They love their sandwiches over here!
Loooove their sandwiches!
There are two gormet sandwich chains devoted to selling fresh made, healthy and preservative free sandwiches and salads. And they are always packed with people.
So why do I mention this? Cause I like their sandies too.
Its definatly part of living in London. Sandies and Jacket Potatoes. The Jacket potato is ... you guessed it, a potato, a big one, heated up with the skin on, sliced open and filled with a variety of things. The craziest I seen is one filled with melted cheeze, tuna and cottage cheese - apparently its 'the ultimate comfort food' - that was what one of my mate colleagues said - he's from a posh part of the country and is very polite.
Another thing about English cuisine is the Cider. This is a bubbly, alcohois drink made from apples or pears. Its like drinking alcoholic apply juice. Some of them taste pretty good. Mare and I got a range from the supermarket and had a taste testing session on the weekend. We found that some are good and others are nasty. One tasted like sour, slightly off apples, but it started to taste a lot better after we had a few :)
Well Im at work right now and nobody's here. Its also time I got back to work.
Some quick news is that Mare and I are looking for a gym to go to - Virgin has its own chain of gyms competing with Fitness First. We are meant to get a fridge, washine machine and internet on wednesday - hopefully some couches too. Oh ye and a land line telephone too
Take care,
Tomasz
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2007 - This is our account, stories, photos and experiences of our time in London
Random Tallies
- People Seen Stuk In Clsing Tube Doors To Date - 15...no we have lost count now...
- How Mny Of Them Needed Door Wedged Open - 9 .. we've also lost count here and my foot got stuck once, but that was on purpose and I was a little worse for wear
- No. Of Couples Split Up Wen 1 Made It Onto Train But Other Was Left Behind The CLosed Door Cause He/She Was Distracted Reading This Random Tally - 4 - and yes me and Mare are one of these
Funny Named Stations on the Tube - what? We spend a lot of time on the train
- Cutty Sark - note that none of these are spelling mistakes
- Mudchute
- Tooting Bec
- Clapham - sounds like something to see the doctor about
- Burnt Oak
- Kentish Town - not quite Kent, but Kentish
- Chalk Farm
- and best of all - Cockfosters
Interesting Things From London
- Instead of Saying 'Internet Router' - they pronounce it 'rooter' (Insert childish giggle here)
- The TV show 'Little Britain' : "Ye but, no but, ye but"
- The Book '1984' by George Orwell - strangley familiar
- Rhyming Slang: Boat = Face - because Boat Race rhymes with Face. Almonds = socks - because Almond Rocks rhyme with Socks.
- Petrol here is 93p = $2.6 Ozy per litre
- The saying - 'Teeth like a victorian cemetary'; 'My left foot has more brains than___'
- Mare and Madonna live in the same city!!
- More Rhyming Slang: Jam = Car - Jam Jar rhymes with car. Barnett = Hair - because High Barnett Fair rhymes with Hair. Iron = poof, because iron hoof rhyms with poof
2 comments:
Comfort food as in a fat baked po-tay-to? Yummy.
Go out of town and the real =cider starts to pour. You need to go to an old owner-operated pub in some small no name town (if you can say anything in europe is no name- so much history behind everything!) and they usually brew their own cider. They pump it out of a wooden barrel in front of you. Soooo good
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