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Post by Kenny on Dec 17, 2004 9:43:42 GMT 10
As someone who spends at least some time every working day malingering on various platforms at Flinders St Station, I have come to the conclusion that the potato cakes sold at the station kiosks are almost certainly the lowest, trashiest, ugliest, most evil food known to mankind in the Entire History Of The Known Universe. Not that I've tried one, mind you. I'm not that stooopid. It's just that the smell wafting ariound the place makes me think the oil in which the dreadful things are percolated hasn't been changed since, oh, circa 1953. Blleuuueerrch!  So what else is right up there in terms of in-the-Gutter Gourmand Goodies? Maccas: Bennie loves this crap - or, rather, he likes the the lame toys they throw into the kiddies' meals. I think it's disgusting. Hungry Jacks may be coming from the same place, but to me at least it resembles what a burger should look and taste like. And they have onion rings. Maccas? I'd sooner eat the toy. Generic brand tinned cat food smeared on toast: Anyone tried this? Any of you hard-up jazz musos? Hell, it might go OK with salt, pepper, dash of lemon juice. Twisties: Geez, give me potato chips any day. At least then, with a little imagination, I can convince myself they are derived from something that was originally organic. Twisties? What the hell is in that? Deep-fried Mars Bar: Being discussed in my office as I write. Despite my Scottish ancestry, I can't imagine how dreadful this must taste. KFC Mashed Potato And Gravy: Just kidding - I LOVE this stuff! |
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Post by Kenny on Dec 18, 2004 15:09:50 GMT 10
Come on, Mark - Knowing something of your culinary curiosity and bravery and, er, questionable taste, I'm sure you may have something to add on this vitally interesting topic.
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Post by happy on Dec 19, 2004 22:15:36 GMT 10
try the plastic shit they sell in the vending machines...or the coffee at the kiosks - my god! oh and the ads now appearing across the top of the board!: Potato Chips for sale. aff Check out the deals now! Potato Chips Great deals on new and used items. Search for potato chips now! -aff British Potato Crisps All your favorite Walkers flavors available. Fast Shipping Latkes from Israel Latkes Potato pancakes quick mix . The Israeli food shop. You're wise to this already, aren't you kenny, you only started this thread to see what would rise from the cyberslime....  |
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Post by isaacs on Dec 20, 2004 5:49:14 GMT 10
Reply to Kenny:
You're right Kenny, I was tempted to post in response, if only to confess that I love McDonalds, in particular the Big Mac (I like the two all-beef patties, special sauce, cheese, pickles, lettuce, onions on a sesame seed bun). I probably eat 5 a year, but consider it an (albeit downmarket) treat. I have noted that a hell of a lot of people disagree and think their food is crap. But I find this an over-generalised position, who can not find something they like there, if only the fries? It's like the way people talk about aeroplane food, I've had some great stuff on aeroplanes, and not only when I have been lucky enough to get upgraded, never understood the blanket dismissal - I actually get terribly excited when the trolleys roll. Anyway, the other day I found a woman that shared my secret shame. A fine classical singer, who adores Big Macs.
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Post by Kenny on Dec 21, 2004 10:52:47 GMT 10
See Mark - I knew you'd have opinions on weighty issues such as this!
Maccas? It's not the idea that I loathe, it's the execution. I love going to Hungry Jack's - like you, about five times a year - and reckon their stuff tastes pretty good for junk food. It also, at least vaguely, resembles the photographs, which in my experince can NEVER be said of Maccas!
BTW, before my show last night I had probably the best burger I've ever had in my life - and that's saying a heap (Bud's Broiler, anyone?). It was at a cafe called Deelish in Collingwood, where I've had coffee before but never some serious food. This was sublime - great chips (not shoestring or those abominations called wedges), great pattie with cream cheese (not something I'd normally condone, but this worked fine), ketchup and - instead of pickles - slices of hot jalapenos. The salad stuff on the side was more than edible, too. Yum.
Yeah, I'm with you about airline food - had some pretty good stuff, and some really, really bad. Oddly, the only time I've done long-haul business class (Thank You, Reba McEntire!), I was surprised how little the food was superior to economy. Mind you, everything else was heaps better. I wish I was a jazz musician so I could fly business class everywhere!
