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Arjen said:
@EmoBirb It depends on where you're from, which parts of the internet you're interested in, what you use to acces it. Ask me about whales. Or VMS inner workings.

I am a 66 year old biologist-turned-programmer, I have thirty+ years of internet experience as u user.

'Soyface' was unknown to me until today. And I am proud of it :)

I will look up the meaning of words unfamiliar to me. I can, in fact, recommend that to all.
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Fair enough lol
 
EmoBirb said:
So you haven't been on the internet over the past... 8-7 years? (No offense, it just strikes me as odd that some people don't notice internet pop culture at all, especially such well known and widespread memes like soyjaks)
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  • A question of generation, maybe (I'm turning 60 soon)?
    Very regularly my 18-year-old daughter is surprised that I don't know a certain influencer, a certain personality, a certain slang word or expression... but these are specific to their networks, their applications, their sense of humor and references, not mine.
  • A question of country? (I live in France)
Probably a bit of both, but probably also the fact that there's a huge span of the current throwaway pop culture I have absolutely no interesting in, and I'll readily admit it.
 
SUPER=BUG said:
My ranking of European cuisine: Italy> France≥ countries other than the United Kingdom> United Kingdom
Purely personal experience. ;)
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let's define this better:
Italy>France>Belgium>Countries other that the UK> ENGLAND
Wales and Scotland don't need be punish like rest of the Kingdom...

and don't start about GERMAN cuisine...
Monty Python dit this perfect:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uee2NIx-U_0
 
After regular visits to the UK - yes, I have been to Italy and France - I disagree.

Ask the locals.

Visit places that attract the crowds but aren't obvious tourist traps, ask what's on the menu if the items are unfamiliar. This approach works in most countries. Be prepared to eat unfamiliar food - if you can't handle that, visit the big M - and miss out on some very tasty eating. UK cakes can be great.
If there's a queue for a fish and chips shop, chances are it's simply excellent.
Traditional UK food tends to be quite nourishing, but refined Brit dining can be found. Any larger town usually has lots of exotic cuisine. Check out Indian/Pakistani restaurants. Try the local beers, ciders, butchers' pork pies are just the ticket when you're travelling. Try pub grub.

Unlike some other countries, eating out in the UK is generally very safe. As everywhere, use your nose, use your eyes.

Ask the locals.
 
Arjen said:
It depends on where you're from, which parts of the internet you're interested in, what you use to acces it.
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I'm not quite up at your age, but I'm getting there.

Frankly, this just means that you've successfully curated your internet experience haha. If you know all the dumb memes, you probably spend too much time in the dumb parts of the internet.

(Admittedly, I knew what a soyjak was--I did not know that "soyface" was a commonly-used derivative.)
 
Arjen said:
Unlike some other countries, eating out in the UK is generally very safe. As everywhere, use your nose, use your eyes.
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I don't think the subject was whether you can eat well in those countries, but rather the overall quality of each country's national cuisine and traditional recipes (in England you can eat very well, indeed, but it's rarely British cooking). Although tastes can hardly be discussed (and most Britons would NOT agree with it) I find the ranking suggested by SUPER=BUG to be pretty accurate from my own personal experience. I ate dreadfully in some places in Italy but it doesn't say anything about the quality of Italian cuisine and traditional recipes, which is fantastic on the whole. Now as a Frenchman, of course (and NOT out of patriotism at all) I would put French cuisine first, immediately followed by Italian food — not from the viewpoint of quality, since both can be outstanding, but because I have found French cuisine offers a more varied panel of recipes: Northern mussles with chips, Alsatian sauerkraut; South Western cassoulet, magret or foie gras; Breton or Norman stuffed crêpes; Central mountain areas cabbage potée, and many more, very different types of meat dishes, fish dishes, seafood aplenty, not to mention a wide variety of bread recipes, pastries (don't even get me started on praliné cream, my favorite), fine chocolate (rivaling Belgian's these days), wines, and so forth. Also, France has a tradition of dwelling at the table through several courses, especially at Sunday family lunches, which can last for several hours between the aperitive and the coffee! In England they eat in 10 minutes around the kitchen table, and that's it!
 
The rich eat at home; tourists eat what local restaurants have prepared for them and every summer they saturate the emergency rooms of hospitals with gastric problems. Getting to know different cultures and all that... Basically a business to get rid of low-quality food by masking it with spices, Bon Appetit.
 

