What's it all about? Seriously. FFS.

endacl

Right. It's about time somebody came out and said it. A&A isn't really about A&A, is it. It's about food. There's rarely a day a thread is started, whether by a regular poster or well intentioned visitor, that doesn't almost immediately descend into petty points scoring over which biscuit is best, or who makes the fancypantsiest bacon and cabbage, or whether atheism might be compared to ice cream (although in the interests of fair play, I must admit some small part in sparking that one...).

I mean, what are we doing here? Where's the militancy, the righteous anger?!? The, dare I say it, staunchness? Actually, staunchness is probably a good choice of word. As was pointed out in a thread of yore, it sounds a bit fat, and regular posters do come across as a little to fond of their grub...

So, what's to be done? A sub forum dedicated to serious conversation, where serious posters might be accommodated? Instant bans for food related posts? We need ideas people. I feel we may not be taking this seriously enough.

Or....... Pizza night? Who's in?

Brian Shanahan

I'm eating a lovely Jalfrezi I cooked on Saturday right now. If that helps.

Bannasidhe

endacl wrote: »

Right. It's about time somebody came out and said it. A&A isn't really about A&A, is it. It's about food. There's rarely a day a thread is started, whether by a regular poster or well intentioned visitor, that doesn't almost immediately descend into petty points scoring over which biscuit is best, or who makes the fancypantsiest bacon and cabbage, or whether atheism might be compared to ice cream (although in the interests of fair play, I must admit some small part in sparking that one...).

I mean, what are we doing here? Where's the militancy, the righteous anger?!? The, dare I say it, staunchness? Actually, staunchness is probably a good choice of word. As was pointed out in a thread of yore, it sounds a bit fat, and regular posters do come across as a little to fond of their grub...

So, what's to be done? A sub forum dedicated to serious conversation, where serious posters might be accommodated? Instant bans for food related posts? We need ideas people. I feel we may not be taking this seriously enough.

Or....... Pizza night? Who's in?

I will ponder what you have said over a late lunch and get back to you.

endacl

Damn. Now I'm hungry. Way to derail a perfectly good thread folks...

kylith

Totally up for pizza night, if I can commit blasphemy by asking for pineapple.

Brian Shanahan

MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

lazygal

I'll say it. I like Hawaiian pizza. I don't care who knows it.

endacl

OK. So it's a food thread...



Hawaiian pizza? I personally have no problem with this, once its a pizza prepared in Hawaii. With no pineapple. Pineapple's only proper place is perched atop a gammon steak.

Bannasidhe

lazygal wrote: »

I'll say it. I like Hawaiian pizza. I don't care who knows it.

I support your right to like pineapple on pizza even if I think that it is disgusting.

Sarky

Some nice lasagne for me tonight, I think.

I was introduced by a friend to a German chef yesterday. She was, at the time, so hungry that she was considering eating in McDonalds despite knowing the burgers were essentially squeezed out of a tube. Combine this with German efficiency and I'm glad she didn't have her knife set handy.

endacl

Bannasidhe wrote: »

I support your right to like pineapple on pizza even if I think that it is disgusting.

Agreed. What consenting adults eat in the privacy of their own dining room is nobody's business but their own.

Genghiz Cohen

Damn, all this talk of Pizza. Dominos and more The Last Of Us for me tonight methinks.

endacl

Actually, this might work...

Didn't we have a recent 'visitor' who was fond of footing the pizza bill? Does anybody have a contact number?

theteal

chorizo pasta bake with extra chilies. . .mmmmm

Bannasidhe

endacl wrote: »

Actually, this might work...

Didn't we have a recent 'visitor' who was fond of footing the pizza bill? Does anybody have a contact number?

Gatwick airport police.


:pac:

Obliq

kylith wrote: »

Totally up for pizza night, if I can commit blasphemy by asking for pineapple.

lazygal wrote: »

I'll say it. I like Hawaiian pizza. I don't care who knows it.

Bannasidhe wrote: »

I support your right to like pineapple on pizza even if I think that it is disgusting.

Well now. I'm sorry, but I clearly remember having NO SUPPORT and in fact being lambasted during the last great pineapple on pizza debacle. Where were you when I needed you back then, eh? Could it be that you were much more separatist at the time and you are all becoming more tolerant as time passes? I think endacl is right. Hmmph :mad:

I'm making a kick-ass lasagne at the mo (taking a break before making at least a litre of white sauce) for eldest's birthday. And a giant chocolate sponge cake, with chocolate cream......Mmmmm

endacl

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Gatwick airport police.


:pac:

He's international?!?

robindch

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

[...] Dominos [...]

