Eggs

[Yex]

Just looked up how to make scotch eggs. My brothers and sisters across the pond are genius! The most innovative use of a fryer that my American brethren can come up with is frying a snicker bar…gag.

No one's really lived until they've tried my 3 day roasted beef. Hard to explain what condensing 10litres of beer & leg over the stove for that long does, like a sweet garlicky savoury rich smokey syrup glaze.

Been meaning to have my other half dig me a hole in the clay to try it in an earth oven. Maybe this year

Edit:
Got lost in my own head; meant to say, "yeah we cook so bad it's good over here"

 

[Aramsolari]

No one's really lived until they've tried my 3 day roasted beef. Hard to explain what condensing 10litres of beer & leg over the stove for that long does, like a sweet garlicky savoury rich smokey syrup glaze.

Been meaning to have my other half dig me a hole in the clay to try it in an earth oven. Maybe this year

Edit:
Got lost in my own head; meant to say, "yeah we cook so bad it's good over here"

Mate...best food I had when I was in the was in the UK years ago was Indian food in East London. A nice lamb Biryani from some place off Brick Lane. Arguably some of the best food I had in that European trip. Granted I spent quite a bit of time in Central and Eastern Europe and it was meat, potatoes, and meat/potatoes wrapped in dough. How many damn versions of pierogi/perogy/varenyky are there!?

 

[Mudhawk]

Best food I had in the UK was a cake called "Death by Chocolate".
Aptly named too I'd say.
Chocolate splitters in a cocoa infused dough drenched in chocolate sauce and garnished with all kinds of chocolate
based decorations.
You gain 5 pounds before the first bite.
Totaly worth it though.

 

[NomadicHavoc]

Mate...best food I had when I was in the was in the UK years ago was Indian food in East London. A nice lamb Biryani from some place off Brick Lane. Arguably some of the best food I had in that European trip. Granted I spent quite a bit of time in Central and Eastern Europe and it was meat, potatoes, and meat/potatoes wrapped in dough. How many damn versions of pierogi/perogy/varenyky are there!?

The best food that my wife and I had in England was also Indian food outa Richmond. Mmmm tasty goodness.

 

[BUTUZ]

Best food I have in Wales (which is next door to England) is BEEERRR

 

[NomadicHavoc]

My wife works with someone from Wales. Talk about 2 peas in a pod.

 

[Lorddarthvik]

Looked up what an actual scotch egg is supposed to be and I like the idea! We have something similar here which is basically the same just not balls but a larger "loaf", it could include multiple eggs in a row in the middle. It's called "Stefania vagdalt" (cut/mince). It's good stuff, works great cold as well, with some beers and palinka!

Best food I had in the UK was either in a Steak House (the chain restaurant), or some italian chain restaurant, in London. This was back 20 years ago, haven't been there since.
Close second was McDonalds, but somehow even that was worse then here.
The rest was.... let's just say I can understand why you been trying to colonize and live in other places all your lives lol

 

[Aramsolari]

Close second was McDonalds, but somehow even that was worse than here.

McDonalds….that’s a Scottish restaurant right?

 

[Lorddarthvik]

McDonalds….that’s a Scottish restaurant right?

So your saying that the Big Mac is just Scotch Eggs gone flat cos they removed eggs?

 

[Raven_King]

Love these. (They're not named for Scotland, though.) Scotland has invented plenty of other excellent foods, and some of them aren't even deep-fried.

 

[Thalstan]

Best food I have in Wales (which is next door to England) is BEEERRR

Penderyn Whisky isn't bad either (Welsh Whisky, abd distinct from the Irish or Scottish versions)

Really wanting to go to the UK and maybe Ireland at some point.

 

[BUTUZ]

Penderyn Whisky isn't bad either (Welsh Whisky, abd distinct from the Irish or Scottish versions)

Really wanting to go to the UK and maybe Ireland at some point.

Just up the road from me mate! Sadly I've never been a whisky guy since my dads 50th when we drank 2 bottles and both almost died. The hangover was worse than death lol.

Dad still loves a whisky though fair play to him.

If you do make it to Wales hit me up there's beer and whisky a plenty and sheep too if your into that sort of thing.

 

[Yex]

sheep too if your into that sort of thing.

"When in Wales"

Really wanting to go to the UK and maybe Ireland at some point.

Ah the UK is like okayish; Scotland if you minus Edinburgh isn't really the UK. Ireland however is the bees knees and the cats pyjama's if you know what I mean. If you temper your expectation that it's a shit hole, but it's our shite hole, then you'll get why it's gas.

Don't worry about taking your shoes off on the way in, we don't

 

[NomadicHavoc]

McDonalds….that’s a Scottish restaurant right?

You are darn tootin’ it is! McDonalds is rooted in Scotland at least. Please take a knee and listen to a tale so strange it has to be true.

Ronald McDonald from the clan McDonald was raised in the Scottish Highlands off the purple teat of his wet nurse Grimace. Baby Ronald‘s first words were in fact “I’m loving it!” But too much purple milkshake unfortunately resulted in a rare skin condition. Banished from his clan, he could only find work as a rodeo clown. Just scraping by on his meager rodeo earnings he fell in with a Hamburglar. Seduced by a life of crime, the duo robbed people of their hard earned hamburgers up and down the inlets and lochs of Scottland. Cornered on the beaches of Edinburgh, Ronald paid passage to the Americas with the aid of his childhood friend Captain Crook. There he prospered by feeding Americans two all beef patties, special sauce, lettuce, cheese, pickles, onions on a sesame-seed bun.

And now when you’re warming yourself by campfire you can tell the little known but true story of the clan McDonalds shunned clown. A clown who turned to crime, and used those ill gotten gains to harden the arteries and souls of the USA.

 

[Mudhawk]

Ah the UK is like okayish; Scotland if you minus Edinburgh isn't really the UK. Ireland however is the bees knees and the cats pyjama's if you know what I mean. If you temper your expectation that it's a shit hole, but it's our shite hole, then you'll get why it's gas.

Well, I did travel from southern Germany across Belgium and over to Dover.
I drove along the southern coast , through Cornwall and Wales and then took the Ferry to the Emerald Island.
Again along the southern roads, towards Kerry and from there towards the Cliffs of Moher.
(On route one diabolic sheep tried to lure me into the abyss by standing on a rock in the clouds. Could have fooled me but I wasn't a TEST member yet so I did not dare to stray from the roads.)
I forced my way through the fishermen by the lakes in the middle ("My gran'daughter calls em Punkfish. Because of them finns.") and then through Northern Ireland over to Scotland.
Then back south and home I rode.
So you can easily tell that I am an expert in British and Irish geography and culture.
And through that travel, if I had to pick a place that was the worst, most digusting sh*thole of a dump, I'd name Belgium.
Ireland was nice even though I could name at least 3 near death experiences caused by public transportation.
2 by sheep.
And one by stupidly playing the Wolftones on the tapedeck while riding through Northern Ireland.
Fun times...