Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

chewmylegoff

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My grandfather's favourite sandwich was lard with brown sugar. :eek:
I don't have a favourite one, I just don't like veggies in my sandwiches.
And I don't get the 'crisps in a sandwich' thing..I do like crisps and sandwiches but the combination is yuck.
Same with chocolate with nuts...hate it. Although I do like chocolate and nuts on their own. Yum.

i did look at those two posts together after i had posted the second one and snigger to myself!

crisps add texture to the sandwich which i really enjoy, but should only be used in soft bread. they wouldn't work in a really crusty baguette or something like that, that would just be annoying.

re: berlin, whilst there is a certain amount of irony in the fact that i stuff myself with filthy sandwiches whilst complaining about their food, my recollection is that they couldn't even do sausages and beer properly, which given that they are germans was quite surprising.

i seem to remember speaking to someone german about it at a party sometime afterwards and them saying that berlin was well known for having awful food and was ridiculed throughout the rest of germany just for that reason. however, there is a significant chance i have just completely made that up to support my assertion.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

i did look at those two posts together after i had posted the second one and snigger to myself!

crisps add texture to the sandwich which i really enjoy, but should only be used in soft bread. they wouldn't work in a really crusty baguette or something like that, that would just be annoying.

re: berlin, whilst there is a certain amount of irony in the fact that i stuff myself with filthy sandwiches whilst complaining about their food, my recollection is that they couldn't even do sausages and beer properly, which given that they are germans was quite surprising.

i seem to remember speaking to someone german about it at a party sometime afterwards and them saying that berlin was well known for having awful food and was ridiculed throughout the rest of germany just for that reason. however, there is a significant chance i have just completely made that up to support my assertion.

Its possible to eat badly ANYWHERE. Particularly tourist attracting areas. I have eaten abbysmally in france and italy....among people who revile british food, but a shop bought sarnie would have knocked what they were eating into a hat. One particuLar memory was fetting. Lecture on cuisine from one of dh's bosses.....an uncharacteristically formal woman who require one give her the formal you instead of the friendly one....and telling me how she had never eaten anything worth mentioning in uk, where as even the food at the work buffet would be excellent. Then the formal buffet came and it contained so ghastly looking a fish dish i made sure i was at the very back of the queue, having introduced my self to more people as a delaying tactic. Thankfully i was saved my the head partner there...a superb italian who i get on amazingly with, who told me it was diabolic and he refused to have his country's reputation for food sullied by me eating it. I would have had to eat it, and i wasn't looking forward to it!

Instead the big boss, a few favoured ragazzi of the boss, dh and i went for supper elsewhere after the work party.

lostinrates

Well, some thing to huild my egg empire on, the salveggtionists have delived three eggs this morning, in the right place - something few ex batts get right- but even funnier is that three of the old guard are obviously feeling the pressure as they too are sitting where they are meant to lay almost trying to for e eggs out...


I have been looking at the cupboard i put a slot in for gate sales, and will be making improvements to that and get it out again in the next couple of weeks at this rate.

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

Its possible to eat badly ANYWHERE. Particularly tourist attracting areas.

oh yeah absolutely, if you don't know what you're doing in london and stumble into covent garden you're going to get something horrible and it's going to cost you a bomb. the same applies anywhere. however, we did do at least some research (probably only tripadvisor but it's usually fairly reliable) and got the hotel (which was a fairly decent 4* affair, where you can normally rely on a good recommendation that at least serves up acceptable food) to recommend, and still came up with bad meal after bad meal.

usually even operating on random chance you blunder into somewhere half decent occassionally, but my memory is that this never happened. no doubt there are good restaurants in berlin, but i just felt the general standard was pretty low. i suppose the best parallel i can think of is that they would have probably considered wetherspoons to be a gastropub.

lostinrates

I v. Rarely eat in hotels, but i have noticed a change in hotels. There are four stars that are simialr to how five stars used to me, and some which are like three stars. Not being able to rely on four star hotels is a minor bugbear of mine. I wouldn't mind the 'please reuse your towel' if they gave decent quality towels these days. And increasingly annoying is the think of not giving enough bathroom stuff....and really offensive is the please call for soap/body lotion or whatever. And no bubble bath.

The problem is, even when its provided you don't know in advance so you have to take stuff, ehich means more than ten liquid items, which means hold luggage and a delay.....Something i am always on the verge of anyway...mascara, deoderant, lipgloss, pain relief gel, moisturiser, makeup remover etc etc..rapidly over ten things for the bare minimum of essentials.....i have to use some of dhs quota. I think its to boost airside sales now...especially since they told me i could not take flammable nail polish on board, but you can buy it airside and take it on board


I really would rather stay at home.



Incidentally, why doesn't the liquids rule extend to ferries and eurostar?

chewmylegoff

lostinrates wrote: »

I v. Rarely eat in hotels, but i have noticed a change in hotels. There are four stars that are simialr to how five stars used to me, and some which are like three stars.

although there is so much more information out there now that you can be fairly sure about what you're going to get, at least with decent city centre hotels where a lot of people have been so you can be sure there will be a good pool of online reviews. previously you were relying on a rubbish guidebook prepared by someone who didn't give a toss.

Incidentally, why doesn't the liquids rule extend to ferries and eurostar?

don't know, perhaps it's because the eurostar doesn't fly to the US? i know all planes don't fly to the US, but it would be horribly confusing if the rules were different depending on where you are flying, so they may have just been standardised across the board. not sure if the US is responsible for banning in the first place either.

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

although there is so much more information out there now that you can be fairly sure about what you're going to get, at least with decent city centre hotels where a lot of people have been so you can be sure there will be a good pool of online reviews. previously you were relying on a rubbish guidebook prepared by someone who didn't give a toss.



don't know, perhaps it's because the eurostar doesn't fly to the US? i know all planes don't fly to the US, but it would be horribly confusing if the rules were different depending on where you are flying, so they may have just been standardised across the board. not sure if the US is responsible for banning in the first place either.

I always read reviews..but i don't know how useful i find them. Unless they are weighted towards the don't go here. But even then i dunno, because, i er,...don't go there!:rotfl:


Is it just us thing, the liquods? Lets five those peopel their own temrinals and take lipglosses a plemty to europe with us then!

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

re: berlin, whilst there is a certain amount of irony in the fact that i stuff myself with filthy sandwiches whilst complaining about their food, my recollection is that they couldn't even do sausages and beer properly, which given that they are germans was quite surprising.

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I've been to Berlin but ate in the MacDonalds the Ossis went to when the wall came down. Very odd seeing loads of Red Army soldiers in a NATO country!

Relating to my earlier post, I always reckoned most of Germany was north of that food line I imagine runs across Europe with most of France and Italy being south of it and Germany Scandinavia, British Isles being north of it.

lostinrates

zagubov wrote: »

I've been to Berlin but ate in the MacDonalds the Ossis went to when the wall came down. Very odd seeing loads of Red Army soldiers in a NATO country!

Relating to my earlier post, I always reckoned most of Germany was north of that food line I imagine runs across Europe with most of France and Italy being south of it and Germany Scandinavia, British Isles being north of it.

We ate well in cologne. My cousin recommends a rsstaurant in cologne where its pitch black andyou cannot see what you are eating. We didn't go there!

chewmylegoff

i'd just get my phone out and use the light from the screen to see what it was. or a bit of flash photography for extra clarity.