I Just don't get....

[Prufrock]

People talking about how 'clever' animals are.

B*llocks adverts for shampoo and it's 'new scientific formula' that then cut to a cartoon animation of black dull hair, some orange circles come along, turn it golden brown, and that's 'scientific'.

[Lord Kangana]

Sushi.

Quite a few of my friends love it and are apparently prepared to pay a lot of money for it. I just can't get enthusiastic about it, myself. Give me French or Mediterranean cooking over that any day.

When I was in Luxembourg a couple of weeks ago I had a blast at the Salmon Tartare. What a waste of good fish that is!

A sh*t chef making sh*t Salmon Tartare doesn't make the dish in itself intrinsically bad. There are so many variables with food, that its hard to nail down which parts wrong. I'd always say give it another go before condeming it completely. Like.

[Bruce Rioja]

A sh*t chef making sh*t Salmon Tartare doesn't make the dish in itself intrinsically bad. There are so many variables with food, that its hard to nail down which parts wrong. I'd always say give it another go before condeming it completely. Like.

Fair points I'm sure, but I got round to thinking that if something tastes so good when it's cooked, and tastes of nothing when it's raw - Why eat it raw?

I'm sure that the chef hadn't mastered the dish anyway as the whole thing tasted of nothing.

[enfieldwhite]

Forgive my ignorance....

Salmon tartare would be mashed, raw salmon?

Like steak tartare?

1 lb. very fresh skinless salmon fillets
2 T freshly squeezed lemon juice
Fine sea salt to taste
3 firm, ripe tomatoes, cored, peeled, seeded and chopped
1 small onion
2 T fromage blanc (or substitute whole-milk yogurt)
4 T finely minced fresh chives
Freshly ground white pepper to taste
1 cucumber, rinsed and trimmed

Directions:
1. Up to five hours before serving this dish, carefully cut the fish into 1/4 inch cubes. Transfer to a small bowl and toss with the lemon juice. Season to taste with salt. Cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until serving time.

2. Place the drained tomatoes in a fine-mesh sieve set over a bowl to drain. Season with salt, cover with plastic wrap and refrigerate until serving time.

3. At serving time, peel and very finely mince the onion. In a large bowl, combine the salmon, tomatoes, fromage blanc and chives. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Set aside.

4. Slice the cucumbers into thin rounds and arrange in an overlapping circle on a small salad plate. Spoon the tartare on top of the cucumbers. Repeat for the remaining portions. Serve.

Serves Four
Paired with a tossed green salad, this tartare makes a perfect luncheon dish alone, or a great starter for spring and summer dinners.

Tasty

[AggyWanderer]

My turn, not been on this forum for ages! :hello again icon:


I don't get people who wait for the next right-hand pump at the petrol station because nearly all of them have hoses that reach to both sides of the car. If not, stop going to a crap petrol station...

People who judge others before they get to know them and then either backtrack when they turn out to be nice decent fellows or continue to disparage them regardless...


People with no regard to the vows and promises you took...

[bobo the clown]

Clothes washing "systems" ... or soap-powder in other words.

For decades they've been advertised as "new and improved" as each one is revamped on a 2 yearly cycle. You can only imagine how crap they must have been 20 "improvements" ago.

Now, having spent 10 years reducing their harmfullness to modern materials and to modern dyes and to run at "ultra low temperatures" we are invited to add an active powder like Vanish so the fckg stuff actually cleans.



... and Aggy. I promised you nothing ... NOTHING I tell you !!

[TANGODANCER]

Why do furniture ads require male and female models to do all that spring-heeled gymnastic stuff, fake partying and leaping about and dancing in evening dress on the roof of a building just to try selling a bed or three-piece suite? End of day, if you want a bed or a three-piece suite you just go out and buy one anyway.

[InsaneApache]

Teenagers. Say no more.

[bobo the clown]

Why do furniture ads require male and female models to do all that spring-heeled gymnastic stuff, fake partying and leaping about and dancing in evening dress on the roof of a building just to try selling a bed or three-piece suite? End of day, if you want a bed or a three-piece suite you just go out and buy one anyway.

... you know, I can get past that. It's the constant sales which bug me. I know, I know ... it's all marketing and there are rules about it, but fck. the only reason a sale ever ends is because the next one has to start the following day.

[TANGODANCER]

Why do furniture ads require male and female models to do all that spring-heeled gymnastic stuff, fake partying and leaping about and dancing in evening dress on the roof of a building just to try selling a bed or three-piece suite? End of day, if you want a bed or a three-piece suite you just go out and buy one anyway.

... you know, I can get past that. It's the constant sales which bug me. I know, I know ... it's all marketing and there are rules about it, but fck. the only reason a sale ever ends is because the next one has to start the following day.

Fair comment, but how is it that all the items at "half-price", no one has ever seen for sale at the full price?

[superjohnmcginlay]

This new equality bill theyve done which allows discrimination. eh?

[Prufrock]

Why do furniture ads require male and female models to do all that spring-heeled gymnastic stuff, fake partying and leaping about and dancing in evening dress on the roof of a building just to try selling a bed or three-piece suite? End of day, if you want a bed or a three-piece suite you just go out and buy one anyway.

