Rashford

Obviously the Germans have a horrendous sounding language (personal opinion), on par with Scouse and Birmingham, although not as bad as those two chit English language destroying accents.

Maybe on par* although thinking about it, nah, I prefer the German language, feck those two cities

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 34 seconds ago
I lived in Germany and bit. Really like the country, and the football culture is great. Sure, Italy wins for food, weather and architecture.
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Controversial maybe, but for me, as a place to live, Italy doesn’t even get close to decent for food.

Outside the very largest cities, try eating out and finding anything other than Italian cuisine or, for that matter, buying any Asian (for example) ingredients, sauces, spices, etc. in any Italian supermarket.

If you like eating Italian food FOR EVERY MEAL OF THE DAY FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE then sure, Italy is spectacular. If you’d like to eat out or even cook at home Thai, Mexican, Brazilian, Indian, Moroccan, Korean, Ethiopian, Argentinian, Jamaican, Vietnamese… food, then forgeddaboudid, because it’s completely impossible.

Rosso, yeah, I guess I meant local cuisine rather than quality / variety of restaurants. I guess a pro footballer will eat quite well (and not necessarily that adventurously) wherever they go.

comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 2 hours, 39 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 34 seconds ago
I lived in Germany and bit. Really like the country, and the football culture is great. Sure, Italy wins for food, weather and architecture.
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Controversial maybe, but for me, as a place to live, Italy doesn’t even get close to decent for food.

Outside the very largest cities, try eating out and finding anything other than Italian cuisine or, for that matter, buying any Asian (for example) ingredients, sauces, spices, etc. in any Italian supermarket.

If you like eating Italian food FOR EVERY MEAL OF THE DAY FOR YOUR ENTIRE LIFE then sure, Italy is spectacular. If you’d like to eat out or even cook at home Thai, Mexican, Brazilian, Indian, Moroccan, Korean, Ethiopian, Argentinian, Jamaican, Vietnamese… food, then forgeddaboudid, because it’s completely impossible.
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Yeah,can vouch for Indian, Thai and Vietnamese food. Street eating is just incredible in these places. Indian food in particular is fairly different than what you’d get as Indian food in the uk (which is still amazing). Bowls of fish sauce, peanuts and Birds Eye chillis in Thailand as optional garnish always great.

I think Rashford is one of those players that has really suffered from being constantly under the spotlight and not always for football reasons.
Going to any other club and perhaps playing at a club where the scrutiny isn't as intense may benefit him, and perhaps give him his mojo back, because he looks like someone who has fallen out of love with the game.

I think Germany would suit him simply because of the open style of play and he should get the space which he thrives on to play in

Wherever he goes I hope he does well - he may not be world class, but still a waste of a talent if it continues the way it has done in recent months

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
Rosso, yeah, I guess I meant local cuisine rather than quality / variety of restaurants. I guess a pro footballer will eat quite well (and not necessarily that adventurously) wherever they go.
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I honestly think I’d struggle to live in Italy due to the lack of options in the markets and supermarkets. Three aisles of different types of pastas; zero tortillas. Ten different brands of risotto rice; but try buying basmati anywhere. Red pepper flakes? Choose from myriad (allegedly different) versions. But curry powder? Good luck with that.

It was a little like that when we arrived in small town Portugal a decade ago. Now, thankfully, we have a Japanese, an Indian and a Spanish restaurant in our village of 2,000 people, and plenty of choice in the supermarkets. Last time I was in Italy (Ravenna and Urbino, a couple of years ago), absolutely nothing had changed. Eat Italian, or go home. Fantastic for a holiday, but yeah, I’d be done with it after a fortnight.

comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
Rosso, yeah, I guess I meant local cuisine rather than quality / variety of restaurants. I guess a pro footballer will eat quite well (and not necessarily that adventurously) wherever they go.
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I honestly think I’d struggle to live in Italy due to the lack of options in the markets and supermarkets. Three aisles of different types of pastas; zero tortillas. Ten different brands of risotto rice; but try buying basmati anywhere. Red pepper flakes? Choose from myriad (allegedly different) versions. But curry powder? Good luck with that.

It was a little like that when we arrived in small town Portugal a decade ago. Now, thankfully, we have a Japanese, an Indian and a Spanish restaurant in our village of 2,000 people, and plenty of choice in the supermarkets. Last time I was in Italy (Ravenna and Urbino, a couple of years ago), absolutely nothing had changed. Eat Italian, or go home. Fantastic for a holiday, but yeah, I’d be done with it after a fortnight.
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What do you think has driven this cosmopolitanism in rural Portugal?

comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 7 hours, 12 minutes ago
comment by RRRU-ben a-moo-REENG (U17054)
posted 1 hour, 22 minutes ago
comment by Red Russian (U4715)
posted 2 hours, 24 minutes ago
Rosso, yeah, I guess I meant local cuisine rather than quality / variety of restaurants. I guess a pro footballer will eat quite well (and not necessarily that adventurously) wherever they go.
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I honestly think I’d struggle to live in Italy due to the lack of options in the markets and supermarkets. Three aisles of different types of pastas; zero tortillas. Ten different brands of risotto rice; but try buying basmati anywhere. Red pepper flakes? Choose from myriad (allegedly different) versions. But curry powder? Good luck with that.

It was a little like that when we arrived in small town Portugal a decade ago. Now, thankfully, we have a Japanese, an Indian and a Spanish restaurant in our village of 2,000 people, and plenty of choice in the supermarkets. Last time I was in Italy (Ravenna and Urbino, a couple of years ago), absolutely nothing had changed. Eat Italian, or go home. Fantastic for a holiday, but yeah, I’d be done with it after a fortnight.
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What do you think has driven this cosmopolitanism in rural Portugal?
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Immigrants shifting both opportunities and consumption patterns, certainly; supermarket ownership and management sharpening up I’d guess; and speculatively, television and social media.

The curry house in the village (which is run by a lovely bloke from Goa who worked in the trade in London for years before moving out here) is a fascinating example. When it first opened, it was very quiet, and the clientele was probably 70% Northern European tourists and 20% Northern European immigrants. You’d virtually never see a Portuguese local in there, and that went on for a long time.

They’ve been open seven or eight years now, and the boss has long given up his manic flyering of car windscreens outside the local tourist attractions, surely not least because on any given night 50%+ of his customers are Portuguese locals, many of whom had probably never eaten a curry growing up.

(This is obviously a microcosmic story, and it happens to be one of a village now with a high flow of tourists and a quite rapidly changing demographic. Although similar transformations are certainly happening in towns and villages in various parts of the country, there are still large parts of rural Portugal which are yet to see any of it.

Travel an hour and a half northeast from where we are, for example, and there are plenty of Alentejanan villages where you won’t find a menu translated to English - or any other foreign language - in any given restaurant, all of which will be serving exclusively traditional, and excellent, Portuguese fare.)

Really interesting, Rosso. Thanks.