garage.
Los Angeles
Toads may not be licked.
You may not hunt moths under a street light.
It is a crime for dogs to mate within 500 yards of a church. Breaking this law is punishable by a fine of $500 and/or six months in prison.
You cannot bathe two babies in the same tub at the same time.
Zoot suits are prohibited.
It is illegal to cry on the witness stand.
It is illegal for a man to beat his wife with a strap wider than 2 inches without her consent.
Ontario
Roosters may not crow in the city limits.
Pacific Grove
Molesting butterflies can result in a $500 fine.
Palm Springs
It is illegal to walk a camel down Palm Canyon Drive between the hours of four and six PM.
Pasadena
It is illegal for a secretary to be alone in a room with her boss.
Prunedale
Two bathtubs may not be installed in the same house.
Redlands
Motor vehicles may not drive on city streets unless a man with a lantern is wallking ahead of it.
Riverside
One may not carry a lunch down the street between 11 and 1 o’clock.
San Diego
The owners of houses with Christmas lights on them past February second may be fined up to $250.
It is illegal to shoot jackrabbits from the back of a streetcar.
San Francisco
Persons classified as “ugly” may not walk down any street.
Prohibits elephants from strolling down Market Street unless they are on a leash.
It is illegal to pile horse manure more than six feet high on a street corner.
It is illegal to wipe one’s car with used underwear.
San Jose
It is illegal to have more than two cats or dogs. -Ord. 7.08.595 (Meh, that one doesn't sound so dumb)
Santa Monica
You may not play percussion instruments on the beach.
Temecula
Ducks have the right of way to cross Rancho California St. at all times.
You are the king of bringing dead threads to life...
Well, you know. I do what I can.
So a while ago KanYe West dropped some shoes... now the Air Yeezy's those were kinda fail, but the KanYe West x Louis Vuitton... yeah.
I wanna get a pair but at the same time, don't have $1,000+ to blow on a pair of shoes that I'll grow out of in a month, so I have 2 choices;
1) Get soe knock-offs for like, $100 - $150.
2) Get another kind of shoes that look just as nice.
That's why I started this Thread. I don't wanna do Option 1, but if I have to, I will. So Option 2, can anybody help me out and show me some nice shoes that would go really really nice with skinny jeans?
Go to the nearest footlocker and buy yourself a pair of Chuck taylors. They´ll go for around 50 bucks, and they look great with skinny jeans.
I go the way of my ancestors and just don't wear shoes.
Just walk into a Louie store and demand every pair of Kanye West x Louie's they have in stock. That's what I did.... They were really generous!
Uhh. Chucks are soo... ehh. 8th grade.
Oh yeah. I hope you trip and a rock cuts off your big toe!
Hmm. Maybe I should. I'll go for it!
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THANK YOU!
If you served, tell us the branch and unit(s). This is for all vets, regardless of country.
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Ducit Amor Patriae!
Currently IRR
I dont serve in any military.
But my family has a long history of it.
And as today is remembrance day here in the UK.
I feel I should say a big thankyou to everyone who went to war for us. And I respect everyone who lost their lives a great deal.
Hooah!
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I've only participated in Flood Duty, as well as Maintenance & Construction in Haiti, but haven't been in Sand-Land yet. My signature has the date.
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The Real Face of Samsung!
A senior Samsung executive (general manager) named "Chan Woo Park" beats up a 30-year old female colleague during his Belgrade visit. According to the web news site "Vecernji" and "Novosti". More about the story HERE:
Taking tech misogyny to the next level
A Samsung executive resorted to violence following a verbal dispute with a female employee in Belgrade, Serbia. According to local media reports, the Samsung executive, a middle aged Korean national, assaulted the 30-year-old employee following a meeting at Samsung's regional office in Novi Beograd, a suburb of Belgrade. The female employee told the executive to stop yelling at her, but instead of backing off, the executive proceeded to assault his colleague. He started slapping and kicking the woman behind closed doors, threatening to kill her. An ambulance was dispatched to the office after the woman managed to escape. Media reports indicate that she was injured in the assault and visibly distraught. Police arrived at the scene shortly after the assault to collect evidence and gather witness statements, reports Novosti daily.
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To make things worse, they apparently kill their employees as well, by exposing them to highly dangerous chemicals. If you're Chinese, please translate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hHjDaJMRRA0