Can't defend yourself at home in UK???!

[edededed]

Indian food is just good - they sure know how to use spices and yoghurt.

I had some Chinese, Thai, and Indian food at the UK as well - the Indian was authentic as was the Thai, and the Chinese was good in some places, but not so good in others (like the cheap noodle joints). America also messes up Chinese food often when done by non-Chinese places - terrible stir fry, for example.

I looked for the legendary mushroom ketchup, but I never found it... Send some my way

[mrtoes]

I didn't like Chinese food in China and I sure don't like it here

[Teazer]

Do you mean pork scratchings? A bar snack classic!

...chicken itchings, doggy scabs....

[shawnsegler]

I think there are places that do "american chinese food" pretty well. I think it's something you had to grow up with to enjoy though.

S- likes him some pork chow mein and general tso's chicken.

[Chris Fleming]

The UK is a neo-totalitarian, socialist police state where anything you want to do is forbidden since you might be a terrorist, pedophile, or swine flue carrier, you can't take pictures or protest in public, you can't own a gun or defend yourself—even within the confines of your own home—and the freedom to even breathe without taxation is being taken away at this very moment by Gordon Brown at his command, ie., carbon tax to be implemented in spite of failure to ratify Copenhagen treaty.

The US is just 3-4 years behind the UK implementation in most aspects, but they ain't getting our guns so it's nuts to them.

There was also a clip online where a person was in their own back yard video taping something. Two of those foot patrol UK cops spot him, come into his yard, and demand to know what he is doing! I believe they eventually left but not after a long confrontation where they demanded to know why he was filming in his own yard and wanting to take his details and whatnot.

[Steve James]

I haven't been back to London in a decade, but even now I don't think anyone ever goes there for the food. There's great food there, particularly if you go to someone's home. When I was there, there were very few, if any, good English restaurants that served English food. There were good restaurants, but ... they were usually pricey. This is not to mention pub grub, though I got to say you could get pretty good fish and chips. That, imo, is one big difference. The food at American diners can be ok (i.e., better than just edible, and sometimes really good). The ordinary food in London (i.e., at the places the working class ate) wasn't that great. I remember the microwaved eggs and beans, in particular. Maybe I could just say that English "fast food" wasn't that appetizing. Don't know why, either. In other countries, the street food or bar food can be as good or better than eating in a restaurant. Again, this isn't intended as a real dig at English food at all. Most of my friends there were good cooks --who rarely ate out :

I wonder if eating in London's restos is still the same. When I was there, it seemed like they wanted the customers to feed and flee.

[Steve James]

Hold up your hand if you'd want Cheney riding shotgun.

[Michael]

The only place I want Cheney is in the defendant's chair at his trial for murder and treason. Sorry, can't be glib when it comes that particular murdering bastard.

[RobP2]

[yusuf]

:) Hold up your hand if you'd want Cheney riding shotgun.

i'm seriously going to invent a cocktail called the cheney shotgun.. with enough weird alcohol it will blow anyones face off