Globe: Not your mother's Niagara Falls

[cdl42]

The restaurant did include black pudding as part of its full English breakfast buffet. Can't get much more British than that! Only £13.95! Seriously. Waiters with fresh pots of instant coffee wandering about included.

These days the mainstays of British Cuisine are Onion Bhajis, Saag Paneer, and chips, err... fries.

I considered posting a pic of a full english breakfast with black pud, but upon finding such a picture decided that it's such an unappealing sight that it would completely ruin this thread.

 

[adma]

Well, it sure beats a picture of English teeth...

 

[spmarshall]

The restaurant did include black pudding as part of its full English breakfast buffet. Can't get much more British than that! Only £13.95! Seriously. Waiters with fresh pots of instant coffee wandering about included.

Fresh pots of instant coffee! Yuck!

Actually that seems to describe a lot of hotel restaurants, expensive, yet skimpy.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

"These days the mainstays of British Cuisine are Onion Bhajis, Saag Paneer, and chips, err... fries."

Don't forget McTandoori Chicken! And McPork!

 

[ganjavih]

And don't forget chicken vindaloo. So part of British culture that a song was written about it. Footie and vindaloo in one song... now that's British.

 

[cdl42]

"Don't forget McTandoori Chicken! And McPork!"

Still yet to see those at McD's in London, but admittedly I'm not exactly looking for it. What I find amusing is the McDonalds-meets-Indian shops that have popped up all over the city; it's not hard to find a tandoori burger.

Now what I do remember is .. "Poppadum over to McDonalds"

 

[scarberiankhatru]

"Still yet to see those at McD's in London"

I'm almost certain the McPork was a limited time thing to boost pork consumption during the hoof 'n mouth crisis since I spotted - but did not try - it in 2001. Come eat pork at McDonald's! If that doesn't bolster support for piggies, I don't know what would...maybe a photoshopped pic of Di munching pork rinds?

If memory serves me correctly, the McTandoori Chicken had a different name that I'm butchering. I think it came in a pita? I also did not try it, but everyone else liked it.

McDonald's in Canada should serve poutine...mmm, poutine...

 

[ganjavih]

McDonald's in Canada should serve poutine...mmm, poutine...

Some of them do, and it's not bad actually. Stay away from Burger King's though.

 

[scarberiankhatru]

^ Any in Toronto? I've never seen it...but since they got their new photographic menus, they're wont to not include everything on it.

 

[esplanade guy]

Niagra Falls

I was in Niagra Falls last weekend and checked out their downtown for the first time and I was in shock. Even downtown Mississauga was looking ok by comparison. With all the tourism money coming into NF it's amazing the downtown can look like something from a 3rd world country. Hell, even the third world countries I've been to had better downtowns then Niagra Falls. They got to do something, what's a city without a downtown? That's just sad.