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

Elektra keeps saying, 'How in the world can people EAT chip butties?'

Me: The same way some people can stand to have chips in their gyro-me-pita. Or our Kurdish friend put potatoes on rice.

True story: The two of us were in London, about a million years ago. I wanted to show her the sights, but she had jet lag, big-time. So we went over to a little eatery near Trafalgar Square. It was a cheap place, which fit our budget at the time, we being students.

We ordered. The place was run by Pakistani folk. As we waited, Elektra eyed the bill of fare, which was on a slate, and whispered, 'These poor people, how are they going to make any money? They're obviously immigrants, and don't know what people here eat.

'Look - they even have BAKED BEANS ON TOAST. Now, who's going to eat that?'

Cut to a short time later, when we learned the Awful Truth about UK eating habits.

'Elektra keeps saying, 'How in the world can people EAT chip butties?'

Me: The same way some people can stand to have chips in their gyro-me-pita. Or our Kurdish friend put potatoes on rice.'



Is there some law that if you are going to consume carbohydrates, they must all be of the same type? Is this some secular form of keeping kosher, or what?

Sorry, it just sounds like some completely arbitrary rule.

It probably exists in some secret document down in a fallout shelter from the 50s...written by those ladies who made up the Food Pyramid...

I wouldn't take us as a good nutritional examples. It's just that baked beans on toast falls under the category of 'you eat WHAT?'

Elektra mentioned another example: In a Pizza Hut in Dover, we were offered a pizza, with a baked potato as a side dish.

going back a bit - Bel - no. You can't cook Yorkshire Pudding with greaseproof paper (Backpapier) - if that's what you meant

I thought it was a typical German thing that you have either potatoes, or rice but not in combination.

Sho, I might try that. What I cooked was in principle like Yorkshire pudding, and I used greaseproof paper.

Great minds think alike, Bel.

You've lived in germany for too long, Dmitri.

Could be. When we were about to move to Greece, my friends said, 'You can't do that, the place is full of foreigners!'

So you blended in with your German surroundings.

Beans on toast... adn for that matter chip butties are great
If you want some truely unusual creations look at some of what the Scottish cook and then call food, and apparently even eat

Curry

half rice, half chips

Don't they have porridge for breakfast? I quite like that.

nosh! if it can be slapped between 2 slices of bread and butter, then it'll be rait

not any more

breakfast packs!!!!!

portion of cereal, individual uht milk, couple of sachetts, whitener, sugar, jam, tea bags?????

not any more

breakfast packs!!!!!

portion of cereal, individual uht milk, couple of sachetts, whitener, sugar, jam, tea bags?????

scabbybetween 2 p*ss stained matresses

can i just say that does not leave crumbs in your sheets

Re beans on toast--
When beans go on a bread object, it should be exclusively and invariably CORN bread. Beans on wheat toast?
Of course, if you can pour the grain into a jar and drink it along side the beans, just about any grain will do. (But corn is still best. )

B'el it's funny what people do and don't keep on hand. I would almost always have a bit of spinach, some ham or bacon, canned tomatoes and some sort of cheese. The basil grows by the door May through October, so I just have to remember to pick up a squash to do that recipe.

Stopping the Brits eating beans on toast would be like training cats to stop a bulldozer.

And it's not typically British to mix the carbohydrates. In Genua the national dish is potatoes with pasta, in Stuttgart University, the students' staple is potato salad with chips.

In the Northern realms of the Palatinate where I live, they have what they call "married" dishes, where you mix potatoes, rice and pasta variously (presumably to use up leftovers) They are done a bit like bubble and squeak.

Also South of here, in the Stuttgart area, one regional speciality is lentils with spätzle (A63875794 ), which is also pulses with wheat flour, which brings us back to beans on toast.

Having said that, I condone NONE of the above, although, being a Brit, I will eat beans on toast. Or spaghetti hoops on toast. As comfort food.

BTW -what is "corn bread". Isn't wheat a kind of corn anyway?