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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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I'm doing a Mexican grub night at my local next month.
Any suggestion for the menu? So far it's chili, rice and Nachos, I'd like to be a bit more adventurous. Although Ii think nachos are Tex-Mex.

Alt, anything about food, I'm feeling hungry again.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:32, 195 replies, latest was 12 years ago)
enchiladas

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:33, Reply)
Oh no, I ain't making food recommendations again
it makes people unreasonably angry
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:34, Reply)
Why is that?
I won't shout, promise.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:34, Reply)
YES YOU WILL

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:39, Reply)
just shit in a taco and stuff it down their stupid fucking throats
if you're feeling fancy stick a jalapeno on top

alt: I had a burger with onions in for lunch but had to rush it cos I was late for a meeting. My life is WACK. Not wiggety wack, regular kind.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:34, Reply)
I hear you brother.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:35, Reply)
Don't get me wrong, I like a fair bit of mexican cuisine, or at least the poor attempts at it you get over here
But I couldn't tell the difference between most of it and a sloppy turd in a bowl
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:37, Reply)
Look lets just make life easy for you
www.bbcgoodfood.com/content/recipes/cuisines/mexican/
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:35, Reply)
DON'T CLICK it's child porn

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:37, Reply)
Of course, all my links are

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:39, Reply)
Yeah I've tried the usual sites,
thought you lot might come up with something. I think I'll post on Mumsnet, that site is priceless.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:40, Reply)
Make sure everyone going has to travel at least an hour before going there.
Make them just drive round the block if they live closer. Call anyone who refuses to do it small minded.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:35, Reply)
OK, so just so I'm clear.
You're telling me you don't want to go to a nice, family run restaurant that does really good food and imports good, Italian wine and would rather (at some point in the next month) go for a pizza at a chain restaurant because they offered you a free bottle of mass-produced prosecco?

Cos that's cool if you do, I just thought you might like to do something nice, that's all. I don't really understand why it's made you so angry.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:41, Reply)
I don't think anywhere that you recommend would be worth going to.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:43, Reply)
Probably not as good as Pizza Express, no.
I don't think I know anywhere THAT good.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:44, Reply)
One is not a replacement for the other if there is a huge treck involved.
He could get in a 10-15m (whatever) cab and have a nice meal thats alrightly priced, even get cheap cinema tickets out of it, and get a free bottle out of it. It can be done without any prior-thought really, just, sitting around on a dull evening and invite out the misses.

For your one, it probably does do really nice food, even better food probably, but he has to plan it. And personally, if I was going from MK to central london for a posh meal, I probably wouldn't choose a mama'n'papa pizza joint unless mates have already decided to meet there.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
wifi signal is strong, internet is showing in the connection map and the VPN is logged in
WHY DOESN'T THE INTERNET WORK?!
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:39, Reply)
Try turning it off and on again

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:40, Reply)
^^what he said

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:42, Reply)
i have done this many times today, it just seems to have a mind of it's own

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:43, Reply)
Can you give me a rough estimate of the distance between the router and your computer?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:40, Reply)

tee hee
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:41, Reply)
about 20ft

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:42, Reply)
I don't know how your company VPN is configured, soz.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:42, Reply)
badly, fucking cnuts

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:43, Reply)
Does your email work properly?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:44, Reply)
nope, can't send/recieve or get online...well i can at the moment, but it'll drop off again
I think the router is probably overloaded with users
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:45, Reply)
Yeah, that sounds like the most likely explanation.
Well done nakkers.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:47, Reply)
cheers mate, lets go to a reasonably priced high street eatery to celebrate. I'll check voucher cloud for a offer!

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:49, Reply)
I do love a nice little eatery.
Seeing as you're in London and I'm in Milton keynes, why don't we both go to Newcastle to eat?
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:50, Reply)
Actually I'm in Gatwick, so London would probably be central

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:51, Reply)
That's perfect, I know this great little place.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:52, Reply)
Nah, don't want to be cheap, lets meet in cardiff.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:52, Reply)
is this flippancy around destination because Kroney suggested that you may want to make something of your 30th and visit the CApital city for a night out
rather than the pizza express in your local bowling alley?
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:54, Reply)
He seems quite cross about it.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:55, Reply)
he's turning into the new bobby
so full of rage it's bursts through his skin as a neck beard
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:57, Reply)
I just thought he could take his missus out for a nice evening with some good wine.
I didn't realise it was such a ridiculous idea. I feel really quite stupid.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:59, Reply)
better than the wine he can make in his shed?
I THINK NOT!
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:01, Reply)
It's my birthday soon.
We're going for a trip on a river boat and staying the night at a hotel off Trafalgar Square after a meal at this cool Japanese place with computers in the tables.