Dominos. Really?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/02/27/domino-pizza-founder-to-build-catholic-town/
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/19/070219fa_fact_boyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Monaghan#Catholic_philanthropy_and_activism

etc, etc.

endacl

robindch wrote: »

Dominos. Really?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/02/27/domino-pizza-founder-to-build-catholic-town/
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/19/070219fa_fact_boyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Monaghan#Catholic_philanthropy_and_activism

etc, etc.

Good thing their pizzas are muck. Makes them so easy to avoid...

Bannasidhe

Obliq wrote: »

Well now. I'm sorry, but I clearly remember having NO SUPPORT and in fact being lambasted during the last great pineapple on pizza debacle. Where were you when I needed you back then, eh? Could it be that you were much more separatist at the time and you are all becoming more tolerant as time passes? I think endacl is right. Hmmph :mad:

I'm making a kick-ass lasagne at the mo (taking a break before making at least a litre of white sauce) for eldest's birthday. And a giant chocolate sponge cake, with chocolate cream......Mmmmm

I grow more tolerant every day - except of intolerance. Can't abide that.

and lasagne...hate that too.

Bannasidhe

endacl wrote: »

He's international?!?

Of course he is international. He is the messiah. Did you not get the memo PM?

Obliq

Bannasidhe wrote: »

and lasagne...hate that too.

Mine is superb. Everyone agrees. Don't diss my lasagne or I shall be forced to say nasty things about your use of kale with bacon (even if I do that myself).

endacl

Obliq wrote: »

I think endacl is right.

I so rarely get to hear that!




*bookmarks page*

Bannasidhe

Obliq wrote: »

Mine is superb. Everyone agrees. Don't diss my lasagne or I shall be forced to say nasty things about your use of kale with bacon (even if I do that myself).

After most club rugby matches in Ireland the meal is lasagne...sadly, this has resulted in my having had a surfeit of (usually overcooked) lasagne which put me off the dish for ever and caused me to forever associate it with finding mud deeply lodged in my ears, a lingering smell of lineament, bruises in interesting places and drunken women singing 'I get knocked down but I get *hic* again'.

I used to like it and I am sure yours is superb.

Genghiz Cohen

robindch wrote: »

Dominos. Really?

http://www.foxnews.com/story/2006/02/27/domino-pizza-founder-to-build-catholic-town/
http://www.newyorker.com/reporting/2007/02/19/070219fa_fact_boyer
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_Monaghan#Catholic_philanthropy_and_activism

etc, etc.

My materialistic relativistic moral ambiguity allows me to overlook this while still detesting John Waters.

endacl

Genghiz Cohen wrote: »

My materialistic relativistic moral ambiguity allows me to overlook this while still detesting John Waters.

S'Ok. Read again. He sold the company in 1998. Your conscience is clear, if not your alimentary canal.

Obliq

Bannasidhe wrote: »

I used to like it and I am sure yours is superb.

Fair enough, you are forgiven. Having only played rugby in college in the UK, we didn't have lasagne, just whatever evil collection of spirits you could down while standing on one leg on a bar stool. Classy :rolleyes:

I won't eat lasagne anywhere but home. Remind me you hate it if you ever get to Co.Clare missus....

lazygal

I don't care what anyone thinks, lasagne is yum, even if the version I and most others make bears only the most fleeting resemblance to the proper stuff. Especially with chips and/or garlic bread.

lazygal

Obliq wrote: »

Well now. I'm sorry, but I clearly remember having NO SUPPORT and in fact being lambasted during the last great pineapple on pizza debacle. Where were you when I needed you back then, eh? Could it be that you were much more separatist at the time and you are all becoming more tolerant as time passes? I think endacl is right. Hmmph :mad:

I'm making a kick-ass lasagne at the mo (taking a break before making at least a litre of white sauce) for eldest's birthday. And a giant chocolate sponge cake, with chocolate cream......Mmmmm

Ahem...note my opening post.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81625813

Bannasidhe

Obliq wrote: »

Fair enough, you are forgiven. Having only played rugby in college in the UK, we didn't have lasagne, just whatever evil collection of spirits you could down while standing on one leg on a bar stool. Classy :rolleyes:

I won't eat lasagne anywhere but home. Remind me you hate it if you ever get to Co.Clare missus....

No wonder Ireland's women won the nations - our classy female players eat a lasagnesque dish, drink all available evil spirits (preferably from a trophy) while doing Riverdance on a three legged milking stool and play the uilleann pipes while singing all 965 verses of Willy McBride at the same time.

Feeding me lasagne could have unexpected repercussions....

Now just to feed (ba dom tish) the foodie controversy - I find most Italian food pretty meh tbh.

