Re: Foods you love and hate
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Originally Posted by Rusalka
Let me see.. Well I guess it's the same thing as you people calling me a Turk because I lived there.  |
When did I ever?? 
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In any case, I'm sure you have had the great joy of trying a fried Mars Bar, it's like going to Turkey for vacation and not eating a sish-kebab. Oh hang on, actually the Brits do go to Turkey and eat English breakfast and drink beer and nothing else for a fortnight. Very traditional sort. 
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And moaning that the stupid locals can't speak English.
Hellooooo....21st century 
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I don't know, how about tomatoes?
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Good in sauces I admit, but that Vitamin A is an overdose hazard
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There is a difference between boiling to death
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Our food is usually pre-killed beforehand
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and merely cooking but you come from a land where they boil everything together in one pot till they go white so I'm not blaming you.
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First you think I'm a Scot, now I don't know where the hell you think I'm from 
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