Yeuk

[lil_shepherd]

For several reasons, we didn't have anything out of the freezer for tonight's dinner. As the Maypole now does food - and we used to eat there a lot, enjoying plain and good food - we decided to try it

Comments

[leni_jess]

Sounds like sticking with the place up the road is the plan to be preferred! Boy, what a mess up.

And "can't cook eggs"? Lazy bugger.

[lil_shepherd]

You've been to the 'place up the road' - we wouldn't have taken you to the Maypole in any event!

[leni_jess]

Yes, I remember it well (though its name escapes me). I also remember your telling me that the Maypole was supposed to be back in business as an eatery soon. Disappointing!

[frostfox]

It's really, really hard to ruin gammon (I don't particularly like gammon, and they do get bonus points for fresh pineapple, but lose them for basically, being crap).

FF

[lil_shepherd]

I've cooked fresh pineapple with gammon (I love any form of bacon, normally) but I have to say that tinned pineapple, particularly if you can get it in water rather than syrup, actually works better. For some reason the taste seems stronger.

[madfilkentist]

I had to look gammon up, having encountered the term only in the sense of "nonsense" (in an Agatha Christie novel). We just call it ham over here.

[lil_shepherd]

'Gammon ham' - but we tend to use 'gammon' when fried or grilled and served hot, and 'ham' when we mean pre-cooked, sliced and served cold (as 'ham and eggs', for instance.)

[birdsedge]

I've ordered ham and eggs in the USA, expecting a nice gammon steak, and been served with slices of cold boiled ham and fried eggs. Not my idea of ham and eggs. Terminology of food between the US and the UK is a minefield. I've served USians gammon joints here and they've asked 'What's that?'. 'It's salty pig,' I explain, 'Like bacon but from the thick end of the back leg.' That's about as close as I can get, or, 'Like a Virginia Ham but served hot.' They still look at me and shake their head a little - until they taste it!

[lil_shepherd]

I think this is a North/South thing in the UK. I had the same experience, but in the South of England. I am now used to 'Ham and Eggs and Chips' meaning sliced cold ham, two poached eggs and chips. Our local pub does an excellent version.

[starcat_jewel]

Sounds like someone's just begging for a food-allergy lawsuit somewhere down the road. Enough people have fish allergies that cooking anything on the same grill with fish without cleaning it first is a Really Bad Idea.

[fjm]

Yep. Not allergic but like Lil_Shepherd can make me feel very unwell.

[lil_shepherd]

I had a dreadful time with school dinners as a child, because they (teachers, dinner ladies) would not believe how much I hated fish. (As they would also not believe that I was allergic to sticking plaster.) What's more, at my junior school, you weren't allowed water with your meal.

I have learned to like a lot of things that I didn't like as a child, and was hoping the fish thing had worn off too. Unfortunately, my 'try it once every ten years or so' policy and mental brainwashing ("You will like this. You will like this.") has never worked. A whole mass of culinary experience denied to me. Oddly, I can keep down salmon and trout, though I don't enjoy them, and I love shellfish!

[munchkinofdoom]

Yikes!

And, personally, if a place can't do a proper soft poached egg I don't want to know them.