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What new foods have you tried recently?

"Hot Masala" crinkle-cut chips from a firm called Oh My Guru. They're amazeballs.... horribly calorific, worryingly orange, too expensive (£1.50 on offer, for a 150g pack which ought to contain 5 servings but in reality will last for 2 binges max), deliciously spicy/sour/salty. Very very hard to stop eating them.

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I had a Linda McCartney pie. It was vile. When I think of all the nice things you could put in a vegetarian pie it's just so disappointing.
 
Mung Beans. A bit boring.
I recently tried making two dals: a mung bean dal and a goan style dal curry from 'Curry Easy'. My gf preferred the mung one over the goan one! I thought the goan one was more exciting... and not sure I got the texture right because I think I over boiled them a bit.
 
I had a Linda McCartney pie. It was vile. When I think of all the nice things you could put in a vegetarian pie it's just so disappointing.

Oooh, think I had the same thing a couple of weeks ago - if it was, it was fake meat and tasted really chemically and hideous. And left a nasty aftertaste!

Their cheese and leek plaits are the business, though.
 
Bubble tea...finally!

Had a melon one with proper tapioca balls, cold. Was nice and refreshing but I'd drank all the juice before the balls were gone so it made the bottom bit a bit awkward. Maybe I just need more practice :)
 
Bubble tea...finally!

Had a melon one with proper tapioca balls, cold. Was nice and refreshing but I'd drank all the juice before the balls were gone so it made the bottom bit a bit awkward. Maybe I just need more practice :)
I had bubble tea last year. Never again :) I really didn't see the point. Tapioca is just like cold snot.
 
Baby Ruth. I'm on a quest to eat all the foreign sweets in the sweet shop in town. One new thing a week. One nice, one random. This week was a bit between the two, but definitely on the nicer end of the scale.

They've been stuck on my mind for about 25 years...ever since this:



It was...a little disapponting. It's just like a Snickers, only American (bigger, beefier, better). But still a Snickers.

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Had my eye on some weird Japanese wasabi sweets for next but they were £5 and I think that's a lot to pay for a random sweet. Will see what takes my fancy when I go back in. :)
 
Fez909 do check the local pound and 99p shops as well as Home Bargains and B&M if you want to have an international sweetie scoff. They've a surprisingly large range of treats there and obviously for bargain prices compared to Cybercandy and the like.
 
Fez909 do check the local pound and 99p shops as well as Home Bargains and B&M if you want to have an international sweetie scoff. They've a surprisingly large range of treats there and obviously for bargain prices compared to Cybercandy and the like.
I walk past Home Bargains twice a day...why didn't I think of that? :facepalm:

Thanks, knife/pound-shop guru :)
 
I've just come back from a trip to Egypt. I wanted to try pigeon but didn't. I did try Om Ali, which is a famous Egyptian pudding. It was like warm shredded wheat with milk and raisins :/
 
Heehee. Anything food related, preparation or eating or purchasing, I'm the bird to ask :D
I have a question then :)

When given popadoms and cachumber and chutneys in an Indian restaurant, it's obvious what to do with them. But how are you 'supposed' to eat the free popadoms you get when you get a curry and rice and a naan?

I usually go for the shovel route, scooping up rice and curry and trying to get it to stay on the popadom until it reaches my mouth (it usually doesn't; it goes on my shirt).

Am I an uncultured slob, or is this what you're meant to do? :hmm:
 
I have a question then :)

When given popadoms and cachumber and chutneys in an Indian restaurant, it's obvious what to do with them. But how are you 'supposed' to eat the free popadoms you get when you get a curry and rice and a naan?

I usually go for the shovel route, scooping up rice and curry and trying to get it to stay on the popadom until it reaches my mouth (it usually doesn't; it goes on my shirt).

Am I an uncultured slob, or is this what you're meant to do? :hmm:

That's what I do. If I'm in more delicate company I might crack off a bit of poppadom and chase a green mango sauce round the plate. Otherwise my tactic is shovel 'n' scoff. Not forgetting to drop some down my bra for a midnight picnic. I pile up what looks good onto it. TBH if I owned a restaurant, there would be a part of me just glad someone is at least trying to be civil and not ordering phaals and being obnoxious.
 
spanglechick and I had a Turkish dessert called kazandibi the other day. It was like rolled up cinnamon flavoured snot :(

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And I had pigeon pastilla in Morocco and it was delicious. I don't think I've ever eaten pigeon before
 
That's what I do. If I'm in more delicate company I might crack off a bit of poppadom and chase a green mango sauce round the plate. Otherwise my tactic is shovel 'n' scoff. Not forgetting to drop some down my bra for a midnight picnic. I pile up what looks good onto it. TBH if I owned a restaurant, there would be a part of me just glad someone is at least trying to be civil and not ordering phaals and being obnoxious.
I do worry about looking obnoxious when I order curries. Tonight I got a curry and asked for it vindaloo strength. Usually it's fine, but once or twice I've had an Asian lad who saw his chance to properly fuck me up...and took it.

"Oh, you like it hot do you? Indian style??"

:(
 
I do worry about looking obnoxious when I order curries. Tonight I got a curry and asked for it vindaloo strength. Usually it's fine, but once or twice I've had an Asian lad who saw his chance to properly fuck me up...and took it.

"Oh, you like it hot do you? Indian style??"

:(
I had that in Thailand. Several times my brother's Thai girlfriend was told they were impressed how much heat I could handle.
 
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