If by “worse” you mean “tastes like cat’s piss mixed with drain cleaner”, maybe. But if you’re referring to the ABV:
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Yum.
Is it wrong that I take my own cocktail sauce with me to Japanese restaurants, though?
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Brewing companies love that slogan, because most drunk people are only going to see the first two words.
Like “Please put this delicious beverage in your mouth right away responsibly”
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We tried that, but they would ride back after us and nick all our Cumberland sausage. Eventually we all gave up and decided to pay each other, but anywhere south of Middlesbrough was fair game.
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Absolutely. Only Dwarfs quaff drinks, everybody else tries not to spill it.
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My wonderful mother, (mostly English in ancestry) cooked for her kids, what we described as “bland and mushy”. My dad (the German side) is the only guy I know who could make a $0.19 box of Chef Boyar Dee pizza be enough for himself and 5 kids. (in the 50s)
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Peruse 19th century Anglo-American publications plentiful depictions of Irish as apes. Slightly later, they’re replaced by Sicilians, Slavs, and Swiss. Whiteness is a social condition.
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Damn autocorrect.
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To Gemma O’Doherty, I say, Erin go [Bronx Cheer].
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Not much bravery involved. Haggis was always a poverty food- it originally fed poor agricultural labourers, who had to solve the problem of “how to feed a family on a bag of oatmeal, some cheap root veg, and the bits of the sheep the landlord didn’t want.” The battered and fried chip shop version is just the industrialised version of the same problem- how do you maximise calories and minimise cost, while giving people something they will enjoy.
The only reason it’s held up as such a big deal is because of that poem by Burns, which basically scoffs at the idea of fine dining and says “who cares about keeping up with pretentious food fads. Give me something that’s tasty, filling and hearty”.
Of course, now it’s finding its way into modern cuisine, where it’s been found to pair well with Mexican or Indian food. So it really hits every stage of the story I told in my last post.
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I think the big scandal was chicken sausage containing pork.
Now that that city has its Irish pub back, it is officially Turin complete
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A bad butcher not keeping animal meats separate would be a scandal even if everybody concerned is atheist.
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True enough, but when all the certified meat in a country comes from a small (and supposedly very tightly regulated) number of producers, it perforce also becomes a statement about the certifying body.
Sure, the certifying body for food safety is the Norwegian food safety authority. It’s not the responsibility of the Halal certifiers, they’re looking at religious ritual compliance. Same as other global factories that get Kosher compliance.
Most of the cross-contaminated producers were non-religious general Norwegian food producers who weren’t keeping clean-enough shops, and labelling product as Halal-certified when it wasn’t.
That’s on the Norwegian producers, and the health authorities caught them.
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It’s cute but you don’t want to see it expose it’s manipulators.
My county has seen a slow, steady intrusion of Slavic institutions and eateries over a century. Damn those Croats! Between them, the taco trucks, and Cambodian donut shops, civilization here is doomed. I just want a pizza I can depend on, halal or not.
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In any event, I was just answering @evilkolbot’s question about where Norwegians get certified meat (and that in turn was related to an earlier suggestion that people don’t “piss and moan about kosher butchers”; they do).
The fact that there are only a dozen or so Halal-certified Norwegian meat producers (and as far as I am aware no Kosher ones), and that the certification hasn’t kept the meat from being questionable, is a problem for strictly religious there, and the problem is not disconnected from the issue of national law being in direct conflict with traditional slaughter practice.
Incidentally, I was a regular customer of one Halal market in Oslo; I didn’t buy meat there, but like any corner market it was an excellent source of many other daily products (including exotica like British tea), and often far cheaper than the regular stores by virtue of catering mainly to the local Pakistani population, who generally had less disposable income than the broader population.
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Thanks, it did not compute.
I lived in a Halal household for a while. We had some interesting discussions about vinegar.
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