MAN V FOOD

Schorpio

Ikiru wrote: »

i will moan if i want to here and everywhere else, i dont understand why i have to explain it. its a forum people, not your living room!!!

Yeah, you can moan as long as it's on topic, relevant and constructive to the discussion - which most people here seem to agree yours isn't.

Also, I wouldn't go backchatting a mod if I were you. They mightn't be able to ban you from your living room, but they sure as hell can ban you from this forum!

Now, moar food challenges please!

Gumbo

Ikiru wrote: »

i havent forced my opinion, i expressed it like everyone else.
you attacked me, thats enforcing opinion, well not opinion, rage more like it.

If i attacked you, report the post. but you cant im afraid, just because somebody quotes you, and says the opposite, it does not constitute an attack, its another opinion :rolleyes:

Ikiru wrote: »

its unhealthy because there is a limit of red meat a human is supposed to consume daily (at any age) in order to be healthy

I agree, but how do you know what the limit for that guy is? how do you know the limit for me or the girl facing you on the luas, fact is, you dont, hence its an opinion, and your opinion, your entitled to it, but it doesnt mean your right, or me for that matter.

Ikiru wrote: »

its disqusting because i watched the show and a 200 pound man covered in sauce and cheese is definately not a nice sight, its demeaning for him and insulting to me.

sorry, but this is where you lose any creditibility from me, if its insulting to you, then dont watch the bloody show :eek:

Ikiru wrote: »

and its pointless because the stomach has a capacity and after reaching it (or massivelt surpassing) you can create at least 4 major problems to your general health.

see point above about not knowing the limits of another person ^^^^^^

Ikiru wrote: »

please demonstrate your ignorance and hatred to somebody who cant answer back because you bore me with those weak come backs

now, please go demonstrate your ignorance and hatred to somebody who cant answer back because you bore me with those weak come backs,

Regards,
Expert.

Mr Simpson

skeleton_boy wrote: »

Other than challenges do you guys know places that off alternatives to your standard burger and chip fast food in Dublin? Places similar to KCs in Cork?

Well as I type this I'm eating a Burrito in Boojum in the Italian Quarter, I don't know if thats what you're after but its delish!!

Ikiru

i suppose im the bad guy and i will leave you continue on without my negativity

RobbieTheRobber

I'd like to bring this thread back on topic, take the health discussion to a health forum maybe.

I would like the OP to come back in and clarify his post as well as Im not sure if what they want is eating challanges so much and is maybe enquiring more about the type of food.

At the start of each program before the host does a challange he goes to other restaurants and samples the areas local fast food delights be they specialist ice cream or fancy burgers or sandwiches whatever.

For me this is the key area, these delicious offerings I would be more interested in. I was watching this program this weekend and really wanted something tasty and delicious and not just another burger joint.
things like this http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Po%27_boy

I cant find the one I want but there was one episode were a roast meat sandwich was then before serving dipped into a vat of gravy made from the collective meat juices and I can only imagine the flavour this added to the bread and meat. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.


I went to the aussie bbq recently and have a couple of issues with this joint but having sent them a mail I will wait and see if they respond before venting here.
One of my issues with it though was that the execution just did not meet with the potential it had.
I got a roll which for a place that specialises in bbq meat, really was low in meat content, only second to feckin salad in the roll.

frag420

mmcn90 wrote: »

Well as I type this I'm eating a Burrito in Boojum in the Italian Quarter, I don't know if thats what you're after but its delish!!

Unless its the size of a small family car then no....................its not what we are after:D

frag420

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

I cant find the one I want but there was one episode were a roast meat sandwich was then before serving dipped into a vat of gravy made from the collective meat juices and I can only imagine the flavour this added to the bread and meat. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

Saw it at the weekend. Its in Brooklyn.

http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Restaurant_Review-g60827-d459190-Reviews-Brennan_Car_Restaurant_INC-Brooklyn_New_York.html

frAg

RobbieTheRobber

frag420 wrote: »

Saw it at the weekend. Its in Brooklyn.

http://www.tripadvisor.ie/Restaurant_Review-g60827-d459190-Reviews-Brennan_Car_Restaurant_INC-Brooklyn_New_York.html

frAg

I was watching this weekend myself and before the eating challange he went to mexican restaurant where they did a mexican take on a hotdog.

a footlong wrapped in bacon and fried in butter then covered in beans and sauces to give it that mexican flavour.

