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Message no. 1
From: Penta cpenta@*****.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:21:06 -0800
A Halliwell wrote:

> And verily, did GRANITE hastily scribble thusly...
> |
> |> Europe. Does anyone know where to get S&V Pringles in the US?
> |> I have checked their web site and it wasn't any help.
> |
> |Hmm..Didn't know Pringles made S&V crisps..
>
> I think they do over here... But I'm not a great pringles eater...
> Smiths, Walkers or Golden Wonder are good enough for me... And a hell of a
> lot cheaper.
>
> P.S. CONGRATULATIONS!
> You called em CRISPS! (which is what they are)
> I'll never understand the american need to call a crisp a 'chip', and a chip
> a 'french fry'...

Hey. So we're different than you and your idiot names. We're better too. We can
make pizza that tastes better than cardboard. So THERE!
Message no. 2
From: Blackadder blkadder@****.net
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:46:08 -0500
-----Original Message-----
From: Penta <cpenta@*****.com>

|> P.S. CONGRATULATIONS!
|> You called em CRISPS! (which is what they are)
|> I'll never understand the american need to call a crisp a 'chip',
and a chip
|> a 'french fry'...
|
|Hey. So we're different than you and your idiot names. We're better
too. We can
|make pizza that tastes better than cardboard. So THERE!


-----BlackAdder Adds-----

And the converstaion goes pear shaped! ;-]
Message no. 3
From: GRANITE granite@**.net
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 10:48:45 -0700
> |> P.S. CONGRATULATIONS!
> |> You called em CRISPS! (which is what they are)
> |> I'll never understand the american need to call a crisp a 'chip',
> and a chip
> |> a 'french fry'...
> |
> |Hey. So we're different than you and your idiot names. We're better
> too. We can
> |make pizza that tastes better than cardboard. So THERE!

> And the converstaion goes pear shaped! ;-]

Wouldn't that require a special machine.....to cut all the crisps
that way... :P
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Message no. 4
From: Elling Polden thorondor_sr@*****.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:26:15 -0800 (PST)
---Penta <cpenta@*****.com> wrote:
>
> A Halliwell wrote:
>
> > And verily, did GRANITE hastily scribble thusly...
> > |
> > |> Europe. Does anyone know where to get S&V Pringles in the US?
> > |> I have checked their web site and it wasn't any help.
> > |
> > |Hmm..Didn't know Pringles made S&V crisps..
> >
> > I think they do over here... But I'm not a great pringles eater...
> > Smiths, Walkers or Golden Wonder are good enough for me... And a
hell of a
> > lot cheaper.
> >
> > P.S. CONGRATULATIONS!
> > You called em CRISPS! (which is what they are)
> > I'll never understand the american need to call a crisp a 'chip',
and a chip
> > a 'french fry'...
>
> Hey. So we're different than you and your idiot names. We're better
too. We can
> make pizza that tastes better than cardboard. So THERE!
>
So can we, and you didn't even have the imagination to think up Pizza!
Besides the crappy'est burgers in europe are made by McDonnalds. (Big
Mac, yeah rigth). Face it chummers. You haven't come up with a decent
dish since you left ye ole world. You just make more of it with less
taste to go around. So THERE.
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Message no. 5
From: Dave Post caelric@****.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 11:42:20 -0800
At 11:26 AM 2/27/99 -0800, you wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>---Penta <cpenta@*****.com> wrote:
>>
>> A Halliwell wrote:
>>
>> > And verily, did GRANITE hastily scribble thusly...
>> > |
>> > |> Europe. Does anyone know where to get S&V Pringles in the US?
>> > |> I have checked their web site and it wasn't any help.
>> > |
>> > |Hmm..Didn't know Pringles made S&V crisps..
>> >
>> > I think they do over here... But I'm not a great pringles eater...
>> > Smiths, Walkers or Golden Wonder are good enough for me... And a
>hell of a
>> > lot cheaper.
>> >
>> > P.S. CONGRATULATIONS!
>> > You called em CRISPS! (which is what they are)
>> > I'll never understand the american need to call a crisp a 'chip',
>and a chip
>> > a 'french fry'...
>>
>> Hey. So we're different than you and your idiot names. We're better
>too. We can
>> make pizza that tastes better than cardboard. So THERE!
>>
>So can we, and you didn't even have the imagination to think up Pizza!
>Besides the crappy'est burgers in europe are made by McDonnalds. (Big
>Mac, yeah rigth). Face it chummers. You haven't come up with a decent
>dish since you left ye ole world. You just make more of it with less
>taste to go around. So THERE.

