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Winged Assassins (1984) .
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 996 Location: Super Magic Drive
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Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:59 pm Post subject: |
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They are full of iron. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:19 am Post subject: |
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So I tried the Gravy chip! I'm sure most of you have tried BBQ flavoured chips at one point. Well! The gravy chip tastes like a less sweet, more savoury version of that, with a hint of that zing Burger Rings have. Does it taste like gravy? Not at all, sadly. None that I've tried, anyway (apparently it's based on a strong beef flavour). But, I do enjoy the taste, much more so than BBQ flavour... i.e, I can actually stand to eat these chips, which is not the case with BBQ.
So yes, hardly the revelation I was hoping for, but a satisfying taste. I give it 2.5 stars out of 4, on the Ebert scale.
I was going to post some reaction shots but I'm worried Dess might accidently read this thread.
EDIT: All Monsters had this to say about the Gravy chip:
Quote: | spot on about the gravy chips too. I bought a pack on the weekend, and my girl described the flavor as a mixture between barbecue and chicken, then a slight gravy-ish aftertaste which I think was pretty damn accurate. Hamish's facial expression on the front of the packet is pretty good though. |
This is also a pretty accurate description of the flavour, though I wouldn't describe the aftertaste as gravy-ish... again, not like any I've tried.
EDIT 2: All Monsters and I later agreed to label the aftertaste as a "vague beefyness". _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 2:17 pm Post subject: |
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I thought you lot called them crisps, like us!
Why don't you want Dess to see your face? |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 6:48 pm Post subject: |
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Nope, we call them chips! My did insists on calling them crisps, as does his dad. YOU AIN'T IN SCOTLAND ANYMORE, OLD MEN.
Also, because I don't want to break the illusion that I look exactly like my SB avatar. I'm sure other people would be dissapointed with the truth, too! I guess I could post those pictures of me dressed up in drag, that might make up for it. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:21 pm Post subject: |
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But what would make up for that?
Questions:
1.) Why did your parents get sent from Scotland to Australia, did they commit a crime
2.) As a second generation immigrant, how do you defend your views that 'immigrants are why [your] country is going to the dogs'
Each question is worth a maximum of 50 points. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:24 pm Post subject: |
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1). Only one parent came from Scotland, and it's England who did the whole prison colony thing, which went out of style quite sometime ago (I find it interesting that your tiny country was SO full of criminals that you required an entire continent to dump them on). Furthermore, the state I live in is the only one that wasn't colonised as a prison colony, so stick that up yer ass and smoke it.
2). Oh, that's only talking about immigrant immigrants. You know, like indian people and stuff! Duh! _________________
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KinokoFry .
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 84
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 7:59 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | 1). Only one parent came from Scotland, and it's England who did the whole prison colony thing, which went out of style quite sometime ago (I find it interesting that your tiny country was SO full of criminals that you required an entire continent to dump them on). |
Ha ha, high five Cycle! What a country of jerks, am I right?
I wouldn't be disappointed with a photo of you. Right now, I imagine you look like a lump of coal (but with a lovely personality ) so it's all up from here!
My parents always said "chips", my grandparents were the ones who still used 'crisps'. Makes me think of my nanna. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:14 pm Post subject: |
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It has been much documented that Cycle basically look like this:
Except I guess with more casual racism, so imagine this is his t-shirt
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:17 pm Post subject: |
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Harveyjams for the last time, stop imprinting your idea of the perfect man on me, I don't look like toadfish. You're the only one who thinks I do!
I wouldn't want to wear that shirt, too coloured for my tastes. _________________
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KinokoFry .
Joined: 26 Jun 2008 Posts: 84
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:34 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle wrote: | I wouldn't want to wear that shirt, too coloured for my tastes. |
HAHAHA |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 8:46 pm Post subject: |
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Yes but seriously, I don't recall those statements about immigrants being my views! Immigrants are what make this country great! We're multi-cutural! Woo!
I do wish they'd stop hiring indians for call centres though, I can't understand them and it's quite frustrating!
I CAN'T UNDERSTAND YA *SLAM* _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
Joined: 28 Nov 2006 Posts: 996 Location: Super Magic Drive
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Posted: Sun Aug 17, 2008 9:40 pm Post subject: |
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I imagine that Cycle would look pretty in pink. _________________
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The Great Unwashed .
Joined: 27 May 2006 Posts: 359 Location: Perth, Western Australia
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:27 am Post subject: |
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Immigrants fucking rock. Any country that hates immigrants is retarded, hypocritcal and in denial of its own heritage*. THERE I SAID IT
I live in Western Australia. 27% of our population were born overseas. 27%! How awesome is that. That's higher than the national average (22%). AWESOME
FACTS
*Unless you live in the cradle of life or some shit and have never made contact with the outside world, that's cool too _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 12:41 am Post subject: |
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Immigrants have done wonders for the food industry. If you are anti-immigration you are now my enemy. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 8:12 am Post subject: |
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Yeah. |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 9:44 am Post subject: |
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ok peoples of the non-american earth, explain this to me:
now, you guys call french fries either chips or crisps. crisps sort of make sense (properly made they're crispy) but chips always confused me. what do you call potato chips? _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:17 pm Post subject: |
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I don't think people call french fries crisps anywhere? We call them chips, too. We also call potato chips chips. Do you guys have Fish & Chips shops over there, or are they called Fish & French Fries shops? _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:51 pm Post subject: |
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I thought that the Yanks called them Freedom Fries. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:52 pm Post subject: |
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So that's what freedom tastes like. _________________
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Winged Assassins (1984) .
