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Started by eliot, 11:58, 05 June 12

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Gryzor

 Still, we're talking about food... dipped... in fat. Yikes. Plus, sure, but what percentage of cooks calibrates their equipment?


As for olive oil, who said anything about olive oil? :D Of course you can calibrate your temperature and it will be just as healthy as it is delicious (but very heavy for the stomach), but for deep-frying there's vegetable oil...


Don't get me wrong - I love my steak with its fat and all, but a pot full of fat and my food swimming in it... hell no. You should see what your blood looks like after a few bites of this - cholesterol values are through the roof...


Then again I'm no great dietary expert and maybe it's the difference in cuisines that grosses me out. So apologies if I'm wildly off the mark!

Sykobee (Briggsy)

I thought frying in lard was the exception these days in the UK! Certainly everyone I know that deep fries uses Corn Oil or similar (rapeseed?). [size=78%]And you're still meant to drain the fried product thoroughly :-)[/size]


I can't imagine eating something cooked in lard these days, but I think animal fats were standard in many places until the 80s and 90s. Probably still are in some countries!

TotO

#77
Potatoes frying in goose fat, with ail and persil.
You don't know what you miss... :D

(far better than my fish & chips and the cheese cake that I eat in London 3 days ago)
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beaker

Quote from: TotO on 15:36, 09 July 12
Potates frying in goose fat, with ail and persil.
You don't know what you miss... :D

(far better than my fish & chips and the cheese cake that I eat in London 3 days ago)

Oh yeah, potatoes in goose fat is the only way to do roast tatties  :D 
By Persil, do you mean the cleaning detergent?

Yeah, chippies in the UK are a bit hit or miss these days. Just not the same since you had to change the fat more regularly and couldn't serve them in old newspaper. Really used to add to the taste. I used to enjoy walking miles from Longniddry to Port Seton to get some fresh fish when I was 4 or 5 and as a treat we would have a small cone of chips and stopped off and had a go on the out door trampolines opposite the caravan park on the way back weather permitting  :D

MaV

Quote from: beaker on 15:52, 09 July 12
By Persil, do you mean the cleaning detergent?
Ugh. No, persil is French for parsley. ;)
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Gryzor

Mmmm, animal fat and newspaper ink and recycled third-grade paper, now THAT's cuisine! :D


I didn't say it's not yummy (probably is once you get accustomed to the grease), but I just can't bring myself to eat such foodstuff. Having seen what my centrifuged blood looks like after I've eaten some fat, I'd be imagining all the damage each single bite does to my cardiovascular...

beaker

Quote from: MaV on 16:05, 09 July 12
Ugh. No, persil is French for parsley. ;)

I thought it may have been a new recipe from Heston Bloomer  :laugh:

Quote from: Gryzor on 16:25, 09 July 12
Mmmm, animal fat and newspaper ink and recycled third-grade paper, now THAT's cuisine! :D

Don't forget the lashings of salt and malt vinegar from a bottle that doesn't look like it's ever been washed...  :)  Oh and the pickled egg and Savloy on the side...

Quote from: Bryce on 11:01, 07 July 12
And we haven't started to mention such traditional delicacies as "Jellied Eels" or "Scotch Eggs" :D  They make any foreigner think twice about what they order.


Ohhh, can't beat a nice Scotch Egg and Melton Mowbray Pork Pie with the one lettuce leaf that constitutes a salad  :P

eliot

Quote from: MaV on 10:31, 05 July 12
Yes, a few more non-French CPC enthusiasts would greatly benefit the community. See what the French community is up to and exchange ideas. Meet people in person rather than reading posts on the 'net.

I've been asking myself why no English frequent the party? Geographically, Coutances is very close to England and especially people from Kent, London up to Cornwall can easily take a ferry to one of the coastal towns in Normandy or Brittany and then go by bus or train.
Even the weather is the same, you'll feel right at home. ;)
You're right, it's benefit to meet people! :)
Past years, Nich (cpcgamereviews.com) and Optimus/Dirty Minds came from UK via ferries to Cherbourg then bus to the ReSeT place.
World Record to Voxfreax who came 2 times and to Exin who came in the different past french meeting (ReSeT, Croco Chanel and Castellum) and in the international demoparties.


Quote from: TotO on 08:36, 05 July 12
In ReSeT, I only see and spoke with interesting peoples. A real CPC comunity.
Peoples that doing new stuff on a old computer to keep it alive.

Thanks to them and long live to the ReSeT !
Nothing to add! Thanks TotO...

