Food & Drinks 2013

[mvanrheenen]

It's the same for Chinese food. I never see the Chinese eat what we can get at the take aways

Maybe I need to visit Turkey in the near future. Your country has so much to offer. Would be nice.

Mark

[Birma]

Ooow - the Börek look really yummy Yildiz. Right up my street. Very nicely presented, all stacked up in that nice bowl. I am licking my lips now, it must be lunchtime!

The size of the Döner Kebab is enormous. We have them in fast food places here, but never that big . In my youth, after a night out with friends, that was standard fair; lots of fresh lettuce and very hot sauce. I remember that it was expected that you couldn't feel your lips after finishing a kebab with the hot sauce, and it was a disaster if you scratched your eye while eating!

[Greg Beetham]

I think once again you are correct Yildiz, according to this http://www.fyple.biz/townsville-qld/foo ... estaurant/ there are 58 restaurants in Townsville but just one Turkish restaurant, it looks like Asian and Chinese restaurants dominate, I probably should get out more I never knew there were so many restaurants here, I suppose they are including café’s and swanky clubs too, like the Cowboys Leagues club and Jupiters Casino.
Greg

[aster]

It's the same for Chinese food. I never see the Chinese eat what we can get at the take aways

Maybe I need to visit Turkey in the near future. Your country has so much to offer. Would be nice.

Mark

Same thoughts here. I never saw Chinese line up for Chinese fast food either, not even in the movies.

Turkey will be here when you decide it's appropriate for you to enjoy what it has to offer. We'd be happy to have you over.

And maybe some of the good Döner Kebab restaurants too.... : )


Yildiz

[aster]

Ooow - the Börek look really yummy Yildiz. Right up my street. Very nicely presented, all stacked up in that nice bowl. I am licking my lips now, it must be lunchtime!

The size of the Döner Kebab is enormous. We have them in fast food places here, but never that big . In my youth, after a night out with friends, that was standard fair; lots of fresh lettuce and very hot sauce. I remember that it was expected that you couldn't feel your lips after finishing a kebab with the hot sauce, and it was a disaster if you scratched your eye while eating!

Thanks, Andy.

Britain is one of the landpieces that actually opened its heart to all kinds cuisine from all over the world; must be something to do with being the Empire that the Sun never set on. : ) No wonder you enjoy all types of food any time any day.

So you actually are one of our members who can compete with Sury at his 'hot sauce and spices' game and you've hidden it well so far. : ) Hot sauce in the eye, I don't want to imagine!

Yildiz

[aster]

I think once again you are correct Yildiz, according to this http://www.fyple.biz/townsville-qld/foo ... estaurant/ there are 58 restaurants in Townsville but just one Turkish restaurant, it looks like Asian and Chinese restaurants dominate, I probably should get out more I never knew there were so many restaurants here, I suppose they are including café’s and swanky clubs too, like the Cowboys Leagues club and Jupiters Casino.
Greg

Hi Greg, : )

Yes, so I see, there actually is one and if those photos are telling the truth of the matter, they have a proper setting for Turkish kebabs. I think it would be wise to sample first and I just hope that there actually is a likeness to the kebabs we have in Turkey.

Good luck if you decide to go out to get some. : )

Yildiz

[Birma]

So you actually are one of our members who can compete with Sury at his 'hot sauce and spices' game and you've hidden it well so far. : ) Hot sauce in the eye, I don't want to imagine!

Yildiz

Hi Yildiz - well, I like hot food compared to the regular British diet (where even using garlic to flavour is a relatively new fashion!) but I suspect that I would not be up to the heat that Sury can cope with, if other of my Indian friends are anything to go by. Actually the people I've met who like food the hottest I have know was the Nigerians. I have a Nigerian friend who can only just barely taste sauces that are too hot for me!

I think some in the UK are quite cosmopolitan when it comes to food, and both Indian and Chinese food is hugely popular here. My parents generation were not quite so keen on anything unusual though. Lots of salt, and boiling vegetables for a long time, was the thing then. If TV advertising is anything to go by, then food fashion is now moving to either the golden arches, or the fried chicken variety. (I will never understand why food would be advertised as coming in a 'bucket' !)

[david antony]

Here is a tip for Garlic.

http://www.flixxy.com/peeling-garlic-ma ... school.htm

[Dr. Harout]

You are not helping me at all to accomplish a diet...

