Send for Nelson! Brits and French clash at sea over...scallops

'They're mooning us, giving us the finger, wearing union jacks': Video emerges of angry French fishermen as they clash with British boats in row over shellfish
Footage shows intensity of rows between French and British over scallops
'I don't understand you. Go take a jump,' screams one Frenchman
Brits say they need Royal Navy protection after clash off Normandy on Monday
Fleet of 40 French boats had surrounded around 12 British boats


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Anger: French trawlers confront the larger British trawler, in the centre of the picture, during the standoff



Boarding: French scamper onto the British ship for talks over the scallop crisis



Boarding parties? It'll be cutlasses and broadsides next....

Zute alors!

lily wrote:Zute alors!

Exactement! Tell me, how many times have the French beaten the Brits? Rien, n'est pas! And how many times have the Brits clobbered the French? Exactement! Anyone for a nice cuppa at WATERLOO station caffe? LL

Lamplighter wrote:

lily wrote:Zute alors!

Exactement! Tell me, how many times have the French beaten the Brits? Rien, n'est pas! And how many times have the Brits clobbered the French? Exactement! Anyone for a nice cuppa at WATERLOO station caffe? LL

WATERLOO, did you say, LL?

This one?

Ah well, you see the vastly superior British boat in the top pic? She is actually cutting through the French lines, getting into position for the jolly Jack Tars to launch a devastating broadside of whelks.

Johnny Foreigner always knows when he is beaten - look at them crying in their cheap red wine over the terrifying display of bare backsides.

PS - I guess the proposed joint Anglo/French aircraft carrier is scrapped, now?

bb1 wrote:Ah well, you see the vastly superior British boat in the top pic? She is actually cutting through the French lines, getting into position for the jolly Jack Tars to launch a devastating broadside of whelks.

Johnny Foreigner always knows when he is beaten - look at them crying in their cheap red wine over the terrifying display of bare backsides.

PS - I guess the proposed joint Anglo/French aircraft carrier is scrapped, now?

Bugger off and leave our Scallops alone. They are cheap here. Most Brits have never even seen a Scallop, let alone an Oyster, while I eat them by the dozen. Big ones, that is. When I can get the bloody things open.
Vive Napoleon. Not sure which one. Whichever.

I like scallops. Not keen on oysters, what with the whole business of them being alive...and sort of slippery.

Oh, now the Frenchies are threatening to blockade ferries...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2217079/Send-Navy-Scallop-Wars-escalate-French-threat-mobilise-250-boats.html

There is actually a sensible comment on that, for once. Neither side should be trawling for scallops on an industrial scale.

Oysters are wonderful, Bonny. They actually taste of every best thing that you think The Sea should taste of, but then I chew mine. What a Pleb. Or so I am told, but only by pretentious Brits.

Love both scallops and oysters. Love them with horseradish or as oysters rockefeller. Yum......

lily wrote:Love both scallops and oysters. Love them with horseradish or as oysters rockefeller. Yum......

Like scallops occasionally, can't stand oysters, yucky slimy things! LL

They are heavenly like this, LL.


http://whatscookingamerica.net/Seafood/OystersRockefeller.htm

lily wrote:They are heavenly like this, LL.


http://whatscookingamerica.net/Seafood/OystersRockefeller.htm

Sorry, lily dear, and thanks for the thought, but I don't even like to see the slimy things! Same applies to squid, octopus and the like. But I love prawns. LL

I like calamari too, LL.

Like prawns also.

I like calamari, if it's cooked properly. It's horrid if it goes rubbery.

They've got tentacles and they wriggle, so no thanks. Prawns taste nice. LL

bb1 wrote:I like calamari, if it's cooked properly. It's horrid if it goes rubbery.

Totally agree with you, Bonny.

What's with LL and tentacles?

lily wrote:

bb1 wrote:I like calamari, if it's cooked properly. It's horrid if it goes rubbery.

Totally agree with you, Bonny.

What's with LL and tentacles?

Just don't like them. My son sent me the Pirates of the Caribbean dvds; I can't watch the one with Davy Jones, cos he's got tentacles and they just make me feel queasy. It's like I can't eat innards, liver, lights, heart, brains etc, I just feel sick at the very idea. Oh, and beef makes me actually sick. LL

Oh dear, LL. So you can't eat steaks?

lily wrote:Oh dear, LL. So you can't eat steaks?

No. But I can eat much nicer - at least for me - food. I'm no a great fan of chicken either, I tend to eat that occasionally. I love fish, especially 'meaty' ones like cod, haddock, tilapia, and other things like turkey, lamb, pork, well and away enough of a choice so I don't need beef. LL

Those are good foods, LL. However, I cannot imagine not having an occasional beef prime rib with the trimmings or a juicy new york steak or filet mignon.

I don't eat red meat either, I just don't like it. Or pork - apart from prosciutto, oddly enough. Chicken is OK, but I prefer fish. And quorn works just as well in stir-fries and things - sometimes better, as it absorbs flavour more than meat.

lily wrote:Those are good foods, LL. However, I cannot imagine not having an occasional beef prime rib with the trimmings or a juicy new york steak or filet mignon.

Sounds quite nauseous!! I prefer good old-fashioned Austrian or German cooking, to be truthful, though I do admit to a fondness for Japanese and Korean food so long as there are no tentacles or grubs/insects involved, and I adore a bowl of hot, steamed rice. LL

lily wrote:I like calamari too, LL.

Like prawns also.

I went allergic to Prawns about a year ago. And then I forgot. Ate some a few days ago and spent the night with my head down the lavatory pan. I have no idea why.

Sorry, Sabot.