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Your Worst Takeaway
The Fray Bentos thread got me thinking.
What's the worst takeaway you have every inflicted on yourself?
Drunken friday nights after a gig waiting in line at the kebab house, we've all been there.
The worst I can think of must be the Glasgow munchy box.
http://discuss.glasgowguide.co.uk/Glasgow-Kids-Dying-Munchy-Box-t15141.h...
Instant death for a fiver..
Here in Cape Town we have an weird invention of our own called the Gatsby.
Gatsbies usually consist of a soft french loaf cut lengthwise and opened up to form a sort of cradle which is filled with various fillings. While the choice of filling in a Gatsby varies wildly depending on customer preference and vendor, one standard item is usually hot greasy chips & salad.
Popular fillings include: Mutton chicken or steak curry. Polony, hot dogs, calamari rings & fish (hake).
http://www.funnymail.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/farmstall-fullhous...
http://www.funnymail.co.za/wp-content/uploads/2008/06/romantic-dinner-fo...
PS. How do I post pictures?
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Seven Pints and a Suicide
I never had the pleasure but someone here must have sampled the infamous 'suicide' option at Manchester's long-gone Plaza curry house (as immortalised by Graham Fellows in the titular song).
Indeed
I did, many times.
City Life interviewed the owner, Charlie, about his food. They asked "Would you let your kids eat your food?" His answer was "No, I want them to live."
My Worst take away?
this months edition of Mojo.
Someone is fishing
For a free Word subscribtion. Not that I wish I had been clever enough to do so myself.
Pictures
Picture post info is in the FAQ: http://www.wordmagazine.co.uk/faq.
A friend of mine who grew up in Glasgow with me and now lives in Melbourne sent this link about the Munchy Box to me and to his Australian friends: http://blog.23x.net/5/what-is-a-munchy-box.html - he wanted me to vouch that this is genuine. Yes, it is.
Also know as "Govan Tapas".
That is…
… truly scary
Love the way
the bag has 'Safety First' in tiny letters in the bottom right.
Is this from the new serries of Dexter?
Such are the delights...
I've been away from Glasgow for a long time, and I have to say that I do, on occasion, miss the artery clogging delights of home. My introduction to pizza, like so many other glaswegians in the 60s, was the chippy deep-fried variety. Unhealthy? yes. Tasty. abso-effing-lutely.
The "Govan Tapas", though, has a "what was left before closing" look about it.
When deep fired pizza just isn't unhealthy enough...
you can always go for pizza crunch - battered before being deep fried. Often served on a roll...
Not the worst - just the most.
but worth telling you all.
I shared a house in Tooting some years ago with 2 other gornickles. Some nights would see the 3 of us trundling out of Tooting Broadway station in the mood for some haute cuisine.
Just up past The Mitre was the first kebab house on that stretch of the Mitcham Road, 'Tooting Steak and Kebab'. We'd all buy one and gnaw away as we walked home. One of us though (not me) would have scoffed his within moments. Usually just as we drew level with another kebab house. In he would pop for his second.
More chewing and walking. Just before we crossed the road at Amen Corner the said greedy bastard would have finished this second one but still claimed to be hungry. So he'd pop in to the last kebab shop before we headed up Rectory Lane.
Bear in mind this walk from the tube to our then home was only about 15 minutes in duration. 3 kebabs in about 500 yards at least once a week. Is this a record?
Another Glasgow entry ...
A burger from Casey Jones in Glasgow railway station - what did I know, I was just a hungry tourist! I got to Edinburgh an hour later but the burger didn't. A few pints and a white pudding and chips later that evening seemed to settle my stomach though.
ONCE
had a Chinese with a rusty nail in it! Yum!
You're supposed to drink cocktails
not use them as a dressing.
Been out of blighty
for nearly 20 years now. Is the mythical Tindaloo/Phal curry still a staple of the friday/saturday night out or has nandos taken over the ringsting market like here in their homeland?
Curry Hell
Newcastle has Rupali, which claims to sell the hottest curry available without breaching the Geneva Convention (q.v. http://www.curryhell.com/#/rupali-curry-hell/4533703288). If you can get it down without dying or spontaneously combusting, you get a certificate and another, free. Cheers.
So yes, it is still an accepted proof of manhood to explore the outer limits of the Scoville scale after 200 pints of Carling and a fight.
Posting pictures was a mystery to me for a very long time also
I eventually figured it out.
Step one
go to photobucket and open a free account.
Step two
find the photo you want to share, just right click the web URL
step three
go to photobucket "my album" you'll see a spot to past the URL then paste it in there. Once the upload is complete...
step four
in your photo bucket click on the photo and it offers up various options including "share" click that
step five
it'll give you four options click "HTML Code"
Step six
copy that code (it's very long)into your post.
Done, there might be a quicker way than that but that does work.
This is a gatsby
Looks more like a goatse
nb. Do not google "goatse" if you are at work or of nervous disposition. It's one of the more mind-scarring internet memes.
Tastes
the same. (says a friend)
Didn't this
star in 'The Thing'?
Funny you should say that
If I were selling it I'd call it "Alien Autopsy" as that's what it looks like. If you look closely it's even got an eye.
The Ulster Fry
Fried bacon, fried sausages, fried eggs, fried potato bread, fried soda bread, fried wheaten bread, fried mushrooms (optional), fried tomatoes (ditto), plus beans if you're genuinely Hank. All washed down with four pints of tea (milk, three sugars). I can feel the old Strawberry start to quicken even as I think of it. Fantastic though, especially after a gallon of stout the night before.
The Parmo.
The Parmo - a delicacy of Teesside which can be bought further afield (they've made it down to here in North Yorkshire).
They're made by deep frying a chicken fillet in an egg & breadcrumb batter. This is then stuffed into a pizza pan, covered in Bechamel sause, topped with cheddar cheese and then baked in an oven. They're then served in a pizza box with chips, salad and optional toppings. About 4000 calories a serving.
Here's one:
Is that portion
for one person?
Well....
It's a bit smaller than the ones the serve around here.
Is it?
It looks like a giant danish pastry with chips. Mmm.
My first big
laugh of the day. (Awake 45 mins.) Thank you, Ola.
Excuse my ignorance, but is your comment typical of Scandinavian eating habits? *Shudders.*
Clarification
Your post above was by no means the first in this thread (or indeed in the mind-boggling Fray Bentos one) to make me shudder, OC...
Ignorance excused
Typical, well, if you throw some meatballs on the side. It´s Friday after all. And you´re welcome.
My worst
takeaway was a recent session with a "Human Resources and Talent Development" expert. American. And after a midly diverting hour or so on "Change and Organisational Behaviours" - he asked "so, people, what are our takeaways?". Soulless Eyes. Million Dollar Smile.
I wonder how he'd go down in Glasgow on a Saturday night? Quickly,I'd warrant - under a hail of fists.