Well, the worst burgers in America are also made by McDonalds....


But, as for the best, you have OBVIOUSLY never hade a In n Out double
double.....



:)

Dave
Message no. 6
From: Jordan findlerman@*****.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 12:59:23 -0800 (PST)
[SNIP addies and old stuff]

> So can we, and you didn't even have the imagination to think up Pizza!
> Besides the crappy'est burgers in europe are made by McDonnalds. (Big
> Mac, yeah rigth). Face it chummers. You haven't come up with a decent
> dish since you left ye ole world. You just make more of it with less
> taste to go around. So THERE.

Whoa, whoa, whoa. I got two words for ya: Mesquite Grill. You can
not tell me that anybody does steak better than Texas Grills. It is
simply not true. And don't get me started with *your* funny English
words...

--Fin
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Message no. 7
From: Elling Polden thorondor_sr@*****.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:04:10 -0800 (PST)
> Whoa, whoa, whoa. I got two words for ya: Mesquite Grill. You can
> not tell me that anybody does steak better than Texas Grills. It is
> simply not true.

You probably stole that one from the poor oppressed mexicans..

And don't get me started with *your* funny English
> words...

Try to learn how unformal Norwegian sounds from Novels and movies, and
see where that gets you...
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Message no. 8
From: Mark C. Farrington alareth@*****.dwebs.net
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:08:24 -0500
>Whoa, whoa, whoa. I got two words for ya: Mesquite Grill. You can
>not tell me that anybody does steak better than Texas Grills. It is
>simply not true. And don't get me started with *your* funny English
>words...

Bah! I despise Mesquite. Hickory is the only wood to cook with.

Lord Alareth Faltrix
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Investigator - Shadowrun Webring Internal Affairs
Message no. 9
From: Jordan findlerman@*****.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 13:13:20 -0800 (PST)
> > Whoa, whoa, whoa. I got two words for ya: Mesquite Grill. You can
> > not tell me that anybody does steak better than Texas Grills. It is
> > simply not true.
>
> You probably stole that one from the poor oppressed mexicans..

Nope...try again....Mesquite is a tree that grows in Texas, and, as
far as I know, Texas is the only place it is indignous (sp). The
wranglers/herders/cowbows hated them because they grew like rabbits
breed, and were hard as hell to cut down. Futher more, the cattle
would spread it by eating the seeds and them passing it through a few
miles later, so they spread like wild fire. However, one redeeming
characteristic was the wonderfully lovely flavour that it produced
when you cook dead hunks of cow over them. The same characteristics
that made them hard to cut down, made them slow-roast wonderfully.
Hmmmmmmm....

I wonder what Awakened Mesquite trees cook like...


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Message no. 10
From: A Halliwell u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 21:21:09 +0000 (GMT)
And verily, did Jordan hastily scribble thusly...
|I wonder what Awakened Mesquite trees cook like...

Probably under protest, and with plenty of resistance....

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Message no. 11
From: Starrngr@***.com Starrngr@***.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 18:31:12 EST
In a message dated 99-02-27 14:52:07 EST, you write:

> But, as for the best, you have OBVIOUSLY never hade a In n Out double
> double.....
> :)
>
> Dave

DAVE!!!! Your not supposed to mention how good those are to people outside of
the LA area! If you do, their all gonna move into LA to get a taste of the
ultimate of burgers and drive up rents, other prices, etc.... and double the
length of already lengthly lines at In-n-Out's everwhere!

<In-n-out nazi mode>
BAD DAVE!!! NO DOUBLE DOUBLE FOR YOU!
</in-n-out nazi mode>
Message no. 12
From: Dave Post caelric@****.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 15:28:53 -0800
At 06:31 PM 2/27/99 EST, you wrote:
>In a message dated 99-02-27 14:52:07 EST, you write:
>
>> But, as for the best, you have OBVIOUSLY never hade a In n Out double
>> double.....
>> :)
>>
>> Dave
>
>DAVE!!!! Your not supposed to mention how good those are to people
outside of
>the LA area! If you do, their all gonna move into LA to get a taste of the
>ultimate of burgers and drive up rents, other prices, etc.... and double the
>length of already lengthly lines at In-n-Out's everwhere!
>
><In-n-out nazi mode>
>BAD DAVE!!! NO DOUBLE DOUBLE FOR YOU!
></in-n-out nazi mode>
>

You are, of course, implying there is room for anyone more in the greater
LA/San Diego metroplex.....if so, please tell me where, 'cause I sure can't
seem to find it...

