Worcestershire Sauce!
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So it's decided, I'm up for a Caramel and Strawberry frappe with Worcestershire Sauce on Yorkshire Pudding. Let's have a full cross-county dish. Any other suggestions?
I salute you and your patriotic food threads sir. I have read your English Breakfast, Fish and Chip and Yorkshire pudding threads and they never fail to bring a smile to my face...and the intense urge to have whatever food item is being described in such glorious technicolor. Now, if only you could get Tom Baker or Stephen Fry to read them out.Daystar Clarion said:Yes! Worcestershire Sauce, the very essence of flavour, used to improve the flavour of British meals for millions of years.
'But Daystar, my liege, how is it even possible to make British cuisine taste even better?'
It's quite simple, lesser mortal.
The answer is cunningess.
More cunning than a fox that was just appointed Professor of Cunning at Oxford University. /Blackadder joke
'But that doesn't make any sense', I hear you cry.
Well shut up and let me finish!
We must go back to a time of war, the second one to be precise.
Old Blighty was under constant threat of a Nazi invasion, the blitz we could handle, stiff upper lip and all that, but a far more sinister threat was amongst us...
Spies!
'Gentlemen.'
Spies eveywhere! More spies than you could shake a stick at, which was a problem in of itself, with spies being difficult to identify and all. They were free to perform all kinds of skullduggery, nothing could stop them...
Except there is one they fear...
In their tongue, they can't pronounce it...
Dragonborn!
Our Ace in the Hole!
You see, anyone not born and/or raised in Blighty, their eyes stumbling upon a bottle of the cunning elixir, will only be able to make out an incomprehensible jumble of letters, impossible to pronounce, in fact, many of you will assume I have gone mad, your foreign eyes unable to translate the first word of my thread title.
If you had even an inkling that someone was a spy, you would just wip out a bottle of the old Lea & Perrins and ask them to read the label until they fell at the most cunning of all English words.
Worcestershire.
Looks like one word, sounds like another.
And that is the secret flavour in all meals prepared with this sauce.
The taste of cunning and victory.
you sir, have clearly never tried irn-bru, or british sweets (candy if you're american)ravensheart18 said:
The most sacred of bottled delights in my cupboard. On a stormy British night there's nothing better than breaking out the corned beef, cheese and Worcestershire sauce mixing it all up and putting it between two piece of toast.
Now I'm hungry, time to remedy that.
Now I'm hungry, time to remedy that.
I was always taught to never eat anything that smelt funny.Magnus said:
I'm afraid Stephen Fry won't take my calls, and he's put up a taller and sharper fence.5-0 said:
I'm sorry for failing you.
Now it is time for you to do the ultimate British food. 3AM curry! It's like regular curry, but eaten at 3AM after a good lash. That makes all the difference. Not just take-away either, full sit down meal.
According to Cosmo, one thing that all students should do is get dressed up and have one. I highly recommend it.
According to Cosmo, one thing that all students should do is get dressed up and have one. I highly recommend it.
Zantos said:
Nothing beats a cold Indian beer and a tasty curry.
One of the best things in the world.
An india pale ale? Or something different? Now I want one....Daystar Clarion said:
I was actually thinking about starting a beer thread. But I don't really know how to start a discussion that one just be people naming their favorite beer and then peacing out.
I like this thread a lot for some reason. I think it's because my sideburns grow a bit more every time I check in. A few more times and I'll have a full beard.
Shame.Nouw said:
Shame is also another secret ingredient in Worcestershire sauce.
True story, it's what gives it that kick.
I usually have something like Kingfisher.DustyDrB said:
It's nothing amazing, but it has a really fresh and clean taste that goes perfect with a curry.
I currently live in Worcester, and I can add that here in the source of the fabled condiment, it comes out of the taps. There are infact three taps in the kitchen. Hot water, Cold Water, and Worcestershire Sauce.
Tis glorious.
Also, historical fact: Charles II lost the Battle of Worcester because Cromwell captured the source of the Sauce. His men lost all hope and deserted.
Tis glorious.
Also, historical fact: Charles II lost the Battle of Worcester because Cromwell captured the source of the Sauce. His men lost all hope and deserted.