1978 Opel Kadett City [C]
1978 Opel Kadett City [C] in Brussels by Night, Movie, 1983
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◊ 2010-09-29 07:26 |
1978 Opel Kadett (C) City "Berlina" in "Saphirblau metallic". -- Last edit: 2010-09-29 07:26:21 |
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◊ 2010-09-29 16:52 |
 German influences in Belgium - see the "Rollmops"-sign. .gif ":)") A "Rollmops" is a rolled and pickled herring with a little gherkin inside. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rollmops |
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◊ 2010-09-30 15:22 |
@ ingo. Do you recommend rollmops and where do they rank against Nutella, Dumfries beer, Marmite or salted butter? I can't stand these funny fish things. |
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◊ 2010-09-30 21:26 |
I'm sorry to disappoint you - I don't like Rollmops .gif ";)") I dislike vinegar at all (the stuff, the UK-people -I presume ALSO YOU!- are drowning their fish and chips with (and flavouring potato-chips -resp.crisp in UK-speech).  No, about herring I prefer the Dutch receipe of "Nieuwe Haring" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soused_herring Really, since my last posting I had always in my mind, why in Brussels Rollmops is offered and not the Nieuwe Haring from their other neighbours. At least in Germany Rollmops doesn't belong to the typical fast-food-range And in annother point I prefer non-German stuff: Sauerkraut. In Poland it tastes better. Shortly I've read an interesting article about Pommes Frites (Chips, French Fries, Fritjes, Freedom Fries, etc.pp.). The name "French Fries" is based on the lack of knowledge of US-Americans (who else? ) about European specific things. They have discovered Pommes Frites in the First World War from the Belgian soldiers. And beause in the WWI the Belgian army was alwys French-speaking, they've thought, that they were from France.It's highly probable, that Pommes Frites are Belgian orign. It was written, too, that it's one of the few things, which unites the Belgians. -- Last edit: 2010-09-30 21:50:12 |
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◊ 2010-09-30 21:49 |
Nieuwe haring is only the herring from before June, the time when they spawn, and so it is only available during the season and not suitable for a fastfood restaurant. Herring fished later in the year is not fat enough to be eaten as nieuwe haring, so you have to do something with it to make it edible: e.g. put it in some vinegar. And since gerkins are also in vinegar, you can easily put them together. In Dutch rollmops is written rolmops (one l), in French they use the German word. -- Last edit: 2010-09-30 21:51:19 |
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◊ 2010-09-30 23:31 |
@ingo So we are of one mind! But smoked herring = kippers and they can be wonderful if done properly. |
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◊ 2010-10-01 21:44 |
Belgium has its hands everwhere! I just ate a sandwich with "Kerrygold orignal Irish Cheddar" (btw.: a rather uncommon cheese here) - made in B, as written on the packing! Same last week with the chocolate muffins (even with the text "Discover America" on the label). |
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◊ 2010-10-01 21:55 |
A contradiction in itself. Here comes a rambling anecdote: many years ago I ran a research project to discover obscure training courses around Britain for a new central database. My researchers used to present me with their latest bizarre discovery at each meeting (eg Horse saddlery leatherwork, Tin mining techniques etc) and I would have to guess where it was held. Their best discovery was a course in "Cheddar cheese technology" run by a college in Kilmarnock. And it genuinely had part of the course spent on a work placement, so the punchline was that it was a sandwich course. -- Last edit: 2010-10-01 21:59:55 |
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◊ 2010-10-01 22:05 |
My Irish friend has told me, that their food -even it's same named as in the UK- is always better than the British, due their agricultural history. Britain has a more industrial culture with a weaker knowledge about good food. Not from me, I'm just quoting literally! |
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◊ 2010-10-01 22:18 |
His spectacles are partrioticly tinted. Never been to Ireland, so I assume it has its crap urban/industrial food as well as some wonderful produce. Britain has both the crap and the wonderful - depends where you go and how you look, but there are so many excellent local and regional traditions and products. |
