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(, Sun 1 Apr 2001, 1:00)
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Granted, I'd eat it, but I don't much care for it.
Having a top indian restaurant near by would be lovely. Are with within the famed 'balti-triangle?'
What would be your Indian restaurant order?
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:36, 3 replies, latest was 15 years ago)
I like a mix of meat and veg - if it's got veg on, that takes some of the "bad for you" off.
At least in my head.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:40, Reply)
I quite like veggie pizza. But there is something to be said for spicy beef.
What base do you prefer?
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:43, Reply)
used to do thin crust but I'm now leaning the other way. You?
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:46, Reply)
I find deep-pan a bit too doughy for my tastes.
God knows what a 'stuffed crust' tastes like, the thought of it offends me.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:47, Reply)
you can feel arteries clanging shut all over your body. It's tasty for maybe the first piece and then you just feel slightly sick and ashamed.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:51, Reply)
Which sort of fucks up breakfast the next day.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:55, Reply)
our local pizza place at uni did amazing SQUARE pizza which was inexplicably tastier the following morning after having spent the night in the fridge.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:02, Reply)
taste better than ones that are cut into oblongs?
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:13, Reply)
mushrooms and peppers on your pizza, plus the tomato sauce - well, that's three of your five a day, surely?
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:44, Reply)
as well as Meat Feast and we're there
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:48, Reply)
that we were supposed to have a chicken eating contest a while back. So I agreed to have it tonight. She chose chicken nuggets :( and I ate 28 of them along with 2 bottles of wine and was promptly massively sick
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:57, Reply)
Did you have barbecue sauce?
Also, how many did you manage to eat?
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:58, Reply)
and the guy on the checkout went mad- gave us sweet chilli sauce, barbecue, curry, sweet and sour and ketchup (about five of each).
I ate 28 and two onion rings :(
After I was sick I had a piece of cheesecake and more wine. It was like the last days of the Roman empire but with no class
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:00, Reply)
Where did you get them from?
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:05, Reply)
I'm just dissapointed.
How much did over 50 chicken nuggets cost from there?
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:10, Reply)
*Still disgusted*
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:13, Reply)
and I've been cooking it. But I do a Supernatural night once a week with a friend. So it was £6 :p
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:26, Reply)
28 chicken nuggets? Christ. That is mental behaviour.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:27, Reply)
I was genuinely disgusted. But occasionally a competitive streak comes to the forefront and I just have to win, even if it means being sick
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:35, Reply)
I didn't feel bad. It was like my body was just saying 'you don't want this' and I felt absolutely fine afterwards
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:38, Reply)
esp as you should have seen what we ordered between 4 of us at the restaurant. seriously i was so full i only ate about 1/4 of mine, and the other greedy gits polished it all off too (everyone secretly prefers the vegetarian stuff). luckily it was britain's healthiest indian restaurant (channel 4 said so).
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:13, Reply)
I can't believe I actually ate it all. On the plus side I'm quite glad I was sick (not in an unhealthy bulimic way, just in a I think I would've burst otherwise way)
Did you have a nice evening out?
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:27, Reply)
but your body knows if you've eaten too much garbage!
ours was delicious, we had... christ... chicken tikka samosas, a veggie dish with chickpeas and yoghurt and puffed rice, vegetable bhajis, lamb and chicken kebabs, yellow lentil dahl, black lentil and kidney bean stew, lamb rogan josh, chicken biryani, aubergine masala, beef madras, all sorts of naans and rice...... the table was covered, it was great and gross all at the same time. however, client and partner put it all away, i was impressed but v relieved i stopped when i did! also being veggie i couldn't be tempted to eat more than a couple of the dishes.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:33, Reply)
glad you had a good evening and managed to stay sane with the food!
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:34, Reply)
don't get me wrong, i have still gained about half a stone this weekend, between the american last night and the indian tonight. starvation ALL WEEK :(
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:38, Reply)
If you go without food, your body with eat away at the muscle, not the fat.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:42, Reply)
it will be recommencing tomorrow (well, today)
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:45, Reply)
At the moment I'm quite lumpy and overweight. The problem is I tend to graze while I'm working and not really notice. Plus all the Relentless and Red Bull tends to add up calorie wise.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:58, Reply)
bars are shit at stocking diet drinks, though. it's diet coke or nothing.
and you don't look even remotely lumpy or overweight on your pics!