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 5:59 pm Post subject: |
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A heart condition. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:00 pm Post subject: |
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Broken? _________________
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:40 pm Post subject: |
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Cycle is correct.
(Relatively) thick fried cut chucks of potato = fries in America, chips in Britain, chips in Australia.
Thin, roughly spherical fried slices of potato = chips in America, crisps in Britain, chips in Australia to the younger generations, crisps in Australia to the older generation.
Fish and Chip shops are still Fish and Chip shops, since it's a non-American food, so it retains the original name even though it doesn't make sense in context and I'm sure a lot of people go into these places for the first time and say "oh, fries". Most bar/pub-type places that serve food have them on the menu as well, as the upscale boozer scene is heavily Anglocentric. |
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dhex Breeder
Joined: 13 Dec 2004 Posts: 6319 Location: brooklyn, Nev Yiork
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 6:55 pm Post subject: |
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i feel like i should have known that already.
somewhat on topic, the whole mayo and frittes thing is pretty great once or twice a year. _________________
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Mon Aug 18, 2008 7:02 pm Post subject: |
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As we called them in high school, "goth fries". |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 7:00 am Post subject: |
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This whole Freedom Fries thing comes from the beginning of the iraq war when americans were being encouraged to boycott everything french! I saved this column from that very time, which was published in a Murdoch-owned newspaper:
Quote: | February 18, 2003 --
France only leads world in arrogance. By Cindy Adams
FRIG the frogs. Screw-ay les Francais. Up the French. France, a countrylet forever famous for immortal boons to civilization like shoemaker Christian Leboutin, dressmaker Christian LaCroix, stylemaker Christian Dior, is dissing the United States? Mes enfants, vous can take votre French toast and shove it up your cafe au lait.'
I realize I'm ranting. I don't mean to knock an entire people. In any case, I'm not important. Nothing I say will change events. However, even small persons like myself know what loyalty means. It means if someone saves your life, you do for them forever.
It's similar to the Mafia. You don't stand up for them, they'll sure as hell see that you lay down.'
'You get a French manicure, we'll give you the finger. Your ex-pat countrymen here will starve because we won't invite them to dinner, go to their restaurants or eat their escargots. French onion soup, French fries, French dressing, French pastry. It'll be ta-ta to foie gras. We'll do chopped liver from the Stage Deli. When it comes to champagne, we'll play Pop Goes the Weasel. In place of French wine, we'll order California. Think we should order Evian? You Les Miserables are all wet. You might've stuck it to Marie Antoinette but not Uncle Sam. Nothing Made in France will get our attention except a couple of hookers in heat.'
Wagnalls and his pal Funk say weasels are cunning sneaking rodent imbibing things. I say they should say, au revoir to le Yankee dollar!' |
It's mind-blowing that they're allowed to say this stuff. Also you should take down the Statue of Liberty while you're at it! |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:07 am Post subject: |
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cindy adams is a gossip columnist. just fyi.
Quote: | As we called them in high school, "goth fries". |
why?
there's a frittes place on 2nd avenue btwn 8th and st marks that's pretty delicious. the garlic rosemary mayo is solid as all hell, but their "small" size is ridiculously large. _________________
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simplicio .
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:08 am Post subject: |
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Yeah, that place is delicious!
I envision goth fries as being somehow blackened, so either burned or covered in marmite.
Weren't the fries in the pentagon cafes labeled freedom fries at the time? _________________ "Worlds turn the new machine to thee. To thee. Though, thine the new machine space."
-Kurt Schwitters, 1919 |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:27 am Post subject: |
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yup; it got changed back (far more quietly) a few years later.
fuckholery abounds!
goth fries should be overcooked and too heavily salted to eat. they will stand as a testament to the pointlessness of trying to feed the body. _________________
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daphaknee just enemies now
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 10:50 am Post subject: |
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oh man i remember freedom fries and toast and how NOTHING CAME OF IT EVER
also when america tried to hate evian becuase it had bull blood in it or something |
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Redeye .
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 1:13 pm Post subject: |
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I thought the Goth Fries thing was because it was like a grease-vampire had drained the french fry down to a husk.
Or something tangentially related to that. _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 3:16 pm Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | cindy adams is a gossip columnist. just fyi. |
More like 'evil bitch' |
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aderack .
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:00 pm Post subject: |
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I just got a strange response from someone. I mentioned the raccoons outside my window, and how they're mostly cute yet sometimes make god-awful mating sounds.
