Comments on: A Lamprais Tasting (Six Options)

By: realist

realist — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 09:42:21 +0000

You should eat all the food on your plate because there are starving children in Africa…

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 08:50:21 +0000

It was me.

By: Rodney

Rodney — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 04:18:46 +0000

Wow, so 1 in 5 people in this “ascharya” of a country are “statistically” hungry. You know what that means??? That means, of the guys in this lamprais tasting trial (since there were around 6 or 7), 1 was actually hungry??? Hic hic :-D

Wonder who that could be???

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:35:41 +0000

Why are you posting a pic of your mum in her new sari, Charles? Btw, tell her you borrowed her blouse.

By: Jack Point

Jack Point — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 07:04:55 +0000

Million can’t eat because the bloody government is robbing us blind, taxing taxing and taxing.

By: Himler

Himler — Tue, 28 Aug 2012 05:57:03 +0000

Blacker is a Sinhalese??? I thought he was a burger????? Crazy!!!

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:52:48 +0000

Citizen, what is Australis?

By: indi

indi — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 06:24:38 +0000

Hunger is a terrible thing, and Sri Lankans do go hungry. I don't think not talking about lamprais is the answer. If you're worried about our lamprais tasting, you should check out the Ministry Of Crab review (English / Sinhala). That place is actually quite expensive. Lamprais actually evolved as a working class food for people working the rails. It hasn't suddenly become a luxury.

By: Citizen Silva

Citizen Silva — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 05:29:18 +0000

Mr. Indi you and your lamprais eating pals are clearly in some lamprias equivalent alice in wonderland, where you have lamprais, buriyani and burgers flying around.

Here are some hard stats about ”hunger” in this country:Sri Lanka, 4 million people suffer from hunger. A “Food Justice Campaign”-> http://www.asianews.it/news-en/Sri-Lanka,-4-million-people-suffer-from-hunger.-A-Food-Justice-Campaign%E2%80%9D-22981.html

World’s hungry billion and Sri Lanka’s increasing malnutrition crisis – http://sundaytimes.lk/101017/Columns/eco.html

300 may be nothing to you, but that 300 is about 3000 to a poor person.

Just because you ”work-hard” (this is also relative u know), does not give you any moral right to do “anything” you want. Of course, to figure that out, you have to have morals and awareness and sensitivity to others. You have to think about the “society”. It is not good manners to have things like “Lamprais tasting’ when millions of people are hungry in this country and millions more just exist without any hope of the future . This shows complete lack awareness of your surroundings. I think you people are not part of the Sri Lankans society. You live outside of it in your own little worlds.

By: indi

indi — Mon, 27 Aug 2012 04:22:17 +0000

Seriously? A lamprais costs about Rs. 300, compared to Rs. 120 for your average bath packet. And the average household income in Sri Lanka is about 30,000 a month. It’s not easy, but half of the country isn’t starving and it’s insulting to portray us that way.

By: LB

LB — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 19:13:16 +0000

LOL. I’m pretty sure Citizen Silva here is the same Sinhala Gemunu who was troubling us a while back. A racist fucktard who thinks that his inability to work hard to survive each day means that he should bring down anyone and everyone who does.

Mr Silva, please disconnect your internet and use that money to feed yourself. Stop bringing to your shitty level, all the other hard working people who actually suffer.

By: sach

sach — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 14:24:09 +0000

Hi Heshan,
This is Indi’s blog not Blacker’s .

By: Citizen Silva

Citizen Silva — Sun, 26 Aug 2012 11:07:47 +0000

Come on Blacker, you know exactly what I am talking about. When there are MILLIONS of people who cannot figure out how to survive the next day, you guys are having “double-blind” experiments (as if it is a big deal) to figure out who has the best Lamprais packet. I don’t have any problem in you guys doing this sort of thing, no matter how shitty it is, BUT do you have to let the entire world know about it by blogging it??? This is NOT America Blacker. I don’t why you did not follow your illustrious burgher ancestors to Aussie. I mean, Australis is your HOME LAND, right???

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 13:38:19 +0000

What is a “lampreis tasting contest”?

By: Citizen Silva

Citizen Silva — Thu, 23 Aug 2012 04:32:19 +0000

Wow!!! When majority of the people in this country cannot afford 3 square meals a day, you guys are having “LAMPRAIS TASTING CONTESTS”. AWESOME!!!

So what’s next???? The best “Burgher Joint Contest”????

Keep up the great work. Really awesome!!!

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:18:23 +0000

Lorraine Bartholomeuz supplies the DBU with lampreis. I think Abu’s claim is that she, Dutch Grocers, or Mrs Warusawitharna supplies Bars, GC, or Ft Cafe. I kinda doubt it.

By: paul

paul — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 11:11:09 +0000

They aren’t all that divine… trust me! :)

By: indi

indi — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 10:33:16 +0000

Are you saying that Mrs. W supplies the DBU? I don’t think she does, and we ranked her lamprais #3. Blacker ranked her #2. The list above isn’t a ranking, it’s the order we tasted in.

The lowest scorers were Green Cabin, BARS and Fort Cafe, and I don’t think they supply the DBU.

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:13:18 +0000

There’sno need to be racist as well as insufferable, Abu. Since this supplier’s name seems to be a matter of national security to you, I fail to see what this piece of non-info actually adds to the above review. We already know the bottom three aren’t very good. Did you have a point beyond that?

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 15:05:34 +0000

Since this supplier’s name seems to be a matter of national security to you, I fail to see what this piece of non-info actually adds to the above review. We already know the bottom three aren’t very good. Did you have a point beyond that?

By: githma

githma — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:47:39 +0000

didn’t you check the lumpraise by the divine? I see it in their menu very often

By: Abu

Abu — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 10:28:44 +0000

Sigh,the pointless thing is getting into a needless argument with you DB, this was a lamprais tasting after all.

So as not to upset your delicate Burgher sensitivities further, it is most likely that the supplier is doing a pretty shoddy job, since I have no reason to doubt that these lamprais were distinct in flavour, of differentiating so distinctly between the lamprais offered directly for sale and the one’s through a 3rd party. It gives the appearance of short changing the latter of a quality product.

Your turn

By: David Blacker

David Blacker — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 07:03:31 +0000

Well your first comment is pretty pointless then. All six lampreis were quite different and distinct to each other, so unless the mysterious supplier you speak of is going out of his/her way to disguise things, it seems a bit unlikely. Either way, who really cares? You take your choice, pay and eat.

By: savan

savan — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:59:37 +0000

the tasting was completely blind. Even if it is true the supplier is the same quality need not be the same.
I’ve heard it said that its beter to get the DBU laprais from the DBU rather than direct from the supplier as she gives her best work to the DBU….
Also storage and freshness is an issue. A final basting and heating with coconut milk can also make a difference – its a complicated business lamprais tasting but I tihnk our methodology was fairly sound….

By: Abu

Abu — Mon, 20 Aug 2012 06:11:16 +0000

not my place to give that info but it is the truth