So off to town I went and before drinking said right im eating something but for the life of me couldnt think of a good place to satisfy my lust for fatty delights.
So ended up in eddie rockets and with the hotdog fresh in my mind I went for a bacon big boy and just like with the aussie bbq the ingredients on the menu seemed right but poor execution let it down.
The bacon big boy is a footlong with bacon and cheese, but the bacon instead of wrapping the dog and flavouring during cooking was chopped fried seperatly and just put on top and as for the cheese well that was some sort of crap cheap processed cheese sauce heated and poured on top :mad:
not what my mind had imagined when reading the menu.
How expensive would it be to make a real cheese sauce i mean come on is this what we should accept from a not so cheap fast food restauarant?

On the plus side for eddies pints of carlsberg were only €4, didn't stay long enough though for it to be worth it.

The Hill Billy

Ikiru wrote: »

i will moan if i want to here and everywhere else...!

Oh no you won't. Take a few days off.

tHB

Paparazzo

The food in Man V Food is generally really nice looking low end restaurants/snack stuff. Low end as in cheap, not quality. We lack that in ireland, I blame the likes of spar and chippers. They're all more or less the same everywhere and have cornered too much of the market. Ok, there is nice places, but few and far between. I think if you wanted a successful restaurant/cafe in that market in ireland, watch man v food for ideas, and you don't need a massive menu.

As for a challenge OP why don't you make your own? Go into a chipper and order everything off an entire luminated panel of the menu behind the counter? Give your self 90 minutes from when you get home. You could try in in mcdonalds too. Not quite the same though. You need the crowd cheering you on.

D-Generate

RobbieTheRobber wrote: »

I cant find the one I want but there was one episode were a roast meat sandwich was then before serving dipped into a vat of gravy made from the collective meat juices and I can only imagine the flavour this added to the bread and meat. mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.

That my friend is Philippe's Sandwich shop in LA, home of the "French Dip" Sandwich. Last September I visited this fine establishment and enjoyed two of his signature sandwiches and I must say, they were absolutely amazing.

Think in total I have been to 7 or 8 of the places featured in MvF and Philippe's was one of the better ones. Ike's Place also deserves an honourable mention for making a damn fine sandwich.

Degsy

Irishpimpdude wrote: »

Went here with the gf before she only likes well done burgers, but it was all pink, the waitress told her it was baby meat and its supposed to be like that, yea whatever i told her well done please and amazingly she came out the next time with a well done burger... stupid bitch

Anybody who asks for well-done meat deserves to have it hopped off thier head.

BeerNut

Degsy wrote: »

Anybody who asks for well-done meat deserves to have it hopped off thier head.

Anyone who asks for a rare burger is insufficiently versed in the mechanics of burger-making or basic food hygiene.

Paparazzo

D-Generate wrote: »

That my friend is Philippe's Sandwich shop in LA, home of the "French Dip" Sandwich. Last September I visited this fine establishment and enjoyed two of his signature sandwiches and I must say, they were absolutely amazing.

Think in total I have been to 7 or 8 of the places featured in MvF and Philippe's was one of the better ones. Ike's Place also deserves an honourable mention for making a damn fine sandwich.

Did you have a steamed cheeseburger in Connecticut? They look so wrong, but also so right!

Mr Simpson

frag420 wrote: »

Unless its the size of a small family car then no....................its not what we are after:D

It may not be the size of a small family car. But I still can't finish it, the rice gets me every time, I really don't know how Adam Richman does it!!!

strandroad

frag420 wrote: »

Unless its the size of a small family car then no....................its not what we are after:D

Some burrito places will make you a double or a triple... they lay out two or three tortillas in a row and roll them up in one super long burrito.

I can't see the appeal of Man vs Food though... I watched it a couple of times, the food is so greasy, grey and sloppy, and the guy looks so pudgy and pasty :P

How Soon Is Now

Id love to try some of the spicy challenges he has done on that show.

I buy a lot of hot sauces from over seas but adding them to actual wings or burgers can be hard some times cause of the amount and texture needed.

Although saying that i added a tiny amount of sauce i have which is around the 7million scovile mark to a burger last week.

