What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[thebish]

On a scale of 1-10 you are a 0-beyond redemption. Sorry.

and - on a scale of 1-10 - you are 11, meaning you are, in fact Jilly Goolden. Sorry.

[thebish]

You also think London Water is yummy, don't you?

I think London tap water tastes no worse than bottled water.

Been down there for too long, recycled piss works for you... OK... I visit several times a year and - it's grim... but not quite as bad as Bristol water which is unspeakable...

merely ill-informed snobbery.... if that works for you... OK....

[Bruce Rioja]

jammy wine?? I really am gonna have to learn the wine-lingo one day - it's a world completely alien to me! not speaking the language, I don't even know how to enter it...

how does one go about learning how to talk about wine - is it just esteemed and well-educated company - or is there a short cut for s/o like me?

I don't get most 'wine speak', Bish, but Will's description that this has a slight jam - like quality is pertinent in that it's fruity and slightly sweet. Had he claimed 'hollyhocks on the nose' or something like that it'd have flown straight over my pate.

[Bruce Rioja]

You also think London Water is yummy, don't you?

I think London tap water tastes no worse than bottled water.

Been down there for too long, recycled piss works for you... OK... I visit several times a year and - it's grim... but not quite as bad as Bristol water which is unspeakable...

merely ill-informed snobbery.... if that works for you... OK....

Well, maybe we are spoiled around here with our perfect tap water but whenever in London I never swallow the furry shite that comes out of the taps.

[thebish]

You also think London Water is yummy, don't you?

I think London tap water tastes no worse than bottled water.

Been down there for too long, recycled piss works for you... OK... I visit several times a year and - it's grim... but not quite as bad as Bristol water which is unspeakable...

merely ill-informed snobbery.... if that works for you... OK....

Well, maybe we are spoiled around here with our perfect tap water but whenever in London I never swallow the furry shite that comes out of the taps.

that may be so - but I wasn't comparing London tap water with your perfect tap water - I was comparing London tap water with bottled water - which are the two sources of water I drink most of... and there is little taste difference between the two - one being vastly more expensive than the other...

[Bruce Rioja]

Levi Roots.

It's not his Granny's recipe at all, the lying toad!!!

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[Bruce Rioja]

that may be so - but I wasn't comparing London tap water with your perfect tap water - I was comparing London tap water with bottled water - which are the two sources of water I drink most of... and there is little taste difference between the two - one being vastly more expensive than the other...

We disagree, but so be it. (not on the expense differential though)

[William the White]

Wine offer at Sainsbury's atm of 2 for a tenner includes a v nice macon-villages and a very, very nice chianti riserva that went extremely well with pasta yesterday...

[Bijou Bob]

Old Jamaica dark chocolate...........................it's been years, welcome back old friend

[William the White]

On way home from poetry/fiction reading, and really hungry, partner and I stopped at Chaes (the one on Tonge Moor Road not the one in Harwood).

Fish chips and peas between the two of us - portions so large I don't know how anyone finishes them if they get them for just themselves... A rare treat... And was good... A glass of Macon Villages, a dirt cheap own brand French brandy snifter (Sainsbury, in plastic bottle, bought to souse Christmas cake and pudding, but leftovers being put to good use)...

[boltonboris]

The Antelope (Walkden) for me tonight. Was bought a ticket for this 70's night thing they've got on. 2 courses and a sundry, then they have a bit of a party. Not really my scene this 70's disco in a restaurant shiz, but I can't pass up a curry from there..

Had to pre order so ive got for a prawn puree and a chicken makani (never tried it, so I'm giving it a go).

[thebish]

for those still worried that scoffing butter and stuff will ruin your life...

[thebish]

My Church just (this very day) ended its 19year boycott of Nestle...

so - a whole new vista of food opportunities opens up before me! (The missus is off out at dawn to buy some Nestle Cinnamon Toast Crunchie cereal - she tells me... )

[Lord Kangana]

Why?

[thebish]

Why?

the boycott was started because of Nestle's aggressive pushing of babymilk powder all across the "third world" (including the bribing of healthcare workers and midwives to mis-promote milk powder in hospitals so that babies were not breast feeding when they left the hospitals and then being fed powder mixed with contaminated water back at home...)

famously - the (false) advice to mothers of twins that they could not breast feed two babies so had to feed one on formula...



we stopped the boycott because we said we would if Nestle cleaned up their act and achieved listing on the FTSE4Good Index under their breast milk substitute (BMS) category. They have just done that.


unless you meant - why is the missus going out at dawn to buy Cinammon Toast Crunch cereal? - in which case - because she likes it!

[Lord Kangana]

My mum hasn't bought Nestle since the eighties, I'm more curious as to why they think they've suddenly become ethical.

[Wandering Willy]

Fillet steak and chips.

2 slices of bread and Lurpak.

Alcohol free beer.

No subtitles.

Lovely.

[thebish]

My mum hasn't bought Nestle since the eighties, I'm more curious as to why they think they've suddenly become ethical.

they have achieved the standard that we asked them to achieve. It doesn't mean they are perfect - but if you set a policy and say that you will end the boycott when a certain measure is reached - then that's what you should do... rather than then change the goalposts (IMO)

I will find it hard to buy Nestle products - and I probably won't (I haven't really missed them in 19yrs anyway!) - but then I still find it hard to accept buying Shell petrol or Cape Oranges.... or going near a Barclays bank...

[Lord Kangana]

Or have I missed the point?

Yes

.

[Wandering Willy]

No, no, no and yes.