I really wish I'd thought about a 2 for 1 voucher at my local Zizzi's, now.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:02, Reply)
I'm not going to Pizza express for my birthday.
I never said I would, you fucking spastic.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:03, Reply)
I'm having a house party for my birthday,
not dragging six of my wifes friends to some steak house like you did.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:00, Reply)
the sickest burns are the made up ones : (

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:07, Reply)
I think you'd probably get further calling your own IT dept.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:47, Reply)
i actually doubt that

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:49, Reply)
can't work your phone?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:51, Reply)
it's run pout of battery as I've lost my charger

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:52, Reply)
could be overloaded gateway, or a certificate issue.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:48, Reply)
Wouldn't happen to be by a company called ThinkVantage, would it?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:50, Reply)
Thompson...never heard of them

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:51, Reply)
Yeah, sorry.
The one we used to have had this stupid option that disconnected the session after about half an hour.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:56, Reply)
Have you checked if the lights are on?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:44, Reply)
yep but nobody is home

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:45, Reply)
You should offer a free bottle of Tequilla to everyone.
but if they try to take up the offer punch them in the face call them cheap and run away like a frenchman.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:40, Reply)
The main thing will be chili, rice or chios or hals and half and a Taco shell. Might see if can get a deal on Sol lager and throw that in the mix.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:42, Reply)
make chili dogs instead

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:42, Reply)
YES

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:43, Reply)
Excellent idea.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:51, Reply)
Do an all vegetarian menu.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:43, Reply)
How long does it take to cook a vegetarian?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:47, Reply)
Fucking ages, not enough fat on them.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:53, Reply)
Probably a good idea, mexican food seems pretty able to modified to be a vegetarian meal
Like chili con queso or chili verdi

And then when you've served them this delightful vegetarian banquet, you can keep the remains to use as wattle on the walls of your yurt, you fucking yurt prick.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:47, Reply)
I'm doing 2 chilis, one vegi and one for carnivores.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:50, Reply)
I know what this means now you have edited it.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:56, Reply)
MEXICAN BURGERS
Mexican pizza?

Lots of Margerita's. Get em pissed and no one will care about the food.

Im cooking hot and sour chicken this weekend off the cuff. I've kind of mish mashed a few different web recipes.

I love cooking. I was going to have a go at pulled pork but without the aid of a slow cooker ( I really should invest) it would take 5 hours.
Aint nobody got time for that.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:51, Reply)
I did mine for 8, just leave it all day easy
slow cookers are for nobs who can't cook properly
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:53, Reply)
I think it's cheating tbh but people at work just looked at me funny

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:57, Reply)
that's got nowt to do with your cooking

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:59, Reply)
Ha!
It's funny cos it's true.

I often wonder what you lot look like.
I like to know if Im prettier than the prosecution :)
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:02, Reply)
i know what a few of them look like
Battered
Monty
Al
Kroney
Swipe
Sportscow
tangles
chompy
gonz
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:04, Reply)
I'm handsomer than all of them

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:04, Reply)
YM thinks not

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
er................

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:19, Reply)
Bit stalky

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:16, Reply)
you posted a picture of you playing your lute on Southbank

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:20, Reply)
Oh yeah

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:24, Reply)
I know what all of you look like
But only from the angle of you sitting on a bog
Right up the shitpipe
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:21, Reply)
and some kind of three bean soup

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:03, Reply)
Right I made the most UNHEALTHY dinner for my flatmate and me on Monday
Let me walk you through it
I made a FULL ENGLISH CALZONE followed by BAKED RASPBERRY CHEESECAKE
Jesus christ it was good but it was a struggle to eat
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:53, Reply)
bacon, sausage, egg, black pudding, mushrooms, beans, toast and tomoatoes, with mozarella in a pizza base...

