100 Pounds of Food/Year From a 12 Square Foot Plot? - Page 5

 <Charlie> wrote in message

well, i thought that - he is being perfectly pleasant! ("ah, you've got me
there" generally means "i'm not sure if i can answer your question or not"
in my tiny world. with a secondary meaning (not intended in this case) of
"you've beaten me, you cad!!"). just in case that was worrying you ;-)


who the hell ever says "cobber" any more??! jesus!!
<g>
kylie

 

Oh god, have we screwed that up too? Nutella was originally from France,
I think. The German counterpart is Nussnugat. We have already screwed up
croissants and turned them into bread crescents.

Hard to beat Bonne Mamam and real Dijon mustard can knock your nose off
and bring tears to your eyes. Both are good eats ;-))

McDonads in Germany is better than the stomach wadding that they fob off
on us here. Tasted like real meat but then again it was Germany. Classic
American taste is no taste at all. Hold over from Puritan times I think.
If it tasted good or pleased the flesh, it must be sinful because it
distracts from our spiritual mission on Earth, which is to burn and kill
the witches and heathen.

Don't even ask about their secret sauces:-(

Thanks for leaving the question, I'd forgotten that I had asked one.
Here, in 'Merica, prepared foods usually list their ingredients in order
of quantity from greatest to least. Water, and corn syrup are often
among the first ingredients.

If you forget to answer it's OK. I'll probably forget again that I
asked;-)

g'day
--

Billy

http://au.youtube.com/watch?v=7WBB0svwMdY&feature=related

 

oh get over yourself!!!! <g> the u.s. is not the ruination of civilisation
everywhere ffs ;-) it doesn't have that much power.

 Nutella was originally from France,

see above. nice croissants are available worldwide (3 cheers for the
french!). of course it is laughable that americans call them crescents, but
then, it doesn't keep me (or the french) up at night.


c'est ça, exactement. i don't have a greenhouse problem with little imported
treats from time to time if it's something really GOOD. new zealand does
dairy very, very well & it's hard to know what to do sometimes which would
be the "right" thing. sigh! it is a curse to be informed, sometimes.


also beware of sex - i have it on good authority that it may lead to
DANCING.


yes, that is the standard practice. on a take-away product, though, that
doesn't apply for some reason (for one thing, it's hardly practical).

Water, and corn syrup are often

for an equivalent here, that would be water & cane sugar. but at the end of
the day, if you're eating loads of sugar or loads of corn syrup, it's
probably an equally bad idea, really. however, i choose lovely sugar over
creepy aspartame every time :-)
kylie

 

Not everywhere, just where I eat. We have this Ile de France Brie
cheese, made in New Jersey and tastes like wax. The faux
croissants are either wonder bread in crescent shapes, or dripping
of oil (probably soy). Croissants that shatter into hundreds of
toasted shards with a center of airy french bread are rare and not
easily found. But having found one, Nutella, and Bonne Mamam are the
perfect condiments to serve with them, along with a strong cup of
coffee. (We call it French roast, the French call it Italian roast, and
the Italians call it coffee.)
No we haven't ruined it everywhere but most Americans never get a
chance to taste what real food can be. We get new combinations of
confected wheat, corn syrup and corn fractions, soy oil, and salt,
and it gets called, new and improved.

I know. Can't see the forest for the trees. Too many divergent opinions.

One good sweat deserves another.
You may like the Japanese DVD "Shall We Dance?"

Same here, restaurants and fast food vendors never tell you what your
eating. A salad can have more calories than a 1/4 lb. hamburger with
cheese.

One of the problems with corn syrup is that it doesn't satiate.
You don't know that you've had enough. I would probably take the
admittedly creepy aspartame over corn syrup. But then that is a
lot like our election, choosing the least bad. I'm going to vote
for some third party candidate because the Democrat will take
California anyway, and to assure that a third party gets federal
funds to stay viable. The Republicrats are an opportunistic
embarrassment.

Thanks for the "chin wag".
--

Billy

 
what about people who know their food? what do they do? foodies might be a
small proportion of the populace, but what are they eating? (imports???)
what about the really good restaurants?

we are very lucky where we are: despite being in the country, you can get
wonderful food, excellent local bread, etc etc. weird though it might sound,
often in country australia the food is awful due to lack of foodies to up
the ante. that seems to be changing a lot now, thank heavens, you can get a
nice espresso in the most surprising places.

when bill bryson came to write his (only slightly erroneous) book about
australia he remarked on how good the food was everywhere he went, which
made me speculate that american food must really be woeful if he can get
better stuff in a flyspeck town in woop-woop :-)

had a conversation with a lady online at a different group who was still
huffy (several years after the event) that some frenchwoman in the u.s. had
remarked that food is much better in france. i opined that, on the balance
of probability, there was no chance that food was better in the u.s. & the
frenchwoman must have been correct & she could get over it now. but her
outrage and denial were not to be stopped :-)

she was from california where food is probably better.


it sounds a really bizarre substance.

 I would probably take the

you too.
i can't watch your videos as my dial-up is far too slow for video.
kylie