[eye30]

A group of Icelandic chefs this week offered customers a unique gastronomical experience: a gourmet meal cooked over hot lava and served near an ongoing volcanic eruption

On the menu: lobster soup, followed by flaming lobster and monkfish and lava-cooked shallot onions, swafllowed down with Veuve Clicquot champagne.

ps All I'm having tonight is a poke of chips and a savoury cake.

http://uk.news.yahoo.com/18/20100331/tod-volcanic-meal-cooked-over-hot-lava-a-7f81b96.html

[Hemmi]

That was really really expensive

[Dazzler]

Thanks eye this made our news too..

What is a "poke" of chips and a "savoury cake"?

[eye30]

What is a "poke" of chips and a "savoury cake"?

"poke" of chips = a portion of chips/french fries from the chip shop/take away.

Normally the chips are wrapped up in paper whereas a poke is usually a smaller portion left either open or in a paper cone


"savoury cake" or fish cake = a mix of potato and fish and or seasoning and or sage/onion in batter

[Dazzler]

Thanks Eye.. When people say they were getting a poke it only meant one thing to me until facebook came along...

I like fish cakes or patties (never heard them called savoury cakes over here but possibly could be in other states)

[eye30]

When people say they were getting a poke it only meant one thing to me until facebook came along...

And I wonder what that was 

or was it in the eye