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

You have my pity - never had jaffa cakes, not quite sure about crumpets, stuck with all those rice-cake eating weevils

do you Canadians have particularly frugal diets as a matter of national principal - or is it due to the unnaturally cold climate and the inability to grow anything tasty, except maple syrup.

Oh no. Despite the fact that virtually no life can survive in the frozen wasteland that encompasses Canada in its entirety, you forget about importing food. Although I have pretty simple tastes, and usually eat burgers and salads and omelettes, every once in a while I get together with a few friends and we all go o Deliliah's, a fancy restaurant (and fairly expensive) where we enjoy five course meals and drink martinis late into the evening (I typically limit myself to two martinis or face wandering aimlessly for the next two hours trying to find my home). Last time I went I had the swordfish in a blueberry sauce, which was the best fish I've ever had.

I don't cook, so I tend to eat out a lot.

I can't understand how people can get by, not cooking. How do you manage it? I take it you've never cooked for yourself - or have you just reached that time of your life where you have the lifestyle and workload (and paycheque) to allow you to always eat food others have prepared for you.

I guess I've always cooked for myself since I went veggie (about 15 years ago) - and then student life (cooking for myself was by far the cheapest option) - and have just got into the habit. I don't think I could not cook - sometimes it's a total chore (esp. after a hellish day) but I love it, even if it's just throwing some pasta into a pan (I live off pasta)

Swordfish in blueberry sauce - sounds a bit weird if you ask me - you crazy Canadians

Oh ho! If you'd tasted the sauce...

I _can_ cook for myself. I mainly do breakfasts, though. Omelettes, pancakes, eggs, bacon, etc. I'm almost never at home at lunch, so I eat out for lunch. For dinner, I either go out to eat, or I make something simple, like beans or Kraft dinner, or something fast that usually requires heating stuff up. This is because I only decide to eat when I'm really hungry, and by that point I can't wait for the time is would take for me to prepare something complex.

I have to buy mostly non-perishable goods, since stuff usually goes bad before I can get around to eating it. I hate that.

I don't do anything extravagant or complex - but I guess at about 5pm I am thinking about what I am going to have to eat that night - in case I need to pop to the shop in the way home and pick anything up.

I couldn't survive without fresh veg though - and fruit - and fresh bread, fresh milk, fresh wine (oh hang on, that's not right).

I see you've got all the major food groups covered there, including the wine group.

Sure, you can have 'fresh' wine, the antithesis of which would be corked wine or perhaps vinegar.

Fresh seems to suggest the opposite of matured if you ask me - beaujolais nouveau - yuck.

Freshly purchased?
Freshly opened?
Fresh-flavoured - um yes please...

Freshly *hic* consumed?

Ah, the best

Just resuscitating an old forum for a laugh (oh ha ha I hear you cry sarcastically).

Actually there is method in my madness (or reason to my resuscitation) - just to let you know Kensington has moved on from my user page and taken the invading insect hoards with him - thus making your user page out of date. Thought I'd let you know (as I'm kind like that )

Hmmm. Well, he's not around here. I wonder where he's gone? I'm sure he'll turn up.