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If you could only eat one nation's cuisine for the rest of your life, whose would it be?

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:14, 163 replies, latest was 16 years ago)
Italian
Pasta for the win.

It was a toss up between that and Chinese, although I can't hack anything spicy so the variety wouldn't be great. Plus I'd be the size of a house.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:16, Reply)
How do you know when Kitty's had a bath?
She's bath shaped.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:20, Reply)
hahahah
I really do think I'm a fatty trapped in a skinny's body.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:23, Reply)
Rather that than the other way 'round
I love food too much for my metabolism to cope with.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
swap?

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
gladly!

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:35, Reply)
Yay!

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:38, Reply)
Oh, look at you
I was between those two as well, but choose the Chinesse finally. Not spicy, of course.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:22, Reply)
I love satay
but different places make it differing levels of spiciness so I'm never quite sure if I should take the risk.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:23, Reply)
I know
I love pizza and pasta, but I think I'd end up like a big walrus if I only had that.

Maybe I should stick to Spanish, as at least I know what's on it.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
Does Great Britain count as a nation?

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:17, Reply)
I did think that
but then if you cut out everything that was technically another national speciality you probably wouldn't have very much. E.g. I'm having pasta for lunch.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:24, Reply)
I just meant that means I still get steak, sausages, lamb, black pudding, white pudding, haggis, tikka masala, etc

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:37, Reply)
don't forget swan stuffed with pheasant

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:56, Reply)
Magnificent

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:04, Reply)
Japanese
But someone would have to make it for me
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:18, Reply)
Japanese is the easiest
Chinesse, on the other hand, requires a lot of skills.

I love Japanese food too. I love all foods.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:23, Reply)
I'm not taking you out for dinner first so stop hinting
It's JUST SEX
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:24, Reply)
much as I'm sure we are all enjoying your borderline cybersex
it doesn't make for particularly interesting reading.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
Jealousy does not become you, my friend
You must know that line. It's from 300. Lots of muscular, bearded men. Now shoot off to the bogs, have a dangerwank and feel free to rejoin the conversation once you've flogged the dolphin
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
yeah, jealous
and aroused.

not bored and slightly disgusted. not at all.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:31, Reply)
I love being right
*smugs*
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:32, Reply)
I can't work out whether you are being serious here
and hence really dumb
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:32, Reply)
Fucks sakes
Would I ever, realistically, employ smugness in an argument with you of all people, for anything other than comic effect?
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:39, Reply)
that doesn't make much sense
because you see someone as having a characteristic that means you can't have it yourself, or if you do, can't show it to them in seriousness?

I didn't think you actually thought I was jealous and aroused....
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:43, Reply)
I meant more specifically in relation to me
Regardless of your opinion regarding the lifestyle choice on which we differ (colossal gayness), the principle area in which we're most opposite is self-confidence. Smugness is not something I do convincingly, or indeed, ever. That was meant to be the point
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:07, Reply)
despite having worked at it
I'm not quite as confident as I make out. To a certain extent acting that way makes it happen though.

I'm not particularly smug, just happy and content for the most part, and proud of the things I can do well.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:35, Reply)
I absolutely concur with the first statement
but sadly the second has yet to become apparent for me. People are generally disbelieving when I claim to have piss-poor self-esteem. Based on your second paragraph we theoretically are similar in this respect also. Perhaps you're just better at it.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:38, Reply)
Oh, c'mon
You've have a teletransporter that can take you anywhere and anytime in universe, and you're not inviting me for tea first?
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:28, Reply)
I'm skint. Teleporters are fucking expensive
You're right though, this is no way to treat a lady. Maybe I should use my new technology on someone a little less high-maintenance
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:31, Reply)
Or you could rob a bank
Or well, I'll pay for the dinner, then. But you own me one.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:33, Reply)
owe**

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:34, Reply)
Ay! It's so hard!
Thanks :)
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:37, Reply)
Define "one"

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:38, Reply)
Anytime :)

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:40, Reply)
French.
Horse meat FTW.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:18, Reply)
I read that as battered horse meat
belm. Also, gross.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:24, Reply)
Horse meat is delicious, but not in batter.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
don't knock it til you've tried it

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:00, Reply)
I'm having a hard time choosing one
I don't think I can...
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:18, Reply)
I think I would choose Italian.
This is odd in a way because none of my favourite things to eat is Italian, but I could not eat (for example) Pakistani food exclusively for years on end without going off it. Italian has enough variety (including things with chillies in which I cannot live without) to keep me interested for life, and their cold meats and cheeses give me the fucking horn.