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 1:07, Reply)
At the moment some weight has settled on my hips/thighs which I'm trying to shift. I just need to do what I usually do, and buy a shit magazine and cut some photos of grossly overweight people out of it and stick them on the fridge
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 1:11, Reply)
from eating fruit and pasta though
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 1:06, Reply)
is letting yourself drink what you want, but only eat one food item (for me it was soda bread) and that really knocked the pounds off.
The other is only eat fruit and one other thing, while limiting drinks to water/tea/coffee/diet coke
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 1:08, Reply)
is very depressing. it's all about the diet and the metabolism. gaaaaaaah!
your second one sounds more effective/healthier i guess...
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 1:21, Reply)
but they both work. If you can make it through the first three days, it is easy after that
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 1:37, Reply)
if you have someone else cooking for you, like in college, or in my case go out for dinner several nights a week, it gets hard!
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 1:46, Reply)
but even if going out for dinner, it can be managed provided you opt for a meal that's a majority of one item. It takes the fun away from eating out, but there's a certain satisfaction in it as well
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 1:54, Reply)
is very depressing. it's all about the diet and the metabolism. gaaaaaaah!
your second one sounds more effective/healthier i guess...
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 1:21, Reply)
If I get within ten feet of the smell of the stuff I boak. Hideous, hideous, hideous!
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:41, Reply)
If it is presented in 'hedgehog' fashion, it's even better.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:42, Reply)
but you are wronger than a Muslim in a pork butchers on the whole pineapple thing.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:44, Reply)
I worry about you.
I'm going to work on the basis that because you live in the north, you consider the pineapple with a suspecion of the exotic and therefore are scared of it.
Tell me, do you serve 'Vesta curries' when you have a dinner party?
(I'm joking).
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:46, Reply)
www.doyouremember.co.uk/memory.php?memID=4839
Just add boiling water! It was a taste of the future back in the 70s!
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:54, Reply)
I was merely adhering to the northern stereotype of abject cultural cluelessness. Now, if you don't mind, I need to feed ferrets and get whippet out for a shite.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:58, Reply)
It seems to be just me and Monty with the Joey Deacon comments these days.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:03, Reply)
I remember the Bay City Rollers and Jon Pertwee as Doctor Who without the benefit of DVD...
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:05, Reply)
I also recall being shit-scared of a Dr Who film (featuring Roy Castle). Dead scarey when I was a boy.
Who is your favourite Doctor, and why? (rather than who!)
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:08, Reply)
He was the one I really grew up with, although I like them all. Matt Smith is my favourite of the new bunch, he's more old school.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:10, Reply)
Mad as a box of frogs, and his autobiography is one of the funniest things ever written.
I'm also one of the few who thinks that Colin Baker was given a bum deal.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:13, Reply)
The life of a monk is somewhat strange.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:15, Reply)
I must read it again. I remember pissing myself laughing at the bit where his loathsome father in law who hated him wanted him to wipe his arse when he was dying because Tom had been an army medic or something.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:18, Reply)
It was also interesting to read about how going into the church was quite a normal career path.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:19, Reply)
I'm going to get the book out and read it again. Somebody knight Tom, please?
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:25, Reply)
He does deserve some sort of honour, not least for his voice.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:26, Reply)
Practically out of work for 20 years until the kids who grew up watching him in the 70's got jobs in television, too.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:31, Reply)
And had to send a letter to the kid who wasn't believed at school that Doctor Who watched the telly with him!
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:43, Reply)
one of the points of the balti triangle, as it happens. Possibly just outside it depending on how far you extend down the main road. There are... *counts* 5 indian restaurants within five minutes walk of me, at least two of which are very good.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:42, Reply)
That take over most of the table?
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:44, Reply)
pilau rice and a peshwari naan. I'm not big on overly spicy stuff.
And you?
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:49, Reply)
there's far too much for one if we're having bread too.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:51, Reply)
Chicken Tikka Madras
Special Fried Rice
Plain Nann
Veg Dhal and maybe a onion bhaji if I'm quite peckish.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:52, Reply)
half a pilau rice and then sometimes a naan, sometimes not.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:53, Reply)
There are a bunch of Indian takeaways near me but it's about 15 minutes walk up to Bhangla Lounge or Lasans. I'll do that occasionally if I'm in the mood for curry.
Do you find that ordering takeout curry for 1 it's hard to meet the minimum order? I do.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:48, Reply)
hence why I wander down in to the village and collect...
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:50, Reply)
With a curry, it is just a case of
Main dish
Rice dish
Nann/Sundry items
With a Chinese, to fully enjoy it, you really need a couple of mains along with either rice or chow mein and a few sundry items.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:50, Reply)
I don't mind it particularly, but I'd never choose it over Indian or Italian or French or even German.
