Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

lostinrates

mishmogs wrote: »

ello, hope you dont mnd me popping in every now and again. You seem such 'happy' people and I thought I would join in..... if its ok that is..

anyway, when OH and me go atravelling, we tend to wonder off the beaten track and look for where the locals eat (yes I know that sounds obvious) and wherever we are in the world, we try and have a chinese meal to see if they taste the same the world over and I can report that they do (apart from in China). But getting back to eating where johnny foreigner eats, found a fab chinese in some place in Paris, only 10 items on the menu (I think) and it was in chinese so we said that, that and that please.... and in Hungary some restaurant in the hills was rather good. I kinda like the if neither party can speak the language lets just give it a go... :rotfl:

Of course you are welcome.

My dh does that with chinese food too. But he finds they do taste different I found italian chinese horrid, horrid inedible. Otherwise i try and eat local food, i have never fancied a chinese in france, and thoughni know i have eaten int in us, i cannot remember it at all, sadly.

Dh didn't much like chinese food in china:rotfl:

PasturesNew

Wheezy wrote: »

I don't think it's got anything to do with poshness.
In Germany and France for example, you would always use "Sie" or "Vous" instead of "Du" and "Tu" when speaking to a person you don't know and definitely when speaking to someone older or more senior.

The posh bit is whether you use "one" or not. I've never used it. I've only ever heard it said by posh people on the telly really. I've never heard a real/live person say it.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Bloody hell. I have lost three explanations to this so i give up.

Did however find this link which mse might prefer to me typing

http://www.french-linguistics.co.uk/grammar/tu_and_vous.shtml

I think one is underused. On mse that causes lots of rows.

Yes, using you does often sound like you're accusing somebody of something.

"One" sounds awkward to me though, I'd struggle to fit it in

mishmogs

chewmylegoff wrote: »

ha ha! was it better or worse in china? i remember eating food in thailand which was about 100 times better than what you get here in a thai restaurant, but to be fair we were staying on an island resort and they had literally pulled the fish out of the sea, gutted it, prepared it and whacked it on the coals, which is going to beat crispy fish from billingsgate any day.

I was traveling around china which was not easy I can tell you (lack of anything but chinese writing) and if you ate in tourist hotels it was all the same deep fried chicken this, rice n more rice that but on the markets, if you can escape the plain clothed security men who incidently all look like FBI men, then your selected skewered bbq'd frogs were rather tasty followed by some wicked home brew

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

Yes, using you does often sound like you're accusing somebody of something.

"One" sounds awkward to me though, I'd struggle to fit it in

I think being used to it makes it easier, perhaps you are right. i use one with out discomfort but i think that fairly odd in any english pseaker under forty or fifty, so perhaps an age thing too?

Wheezy_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

The posh bit is whether you use "one" or not. I've never used it. I've only ever heard it said by posh people on the telly really. I've never heard a real/live person say it.

Ah yes, sorry...I thought it was about the formal/informal you

One can only assume I hardly use 'one'.

mishmogs

zagubov wrote: »

I've heard of it. Been to Cologne recently and toured the chocolate factory. But in general the grub was drab- cheese salad for breakfast. I love the food in Munich - lieberkasse (liver-cheese) with mustard,roll and butter. Also, weirdly loads of guys in suits getting off the train in the morning and drinking a quick breakfast lager.

I think having a crafty snifter of lager in the morning sounds rather civilised!!! I can remember decamping to the pub on a friday lunchtime for beer and sarnie. Cant do that now :( unless you want the sack!

Ps favourite sarnie: well I'm from Manchester (the posh part) originally and love a chip butties..... when did it become popular to have chips n cheese from the chippy???

lostinrates

I can't remember which hotel we were in in cologne, but it was a chain i think...the work ones usually are...such a shame, but breakfast wa soutstanding. There was a waffle maker which i didn't get to use and was a bit put out about. Their was loads of different fruit salads.....i get really excited about a good fruit salad breakfast, and Hot anglo american breakfast stuff, and cheese and meat and baked goods.

My favourite hotel brekafast was this ace that had th emost outstanding prunes i have ever had. I love prunes, they are probably my favourite thing in the world....nice ones, not the shoeleather ones, and i think i ate five of them. Then couldn't go out of the hotel for the morning....even after eating bread. The next mornigi did pretty much the smar thing.....

My ideal valentine would bring me a box of lovely stuff prune d'agen rather than a box of chocolates.

Oh, and not sure i could do lager for breakfast, but mimosa or bloody mary, are fine by me!

zagubov

Davesnave wrote: »

I'm sure lir will confirm that chickens destined for serious commercial production, whether for eggs or meat, and regardless of system, are routinely vaccinated as chicks. I'm not aware of them being medicated after that unless sickness occurs. To have sickness in a flock at the stocking levels normally encountered would be financially disastrous.

We give our hens antibiotics if we need to because of illness, but we don't buy hens vaccinated against things like salmonella. Our customers never ask though; all they care about is the taste.

Part of my job once was testing for Salmonella from poultry farms. Back in the 80s I recall that Edwina Currie committed political suicide by taking on the farming lobby about salmonella food poisoning. At the time some estimates were a death a day.

And there was a wide variety of sources as salmonellas are usually named after the place they were first discovered. Turns out it was common knowledge that transatlantic flights used to fly over mainland Britain (as any resident of Lockerbie knows all too well) and the toilet waste used to be released as an aerosol. There was a theory that the bacteria ended up in watercourses supplying poultry farms

To this day it turns my stomach when I see people in supermarkets testing the eggs with their fingers and then eating crisps or sweets, even though I know now the poultry industry seems to have got its act together and got the salmonella problem pretty much under control.

lostinrates

Thats intersting zagubov....

I do not vaccinate, atm, hut the ex batts will have been vaccinated.

It really annoys me when peole eat in supermarkets anyway.....never mind touching eggs. Tbh, ot sure i have seen any one touching eggs, as opposed to looking at them broken.