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Post by houpla on Feb 20, 2023 10:34:02 GMT 1
The OP has got their perspectives wrong; the French believe they should have many places in the top ten by (Divine) right but the UK is simply grateful to be mentioned at all. The French have not yet understood that their wines, cheeses, meats and the rest are no longer any better than other countries. I think they're working on the principle that if you tell the world something long and loudly enough, they'll believe it  It's mostly worked for the home market, at least until recently. Now the younger generations are travelling more, though, and the horizon has moved beyond couscous and pizza. |
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Post by pcpa on Feb 20, 2023 15:47:27 GMT 1
Indeed, I share the same horizon as you, you cannot even find cous-cous now, only Pizza and all you can eat Asian and/or grill buffets.
I sometimes use a little "Snack" café I think its called Ô Snack or something, why oh why does everything have to be an Ô something these days, what does it even mean and why the circonflex?
Anyway the owner is a Ch'ti so I quite like the Ch'ti Poonani, a sliced steak haché with Maroilles cheese, that is when he has the Maroilles and doesn't try to pass off Orange processed slices of plastic cheese.
Last week they had a special Poulet Curry wrap, I gave it a try, it was disgusting, it was the reformed cardboard floor sweepings chicken mutant stuff in the usual overly sweet and unspicy nuclear waste coloured Curry powder mixed with Emmental cheese 
I dont think he has travelled any further than Valencienne to Dordogne and probably did not have the return fare!
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Post by lurcher on Feb 20, 2023 16:39:10 GMT 1
I won’t raise the issue as I would rather she enjoyed eating it without feeling guilty. Thank you for the information though.
Sorry, this is in reply to rennet being added to taleggio. My post is out of turn.
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Post by houpla on Feb 20, 2023 19:54:33 GMT 1
Indeed, I share the same horizon as you, you cannot even find cous-cous now, only Pizza and all you can eat Asian and/or grill buffets.
I sometimes use a little "Snack" café I think its called Ô Snack or something, why oh why does everything have to be an Ô something these days, what does it even mean and why the circonflex?
Anyway the owner is a Ch'ti so I quite like the Ch'ti Poonani, a sliced steak haché with Maroilles cheese, that is when he has the Maroilles and doesn't try to pass off Orange processed slices of plastic cheese.
Last week they had a special Poulet Curry wrap, I gave it a try, it was disgusting, it was the reformed cardboard floor sweepings chicken mutant stuff in the usual overly sweet and unspicy nuclear waste coloured Curry powder mixed with Emmental cheese
I dont think he has travelled any further than Valencienne to Dordogne and probably did not have the return fare!
O with a circonflex to signify that it rhymes with 'au', I think, or in the case of a resto in Marmande, 'L'ô à la Bouche'. Talking of Maroilles, I had a lovely veal escalope with melted Maroilles on Saturday. An unusual and very tasty take on the habitual cream sauce. I'm surprised that you still haven't found some good little restos in Bergerac. Or Issigeac? |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 20, 2023 20:36:24 GMT 1
I've visited the Roquefort caves where they mature the cheese. Still got the model sheep souvenir. Best cheese I've ever tasted? Mature Red Leicester!
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Post by pcpa on Feb 20, 2023 21:38:32 GMT 1
I'm surprised that you still haven't found some good little restos in Bergerac. Or Issigeac? I have found the best Rouitier in the world just 4km in a straight line towards Bordeaux from me, I have just returned from there. My eyesight and lack of confidence thereof has prevented me from driving at night this winter in the large towns, in one months time I go for s**t or bust with a voluntary cataract operation on my one remaining eye, a calculated risk, the downside would be catastrophic but I believe the upside will be worth the risk. After that it will be the bright summer months so like many things I am putting off the resto search till then. |
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Post by pcpa on Feb 20, 2023 21:42:41 GMT 1
O with a circonflex to signify that it rhymes with 'au' Dô! Obvious now or were I to follow their (lack of) logic Dâ  |
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Post by lapourtaider on Feb 21, 2023 8:31:06 GMT 1
Indeed, I share the same horizon as you, you cannot even find cous-cous now, only Pizza and all you can eat Asian and/or grill buffets Bit further from you, but I saw a couscous place in Sarlat on Saturday called Le Bled. |
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Post by pcpa on Feb 21, 2023 11:52:57 GMT 1
I can buy it ready cooked from the Épicerie Arab where I buy my Merguez but it's €15 per part  Lord only knows what a resto would charge. |
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Post by lurcher on Feb 21, 2023 12:41:40 GMT 1
Lunch time approaching fast. Very hungry. I checked morguez on my iPad and discovered how easy it is to source it in UK. I always enjoy trying new foods so the next time I am left alone to fend for myself I will endeavour to get some in. Maybe they will be available in Super U.
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Post by pcpa on Feb 21, 2023 12:48:41 GMT 1
Merguez not Morguez, it was probably a typo but referring to sausages in the singular made me wonder.
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Post by lapourtaider on Feb 21, 2023 13:54:10 GMT 1
I can buy it ready cooked from the Épicerie Arab where I buy my Merguez but it's €15 per part Lord only knows what a resto would charge. Not a resto, a takeaway. 12€50 for Couscous Merguez. Apparently copious. |
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Post by cernunnos on Feb 21, 2023 13:59:17 GMT 1
Lunch time approaching fast. Very hungry. I checked morguez on my iPad and discovered how easy it is to source it in UK. I always enjoy trying new foods so the next time I am left alone to fend for myself I will endeavour to get some in. Maybe they will be available in Super U. Merguez is sold in every supermarket in France , but not all are made with mutton and beef , as they should be. |
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Post by Le-Dolly on Feb 21, 2023 15:16:15 GMT 1
Lunch time approaching fast. Very hungry. I checked morguez on my iPad and discovered how easy it is to source it in UK. I always enjoy trying new foods so the next time I am left alone to fend for myself I will endeavour to get some in. Maybe they will be available in Super U. Merguez is sold in every supermarket in France , but not all are made with mutton and beef , as they should be. A slight correction, they should be made with mutton and/or beef. |
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Post by pcpa on Feb 21, 2023 16:18:22 GMT 1
Supermarket ones are pretty dire after you have tasted the real thing but a good introduction, dont overcook them if grilling, they need some fat remaining, there is so much fat in supermarket ones that you would have to forget and go out for the afternoon before they would be too dry but easy to do and hard to judge with boucherie ones.
On that subject be wary of the supermarket boucheries when they suddenly have lots of merguez at a promo price préparé en magasin, merguez is the final stage for meat that is on the turn.
I like to think I can stomach spicy food, many magnitudes hotter than what the average Frenchie would be calling Samu after tasting but in the Épicerie Arabe it seems to be on another level, they asked me if I wanted standard or épicée and I chose the latter, they said are you sure and I explained I wasn't French! The first kg I bought were much hotter than supermarket ones and just how I like them, the second lot blew my head off and gave me a Johnny Cash bottom, no way could I eat those again so I reverted to standard which were I reckon milder than the first lot.
Either they made a mistake with the piment on the second lot or the first time they gave me the standard ones because they thought, correctly as it turns out, that despite my wishes I could not cope with the épicée ones.
So this is a question which LeDolly can probably answer, are proper indigenous merguez super relevée?
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It's mostly worked for the home market, at least until recently. Now the younger generations are travelling more, though, and the horizon has moved beyond couscous and pizza.
Lord only knows what a resto would charge. 