[Closed] Pasta

STEAK! Mmmmm

'last nights lasagne, stir fried, in a butty' breakfast the next time you've had too much to drink

But last night's lasagne is one of three best cold breakfast foods known to man. Why waste time, especially when hungover, frying and butty-ing? It's like worring what frame to mount the Mona Lisa in.

That boats already sailed Flashy

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Salad works really well as a side dish for steak

Salad is what food eats.

Cheesy Chip Crumpet did a session for Mark Riley on 6 Music last Wednesday

Dagnammit!

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This thread is wrong.
Any thread disparaging pasta has no place on a bike forum.

I like disparagus but it doesn't agree with me.

Now pizza and chips...... there's a combination

Place near me used to do an "Indian Chip Butty." Massive garlic naan, portion of chips on top, then covered in curry sauce. It was both as wrong and as right as you'd expect.

Pasta with marmite for a quick meal...

Sounds like insufficient Marmite to me.

Ravioli? In a tin? What a time to be alive

From time to time we often have this discussion in my house...
My feelings are:
Pasta>rice>wraps>bread>potato...

There..I said it!

DrP

Potato beats pasta, as does rice, but pasta can be *made* more interesting.

Things like wraps and bread are trying to hard.

but pasta can be *made* more interesting.

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From time to time we often have this discussion in my house...

Is it time to time or often?

And 'Potato' tells us nothing; you can't compare a boiled spud with a crispy potato rosti any more than you can compare a slice of plastic ham with bacon by labeling them both as pork.

I think we can discount rice, on the grounds that you still need bread to mop it all up.

Pasta isn't as versatile as spuds , so it's a potato/bread stand-off.
The existence of the chip butty leads me to conclude that the question itself is illogical and the answer is, obviously, both.

Going back to the whole concept of making things more interesting, applying anything to pasta or rice simply renders it slightly more palatable, and a little bit less dull and tasteless

Yet think about the effect that applying vinegar to hot chips has? In one simple action, you immediately produce the most deliciously mouth-watering aroma known to man, which instantaneously has anyone within sniffing distance salivating and overcome with an almost murderous desire for a chip butty

"60% of the time, it works every time.." 😉

Nah, potato encompasses all potato in my mind; chips are good, but mash and roast spud are a bit meh...

Wraps are awesome.... bread, hmm..OK...

Actually, pasta and rice are, thinking about it, fairly even in my mind...

DrP

Tortalinis/raviolis are my go to pasta, fry some mushrooms and tomatoes and mix with some butter for a quick tasty meal

I love chips, I love hip hop...ergo

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Pasta is alright, but it's got nowt on chips. Food of the gods are chips...

I'm not sure broadening the question to potatoes is allowed, the original question was pasta vs chips:

[quote=binners ]Yet think about the effect that applying vinegar to hot chips has?

How about applying vinegar to cold chips? Pasta wins because it's temperature independent unlike chips.

Tu sei tutti i filistei! I miei ravioli fatti in casa avrebbero vinto ogni volta che si abbinassero contro una patata. Le persone mi fanno male.

🙂

Edit: my italian isnt what it used to be.... this may not translate very well 😳

The big giveaway is when did anyone last distract you in order to pinch a farfalle or penne from your unprotected plate?

Pasta wins because it's temperature independent unlike chips.

If you mean that it's dull and uninspiring, hot or cold, this is indeed true

Chips are bloody great hot, but cold chips, particularly if they've been marinading overnight in gravy, shoved in a butty* is a thing of beauty and wonder, and pretty much the perfect breakfast.

*Warburtons toastie, obvs. None of your wholemeal muck!

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deep fried spaghetti & meatballs on a stick looks pretty good.

Pasta meh.

Double dipped deep fried chips on a two crusty slices of white bread with vinegar and sea salt.

Hth.

binners - Member
...but cold chips, particularly if they've been marinading overnight in gravy,

You have left over chips? You've changed. And not for the better.

If you mean that it's dull and uninspiring, hot or cold, this is indeed true

If its dull and uninspiring, it was made that way by the english/americans.

I've told this to Zia (auntie) Juliana and she's on her way over to give you a stern talking.

The problem is getting a good bowl of pasta in the UK is nearly impossible.