... you know, I can get past that. It's the constant sales which bug me. I know, I know ... it's all marketing and there are rules about it, but fck. the only reason a sale ever ends is because the next one has to start the following day.

Fair comment, but how is it that all the items at "half-price", no one has ever seen for sale at the full price?

I *think*, legally, when having a sale, the was price has to be the lowest price the product was offered at for at least 28 days, in the last 6 months, which means that for two months a year, they actually have to advertise at the silly prices. They must be the quietest two months in any job ever. Literally no-one can have bought a full price bed or sofa, ever!

[Lord Kangana]

They just put it on sale for an astronomical price in their Central London store, and all the mugs buy it as a premium product. Thus fulfilling the rules.

[Bruce Rioja]

Why do furniture ads require male and female models to do all that spring-heeled gymnastic stuff, fake partying and leaping about and dancing in evening dress on the roof of a building just to try selling a bed or three-piece suite? End of day, if you want a bed or a three-piece suite you just go out and buy one anyway.

... you know, I can get past that. It's the constant sales which bug me. I know, I know ... it's all marketing and there are rules about it, but fck. the only reason a sale ever ends is because the next one has to start the following day.

Fair comment, but how is it that all the items at "half-price", no one has ever seen for sale at the full price?

I *think*, legally, when having a sale, the was price has to be the lowest price the product was offered at for at least 28 days, in the last 6 months, which means that for two months a year, they actually have to advertise at the silly prices. They must be the quietest two months in any job ever. Literally no-one can have bought a full price bed or sofa, ever!

Not really. Not all the stock is offered as part of the sale. For simplicity, if you offer 50% of your SKUs at a discounted rate for two months, then at the end of that period you create a new sale offering the other 50%. As such, these places always have a sale on whilst meeting the legal criteria.

[Prufrock]

Why do furniture ads require male and female models to do all that spring-heeled gymnastic stuff, fake partying and leaping about and dancing in evening dress on the roof of a building just to try selling a bed or three-piece suite? End of day, if you want a bed or a three-piece suite you just go out and buy one anyway.

... you know, I can get past that. It's the constant sales which bug me. I know, I know ... it's all marketing and there are rules about it, but fck. the only reason a sale ever ends is because the next one has to start the following day.

Fair comment, but how is it that all the items at "half-price", no one has ever seen for sale at the full price?

I *think*, legally, when having a sale, the was price has to be the lowest price the product was offered at for at least 28 days, in the last 6 months, which means that for two months a year, they actually have to advertise at the silly prices. They must be the quietest two months in any job ever. Literally no-one can have bought a full price bed or sofa, ever!

Not really. Not all the stock is offered as part of the sale. For simplicity, if you offer 50% of your SKUs at a discounted rate for two months, then at the end of that period you create a new sale offering the other 50%. As such, these places always have a sale on whilst meeting the legal criteria.

[TANGODANCER]

Not really. Not all the stock is offered as part of the sale. For simplicity, if you offer 50% of your SKUs at a discounted rate for two months, then at the end of that period you create a new sale offering the other 50%. As such, these places always have a sale on whilst meeting the legal criteria.

Okay, that sounds a feasible explanation but, and I'm probably looking a bit silly here, what are SKU's ?

[Puskas]

I just don't get Sky TV.

I used to, but I cancelled my subscription.

Maybe I'll get it again one day.

[Worthy4England]

Not really. Not all the stock is offered as part of the sale. For simplicity, if you offer 50% of your SKUs at a discounted rate for two months, then at the end of that period you create a new sale offering the other 50%. As such, these places always have a sale on whilst meeting the legal criteria.

Okay, that sounds a feasible explanation but, and I'm probably looking a bit silly here, what are SKU's ?

It's a single stock item (stock keeping unit)

[TANGODANCER]

Not really. Not all the stock is offered as part of the sale. For simplicity, if you offer 50% of your SKUs at a discounted rate for two months, then at the end of that period you create a new sale offering the other 50%. As such, these places always have a sale on whilst meeting the legal criteria.

Okay, that sounds a feasible explanation but, and I'm probably looking a bit silly here, what are SKU's ?

It's a single stock item (stock keeping unit)

Ah. Cheers.

[bobo the clown]

Not really. Not all the stock is offered as part of the sale. For simplicity, if you offer 50% of your SKUs at a discounted rate for two months, then at the end of that period you create a new sale offering the other 50%. As such, these places always have a sale on whilst meeting the legal criteria.

Okay, that sounds a feasible explanation but, and I'm probably looking a bit silly here, what are SKU's ?

It's a single stock item (stock keeping unit)

Ah. Cheers.

... yeah, but I don't get how it WORKS !!

Any buyer with 1/4 of a brain knows that it's all bollox. You want a suite >> you want to buy from one of the big retailers >> you go to the range of stores almost all of which are on the same retail park.

Does the "come to ours" actually work ? How ? Why would you go to one, with it's clearly false "sale" marketing & not pop into the other 4 or 5 within 250 yards of each other ???

These guys spend a fortune on prime-time adverts. They may as well group tegether & say "if you want a suite come down to the retail park & see what we've all got !"

As the title says .... I just don't get it !