Quote: Griff @ December 16 2009, 8:13 AM GMTThere's a pub I used to visit, in North Oxfordshire, which has two blackboards up every day headed 'Food' and 'Foreign Food', the second listing such exotic dishes as Chilli Con Carne.
Were the toiletd similarly separated?
Quote: Nogget @ December 16 2009, 6:44 AM GMTI have an elderly family member who doesn't like what she calls 'foreign food'. All she eats is stuff like Shepherd's Pie, fish 'n' chips and Toad in the Hole. Well that's OK, there's nothing wrong with that sort of stuff, but from the perspective of those of us who don't have such a restricted diet, it looks like maybe she's missing out on a few dishes she might actually enjoy.
What's more, the term 'foreign food' is a hopeless generalisation to the rest of us, since there's little that Risotto, Sushi and Humus share in common, other than that they are 'foreign' by her definition.
If this is supposed to be a dig at me because I said I didn't like 'world music', then I think it's fair to say I can like and not like whatever I want. Okay? Okay. If I'm 'missing out' on anything, I'll live.
I don't really like what's termed as dance music either, want to tell me why I'm wrong about that?
I used to love watching Top Of The Pops at Christmas by the way, getting back to the thread topic.
Quote: Griff @ December 16 2009, 8:27 AM GMTIt was a proper traditional Oxfordshire country pub, with an Aunt Sally team, lock-ins every Saturday, and a loaded rifle in the back kitchen in case of trouble.
There was no world music.
I knew people from that part of the world who thought lasgne was exotic and had been to London once, in the 1950s.
My mother used to be a dead ringer for one of Pan's People.
Now she looks like some BBC newsreader.
Quote: Griff @ December 16 2009, 8:27 AM GMTIt was a proper traditional Oxfordshire country pub, with an Aunt Sally team, lock-ins every Saturday, and a loaded rifle in the back kitchen in case of trouble.
Sounds like a bloody Blubeckers.
Quote: Matthew Stott @ December 16 2009, 11:53 AM GMTIf this is supposed to be a dig at me
No it wasn't.
Quote: Nogget @ December 16 2009, 1:30 PM GMTNo it wasn't.
Hmm . . . Ok. 
Quote: Ben @ December 16 2009, 1:06 PM GMTMy mother used to be a dead ringer for one of Pan's People.
Now she looks like some BBC newsreader.
Oh really? Which one? (Sounds interesting!)
Quote: Chappers @ December 16 2009, 11:05 PM GMTOh really? Which one? (Sounds interesting!)
Are you after the newsreader or the Pan's Person? And have I really used my 4000th post up on this?
Quote: Badge @ December 16 2009, 11:26 PM GMTAre you after the newsreader or the Pan's Person? And have I really used my 4000th post up on this?
Either. Because it could be she looks like Fiona or Kate - or even one of the dark haired ones.
Not the blonde Beautiful Babs. Don't know what her name is though.
Ooh, congratulations Badge on the 4K. 
Watching Top of the Pops 1977.
The Dancers are perfectly evoking the spirit of the Eagles "New Kid in Town"
Albeit in a very odd way
Cherry or Louise?
Oh yeah, I read that they're going to start making new TOTP, but it's only going to be shown online. 
But if it's successful, apparently it may come back to TV. (Yay!)
Even though I would still hate at least 90% of the music on there, it just isn't right that TOTP isn't on.
The artist interviews in the BBC4 TOTP are really cringey. Mike Oldfield looked really uncomfortable last week as did both Jermaine Jackson and Gary Numan this week.