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The world's best passenger complaint letter
« on: January 27, 2009, 01:07:14 AM »
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I know it looks like a baaji but it’s in custard Richard, custard. It must be the pudding. Well you’ll be fascinated to hear that it wasn't custard. It was a sour gel with a clear oil on top. It’s only redeeming feature was that it managed to be so alien to my palette that it took away the taste of the curry emanating from our miscellaneous central cuboid of beige matter. Perhaps the meal on the left might be the desert after all.

Anyway, this is all irrelevant at the moment. I was raised strictly but neatly by my parents and if they knew I had started desert before the main course, a sponge shaft would be the least of my worries. So lets peel back the tin-foil on the main dish and see what’s on offer.

I’ll try and explain how this felt. Imagine being a twelve year old boy Richard. Now imagine it’s Christmas morning and you’re sat their with your final present to open. It’s a big one, and you know what it is. It’s that Goodmans stereo you picked out the catalogue and wrote to Santa about.

Only you open the present and it’s not in there. It’s your hamster Richard. It’s your hamster in the box and it’s not breathing. That’s how I felt when I peeled back the foil and saw this: [see image 3, above].

Now I know what you’re thinking. You’re thinking it’s more of that Baaji custard. I admit I thought the same too, but no. It’s mustard Richard. MUSTARD. More mustard than any man could consume in a month. On the left we have a piece of broccoli and some peppers in a brown glue-like oil and on the right the chef had prepared some mashed potato. The potato masher had obviously broken and so it was decided the next best thing would be to pass the potatoes through the digestive tract of a bird.

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:rofl: funny stuff.  I have no idea what's in the picutres.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #1 on: January 27, 2009, 01:12:36 AM »
Is this targeted for ConservativeIndia.com?  Or ConservativeBrittania.com?

It makes no sense to Americans.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #2 on: January 27, 2009, 01:15:14 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on January 27, 2009, 01:12:36 AM
Is this targeted for ConservativeIndia.com?  Or ConservativeBrittania.com?

It makes no sense to Americans.

It appears to be Indian food served on a Virgin flight from India to the UK.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #3 on: January 27, 2009, 01:17:57 AM »
Quote from: Chris on January 27, 2009, 01:15:14 AM
It appears to be Indian food served on a Virgin flight from India to the UK.


That is explaining everything.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #4 on: January 27, 2009, 01:22:17 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on January 27, 2009, 01:17:57 AM


That is explaining everything.

Mmmm, curry Slushies.

I like curry.  Hell, I've put it in potato salad.  It's pretty good.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #5 on: January 27, 2009, 01:24:46 AM »
Quote from: Chris on January 27, 2009, 01:22:17 AM
Mmmm, curry Slushies.

I like curry.  Hell, I've put it in potato salad.  It's pretty good.

But Indians don't do red curry well -- the Thai Red Curry is a whole other deal!
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #6 on: January 27, 2009, 01:26:13 AM »
Quote from: freedumb2003 on January 27, 2009, 01:24:46 AM
But Indians don't do red curry well -- the Thai Red Curry is a whole other deal!

I don't usually use red curry in my cooking -- I know a few recipes with yellow curry and that's what I use.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #7 on: January 27, 2009, 01:29:49 AM »
Quote from: Chris on January 27, 2009, 01:26:13 AM
I don't usually use red curry in my cooking -- I know a few recipes with yellow curry and that's what I use.
Dude!  red curry and coconut milk with rice and duck(best) or chicken and some bamboo shoots -- to die for!
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #8 on: January 27, 2009, 01:30:19 AM »
That sounds pretty tasty.  There is a Korean restaurant down the street.  Should I try it?
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #9 on: January 27, 2009, 01:37:59 AM »
Quote from: Chris on January 27, 2009, 01:30:19 AM
That sounds pretty tasty.  There is a Korean restaurant down the street.  Should I try it?

Korean does a great job of BBQ and kimchie.

You need to find a good Thai restaurant. 

I am spoiled in Los Angles -- they are on every mile or so.  Outside it is much more difficult to find them -- I have yet to find one in Richmond.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #10 on: January 27, 2009, 01:42:23 AM »
There is one decent Thai restaurant thas has two or three locations in town.  The "Chinese" restaurants around here seem to be owned by the same  company... the menus are identical except for the name on the front.

I've had enough sauerkraut, but I would like to try some Korean BBQ.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #11 on: January 27, 2009, 01:49:40 AM »
Quote from: Chris on January 27, 2009, 01:42:23 AM
There is one decent Thai restaurant thas has two or three locations in town.  The "Chinese" restaurants around here seem to be owned by the same  company... the menus are identical except for the name on the front.

I've had enough sauerkraut, but I would like to try some Korean BBQ.

If they have Pad Thai with Peanuts and Red Curry Coconut Duck they should be OK.

Korean BBQ is done at a special table that has a BBQ in the middle with thin strips of marinated meat -- chicken, pork and/or beef. The good restaurants will have lovely Korean ladies help you (using chopstick) to braise the meat on the BBQ  and then move it out the edges as it is cooked to keep it warm.

Damn!

Now I am hungry!
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« Reply #12 on: January 27, 2009, 01:51:30 AM »
I had some chicken soup with lemongrass at that place.  It was damn tasty for chicken soup.

Mmm, lovely Korean ladies. 
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #13 on: January 27, 2009, 01:55:46 AM »
We have the same immigrant populations here that LA has... finding them is another issue becuase they're not as prominent.  We have Ethiopian, Vietnamese, dozens of Indian varieties.  Hell, I've seen an old gas station get turned into a restaurant -- the "store" part of the station was converted to a kitchen while the area under the station's canopy is an outdoor eating area.  It still looks like a gas station.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #14 on: January 27, 2009, 07:49:14 AM »
Never been a big curry fan, for some reason.  It just never appealed to me.  Thai, OTOH, I love.  But as freedumb says, outside LA you're pretty much SOL.  Korean BBQ--that takes me back.  I remember a few of us went out and we almost burned the restaurant down via the grill once, there was so much smoke coming from it.

Then there was the time in Guam where I got my first experience with Vietnamese food.  I ordered the mint beef.  Pretty simple, really--marinated strips of beef and onion, some broth, a few mint and lettuce leaves.  Then they put something in front of me I didn't recognize.  No matter, really--I was really enjoying this meal.

But why are all these people staring at me?  Why is the entire family sitting at my table, asking me if I like my food?  Of course I do!

Turns out the something they put in front of me was a hot plate.  Seems I was supposed to GRILL the meat on it FIRST, then dip in the broth and wrap up in lettuce/mint.  I had basically just eaten a full pound of RAW MEAT.

But it was tasty.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #15 on: January 27, 2009, 08:49:22 AM »
Just looking at those pictures made me want to hurl.
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Re: The world's best passenger complaint letter
« Reply #16 on: January 28, 2009, 07:30:02 AM »
This is pretty awesome.  Write a complaint letter, get a job offer!

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