So, Italian it is.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:19, Reply)
you make a good case
particularly taking into account that "Indian" is not the cuisine of a nation.

I'm torn between Italian and Turkish.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:20, Reply)
turkish delight
blarg
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
Double blarg
Unless it's better in Turkey, I think it's one of the worst deserts ever.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:29, Reply)
it is not better in Turkey
on the way to view something interesting we stopped off at a Turkish delight manufacturers. It was all fucking minging.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
At least it's better
than those japanese red bean cakes. Dorayakis, I think they write it.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:34, Reply)
I'm not familiar with those

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:37, Reply)
Dorayakis I don't find too bad
they're just bland tasting which quite a lot of Japanese food is. However, they do like to fill doughnuts with curry sauce which often catches out foreigners. I suspect they do it just to see the look on your face.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:11, Reply)
triple blarg,
I would rather eat a shitty stick than Turkish delight.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:52, Reply)
I think I'd probably choose the Turkish delight
but I'm not a coprophiliac.

Man it was risky googling that for the correct spelling.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:02, Reply)
I was just thinking as well I have eaten a shitty twig
someone gave me Twiglets once. How the fuck did they get past health and safety.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)
I'm not supposed to eat twiglets
they make me violent
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:09, Reply)
do you turn into a gremlin?

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:11, Reply)
nice stealth quote

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 13:39, Reply)
The Kalahari is worse

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:57, Reply)
That's my thought too

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:20, Reply)
and if you extend this to drinks they make decent beer, good wine & excellent coffee

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:22, Reply)
fuck this, let's all move to Italy!

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
What about the nation of Tayyab's?
my friend lives 10 mins away from there. And 10 mins away from brick lane. I'm so jealous i might cry
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:23, Reply)
haha yeah what about Curry Nation on the curry mile?

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
I wouldn’t eat a Brick Lane curry
if you fucking paid me. I have been forced to go to about ten different restaurants there over the years and without exception they have all been shitty tourist curries full of food colouring and ghee.

Awful.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:39, Reply)
The last one I was forced to have on Brick Lane had a 20p piece in it.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:45, Reply)
That was a Christmas pudding you fool.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:55, Reply)
Curried Christmas pudding. Yuk.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)
yay! Monty agrees with me about something!
Take that, everybody else.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)
I have more Italian tastes in food than my grandad, who is half Italian

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:32, Reply)
Indian or british

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:19, Reply)
india isn't a nation

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:21, Reply)
haha
I'm assuming you're just being thick not making a clever joke.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:21, Reply)
feel free to judge others by your standard.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)
You don't deserve that honour

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
it would be a dubious one
and I don't have time to explain all my 'jokes'
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:28, Reply)
Hell's
I enjoy the blood of innocents and the souls of the damned.
I'm a bit sulky today. Fucking internet box hasn't come yet.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:19, Reply)
Tough question
I love Thai food, but could I give up pizza and pasta? Italian can be varied, but then I would miss tortillas, enchiladas and a good bowl of chili. Mexican would appease the spice-lover in me, but then I'd miss a good curry...
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:19, Reply)
I love mexican
and Indian, and Italian. Italian is very healthy though, mediteranian diet and all that jazz
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:21, Reply)
I dunno, masses of pasta and cheese can't be that good

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:28, Reply)
Good for the tastebuds though
OM NOM NOM
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
no, it's something to do with the oil and tomatoes etc