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:56, Reply)
and a mug of tea

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:57, Reply)
this made me lol ridiculously..i think i may need a lie down

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:58, Reply)
And a copy of The Sun.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:01, Reply)
Nah no mushrooms, we ain't monsters
No toast either
But we put some hash browns in
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:14, Reply)
I had a full English pizza once
Surprisingly nice. Little cubes of black pudding and fried egg included.

Perfect hangover fodder
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 14:58, Reply)
I made a full English pie, for a pie competition once.
It didn't win.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:00, Reply)
shame the competition wasn't for 'shittest idea for a pie' eh

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:05, Reply)
Fuck off it was nom.
The organiser's pie won, shitty apple pie I think it was.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:08, Reply)
Here have a gross picture of it
SEXY
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:22, Reply)
one of the best mexicans in london is cantina laredo
check out their menu

steal the ideas

done
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:02, Reply)
Lupitas is good too

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:04, Reply)
Is that the one near Gordon's?
I've been there, too. I thought it was great.

Watch out, though. London restaurants are a touchy subject on here, currently.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:05, Reply)
what's the Uxbridge/slough dining scene like?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:06, Reply)
No idea, I've never gone anywhere fucking near it.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:06, Reply)
lies
you went to that greek lunch place i told you about, and you fucking loved it
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:07, Reply)
just outside Uxbridge is a little village called old denham, there is a great pub/restaurant there

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:08, Reply)
I think that's the one that og mentioned a while ago.
I shouldn't think we'll bother, though. It's like five minutes away by car. I'll just go to Prezzo, instead.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:10, Reply)
i used to live in chalfont st giles
i drove through it again the other day. it still has this look of surprise, as if to say, "who put slough and uxbridge so close to me?"
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:10, Reply)
loads of places like that round there, was my hood growing up

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:12, Reply)
that's twice we've lived so near each other
and yet never the twain shall meet
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
christ love, there's kids about, pipe down about your twain

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:25, Reply)
it's his twain
he can't keep it to himself
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:26, Reply)
That's the one
No free wine though and I did have to travel to get there

0/10 avoid
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:08, Reply)
I bet they don't do voucher codes, either.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:11, Reply)
or bring your own piss in a bottle

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:14, Reply)
should keep the wolf from the door at any rate

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:05, Reply)
Good idea Swipey.
*Manly handshakes*
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:05, Reply)
take both ends off a tin of refried beans, push it out onto a plate like a pannacotta
garnish with some chilli or something I don't know I'm not gordon romsoy
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:05, Reply)
chimichanga
proper internet Mexican
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:07, Reply)
isn't that the most fattening thing shoved in a deep fat fryer?
i like wahaca actually, all chain snobbery aside
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:08, Reply)
I ent never been

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:09, Reply)
SECRET BASH TIME!
it's tasty.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:10, Reply)
I'm a _big_ fan of chimichangas, there is one about 1 fag's walk from me.
Only been there the once but really liked it.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:15, Reply)
1 fag's walk...christ

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:19, Reply)
dem muthafuckas'll kill you bro

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:20, Reply)
that's almost exactly what my superhealthy american friend said when she saw an advert on tv for those uncle ben's rice lunch pots
"shit'll kill you," she remarked, just as i was thinking they looked alright for work and if only we had a microwave
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:25, Reply)
I had some strange mexican appetizer the other day
authentic apparently since my friend works with loads of them, anywho it was a bacon wrapped jalapeno stuffed with cream cheese and "crab"

it was a bit shit
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:08, Reply)
it's all good until you get to the crab...

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:09, Reply)
eww

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:09, Reply)
it was ridiculously spicy
the rest had no flavor except for the bacon
probably one of those things you need to make a few times to get it right
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:12, Reply)
i went for mexican on monday
my friend's mate from NY was over for a visit. he was proper snobby about it, said mexican restaurants in england are "glorified taco bells".

i disliked him.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:09, Reply)
he's got a bit of a point though

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:10, Reply)
he's spot on really.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:11, Reply)
I admire his honesty actually

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:11, Reply)
he sounds way cool to me

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
guy deserves a medal

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
you reckon swipeypoo here gave him a whiff of her fuselage?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:14, Reply)
hahahahaha
fuckin' ell WP eww
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:15, Reply)
Right up to the landing gear......

