Len and Ainsleys food adventure

meritaten

lol interesting responses!
I loved Chinese food and over a couple of years my bro and I ate our way down the menu! We tried every single dish (except the English Dishes - why bother with those? that is ALL we had at home).
over the years I have found I love 'food', doesn't matter where it originates - I will try it and if it tastes good - then its GOOD!
BUT - after all these years and 6,240 Roast Dinners (yes, I did get the calculator out), I am fed up with them.
I doubt there is anything mum would eat on my menu - I may do 'British' food but very modern versions - to mum a salad was round lettuce, cucumber, tomato and spring onion.............and that's it! mine involve rice or pasta or cous cous and lots of veg and even 'fruit'!
I am just as likely to cook Asian or Indian or American.

candygirl

moneyistooshorttomention wrote: »

Wouldn't want him as a partner then....and he probably sticks to just one thing in every respect...ahem;)

Whoops...I'll get me coat....:rotfl:

Lol and all the time remaining annoyingly bl00dy cheerful :rotfl:

missbiggles1

JackieO wrote: »

I enjoy Indian food and anything spicy but have never like Chinese food at all.When my late Oh was alive he loved a Chinese meal and I would be polite and go to the restaurant with him but usually have an omelette or if they had it a curry of some sort .I am not keen at all on the sauces and sweet and sour to me just tastes yuk.but each to their own and I will always try something different if I can and especially if I am abroad I will try a local dish. I used to love the Lampuka sp? fish in Malta cooked in butter.I always enjoy eating out with my brother and his partner when I visit him in France but I have to draw the line at snails :):)

I love snails - especially in garlic butter!

VfM4meplse

candygirl wrote: »

My Nana used to hate " foreign muck"

Pollycat wrote: »

Len's comment 'I don't eat anything I can't pronounce'. :rotfl:

I can understand that for the grandparents of grown adults generation lived in unenlightened time, but for Len Goodman to say something like this in the current day and age shows a real ignorance. Unless of course he does make the effort to pronounce new foodstuffs!

missbiggles1

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I can understand that for the grandparents of grown adults generation lived in unenlightened time, but for Len Goodman to say something like this in the current day and age shows a real ignorance. Unless of course he does make the effort to pronounce new foodstuffs!

It was always said about my FIL that he wouldn't even eat Swiss roll.:rotfl:

PasturesNew

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I can understand that for the grandparents of grown adults generation lived in unenlightened time, but for Len Goodman to say something like this in the current day and age shows a real ignorance. Unless of course he does make the effort to pronounce new foodstuffs!

He'll have said it mostly in British humour style .... although there is a good basis for somebody saying that. There's a lot of funny sounding stuff that's unpronounceable that's eaten these days .... god knows what it tastes like, so his rule is sound.

cbrown372

I've enjoyed both programmes, not much point in commenting on them if you haven't watched them but hey ho. However my favourite one is Brian Turner with My Life on a Plate. Lots of history of local food growers along with lovely recipes and memories of childhood including school dinners!

meritaten

I enjoyed 'My life on a plate' too. some wonderful recipes - I really am going to try that 'Butter Pie'! OH loves corned beef and he (who normally dislikes cooking programmes but loved this one - said to me ' I like the look of that'.

VfM4meplse

PasturesNew wrote: »

He'll have said it mostly in British humour style .... although there is a good basis for somebody saying that. There's a lot of funny sounding stuff that's unpronounceable that's eaten these days .... god knows what it tastes like, so his rule is sound.

Ironically the trolleys at Lidl encourage us to try something we can't pronounce. Even more so, given that I sometimes feel like I'm the only UK-born customer in there

Pollycat

JIL wrote: »

Tony Blackburn's episode made me smile, he doesn't really like food. Eats the same thing all the time.

cbrown372 wrote: »

I've enjoyed both programmes, not much point in commenting on them if you haven't watched them but hey ho. However my favourite one is Brian Turner with My Life on a Plate. Lots of history of local food growers along with lovely recipes and memories of childhood including school dinners!

I think the Tony Blackburn one was from 'My life on a plate'.
I really like Brian Turner but does anybody agree that it sounds like he's trying to speak really posh & ends up sounding really false?