San Marzano bolognese.
San Marzano bolognese.
Yeah tomatoes.
If you're on to those then you're running out of things to be smug about.
Nothing better than a nice spaghetti and tomatoes dish with good quality ingredients.
The quality of produce is definitely one of the worst things about living in Britain tbh
Fucking hell. It's not that controversial that certain foods are better due to the climate and it not requiring transportation over many miles.
Depends what produce you're after. Living in big cities, then yeah.
Fortunately my town was an Italian POW hub so not only are we overstocked on the barber front, but there's also a glorious little Italian shop that brings all this glorious stuff straight over from the mother country, probably dodgily. I haven't had a supermarket parmesan in a decade (write that one down Lewis).
I fucking hate all of you. All of you. Giggles is the only exception.
Tomatoes are something that you can easily notice a difference in though. If you grow some of your own at home, you'll notice a massive difference between them and the ones you buy in the supermarket.
Aye, I had a great big tomato cherry vine in Jersey and the fruit was divine.
On Monday I'm on a 16 hour flight from San Francisco to Singapore. If you see a strangling incident on the news you'll know I didn't get an aisle seat.
Yeah if you're buying the Tesco value ones maybe. It's just another 'im well travelled' self wank job.
If someone put Aldi tomatoes in a dish they'd think it was amazing so long as they could say it was eaten in s small cafe looking at an 'insert medeteranian country here' sunset.
I'm glad you can enjoy the little things in life.
Pikey Mouse being worse than a Pikey is a nice but starling revalation.
says the Scot.
Tell him how much you earn Magic, go on.
Guys c'mon I'm not a total arse!
Now excuse me whilst I eat my freshly imported, pesticide free organic cherry tomatoes.
Giggles has blatantly never bought, or probably eaten, a tomato
Why buy it when you can get dolmio?
God this is so good. I feel like an Orca (me, James and Kiko) circling and taunting some pathetic arctic seal (Giggles/Pikey) on some shitty processed, tinned sea ice.
Off for a power wank.
Just bought some cherry tomatoes for 79p. #Swag
In fairness, I'm an ex-smoker so my tastebuds are probably operating at a limited capacity.
Is that why you fill your boots when you're away with work?
If you can't taste stuff, sure.
Fuck Instagram.
Had a cracking couple of meals in Brindisi today but it starts to feel gluttonous eating so much. It was banging on the way back though, some little wine festival and open air gig. Must be the equivalent of Glastonbury for these lot.
@Mert have you visited Asia much since you left?
Booked in to go to Florence for a week
Going to day trip it out to Pisa/Bologna etc. too. Would appreciate and recommendations if anyone's been there recently?
Tomatoes are excellent.
Pisa is a shithole, avoid.
Lucca is nice, go there instead.
Go to Siena instead of Pisa.
But the tower!!1! (I'm not that fussed)
Lucca and Siena are both on the list too.
The tower and the complex are great, but they're not very big and there isn't really anything else to Pisa. Whereas Siena you can wander around all day and the Duomo is worth all of Pisa put together.
The tower bit is probably crawling with fucking tourists.
That's also true.
I tried to drive to Pisa (don't, well, not without a map of some sort) and saw the tower from range as I came down through the hills, but when I got to the city I think I entered it massively early and at the wrong end, drove down a myriad of reasonably terrifying one way systems before being spat out of some ancient gate and hightailing it towards Rome.