General Chit Chat

[Lost Leopard Spot]

That's another thing: she got hold of a list, out of a Sunday newspaper, of these superfoods and suddenly I'm getting this stuff in everything. Like last night I had stir fry chicken with kale, day before it was bread and butter pudding with medjool dates.

You may wish to advise Mrs Spot on the kale front. Whack it on a baking tray, drizzle olive oil over it, sprinkle turmeric on it, salt & pepper - in the oven for 10 mins at 200 geg C, comes out like crispy seaweed. De-lish!

I've just printed that off for her delectation.

(Doesn't super crisping it at 200 degs though have the same effect on it as sprinkled kryptonite and turn it from a superfood into just an ordinary, though tasty, snack?)

[thebish]

Ahh, but black pudding is now a 'superfood' like kale, somehow, apparently!

That's another thing: she got hold of a list, out of a Sunday newspaper, of these superfoods and suddenly I'm getting this stuff in everything. Like last night I had stir fry chicken with kale, day before it was bread and butter pudding with medjool dates.

to be fair - i don't reckon stir fry chicken is probably better with kale in it than it is with bread and butter pudding and medjool dates in it....

You eejit, I meant one day I had bread and butter pudding with dates, the next day I had stir fry chicken and kale, not that one day I had stir fry chicken with bread and butter pudding and dates and then the next day I had stir fry chicken with kale.

did you really???? gosh! I didn't notice that - no - not at all!!!

[Montreal Wanderer]

Food was hard to come by after the war so we had to eat Bury black puddings and UCP tripe. I remember both being disgusting though it might have been the way we cooked them. However, I'm certain that kale was then fodder for cattle, not for human consumption.

Black pudding and tripe are wonderful foods. Kale might as well remain cattle fodder as far as I'm concerned.

Granted that blood puddings, tripe and other assorted offal have been made delicious by those French master chefs. However, their influence had not yet been felt in 1950s Bolton. As I said, it might have been the way they were cooked. School food also put me off some things for life. C'est la vie.

[Lost Leopard Spot]

to be fair - i don't reckon stir fry chicken is probably better with kale in it than it is with bread and butter pudding and medjool dates in it....

You eejit, I meant one day I had bread and butter pudding with dates, the next day I had stir fry chicken and kale, not that one day I had stir fry chicken with bread and butter pudding and dates and then the next day I had stir fry chicken with kale.

did you really???? gosh! I didn't notice that - no - not at all!!!

In that case I'll tell my missus to cook some chicken stir fry with bread and butter pudding and medjool dates and post you some.

[Bruce Rioja]

That's another thing: she got hold of a list, out of a Sunday newspaper, of these superfoods and suddenly I'm getting this stuff in everything. Like last night I had stir fry chicken with kale, day before it was bread and butter pudding with medjool dates.

You may wish to advise Mrs Spot on the kale front. Whack it on a baking tray, drizzle olive oil over it, sprinkle turmeric on it, salt & pepper - in the oven for 10 mins at 200 geg C, comes out like crispy seaweed. De-lish!

I've just printed that off for her delectation.

(Doesn't super crisping it at 200 degs though have the same effect on it as sprinkled kryptonite and turn it from a superfood into just an ordinary, though tasty, snack?)

Oh I've no idea. Inform Mrs Spot that she mustn't overcook it though as it goes bitter and very unpleasant.

As a child my Grandma gave me a little bit of the tripe she was eating as I was curious. I've never spat anything out either as fast or as far in a never-to-be-repeated episode. Dreadful stuff.

[thebish]

ha!

[thebish]

Bit snowy over the top of Exmoor today...

[Bruce Rioja]

Apparently folk are showing up at Donald Trump's meetings and holding up placards proclaiming 'Trump Likes Nickleback' and he's getting quite upset about it. Does anyone know the story behind it?

[Beefheart]

Apparently folk are showing up at Donald Trump's meetings and holding up placards proclaiming 'Trump Likes Nickleback' and he's getting quite upset about it. Does anyone know the story behind it?

