Too Much To Dream

Is the Quatloo the right place to put comments? What the hell's a Quatloo anyway?

Mike Carlton's a wanker. You're typical smart arse SMH journo! Ignore him as you would a drunk with a toupee, pink shirt and bad pick-up lines.

Ozzies seem to have some pretty odd views of Americans. Remember the one who thought that the typical American only puts ornaments on the Christmas tree that are gifts from friends?

I mean, my hot dogs and hamburgers don't generally look pre-chewed, thank you.

Lamb chops, peas and potatoes are standard American fare. Where the hell did this guy eat?

As if someone else has chewed it first?

What could he be talking about? Barbecue sandwiches? Fried chicken? Greens? Meatloaf? Crawfish etouffé? Everything that Chinese restaurants serve? Everything, in short, worth eating?

I wouldn't care if this guy were the staunchest of anti-idiotarians, with a permalink on InstaPundit. This remark alone would still make me distrust him.

A.: it wasn't Tim Blair who made the food remark, but the columnist he was making fun of who said it. Check the links.

Australian comics H.G. and Roy were dispatched to cover the Salt Lake Olympics, seeing as how they'd done a good job with the Sydney Olympics in 2000.

Every night of their show they started off with their table covered with American food---giant donuts, pancakes, enchiladas, barbecue---oh, and it just made my cry! I was homesick so bad!

As for Australian food---I never found out what it was. In the country they will give you great slabs of meat along with overcooked veggies, or dubious fried things, but it's the same here. In Sydney they have Chinese, Indian, Italian, whatever, just like here. (Near my apartment there was a Mexican restaurant that served kangaroo fajitas. No, I did not try them.)

When we went to Adelaide our cabbie gestured toward the gourmet district, saying that there'd be any kind of food we wanted---Indian, Chinese, Japanese. We said we had that stuff in Sydney, but had yet to see an Australian restaurant. "Arrr!" he said, sounding a bit shocked, "You don't want to be eatin' bacon and eggs every night!"

So there it is: Australian food is bacon and eggs. (I hate eggs.)

(In Adelaide, we ended up at an Argentine restaurant.)

Andrea, of course his permalinks are broken. He's on blogspot fer chrissakes! He should get his own domain and ask Rachel Lucas to move him to MT. She's done over 20 migrations so far, including me.

Tony, Quatloo is the currency used on Triskelian(sp)a planet in the original Star Trek series, altho' I do not know why Andrea has chosen that for her comments. I'm sure she will enlighten us.

Quatloos: True about the Star Trek origins, and obviously Andrea's idiosyncratic form of the cliche, "two cents".

So go ahead, add your few Quatloos!

What's the exchange rate then? How many Quatloos for a Greenspan?

Aussie food is fantastic. No. I'm not just being parochial. It's a brilliant combination of many cuisines, and errr cooking.

But I like US food too. And European stuff. Especially the Fried Weasel.

Kangaroo is terrific when cooked well. That's not "Well Cooked". I should be eaten medium rare.

Mike Carlton was mocking Prime Minister John Howard by saying he was a meat and potatoes type guy. ie traditional and unsophisticated.(the usual leftist script) Don't worry too much about Mike Carlton. Every country has its share of hard-wired sneering dumbfucks. They will be proved wrong again.

I believe this is the point where someone mentions baked spotted owl. Mmmmm. ;-)

Mmmmmm, spotted owl.... gggggggllllglglglg.....

yeah, i'm with them. (the other commentators.) perhaps the guy is thinking of casserole? ah, our baby boomer heritage...

>>A.: it wasn't Tim Blair who made the food remark, but the columnist he was making fun of who said it. Check the links.

Oops — I knew that, but my remark made it sound like I was talking about Blair. Sorry!