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
oh yeah
all them old people on the Olivio ad
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:04, Reply)
Chinesse
Oh, I love noodles, and all those other things I don't know how to spell. Mmmmm... Chinesse...
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:22, Reply)
I prefer Thai to Chinese
I find it less greasy, and a better range of flavours (especially spice!).
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)
Not all chinese is greasy, that tends to be what the takeaway shops cook like.
Chinatown in melbourne is great. You can go down the street stalls and buy what ever you like, and I guarantee that it will not be anywhere near as greasy as it would be if you got it from a takeaway shop.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:26, Reply)
The street vendor food in Bangkok is very tasty
And insultingly cheap!
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:34, Reply)
I know
I was so upset because it was far too hot to want to eat, so I only had fruit for 4 days. Terribly cheap fruit too.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:38, Reply)
That's a shame
I also had the tastiest fruit smoothie there, made by a woman who'd jacked her fridge and blender into a streetlamp's power.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:44, Reply)
I don't like spicy
And the Chinesse food I had in Hong Kong wasn't greasy at all.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
I adore spice
The Chinese restaurants/take-outs 'round here don't seem to be that nice. Although there is one that does amazing crispy shredded, salt 'n' chili beef.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:33, Reply)
Thai tastes like someone poured Old Spice in to the pan.
Nasty.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:31, Reply)
God only knows where you've had Thai food

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:32, Reply)
My friends all love it so have been to a handful of Thai restaurants
it's just too perfumey for me.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:38, Reply)
yeah the Chinese food would be my pick.
I LOVE it. And I miss it - there are no good chinese takeaway stores down where I live. :(
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)
That's a bugger of a question.
It would have to be British, because nobody else cooks bacon sandwitches like we do.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:24, Reply)
Pfff
Clearly, you've only tried the healthy version of the Spanish cuisine.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)
No, I've had some splendid spanish grub. Even chicken and chips for Sunday dinner.
I've had great food in Germany, Sweden, all over the place. But british bacon with worcester sauce in wholemeal bread. It makes me weak at the knees.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
wait,
which nation has mayonnaise? Is it the Dutch? Did they invent mayonnaise?
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:25, Reply)

Here you go
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:28, Reply)
Thanks
jerk
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:29, Reply)
I love that site so so much

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
me too
stop using it against me!
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:04, Reply)
Italian

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:27, Reply)
I couldn't choose.
Seriously I couldn't. I love too many different styles of cooking (although I ain't say I've ever tried Japanese).
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:29, Reply)
I had some lovely Japanese food last week
Bit pricey, but delicious.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:31, Reply)
If yer Ma had her way
It'd be Greek. Which I could live with.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:36, Reply)
Her stiffado is to die for!

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:37, Reply)
It is, rather.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:55, Reply)
toying with Italian but if its only one
JAMAICAN, I love it so much, in St Nicks Market there is the best Jamaican food stand. jerk chicken, curried goat, plantation.................. so good. I would miss pizza and pasta though.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
Would I be cheating and if I say 'american' ?
'cus american food has a lot of fussion from everywhere else.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:30, Reply)
One popular one I could easierly skip out though, is Indian.
I'll always find something I can enjoy in an indian, but I'd never choose it to go out too.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:32, Reply)
Japanese is right near the top, but having _only_ japanese would be hard.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:33, Reply)
pretty much anything except chinese
I don't like sweet things mixed with savoury. Prob something turkish/lebanese/persian/greek.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:31, Reply)
what's persian food?
please don't say food from persia
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:05, Reply)
It's a picnic on a rug with Jake Gyllenhall

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)
hahahah
would
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:16, Reply)
What about Scottish cuisine?
OK, it may be full of fat and sugar, but you wouldn't have to put up with it for that long, as you'd be dead of heart failure in a few years!

Seriously though, Indian. I love curries.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:34, Reply)
don't the Scots live on heroin and iron bru?
Edit - cause I would try that
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:35, Reply)
Glasgow salad = bag of chips

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:40, Reply)
I've never tried heroin
But I do drink a lot of Irn Bru. I think it's equally addictive.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:41, Reply)
I didn't used to like it
And now I do.
I doubt I'd actively go to the shop and buy one for myself, but I can actually drink it when I'm thirsty.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:42, Reply)
Soon you'll find it difficult to live without
DJTP will soon get you into the way of it.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:46, Reply)
Irn Bru is epic
so good cold.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:47, Reply)
this has been happening
Like when I was drunk and had nausea and needed a cold drink, and he turned up with a pint of ice cold Bru.
Naturally I gulped it down. Step one of re-conditioning...
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:51, Reply)
It's a good hangover remedy too

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:54, Reply)
It tastes a bit like it has pepper in it

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:59, Reply)
Almost as addictive as Lucozade - I cannot live without this.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:46, Reply)
Never had it - I can't wait to try it though.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:47, Reply)
I assume you're talking about Irn Bru
and not cock?
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:54, Reply)
yes .... Irn Bru....