Dave
Message no. 13
From: David Hinkley dhinkley@***.org
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sat, 27 Feb 1999 16:59:56 -0800
> >> > P.S. CONGRATULATIONS!
> >> > You called em CRISPS! (which is what they are)
> >> > I'll never understand the american need to call a crisp a 'chip',
> >and a chip
> >> > a 'french fry'...

Oh the sweet mysteries of language....like whe anyone would call an elevator
a lift or the cargo compartment of a car the boot rather then the trunk.........:)


> >>
> >> Hey. So we're different than you and your idiot names. We're better
> >too. We can
> >> make pizza that tastes better than cardboard. So THERE!
> >>
> >So can we, and you didn't even have the imagination to think up Pizza!
> >Besides the crappy'est burgers in europe are made by McDonnalds. (Big
> >Mac, yeah rigth). Face it chummers. You haven't come up with a decent
> >dish since you left ye ole world. You just make more of it with less
> >taste to go around. So THERE.
>
> Well, the worst burgers in America are also made by McDonalds....
>

That is the key to McDonald's success, their goal is consistant food. That is
the Big Mac you buy in San Francisco, is the same as the one in Plymouth,
Mass, Paris or Moscow. It does not matter where you get it it will be the
same. As to the question of "worst", I have had the misfortune to eat burgers
much worse then McDonald's and burgers a lot better, mainly in small
dinners and resturants. Otften when I ordered I did not know which I was
going to get.

As to inovative and tasty American foods what about?

Fried Chicken
Corn on the Cob
The Ice Cream Cone
Coca-Cola
Bar-B-Que
Grilled Steak
The Hot Dog


David Hinkley
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Message no. 14
From: chimerae@***.ie chimerae@***.ie
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 09:53:07 +0000
Bravo, I just knew when this started that it would turn into an
Europe vs America foodfight.

And if all who are involved would line up please? Specially you Spike
since you provocated this. Thank you most kindly.

<Nasty German (no offence :) Officer mode>
"Und vhat did we tink ve vere doing here, heh?! Fighting vith food,
despite ve all know tat te food fight scenario vas taken out of SR
after te first edition, heh?! And ve all know tat tere is only one
food for Shadowrn members!

Hah, I see tat some know vat is coming now, I bet you are really
sorry now, aren't you?! Vell to late.

Soldaten! Present Carp!

Take aim!

Fire!!
</nasty German Officer mode>

THWAPTHWAPTHWAPTHWAPTHWAPTHWAPTHWAP

[and ve.. euh... we leave the scene as they are cleaning up the mess]



> As to inovative and tasty American foods what about?
>
> Fried Chicken
> Corn on the Cob
> The Ice Cream Cone
> Coca-Cola
> Bar-B-Que
> Grilled Steak
> The Hot Dog

I won't go there, but I can see some false claims.

Don't forget Chop Sue, it was invented by a Chinese immigrant who had
to cook something on the spot for a visiting dignitary and just
chunked some vegetables together. :)

BTW, I forgot who does it, but someone has a read confirm on for the
mailing list. Please turn it off I'm to lazy to write a filter for
it. You should be better of yourself too with 250 read confirms
coming in every day.

Martin Steffens
chimerae@***.ie
Message no. 15
From: A Halliwell u5a77@*****.cs.keele.ac.uk
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:41:52 +0000 (GMT)
And verily, did David Hinkley hastily scribble thusly...
|
|
|
|> >> > P.S. CONGRATULATIONS!
|> >> > You called em CRISPS! (which is what they are)
|> >> > I'll never understand the american need to call a crisp a 'chip',
|> >and a chip
|> >> > a 'french fry'...
|
|Oh the sweet mysteries of language....like whe anyone would call an elevator
|a lift or the cargo compartment of a car the boot rather then the trunk.........:)

Or the engine compartment lid, the 'bonnet'?
:)

But then, there's the old parkway / driveway thing.
The Pavement vs Sidewalk thing.

|As to inovative and tasty American foods what about?
|
|Fried Chicken
|Corn on the Cob
|The Ice Cream Cone

Oh good grief... Not trying to claim THAT one now, are you?
The Ice Cream Cone is a WESTERN thing. NOT purely american.

|Coca-Cola
|Bar-B-Que

I think the aussies will have something to say about the baaaaahby...

|Grilled Steak

????? Steaks have been around longer than the USA.
You're not SERIOUSLY saying that you were the first people to ever GRILL
them, are you?

