Manwell Pablo Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Coalville Jaw dropping that it took 21 posts.
Manwell Pablo Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Wtf? Leicester people calling other places shitty? The words pot, kettle and black spring to mind... Yes Because we were all born and bred in the center of Leicester.
fuchsntf Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 After 127 posts naming at least 3-4 so called dumps,, maybe it would be wiser to concur, and just say..'Britain'. our capital is a dump, every county capital is horrid. Better still open another thread, actually naming nice towns and cities. Mind you...tho now I am an expat, its still my country, a place I still like to be part of, and started me off in life, my relations people I have been proud to know, my best child, youth memories gave me history. You can offer the best foods in the world, but you cant, beat, pie/fish and chips, Indian restaurants, some of the best, chinese, never boring.Doner kebabs best in Europe.Pork pies and a good ol' British pub, with scratchings.Sunday Roasts.Only for well hardened British stomachs. Bloody useless at bread, but ok with cakes and puddings. Great football supporters, but only in Leicester. oh and something else, when my foreign friends, try and tell me, The Brits are all pirates, I happily answer...... true very true, but we were and still are the best pirates that ever sailed.
Guest Bilo Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Leave the tourist areas and Naples is an absolute hole. Coventry is bad. Luton somehow manages to be worse.
Carl the Llama Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 After 127 posts naming at least 3-4 so called dumps,, maybe it would be wiser to concur, and just say..'Britain'. our capital is a dump, every county capital is horrid. Better still open another thread, actually naming nice towns and cities. Mind you...tho now I am an expat, its still my country, a place I still like to be part of, and started me off in life, my relations people I have been proud to know, my best child, youth memories gave me history. You can offer the best foods in the world, but you cant, beat, pie/fish and chips, Indian restaurants, some of the best, chinese, never boring.Doner kebabs best in Europe.Pork pies and a good ol' British pub, with scratchings.Sunday Roasts.Only for well hardened British stomachs. Bloody useless at bread, but ok with cakes and puddings. Great football supporters, but only in Leicester. oh and something else, when my foreign friends, try and tell me, The Brits are all pirates, I happily answer...... true very true, but we were and still are the best pirates that ever sailed. Wrong. Well maybe right, but it doesn't matter because here in Brussels you can get something called a durum instead: Meat of your choice(doner/chicken/kefta/shawarma/etc) + salad veg + chips, all wrapped into a soft flatbread which has been smeared with the sauce(s) of your choice. Pukka.
Carl the Llama Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Did I mention it costs the same as getting a styrofoam box of hacked lamb meat inexplicably doused in vinegar? Because it does. I'd imagine anywhere with a large North-African community has durum shops of some description, so Germany must be well endowed in that respect too.
bovril Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Wrong. Well maybe right, but it doesn't matter because here in Brussels you can get something called a durum instead: Meat of your choice(doner/chicken/kefta/shawarma/etc) + salad veg + chips, all wrapped into a soft flatbread which has been smeared with the sauce(s) of your choice. Pukka. Yeah was gonna say the same thing, donners are rank in UK. Great in the Balkans. And there are loads of loads of lovely towns in the UK. Agree on Naples. Scary undercurrent of extreme violence. Luton has already been mentioned plenty of times and deservedly so. I often get the early morning Wizz flights into there and you can see the optimism drain from the faces of the keen Eastern Europeans as the connecting bus service drives through the town centre. Did I mention it costs the same as getting a styrofoam box of hacked lamb meat inexplicably doused in vinegar? Because it does. I'd imagine anywhere with a large North-African community has durum shops of some description, so Germany must be well endowed in that respect too. Durum is Turkish innit.