Sykobee (Briggsy)

#83
Quote from: TotO on 15:36, 09 July 12
Potates frying in goose fat, with ail and persil.
You don't know what you miss... :D

(far better than my fish & chips and the cheese cake that I eat in London 3 days ago)

Living in London I can tell you that getting good Fish and Chips is very difficult, especially anywhere touristy. Bunch of rip-off merchants. Some of them don't even know how to cook chips, never mind how to get the batter right.
Go to a seaside town with a long-term fishing heritage (e.g., Whitby) and try the Fish and Chips there. It's a different experience entirely!


Potatoes roasted in goose fat is great, but not a long term healthy diet! :-) I generally roast veg in olive oil now (for potatoes it is all about the parboiling beforehand anyway).

beaker

Or Padstow. Nice chippy on the sea front and the best fruit de mer I've ever had in Rick Stein's restaurant.

rexbeng

Can somebody please delete Eliot's post? It's absolutely offtopic  :P

rb

Gryzor

Hahaha great one :D

MacDeath

#87
Please, I love fat stuffs but my already clogged arteries don't.

Also, you english peeples eat chips ?

Which ones : CRTC ? Gate Array ? AY ? RAM, ROM ?
You use fat instead of Flux to solder them ?

;D


Funny/puny to see a topic about a French Party too derive that way into food topic...
all of you rest of the world must eat badly actually...
I bet Gordon RAMsay had a CPC in the past.


Belgium friets, done with Horse Fat...
My Little Pony : the power of French-chips.


(yeay, puns everywhere, not sure anyone can undertand them...)

Bryce

Quote from: MacDeath on 21:16, 15 July 12
Also, you english peeples eat chips ?

Which ones : CRTC ? Gate Array ? AY ? RAM, ROM ?
You use fat instead of Flux to solder them ?

;D

Well at least they don't solder insects to the PCB, like the French do! Those poor fleas! :)

Bryce.

arnoldemu

what the flux are you both on about?

every now and then I scrape the solid fat deposits from the circuit board, the cpc appreciates it.
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arnoldemu

#90
if you get offended... look away now ;)

description of a brit amstrad user:

- has an unexpanded 464
- has a green screen
- enjoys waiting for games to load so they can sit there and eat their chips
- wears a shell suite, hair is messy and filled with chip fat.
- has deep fried mars bars for pudding
- drinking cheap white lightning cider.

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Bryce

.... And doesn't speak a word of French (or any other foreign language for that matter).


Microchip in French = Puce which also means Flea (and bullet point, they really need some more new words in French :) )

Bryce.

TotO

#92
Quote from: Bryce on 09:30, 16 July 12Microchip in French = Puce which also means Flea (and bullet point, they really need some more new words in French :) )
Not exactly.

Puce = Chip
Micro-puce = Microchip
Circuit intégré (CI) = Integrated circuit (IC)
...

Sorry but we don't need more than the english use. ;)
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Bryce

But Puce still means flea and bullet-point :)

Bryce.

Sykobee (Briggsy)

At least with computers they don't have to spend all their time capturing real fleas and superglueing them to documents.


Anyway, my first CPC was a 464 with green screen! But I never owned a shell suit...

TotO

Quote from: Bryce on 11:01, 16 July 12
But Puce still means flea and bullet-point :)
Congratulation Bryce!
You discovered homonyms!!!  ;D
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Bryce

Yes, I have issues with my homonyms sometimes, especially in summer, when the girls are wearing very short skirts :D

Bryce.

beaker

Quote from: arnoldemu on 09:07, 16 July 12
if you get offended... look away now ;)

description of a brit amstrad user:

- has an unexpanded 464
- has a green screen
- enjoys waiting for games to load so they can sit there and eat their chips
- wears a shell suite, hair is messy and filled with chip fat.
- has deep fried mars bars for pudding
- drinking cheap white lightning cider.
Quote from: Bryce on 09:30, 16 July 12
.... And doesn't speak a word of French (or any other foreign language for that matter).

Oh no, this means I was (almost) a complete stereotype in my grey shell suite and white basketball trainers! I even got an E grade in French at GCSE which I think I got for just turning up at the exam. The only differences are I had a colour monitor and drank those small bottles of cheap French beer you used to buy in Sainsbury's (£5 for 24 bottles or something like that).... Only towards the end did I get my 64k RAM pack.

Sykobee (Briggsy)

I remember those little "Continental Lager" 250ml bottles that Sainsbury's sold. Those were the days before I discovered proper ale.

MaV

Quote from: Bryce on 13:34, 16 July 12
Yes, I have issues with my homonyms sometimes, especially in summer, when the girls are wearing very short skirts :D
Talking about homonyms, doesn't the beaver trapping season end before summer? :P
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