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:54, Reply)
Good
Let us know if you think it's as good as cock, the first time you taste it!
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:55, Reply)
Moroccan
I do like tajines.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:35, Reply)
Oh I don't think I would.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:35, Reply)
You're all wrong (apart from Lab).
Malay, or Mexican. I'm not sure I could choose.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:48, Reply)
WOO!!

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:52, Reply)
Probably Greek.
Could I introduce a similar discussion which I had with friends last weekend as a sort of side order?

If you had to suvive for a week on one type of food what would it be. For instance if you chose soup you could have different varieties of soup but no bread. Though milk was allowed for the choice of breakfast cereal.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:51, Reply)
if you selected bread
would it have to just be dry bread?
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:52, Reply)
A basic butter or oil would be allowed (but not both).

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:54, Reply)
It would have to be soup then
There are numerous varieties of soup and they contain a melange of ingredients, thus providing the possibility of a balanced diet.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:57, Reply)
We only allowed "cream of" type soups in order to keep a level playing field.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:05, Reply)
In that case
I think I'd need to switch to pizza, as 'cream of' soups are pish.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:12, Reply)
Cheese sandwitches with a different variety every day.
I could survive on these forever*

*may not be as long as you think.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 11:58, Reply)
No, no, no
It's either bread or cheese.

Though I must admit that the rules seemed much clearer when using "beer logic" than they do now.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)
Just the cheese then.
This seems very unfair as soup can be made from many ingredients.

I want bread too.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)
is anyone else fucking hungry now?

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:00, Reply)
Starving and I'm on a diet

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:03, Reply)
me too I'm on a right fitness mission and all this talk of cheese and meat is making me crack

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:04, Reply)
I fucking love cheese
Had to go to Pizza Express last night and try to eat the least fatty thing there, but it still had some lovely grana padano on it.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:06, Reply)
I couldn't give up cheese ever
I had home-made pizza last night at the Lady's parents. It was YUM.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:07, Reply)
I'm not giving it up
But it's action stations for three weeks and then moderation after that, so no cheese in the fridge.
there is Laughing Cow extra light, but this is not fucking cheese.

I also have a few dinners at restaurants coming up, which leaves little choice in the way of diet food, so I really have to overcompensate in my daily life for now.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:10, Reply)
I guess I'm going to have to cut right back if I want to lose a few pounds

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:14, Reply)
I figure if I tell people I can't go back on it

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:17, Reply)
how I gave up the ciggies
It helps if you tell everyone how easy you're finding it, then you've no choice but to stick at it.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:44, Reply)
Hmm, something went wrong for me somewhere on that score.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:46, Reply)
the only cheese I get on this diet is two babybels once a week!
Motherfuckers.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:08, Reply)
Go on Slimming World
Yo can have a couple of BabyBel lights per DAY.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:11, Reply)
hahahaha fuck me that is epic
Apart from that the diet is cool, although what the hell is the point of oatcakes? you'd be better off chewing a beermat.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:14, Reply)
oh Lord I know
and they tell you cottage cheese is cheese, but it's lumpy milk.
I like the stuff but it's not cheese.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:16, Reply)
Funnily enough
I have oatcakes with cottage cheese quite frequently. Very nice they are too.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:18, Reply)
you get used to it
but it's not a thick slice of crusty bread smothered in butter
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:19, Reply)
cottage cheese
is what I imagine comes out of the Queens fanny. It is NOT food!!!
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:22, Reply)
Nice in a baked spud
When you're not allowed cheese and butter :(
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:25, Reply)
I am allowed that weird philadelphia stuff, thats ok in a spud.

(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:27, Reply)
I'm off to M and S in a minute.
I may be some time.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:03, Reply)
Definitely Italian
I worship pizza, love pasta and beyond that there's a huge range of meat dishes and vegetables and desserts.

I was tempted by British since technically most curries are ours rather than Indian, but in the end the pizza swung it.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 12:48, Reply)
Indian.
I fucking love Indian food.
(, Thu 29 Jul 2010, 13:34, Reply)

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