Carl the Llama Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Yeah was gonna say the same thing, donners are rank in UK. Great in the Balkans. And there are loads of loads of lovely towns in the UK. Agree on Naples. Scary undercurrent of extreme violence. Luton has already been mentioned plenty of times and deservedly so. I often get the early morning Wizz flights into there and you can see the optimism drain from the faces of the keen Eastern Europeans as the connecting bus service drives through the town centre. Durum is Turkish innit. Is it? A lot of the places that do them here are Moroccan-run so I assumed. Maybe it's more of an Arab-state thing? Either way it beats doner as a cheap stomach-liner hands down. Edit: Though thinking about it my favourite place to go for one has Galatasaray memorabilia around the place which should have been a clue.
bovril Posted 23 October 2014 Posted 23 October 2014 Is it? A lot of the places that do them here are Moroccan-run so I assumed. Maybe it's more of an Arab-state thing? Either way it beats doner as a cheap stomach-liner hands down. Edit: Though thinking about it my favourite place to go for one has Galatasaray memorabilia around the place which should have been a clue. I was always sure it was Turkish but most food from Middle East / North Africa has the same influences so who knows and who cares when it's that good?!
Fox92 Posted 24 October 2014 Posted 24 October 2014 Coventry gave so much for us during the War. What's happened; has it not improved much since!?
absolutelegend Posted 27 October 2014 Posted 27 October 2014 I like Swansea I'm personally not a fan of cities in general, but Birmingham for me is pretty bad
Nalis Posted 27 October 2014 Posted 27 October 2014 Milan is a shithole unless you're a footballer, fashion designer or a corrupt politicians.
fuchsntf Posted 27 October 2014 Posted 27 October 2014 Wrong. Well maybe right, but it doesn't matter because here in Brussels you can get something called a durum instead: Meat of your choice(doner/chicken/kefta/shawarma/etc) + salad veg + chips, all wrapped into a soft flatbread which has been smeared with the sauce(s) of your choice. Pukka. lived in Brussels 30+years ago, must say went back 2yrs ago, a durum or shwarma, very tasty, and still Belgium may do the best chips with their sauce choices, found tasty place still serving lamb, has it should be instead of chicken, or turkey mix..
fuchsntf Posted 27 October 2014 Posted 27 October 2014 I was always sure it was Turkish but most food from Middle East / North Africa has the same influences so who knows and who cares when it's that good?!The Turks, the greeks, all of the middle-east/North Africans will argue all the way until they meet their ancestors, that they do the best and the original.my last in Leicester was 3 years ago, and that was off the Melton road.I was taken at 2 am in the morning, to a family cafe, lebanese Egyptian man and wife owned.Friends telling me one of the few original places left that still do a decent kebab. I had 2, one cut and served thinly sliced with a full mixed salat, the other half hour later, with chunky meat both off seperate spits, but with lamb, and I believe goat mix.They have their own supply business as well and supply to parties and homes, the whole kit with meat.Bloody frustrating if I wanted to go back alone, I have no idea where it was, and my Indian friends who took me there,are somewhere between Egypt and Kuwait enjoying the culinary delights, without leaving even a bye n bye. So far , but the years might change it, Germany...never liked their kebab shops since lamb or goat went off the spit.Suprisingly really since many Turks live here. Holland, France,Balkans, Belgium, and Uk of old, had the best kebabs, Doner, Shwarma, Shoarma, under whatever name one is accustomed, obviously in the countries of origin, totally another experience......Bloody want one now, whens the next plane out...?
suffolk fox Posted 28 October 2014 Posted 28 October 2014 Great Yarmouth and Stoke shit holes Grantham Cleethorpes Hull
Dan Posted 30 October 2014 Posted 30 October 2014 Is Swansea on this list yet Shout. What a dump. Amazing that it was Leicester, Hull and Swansea going for the city of culture. Surely that whole thing was a piss-take
Tielemans63 Posted 30 October 2014 Posted 30 October 2014 Until you've had a night out in Cleckheaton (West Yorkshire) you're not actually qualified to call a town horrid. Went for a works night out when I lived up in Leeds and that place is off the scale.
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