No bugger can cook it properly, sauce is dumped on top, pasta not drained properly, over cooked, not enough salt in the water, putting cream in carbonara FFS!? The list is endless.

In the UK chips win every time, at least we know what we're doing with them!

BFITH - Member

If you mean that it's dull and uninspiring, hot or cold, this is indeed true

If its dull and uninspiring, it was made that way by the english/americans.

If it wasn't dull, why would the Italians invent all those sauces to go with it and ways to cook it? They'd just eat it on its own.

No bugger can cook it properly, sauce is dumped on top, pasta not drained properly, over cooked, not enough salt in the water.

Too true

If it wasn't dull, why would the Italians invent all those sauces to go with it and ways to cook it? They'd just eat it on its own.

Just like you'd eat a chip without salt, pepper, vinegar, tommy sauce, hp, mayo, mustard? (delete as appropriate)

Just like you'd eat a chip without salt, pepper, vinegar, tommy sauce, hp, mayo, mustard? (delete as appropriate)

Hot chips, so fresh from their bath of boiling beef dripping they remove finger prints and the roof of your mouth? They're one of life's greatest (if slightly masochistic) pleasures.

Wraps are awesome.... bread, hmm..OK...

A wrap is a sandwich.
Fresh crusty bread is almost up there with chips, mash or roasties.

Rice has no hinterland, no emotional depth.
It is entirely utilitarian, one step up from eating grass or dogfood.
I only eat rice, like McDonald's, when due to necessity or incapacitating hangover I have no alternative.

Most white rice, like white bread, is bad for you.
Braaahn (Brun, for the BMW owners) bread is even more delicious than white bread.
Brown rice mings.

Pasta is what people eat when they don't have enough rain to grow potatoes.

So, are will all agreed, it's spuds AND bread?

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You have left over chips? You've changed. And not for the better.

Don't try and pretend you've not done it. You're on the way back from the pub, you nip in the chippy and order steak pudding, chips peas and gravy, then back at home, half way through it, sat on the sofa, you drift off into a Stella-aided food coma. Maybe subliminally you willed yourself to do it, knowing that it would also deliver the perfect hungover breakfast

Chips.

Perplexed this has made 3 pages.

Unless folk are playing devil's advocate. Nobody really prefers pasta. Obvs.

So, are will all agreed, it's spuds AND bread?

I wondered why most of the jerseys for sale in the classifieds were XXXXL 😉

DrP

on the way back from the pub, you nip in the chippy and order steak pudding, chips peas and gravy, then back at home, half way through it, sat on the sofa, you drift off into a Stella-aided food coma.

I did once order 3 pizzas from the nearest open delivery merchant whilst "a bit" drunk and only managed 2 before succumbing to unconsciousness.

I've never left chips. They never even made it back home in the first place.

Braaahn (Brun, for the BMW owners) bread is even more delicious than white bread.

I just don't know who you are any more

That's as maybe (it's not!), but braaaaahn bread has no place in the company of chips. The role of bread in a chip butty is to act as a sponge, soaking up the flavour from its contents. (see also: sausage or bacon) and should be smothered with copious amounts of melting butter

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Brown bread is for people who pretend they like Rocket so as to appear middle class. It's an affectation

Your scenario is wrong and contrived binners, chips will be consumed on the way home, it's like the 11th commandant or something.

Even if i couldn't eat them all, someone would, unless i was drinking and therefore eating alone. And you don't go out to drink alone, that's also one of those things.

Edit you are right about the bread though, if the bread is already brown how can you see if it's absorbed enough vinegar?

Fair point. I'm wondering if I may have dreamt this whole cold chips scenario

Cold pizza for breakfast is something you factor in when deciding the size of the pizza you're drunkenly ordering (14" with cheesy chips obviously)

Cold pizza for breakfast is something you factor in when deciding the size of the pizza you're drunkenly ordering (14" obviously)

My boy does this at 16 years old! (not the drunk part though)

Sorry, always been a Hovis man.

Warbies now and again in work, toasted, Lurpak obviously, but I can take it or leave it, tbh.

I met Joe Gladwyn outside Church as a small boy.
He was all I imagined and more, I'd hate to let him down now.

Lurpak?

What is this? Its sure as heck not butter! Why not just use stork?

Margerine?
Fauxletariat Toynbeeite toss.
A retro affectation, akin to lino and not washing properly.