Flowery food descriptions: 'hand baked'

[Fnaar]

Cracked black pepper
Crushed potatoes
Worried carrots

 

[yello]

I had an anxious pee before once.

 

[Paulus]

Cracked black pepper
Crushed potatoes
Worried carrots

Worried carrots? Please explain. Also, Jus, as said before, used to be gravy, or maybe a sauce.

 

[dellzeqq]

I'll join the anti-jus brigade if I may.

Onion marmalade. Time to leave.........

 

[User482]

"Jus" is the one that annoys me most. Its gravy FFS.

Actually, it's not. Generally, both are made from meat juices, but gravy is usually thickened whereas jus is not. Unfortunately, most restaurants don't know the difference.

Speaking of which: creme anglaise is so called because the French have no word for custard. So why put it on English menus?

I once saw a menu including the description "a dialogue of purees". I've not been back...

 

[GM]

I once saw on a Restaurant menu in Spain, Sea Bass in a Semen Sauce. Not for me thanks!

 

[User169]

I once saw on a Restaurant menu in Spain, Sea Bass in a Semen Sauce. Not for me thanks!

I remember seeing a menu advertise a dish prepared with "the chef's own cheese".

 

[Fnaar]

Worried carrots? Please explain.

OK, I made that one up

But it's not beyond the bounds of possibility

Was wondering who would spot it, so you win a plate of crushed potatoes

 

[Davidc]

I presume you mean that you can tell the fresh fish tasted worse? If not, you're on your own! On one of these 'where does food come from programs', every one of the testers, including Michelin stared chefs, fishmongers, fishermen and food critics, all said the frozen fish that was processed at sea and frozen there tasted better than any 'fresh' fish they had.


'Fresh fish' includes not only stuff landed by small boats within hours of catching it, but stuff from all the larger boats that keep the fish on ice for a week while they continue to fish, then travel two days to get back to Peterhead or somewhere, a morning laying around in the fish market, a lorry journey to the wholesaler, and then it sits around in supermarkets for up to three days. Fresh? And a lot of the 'fresh' local shell fish in harbour front restaurants in France come from Scotland.


The best tasting fish (small local boats excluded) is stuff handled by huge factory ships that has it deep frozen within hours of catching it. The same with peas. And the same company has the technology to do both well.

I can't help it if those on your programme have less refined taste than mine. There will have been more TV programmes in which the same people said the opposite.


Not all fresh fish tastes good

All frozen fish tastes poor in comparison to fresh

The best fish comes out of the water and is cooked within 12 hours.


Not all fresh vegetables taste good

All frozen, dried, tinned etc. vegetables taste poor in comparison to fresh

The best vegetables come off the plant or out of the ground and go into the pot within the day.


I have frozen fish and vegetables at home for emergencies and they're acceptable for that. I presume you're talking about the factory in Lowestoft which freezes food. I've been there and they're very fussy and they do a good job. Doesn't make their food taste better than that which is fresh and has never been frozen though.

 

[Fab Foodie]

Russian food is far more hard-core, nothing flowery here:

 

[Davidc]

Russian food is far more hard-core, nothing flowery here:

I've seen spotted dick on a menu but that really is going too far FF

 

[Fab Foodie]

"potato puree"..... Tsk!

Actually, pureed potato is very smooth and homogeneous - different from mash which tends to be coarser.

 

[User169]

"deconstructed"

 

[Fab Foodie]

I've seen spotted dick on a menu but that really is going too far FF

I have Bull testicles and Chicken testicles, but Cocks is another matter ....

 

[User482]

I can't help it if those on your programme have less refined taste than mine. There will have been more TV programmes in which the same people said the opposite.


Not all fresh fish tastes good

All frozen fish tastes poor in comparison to fresh

The best fish comes out of the water and is cooked within 12 hours.


Not all fresh vegetables taste good

All frozen, dried, tinned etc. vegetables taste poor in comparison to fresh

The best vegetables come off the plant or out of the ground and go into the pot within the day.


I have frozen fish and vegetables at home for emergencies and they're acceptable for that. I presume you're talking about the factory in Lowestoft which freezes food. I've been there and they're very fussy and they do a good job. Doesn't make their food taste better than that which is fresh and has never been frozen though.

Quite simply not true. Unless fish is very fresh (by which, I mean caught, landed and for sale within a day or two) then it quickly tastes stale. If you really believe that to be superior to frozen fish, your tastebuds are deficient.