France Bans Ketchup in School Cafeterias

[Roy Corduroy]

I lived next door to a McDonalds and always ordered the same thing - a fish sandwich, hold the tartar sauce. One day I went in, and before I could say anything, the help all turned and raised their hands and shouted NO TARTAR !

Roy

[DVV]

Ketchup mixed with mayo and a little Louisiana hot sauce is the thing to dip fried oysters in.

I'd like to try, but very secretly.
Frying oysters would be considered a sin in France, I suspect.

[DVV]

I wonder whether there are people that still believe Jack the Ripper was the "greatest conspiracy since Guy Fawkes", as said in "The Final Sauce" ?

I may ask Phil Carter on this.

[Robert]

I'm surprised you people can't see it : "Hollandaise" Sickert was Saucy Jack.

[Errata]

I'd like to try, but very secretly.
Frying oysters would be considered a sin in France, I suspect.

Yeah, well French oysters don't have to eat the crap in a Louisiana bayou. I don't eat bivalves, but if I was going to eat a Louisiana oyster, I'd want to fry the crap out of it.

[Hunter]

I believe Thousand Island dressing has some sweet pickle relish in it. Deleware oysters are the best when you can get them.

[DirectorDave]

I don't quite know how a thread about Ketchup moved on to S&M but given the poster involved no surprise.

Ketchup is a wonderful culinary condement.....if indeed it is a condiment....but after America declareded that a Tomato was a vegetable nothing really matters anymore anyway.

HP sauce is a nice alternative, or at least it was until they changed the recipe.

Anyway.....this is France....the country with the most overrated food in the world.....no exceptions.

Now excuse me I have to get back to my Deep-fried Mars bar supper...


P.S."Supper"..... not an evening meal but a suffix meaning "with chips".

PP.S. "Chips" are thick cut fried potatos....or "Potatoes" if you are an American vice president.

PPP.S. Chips are not french fries although french fries are chips.

PPPP.S. Although it should be pointed out French Fries are not even french....They are from Belgium (excuse my French)

PPPPP.S. btw Did the inventor of "Freedom Fries" ever live it down?

PPPPPP.S. They (The French) Do eat a lot of cheese.....but it is mostly moldy and stinks to high heaven.

PPPPPP.S. And while the term "Surrender Monkey" is very inapropriate they do tend to "Not be much use after lunch" (Cpt. G. Mainwaring circa 1942.)

PPPPzzzz.S The ocupants of Hartlepool hung a monkey a couple of hundread years ago thinking it was a Frenchman

Pz.S. Hartlepool Utd's macot "Hangus(sp?) the Monkey" was elected mayor a few years ago.

Pz.S. He (Hangus) never amounted to anything in the history of Hill Valley.....but he was from Hartlepool not Hill Valley so no real surprise there.

Pz.S. I just got a text.......reminding me Mongrels is on BB3 tomorrow night.

Pz.S. That text made me lose my train of thought.....

Pz.S. So I'd just like to rap things up and say comrades.....vote against proposition 42.......you have to understand what the question is first before you can understand the answer.

[Steven Russell]

Pz.S. Hartlepool Utd's macot "Hangus(sp?) the Monkey" was elected mayor a few years ago.

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Quite true. But he was unable to follow through on his pre-election promise of free bananas for schoolchildren.

Best wishes,
Steve.

[tji]

Hi Dave

We spell it H'Angus, it is a play on words from the fact we are 'known' for hanging a monkey in the Napoleonic war. It says a lot when we think a monkey can do a better job than the other candidates

Hi Steven

Yeah but the Monkey bars are great

tj

[Robert]

I believe Hartlepool Utd's football ground was bombed by a Zeppelin in WW1. Obviously an over-the-top tackle.

[tji]

Hi Robert

I believe Hartlepool Utd's football ground was bombed by a Zeppelin in WW1. Obviously an over-the-top tackle.

The way our team plays it was no big loss!

Tj

[Robert]

This anthem's a real toe-tapper :

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zhHU04xD6MI

[tji]

Hi Robert


Wow - that is ...wow! I have actually been rendered speechless, although I couldn't manage the full 4 minutes, maybe it got better?

Tj

[Robert]

Nope, it didn't get better. The cool breeze and the monkey returned, and the anthem ended on a note of uplift (in Hartlepool terms, that is).

[tji]

Cool breeze returned?! it never leaves - full country has a heatwave and yet Hartlepool somehow still manages to have people walking round in coats!

Tj