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:52, Reply)
Sabai Sabai (it's thai) on Woodbridge Road. Fuck me that place is awesome.
EDIT - also, Germany has cuisine? And takeaways?
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:56, Reply)
Usually done on gas mark five.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:01, Reply)
"Oh, just wipe its arse, walk it through the bank and it'll be fine".
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:03, Reply)
Maybe not takeaway but there's a German restaurant at the bottom end of Shirley I keep meaning to try.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:01, Reply)
for a German restaurant! That said, I think there's an Iranian restaurant on the Hagley road or something equally as odd.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:05, Reply)
the other evening but I never know what to order
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:56, Reply)
I'm no good with spicy stuff. I've spent my life never eating in Chinese or Thai places because of the peanut and fish allergies
(, Sun 21 Nov 2010, 23:58, Reply)
if the curry place I'm in doesn't do my favourite thing. It's nice.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:03, Reply)
I ought to try that. I've made thai green curry from scratch and it was really good, far better than bought paste... but I've recently found a curry paste that's really good, so I've never bothered to make curry sauce as opposed to just buying a jar of the stuff..
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:07, Reply)
from scratch.
I'm not a fan of the 'stir in sauce' and I get a sense of pride in making it.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:11, Reply)
however this stuff is beautiful. I've had takeaway curry which was less nice.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:15, Reply)
I shall investigate in more detail!
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:18, Reply)
which is probably more your thing, although I haven't had it and it might be rubbish, but the korma is bloody lush. And the jar it comes in is very pretty.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:23, Reply)
I'll eat it anyway, but if there is a fantastic stir-in sauce I wanna know about it.
Although there is something nice about having no E-number in your food.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:25, Reply)
I think it's coloured with paprika or summat.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:27, Reply)
www.curryhouse.co.uk/rsc/sauce.htm
If you are going to make it yourself.
It is quite labour intensive, to be honest, it is a lot less hassle to order it in.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:04, Reply)
plus 8,000,000 calories.
start with a biryani, i reckon!
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:20, Reply)
i do love it. but overall the winner for me is some form of middle eastern - i love turkish/lebanese/persian/greek food best of all the foods, me.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:38, Reply)
haloumi and pitta and houmous and tzatziki and feta...
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:44, Reply)
they tend to put raisins or sultanas in there. urrrrgh.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:53, Reply)
Is this a Bhuna?
Or is this a Jalfrezi?
Mixed up my order,
They all look the same to me
Open your gob,
Just swallow a fork and see.
I'm just a student,
Need something real cheap to eat
Because I'm stoney broke
Not a bean
Don't remember
The menu I've seen
Korma, Saag or Madras
Doesn't really matter to me
To me...
Naan-aa, just killed a man
Poppadom against his head
Had lime pickle, now he's dead.
Naan-aa, dinner just begun
But now I'm going to crap it all away.
Naan-aa, ooh-ooh
Didn't mean to make you cry,
Seen nothin' yet just see the loo tomorrow,
Curry on, Curry on,
'cause nothing really madras.
Too late, my dinner's gone
Sends shivers up my spine
Rectum aching all the time.
Goodbye every bhaji, I've got to go
Gotta leave you all behind and use the loo.
Naan-aa, ooh ooh,
This Dopiaza's mild,
Sometimes wish we'd never come here at all.
I see a little chicken tikka on the side,
Rogan Josh, Rogan Josh
pass the chutney made of mango.
Vindaloo does nicely
Very very spicey
ME!
Biryani (Biryani)
Biryani (Biryani)
Biryani and a naan
O Vindaloooooooo
(No no no no no non o no no No)
I've eaten balti, somebody help me
He's eaten balti, get him to a lavatory
Stand well back
This loo's quarantined.
Here it comes,
There it goes, technicolor yawn
I chunder
No!
It's coming up again
(There he goes)
I chunder
It's coming up again
(There he goes)
I chunder
It's coming up again
Up again
Here it comes again
Here it comes again
Here it comes again
Here it comes again
This vindaloo is about to wreck my guts Poor me... Poor me... Poor me!
So you think you can chunder and think it's alright?
So you think you can eat curry and drink all night?
Ohh maybe, now you'll puke like a baby,
Just had to come out,
Just had to come right out in here....
Korma, saag or bhuna,
Balti, naan or bhaji
Nothing makes a difference to me
To me
Anyway my wind blows.
(, Mon 22 Nov 2010, 0:23, Reply)
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