Heaven = Bacon, cooked cheese and fried onions in French bread.

Hell = Cauliflower, brussels sprouts, mustard, Advacardo, radish, stinky cheese.

Not sure about tripe however when I went to Prague a few years ago, I had colleagues warn me against 'Czech cuisine'.

Maybe because I actually enjoy/want to explore the cultures of other countries or perhaps because I am enough of an egotistical prick to try and promote this as a personality trait for myself, my wife and I went off the beaten track to find what was essentially a small Czech pub which served 'home cooked food'.

Growing up from Irish stock, I was delighted to be served with what was essentially just homemade bread, stewed meat and veg. That was 'heavenly' for me.

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My guess is that it had matured since the Velvet Revolution ST!

It was essentially typically European peasant food (meat, veg and bread), not dissimilar to the casseroles I grew up on, but with a bit more panache! I loved it.

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Over there every pub is a restaurant - Czech food is very tasty but it's not subtle - it's 'nosh'. I took a ruffian from Plymouth, his missus and a Kiwi fella to the 'bear's claw' (U Medvidku) a traditional beer keller in central Prague with oompah music at night, blokes with handlebar moustaches, monacles and Tyrolean hats (most of them were probably called Otto) and steak was served with a swirl of whipped bernaise and a couple of mini plastic national flags sticking out (Switzerlan and Italy if I remember rightly). We had breakfast there, a giant potato pancake with red cabbage, sauerkraut, smoked ham and a drizzle of gravy ('Cmunda'), washed down with black lager. There was complete silence for a full ten minutes, everyone was enjoying tucking in so much. The food can be stodgy for some, but it is much better than Germany generally.

Food heaven for the Slovaks is Segedin goulash - pork goulash with sauerkraut and sour cream, boiled to give caramelisation before being simmered and poured over bread dumplings. Done properly this dish is probably my real food heaven.

Now there's conservative and there's conservative...

Now Zaha's got a bit of green grass ahead of him here... and finds Ambrose... not a bad effort!!!!