Obliq

lazygal wrote: »

Ahem...note my opening post.

http://www.boards.ie/vbulletin/showthread.php?p=81625813

My most sincere apologies. And I even "liked" it. Well, just goes to show how well my memory works.....:D

endacl

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Now just to feed (ba dom tish) the foodie controversy - I find most Italian food pretty meh tbh.

Try it in Italy and say that! Sitting on a sun drenched early evening plaza in a small town. In good company and with wine in hand and not a care in the world. Sometimes food is about more than food...

Sarky

Sometimes it's about the wine you're having with said food? :pac:

kylith

endacl wrote: »

OK. So it's a food thread...



Hawaiian pizza? I personally have no problem with this, once its a pizza prepared in Hawaii. With no pineapple. Pineapple's only proper place is perched atop a gammon steak.

I was the same, I was firmly against it, but then I tried it and.... it's just so tasty.

Mandarin orange is also good, some gourmet pizza place used to do it.

And say what you like about Dominos; their Florentine (feta, basil, semi dried tomatoes) with double mushrooms is a wonderful, wonderful thing; even for a committed carnivore like me.

robindch

endacl wrote: »

Read again. He sold the company in 1998. Your conscience is clear, if not your alimentary canal.

Monaghan sold to Bain Capital (founders include M. Romney) in 1998, but was brought back in some years later after Bain ballsed it all up, but I'm not sure when he left (or if he's still there).

Dreadful pizzas, btw. And I remember years ago eating a piece of what Dominos labelled "Garlic Bread" which -- I kid thee not -- had the amazing property of having no apparent flavor whatsoever, not even of cheap grease, cheap flour and especially, cheap garlic.

endacl

robindch wrote: »

Monaghan sold to Bain Capital (founders include M. Romney) in 1998, but was brought back in some years later after Bain ballsed it all up, but I'm not sure when he left (or if he's still there).

Dreadful pizzas, btw. And I remember years ago eating a piece of what Dominos labelled "Garlic Bread" which -- I kid thee not -- had the amazing property of having no apparent flavor whatsoever, not even of cheap grease, cheap flour and especially, cheap garlic.

Unforgivable. Even expensive garlic is cheap...

robindch

endacl wrote: »

Even expensive garlic is cheap...

Even if the tax is paid?

endacl

robindch wrote: »

Even if the tax is paid?

Cheeky!

Bannasidhe

endacl wrote: »

Try it in Italy and say that! Sitting on a sun drenched early evening plaza in a small town. In good company and with wine in hand and not a care in the world. Sometimes food is about more than food...

I did once have some nice sardines in Venice but nothing to compare to the ones I had in Lesvos.

I found the food in both Milan and Rome nothing to write home about.

In terms of eating with wine in hand I would go Greece, France or Spain before Italy.

Brian Shanahan

Bannasidhe wrote: »

Now just to feed (ba dom tish) the foodie controversy - I find most Italian food pretty meh tbh.

As my mammy says, it's bland.

On the matter of pizzas, when I was in Cork my local place used do a spicy tandoori chicken version. Unfortunately after my brother left for Holland they discontinued it, as though two of us made the variety (just about) profitable, me on my own didn't. I find pizza best et with a nice bottle of Leffe.

endacl

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

As my mammy says, it's bland.

Buy your mammy a nice quality chili oil...

Brian Shanahan

endacl wrote: »

Buy your mammy a nice quality chili oil...

She never uses it. Finds that getting me to chop up chilis for her is better.

Genghiz Cohen

Brian Shanahan wrote: »

She never uses it. Finds that getting me to chop up chilis for her is better.

Does she stand behind you hinting, "Is your eye itchy? It looks itchy." Or cutting up onions?

legspin

Obliq wrote: »

I think endacl is right.

endacl wrote: »

I so rarely get to hear that!




*bookmarks page*

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lRg8MsB0k

endacl

legspin wrote: »

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f_lRg8MsB0k

Gbear

Instead of Dominoes or other ****e, make your own pizza:

http://www.gianni.tv/pizza-margherita-2/

My favourite is red onion, prosciutto, an egg and a good fistful of rocket at the end.

Sarky

I live round the corner from some of the best pizza in Cork. ^_^

old hippy

I had the worst pizza of my godless life in Rome airport, ironically.

Bannasidhe

old hippy wrote: »

I had the worst pizza of my godless life in Rome airport, ironically.

I had the worst ever in Milan.

kylith

Weird, I've never had bad pizza in Italy, but I have had a damn-near inedible horse stew in Verona.

endacl

Bannasidhe wrote: »

I had the worst ever in Milan.

Best ever in Padova. Couldn't face an Irish pizza after getting home. Until I was introduced to Fade Street Social's flatbreads. Not quite a pizza, but what every pizza should aspire to...