No, but I like it

[Bruce Rioja]

Apparently folk are showing up at Donald Trump's meetings and holding up placards proclaiming 'Trump Likes Nickleback' and he's getting quite upset about it. Does anyone know the story behind it?

No, but I like it

Apparently he's having people turfed out.

There's a bit about it here.

I absolutely love the description of them being 'irredeemably naff'

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[Harry Genshaw]

I'm just watching a bloke being interviewed on the local news. He's from the British Toilet Association. It never fails to surprise me that there are such groups and seemingly no shortage of members

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I'm just watching a bloke being interviewed on the local news. He's from the British Toilet Association. It never fails to surprise me that there are such groups and seemingly no shortage of members

At Liverpool Uni, back in the 70's, down in the student's union Sphinx Bar, I once separated two blokes having a right ding-dong. A couple of weeks later, Lennie, the barman, told me it was a dispute over who had booked the venue (remembering this is well before t'internet), between the chairman of the Cactus Appreciation Society and the Secretary of the Cactus Growers Association*

(NB this * was a long time ago so I'm not sure of their titles, but it's not far off those).

[Bruce Rioja]

I'm just watching a bloke being interviewed on the local news. He's from the British Toilet Association. It never fails to surprise me that there are such groups and seemingly no shortage of members

Late last year when it was the date that they end up at on Back to the Future I was listening to a thing ont' wireless about things that they dreamed up for the film which have actually come into being. The presenter then said "And now we're going over to (some or other bloke ) to see what might be invented in the next 25" and then introduced him as being "a Future-ologist" A fecking what? How does a fellow get that gig? You could come out with any old shite and who's going to tell you you're wrong?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

I'm just watching a bloke being interviewed on the local news. He's from the British Toilet Association. It never fails to surprise me that there are such groups and seemingly no shortage of members

Late last year when it was the date that they end up at on Back to the Future I was listening to a thing ont' wireless about things that they dreamed up for the film which have actually come into being. The presenter then said "And now we're going over to (some or other bloke ) to see what might be invented in the next 25" and then introduced him as being "a Future-ologist" A fecking what? How does a fellow get that gig? You could come out with any old shite and who's going to tell you you're wrong?

You are, obviously, when you meet your sixteen year old mum at a dance in the fifties...

[CrazyHorse]

He's from the British Toilet Association.

Blackburn Rovers?

[Lost Leopard Spot]

Bit snowy over the top of Exmoor today...

Is there anybody in Devon who can drive?
Both sets of tyre marks head offroad into the boondocks! Up embankment, over verge... Ooops, no, it's not a road! WATCH OUT, THAT'S A PONY!... *shplat* oh fook.

[Bruce Rioja]

Well I see that they've had as many gritters out down there as they have around here!

[Burnden Paddock]

Well I see that they've had as many gritters out down there as they have around here!

Indeed. The roads in Bury were a fecking disgrace this morning.

[Bruce Rioja]

Well I see that they've had as many gritters out down there as they have around here!

Indeed. The roads in Bury were a fecking disgrace this morning.

Got a call from a mate at 7;30 telling me that Hawkshaw was a battlefield. Still took me 1.5 hours to get in on a 10 mile journey by going round. Must've been similar for you coming the other way.

[Burnden Paddock]

Well I see that they've had as many gritters out down there as they have around here!

Indeed. The roads in Bury were a fecking disgrace this morning.

Got a call from a mate at 7;30 telling me that Hawkshaw was a battlefield. Still took me 1.5 hours to get in on a 10 mile journey by going round. Must've been similar for you coming the other way.

Tried to go up the back road (fnar) from Totty to Harwood. Got 100 yards up the road and was told to go back. Cars reversing back down the hill, tossers in white vans driving down and attempting to overtake whilst we reversed, on a road that fecking narrow! Went through Walshaw and Ainsworth to Breightmet/Harwood, through South Drive and on to work which was perfectly clear. Took me 55 minutes for a 15/20minute journey.