ray winstone
5:58 Tue Jul 23
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Darlo Debs 5:55 Tue Jul 23
True dat.
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Toe Rag
5:56 Tue Jul 23
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I read somewhere that the Pacific Islanders were prone to fatness because it was only the fatties that survived the huge ocean journeys between islands whilst the skinny ones all starved to death or were eaten by their porkier canoe mates.
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Darlo Debs
5:55 Tue Jul 23
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mushy peas are the diarrhoea of satan
.Fact
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gph
5:53 Tue Jul 23
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Even mushy peas are different in different places. I like the good version. The bad version has got too much bicarb in.
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ironsofcanada
5:52 Tue Jul 23
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I fervently tried but I cannot get myself to enjoy the overripe peas that are used for mushy peas.
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Darlo Debs
5:50 Tue Jul 23
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geep its the culture of pie and peas that i object to. The pies themselves are usually ok.
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ironsofcanada
5:46 Tue Jul 23
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As someone said well back there are decent pies everywhere, (even under the non-colonial meaning of the word)
This one is really good, as the potato is less noticeable (my personal taste, don't like starch on starch) thought game ones are great as well.
https://www.foodnetwork.ca/recipe/tourtiere-de-ville/8699/
If you want something else decadent try this guy's Foie gras poutine, if only once (feel my arteries harden at the thought.)
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gph
5:46 Tue Jul 23
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Geographical pieology is much more fine-grained than North vs South.
You can eat decent pies a stone's throw from places that serve terrible ones.
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Darlo Debs
5:38 Tue Jul 23
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Noooo southern pies deffo.better and we have the sense to.eat them.with mash and not just peas. These people are philistines.
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Manuel
5:35 Tue Jul 23
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geoffpikey 8:13 Sun Jul 21
Did you ever hear the story when Chelsea played at Wigan and Abramovich turned down a pie that he was offered?
In an intriguing and unique insight into Chelsea’s reclusive owner, back in the headlines for his merciless sacking of Champions League-winning manager Roberto Di Matteo, Whelan recalled the day the Russian came calling.
I offered him a Wigan pie but he must have thought it had been poisoned
“It was our first game in the Premier League and he came up by helicopter,” Whelan explained.
“He’d already sent three men up on the Wednesday and another two on the Friday. I was letting him land about 300 yards from the ground and would lay on a car to pick him up.
“But he had his own car sent up from London, one which was bullet-proof. It picked him up and brought him to the stadium.
“Once he arrived, he stood in a corner of the boardroom. He wouldn’t move out of the corner and wouldn’t have anything to eat or drink.
“I offered him a Wigan pie but he must have thought it had been poisoned!
“He wouldn’t even have a glass of water because he had brought his own water with him. Then he went out to watch the match with six bodyguards around him.
“The only words he said to me came after the game, when he asked, ‘How long before I can go?’ I told him he would have to give it 10 or 15 minutes to let the crowd go.
“Then it was off into his bullet-proof car and back to his helicopter. I’ve never seen him when I have gone to Chelsea. He never comes to say hello.
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Thames Ironworks
10:40 Tue Jul 23
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Northern food is shite, mushy f*cking peas!!
Pies down south are definitely better. You have a choice of pasties in the West Country, which is basically a different shaped pie, pie and liquor (COME ON), pork and cider and beef and ale.
Pies were generally a food stuff for sailors, and with the concept coming from the med it was first introduced via the South.
As always Northerners just pinched the idea.
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geoffpikey
10:17 Mon Jul 22
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Point of order: a Yorkshire Pudding is not a 'pie".
Yes, I am THAT bored.
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Fivetide
2:52 Mon Jul 22
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https://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/giant-yorkshire-pudding-sunday-lunch
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Nurse Ratched
2:48 Mon Jul 22
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Eus
That is probably the best idea any human has ever had in the whole of your species' history.
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eusebiovic
2:46 Mon Jul 22
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A roast beef dinner inside a Yorkshire pudding the size of a dinner plate is a nice memory that I have of a trip to Leeds many years ago...
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claypole
6:06 Mon Jul 22
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I would think hollowing out a loaf of bread and then tipping in 2 litres of tango and having that for breakfast before going to school would be a cause of diabetes for the islanders.
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East Auckland Hammer
5:33 Mon Jul 22
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The Pacific Islanders are a little bit hard done by anyway, because I think they're genetically geared towards retaining fat and being big people.
There's also the cultural, societal belief that bigger is better. They celebrate by eating. Their whole culture is based around food and communal eating, and they didn't have any issues when they used to just eat fresh vegetables and fish they'd caught, but since they've become westernised, they've really struggled. I think the two fattest countries in the world are Tonga and Samoa. They are also probably the highest per capita consumers of all the bad foods - the fatty meats, the soft drinks etc.
The obesity epidemic in the Pacific is outrageous, and as I said, we send them all the shit food, then send them money for their health system to treat the effects. It's madness. Or, we treat them all when they live in NZ, but once again, we are both the cause and the solution in a lot of cases.
NZ is getting more and more obese, but it's somewhat skewed by the Pacific Islander population that resides here. That's not to say that the Maoris and Euopeans aren't also getting fatter, but the Polynesians make up a gigantic proportion of the overweight people here.
If they ate more pies, instead of corned beef, they'd be fine.
Pork belly is lovely because of the fat content, but you couldn't eat it every day, or you'd end up the size of a house.....or a Pacific Islander.
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lab
4:53 Mon Jul 22
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EAH , yeah mutton flaps ,breast of lamb ( or mutton) and yes makes kebabs over here. If people saw the fat in it's first stage of production they would probably ask for a pitta stuffed with salad.tbh I'm surprised nz makes good pies , I don't know why I just didn't put nz and cardiac arresting food together ! Corned beef is a crap product for sure , I bet it's full of BSE. When I worked in a butchers near Sandhurst there was a high Nepalese population , to do with military academy ,Gurkhas , it's a long story. Anyway they loved fatty meat , fatty pork mince to make Momo . Fatty pork belly ( same cut as breast of lamb but pig) for pork ribs which they would love to BBQ, you didn't dare cut any fat off!!
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East Auckland Hammer
4:37 Mon Jul 22
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Tinned corned beef is a massive contributor to diabetes in the Pacific Island.
That and high-fat off-cuts of meat like mutton flaps are imported from NZ (and to a lesser degree Australia), and the Samoans (in particular) love
them.
I think it's the same sort of crap meat that goes into those awful doner kebabs you people eat.
We do send 50 times as much to China though.
Seems a little silly for us to supply them with such disgraceful food, and then send them aid money to treat their diabetes symptoms.
Pies though, NZ makes the best pies in the world.
A pie from a petrol station here is better than any single pie I ever bought in the UK.
Apart from pork pies, they're great over there.
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Leonard Hatred
2:55 Mon Jul 22
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gph
That's why folk started paying attention to sell by dates.
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Mart O
2:54 Mon Jul 22
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It remains one of life great mysteries that anyone would choose to eat tinned corn beef in this day and age. Can't see much difference to dog food. Revolting.
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