h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

I read your Entry on Palmbeer, sounds like something to look out for when I decide to hit the continent. And so others, can have a look at it, I'm giving it a link in the History of Food & Drink wing ( http://www.h2g2.com/A261613 ) of the h2g2 Historical Society
( http://www.h2g2.com/A240058 ). Drop by and sample some of the other fine historical beverages on offer!

Thanks for referencing my entry, when I get around to write new entries about Belgian food, I'll let you know.
Cheers!

Always keen to help out a fellow connoisseur of the hop.

This is a little bit off-topic, but your post reminds me of a very nice expression they use in Switzerland:
"... isch Hopfe und Malz verloore" (difficult to render because it is spoken language, in proper German, this would be "... ist Hopfen und Malz verloren") is said about hopeless things and especially persons: if you say that "for xxx hop and malt (or is it mout?) is lost", that means that xxx is especially dumb... and that beer cannot help his case

I wrote a new entry about "Frietkot" : this is the Belgian name for a snack stand where they sell fries/chips (and lots of other things but that's how they started out). These frietkoten are omnipresent in Belgium and a handy (if somewhat fat) way of keeping oneself sustained in that country.

Cheers

Strangely, every culture seems to have something like this. The NZ (and Australian) equivalent is the piecart. Its main fare is, of course, the pie - which in NZ gastronomical terms, is a single-serve meat & gravy filled pie doused liberally in Watties tomato sauce (like ketchup but without any spices).

In Australia, you can even get what's called a 'pie floater' - a pie, as described above, served in a bowl of pea soup.

Now I understand why Simon Travaglia always goes on about precooked pies in his pages about "Real Kiwi Bloke", while some of his writings may be offending, there are gems for the partial to that sort of humor... one example only: in his advices for a NZ girl wanting to please her real kiwi bloke, he tells to buy a pie at the nearest gas station because only they get the recipe right... This is one of the references to pie that had me puzzled

Aah, yes, the gas or petrol station pie. They can also be found in lunch bars, bakeries and on Cook Strait ferries.

Make a oval with the thumb and forefingers of both hands - this is the approximate size and shape of a Kiwi pie, and they are about an inch and a half in thickness.

Pies are very much part of the NZ culture. They are usually consumed for lunch, or as half-time fare during a rugby match.

Actually this is beginning to sound like a guide entry, isn't it?