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Previously on "Foods invented in the wrong country"

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  • BoredBloke
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    Originally posted by MrMark View Post
    We know pizzas and hamburgers come from New York. Chicken Tikka Massala is a Brit invention. I now hear that Creme Brulee was invented in Cambridge. What more?
    That 'tax doesn't have to be taxing' historian bloke said that the romans invented the burger

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  • Mich the Tester
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    The Digestive biscuit was invented by Subutai, Genghis Khan's most trusted general, as a light and easy snack for the warriors to dunk in their cuppas at half time between playing chukkas of Polo with enemies' skulls.

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Gastronomy was invented by Sir Patrick Moore, when he fancied a butty one night, whilst gazing at the horse-head nebulae





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  • Mich the Tester
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    Fish and chips is from Portugal.

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  • sasguru
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    Originally posted by MrMark View Post
    Completely missed the point that half the answers here are in joke mode haven't you.

    Yo soy tonto? Quizas...pero usted es totalmente un gillipolla.... ="I'm stupid? - maybe but you're a total d-head" You really think someone fluent in Spanish doesn't know the correct spelling of Chilli, or Chile???
    Well this is CUK. With people like SB, Spod, EO, Atw etc. on here, usually one is not wrong to assume the worst.


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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    Hope thats not rude...
    I did a contract in Singapore, and the locals taught me some sweary words, and I told them about England. They were truly interested and facinated

    Dhooli Makahi is the phonetic way to say fck off
    sesini, likewise for thank you


    thats what they told me, anyway


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  • Troll
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    dhooli makahi

    secini


    Hope thats not rude...

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  • EternalOptimist
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    Originally posted by Troll View Post
    Do they have seperate tins for báihuà and hànzi ?
    dhooli makahi

    secini


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  • Troll
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    Originally posted by EternalOptimist View Post
    A tin of alphabetti spaghetti in China, is three foot tall and weighs in at 83.1 kg

    Do they have seperate tins for báihuà and hànzi ?

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  • EternalOptimist
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    A tin of alphabetti spaghetti in China, is three foot tall and weighs in at 83.1 kg






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  • RichardCranium
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    Originally posted by Ignis Fatuus View Post
    Yorkshire Pudding was invented in Lancashire. OK, just kidding.
    According to my mother - a devout Tyke - Yorkshire Pudding was indeed not invented in Yorkshire.

    It was merely Yorkshire where the recipe was found, when one of the angels dropped it.

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  • Ignis Fatuus
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    Pasta was brought to Italy by Marco Polo. Maybe.

    Kraft bought a small factory in Philadelphia to head off a legal challenge to Philladelphia Cream Cheese, which never had anything to do with the place.

    Yorkshire Pudding was invented in Lancashire. OK, just kidding.

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  • NickFitz
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    Marks & Spencer "Oakham Chicken" doesn't come from Oakham. M&S merely registered the name of the town as a trademark for their chicken, but none of it is produced anywhere near there. Some of it comes from Northern Ireland, which is definitely not in Rutland.

    M&S have form for this kind of thing: they used to sell "Melton Mowbray" pork pies that contained cured pork (pink), but of course a Melton pie is made with uncured pork (grey).

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  • NickFitz
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    It never was made in Stilton, it was just sold there.

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  • norrahe
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    Stilton is not actually made in stilton anymore

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