And thus:
Quote: | Here's what you do: you gotta get a big-ass steak or other chunk of meat. Just something absolutely laden with animal tissue, the redder/gnarlier the better. Eat it, and then piss all over where they're marking their territory. Smells like a massive, terrifying predator to them. Sometimes the only thing nature respects is when you play her game and play it well. If you have neighbors, maybe use a watering can instead of direct application. If you don't eat meat, maybe hire hobo/get a friend whose aim you trust. |
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Redeye .
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:04 pm Post subject: |
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aderack wrote: | I just got a strange response from someone. I mentioned the raccoons outside my window, and how they're mostly cute yet sometimes make god-awful mating sounds.
And thus:
Quote: | Here's what you do: you gotta get a big-ass steak or other chunk of meat. Just something absolutely laden with animal tissue, the redder/gnarlier the better. Eat it, and then piss all over where they're marking their territory. Smells like a massive, terrifying predator to them. Sometimes the only thing nature respects is when you play her game and play it well. If you have neighbors, maybe use a watering can instead of direct application. If you don't eat meat, maybe hire hobo/get a friend whose aim you trust. |
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I read in Pranks! that some Dutch rioters would smear themselves with tiger shit from the zoo in order to scare off the police dogs. _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Scratchmonkey .
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 4:20 pm Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | Quote: | As we called them in high school, "goth fries". |
why? |
Because the mayo is white. I know, not particularly edifying. |
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Tue Aug 19, 2008 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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indeed. that doesn't make a damn bit of sense.
Quote: | More like 'evil bitch' |
my threshold for evil is a bit higher than "writes insipid, silly things of little gravity." _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 10:06 am Post subject: |
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also the very concept of gravy flavored potato chips is a horrible acid nightmare. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Wed Aug 20, 2008 3:44 pm Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | indeed. that doesn't make a damn bit of sense.
Quote: | More like 'evil bitch' |
my threshold for evil is a bit higher than "writes insipid, silly things of little gravity." |
OH I SUPPOSE. Silly me, sorry Dhex : _ : |
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dark steve .
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ours is a country of francophobic oppression _________________
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dhex Breeder
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 7:45 am Post subject: |
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or obsession really.
harvey: american culture protip - getting mad about cindy adams is like me posting something from the daily mail. it's like getting mad at a whale for being big. _________________
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The Great Unwashed .
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 8:09 pm Post subject: |
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And I am so fucking sick of whales, lemme tell you. _________________
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Harveyjames the meteor kid
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Posted: Thu Aug 21, 2008 9:09 pm Post subject: |
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dhex wrote: | or obsession really.
harvey: american culture protip - getting mad about cindy adams is like me posting something from the daily mail. it's like getting mad at a whale for being big. |
Yeah, fair enough.
And I am so fucking sick of whales, lemme tell you! (Great Unwashed I am stealing your joke.) |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 8:48 pm Post subject: |
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Australians! Nescafe are sending out FREE COFFEE SAMPLES!!! Check out the following website and take advantage of this generous offer! I already ordered mine!
http://www.spillthebeans.com.au/index.html
!!! _________________
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The Great Unwashed .
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Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 11:06 pm Post subject: |
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Wait, for reals? That stuff's not that great
I'd like to try any drink called "Chocolate Mudcake" though. That can only end well.
Hey Cycle we should catch up sometime. Have a couple of frothy ones. You know what I'm talking about. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:02 pm Post subject: |
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Yeah I know it's pretty crap, but it's free! I actually recieved an e-mail about it, which made me laugh. Apparently I'm on the Nescafe mailing list! Perhaps we should talk about coffee next.
I've actually always wanted to go to Perth, I've heard it's a beautiful city. Maybe I can pay for the trip by previewing the game you're working on! _________________
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The Great Unwashed .
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Posted: Thu Aug 28, 2008 8:31 pm Post subject: |
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Totally! Although it's in Portugese, and being launched in Brazil. Perhaps you could cover the holy-shit-game-development-in-Perth angle? Who knows! I could put you in touch with people, if you wanted. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Wed Sep 03, 2008 5:12 pm Post subject: |
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I'm sure I could get something interesting out of it. I'll let you know when I'm more available! _________________
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aderack .
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Posted: Sun Sep 07, 2008 4:58 pm Post subject: |
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Take 5 is sort of the cross between a Twix and Chubby Hubby: The Candy Bar.
It's pretty good, though real chocolate would make it better. _________________
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Fri Jul 10, 2009 4:29 am Post subject: |
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This was the best thread.
I need to find new, weird Australian food to post. _________________
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Redeye .
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 2:32 pm Post subject: |
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Beets on a burger? _________________ I felt sheer anarchic joy when I ran over my first pedestrian. |
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Cycle Mac daddy
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Posted: Mon Jul 20, 2009 5:35 pm Post subject: |
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That's not that weird. You can get beetroot on your subway sandwiches, too! It's the Australian way!
I can't stand beetroot myself, though. _________________
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