Latkes? I can't fathom how any kind of latke - instant or otherwise - could even approach in gruesomeness a genuine Australian potato cake cooked in rancid oil at a too-low temperature!
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Post by Vicki h b on Dec 21, 2004 19:33:47 GMT 10
Oh God, Mark how CAN you like McDonalds There is NOTHING on their menu worth eating, you have to be really drunk before you can eat the food from MacDonalds, and I mean totally blind - Hungry Jacks is better but only if you have to go fast food.
But yes Kenny, the smell of those fried things on Flinders street station is really disgusting.
Hey pity you guys are missing out on my holiday cooking; my grandma's recipe shortbread, christmas puddings, traditional cakes, and my marmalades and pesto's are smelling, tasting and looking very good this year.
By the way Happy Hunnakah and Christmas to all.
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Post by spellingfightstarter on Dec 21, 2004 23:11:20 GMT 10
its channukah
im pretty sure
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Post by isaacs on Dec 22, 2004 5:22:10 GMT 10
Yum Vicki, your kitchen symphony sounds ravishing.
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Post by vicki hb on Dec 22, 2004 19:19:57 GMT 10
Hunnakah, Chunnaka stop kvetching already, sorry there is no Hebrew/Amharic font on my computer you pedant! Yes I also noted there shouldn't be an ' in pestos - (which should probably be pesti before you correct me again).
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Post by Yuri on Dec 22, 2004 19:24:54 GMT 10
Actually either hunakkah or chunnaka is acceptable in Goy.
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Post by aj on Dec 22, 2004 21:09:11 GMT 10
ok kenny, I'll see your potato cake & raise you a pizza :
mid 80s, travelling in England (where you got chips with everything & the only decent food to be had was a curry), I found myself in the middle of nowhere, in a town with no curry cafes, just one greasy-looking joint.
I saw pizza on the menu & thought, why not ? so i ordered, dinni ?
whereupon the geezer reaches into the freezer, pulls out a frozen pizza, peels off the shrinkwrap, & tosses it into the vat of fat. (at which point, I exit in disgust.)
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Post by Kenny on Dec 23, 2004 7:29:29 GMT 10
Great Googly Moo! Excellent! Comprehensively disgusting! Did it have pineapple on it? |
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Post by vicki hb on Dec 23, 2004 9:05:33 GMT 10
More disgusting UK food:
Pizza slices dipped in batter before being deep fried
Deep fried mars bars
bits of left over in the oil batter from deep fried fish served on their own with an instant-mix curry sauce
(no I can't say i have ever tried these).
but the worst meal I was ever presented with was a "curry" in a workmens cafe near Waterloo station- it was some kind of meat cooked beyond regonition in an nstant mix gelatinous fake dark brown gravy with raisins in it - it looked totally disgusting but being used to UK cuisine after many years I bravely tried one mouthfull and promptly made plans to move back to Australia.
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Post by Kenny on Dec 23, 2004 9:49:44 GMT 10
bits of left over in the oil batter from deep fried fish served on their own with an instant-mix curry sauce They do a version of this at a New Orleans eatery called Mother's. It's a genuine NO joint, but as it's near the French Quarter/Canal St it's more of a tourist thing nowdays rather than a local hangout. Or was the last time I stuck my nose in the place. Anyway, they do this po' boy sandwich - a New Orleans sandwich made with French bread - stuffed with what they call debris: The bits and pieces of beef that fall, as it is being carved, down the back of the tray. There they "marinate"/stew in their own juices!  |
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Post by Kenny on Dec 23, 2004 10:06:20 GMT 10
Once, when I was interviewing Chris and Charlie Marshall for a story about their band Harem Scarem, they told me about a former band member (you all get only one guess as to which instrument he played!) who literally lived on nothing but potato cakes.
When his concerned colleagues warned him of the dire nutritional consequences of such a diet, he switched his eating habits - to nothing but potato cakes smeared with Vegemite!
BTW, that yarn was to celebrate Harem Scarem's awesome album Pilgrim's Progress - an unsung epic of Australian music, and (AFIK) shamefully not available on CD. A sprawling soulful rocking classic with Chris Wilson on harp and Barry Palmer on guitar. Whew!
Yikes - that was in 1986!
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