All i can say is fook :pac:

I had a burrito one night in Little ass before they moved from Rathmines while i was drunk and asked them to triple the spicyness of there hottest salsa which was Habanaro. Ate the whole thing but my speech was ****ed for a good 15 minutes afterwards.

Stung taking a piss the next day as well lol. Didnt help that half way threw i went to get a drink and me mate loaded the fecking thing with more hot sauce without me knowing!!!.

The Scientician

I was just watching Drive-Ins, Diners & Dives, it doesn't have food challenges but has similar types of restaurants to the ones show in MvF. Any one of the restaurants shown in that show would clean up in Ireland.

By the way I did a real MvF food challenge when I was in the states. It was the worst meal I've ever eaten, a toasted cheese sandwich, the Melt Challenge.

frag420

The Scientician wrote: »

I was just watching Drive-Ins, Diners & Dives, it doesn't have food challenges but has similar types of restaurants to the ones show in MvF. Any one of the restaurants shown in that show would clean up in Ireland.

By the way I did a real MvF food challenge when I was in the states. It was the worst meal I've ever eaten, a toasted cheese sandwich, the Melt Challenge.

Christ that is just wrong wrong wrong.

Doesnt help that I hate cheese though but still.........................wretch!!:D

FreudianSlippers

BeerNut wrote: »

Anyone who asks for a rare burger is insufficiently versed in the mechanics of burger-making or basic food hygiene.

There is a lot between well done and rare I believe you'll find.

FreudianSlippers

The Scientician wrote: »

I was just watching Drive-Ins, Diners & Dives, it doesn't have food challenges but has similar types of restaurants to the ones show in MvF. Any one of the restaurants shown in that show would clean up in Ireland.

By the way I did a real MvF food challenge when I was in the states. It was the worst meal I've ever eaten, a toasted cheese sandwich, the Melt Challenge.

I want to punch that guy in the face sooooooo badly. I am never like that about stupid people I see on the TV or in real life, but he has a face even his mother must love to punch.

Degsy

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

I want to punch that guy in the face sooooooo badly. I am never like that about stupid people I see on the TV or in real life, but he has a face even his mother must love to punch.

I like the fat slob from Man V Food but i cant stand that arrogant fat slob from Diners,Drive Ins and Dives..he's an obnoxious tub of lard.

Paparazzo

Degsy wrote: »

I like the fat slob from Man V Food but i cant stand that arrogant fat slob from Diners,Drive Ins and Dives..he's an obnoxious tub of lard.

Adam from MvF actually comes across as a nice guy and funny in a weird way. The guy off Diners, drive ins and dives just comes across as a complete loud obnoxious knob end.

BeerNut

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

There is a lot between well done and rare I believe you'll find.

I will indeed. Anyone who asks for a burger that isn't cooked completely through is asking for trouble. In steak terms, well done is the only one that's cooked completely through. Or should be.

FreudianSlippers

AFAIK the recommended cooking temperature for "cooked through" is 63°C which is firmly in the middle of demi-anglais, pink and firm or medium. For ground beef, the FSAI recommend 75°C or equivalent of 70°C at the core for 2 minutes. That gaps between cuit and bien cuit, small amount of pink medium well to the bottom range of well. Then again I'm sure you'd tell me off for eating steak tartare.

BeerNut

FreudianSlippers wrote: »

Then again I'm sure you'd tell me off for eating steak tartare.

If you're eating it in a burger place in Dublin I'd suggest having something else instead. I love steak tartare but it's not the same thing as a raw burger.

Degsy

BeerNut wrote: »

. I love steak tartare but it's not the same thing as a raw burger.

Yes it is..and its not the raw meat that will poison you so much as the poor hygene habits of whoever prepares it.

Anyway,people are far to precious these days..mankind traditionally gorged on raw meat all the time.

BeerNut

Degsy wrote: »

mankind traditionally gorged on raw meat all the time.

... all the way through his 40-year lifespan

FreudianSlippers

BeerNut wrote: »

If you're eating it in a burger place in Dublin I'd suggest having something else instead. I love steak tartare but it's not the same thing as a raw burger.

Well, I'd hardly get it from The Counter, but there are some upper-market burger places or restaurants that serve burgers that I'd be happy to have a bit of pink in my burger.

Ashbourne hoop

Man v Food is a great show, some of the stuff looks amazing. Clearly its not for the health concious but I love it.