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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Everyone is very angry today
I am going here tonight for dinner: www.benaresrestaurant.com/

What have you never eaten and would like to? Also what would you never eat?

ALT: Who has the stupidest name of any one you know? A chap at school was called Willy Cramp
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:00, 150 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I know
two people called Paul Daniels and two called Mike Cox

EDIT:

I have never eaten a lobster, still in its shell
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:03, Reply)
no Mike Hunt's?

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:04, Reply)
Nope
I know a few Burkes though
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:05, Reply)
I've never eaten veal
but I'd like to try it. I'd never eat any form of insect, and I don't eat offal. For example tripe sounds the most disgusting thing ever.

Alt: Ian Birchett. I also pity anyone with the last name of Prat
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:04, Reply)
Have british Rose Veal, it's delicious and comes without the cruelty

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)
Cruelty tastes so good though

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:10, Reply)
soft and melty in the mouth

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:11, Reply)
Oh man oh man oh man, this week I'm going to the italian place down the road from me at some point and getting veal escolop with speggetti in a tarmto sauce and deep fried battered corgettes with tartar sauce. OH BOY.
It's seriously good stuff, you know, if sometime around the first few days in april you would, you know, like to go.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:34, Reply)
Tripe is foul
but most offal is lovely - devilled kidneys, for example are the breakfast of WINNARZ.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:51, Reply)
I just couldn't eat it
obviously I eat pate etc, but the idea of sitting down to liver and onions or something is disgusting
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:56, Reply)
Have you tried Chopped Liver? That's like a half way between pate and full...
think of it as a half way house into the world of offal.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:53, Reply)
Woah yeah. Kosher-style chopped liver ...
Salted grilled livers, hard-boiled eggs, and onions slowly caramelised in rendered chicken fat, all blitzed up coarsely together with a good bit of pepper. Oy vey.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:56, Reply)
Offaly good?

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:57, Reply)
Alt:
Whilst not individually amusing, in primary school there were four girls in our year called Bankey, Janki, Waheeda and Aseeda. Which as I'm sure you'll understand as ten year olds we all found hilarious.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:07, Reply)
Black pudding
-shudders- I had the opportunity to try some t'other day, but I felt sick. It'd been fried in fat that was just hangin' around in a frying pan. And it's BLOOD. Ew.

Alt: Can't say that! They might google and find me. It's the best name ever though.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)
GAZ!

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)
No.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:11, Reply)
Write it on a picture
and post the jpeg.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:26, Reply)
You're making a terrible error.
Black pudding is fucking stupendous.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:50, Reply)
^ This
Charles MacLeod's Stornaway black pudding is the mut's nuts. Not literally. I hope.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:54, Reply)
With Chorizo it's even better

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:58, Reply)
Black pudding makes even salad enjoyable.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:59, Reply)
I knew a guy in school called Simon Dick
It was an all-boys school, so he had a hell of a time. There was also a girl I knew in 6th form called Autumn Rose Sarah Ellis
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:08, Reply)
He had a hell of a time from you, I'm sure.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:13, Reply)

from in
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:18, Reply)
From anyone else this would be a 7/10
but I know you can do better
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:21, Reply)
I'm not in the zone today
but I felt this could not go unanswered
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:22, Reply)
To inspire you
zoneanus of a strapping young gardener
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:30, Reply)
There's a woman at my company
called Sandi Beevor.

I've never met her, but I imagine that she's always in a bad mood.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:09, Reply)
I know a Piggin too

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:11, Reply)
I know of a Piggott

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)
Lobster, I'd love to try it!
I'll never eat liver again, it's fucking vile.

Alt: Dong Mingazhu and Sarah Pitchfork are the two best names I've come across while working here.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:10, Reply)
Liver is nice!
with bacon and onions too
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:12, Reply)
Liver, if done right, is fucking devine.
I've had lobster 3 times this year thanks to it being on special at my local fishmongers Joyous iTimes.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:37, Reply)
Calves' liver is fucking superb.
Foie gras even more so.

Somewhat nicer that your daily munchy box.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:54, Reply)
Don't forget chicken livers, sooooo cheap but sooo nice if you flashfry with garlic salt on the hottest pan you can get and then flombay with whisky or brandy and add cream and pasta and OH GEE OH GOSH, seriously, I can gook for 4 on a fiver (inc booze)
with this dish. And I gaurnty everyone would enjoy, even those who don't like offal, as long as they can bring themselves to try it.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:52, Reply)
I know a guy called Dick Mold

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:13, Reply)
Rosemary Niblock

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:14, Reply)
my brother repeatedly tells me about a guy at his work who the email system refers to as
Lovemore, Dick
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:15, Reply)
hahahahahahahahahaha!
Most emails from him would be stopped as spam (javelin)
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:16, Reply)
I don't think there's anything I particularly feel the need to try
but I know for damn sure I will never eat oysters. I hate the smell of fishy stuff anyway, and seafood is generally off the menu. But the idea of swallowing something that has the same sensation as old snot lumps just makes me want to retch.

