Why to restraunts have to ruin good food?

[highlander]

They include things like "rusk" (explanation below), salt, water, spices, blah blah blah. In some cases, the meat is almost an after-thought, but those sausages are best described as "cheap shite".

To the British butcher rusk is a dry biscuit broken into particles, sorted by particle size and sold to butchers and others for use as a food additive in sausage manufacture. Though originally made from stale bread, now called "Bread-rusk", a yeast-free variety called simply "Rusk" is now more commonly used.

Various rusk particle sizes are used in the food industry, where uses include:

- A carrier for flavours, colours and seasonings
- A binding agent in hamburgers, sausages, stuffings, pies, and other compound meat products.
- As an ingredient for dried stuffing mixes

[sirwiggum]

When I was working in Italy for a fortnight, in the canteen they had similar - pasta starter, main, side etc.

They cracked up because I took new potatoes with hotdog through them, plus a meat, and apparently thats 2 mains.

[steve_earwig]

Edit: Kind of beat me to it G. Never mind

I think it was something to do with rationing during the war, they replaced most of the meat with something called rusk (could be bread, could be sawdust, could be mud). After the war they were meant to put the meat back in but kind of forgot Powdered egg anyone?

I really should go to Italy, if only to try the food. I'm also told the coffee is the best in the world. Unfortunately I suspect I'll discover the "Italian" food here is rubbish.

I think the main reason I've never been before was the Italian driver's reputation for being the worst in the world. However, if they're even worse than the Croats, it might be a sight worth seeing

[sirwiggum]

In some of the cheaper sausages they use red food colouring, which is Cochineal - ground up beetle

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cochineal#Dye

A good sausage should be closer to brown than red.

[OdinEidolon]

Edit: Kind of beat me to it G. Never mind

I think it was something to do with rationing during the war, they replaced most of the meat with something called rusk (could be bread, could be sawdust, could be mud). After the war they were meant to put the meat back in but kind of forgot Powdered egg anyone?

I really should go to Italy, if only to try the food. I'm also told the coffee is the best in the world. Unfortunately I suspect I'll discover the "Italian" food here is rubbish.

I think the main reason I've never been before was the Italian driver's reputation for being the worst in the world. However, if they're even worse than the Croats, it might be a sight worth seeing

Nah, we are bad at driving but getting better, from what I can notice. From my experience east Europe driving is much worse. Also I hear noone can beat Indian driving at being bad...
Driving here is bad in cities, outside cities I do not see a problem. Also, in my area at least (Belluno, Dolomitis, near Cortina) the tarmac is usually good and due to the low population density not too crowded (when there aren't trillions of tourists).
By the way if you want to come give me a PM, I live in Trieste for University most of the time and that's almost on the border.

[Welly]

I thought British sausages were made from all the left over crapletts, giblets, foreskinetts, eye balls and cobblers that they can't package up as being 'meat' even the bones go in there if they can smash then up small enough

Apologies to any butchers out there listening but I'm pretty sure the basic off the shelf high street sausage is not 100% of what you'd expect.

[lozz]

Went out for food last night. Bit of a rare occasion, about 10 of us just got up and decided to go for food.

So I ordered a Cheese Burger and Chips as they didn't have any fillet steak.

It was nothing but a cheese burger, yet the menu said "Steak and Sea Salt burger with Llangloffan Cheese served with some chips".

This is what turned up...


Why do they need to do this? I had no more than 7 chip in a cup?
I want to eat off a plate, not a piece of bloody wood!
Totally ruined the meal for me. I should have gone to McDonalds.

[/Rant]

alot of places are serving up crap like that now adays,
they also seem to dish out alot of lettuce or what looks like dandylion leaves how everthats spelt,

sea salt burger? thatd put me straight off before thinking of ordering, salt is used for preserving meat, iwonder how old the burger was ?

go to a carvery mate, you will get better value for your money,

[steve_earwig]

By the way if you want to come give me a PM, I live in Trieste for University most of the time and that's almost on the border.

Now *that's* an offer Thankyou, I may very well take you up on that I've just been checking it out on Google and it looks like you're closer to me there than you are to your home town The wife says Trieste is where the Croats used to go for their clothes shopping (amongst other things) when it was all forbidden/stupidly expensive here.

Of course this means driving through Slovenia again - I'm a bit reluctant to pay for their vinaigrette so I can drive a few km at a snail's pace on a dirt track

[OdinEidolon]

By the way if you want to come give me a PM, I live in Trieste for University most of the time and that's almost on the border.

Now *that's* an offer Thankyou, I may very well take you up on that I've just been checking it out on Google and it looks like you're closer to me there than you are to your home town The wife says Trieste is where the Croats used to go for their clothes shopping (amongst other things) when it was all forbidden/stupidly expensive here.

Of course this means driving through Slovenia again - I'm a bit reluctant to pay for their vinaigrette so I can drive a few km at a snail's pace on a dirt track

ahem, only 15 euros a week the vignette! (burglers!)

[STALLED]

Hahahahaha - looked such a shite burger!