seanc80 Lol, I was just trying to get a rise out of you mate…

    Lol. He hardly questioned it

    Job done, Si 👍🏻

    There’s no way that meal was ever served in Ireland - only one potato and no spring onions for starters.

    25 days later

    Aiight Butty Brains, pay attention; this is how food is done proper.

    Pasta on a fucking pizza? Christ alive

    This is how we eat every day.

    a month later

    zackster ‘Chicken fried’ is a concept we are familiar with, as for thirty years pretty much every British town has had a crap slice of Americana restaurant.

    Deep frying stuff in batter is stuff we’re already ledging.

    What we are still genuinely learning from the seppos is how to make a quality burger, which these British ‘gourmet burger’ type restaurants etc really don’t get. Brit restaurant/gastropub owners think a quality burger is a massive slab of expensive beef made into a dry undigestible slab, topped mile high with a load of shite toppings, in a brioche bun with a stick or worse a fucking steak knife put in the top to hold it all together.

    What Americans know is a great burger should be a double cheeseburger (patty smashed down with a spatula to get the brown crispy umami flavour on the edge) in suitable bun, possibly topped with a couple of thinly sliced pickles, tomatoes and a tiny bit of lettuce and some burger sauce. Hold in the bag with fat, melted cheese and sauce oozing into a sealed corner. Shake Shack and Fatburger or even any non-descript burger van at a fair in the US are excellent. Most burger places in the UK are total dogshit.

      The good food around here is just regional versions of other’s food - Mexican, Korean, et cetera. One thing nobody can get right is Indian. I’m sure the high end places are good and I’d bet there are some spots in the South Bay/SV given the large Indian tech population, but not great around here for a solid takeout spot. I mean, it’s fine - edible - but nothing to write home about.

        jonattonyeah I mean, it’s fine - edible - but nothing to write home about.

        Why would you write home about it? Are you Indian?

        Jonathan Brownwater of Uttar Pradesh.

            Living Tooting I am exposed to the finest Indian cuisine in the world.