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Justo Miranda said:
tourists eat what local restaurants have prepared for them and every summer they saturate the emergency rooms of hospitals with gastric problems.
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I think that just implies poor experience based on poor judgement.

You can find decent local restaurants basically everywhere in the world and these days nothing is easier than checking online how other people reviewed the restaurant.

So if in this day and age someone actually goes to a bad restaurant it's either desperation or just not knowing better/being too lazy to check.
 
Arjen said:
After regular visits to the UK - yes, I have been to Italy and France - I disagree.

Ask the locals.

Visit places that attract the crowds but aren't obvious tourist traps, ask what's on the menu if the items are unfamiliar. This approach works in most countries. Be prepared to eat unfamiliar food - if you can't handle that, visit the big M - and miss out on some very tasty eating. UK cakes can be great.
If there's a queue for a fish and chips shop, chances are it's simply excellent.
Traditional UK food tends to be quite nourishing, but refined Brit dining can be found. Any larger town usually has lots of exotic cuisine. Check out Indian/Pakistani restaurants. Try the local beers, ciders, butchers' pork pies are just the ticket when you're travelling. Try pub grub.

Unlike some other countries, eating out in the UK is generally very safe. As everywhere, use your nose, use your eyes.

Ask the locals.
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All -

“ Aw, nobody ever goes there. It’s too crowded “. Yogi Berra


With regards,
357Mag
 
EmoBirb said:
The essence of French food: butter

The essence of Italian food: garlic
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excuse me ?
i know this french recipe

take a french Camembert cheese
cut with knife a zig zag patter in surface and put in each X a clove of garlic (french one)
then drown the Camembert in french wine Beaujolais
and put it for 20 minute in oven
that dish odour kills every vampire in 500 km radius...
 
Arjen said:
After regular visits to the UK - yes, I have been to Italy and France - I disagree.

Ask the locals.

Visit places that attract the crowds but aren't obvious tourist traps, ask what's on the menu if the items are unfamiliar. This approach works in most countries. Be prepared to eat unfamiliar food - if you can't handle that, visit the big M - and miss out on some very tasty eating. UK cakes can be great.
If there's a queue for a fish and chips shop, chances are it's simply excellent.
Traditional UK food tends to be quite nourishing, but refined Brit dining can be found. Any larger town usually has lots of exotic cuisine. Check out Indian/Pakistani restaurants. Try the local beers, ciders, butchers' pork pies are just the ticket when you're travelling. Try pub grub.

Unlike some other countries, eating out in the UK is generally very safe. As everywhere, use your nose, use your eyes.

Ask the locals.
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So true! Fish & chips and shepards pie!
 
Getting good fish & chips is a tricky thing, it can be difficult but once you find a good chippy you've hit the jackpot.
Given that fish is so expensive these days the popularity has dropped in recent years.
 
even a portion of chips can set you back £5, a breadcrumb 'fish supper' (fish and chips) locally is £10-12 :(
(il stick to venison steaks with potatoes, definitely cheaper !)
 
I have great difficulty getting a decent cup/pot of tea in Europe outside the UK unless I brew my own. By rumour, Ireland and Ostfriesland should be other places to get decent tea.
I usually get a cup of sort-of-hot-water, plus a choice of teabags of dubious quality. Which, when dunked, give a cup of hottish coloured water. I generally pass on the experience, unless I am a guest with friends or family.

Tea with cake and/or cookies. Bliss.
 
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With the slow disappearance of their natural habitat, polar bears and grizzlies have strived to find new means of survival.
They seem to have found good jobs at Alaskan airports, where they routinely get the engines started...

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EmoBirb said:
So you haven't been on the internet over the past... 8-7 years? (No offense, it just strikes me as odd that some people don't notice internet pop culture at all, especially such well known and widespread memes like soyjaks)
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Poisonous memes derived from insane toxic masculinity conspiracy theories on forums like 4chan rarely intersect with my online life, thankfully.
 
Stargazer said:
With the slow disappearance of their natural habitat, polar bears and grizzlies have strived to find new means of survival.
They seem to have found good jobs at Alaskan airports, where they routinely get the engines started...

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One of my company's team based in Alaska had to deal with that while working on an aircraft.
 

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