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:18, Reply)
then a small, frozen african refugee fell out and sort of ruined the moment

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:21, Reply)
christ, will you leave greggs hats out of this

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:24, Reply)
hehe

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:29, Reply)
I liked the way he doesn't fuss about, just gets straight to the point.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
Straight talking, knows his food - he's 'our kind of people' Windy.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:16, Reply)
he's black
so you'd have hated him

other than the food comment, pretty decent guy really. i just dispute that my fancy asparagus and mushroom fajitas with sweet peppers and crumbled feta cheese were "taco bell"...
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:18, Reply)
Errr se'sly, a coon? errrrrrrr

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:21, Reply)
because that's not fucking mexican food

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:22, Reply)
but it was tasty
therefore he can shut the fuck up!
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:23, Reply)
don't be ridiculous
just because you slap that shit in a tortilla doesn't make it mexican
you had a kebab
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:25, Reply)
i can't believe most mexicans would have to pay £15 for it either... £20 if you want a meat or seafood one...

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:26, Reply)
are they charged more than english people?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:32, Reply)
hahaha that's a bit ironic

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:11, Reply)
DON'T YOU THINK??!!

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
IT'S LIKE RAAAEEEAAAAAIIIIINonyaweddingday
/kills self
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:14, Reply)
i dunno...irony is a complicated beast and not something you septics are known for
I'm gonna have to call Dozer over to check
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
oh come on
you know it's funny
at least from this side of the ocean
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:15, Reply)
nah, srs I dunt gettit

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:17, Reply)
you lot are always prattling on about how awful our food is, and then he's all "this is a glorified taco bell"
really it's quite funny
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:21, Reply)
nowadays everyone goes mad for (some) US food over here

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:29, Reply)
I'd like to have proper fried chicken one day
*sigh*
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:31, Reply)
Don't suppose theres anyone from Northampton on OT?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:09, Reply)
I'm certainly not.
Although a recent guest feedback survey came back with a description of me as "tall, ginger, possibly northern."
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:10, Reply)
HAHAHAHA

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:11, Reply)
I've a proper posh oxford accent and all. was just strange.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:12, Reply)
Yeh me!!!
Oh no sorry hang on no.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:10, Reply)
I'm never being nice to you again!

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
Closeish, why?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:12, Reply)
I sent my wifes ipad for repair a couple of weeks ago and haven't heard from the company
I need someone to go to Dodford and break their legs
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:13, Reply)
Nahhh

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:23, Reply)
If it helps I've never been to Northampton and couldn't tell you where it is

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:23, Reply)
why are you cooking in your local?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:09, Reply)
Maybe his oven's broke
don't be so judgemental.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:10, Reply)
no I mean, if they've got a kitchen, why not hire in a proper chef, rather than this silly theme night hipster wank.
He'll be asking advice on his pop up vintage hand bag stall down the village green next. Poof.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:12, Reply)
Charity night.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:15, Reply)
jalapeno coleslaw
and a massive vat of that coriander mexican rice as sides
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:16, Reply)
Donkey Sanctuary?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:18, Reply)
lol
you're good today
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:22, Reply)
Maybe the proper chef couldn't be bothered travelling all that way.

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:16, Reply)
Don't do food any more.
Problems with the exmanager. Curry night tonight, but that's it. Mushy pea curry wtf.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:21, Reply)
'IT 'IM, WINDEEEEEE

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:17, Reply)
it's this sort of attention to detail that keeps you one step ahead of the law

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:11, Reply)
click

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:17, Reply)
he knows he's never one step ahead of swipe

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:17, Reply)
are you stalking him in the hope of procreating and producing some sort of ginger super race?

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:18, Reply)
urgh no
i might steal one of his dogs, though. much better than a screeching ginger brat.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:20, Reply)
+ bot

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:21, Reply)
Just make a Firebrand Chili
The Chili is free

Sell
Tubs of yogurt £5
Mini-milks £7.50
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:21, Reply)
bog roll £1.50 a slice

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:22, Reply)
do you buy your bog roll in a "loaf"

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:23, Reply)
I've always found it to be a comical term

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:24, Reply)
'shit tickets' however, turns my stomach

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:24, Reply)
Jeff uses this term
It took a while before I knew what the hell he was on about.
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:26, Reply)
There's something really unpleasant about it

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:27, Reply)
For a "porcelain cruise" no doubt

(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:30, Reply)
Yea
We could make Millions Monts, Millions I tell ya
(, Wed 15 May 2013, 15:24, Reply)

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