Re: Monthly chat July 2015
Lol Tom, yes, lots of terms for similar things and I'll say not many have made it over here. I've seen curly fries, but they're rare and usually held to be a bit of a kid's thing anyway. Chips oddly enough can be served by even high class restaurants over here though of course quality can vary, for example I went a few weeks ago with my brother to an incredibly upmarket steak house who did chips as a regular side, and just like their steaks and the sauce the chips were lovely!
On the other end of the scale, Don't even get me started on the profound grossiosity that is "cheasy chips", which basically is just a huge hunk of melted chease ontop of a portion of already fried chips and is sort of like an instant heart attack! .
Then again, Franky and Bennies do a thing which they nominally call "cheasy chips" but which is probably closer to the way you describe joe joes in the us, sinse it's a portion of fries with monteray jack sauce on, which are sort of closer to nachos and are actually rather nice.
Usually wedges over here are served with a dip and often as a side or a starter, for example Pappa Jon's who are probably my favourite commercial delivery pizza company (waaay better and also cheaper than dominoes, and far more upmarket than Pizza hut, actually they remind me of how pizza hut used to be in the nineties before it became incredibly low quality). Either way, they serve wedges as a regular side or starter, with a choice of dips such as sweet chilly, garlic, honey mustard or bbq sauce.
I will say though, there are lots of other nice things that can be done to spuds that don't involve frying, at least in britain, for example I love rostis if done well and if I'm having a pie or a roast dinner, indeed my mum has a friend who rears birds for hunts, so we f requently get the most wonderful free range pheasant, goose or duck, and doing the roasties in an oven tray with a little drop of the actual greace from the bird makes them amazing! (not enough to fry, just to brown the edges and give flavour).
I also do like a good gratan, or a lankishire hot pot with the scolloped potatoes on the top as well.
Indeed I'm one of these very odd people that can't abide salad, but loves cooked vegitables, and not just fried, indeed all the things that kids are supposed to not like such as cabbage, brockely, brussle sprouts are all things I'm generally a big fan of when cooked .
To change the subject for a second, last night I heard this months monthly Big Finish Dr. Who story, "We are the Daleks" it was awesome! evil capitalistt Daleks is such a great idea, as is the idea of people playing a computer game that is actually a real war and how they respond to this (a good truck full of quite satyr, but with a very fast, action packed story along with it), , and how they were used was lovely, plus I'm really interested to see where the ending goes given it's got a potentially interesting new direction for the Daleks. It also gave a good idea of why the Daleks referd to the doctor as "the oncoming storm" which was rather amusing too.
I finished buffy season 3 last night, which was very awesome, I thought the mayor was a great bad guy, sort of like Evil bill Clinton . I'm glad though Angel is leaving the series sinse really he was getting on my whick, actually I much preferd him as angellous, his evil self as opposed to just stairing dewee eyed at Buffy all the time, indeed while I'm not aversed to romance plots, indeed I'm something of a roman
tic generally myself, (the Willo/Sander/os thing is pretty sweet much of the time, especially Willow), I have to say this one got rather on my whick for the fact it just stalled and basically involved lots of woffle over season 3, really i sort of expected Angel to be out of things this series after his journey to hell in season 2, which was a nice end and resolution. I'll probably be starting the angel series soon, though I'm taking a little time out to watch neverwhere, sinse I've not seen the series for ages and it's one of the best book adaptations ever, mostly because it was written by Gayman himself, INdeed, I have to say it's one of the instances where I think the tv actors (especially croup and vandamar), are superior to those in the radio play (I just can't get used to mr. Vandamar not being scottish, and Bennedict cumberbach is far too nasty to be convincing as the Angel Islington).
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