Mince Pies

holy hell I love me some Doners. Spent a few years in Germany, and as you said, they sop up the beer quite nicely. However, they have forever tainted my taste for Gyro's.

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Hurrah! But I never doubted that you would be a man of discerning tastes. 20 year old single malt. So it claims. Double Yum with knobs on.But they have all gone now. Roll on next Christmas.

Off topic!!Hah - Only kiddin. Any old meat discussion will do. Or any other food related talk for that matter.Yes - Doner kebabs are indeed the staple of the drunken Brit. I have had more than my share over the years. Dubious quality but very tasty all the same.On the subject of strange meat - I have purposefully eaten dog (in Vietnam) as well as worms (in an omlette). I have eaten ants covered in chocolate (in Cambodia) but drew the line at roaches, locusts and grubs.I will eat practically anything except insects or custard.

Most males below the age of 25 after about six pints. It's frightening how good all that looks under those conditions.

I admire your enthusiasm. Indeedy.But only at Christmas

Ouch! That was a low blow.But funny all the same. I know you don't mean it really you secret cricket fan you.

Corrected that for you due to the bolded section.Have you had frog's legs and/or snails? Our staff canteen had them for Bastille day one year (and one of the only days I was ever in the staff canteen at the same time lunch was being served) - surprisingly lovely.I also ate a tax-free Alligator on a stick (not a whole one) while visiting the New Orleans side of my family.When I was a hyper experimental student I even had a pot noodle a few times.For the record, I hate custard. And mince pies.

I'm Canadian.
I know what you're talking about. Kinda.
I've never had a mince pie.But, if it doesn't have chocolate and peanut butter in it, then it's not going to be the best dessert, it would be impossible.Something happens when you put chocolate and peanut butter together. Something magical, unquantifiable, and phenomenal.I think that the unspeakable beauty of the beyond-flavour taste that is chocolate and peanut butter proves the existance of God. This pie drags mince meat pies out into the street and shoots them. Right in the ass. Then watches and laughs as the mince meat rots and returns to the dust from whence it came. All before breakfast. All pies bow to it's dominance!

Well having done ants and drawn the line there on the insect front I will give any further insectoid gastronomic experiences a miss. A couple of times each. Frogs legs - weird looking things but OK tasting. Snails - Once so garliccy that I may as well have been eating garlic coated in garlic. The second time I wasn't that keen on what I assume to have been the actual taste of the snails. I have never had alligator. Tax free or otherwise. Croc and roo in Aus. I have eaten grilled iguana (or some other simlar lizard) in Guyana. It ran past the bar I was in. Someone chased it, grabbed it and a couple of hours later we were eating it. Quite nice actually. You are sick. Good man. Boo hiss

I have to admit that even though I'm well over 25, and even though I find those displays absolutely disgusting, I am still prone to eating the occasional kebab (yes, after about 6 pints).The one I really can't understand, though, is Fish & Chips, because it's something you normally eat sober. It must be the most overrated indulgence of all time - except, of course, for sex.

We seem to have found the subject about which the resident atheists can exercise their inherent religious fervour. Sounds gross. Frankly. I spit on your paltry pie. I mince it up into litle bits and feed it to the dogs who turn their nose up at it because it isn't as good as my mince pie. Hah!There can be only one true pie. And it is mine! Is this where we each write our own 'one true recipe book', gather together a mass of followers who spend the next few hundred years fighting each other in the name of the almighty pie?

You aren't doing it right. The secret is in the vinegar.But with regard to fish and chips - Yeah overrated.

I've never eaten one or know anyone who has and what's more, I've never even seen one. Judging by the reaction of a few resident American EvC members, I think it might be more of a tradition found in New England that was brought from England. Even though I live in N.E. now, I'm not from here and I have no dealings with mincepies.

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"Facts are stubborn things; and whatever may be our wishes, our inclinations, or the dictates of our passions, they cannot alter the state of facts and evidence." --John Adams

I once saw "pork organ fried rice" on a menu in Singapore. What bothered me was that the previous ten or so entries had been for fried rice with pretty much every pig organ that I would have even briefly considered trying.

Hi CoraypsWhile we're on the subject of various types of food from around the world, it gives me the opportunity to ask what that "grits" stuff is that is y'all seem to love over there?