Pizza!!!

[Razor X]

When I've been to the UK the absolute last thing I'd look or ask for is pizza or hamburger. 

It depends on the circumstances. If you've been traveling all day and it's getting late and you need a quick meal, you'll take what's available.

[Chavster]

That sounds a bit like Tom's airline days

But yes I agree. If I'm going to eat a hamburger in the UK (or really anywhere), I'd eat it at McDonalds. Here at least, everywhere else makes it with even worse mystery meat than McDonalds does.

And if none of you have ever sampled the UK's other 'delicacy' - a kebab - you really should. Its a big hunk of 'lamb' (mystery meat) on a massive skewer that turns in front of a flame for about 400 hours. At the end of the evening, they throw it in the fridge, and then take it out the next day and throw it in front of the flame again, and it goes on like that until the whole thing has been purchased.

They slice it thinly and put it inside pita bread with peppers and onions and stuff like that.

Eww.

A typical 'classy' night out for the average English person: go the the pub and drink 50 pints of warm beer, then go for a kebab, then puke, then have some more to drink. Nice.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%B6ner_kebab_slicing.jpg

[D.A.L.U.I.]

When I've been to the UK the absolute last thing I'd look or ask for is pizza or hamburger. 

It depends on the circumstances. If you've been traveling all day and it's getting late and you need a quick meal, you'll take what's available.

Bad food=no food for me--I can't stand to "have" to eat junk, prefer to go to bed hungry, I've got a little extra weight to see me through, unfortunately.  When in the UK, I'll find an Indian restaurant--but I also like fish and chips, but it's harder and harder to find the good stuff.  

[Razor X]

I remember stopping at a Pizza Hut in Surrey after getting off the intercity train from Edinburgh.  It was about 11 pm and I was starving and getting a proper meal was out of the question. 

[buddha]

And if none of you have ever sampled the UK's other 'delicacy' - a kebab - you really should. Its a big hunk of 'lamb' (mystery meat) on a massive skewer that turns in front of a flame for about 400 hours. At the end of the evening, they throw it in the fridge, and then take it out the next day and throw it in front of the flame again, and it goes on like that until the whole thing has been purchased.
They slice it thinly and put it inside pita bread with peppers and onions and stuff like that.

Over here we call that "Gyros" (pronounced Year-ohs). Commonly served in restaurants that specialize in Greek cuisine.

[D.A.L.U.I.]

And if none of you have ever sampled the UK's other 'delicacy' - a kebab - you really should. Its a big hunk of 'lamb' (mystery meat) on a massive skewer that turns in front of a flame for about 400 hours. At the end of the evening, they throw it in the fridge, and then take it out the next day and throw it in front of the flame again, and it goes on like that until the whole thing has been purchased.

They slice it thinly and put it inside pita bread with peppers and onions and stuff like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%B6ner_kebab_slicing.jpg

They call that gyro here--we've got one in the office building food court.  The "meat" is made someplace around Chicago and sold all over the place.  I  kind of like it, provided the tazziki sauce is good, they put a healthy dose of goat cheese on it and they use Greek style, rather than California style, olives.  Lots of onions please.  

[Chavster]

I remember stopping at a Pizza Hut in Surrey after getting off the intercity train from Edinburgh.  It was about 11 pm and I was starving and getting a proper meal was out of the question. 

At that time of night, Pizza Hut would be one of the only places still open. Even most McDonald's locations close at 11pm.

[tomgallagher]

Geez, I was hungry before I started reading this thread.

[Slynito]

Geez, I was hungry before I started reading this thread.

Yep, it's gone down hill, fast!

[Chavster]

And if none of you have ever sampled the UK's other 'delicacy' - a kebab - you really should. Its a big hunk of 'lamb' (mystery meat) on a massive skewer that turns in front of a flame for about 400 hours. At the end of the evening, they throw it in the fridge, and then take it out the next day and throw it in front of the flame again, and it goes on like that until the whole thing has been purchased.

