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Post by housesparrow on Sept 2, 2009 5:36:04 GMT
Those redevelopment programmes just destroyed communities, more or less overnight.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 2, 2009 9:31:31 GMT
The kind of flat that I live in - 4 story, two or three wings of 4 flats each - are really good - apart from not having a garden (though people on the ground floor do, now). They're the kind of flats you often see in Minder, and I suppose Hill Street Blues: the kind they're always going to knock people up at 6AM. They're really nicely designed - very small, but every square foot used to the full. These are council flats from I think the 30s. Not the ones with the outside walkways on each floor, aubrey? They were heralded as the answer to all our urban planning problems in the late '60s; according to the TV cop dramas they now house ex-lifers and the mothers of drug dealers. That's the type (I think) People used to sometimes create a scene to make filming of that kind of programme difficult; it was always the crims who lived in them, which wasn't right. (I screwed up the other version of this.) |
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Post by jean on Sept 2, 2009 9:53:40 GMT
I think you screwed that one up too, aubrey - unless you really are talking to yourself in the last paragraph!
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Post by aubrey on Sept 2, 2009 17:16:06 GMT
Oh god, you're right. Hang on.
.....
How's that?
Jean, what has Italy got that's better than egg and chips, eh? eh?
(And you don't know...) ;D
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Post by jean on Sept 2, 2009 17:56:10 GMT
Well now you mention it, I have noticed that Italians have started to put chips on pizza.
The first time I saw it I thought it was an aberration, but this time I saw it again.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 2, 2009 19:59:28 GMT
I have pizza sandwiches. Nothing would surprise me. (One of my best ever meals was a slice of cold pizza (cooked by my brother in one of the trays that Public Image's Metal Box came in) with cold new potatoes and several slices of bread and butter, eaten on a night shift several hundred feet underground at Harworth Colliery.)
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Post by trubble on Sept 2, 2009 20:15:52 GMT
 Aubrey, man. You have severe pizza addiction.
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Post by trubble on Sept 2, 2009 20:32:09 GMT
Well now you mention it, I have noticed that Italians have started to put chips on pizza. The first time I saw it I thought it was an aberration, but this time I saw it again. Did you sample the delicacy? Marks out of 10?  |
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Post by jean on Sept 2, 2009 21:07:25 GMT
NOOOOOOOOO!
Made me feel ill just to look at it.
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Post by everso on Sept 2, 2009 21:34:56 GMT
Sorry, but (and I know I'm going to tread on many toes here) potatoes and bread too close together isn't right. Mr. E., on the rare occasion that we have chips, always insists on a couple of bits of 'buppy' to make a chip sandwhich.
I could almost divorce him.
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Post by trubble on Sept 2, 2009 21:44:38 GMT
NOOOOOOOOO!Made me feel ill just to look at it.  well then. Might be nice. |
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Post by jean on Sept 2, 2009 21:50:26 GMT
Well here you are, you can try it:  I don't like any two different sorts of starch together, everso. I'm always surprised that Italians will serve bread with pasta. |
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Post by everso on Sept 2, 2009 21:57:42 GMT
I don't like any two different sorts of starch together, everso. I'm always surprised that Italians will serve bread with pasta. I can just about eat garlic bread with pasta but not in the same mouthful and only if I'm eating lasagne. Oddly enough, curry, rice and naan bread isn't so bad. |
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Post by trubble on Sept 2, 2009 22:12:52 GMT
Lasagne and garlic bread go well together - other pasta..hmm..I don't know about that although I suppose I have eaten garlic bread as a starter and penne as a main. That;s different courses though.
I don't understand suppli. Rice and cheese deepfried in breadcrumbs? It really should not work - but does.
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Post by trubble on Sept 2, 2009 22:16:40 GMT
Well here you are, you can try it: Er... no thanks.  Good call, Jean. But all nations serve bread with everything. (Ok, not all, but they all double starch you.) |
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Post by Flatypus on Sept 2, 2009 23:55:39 GMT
Gack! Chips with pizza just maybe, but not on it! I never understand the condemnation of pizza as junk: bread for starch, tomato for vitamins and some very good trace elements, cheese for protein. I wouldn't want to live on it and my favourite was of doubtful legality - bits of leek and artichoke but among other things, octopus about an inch across.
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Post by aubrey on Sept 3, 2009 9:12:18 GMT
Aubrey, man. You have severe pizza addiction. NO! A severe bread addiction. My brother made a very bready pizza. And with the extra bread I took, and the potatoes, it was just about right. I eat most things as an excuse to eat bread. |
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Post by jean on Sept 3, 2009 9:33:43 GMT
Here's the cl;assic starch dish from the Veneto/Lombardy (where I've just been):  It's polenta, a kind of maize porridge. You can pour it out on a wooden board like this and eat it immediately, or let it cool and solidify a bit and then slice it andfry it with cheese:  Or cut it smaller and turn it into chips. |
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Post by aubrey on Sept 3, 2009 9:52:31 GMT
As long as you can make sandwiches out of it.
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Post by jean on Sept 3, 2009 10:36:11 GMT
You can put the cheese in the middle before you fry it (but there were no pictures of that). Will that do?
At the local trattoria where we ate, they gave us antipasti of small polenta slices with melted cheese topped with a prune.
This I had never seen before.
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