Post your most controversial food/drink opinions

[JuanTwoThree]

I was once temporarily paralysed by some cider we bought in a plastic jerrycan outside a farm gate in Cheddar. Then we thought cows were in the bedroom.

We were sitting in some tiny pub somewhere where the pints of scrumpy could be passed down to us from the bar. It's the only time I've been legless: I've been pissed plenty of times but that was the only occasion I've been drunk from the thighs downwards, we simply couldn't stand up.

Alcohol is alcohol, it shouldn't be so different depending on the form it takes. But snakebite? Scrumpy? Fuller's ESB back in my London day?

Scrumpy is weird

 

[8ball]

Different. Puri bread is like a deep fried paratha. Bhatura in Punjabi. They puff up into a ball so they can clog your arteries more efficiently.

Channa puri is one of my litmus tests for a good Indian place, the other being lamb madras.

 

[Spymaster]

Channa puri is one of my litmus tests for a good Indian place, the other being lamb madras.

Mine's the saag gosht and the quality of the naans.

 

[harpo]

Scrumpy is weird

A responsible land lord will warn you not to drink scrumpy in pints.

 

[Orang Utan]

A responsible land lord will warn you not to drink scrumpy in pints.

That's daft. You'd just drink twice as many halves and spend more money. Best not have more than four or five though

 

[Saul Goodman]

"Korma" If you order korma and ask for it not to be spicy, then don't go out for curry.

That depends on where you're eating and whether you know what Korma means. It's only really in the UK that Korma has become synonymous with bland yellow gravy. "Korma" is actually the method used to cook the meat. It means it's cooked slowly, very similar to braizing.
It is usually a yoghurt or cream sauce, with the spices cooked in ghee and added later, but with a proper "Korma", the sauce can be anything from mild to proper spicy hot, and can contain a variety of ingredients, so someone asking for a mild Korma might actually know what Korma means

 

[rutabowa]

I am going to leave this thread well alone.

 

[oryx]

also believe Ham and Pineapple to be one of the greatest pizzas ever so it’s good to see there appears to be plenty of support for it on this thread.

One of my favourite ever pizzas was the Peking duck and hoisin sauce one from the local takeaway when I lived in SW London.

 

[Spymaster]

That depends on where you're eating and whether you know what Korma means. It's only really in the UK that Korma has become synonymous with bland yellow gravy. "Korma" is actually the method used to cook the meat. It means it's cooked slowly, very similar to braizing.
It is usually a yoghurt or cream sauce, with the spices cooked in ghee and added later, but with a proper "Korma", the sauce can be anything from mild to proper spicy hot, and can contain a variety of ingredients, so someone asking for a mild Korma might actually know what Korma means

Yes. Korma here has just become a term for a mild curry with cream and ground nuts. Nothing to do with the original dish.

 

[moomoo]

Melted butter on toast is rank. Toast should be left to go cold before buttering it.

 

[Pickman's model]

there's not a lot of proper controversial opinions on this thread

 

[Pickman's model]

Melted butter on toast is rank. Toast should be left to go cold before buttering it.

serving toast cold is an abomination

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Melted butter on toast is rank. Toast should be left to go cold before buttering it.

Do you run a B&B by any chance?

 

[moomoo]

Do you run a B&B by any chance?

No but I should do. Then there’d be no soggy toast, weetabix or black pudding for breakfast.

 

[littlebabyjesus]

Breakfast is srs business. It's not for enjoying yourself.

Plum tomatoes straight from the tin, I trust. And you'll have your egg just as I cook it.

 

[Looby]

They do. Lager snobs are just daft.

They really don’t. Fosters particularly is disgusting.

I’ve gone off lager anyway but if I fancy a pint it wouldn’t be fosters or carlsberg.

 

[Saul Goodman]

Melted butter on toast is rank. Toast should be left to go cold before buttering it.

That's actually a good one... Well done... Lol

 

[Spymaster]

No but I should do. Then there’d be no soggy toast, weetabix or black pudding for breakfast.

You could call it Stalag Moomoo.

 

[Fedayn]

Melted butter on toast is rank. Toast should be left to go cold before buttering it.

Savage

 

[ignatious]

It’s hard to beat a really good salad.

 

[Saul Goodman]

You could call it Stalag Moomoo.

In bed by 10 or the doors will be locked. Up before 8 or you get a bucket of cold water over you.... Shave with cold water and a broken bottle... and cold toast for breakfast.

 

[moomoo]

In bed by 10 or the doors will be locked. Up before 8 or you get a bucket of cold water over you.... Shave with cold water and a broken bottle... and cold toast for breakfast.

Don’t hear any complaints from my kids...

 

[danny la rouge]

Melted butter on toast is rank. Toast should be left to go cold before buttering it.

“Hot, buttered toast” is a saying for a reason. Else it’d be “cold toast with hard butter pressed onto it”. And nobody says that.

 

[danny la rouge]

Don’t hear any complaints from my kids...

But do the authorities? Do the authorities?

 

[moomoo]

But do the authorities? Do the authorities?

Shush. They don’t need to know anything... And in any case, I’m trying to ‘encourage’ my boys to leave home

 

[danny la rouge]

And in any case, I’m trying to ‘encourage’ my boys to leave home

Ah. As you were!

 

[Fedayn]

Shush. They don’t need to know anything... And in any case, I’m trying to ‘encourage’ my boys to leave home

I do hope the youngest comes to really enjoy hard buttered cold toast.

 

[danny la rouge]

I do hope the youngest comes to really enjoy hard buttered cold toast.

You are a cruel man.

 

[Fedayn]

You are a cruel man.

Not at all, just spreading the family happy times.

 

[danny la rouge]

Not at all, just spreading the family happy times.

Spreading. Hmm. Ripping holes in the toast more like.