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

I'm going to *have* to turn you back onto meat. I can't be doing with this veggie thing What's Iranian food like? I've never had that!!!!

Oh, I have only had two sandwiches and a bowl of rice today. I need to have at least one more lot of food before bedtime.

But we could talk about other things if you want to...

They like to call it *Persian* but that makes me think they cook cat!

Lots of kebabs, a super thin flat bread that makes really good wraps, humous, pita, lamb, goat, olives, rice wrapped in vine leaves (like Greek dolmades), etc.

Big community here that came over when the shah was overthrown. They have restaurants with *water rooms* where there are little fountains all over the room and you eat semi-reclined. A hang over from the desert I guess, it just makes me want to go to the loo!

Goat?

Sounds really but not as a restaurant. Opium den maybe...

Big hashish consumers by all accounts... A local *gang* called themselves the Hash Bandits. I assume they got to lethargic to actually do something- haven't heard of them for years.

Oh gangs. We have a huge Yardie thing going on in Bristol right now - the public isn't safe, so we have armed police patrols going on in the more dangerous areas. Drug conflict or something. I find it so shocking - Bristol is so nice and content in the daytime...when night falls though. Psssh.

Anyway. Lets not get onto that topic.

There are quite a few numbers of *greasy spoon* cafes around where I live. Kinda the equivalent of the US diners (at least that's what I've seen in the movies)...great food, incredibly unhealthy, and generally really tacky looking. Plastic chairs and vinyl covered tables. Fantastic. I don't think there is anything like it anywhere else in the world but the UK...

You cant beat an English Breakfast from a greasy spoon caff as a hangover cure...

The one just down for me do a 'No. 3 breakfast',(No.3 is the biggest, 1 is the smallest...) You get it on a round plate that is literally 18 inches in diameter (and your toast on a separate plate). Sausages, Bacon, Eggs, Fried Bread,baked beans, fried tomatoes, fried potatoes and all washed down with two big mugs of tea...

Um, Sat, dont most(if not all) pizza shops make them themselves from scratch?

Not like the shop on Stapleton road did/does...I think chain stores use frozen ingredients - base and the such like. Whereas that shop - you could *see* them making it. All fresh ingredients. You can taste the difference

*Stores*??? just finished writing application form.

You know what I mean.

Eggs, chips and beans for me. HP sauce on one side and tomato on the other. Thick toasted bread to mop it up and tea that burns the roof of your mouth. Oh and lots of pepper.

I would never buy a pizza from a chain... They do use frozen sh*t, however most independants make it up all fresh and lovely, there used to be a great place down the road called Vesuvio's. Best pizzas Ive ever tasted, and they did this great garlic oil they would liberally douse the pizza with.
Too bl**dy gorgeous...
But they closed down a year or two ago, its not fair. I grew up eating pizza from there. Part of my heritage.

Thick or thin crust? Used to like thick, now I can't stand it.

MMM...thin crust, sweetcorn, mushrooms, ham, tomato, cheese, parmesan cheese...

You *always* need loads of pepper on beans!!!

And pizza?

Thick crust meat feast (and they better load it with meat) with loads of Garlic oil(I havent found anywhere else that does this yet...)

*corn*?!? *corn*?!?!? On pizza?

You must come from Chicago where they put everything on them.

They call them dumpster pizzas!

Sweetcorn, the food that comes out exactly as it went in!!!

That's actually really true, but I sweetcorn more than any other vegetable...mmmmm...



I put butter into my beans. Just as a footnote.

Dont get me wrong, I do love sweetcorn, but theres f**k all nutrition in there...

Butter in beans? Try loads of pepper next time. mmmm

*Skint Bob has been living off beans on toast for a week*

Actauly I raided my own freezer and my parents tins and made myself a lovely Chile Con Carne today, gorgeous, but needs nothing more than a tin of kidney beans, a tin of peeled plum tomatoes, mince, tomatoe puree, and half an onion. Oh, and mixed herbs, soy sauce(ok so not the most classic ingredient), and chile sauce to taste...

I made three portions of it and froze two, I really should cook more often, I dont mind it when Ive got the time, and its cheaper and nicer tasting than microwave dinners...

Bob, stock up on the pasta and chicken. That's how I survive!!

Ohhh...goooddd...*lavicious and ing*

Chilli Con Carne.



Oh and b****r nutrition, sweetcorn is good. And yellow.

Chilli, is one of my favourite foods, and I can cook it up myself...