Explain these foods to me.

[lem45216]

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since you are from the UK, explain these foods to me:

1. eels
2. meat puddings
3. why do you call french fries chips

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1. Only old people eat eels, i live right next to the river where they catch them all. Eels as i'm sure you know, are slimy fish which look a bit like snakes, i can't comment on what they taste like, as like i said, only old people eat them. They look rather horrible to me. I think you eat them in pies, but they're quite rare now.

2. Meat Puddings. By this i assume you mean Suet Pudding, or Spotted Dick. I can't really comment on this either because no one eats this any more either. Well maybe old people again. Suet is raw beef fat, so i doubt it tastes very meaty anyway. So contrary to american belief, we don't order a meat pudding after a main course or anything.

Both the eels and the suet pudding are kinda 19th Century foods, for more information, read Charles Dickens.

3. French Fries/Chips - Why do you all call them french fries? They're not french, they're belgian. And the things you call chips, are actually crisps. Chips are thick chunks of potato cooked in animal fat. French Fries are poor imitations. The only places you can get 'french fries' in the UK is McDonalds and Burger King and everyone always turns them down when asked if they'd like them with their meal.


Chips


Crisps


'French' Fries

[M2d]

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Meat Puddings. By this i assume you mean Suet Pudding, or Spotted Dick.

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I have officially sworn off british food. any place that has a dish called "spotted dick" is going to get the automatic boycott from me.

[B Dids]

Eel grosses me the [censored] out, but I would totally eat some Meat Pudding. (that sounds equally sexual as "spotted dick").

From what I gather, a lot of traditional old school English food is pretty much nasty ass parts of the animal that we don't eat anymore.

[lem45216]

It's not like we eat it either, tis but a myth.

[Patrick del Poker Grande]

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It's not like we eat it either, tis but a myth.

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You eat the dick and you know it.

[CCass]

I ain't eating nothing with the word "dick" in it.

[stabn]

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It's not like we eat it either, tis but a myth.

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You eat the dick and you know it.

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5 stars.

[sleight]

You have not lived until you have stepped inside a combination KFC/Pizza Hut/Taco Bell (aka Chicken Taco Hut/Slut) and ordered one item from each food type.

There's even a combo A&W/Long John Silvers. Yeah, I'd like a root beer fish stick float, please.

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Meat Puddings. By this i assume you mean Suet Pudding, or Spotted Dick.

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I have officially sworn off british food. any place that has a dish called "spotted dick" is going to get the automatic boycott from me.

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Don't be a homophobe. Try it you might like it.

[Blarg]

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Inspired by the Grapenuts post, and me not knowing what they were. Please could some americans explain to me

a) What a twinky is?

b) What Egg Nogg is?

and

c) What Taco Bell is?

We get none of these in the UK? Are we a deprived nation because of this, or are we better off without them?

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A Twinkie is an angel food cake shaped in cylindrical form, filled with a vanilla creme. They are filled with preservatives, and have a shelf life of like 2 years.

Egg nog is milk and egg yolks mixed in with booze. A Christmas classic.

Taco Bell is a quasi-Mexican fast food chain. Tacos, burritos, etc.

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Egg nog also has nutmeg in it, which plays a very big part in the flavor. Some people put sugar in it.

The traditional booze to put in it is rum, but now there are recipes with almost every imaginable type of booze, including some pretty unlikely ones.

Here is an excerpt I found googling:

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Eggnog! - History

Many believe that eggnog is a tradition that was brought to America from Europe. This is partially true. Eggnog is related to various milk and wine punches that had been concocted long ago in the "Old World". However, in America a new twist was put on the theme. Rum was used in the place of wine. In Colonial America, rum was commonly called "grog", so the name eggnog is likely derived from the very descriptive term for this drink, "egg-and-grog", which corrupted to egg'n'grog and soon to eggnog. At least this is one version...

Other experts would have it that the "nog" of eggnog comes from the word "noggin". A noggin was a small, wooden, carved mug. It was used to serve drinks at table in taverns (while drinks beside the fire were served in tankards). It is thought that eggnog started out as a mixture of Spanish "Sherry" and milk. The English called this concoction "Dry sack posset". It is very easy to see how an egg drink in a noggin could become eggnog.

The true story might be a mixture of the two and eggnog was originally called "egg and grog in a noggin". This was a term that required shortening if ever there was one.

With it's European roots and the availability of the ingredients, eggnog soon became a popular wintertime drink throughout Colonial America. It had much to recomend it; it was rich, spicy, and alcoholic.

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As to Taco Bell, it is a bottom drawer version of Mexican food, disrespectfully called Taco Hell by some. The food is very sub-par, and the "meat" is a extremely small portions of a particularly miserable incredibly finely ground flavorless hamburger for the most part.