They slice it thinly and put it inside pita bread with peppers and onions and stuff like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%B6ner_kebab_slicing.jpg

They call that gyro here--we've got one in the office building food court.  The "meat" is made someplace around Chicago and sold all over the place.  I  kind of like it, provided the tazziki sauce is good, they put a healthy dose of goat cheese on it and they use Greek style, rather than California style, olives.  Lots of onions please.  

Is a gyro the same thing as a hero? And what is baked ziti? Wtf is a 'ziti'??

p.s. tazziki = tzatziki

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Is a gyro the same thing as a hero? And what is baked ziti? Wtf is a 'ziti'??

p.s. tazziki = tzatziki

tzatziki--thanks, I'm obviously not Greek, but their food is good.   
Gyro is not a "hero", it's the sliced lamb meat mixture you called kebab, although kebabs here in middle eastern restaurants are rarely ground or processed meats.  It's served sliced from the broiler device on a pita with the "fixings".  Heros--are long sandwiches on a French bread large baguette style roll.  They're called "po' boys" in New Orleans, and are known as subs and hoagies in other areas.  Baked ziti, is a tube style pasta, http://www.barillaus.com/Products/53/ziti.aspx and I'm sure it's available in the UK.  Google, ziti receipes. 

[tomgallagher]

And if none of you have ever sampled the UK's other 'delicacy' - a kebab - you really should. Its a big hunk of 'lamb' (mystery meat) on a massive skewer that turns in front of a flame for about 400 hours. At the end of the evening, they throw it in the fridge, and then take it out the next day and throw it in front of the flame again, and it goes on like that until the whole thing has been purchased.

They slice it thinly and put it inside pita bread with peppers and onions and stuff like that.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:D%C3%B6ner_kebab_slicing.jpg

They call that gyro here--we've got one in the office building food court.  The "meat" is made someplace around Chicago and sold all over the place.  I  kind of like it, provided the tazziki sauce is good, they put a healthy dose of goat cheese on it and they use Greek style, rather than California style, olives.  Lots of onions please.  

Is a gyro the same thing as a hero? And what is baked ziti? Wtf is a 'ziti'??

p.s. tazziki = tzatziki

Nope, a gyro is a hot sandwich, a hero, sub, hoagie is a cold sandwich.

[BaldHDbiker]

However - I must add that the only place in America I ate pizza and actually enjoyed it was in New York.

There is a pizza shop in NYC right near Madison Square Garden that has out of this world pizza. We actually found it by asking a NYPD officer who was out in front of the garden. And to think all along we thought they were only the doughnut experts.... lol

[D.A.L.U.I.]

Nope, a gyro is a hot sandwich, a hero, sub, hoagie is a cold sandwich.

On the other hand, po' boys can be hot or cold.  Fried oyster, shrimp, soft shelled crab, fried catfish, hot roast beef, hot--i.e.spicy-- sausage, slow roasted duck, etc.--all are hot.  There are cold cut varieties too.  Then there is the supposed original po' boy, French fried potatoes on a loaf with roast beef gravy, tomatoes, pickles and mayonaise--they were served to the "poor boys" on the picket lines in a transit strike in N.O. in the 20's or 30's by the strikers' supporters.  

[Chavster]

Oh, re hero/gyro. The kebabs here are revolting so I think I'll avoid gyros too. Eww.

As for Ziti, it looks like macaroni to me.

Its interesting you posted a link to the Barilla website, because the UK is one of the few countries where Barilla doesnt peddle its goods. I emailed them a couple of days ago to find out why but they havent responded yet. I'm assuming its because they'd have to charge twice as much here, and because everyone here is already used to eating pasta that tastes like cardboard. IMO, its the best commercially produced pasta in the world, but its as rare as hen's teeth here. When I go over to France to go shopping, which I'll be doing just before Christmas, I always buy boxes and boxes of Barilla. The customs people at the entrance to the channel tunnel always look at me like because most people fill their cars with wine, but me being odd, I'm an international pasta smuggler.

The last time I came back from France, the customs woman asked me what I had in the car. "Pasta" I said. She looked at me like I was peeing on her, and she didnt believe me, so she made me get out of the car while her and her buddies emptied my car out completely. Morons.