Well, i’m back. I went to the lake disctrict for 3 nights and it’s quite enjoyable, except our lodge having no hot water. The food around their was marvellous, especially for someone like me. The local scenery was brilliant and I generally had a great time! I thought the lake in Windemere was gorgeous, Ambleside was a nice little town too.
Overall rating :- 10/10
By: old shape - 14th January 2009 at 23:50
Our Eastern yerp friends are partial to our Freshwater Fish. Where we would fish for sport, be careful with the handling and let them go again, this lot are knocking them on the head for food. Bream, Perch, Roach, Chub etc. All part of their daily diet. A lot of waters are now patrolled 4 times a day by the wardens, but the East Yerps come at night with large nets. Some waters are now empty of large fish. Fights have developed between true anglers and the thieves.
I have tried Perch as part of a survival training lark, it was naff. Mud with bones in….but obviously it would save your life should it need to. I wouldn’t mind trying Pike (Don’t tell him!) because Pike was a delicacy before the gentry turned to Salmon.
By: Grey Area - 14th January 2009 at 08:08
It’s the same in this country now…when i first came here the cuisine was nearly all British traditional…now with the great influx of European and Asian migrants the Aussie diet is more cosmopolitan
Do you mean British traditional grub like Danish bacon and New Zealand butter, Steve? :p
By: steve rowell - 14th January 2009 at 06:42
It’s the same in this country now…when i first came here the cuisine was nearly all British traditional…now with the great influx of European and Asian migrants the Aussie diet is more cosmopolitan
By: Pondskater - 7th January 2009 at 16:53
Steve,
I don’t know when you left the UK but our diet has become much more Mediterranean in the last few years. Lots of great dishes are now dependant on olives (and olive oil) cherry tomatoes and basil – but it is all great fusion with British produce. British food is no longer a joke.
But good news for traditional dishes – many live one, especially as pub grub. In the lakes you will find tattie pot, Cumberland sausage and Yorkshire puddings as big as your plate flooded with gravy. A lot of this fed farmers and miners, now it feeds hungry fell walkers.
I been away to Yorkshire and found Yorkshire curd tart in a tea room – lovely.
Variety is the spice of . . . something.
By: swerve - 7th January 2009 at 13:07
It seems an accurate statement to me.
Some of the best of contemporary British cuisine hides behind labels like “Indian”, “Chinese”, etc.
You’ll struggle to find a Chicken Tikka Masalla in India, that’s for sure! 🙂
Absolutely. Or a proper Birmingham Balti in Pakistan – though I believe it isn’t completely impossible, since there have been reports that it has been introduced there.
Cultural fusion & cross-fertilisation occurs constantly, & food is not exempt. For example, my partner was delighted when I found one of her favourite – and much-missed – Japanese condiments in a shop in London. I now have to buy some whenever I’m in the right area. Bulldog brand brown sauce. :diablo: Made in Japan for >100 years, & came under Japanese ownership early on. She likes to put it on, among other things, breaded pork cutlets – one of many western dishes completely assimilated into the mainstream of Japanese cuisine, & changed in the process.
Try to imagine Italian or Turkish food without the tomato, or Indian food with no chilli, or no potato in much of Europe – and then remember that 500 years ago those plants were unknown in all those countries.
By: tomfellows - 7th January 2009 at 10:21
I spent one of the best holidays of my life a couple of years ago in the Lakes. Can’t remember where exactly where I went but Ambleside rings a few bells. It truly is a stunning part of the country. Looking forward to a few photos, if you have any.
By: DazDaMan - 7th January 2009 at 09:32
I’m already planning a trip down to the Lakes again for nearer the end of the year – being my 30th in November, I fancied doing something other than sitting in a pub and getting blitzed (which I can do any weekend, really), so I shall be visiting my pal Annie at the Cumbrian Heavy Horse centre and going for a plod up the hills! 😀
By: steve rowell - 7th January 2009 at 05:44
What else would you expect? Ambleside has two Chinese, a good Indian, a vegetarian Italian (really good, and with attached cinema) and lots of places for a latte/cappucino/espresso.
Just like the rest of England really. 🙂
This is what i mean by good British food
By: Scott Marlee - 2nd January 2009 at 20:04
you lot! talking about tikka masala…ive had to make one because u made me want one that bad 😀
By: AE90 - 2nd January 2009 at 18:33
nice, not my ideal new years but each to himself, as with most of Male Brits i went out for a few and ended up face down in a curry and sick in the roast beef new years day. so i guess you win that one.
By: Ren Frew - 2nd January 2009 at 18:28
So legend has it.
Mind you, legend also has it that Chicken Tikka Masalla was invented in Glasgow rather than London.
Yes indeed, that’s certainly been the way I understood it. There’s been countless news interviews and local press coverage of the lad who ‘invented’ it over the years.
By: Grey Area - 2nd January 2009 at 18:16
Yep, invented in London.
What’s the Chinese dish invented in San Fran? Is it Chop Suey?
So legend has it.
Mind you, legend also has it that Chicken Tikka Masalla was invented in Glasgow rather than London.
By: old shape - 2nd January 2009 at 16:24
It seems an accurate statement to me.
Some of the best of contemporary British cuisine hides behind labels like “Indian”, “Chinese”, etc.
You’ll struggle to find a Chicken Tikka Masalla in India, that’s for sure! 🙂
Yep, invented in London.
What’s the Chinese dish invented in San Fran? Is it Chop Suey?
By: Grey Area - 2nd January 2009 at 14:51
Probably because it is a British dish invented in the U.K.!:D
Yes. That’s exactly what I was saying….. 😎
By: PMN - 2nd January 2009 at 14:43
My Mum and Dad spent a weekend in the same sort of area last weekend, and having seen the photos they took, it’s somewhere I very much plan on having a drive out to in the next few weeks!
You should. It’s a very pleasant part of the county!
Nice photos in the non-aviation thread by the way, Robbie! 🙂
Paul
By: LBARULES - 2nd January 2009 at 13:10
My Mum and Dad spent a weekend in the same sort of area last weekend, and having seen the photos they took, it’s somewhere I very much plan on having a drive out to in the next few weeks!
By: PMN - 2nd January 2009 at 11:08
You’ll struggle to find a Chicken Tikka Masalla in India, that’s for sure! 🙂
Not a problem for me here in Bradford!
Glad you had a good time, Robbie, but we need photos! 😀
Paul
By: heslop01 - 2nd January 2009 at 10:51
Steve: Lets just say, I had the best vegetarian risotto i’ve ever had!
By: Newforest - 2nd January 2009 at 08:22
You’ll struggle to find a Chicken Tikka Masalla in India, that’s for sure! 🙂
Probably because it is a British dish invented in the U.K.!:D
By: steve rowell - 2nd January 2009 at 08:21
I like curries and pasta and Chinese food as much as the next Man..but i do long for the good old traditional Geordie food My Mam used to cook like panaculty with pease puddin’ and Yorkshire puddin’..and what about some singin’ hinnies..you young Geordie lads probably don’t know what i’m talking about …go and ask your Gran
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