Author Topic: [HAMR] Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)  (Read 450545 times)

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3375 on: 02 February, 2016, 07:03:49 pm »
I can bring the tandem and we can have filthy bike swapping.
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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3376 on: 02 February, 2016, 07:50:40 pm »
Scotland is also very popular and I would definitely recommend it for cycling and food. Especially Fiddlers in Drumnodrochit on the banks of Loch Ness. Very good food, all fortified with whisky and probably every possible Scotch whisky available. Also worth touring Wales.

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Can't disagree with Scotland as a destination for cyclists. Except maybe for the weather and the midgies!  ;D

May/June or September/early October are the best times to avoid the latter. As for the former, it's pot luck I'm afraid.  ::-)
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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3377 on: 02 February, 2016, 07:52:02 pm »

Alf Tupper, that's a funny one! Kurt does like fish-n-chips... not to mention beer!!!  :thumbsup:

Still haven't tried beans on toast... will attempt to try and let you know...  ???
Really how can Kurt set a cycling record without the help of the cycling staples of fish n chips, beer and beans. Really these dam yanks!

Beer the is best carbo loading there is  :thumbsup:

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3378 on: 02 February, 2016, 08:00:45 pm »
Yebbut... American beer? Yeuch!
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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3379 on: 02 February, 2016, 08:08:52 pm »
Not sure whether you can get baked beans over there either,

Yes, I know that many on this board will disagree with me, but let's face it, the best beans in the universe are the Boston baked beans, delicately cooked in molasse, onions and mustard...

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3380 on: 02 February, 2016, 10:12:17 pm »
Scotland is also very popular and I would definitely recommend it for cycling and food. Especially Fiddlers in Drumnodrochit on the banks of Loch Ness. Very good food, all fortified with whisky and probably every possible Scotch whisky available. Also worth touring Wales.

 :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Can't disagree with Scotland as a destination for cyclists. Except maybe for the weather and the midgies!  ;D

May/June or September/early October are the best times to avoid the latter. As for the former, it's pot luck I'm afraid.  ::-)

We were chewed to bits by the little buggers when we were over on Mull in late May 2014. Western Scotland tends to get its best weather in April/early May and you would be very unlucky to meet midges then.
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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3381 on: 02 February, 2016, 10:19:24 pm »
And people do come to Milton Keynes for a holiday, and return. It wouldn't be my first choice either but an American might feel more at home here with the grid road system and shopping centres. Plus it's handy for a lot of nice places to visit.

I suppose I'll have to admit staying there myself.

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3382 on: 02 February, 2016, 10:41:02 pm »
Is fish'n'chips even a thing in USAnia? :o

It has been attempted - on at least one occasion.
My grandfather was Editor-in-Chief of a local newspaper group in Nottingham and as I recall the story they printed a special edition 'front-page' with spoof Robin-Hoodery to be exported to a new start up somewhere in USA that wanted to create the 'proper' fish & chips in newspaper experience.

Every Irish bar in the entire country (and there must be millions) proudly serves fish'n'chips. There will be few Americans not familiar, even if they've never succumbed.

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3383 on: 02 February, 2016, 10:42:10 pm »
How often does it turn out to be fish'n'crisps, thobut?

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3384 on: 02 February, 2016, 10:45:39 pm »
How often does it turn out to be fish'n'crisps, thobut?

Never, in my experience (five visits to the USA so far this year, and several hundred in total).

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3385 on: 02 February, 2016, 10:50:37 pm »
I remember falling foul of en_US 'chips' on a trip to the USA when I was a kid, but I don't think there was any fish involved.

Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3386 on: 03 February, 2016, 12:02:10 am »
Sounds like some people need to visit the US again to update their stereotypical viewpoints.

No problem getting UK style real ales there when I lived there (west coast, east coast and a few random places in the middle), no shortage of curry or fish and chips either.
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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3387 on: 03 February, 2016, 12:11:47 am »
No problem getting UK style real ales there when I lived there

Actually cask-conditioned? Or 'craft' beers, which are keg?



(I'll point out that I'm being a beer pedant here, not a beer snob. There are many very fine craft beers, it's just that the provisional wing of CAMRA gets most exercised at the notion of anything other than cask-conditioned being thought of as 'real ale.' Meh, says I - if it tastes good, and it's real enough to drink, then that's real enough for me.)

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3388 on: 03 February, 2016, 04:12:23 am »
I never found a proper chippy whenever I've been to the USA. Not sure whether you can get baked beans over there either,
Tarzan and Whip would do well to come over to the UK, do some rides and enjoy some British stuff like fish, chips, beer in pubs and other stuff.

