Potatoes

rolf_f

Look gents - we are talking greatest foodstuff here so I'll hear no more of choux buns and eggs. However tasty a choux bun is, it is just a choux bun and many might say (myself included) that if you are talking buns, the chelsea bun (sadly hard to find these days) is the ultimate in bun-ness.

And eggs - they are great (particularly poached on white toast) but eat more than 10 a day on a regular basis and you're dead. It has but a fraction of the versatility of the spud.

If you must talk nonsense, take it to the cheese thread!

Daz555

itboffin wrote:

Daz555 wrote:

In pre-famine Ireland the average labouring male munched his way through 14lbs of potatoes per day.

:shock: :?

Er what now 14lbs you must have a . missing, who eats 14lbs of anything in a day? a week perhaps but still v unlikely.

Apparently not. I had the info first hand from a cousin who runs a 'famine museum' in Co. Donegal.

These men worked hard. You need to eat a lot of spuds to maintain your body if spuds and seaweed is about all there is to eat.

asprilla

Spuds, buns and cheese and mere trifles.

Bacon is where it's at and you all know it. Even vegetarians know it.

Kieran_Burns

Asprilla wrote:

Spuds, buns and cheese and mere trifles.

Bacon is where it's at and you all know it. Even vegetarians know it.

rolf_f

Asprilla wrote:

Spuds, buns and cheese and mere trifles.

Potato
Bun
Cheese
Mere Trifle

I think that you can see that the potato, bun and cheese are completely different to the mere trifle.

joelsim

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Spuds, buns and cheese and mere trifles.

Bacon is where it's at and you all know it. Even vegetarians know it.

If you want to be a veggie why eat something that is manufactured to look and taste like meat? I just don't get it.

Nor those vegetarians who eat fish. Is fish not an animal? (Don't bother giving me the mammal, reptile blah blah here, I'm using animal in the generic sense)

For the record I enjoy eating vegetables and am happy to eat meals with no meat from time to time.

Kieran_Burns

Two answers to that:

1. You've got it the wrong way 'round. They are made to look like meat to entice the meat-eaters to a vegetarian alternative
2. People who eat fish are NOT vegetarian. They may like to think they are, but they're not

DonDaddyD

Kieran_Burns wrote:

Asprilla wrote:

Spuds, buns and cheese and mere trifles.

Bacon is where it's at and you all know it. Even vegetarians know it.

Of all the things posted on Bikeradar, I actually find this one of the most off putting.

And your wrong. Meat-eaters aren't enticed by vegetarian options that look like meat...

You're right about the fish thing though.

Kieran_Burns

DDD - you think that's bad:

TheStone

I try and have large chips the night before a big ride. For me, works much better than pasta.

bluehelmet

Agent57 wrote:

I think the medieval feeling is a large part of what I am finding so compelling about A Song of Ice and Fire (started reading with Game of Thrones in July, and just started Feast for Crows).

Well after reading that one I think you should wait for 6 years before reading A Dance with Dragons like I've had to....

Off to the chippy now, it's all this threads fault.

tptvmbircn

Kieran_Burns wrote:

davmaggs wrote:

I do wonder what people actually ate before potatoes, bananas and pasta arrived in Britain

mud

davmaggs wrote:

or drank before tea and coffee turned up

wet mud

although turnips apparently were popular up here in the north east when romans ruled the land...

SmellTheGlove

Rolf F wrote:

I tried to imagine a potatoless world and it wasn't good........

It's a little known fact, but Sir Walter Raleigh is rightly famous as the man who introduced salad to Glasgow.