bacon.

[IcePack]

My thoughts on the matter:

Bacon is amazing.
Shrimp is gross.
"Canadian bacon" isn't bacon.
That baby would lose its damn bacon so fast w that ear piercing screams he wouldn't get bacon again until high school.

[Symmetry]

There is a reason why shrimping is so popular in the UK. Foot fungus and toe jam take the taste of the food out of the mouth nicely. Foot and mouth disease, invented by the british in a fetish overreach that went way too far.

I don't think that explains Stinking Bishop. Then again, nothing explains Stinking Bishop.

Stinking Bishop is awesome. I have no idea what shrimping is though.

For those not in the know- Stinking Bishop is a strong flavoured cheese. If you're terrified of Stilton, and prefer your cheese out of a can, it's probably not for you.

[riskllama]

canned cheese?

[Symmetry]

canned cheese?

Americans

[mrswdk]

This thread is not inclusive of Muslims and deserves to be moved to Trash Can.

[mrswdk]

[Symmetry]

This thread is not inclusive of Muslims and deserves to be moved to Trash Can.

Muslims in the UK use turkey bacon if they want to stay halal. On pizza, it's basically undistinguishable from the real thing.

[riskllama]

yeah, I don't think that's real.

[jonesthecurl]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

An air ticket to the UK.

The idea that anything in England is worth eating stretches "suspension of disbelief" to the breaking point.

So why are half the TV cooks in America Brits?

[Symmetry]

yeah, I don't think that's real.

Turkey bacon? It's a thing. Jewish people eat it too if they're keeping kosher. A lot of takeaways are run by Muslim families in my area, and indeed all around the UK. If they're halal, they will use turkey ham and turkey bacon on their pizzas.

[riskllama]

sym, you're an idiot.

[Symmetry]

sym, you're an idiot.

Baffling, what are you talking about now? Are you upset that I schooled you on bacon?

[Dukasaur]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

An air ticket to the UK.

The idea that anything in England is worth eating stretches "suspension of disbelief" to the breaking point.

So why are half the TV cooks in America Brits?

Americans only know that good food comes from Europe. They're not very good a distinguishing the different parts of Europe or explaining the differences. So it's easy enough to persuade them that Jamie Oliver is the greatest living authority on Italian food or Gordon Ramsay on French. If any real Italian or French chefs are objecting, they won't get any airplay anyway.

And the Brits speak better English than their French and Italian counterparts...

[Symmetry]

So when I get to the USA, what should i ask for if I want real bacon?

An air ticket to the UK.

The idea that anything in England is worth eating stretches "suspension of disbelief" to the breaking point.

So why are half the TV cooks in America Brits?

Americans only know that good food comes from Europe. They're not very good a distinguishing the different parts of Europe or explaining the differences. So it's easy enough to persuade them that Jamie Oliver is the greatest living authority on Italian food or Gordon Ramsay on French. If any real Italian or French chefs are objecting, they won't get any airplay anyway.

And the Brits speak better English than their French and Italian counterparts...

It doesn't exactly help that American food shows that make it across the channel are things like "Man vs Food".

[riskllama]

sym, you're an idiot.

Baffling, what are you talking about now? Are you upset that I schooled you on bacon?

yeah, that's what you did...

[Symmetry]

sym, you're an idiot.

Baffling, what are you talking about now? Are you upset that I schooled you on bacon?

yeah, that's what you did...

Damn right I did, I thought for a moment you were gonna wuss out and try to pretend you were talking to someone else.

[mrswdk]

yeah, I don't think that's real.

Turkey bacon? It's a thing. Jewish people eat it too if they're keeping kosher. A lot of takeaways are run by Muslim families in my area, and indeed all around the UK. If they're halal, they will use turkey ham and turkey bacon on their pizzas.

Yeah, whereas the non-halal Muslim places just as regular ol' pork.

[WILLIAMS5232]

I put Muslims eating pork substitutes in the same boat as self righteous vegans eating fake hamburgers. Just eat your kale and cucumber salad and be happy.

[mrswdk]

What about meat eaters who also eat vegetarian sausages?

[WILLIAMS5232]

That's just incidental. No big whoop. I would put them in a completely seperate boat altogether.

[tzor]

For those not in the know- Stinking Bishop is a strong flavoured cheese. If you're terrified of Stilton, and prefer your cheese out of a can, it's probably not for you.

Stinking Bishop is soaked in "perry" which is booze made from pears. It's also massively "local" with the right local cows and the right local pears. It was made famous (or infamous) by being mentioned in Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit,as well as a Monty Python skit (but it's the former that caused it's meteoric rise in popularity).

I was lucky that my far eastern cheese shop managed to have a small sample many years ago.

I am pretty sure you can still be terrified of Stilton and love Stinking Bishop, two entirely different cheeses.

[tzor]

So why are half the TV cooks in America Brits?

I don't think that's quite accurate. You have a significant number of chefs coming from the land of the gumbo (New Orleans). I'm starting to see a number of chefs on TV coming from the Midwest. In fact looking at the Food Network's featured chefs I can't find a single Brit. (You might be confusing some of the New Yorker's with Brits but they are all from the other side of the pond.)

[Dukasaur]

So why are half the TV cooks in America Brits?

I don't think that's quite accurate. You have a significant number of chefs coming from the land of the gumbo (New Orleans). I'm starting to see a number of chefs on TV coming from the Midwest. In fact looking at the Food Network's featured chefs I can't find a single Brit. (You might be confusing some of the New Yorker's with Brits but they are all from the other side of the pond.)

Looking at lists of the top TV chefs, different organizations rank them differently. However, Jamie Oliver (British) is Top 10 on all the lists, and #1 on most.

Gordon Ramsay (British) is on everybody's Top 5, though different sites rank him differently. This list has him at #2, whereas this list has him at #1. This list has him at #3, whereas this list has him way down at #5.

Other Brits on most people's Top 20 include Robert Irvine, Todd English, and Antony Thompson. And if course, if you go a little bit into the past, nobody had the fame of Graham Kerr.

There's certainly no shortage of American chefs at the top, including Anthony Bourdain, Tom Colichio, Bobby Flay and many more, but overall I don't think any of them have the kind of star power Oliver or Ramsay exercise. Or that Kerr once exercised.

[mrswdk]

Well of course. The UK is world-renowned for its cuisine.

[Dukasaur]

Well of course. The UK is world-renowned for its cuisine.

No, as explained earlier in this thread, the UK is renowned for chefs who can copycat French and Italian chefs and bring their food to an American audience.

Do try to pay attention in class.