You can get baked beans this side of the water. I don't personally, can't stand the things, but my wife does.

I have yet to find what I'd call a "proper" chippy. One place about 15 miles from me serves fish and chips (and when they say "chips" they don't mean what a Brit would call crisps). The fish is breaded haddock in sticks (kind of like giant fish fingers, but fish fillets rather than tiny amounts of fish mashed up with lots of potato), and the chips are slices of potato cooked the way I'd expect chips to be cooked. It's nice, but not the same as English fish-n-chips.
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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3389 on: 03 February, 2016, 04:15:13 am »
Yebbut... American beer? Yeuch!

I guess you never ventured further than Bud Lite.

American beer is much more varied than yellow fizzy garbage with Lite on the end of its name. Traditionally American beer was served ice cold on the basis it was the only way you could tell it from urine. Now they've got their acts together and there are small breweries all over the country. If you want IPA, stout, porters, red ales, pumpkin ales, Oktoberfest ales, lagers, bocks, you'll probably find something you like.

Only this evening I was eating in a place that has its own brewery and they probably had 20 different beers on the menu, not including beers they didn't brew themselves. I went for a flight of five of them (for the princely sum of $8) and had a variety of styles.
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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3390 on: 03 February, 2016, 09:49:51 am »
Aye, as with much else all over the globe, the American palate has evolved.

I quite enjoyed this beer during a visit to California a few years ago:

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3391 on: 03 February, 2016, 10:58:10 am »
I know Kurt has a bit of an aversion to sleep deprivation, but he'd be very welcome at the Mersey Roads 24. He could ask Joel about it, he's ridden it a couple of times.
It's UMCA sanctioned, and there's a lot to see locally: Chester, North Wales, Liverpool, and of course the legendary Raven Cafe.

Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3392 on: 03 February, 2016, 11:47:54 am »
I never found a proper chippy whenever I've been to the USA. Not sure whether you can get baked beans over there either,
Tarzan and Whip would do well to come over to the UK, do some rides and enjoy some British stuff like fish, chips, beer in pubs and other stuff.

I don't believe this !

The 'baked bean' meal was brought to Europe from Eastern US / Canada. Baking beans was done by the Native First Nation People.
The first can of beans to come to the UK was only 130 years ago.

Have you never watched 'Blazing saddles' by Mel Brooks?

Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3393 on: 03 February, 2016, 11:50:20 am »
yebbut those aren't proper heinz baked beans, they are some sort of forrin stuff
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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3394 on: 03 February, 2016, 11:57:41 am »
http://www.heinz.co.uk/en/Our-Company/About-Heinz/Heinz-Story

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3395 on: 03 February, 2016, 03:08:59 pm »
Aye, as with much else all over the globe, the American palate has evolved.

I quite enjoyed this beer during a visit to California a few years ago:



I first encountered thst in 2003, by 2008 thry had it on draught in the Wol Club in Battle Mountain :thumbsup:

In 2014 I spent a night about half a mile from the brewery in Fort Collins but by then I'd had to give it up chiz >:(
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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3396 on: 03 February, 2016, 05:37:35 pm »
I never found a proper chippy whenever I've been to the USA. Not sure whether you can get baked beans over there either,
Tarzan and Whip would do well to come over to the UK, do some rides and enjoy some British stuff like fish, chips, beer in pubs and other stuff.

I don't believe this !

The 'baked bean' meal was brought to Europe from Eastern US / Canada. Baking beans was done by the Native First Nation People.
The first can of beans to come to the UK was only 130 years ago.

Have you never watched 'Blazing saddles' by Mel Brooks?

Like I said, I'm not sure. It doesn't surprise me that you can get baked beans in the USA. I've been inside a Wal Mart and you seem to be able to buy anything there but I wasn't going to hunt around a giant maze for something I didn't want.
I never really thought of Blazing Saddles as a documentary. ;D

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3397 on: 04 February, 2016, 06:46:40 pm »
Even more OT:
This post seems to have tripped our work firewall ("alcohol and tobacco" rule IIRC - no mention of firearms). This is very rare, I can see just about every other page on YACF.

A bit ironic, given the fuss about alcohol, UCMA rules etc 12 months ago ...

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Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3398 on: 04 February, 2016, 07:55:24 pm »
And now of course your firewall can chew on firearms

Re: Tarzan (Kurt Searvogel)
« Reply #3399 on: 04 February, 2016, 08:47:41 pm »
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This post seems to have tripped our work firewall

so we could effectively block you from the forum during working hours by have a sticky with a load of trigger words in?  ;D