Alt: When I was teaching, I had a pupil called Peter Hiscocks. His classmates very earnestly tried to convince me his middle name was 'Sachs'.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:16, Reply)
Not had raw oysters
but had some lovely battered ones in a Chinese restaurant in Manchester
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:17, Reply)
They're lovely raw.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:47, Reply)
Lucky you - I'm very interested in reading your review of your meal.
I've never had a kobe beef steak. I'd never eat cock or bollocks - but I've no problem with brains etc, none at all.

Alt: I know this bloke called 'NakedApe' - man, what a flidmo.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:17, Reply)
Best of all the spack-lawnmowers

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:18, Reply)
haha

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:52, Reply)
I have been pondering changing my user name
considering all of the horrendous bullying I have to endure on here!
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:27, Reply)
Seriously?
Someone needs a severe dose of MTFU
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:37, Reply)
That won't help.
Unless you also change your personality at the same time.


Best of luck with that.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:44, Reply)
HA!

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:44, Reply)
:(((((

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:59, Reply)
Place in Glasgow does Kobe beef burgers
I'm going to have to try them sometime...
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:27, Reply)
Burgering Kobe beef, feels like a waste

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:29, Reply)
Aye, but I can't see myself getting it cheaper anywhere else...

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:30, Reply)
I've had it in sausages - it was a waste as they were 'meh'

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:44, Reply)
What's it called?
Might give it a go next time I'm over there.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:46, Reply)
Ketchup, on Ashton Lane

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:57, Reply)
I've heard the name
*takes notes*
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:05, Reply)
If you don't have the Kobe, try the Colossus.
It's magnificent.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:08, Reply)
The place next door me at work, does kobe beef fillet, you know, if, errm, sometime, you know, you would like to, nah', I'm being silly, you wouldn't...

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:36, Reply)
Oh yeah?
I'm in.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:46, Reply)
Yup, the place is called '26 Smithfields', or it might be the one on the other side of me, who's name I can't remember.
Can't do it this month on account of international nintendo caused credit crisis, but perhaps next month?
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:10, Reply)
Yup. Definitely.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:15, Reply)
Awesomes ! It's right near Smithfield's market, so you _know_ it's going to be aged right.
There are so many machalin places near me that I'm shocked, I went into one by accident last week. I fucking <3 Farringdon.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:50, Reply)
Alt: Hermal Dikshit
works for Dell in india, I lolled everytime he emailed me.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:24, Reply)
A good one!

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:24, Reply)
I haven't eaten horse, but I'd like too try it.
I have eaten oysters but I don't like them, I'd never eat insects like those fucking twats on the Khao San Road do when the man comes round with his stall of scorpions.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:28, Reply)
tastes like tough beef

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:29, Reply)
What's that French dish where they eat bird foetuses in the eggs?
That's something I wouldn't eat.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:29, Reply)
*South East Asian
Balut
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:32, Reply)
In the south of face they eat baby song birds deep fried
Not foetuses I think
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:36, Reply)
Oh well, that's alright then.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:38, Reply)
I had to force myself to eat soft shell crab at the japanese as it looks to much like an insect, but I got over it.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:35, Reply)
Fucking tasty though isn't it?

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:46, Reply)
loads and loads
my brother's mate ewan kerr.

old tenants michael hunt, gary noone and nahida mann.

tour guide in the usa called emily wankoff.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:28, Reply)
Not sure if there's anything I absolutely wouldn't eat, except peanuts, but that's cos they're fucking rank
You don't get a figure like mine by ignoring food. What do I wish I'd eaten? A proper Argentinian steak. Even the one I had at Glastonbury was fucking awesome. Hopefully going to Buenos Aires later this year to see how much better it gets.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:28, Reply)
Darth in Global search for better meat shocker

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:30, Reply)
If I had the money
I would love to travel the world sampling all the meat I could find, mostly in defiance of Ms Foxtrot's condition.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:38, Reply)
The Argie steakhouse by my flat is su-fucking-perb.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:45, Reply)
Load trebuchet please

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:49, Reply)
*loads trebuchet with my own poo-poo*

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:52, Reply)

Argie Angus
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:54, Reply)
Has anyone been to an Angus Steakhouse?
they intregue me, it's like eating in the 1970's but the prices are bang up to date!
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:50, Reply)
Christ no.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:52, Reply)
I'm sure it would be awful, I'm just interested as they are everwhere in the West End

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:54, Reply)
I pity those poor overseas visitor mugs.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:59, Reply)
they have the same chances we have when we go abroad
and I know when I'm in barcelona to stay the fuck off the Ramblas , it's simple
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:01, Reply)
Sorry.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:54, Reply)
I knew a girl whose first name was Manmeet.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:33, Reply)
hahahah
A mate of mine went to germany on an exchange when he was 16, the girl he was staying with was 6ft and 200llbs with a beard, her name you ask?

It was Geezer
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:35, Reply)
diet pepsi / keyboard
via nose.


You cunt.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:42, Reply)
Holly Berry
Also Jenny Taylor. (not Jennifer, Jenny)
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:44, Reply)
Would like to try lobster
Wouldn't like to try anything that was still alive.