:)

|The Hot Dog

Ahhhh, well... I think we can let you keep that little tube of congealed
fat.
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Message no. 16
From: Tim Kerby drekhead@***.net
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:22:48 -0500
On 28 Feb 99, at 9:53, chimerae@***.ie wrote:

> BTW, I forgot who does it, but someone has a read confirm on for the
> mailing list. Please turn it off I'm to lazy to write a filter for it. You
> should be better of yourself too with 250 read confirms coming in every
> day.

It's you David Hinkley. I was going to send you a Gridsec message,
but the above should cover it.

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Message no. 17
From: Paul Gettle RunnerPaul@*****.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 18:39:45 -0500
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At 03:41 PM 2/28/99 +0000, A Halliwell wrote:
>|The Ice Cream Cone
>
>Oh good grief... Not trying to claim THAT one now, are you?
>The Ice Cream Cone is a WESTERN thing. NOT purely american.

We have every right to claim that one. The first ice cream waffle cone
was patented by a New Yorker in 1903, but the concept was later
re-invented one year later at the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair when an
ice cream vendor ran out of clean ice cream dishes, and noticed that
he was right next to a waffle vendor.

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Message no. 18
From: David Hinkley dhinkley@***.org
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 19:36:58 -0800
From: "Tim Kerby" <drekhead@***.net>
To: shadowrn@*********.org
Date sent: Sun, 28 Feb 1999 15:22:48 -0500
Subject: Re: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Priority: normal
Send reply to: shadowrn@*********.org

> On 28 Feb 99, at 9:53, chimerae@***.ie wrote:
>
> > BTW, I forgot who does it, but someone has a read confirm on for the
> > mailing list. Please turn it off I'm to lazy to write a filter for it. You
> > should be better of yourself too with 250 read confirms coming in every
> > day.
>
> It's you David Hinkley. I was going to send you a Gridsec message,
> but the above should cover it.
>
>
Sorry all. I think I fixed the problem. Please inform me if the problem
continues.





David Hinkley
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Message no. 19
From: sean jamieson elf61@*******.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Mon, 01 Mar 1999 14:50:40 PST
mmmmmm, burgers (everyone in imediate area drowning in my drool.) i bet
i can beat all your storys about the best burgers in the world. in
nanaimo, b.c. canada we have a place called mrs. riches. their burgers
use 2 heads of lettuce, many tomatoes, 3 pounds of ground beef (cooked
not net weight) many other good ingredients and so many fries you need
another platter. and the taste is divine. best in the world.
now how do you like them apples? (or burgers or something)

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Message no. 20
From: Scott Harrison Scott_Harrison@*****.com
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Tue, 02 Mar 1999 19:22:57 -0500
David Hinkley <dhinkley@***.org> made my mailer see:
<SNIP>
->
-> That is the key to McDonald's success, their goal is consistant food. That is
-> the Big Mac you buy in San Francisco, is the same as the one in Plymouth,
-> Mass, Paris or Moscow. It does not matter where you get it it will be the
-> same. As to the question of "worst", I have had the misfortune to eat
burgers
-> much worse then McDonald's and burgers a lot better, mainly in small
-> dinners and resturants. Otften when I ordered I did not know which I was
-> going to get.
<SNIP>

One of the strange things I do as a past time is to travel the world. An
even stranger aspect of said travels is to eat a meal at McDonalds in each of
the countries I visit. Of course that has not always been possible. However,
there are differences in my test meal: Big Mac, Large Fries & Large Chocolate
Milk Shake. The prices are definitely off: with Norway being really pricey
and Hong Kong really cheap. The tastes are different - like the special sauce
in England in the 70s was almost putrid, and the shakes almost everywhere are
strange. However, the fries seem to be uniform world wide. I have not, nor
do I ever plan on putting up a web site with my findings.

By the way, if we ever get into ice cream, there is nothing that can compare
with ice cream in America (except for Mandeleis in Austria and Limone Gelato in
Italy). Some of the worst I have ever found is in England where lard seems to
reign supreme.

--Scott
Message no. 21
From: Beal, Nathan nathan.beal@***.ac.uk
Subject: Chips vs. French fries, etc.
Date: Wed, 3 Mar 1999 11:11:40 -0000
> By the way, if we ever get into ice cream, there is nothing that can
> compare
> with ice cream in America (except for Mandeleis in Austria and Limone
> Gelato in
> Italy). Some of the worst I have ever found is in England where lard
> seems to
> reign supreme.
>
Youv'e never tried Cornish ice cream then, this stuff is better than any
American import I have EVER tasted. Virtually pure double cream to start
with.

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