Returning Home

humbert

So, I've been living in Korea for the last year and I'll be returning home next month. I can't make up my mind what delicious greasy food to start with.

I've had a very infrequent Indian and some great eating at an Uzbek restaurant with some Baltika 9. They have Leffe, Hoegaarden, Paulaner and Guinness in the supermarkets but other than that it's been veg and morsel of meat. I've lost over 10 Kg and I was a sliver of a man at 80 Kg to start with. It's been lean.

I've missed chips, big fat greasy chips, something awful. Covered in glutinous heart attack inducing chipper curry. I'm arriving late so I may start with that and a Westmalle tripel. The next morning will surely start with a full fry and a cup of thick, well stewed in the pot, tea. For dinner and tea (us being rural folk) they rest faithfully in my good mother's hands.

After this I'm at a bit of a loss and I would hate to squander that golden period when everything is as marvellous through absence as when it first touched my lips. I think I'm in the right place for advice?

trout

First of all ... welcome home.

Fat, greasy chips + curry sauce, followed by top class beer ... why that's always good. I would follow this up with several spice burgers, batter burgers, battered sausages and some garlic mushrooms (which count as 2 of yore 5 a day). Washed down with some more beer.

For morning times, you can't really go wrong with the full fry, so long as there are plenty of bacon, beans, pudding(s) and toast.

In terms of easing back into it ... fupp that, you have lost body mass which is vital to your appreciation of beer. I would encourage you to sample everything & anything that ever tickled yore foodish fancy; you will find that your body "knows" what it needs most, and you will be directed to kebabbers & chippers and purveyors of pork by-products ... go with the flow ... don't fight it.

Go for it. Take pictures of yore delicious epicurean journey & re-discovery. Post back and let us know how you get on.

myflipflops

I'll be back for 2 weeks in August for the first time since last September. Every trip home is preceded by a month or 2 deciding what to eat (or more accurately, in what order to eat everything). Order will kick off something like this:

A cup of damn strong Lyons tea (2 bags per cup) the moment i step foot in the front door
A couple of pints of plain with the old man
Dinner box from the superb local chipper with a battered sausage for dessert
Fry up the next morning
Ocean burger (from ocean bar on Charlotte Quay dock) for lunch
Whatever the mother is kind enough to cook for dinner as she insists on it. Her lasagna is a favorite
More pints

This covers the first 36 hours or so. All of the above is put slightly out of sync if I happen to arrive on a Sunday afternoon in which case the biggest f*ck off roast dinner you can imagine will be put in front of me.

trout

myflipflops wrote: »

... Every trip home is preceded by a month or 2 deciding what to eat (or more accurately, in what order to eat everything)

myflipflops wrote: »

... battered sausage for dessert

This is wisdom. Well earned wisdom ... the kind you just cannot fake.

UrbanSea

Knowledge is knowing if a tomato is a fruit or vegetable.
Wisdom is not forgetting the sauce with your battered sausages.

humbert

Thank ye kindly for all the solid advice. The battered sausage had completely slipped my mind.

Things began as planned with each greasy delicacy more delicious than I could have imagined during my exile. However and to my embarrassment on the third day I was laid low by paroxysmal heartburn. Having never been victim to this heinous affliction before I continued unabated but henceforth with each nibble or tipple it followed to scourge me. This led me in a somewhat panicked state to rifle through the medicine cupboard and discover Rennie. I did hesitate briefly upon remembering an ad with strong connotations of masturbating firemen but needs must and down the hatch they went.

This heralded a happy ending to the story and by now I think I'm fully readjusted having just finished a mouthwatering bacon and strong cheddar cheese on toast brunch. Bacon is truly the king of all foods.

the culture of deference

Mc Cambridges brown bread with lovely cheddar cheese toasted, Batch bread with king crisps. Macaris chips with batch.

+1 on the fry ups

pop up to burdocks and get a load of scratchings on your chips (with batch)

Aisling(",)

A big greasy fry will cure all that ails ya!

and fried bread won't do ya any harm,

sheesh

Some one mentioned it there

a couple of rounds of cheese on toast with ham or bacon would really set you right forget the brown bread just go with white toasted on one side butter on the untoasted side then bacon then as much cheese as you think you can get on top under the grill.


oh don't forget cheesey chips


I really think that you might need to make your own burgers size is imporant.

Corvo

Don't forget the late night/midnight snack. No point in eating all this delicious food during the day and sleeping through the night. Why, thats a waste of good eating time.

Good, heavily buttered toast and a strong cup of tea is a favourite of mine. Coffee if your a mad bas**rd. of course.