Pie And Beans, £1.50......No Bad.

[Kahaih]

/\ At least she seems to be dressed appropriately; that is a bib she's wearing, isn't it?

 

[NotHardUp1]

I just find it peculiar that these sloppy finger foods are so popular where people gather to socialize, and often, 'hook up'.

Now days, people no longer have to go home smelling like an ashtray, instead, they go home with greasy fingers and sauce stained mugs smelling like a dirty deed fryer.

It's not charming.

Yet Indian, and Moroccan, and other cuisines have become all the rage, yet those celebrated cultures prefer to eat with their fingers rather than flatware.

However, like all good anal-retentive Westerners, we tend to adopt chopsticks without adopting their native shoveling and bowl-raising methodology. I think it safe to assume anyone eating hand-held foods is likely to use a wash room if towels are not presented at table.

In Mexico, the tortilla's purpose is to prevent the hand from handling wet foods and greasy meats, hence their preference for the soft tortillas. Twentieth century American fast food loved the crunchy corn shells, which are terrible at preventing spillage, but it was the 20th century and washing machines and daily baths had already become a thing.

 

[NotHardUp1]

Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha! Excellent! Truly entertaining.

Of course, the real event had no need, since all thems that ate Cornish pasties were kept below decks until the waters covered them, affording so many seat choices for Madam.

 

[dpnice]

That is enough. I am showing my dislike of a type of food not the people who eat it.

Though I must admit I don’t like eating with my fingers. I even ask for a fork when I am served dessert in a restaurant.

 

[unloadonme]

Though I must admit I don’t like eating with my fingers. I even ask for a fork when I am served dessert in a restaurant.

Do you eat a banana with a knife and fork?

 

[dpnice]

I admit that I am probably a complete snob as far as eating out is concerned. What surprises me is that I didn’t think that the USA has pubs, I thought that was particularly English.

Real pub food is either pies or a ploughmans at lunch. All other suggestions are actually restaurant food.

 

[Cormac135]

That sounds like a pub called Habanas, then a few feet away is Planet, usually filled with "the young in crowd". I would recommend The Regent to you if you enjoy a really decent real ale. They also "host" a different real ale each month, apart from the ones they always have on tap. A very welcoming pub without the pretentious nonsense you tend to find in the bars frequented by the more "effeminate" crowd and their gaggle of female hangers-on.

And plus The Regent allows dogs in.

 

[NotHardUp1]

That is enough. I am showing my dislike of a type of food not the people who eat it.

Though I must admit I don’t like eating with my fingers. I even ask for a fork when I am served dessert in a restaurant.

I think I share that aversion, and the thought of eating soupy foods with my fingers is repulsive to me too.

However, after living in New Mexico and close to the Mexican cuisine, it does feel like the people are being rejected when their food is. Anytime a guest is offered food and he refuses, it stands to give offense for that reason. Despite the many reasons anti-Semitism persists, the only time I have ever felt it was when confronting that barrier about kosher food and seeing the real division it causes when an observing Jewish person or family refuses "unclean" food.

I have no animus for the Jewish people, but somehow other cultures manage to keep alive their cuisines and traditions and cultural identities without deprecating the rest of humanity's food preparations as "unclean."

Anyway, I agree that everyone can't like everything in cuisine. We should get back to the topic, the foods we DO like at pubs.

I love tapas and had them for the first time in Leeds at a restaurant below the library there.

 

[NotHardUp1]

And plus The Regent allows dogs in.

You won't quit trying, that's for sure.

 

[NotHardUp1]

We do have a few, but very few. English fare is only popular here in some areas of New England and any place Canadians spill over the line.

We translate pub to mean microbrewery or bar with bar foods.

"Snob" is only the word we use for anyone with standards higher than ours. It's wholly relative.

 

[Kahaih]

And what culture would Buffalo style chicken wings be from, then?

Keeping in mind, of course, that I have often read that Buffalo, NY is the fat people capital of the US.

 

[NotHardUp1]

No, the fat people capitol is somewhere in the grain-fed upper Midwest where they live on potatoes but now ride tractors instead of plowing with a mule team.

Try Madison, Wisconsin maybe.

Buffalo style chicken wings are not a culture, but a successful marketing strategy, like Tikka Masala from Scotland.

Honestly, although I don't eat Buffalo Hot Wings, my hat's off to the McILenny bunch for pulling it off.

 

[dpnice]

There is a big difference between refusing to eat something when there is a choice and accepting to eat something that your hosts have prepared for you.

No way would I refuse to eat a tacos if I was invitEd and that was on the menu.

To return to subject I never eat pub food. I only choose pubs that have an excellent restaurant which in England is often the case.

 

[johaninsc]

And what culture would Buffalo style chicken wings be from, then?

.

good question


if I had to guess, I would say American bar culture? if there's such a thing?

I remember in my area Buffwings( and other flavors/styles) became a really hot item to serve in bars about 30 years ago; before that, wings were cheap

 

[Kahaih]

. . . .

No way would I refuse to eat a tacos if I was invitEd and that was on the menu.

. . . .

Oh, okay, I see what's going on here . . . You'll happily belly up so long as it's free . . .

 

[NotHardUp1]

To return to subject I never eat pub food. I only choose pubs that have an excellent restaurant which in England is often the case.

I really don't have problems with food snobs, but I think for it to be a matter of taste, you have to have tasted and not preferred a dish or cuisine.

 

[gsdx]

That is enough. I am showing my dislike of a type of food not the people who eat it.

Don't worry about it. Just tell them that you like poutine and watch the comments of disgust fly (along with a plethora of 'vomit' emoticons).

 

[dpnice]

I really don't have problems with food snobs, but I think for it to be a matter of taste, you have to have tasted and not preferred a dish or cuisine.

You are quite right; as our mothers used to say: ‘just try a spoonful, you might like it’.

 

[dpnice]

I really don't have problems with food snobs, but I think for it to be a matter of taste, you have to have tasted and not preferred a dish or cuisine.

Obviously the use of ‘food snob’ implies you do have a problem.

For you are they those who only eat McDonalds because they don’t like fancy food?

Or those who appreciate the talents of highly trained chefs?

Or perhaps those unwilling to adventure into unknown gastronomical fields?

There is a reason for my choice and that is trust. I don’t want something out of the freezer heated up in a microwave with a sauce out of a plastic bucket.