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  • Re: The relative blandness of English cooking.

    From Bruce@21:1/5 to bruce2bowser@gmail.com on Thu Jan 11 04:08:33 2024
    On Wed, 10 Jan 2024 06:53:34 -0800 (PST), bruce bowser
    <bruce2bowser@gmail.com> wrote:

    On Sunday, June 30, 2002 at 11:10:00 PM UTC-7, Nadia Volgakova wrote:
    Why did English cooking remain rather unimaginative when Great Britain
    was near France and other European nations for centuries?

    Dutch cooking remained rather unimaginative too until the 70s, when
    people started going on holidays to countries like France, Italy and
    Greece. They have or had more of a food culture.

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  • From Rooney@21:1/5 to bruce bowser on Thu Jan 11 09:29:05 2024
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    bruce bowser <bruce2bowser@gmail.com> wrote in news:ed43cddb-d54a-4ebf- a763-1113959a8cb0n@googlegroups.com:

    On Sunday, June 30, 2002 at 11:10:00 PM UTC-7, Nadia Volgakova wrote:
    Why did English cooking remain rather unimaginative when Great Britain
    was near France and other European nations for centuries?

    If you have a pet cat or dog, the seasoning can hurt it, right?

    Not if you knock them in the head and cut their throats before applying
    the seasoning.

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