More songs about chocolate and girls...

[blue_condition]

Well no actually, but a couple of reviews of Leeds eateries.

Sam's Chop House is the Leeds offshoot of the famous Manchester food pub. The Manchester version has consistently served me the second-best roast beef I've ever had (the best ever being at the Durham Ox at Crayke - go there), although it was a while before I noticed they'd launched a

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[minnesattva]

I demand more songs about chocolate and girls!

[moral_vacuum]

Would it be ridiculously indulgent for me to nip up to Leeds just for dinner?

[ms_siobhan]

No it would be marvellous to see you.

[blue_condition]

No and the place to do it would be Salvo's Salumeria on a Saturday night. The special regional menus at the Salumeria (two doors down from the restaurant) look utterly divine. I haven't been to Salvo's in donkey's years (used to go when my old mate Steve used to live in Headingley, as he insisted Meanwood. These days I only pass through Leeds so really only get the chance to visit city-centre restaurants.

[thecesspit]

1) What is American/Irish corned beef, and is it different to what you get in a tin?

2) You said "dude"?

[blue_condition]

What's sold as 'salt beef' in the UK is pretty much the same as 'corned beef' in the USA.

The mush in tins is... not the same ;)

[ortho_bob]

I've never understood why two very different foodstuffs should have the same name. It's not like it's such a great name that one nation couldn't bear to back down and call it something else.

And corn isn't an ingredient of either, by the way. Even after reading the Wikipedia page I can't figure out how the tinned UK stuff is made or why it's that color. And now I've got the stuff on my brain. Why, I'm almost craving it....

[thecesspit]

English corned beef is perserved with corns of salt. Bully beef hash with hot sauce is very nice.

Yes, I see that frown....

[puritypersimmon]

The Durham Ox...We must go back there, now I can eat the roast beef nice and rare ;-]

[blue_condition]

Grin, what better way to wean James ;P

[ravensthorpe]

Pek is the convenient meat of choice. Especially curried.