Happening in Manchester - Filipino Food Festival

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That guy hasn’t ventured far and doesn’t know much about nutrition but I do like his enthusiasm

Your posts are enough to drive people into a Jollie B.

Offal is a very English ingredient as well but now lost to the every day menu. I love a good haggis.

They increased it to 120 after the high demand. If they decide on Mother's day I dare say some seats will become available including mine.

Yeah. I like liver and kidney but only if cooked well.

Liver pate too.

Believe it or not, that's exactly what I had every Friday evening at the Marco Polo Hotel in Cebu for at least a year. None of it was on the menu but my next door neighbour was a German who'd spent most of his life running luxury hotels in the UK and was now the Marco Polo Philippines' General Manager. He had a love for certain English dishes, lambs' liver and bacon being one. Apparently the liver and the bacon were bought each Thursday from a supermarket in Hong Kong and arrived in Cebu with the flight crew of the late night Cathay Pacific who were billeted in the hotel. Not a particularly cheap meal, we each paid around 500 which included a 'drink' for the chef.

Mmm .... happy days!

Turns out the Food Fesitval is on Mother's day so I am not going now.

Mothers Day in the Philippines is on a different day of the year to the UK one. It's in May, not March.

Well I will go to the foot of our stairs!

most countries, including the Philippines and also, interestingly, a lot of former British colonies, have their Mothers Day in May, not March, after the American convention.

And what does that have to do with an event taking place in Manchester, England, in March?

it means that for just about all of the Filipinos attending it who started out their own lives in the Philippines, it isn't the Mothers Day they have normally observed.

obviously there will be many Filipinos at this bash who are now resident Brits. But when their Filipino mother is in the Philippines, all their other siblings who are also there, or even if they are residing in one of the large majority of countries that also observe it in May, like neighbouring former British colonies Singapore and Malaysia. Britain is rather freakishly and interestingly peculiar and abnormal by observing it in March and not in May like nearly everybody else does.

Well, if they are resident in the UK then it's mother's day. Because that's where they live and, in many cases, their mother-in-law.

Actually there are many countries that have mother's day in March, as well as at various other times throughout the year.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother's_Day#Dates_around_the_world

I don't see why you wouldn't go to a food festival because of mother's day. Take your mum.

The United States convention about Mothers Day is historically quite consequential because it only came about via lobbying by means of a pressure group and Mothers Day in May came to be the global standard. Pressure groups, before the advent of mass media were unknown.

Well I was taking her if it was the 18th but we do a mother's day thing with my sister etc and family. My daughter has disowned me so its going to be a bit quieter.

Why has she disowned you Max? Or shouldn’t I ask?

it is not unusual for adult children to become disillusioned with their parents when they decide to become sexpats or human trafficking sponsors, of mail order brides or husbands, whether it's dad in the Philippines, or mum in the Gambia. Makes no difference which one it is. It's going to piss them off whichever parent it is.

Offensive beyond the pale, your a jerk a complete and utter jerk.

I'm sorry if you do find it offensive, but that doesn't mean that it isn't in many case true. It is not unusual, at all, for expats in the Philippines who have taken up with new partners in many cases younger than their own grown up children, to have very strained and sometimes non-existent relations with them.

What I find really offensive is those westerners who go from city to city, town to town just to bed young Filipinas they've 'met' on sites such as Dateinasia. One such bragged, on an online forum, how he was travelling down a country road on his rented motorcycle and saw a fetching young thing working in the field together with her family and how he paid her mother a couple of hundred Pesos in exchange for her allowing her daughter to ride off into the sunset with him. A few days later he abandoned her miles from home.

Ring any bells, Whippy?