
when Russian food can be charitably described as fucking revolting.
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:09, archived)

and they have some good sausage.
They are a bit overenthusiastic about FRIED STUFF, though.
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:12, archived)

but on a day to day basis they eat gristle, sour milk and cabbage stumps.
Nothing can erase the memory of ice-cold spaghetti, drizzled with a soupcon of cooking oil.
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:15, archived)

In some ways it was like going 50 years back in time, but some things they've got much better than we have, like sexual equality.*
* edit: sort of. Women still have to be housewives as well as matching their husbands in careers.
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:17, archived)

living in some sort of 1940s plutocracy, very weird.
It's still normal for a guy to have awife and a Mistress, too, Victorian-style.
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:21, archived)

Zen I tell my mistress I am spendink ze eefening viz my vife.
Zen I go to ze library and verk."
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:22, archived)

as an innocent 16 year old and was fed beer, crab sticks, hard boiled eggs, tinned peas and beetroot for a fortnight. Almost exclusively.
*shudder*
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:12, archived)

my exchange's very large, naval officer father (with whom I could only communicate in French) took it that I must love beer. And fed me the stuff for breakfast. Kept out the cold right enough :D
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:19, archived)

Although I did bring buy lots of yoghurt pots full for 50p each, for the novelty value :)
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:38, archived)

I'd rather be a bad cook than a big french gayer stinking of BO
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:09, archived)

(Wouldn't know about Finnish food though, except for the revolting salty liquorice things)
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:14, archived)

but Finnish food is reindeer meat and a wide range of bitter berries. Nice for a one-off, hell for more than a day.
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:16, archived)

as well as boiled sweets that are salty liquorice on the outside and pepper on the inside.
Sweets, people of Finland. They're supposed to be sweet.
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:21, archived)

'The only thing they (the English) have ever done for European agriculture is mad cow disease," ' said the cheese eating surrender monkey
( , Mon 4 Jul 2005, 15:16, archived)