donde est el chipole

[celeryman]

Spoke to a bloke today who said he had been to spain recently. I asked him if he had tried any tapas,to which he gave a blank look and said after I explained about tapas he found a chip shop he used daily,English chips and gravy.

What do you think PHILISTINE or CHACUN A SON GOUT

[Eve]

I can see how some people prefer to stick to what they know but if I'm somewhere I want to try local stuff (draw the line at wierd stuff like frogs legs or snails and all that though haha).

I remember going on a trip to Luxembourg and Belgium and the first thing people headed for was an irish bar and fast food places a la mcdonalds?!?!?! I managed to get them into a waffle house in the end though :)

My ex was a bit like that, not very adventurous but would then get meal envy (especially goulash in Prague) with stuff I ordered and, in the end, would often ask me to order for me.

[joggerjayne]

Oooh, jen, I adore snails. Frogs legs are nice, but a bit bony and not much meat.

I refuse to eat English food when I'm abroad. You only have a few days in which to enjoy authentic local delights. Make the most of it.

[theonlyone]

just had a week in Spain ..
my friend wouldn't eat anything
unless it was English ...

[Eve]

I've had some amazing local food when abroad, waffles in Belgium (and Hagan Daas at it's own shop) and pancakes in Amsterdam, veal schnitzel in Romania and Prague, gorgeous pasta and sorbet in Milan and Lake Como.

France though, I must say, had the most gorgeous food, the homemade soups, bread fresh from the boulangerie, crepes, pain au chocolate, the coffee....oh I could go on....

[Eve]

Random story....

I stayed with a family while working in France and it was a running joke that I loved the cheese course, especially one of the soft cheeses, "kiri", they used to save it for me :)

When I got back I'd ask others if they had ever come across it, including french people like mty former housemate. No-one had ever heard of it.

years later, somehow it came up in a conversation with my boss that I was going to look out for it again and he looked at me and said, what, la vache qui rit...

Laughing sodding cow, how embarrassing lol :)

[joggerjayne]

Aah, SIRandy, you must have seen the brilliant sketch from Goodness Gracious Me where the Indian guys go gor an English meal.

The line "Bring me the blandest thing on the menu" is almost in the Monty Python class of classic lines.

[celeryman]

So it looks like we have a melting pot of culinary diversity

ANSWERBANKERS I salute you I really thought when speaking to the chap who started this off that chips and gravy was the only thing that could tickle an English persons tastebuds. I had a keema madras on Tuesday and I was litterally hallucinating wierd dreams about things that happened 30 years ago .Dont know what was in it but we are going back a.s.a.p