Alt: A lecturer named Randy Fleisch (pronounced 'Flesh'). He was American, not surprisingly.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:44, Reply)
Alt: Ian Huntley.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:48, Reply)
My mother had a teacher called 'Mrs Smellie'
Perhaps teaching was not such a great choice of career.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:49, Reply)
anyone who knows djtp
will know that my maiden name was also not particularly suitable for a career in teaching.

God, I got tired of hearing that damn song...
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:54, Reply)
UmmmBop?

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:55, Reply)
Is your maiden name 'Glitter'?

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:56, Reply)
Yes.
Yes it is.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:58, Reply)
Hahahaha

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:58, Reply)
A teacher at scholl was called Mr. Shern
He was commonly referred to as Eric
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:49, Reply)
Did he teach sprinting?

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:52, Reply)
No but he almost exploded once when two boys pretended to have asthma attacks when made to run around the pitches
turns out his son had almost died from one the week before, i honestly thought his moustahce was going to shoot off with rage!
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:53, Reply)
He had a good sole, though, I'm sure.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:54, Reply)
I bet he didn't like it when kids were lacey
He proper gave them the boot, I bet.

*sigh*
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:59, Reply)

o_O ?
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:00, Reply)

"A teacher at scholl"
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:01, Reply)
Oh, I made that typo last week as well

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:01, Reply)
*applauds*

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:01, Reply)
Pun appreciation from Jeff.
The doublest of double-edged swords.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:02, Reply)
*Scratches head*
Ponders...

Nope, still not sure if I'm offended or delighted by your comment.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:04, Reply)
Go with offended, I should
If only because it would lend those shameful puns the appropriate feeling of tragedy.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:06, Reply)
Great subthread, gentlemen.
Thank you.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:13, Reply)

www.b3ta.com/questions/offtopic/post1129249
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:15, Reply)
Now you've ruined it.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:24, Reply)
I'm all about the pathos

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:26, Reply)
My favourite of the Greek islands too,

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:29, Reply)
Kos it it.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
How was your Sunday booze session?

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:16, Reply)
A bit much for me after Saturday, if I am honest.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:23, Reply)
You're getting old Monty
(says the bloke who spent the day on the sofa eating sweets and getting a take-out as I was too hungover to do anything)
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:24, Reply)
I am indeed.
If I'd have left the cognacs out of the equation on Saturday I'd have been fine. And the drugs. And beer.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:29, Reply)
Two out of three isn't bad.
Or whatever it was Meatloaf said.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:31, Reply)
Hahahah

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 16:53, Reply)
My GCSE physics teacher was called Philip Doe.
A classmate of mine had to write a 1000 word essay for him on why his e-mail address "pdoe@brightoncollege" wasn't actually the most hilarious thing in the world for a bunch of bored 15 year olds.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:01, Reply)
hahahahaha

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:02, Reply)
He was literally just out of teacher training school as well.
I would've felt sorry for him if it hadn't have been just the most perfect unfortunate situation.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:03, Reply)
I fucking love it.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:14, Reply)
I'd like to try more wild game meats.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:02, Reply)
sound fun.
'Game for a laugh'
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:03, Reply)
I recommend you do this.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:33, Reply)
Offal, and peas. Yuck.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:06, Reply)
Peas?

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:08, Reply)
I dislike them.
They taste wierd.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:09, Reply)
shut yer pie hole
peas are delicious
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:11, Reply)
And beetroot is rank also.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:12, Reply)
I get the feeling that your mum didn't do the choochoo noises enough
when you were a kid.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:16, Reply)
The fact that she spent his entire childhood 'chugging away' might explain the problem.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:18, Reply)
Too many aeroplanes coming in to land.
Edit: I have just contradicted myself here. I really am on absolutely stellar form today.

*facepalm*
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:19, Reply)
Nah she was alright,
I will try things but those are the two standout tastes I don't like. And mustard actually but that doesn't count.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:19, Reply)
Man, mustard is superb.
So a fat pile of mash, peas, gravy, gourmet sausages and a hearty dollop of mustard...is something you wouldn't actually enjoy?

This is so far removed from my own tastes as to be almost incomprehensible to me.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:26, Reply)
What were you going to call your book of mustards?

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:28, Reply)
'I, mustard'
as in 'I must turd'
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:33, Reply)
I just made that up.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:34, Reply)
Sounds shit.

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:35, Reply)
I would have no mustard, substitute the peas for mushrooms
and maybe have reggae reggae sauce or something similar.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:32, Reply)
oh but I totally agree with this

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:21, Reply)
ALT: Think Crow posted this a couple of months back
but for pure unintentional comedy, courtesy of our colonial cousins, this one's pretty hard (fnar) to beat (hur hur):
www.lmunet.edu/alumni/alumni/distinguised_alumni/bumgardner.shtml
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:14, Reply)
hahahahahahahahaha

(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:15, Reply)
It is indeed one of the most hilarious names I've ever stumbled across
Best of all, him and his compatriots probably wouldn't have realised why it makes immature Britons like you and I cry with laughter.
(, Mon 21 Mar 2011, 17:43, Reply)

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