German brewers are making UK, American style beers.

notageek

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-25807126

juniper · l33t Joined: 22 Oct 2004 Posts: 763 Location: EU

If you think you have the best product for too long and are too conservative to change it, the world will pass you by. French food is no longer the gold standard, thank god.
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Naib · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:17 am Post subject:

notageek · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:24 am Post subject:

Um... what other food did you consider good?

I've been to France and I've had French food, so I don't understand your comment.
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Naib · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:46 am Post subject:

I spend alot of time in France, I eat alot at their "canteens", their posh hotels, their posh restaurants and their cafe's
Simply put they do not know how to cook vegetables (except in Ratatouille). When it is good it is good, but on average and when it is bad... it is stodgy, soggy... etc... Now maybe boiling runner beans soo much that they almost turn into soup is what passes and the peak of the world culinary expertise but I like to eat my veg not drink it.

I'm not even going to go down the route that "English food is great" because at the end of the day its personal choice BUT french food and the french food style is not worth the reputation it had.
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notageek · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 10:50 am Post subject:

You're a vegetarian?
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Naib · Posted: Thu Jan 30, 2014 11:34 am Post subject:

not at all, but I do like decently cooked veg
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mrbassie · Guru Joined: 31 May 2013 Posts: 489

What's the point? You can do that at home yourself. Drink half your Bavarian beer, wait a while, piss it back into the glass, give it a stir, hey presto!

e3k · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 7:52 pm Post subject:

in the end it is an article propagating GMO hops...
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porodzila · Posted: Fri Jan 31, 2014 10:01 pm Post subject:

They will be able to keep their reputation as long as they don't start brewing Italian beers.
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Muso · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 7:33 am Post subject:

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o'bogamol · Posted: Sun Feb 02, 2014 2:20 pm Post subject:

We joke that English food is the best because once you've thrown all of the ingredients on a pot, the cook can come out and enjoy the party!
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djdunn · l33t Joined: 26 Dec 2004 Posts: 767 Location: Arrakis

English food is disgusting

need some truly american food like eh... chinese food...
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energyman76b · Advocate Joined: 26 Mar 2003 Posts: 2045 Location: Germany

what is 'french food'?

The stuff you get in a motel - where potatoes count as 'vegetables', and a steak is put in a contact grill until it burned on the outside and raw on the inside?

The fish dishes in the Bretagne? Which are delicious. Or their 'national' food. Which is very fatty and filling (including onions seared in lots of butter, fatty meat and a cabbage soup whose influence can carry you to Moscow and back)?

The stuff in the Elsaß (it is Elsaß not Alsace or other gay stuff, thank you a lot)? Which means heavy. lots of Sauerkraut and in dire need of some hot mustard (or very delciously made of all the stuff you find in the animal after taking away all those pesky muscles).

I have eaten french food a lot of times. But I never ate 'french cuisine'. I did eat what the peasants, workers and normal people in that region ate. Which was pretty much always not that much different from the stuff at home. With the exception of some local specialities which were awesome - and you will never find in some posh restaurant.
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mdeininger · Posted: Mon Feb 03, 2014 9:47 am Post subject:

Meh, only sane food I've had lately was Creole. Most 'indigenous' dishes around here are gross, bordering on barbaric. That includes 80% of Swabian menu items, 90% of the remaining Krautland dishes and close to 90% of what they serve in France. And I'd not even mention Krautland beer in polite conversation - good thing this ain't one, so I can quite confidently claim that Krautland beer is among the worst on the friggen planet. Even Miller tastes better, and that kinda tastes like regurgitated cat piss with sugar. So yeah, here's hoping the guy has some luck.
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