Barry Jive wrote:man, you guys are haters. Italian food is awesome.

Seriously

Grotewold wrote:I agree that generic Chinese or Mexican is better than generic Italian, but I don't think their upper echelon stuff stacks up

but once you're talking expensive stuff, French kicks Italians ass five ways til tuesday

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

Grotewold wrote:I agree that generic Chinese or Mexican is better than generic Italian, but I don't think their upper echelon stuff stacks up

but once you're talking expensive stuff, French kicks Italians ass five ways til tuesday

They are more renowned, yes, but I personally don't like it as much

Tell you who gets very little run is Irish food

French food doesn't have any kind of lower-level ubiquity though, so on a pure accessibility level you can't really go wrong with Italian.

i think it's now been 8 days in a row i ate some form of pasta. haters. also had cannoli, pizza, seafood, etc

what now

the best was the handcranked linguine

Soren wrote:Why do people not like the French? All they give a shit about is wine, food, coffee and smoking? They cook everything with butter. A lot of butter. Meals take at least 2 hours.

Seriously the French are awesome.

This is true. I spent a week in Paris like 10 years ago, one meal was some kind of pasta in a heavy creme and butter sause with a raw egg on top. Fucking amazing. Instead of water when you sit down you get a glass of wine or Champagne. Dinner lasts for like 3 hours and consists of getting slightly drunk, smoking a half pack of marlboro's and then going to a bar. Paris was the tits.

pacino wrote:also had cannoli, pizza, seafood, etc

We can all lay claim to the sea

Grotewold wrote:

Houshphandzadeh wrote:

Grotewold wrote:I agree that generic Chinese or Mexican is better than generic Italian, but I don't think their upper echelon stuff stacks up

but once you're talking expensive stuff, French kicks Italians ass five ways til tuesday

They are more renowned, yes, but I personally don't like it as much

Tell you who gets very little run is Irish food

what type of Irish food? I think we suck at food. My grandfather lived the first quarter of his life in Ireland and preferred Italian food

i use italian blend seasoning on my chicken

pacino, arbiter of class

stop bein such a eurocentric a-hole and eat real MERICAN food ya college educated panzy

Grotewold wrote:Tell you who gets very little run is Irish food

no argument there. can't even think of one dish that deserves in the conversation

Soren wrote:stop bein such a eurocentric a-hole and eat real MERICAN food ya college educated panzy

mom's makin CHEESESTEAKS for dinner YE

Barry Jive wrote:what type of Irish food? I think we suck at food. My grandfather lived the first quarter of his life in Ireland and preferred Italian food

Yeah I was just trying to get a rise out of people, it's real bad. Mostly second-rate English food (think about that for a second)

Bill McNeal wrote:

Soren wrote:Why do people not like the French? All they give a shit about is wine, food, coffee and smoking? They cook everything with butter. A lot of butter. Meals take at least 2 hours.

Seriously the French are awesome.

This is true. I spent a week in Paris like 10 years ago, one meal was some kind of pasta in a heavy creme and butter sause with a raw egg on top. Fucking amazing. Instead of water when you sit down you get a glass of wine or Champagne. Dinner lasts for like 3 hours and consists of getting slightly drunk, smoking a half pack of marlboro's and then going to a bar. Paris was the tits.

Honestly, this description works for just about every major city in Europe

do you consider cajun shrimp french? had that yesterday

alright good everyone agrees the Irish suck

whiskey tho

Bill McNeal wrote:

Soren wrote:Why do people not like the French? All they give a #$&! about is wine, food, coffee and smoking? They cook everything with butter. A lot of butter. Meals take at least 2 hours.

Seriously the French are awesome.

This is true. I spent a week in Paris like 10 years ago, one meal was some kind of pasta in a heavy creme and butter sause with a raw egg on top. #$&! amazing. Instead of water when you sit down you get a glass of wine or Champagne. Dinner lasts for like 3 hours and consists of getting slightly drunk, smoking a half pack of marlboro's and then going to a bar. Paris was the tits.

My step-dad is French (grew up in the Parisian suburbs), and we lived for four years in Chartres. My only regret is having lived there too young and not being able to get in on the 6 hour long dinners that involved multiple bottles of wine being drained

pacino wrote:do you consider cajun shrimp french? had that yesterday

yep - crab fries, too

Cajun is french