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◊ 2010-10-01 22:31 |
I am desperately trying to resist the temptation to make a joke about the Irish agricultural knowledge and the Irish Potato Famine. I have family in Ireland. A good reason for me never to go there! |
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◊ 2010-10-01 22:39 |
It's to admit, that the situation in Britain became better year by year (caused by the EU-rules). Up to the 80ies the people, who have been there, wave told, how horrible the food was there (even in 1996 I've smuggled a "survival kit" with Schwarzbrot and Salami to a friend, studying in Sunderland). Nowadays the choice is much better, at least due ALDI nd LIDL. But Tesco and Somerfield are helpful for Continental Europeans, too. A little footnote: at the Tesco in Dublin (sorry kazimann, I've shopped at the competitor on the other side of the mall ) the prices are in Euro and Cent, sure. But the yellow stickers for downpriced stuff due the close "best before"-date were in British Pounds and Pence! -- Last edit: 2010-10-01 22:40:56 |
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◊ 2010-10-01 22:43 |
As long as you don't have a chip on your shoulder about it. |
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◊ 2010-10-01 22:48 |
 Reminds me of this show: /movie_96565-The-Detectives.htmlhttp://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xWAd6HCx7rM @ ingo: Sunderland? Even in 2010 it is a place that remains far from civilisation and populated by people that speak a strange language. |
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Gomselmash11 ◊ 2010-10-01 22:51 |
In Sunderland (or Newcastle) it's located the factory of Nissan? And... what this the strange language  |
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◊ 2010-10-01 22:56 |
Yes they build the Juke and Qashqai there. People in the Newcastle, Sunderland and Middlesborough have funny accents to the point you often cannot understand them. Sunderland is also a pretty unpleasant place. It is one of these places that were heavily industrialised and full of smoking chimneys. It's main attraction is that it is a bit nicer than Middlesborough. |
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◊ 2010-10-01 23:01 |
And there's Hartlepool - famous as the town of the "monkey hangers" http://www.thisishartlepool.co.uk/history/thehartlepoolmonkey.asp . |
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◊ 2010-10-01 23:04 |
I wonder if there is a map like your one of Europe for the UK showing all the stereotypes for people from certain areas? Scotsman: Drunks, Scousers: Unemployed, Yorkshiremen: Tight with money and so on. -- Last edit: 2010-10-01 23:05:49 |
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Gomselmash11 ◊ 2010-10-01 23:05 |
 great history of the Hartlepool's monkey |
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◊ 2010-10-01 23:28 |
@Sandie: yes, the Yorkshire-dialect is hard to understand for foreigners. I've realized that at the previous owner of that car: /vehicle_181997-Volkswagen-K70-Typ-48-1973.html The Scottish slang is indeed easier understandable for us Germans. A little bit of North England you have to pass, when you want to go to Scotland. The ferry-terminal is in Newcastle. The landscape there is indeed not very spectacular, especially if you are focussed on the Highlands as destination. @Gomsel: in Europe you have it in every country, that there are stereotypes, prejudices and jokes about people of other parts of the country. And for sure this goes for the neighbour-countries, too. And the local dialects can bee indeed strange. Sometimes you cannot understand anything, what they are saying. I understand Dutch better than Bavarian dialect. |
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Gomselmash11 ◊ 2010-10-01 23:33 |
@Ingo: Here is the same. In "Buenos Aires" speaks very fast, is hysterical and not understandable at times. The northern, talk slower, and closer to what the Andean population. In Mendoza, almost as Chile (in the rest of Cuyo's the same). In the area of Corrientes, Misiones and Chaco, the tune is more similar to how they speak Guaraní and the Paraguayan ... Finally, even the "lunfardo" changes a bit from area to area. well here goes, that discriminated Buenos Aires much to the rest of the country. Not to mention the border, are also discriminated against, but for other reasons (in some cases, more understandable?) -- Last edit: 2010-10-01 23:36:25 |
