Have you got a sorta tradational dish that makes you cringe?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pie_floater

I don't mind the odd pie floater ...I don't mind a decent pie occasionally and I quite like pea soup .....

BUT WHAT IS REEALLLLY getting my goat......

is effin bastardised traditions ... like orange flavoured ... choc chip hot cross buns!!!!!!! They are WRONG!!!!!!

I've never been able to try one since I've only seen a cart rarely and they tend to be open too late for me. I think it's more for a night of partying then eating to recover right?

I'd give it a go though if I could.

I did see a group of startled Japanese tourists being served them down at Harry's Cafe De Wheels, they were trying to figure what to do with 'em i suppose!

oooh...... pie floater with chopsticks .... now thats a challenge!

like orange flavoured ... choc chip hot cross buns!!!!!!! They are WRONG!!!!!!

I haven't seen anything like that here, but I agree with you, philistine. People will not leave the classics alone. They became classics for a reason.

Talk about bastardising traditional stuff. I got home really late one night and the only place open was a Dominos pizza so I ordered a medium pepperoni , when I cut into it a load of mayonnaise oozed out the center like puss from a boil, needless to say I complained online and was given a refund. Amazingly they said they don't put mayonnaise in their pizzas but they do put "spread" in what they term as a double burst pizza. I said I have never seen such a bad frankenstein concoction in all my life, whoever came up with that must have been on a bad trip, I have in the past conjured up some weird though rather tasty munchies after a long afternoon session but never ever would it occur to me to try and market the stuff. So tell me has pizza become so boring that companies such as the above have to destroy a perfectly good pizza by putting "spread" inside it? .

I wasn't a perfectly good pizza that they destroyed, ivor. It was a Domino's pizza.

As an adoptive Hong Konger, the many variations of sweet and sour pork around the world. You can get a good version here but it's not eaten often and doesn't have the reputation of being an icon of Cantonese eating that it seems to outside of Hong Kong.

Domino's or whoever, it's more the fact of destroying a "pizza" or anything else by adding poetic license where it's not needed.

I've only had sweet and sour pork twice, the 1st was in a restaurant in Manchester's China town named Kwok Man, the 2nd time it was in a restaurant in London on Rupert street just off Shaftesbury ave. The manager sat me at a table next to a damp partition wall, when the food arrived I couldn't tell whether or not it was the sweet and sour sauce that was stinging my nasal passages or the damp on the wall, so I got up and went behind it only to discover the mens toilet.

Any Pizza or Sweet and Sour dish that has pineapple in it, deserves to be binned!

ooooh we have a sweet&sour pork PIZZA in my town ... as well as a tandoori pizza !!!!

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Sweet & Sour & Tandoori Pizza?............................That is both Bizarre & Surreal!

We get sweet and sour chicken from a local take-away and it's actually quite nice. The chicken in batter comes separately from the sauce so it's not soggy when you get it home. The batter is a bit stodgy after a while though so we can never finish it all. I have had some dire stuff in China Town.

I used to like sweet and sour chicken but the last time I tried it I wasn't impressed. I imagine it was me that changed and not the chicken.

Once a year my mother serves gefilte fish, which I liked as a kid but can't stomach now. Gefilte Fish

Any questions?

Ee no, pie floater? Never heard of such a thing.

Sachac I feed my kid a whole lot of things she'll question later in life:)

Don't have guilty pleasures very often but when I do it's got to be extra extra butter on popcorn. Cheese, chilli, everything on a street dog, nachos with the works. Quite cringeworthy and I usually feel sick later, but it's so worth it.

sashac, do you know about the Gefilte Fish Line?

In his 1965 doctoral dissertation, “The Yiddish Language in Northern Poland: Its Geography and History,” based on interviews with Jews from pre-Holocaust Eastern Europe, Marvin Herzog presented what is now known as the “gefilte fish line.” The line runs north to south, about 40 miles east of Warsaw; west of it, the preferred gefilte fish preparation was sweet, while to the east the fish was peppery.

The bottled stuff here all seems to be from the Galitzianer (sweet) side of the line. I think if somebody made Litvak gefilte fish here it might sell -- although maybe most people want what their mother used to make or rather buy.

I wasn't. Now I am. That's a rather interesting article but I've never seen gefilte fish stuffed into anything. In my parents' and grandparents' (when they were alive) houses it's always been served in the jelly. Although no one eats the jelly part, it's rather gross. It's always served with horseradish, after the matzo ball soup on Passover. The taste isn't horrible, slightly fishy but mostly bland but It has a slightly gritty consistency which I no longer find pleasant. Besides, by the time I'm done with the matzo ball soup and the chopped liver, there's little room for dinner, much less gefilte fish.

#16 Why would the Galitzianer be sweet since Galicia was to the east of that north-south line?

You made me do some research, bjd.

And where did the “gefilte fish line” run? Almost exactly along the boundary separating Central Yiddish, on the one hand, from Northeast and Southeast Yiddish, on the other. There is a map of this line in Volume III of “The Language and Cultural Atlas of Ashkenazic Jewry,” published by the Yivo Institute for Jewish Research, showing exactly where in Eastern Europe gefilte fish was sweetened and where it wasn’t. Starting some 100 miles northeast of Warsaw, the frontier ran in a southeasterly direction, with an eastward bulge in eastern Galicia, which is today in western Ukraine. To the west of it, gefilte fish was sweet; to the east, it wasn’t. The frontier between vus and vos followed the very same path.

"Vus" and "vos" refers to two prononciations of the Yiddish word for "What".

Source.

vos aux dos - hey I do still remember some Yiddish. Oy gevalt!