Comments | restingpedant: I meant to say, part a million

restingpedant

I meant to say, part a million

Oct 22, 2007 00:37

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gfrancie October 21 2007, 23:58:11 UTC

Being addressed as fucker would actually put me in a better frame of mind to enjoy a meal.

I suspect only Americans can genuinely get away with that. Though it might add a particularly interesting element to the English dining experience.
A bit of light abuse with the soup de jour.

The cruel world of gentrification doesn't want you to eat egg and chips and relax with a cup of coffee that may not be fair trade and picked by one-legged virgins who read Coleridge.

restingpedant October 22 2007, 19:43:13 UTC

Let's face it, the food in the average English dining experience is often insult enough without added profanity.

gfrancie October 23 2007, 23:28:41 UTC

I think that the English are great at cooking certain things.
Between you and me, vegetables aren't usually one of them.
My husband never really liked vegetables until I cooked for him.

restingpedant October 23 2007, 23:38:42 UTC

Old-school British restaurants like to cook vegetables to suit edentate diners. It's a shame.

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restingpedant October 22 2007, 19:10:54 UTC

Why do these things set my pulse racing a bit? It's ridiculous. That place is just lovely. It's heartening to see a sensitive conversion of an interior that's 'only' thirty-something years old. How telling that there are even 60s and 70s butchers to be converted in Paris. I don't suppose a new one has opened in Britain since the Suez Crisis.

We once had a really pompous meal in a Barcelona restaurant where the menu was delivered in the form of long nonsensical speeches, which were repeated when each course came. They all ended with things like "... overlaid with a SPUME of chlorophyll". Of course it was all tiny dolls house food. The restaurant was called Moo, and it was inside a hotel called Omm. Or maybe it was the other way round.

Somehow this is my all-time nightmare and ultimate fantasy dining experience combined:

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restingpedant October 22 2007, 21:20:38 UTC

Well, talk about upping the ante. I may have to go and find somewhere to tuck in to a piece of horse now, like Depperdoo at the end of Maîtresse.

nicolasix October 22 2007, 11:08:53 UTC

i didn't actually believe it would ever close and then one day, it's light was out! so sad, so incredibly sad. thank you for lovely writing about it though.

restingpedant October 22 2007, 20:01:56 UTC

I don't really understand why all good things have to come to an end, to tell you the truth.

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restingpedant October 22 2007, 19:32:41 UTC

I'll probably survive! I don't think I'm really quite as maudlin as I'm making out.