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◊ 2010-10-01 23:35 |
@ ingo: You have just reminded me of something. Did any of your K70 freaks buy that car I mentioned to you on the forum. The one from Devon? |
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◊ 2010-10-01 23:47 |
The strangest Scottish dialect is Doric from Aberdeenshire and Grampian - very heavily accented and spoken very fast. If "ordinary" Scots-speak is a Hillman Avenger, Doric is the Argentine-made Volkswagen 1500 version - clearly the same starting point, but a very different end product. |
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◊ 2010-10-01 23:50 |
I've put the adverstise in our club-magazine, but I don't know, if someone has made something. |
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Gomselmash11 ◊ 2010-10-02 00:17 |
Great analogy |
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◊ 2010-10-02 00:41 |
The main problem is, to find any people in the Grampians at all. It the sparseliest populated area in Europe. Very recommended as a destination for the fans of the Scotland, as it's usually expected. Plus the Highlands north of the Loch Ness. -- Last edit: 2010-10-02 00:41:32 |
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◊ 2010-10-02 16:12 |
Quiz question in my newspaper today. UK has 4th highest population density in EU - which 3 countries are higher? (2 are straightforward, but I would not have thought of the last one). |
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◊ 2010-10-02 23:01 |
Netherlands for sure. Belgium either, I would say. Germany, too? There are some areas in the far Northeast, close to the Polish border, which belongs also to the sparliest polulated areas in the EU. Malta? They have a similar big population as Luxemburg, but the country is much smaller. -- Last edit: 2010-10-02 23:01:50 |
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◊ 2010-10-02 23:05 |
Yes - Belgium, Holland and Malta. No idea in what order. Congratulations to the only entrant - award yourself a plate of oatcakes with smoked mackerel pate. |
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◊ 2010-10-02 23:17 |
Err, dsl, now you are mixing up Europe (DynaMike and rljuna2 would say "European oddities") a little bit. - oatcakes are Swedish origin (and making you fat. Have you ever checked their calories?) - paté (probably mackerel paté, too) is French orign - the idea, to combinate oatcakes and smoked mackerel paté for a meal is so deviant, that it only could be Scottish orign Scottish food is indeed the most unhealthy food in whole Europe. It's not from me, it's from the EU. |
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◊ 2010-10-02 23:32 |
They might have oatcakes in Sweden, but that doesn't make them Swedish - oatcakes are very traditionally Scottish alongside whichever other national traditions. Pate is a French word, but not a French invention - mixing shredded mackerel with some cottage cheese would have no geographical monopoly, and Scots are well skilled in smoking fish. As for deviant, at least we do not pickle cabbage ...... *am now ducking for cover against the anticipated barrage*. Anyway, if you don't want your imaginary plate of oatcakes and pate, I'll happily have them. |
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◊ 2010-10-02 23:55 |
I just went down to the kitchen and have checked that book: Link to "www.amazon.co.uk" Nothing about mackerel is included, neither any paté and no oatcakes. I'm still full with the faboulus cheese-leek-potage of my wife's aunt, we had this evening. And self-made Apfelstrudel for the dessert.  |
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◊ 2010-10-03 00:09 |
Try Link to "living.stv.tv" - you can even use low-fat cheese. |
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◊ 2010-10-03 00:30 |
Hmmm, I prefer mackerel in original condition, smoked and covered with pepper. Unfortunately it's a fish, you get a strong aftertaste from. I cannot remember, that I've seen these fish-patés in Scottish supermarkets. In the Netherlands for sure. There I'm buying it sometimes. Maybe next week again, as my Omega needs Diesel and my colleagues coffee. Cooking is not my thing, but low-fat-cheese is often not a really good choice for warm meals. So gratinating with it can going wrong. Oh, this afternoon we'll go to my mother-in-law for dinner. Perhaps we'll get her mavellous gratinated onion-schnitzel again. These schnitzels are a possible transition to religious reglations. Isn't it deplorable, that Jews have to miss such great stuff? |
