From: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org (alloy-digest) To: alloy-digest@smoe.org Subject: alloy-digest V8 #23 Reply-To: alloy@smoe.org Sender: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Errors-To: owner-alloy-digest@smoe.org Precedence: bulk X-To-Unsubscribe: Send mail to "alloy-digest-request@smoe.org" X-To-Unsubscribe: with "unsubscribe" as the body. alloy-digest Thursday, February 6 2003 Volume 08 : Number 023 Today's Subjects: ----------------- Re: Alloy: European Vacation ["p.latham2" ] Re: Alloy: European Vacation [PRAEst76 ] ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:00:05 -0000 From: "p.latham2" Subject: Re: Alloy: European Vacation Maybe its because of what ive been brought up with - but I much more enjoy UK chocolate to that from Europe - in fact as a trip im told the day trip to Cadburys World near Birmingham is meant to be great - must go myself sometime. Sorry but for me - curry & chips is a no no - just traditional fish & chips - or pie chips & gravy - slurp slurp, just the thought of it - fantastic. Paul. (Blackpool) - ----- Original Message ----- From: PRAEst76 To: Robin Thurlow Sent: Tuesday, February 04, 2003 6:34 PM Subject: Re: Alloy: European Vacation > > Robin sed: > > > We have that in NY... except for decent fish&chips, not that I've > > found yet anyway, and of course the Tower. Even some mutation of a > > Madame Tussauds now exists in Manhattan somewhere. Definitely eat as > > much fish&chips as you possibly can when in the UK ! also, candy > > candy candy.. some of the best in the world. > > Where what? Candy=sweets? I've got better from Europe, and British > chocolate is barely chocolate at all. Edinburough Rock is nice, Some > of the dairy toffee & Fudge makes me drool to think of it but much of > the rest isn't a touch on what you'll get in Europe... especially > considering this trip incolves a trip to Belgium. > > > And Absinthe (but not Hill's) which is available at the local food > > market, not banned as it is in the US. > > I was told the Absinthe we get here is a pale imitation of that > available on the continent. Not that I've had any other. Personally I > got little out of it. > > -- > PRAEst76 > http://www.cancellation.freeserve.co.uk/praest76/ ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 5 Feb 2003 13:02:41 +0000 From: PRAEst76 Subject: Re: Alloy: European Vacation p.latham2 sed: > Maybe its because of what ive been brought up with What were you brought up with? > - but I much more enjoy > UK chocolate to that from Europe - in fact as a trip im told the day trip to > Cadburys World near Birmingham is meant to be great - must go myself > sometime. It's creamier sometimes, but I always found I prefer high coca chocolate. The likes of Galaxy or Dairy milk makes me sick very easily. Used to have a girlfriend who would eat one of the kg blocks in a day. that would kill me, though saying that it'll probably kill her. > Sorry but for me - curry & chips is a no no - just traditional fish & > chips - or pie chips & gravy - slurp slurp, just the thought of it - > fantastic. Pie and chips is very english. We don't really get it here. But Battered Sausage n chips or Pastie Supper is common, and sometimes tasty. - -- PRAEst76 http://www.cancellation.freeserve.co.uk/praest76/ np: Throbbing Gristle - Still Walking ------------------------------ Date: Wed, 05 Feb 2003 21:00:02 -0700 From: "Beth Meyer" Subject: Re: Alloy: European Vacation Hi, folks; Just to add a suggestion on a cuisine-related note -- if you have tastes at all similar to mine, you will want to forget about calories (hey, this is a vacation, right?) and attempt to sample every flavor of potato chip (aka "crisps") you can find. I have always been a sucker for interesting flavors of potato chips, but interesting flavors are still a bit hard to come by here in the US. Not so in the U.K. We're not just talking salt and vinegar here -- no, more like shrimp flavor, or roast beef & mustard, or ham & pineapple, or roast chicken, etc. On my second trip to the U.K., we stopped off at a gas station or two and I always walked out with an armload of little bags of potato chips. Mmmmm... ...but then I have been known to have strange tastes. And certainly try the chocolate in both the U.K. and Belgium. I found that Belgian chocolate was definitely a rich and yummy indulgence, but to just keep me going while running around the cities, I preferred mint Aero bars from the U.K. (After a nice bag of, say, tomato and bacon flavor potato chips.) Cheers, Beth P.S. To echo what others have said, York and the Lake District are seriously cool. Didn't stay in Belgium for long enough to see much more than the Mannequin Pis, which strikes me as a tad overrated... ------------------------------ End of alloy-digest V8 #23 **************************