I'm trying to remember where it was that put fries in the most random of dishes. It was a bit disconcerting.

Oh hell, I really can't remember. I just recall finding fries in my scrambled eggs, fries in pasta sauce, fries in pasta and cheese, served with chicken... well, it was either the CzechR, Russia, Hungary, Zambia or Zimbabwe. I can eliminate other places I've been because I remember the food as good.

In the Scots b&bs I've patronized, they kept giving me broiled tomatoes, since I wouldn't eat the bangers...such looks I got and now? A solitary cooked tomato just makes me sad.

they kept giving me broiled tomatoes

Plain? No cheese or garlic or stuffings? What a terrible thing to do to an innocent tomato.

Grilled tomatoes are great. Mmm.

I'd agree, except for the volume I had to consume. NO variety...no options, perhaps. But, ugh.

Or maybe it was the freakybad indian/midwestern homecooking diner by the hospital.

Seriously, my brain recalls the fries in weird places! but absolutely nothing about where I came across them. Well, at least they can't kill me.

I always have a weird disconnect between "broil" and "grill". Possibly because "broil" is too close to "boil", and then I get confused.

I enjoy the Irish food. Food cooked poorly sucks no matter what cuisine it is. Yell at the individual cooks, don't cast aspirsions on an entire culture.

Good Irish food: bacon, sausage, potato anything, beer, irish soda bread, brown bread, butter. Also, you can just have some damn decent stuff in ireland, salmon and lamb and shepards pie, and I loves me some corned beef. Cooking corned beef till grey is a sign of a bad cook, not a bad culinary culture.

What she said. This is probably one of the foods I was happiest about being allergic to.

You don't even like bacon! Your food credibility hovers around nil.

Yell at the individual cooks, don't cast aspirsions on an entire culture.

No, no. As a culture, they've earned it.