Britain's greatest discovery

No, I find Belgian beer a bit meh. I lived there for 6 months and tried to like 'em, honest. Not into 'lager' styles, the Trappist styles I found too sweet (in the main), liked wheat beers and krieks were ok.

 

Belgian beer seems to me all a bit 'wheaty.'

I think there are some that I got on with in some place in Bruges but by then I'd no idea what they were called. Or who who I was.

 

Not English I know but Christopher Columbus didn’t “find America “. As Steve Knightly of Show of Hands sang:

“Columbus didn’t find America. It wasn’t lost, it was always there.
I won’t celebrate 500 years, plundering wealth and scattering tears”.

 

surely you could try quail eggs? in that there metropolitan liberal elite of london town no self respecting canidae would be seen dead eating a mere chicken egg.

 

You’re a bit late to the party Mr Prince of Risborough so just to fill you in, this thread was supposed to be about potatoes* and their uses.

I know it’s covered historical misappropriation, Australia, what the word 'discover' actually means, google, vaccine, whether eggs (and which eggs) are part of a foxes diet, carpets, garlic bread, duffel bags, Belgian beer and now you’ve brought up Columbus and America, but really it was meant to be a potato* based thread.

*AKA Peruvian cultural icon

 

Can I leave my review of Spud's autobiography here when I get round to it?

 

I’m only adding to the diversification of the thread. That’s what’s supposed to happen on here....innit??

 

Good idea

 

I've nowt against diversity at all but they way its going if I really did want to talk about potatoes I'd have to start a new thread titled , DO NOT MENTION POTATOES IN THIS THREAD

 

Surely the greatest discovery were these sceptered isles.

If they hadn't been discovered we'd all be living in johnnyforeignerland and speaking a foreign language.

And I for one can't speak a foreign language (apart from French and a smattering of Russian and Portuguese).

 

Interesting point. if we weren't discovered would we be just sitting around not doing a lot, with ever closer blood lines to each other..... well just like Sheffield really!

 

Whereabouts were you born in Birdwell? I was born on Sheffield Road at the corner with Wentworth St. Actually I was born in Barnsley General but lived on Sheffield Road.

 

"Cos without it we’d have no mash, chips, wedges, fries, jacket potatoes, baked, roast, saute, rosti or even crisps. Fish, pies and a lot of other food stuffs would be useless. And Gravy Chips would only be half the man he is".

I'm shocked there's no mention of Dauphinoise...... Potatoes AND cream AND garlic AND melted cheese. It truly is potato royalty and should have started the list.

 

Boll0x to Potato, Yorkshire Pudding for me.

 

Fire and the wheel

 

AT LAST! Somebody talking potatoes*!

*AKA Peruvian cultural icon

 

Columbus didn't find America anyway did he? I thought he found Cuba, Dominica, Mexico/Costa Rica and a few other Caribbean islands, but not the actual US of A.

 

I was actually born in Birdwell, Greenspring Avenue just off Worsbrough Road.

 

History always gets doctored though. Just think, decades from now kids will be reading about The Great Plague of the ‘20s that decimated populations and brought economies to their knees. They’ll have a good laugh about that. I mean, you couldn’t make that up, could you?

 

Sadly they aren't filing enough for the vixens. And would likely show their disdain with some form of turning of bushy tail.