[sury]

Doc,
Once I started watching what I am eating I felt better. I used to eat looking elsewhere instead of food.

Sury

[Dr. Harout]

... I used to eat looking elsewhere instead of food.

Sury

Sury, what do you mean "elsewhere"?

[sury]

Doc,
There is a concept called "eye candy", closest to sugar a diabetic like me is allowed.

Sury

[aster]

Hi Yildiz - well, I like hot food compared to the regular British diet (where even using garlic to flavour is a relatively new fashion!) but I suspect that I would not be up to the heat that Sury can cope with, if other of my Indian friends are anything to go by. Actually the people I've met who like food the hottest I have know was the Nigerians. I have a Nigerian friend who can only just barely taste sauces that are too hot for me!

I think some in the UK are quite cosmopolitan when it comes to food, and both Indian and Chinese food is hugely popular here. My parents generation were not quite so keen on anything unusual though. Lots of salt, and boiling vegetables for a long time, was the thing then. If TV advertising is anything to go by, then food fashion is now moving to either the golden arches, or the fried chicken variety. (I will never understand why food would be advertised as coming in a 'bucket' !)

Hi Birma,

'Food that come in buckets' is a way of getting awkardly close to the way animals are fed while in the advertisements the message conveyed is of 'economy'= more for less of your money, or something like that. I don't really know how animals like horses and cattle or pig were fed in Britain in the very old days but when I was a child and we went to Turkish villages I used to see horses being fed out of the bucket while the owner who is a mobile vender of fresh vegetables went from street to street; a bucket of horse feed (oats maybe) would hang down from the horse's neck and it would eat on as they wandered the small roads. Now it's pretty much humans feeding themselves fast out of the buckets of spicy chicken wings or dippers. I don't know where the idea originated, America perhaps (?) because fast food culture was dominant there much earlier than other countries. With franchises all over the world, it became a common way of fast eating for humans also. 'Put the bucket of wings on your lap and watch a movie with soda in the other hand' has similarities to what I used to see done to horses in the past. Welll...

Our culture of food eating demands that everyone's seated around a table and share the food that comes in plates and selfish servings are frowned upon.

Turkish or the more Asian nations use the spices as preservatives too. Long ago when refrigerating wasn't as common, people relied on salt, garlic and other hot spices like pepper, cinnamon, etc. to preserve the meat or the summer vegetables so they could also consume them in the times when they were not as abundant. This also affected our taste buds for generations, we like spices in almost anything. : ))

Once a British teacher of mine (my English Literature teacher who was from London), gave me a cooking book that focused on English cooking as a present and I was surprised to find that there were so little ingredients in the recipes. Turkish dishes have recipes that can go on and on for certain food types. But I think the best cattle for beef steaks are still bred in Birtain and the way they are grilled or made is still unique in taste. There's a sweet way the British handle their meat and curings.

Yildiz

[Birma]

Hi Yildiz, somewhere in the back of mind I had the thought about spices being used as part of the preservatory process. I know that salting was used by our forebears quite a lot. Salted beef being a mainstay of the navy for many years.

I think the term 'nosebag' is used here for the (cloth) bucket placed over the horses head with their fodder, but I'm not a horse expert . The term 'bucket' definitely makes me think of feeding the animals .

There seems to be more cattle being bred for beef in the farms of Worcestershire nowadays. Farmers find it very hard to make a living producing Milk it would seem. It a long time since I've had a steak but beef steak is very popular here, although normally considered a treat and perhaps reserved for special occasions.

[aster]

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I think the term 'nosebag' is used here for the (cloth) bucket placed over the horses head with their fodder, but I'm not a horse expert . The term 'bucket' definitely makes me think of feeding the animals .

There seems to be more cattle being bred for beef in the farms of Worcestershire nowadays. Farmers find it very hard to make a living producing Milk it would seem. It a long time since I've had a steak but beef steak is very popular here, although normally considered a treat and perhaps reserved for special occasions.

Hi Birma, : )

So that's what it is called, a nosebag. I do remember something similar here too, from coarsely woven materials. And there used to be that tin bucket...

A nicely made steak is always a delight. Blood to the cheeks and a smile to the lips, it brings.


Yildiz