What are you eating and drinking tonight?

[General Mannerheim]

Have you an update on the gin? Been good reading has this page, I love a g&t but never gone posher than Tanqueray

[Lord Kangana]

Hendricks is all the rage at the moment. Tastes a bit cucumbery. Obviously costs about a tenner more than bog standard.

As an interesting aside, and perhaps proof of the old adage of a fool and his/her money, my mum (who loves a good G&T) went to a Gin tasting a couple of weeks ago. Blind tasted, she picked out Tanqueray as the number one. So there you go, its a load of stuff and nonsense.

[2399]

Full strength Coke, I am a naughty Numbskull

[thebish]

am having a few days off - so got up and wandered over the road for a leisurely cooked brekkie and mug of strong tea over the road in the Bay Tree Caff... no better way to start the day!

[Bijou Bob]

am having a few days off - so got up and wandered over the road for a leisurely cooked brekkie and mug of strong tea over the road in the Bay Tree Caff... no better way to start the day!

I occasionally do the same Bish, fielding the subsequent question from Not Mrs Bob about breakfast by dismissing it with a slightly bored sounding "Oh, I managed a piece of toast earlier"

[William the White]

There's something about the clocks going back - which i hate. Yesterday I made hot pot. Today fish pie. Comfort food. A shield against winter - or something.

[Burnden Paddock]

Mrs BP just made pork steak in a Hungarian sauce with rice from the Jamie Oliver 15 minute meal book. Took a bit longer than 15 minutes, but who cares, it was bloody belting.

[bobo the clown]

There's something about the clocks going back - which i hate. Yesterday I made hot pot. Today fish pie. Comfort food. A shield against winter - or something.

It's so fckg depressing (said by a man who doesn't do 'depressed').

Waking up in the gloom, it being dark by the time most day-workers finish. If you work inside a factory, quite literally not seeing daylight for a week.

The cold is coming, worry about ice & snow. Leaves falling, flowers gone.

I fckg hate it.

[William the White]

There's something about the clocks going back - which i hate. Yesterday I made hot pot. Today fish pie. Comfort food. A shield against winter - or something.

It's so fckg depressing (said by a man who doesn't do 'depressed').

Waking up in the gloom, it being dark by the time most day-workers finish. If you work inside a factory, quite literally not seeing daylight for a week.

The cold is coming, worry about ice & snow. Leaves falling, flowers gone.

I fckg hate it.

Yeah! I was in and out of the garden, between the squalls, raking the leaves. Comfort food helps, though.

[Prufrock]

Hendricks is all the rage at the moment. Tastes a bit cucumbery. Obviously costs about a tenner more than bog standard.

As an interesting aside, and perhaps proof of the old adage of a fool and his/her money, my mum (who loves a good G&T) went to a Gin tasting a couple of weeks ago. Blind tasted, she picked out Tanqueray as the number one. So there you go, its a load of stuff and nonsense.

We did something similar at the girlf's rents, as her mum is a bit of a gin fiend.

There was Handricks, Tanqueray, Tanqueray 10, Sipsmiths, Sainsbury's London Gin (which she uses to make Slo Gin) and I think another one. The Saisbury's own (not the value paint stripper one, but still the cheapest in this list by some way) beat Sipsmiths. Hendricks was first, followed by Tanqueray 10, which is probably how I'd go myself too.

Intrigued by the Martin Miller though, which I've never had. might do as an Xmas present I can help her drink .

[bobo the clown]

As a slight, but hopefully relevant, detour on this thread what foods are "wtf" ? ones to us ?

I've already mentioned elsewhere that I have an unusual, but extreme, allergy to anchovies .... I also have an allergy which some people class as a debility ; I get severe migraines if I drink canned beer !! Not draught (except McKewan's and S&N which always gives me a bad head), not even stuff (should I venture there, which I rarely do) those larger PET bottles. Not from glass bottles, but cans.

I can't abide offal ... probably originating in the head rather than the tongue, but I've tried, really I have and kidney and liver remain no-go zones. Heart and brain I've never even wanted to try and tripe ... well, I have it a go, but urghhh !!

More innocently, cinnamon. What's that shite all about ? It's ubiquitous in the States and almost unavoidable but it's not for me.

[Burnden Paddock]

I'm with you on cinnamon Bobo. It can ruin a good apple pie. I absolutely love a good steak and kidney pie. Liver and onions is another for me.

My personal wtf is haddock poached in milk. Mrs BP made it for me years ago and even now the thought of that meal and the sight of a similar dish (funnily enough it was on an old Rick Stein programme this morning) has me heaving.

Aside from that, i'm ok with most stuff, but don't 'get' pasta.

[Gary the Enfield]

I've probably mentioned this before but I will not eat boiled cabbage.

Also there is a French delicacy called Andouillette. Sausage made from a pig's arse which is just fecking disgusting. I won't EVER eat it again.

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Anything else I'll have a crack at.

[Gooner Girl]

I've probably mentioned this before but I will not eat boiled cabbage.

Also there is a French delicacy called Andouillette. Sausage made from a pig's arse which is just fecking disgusting. I won't EVER eat it again.

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Anything else I'll have a crack at.

why not boiled cabbage - just because its yuck or any other reason?

If you'd really have a crack at anything else i think you would be good on 'I'm a celebrity' eating crocodiles eye balls and camel penis (if you were a celebrity, which you are not )

[bobo the clown]

I ate Andouillette maybe 30 years ago, in Tours. I say "ate" .... it sort of bounced around in my mouth for a few minutes. I'd always, after that event, thought it was a tripe sausage. I hadn't realised what piece of offal it employed. Thanks Gazza.

[Bruce Rioja]

Today's office chocolate is an utter revelation. It's called 'Wonka' and we've got the 'Millionaire's Shortbread' variety. Oh my word!

[General Mannerheim]

i dont like meat on the bone. devouring flesh from a bit of skeleton just goes through me, it feels primitive and cannibalistic.

[boltonboris]

But the meat tastes so much nicer..... Especially if done properly

[General Mannerheim]

dont get meat either really, steaks n'that? only ever tastes as good as the sauce or gravy its floating in.

[bobo the clown]

dont get meat either really, steaks n'that? only ever tastes as good as the sauce or gravy its floating in.

I'd agree to an extent though oddly it's the bone and the fat which truly affect the taste so your dislike of the bone being involved doesn't help you here.

... hence the "best" cut of beef, being fillet, is probably the least tasty on it's own.