bobharvey wrote: >> The only reason to watch, IMO, is the faint hope that someone, somewhere >> will snap and thwack him in the face with a heavy iron skillet.
> After an hour or so practicing on Ainsley sodding Harriott, one hopes.
I would have Mr Harriott as a house-guest long before I would ever let Gordon F-Word Ramsey inside the front gate. I can understand those who find him intensely irritating, but he is an amiable enough cove who doesn't appear to take it at all seriously, dares to treat cooking as if it is something to get pleasure from.
-- JonG I went to the polling station, but the only option given was to vote for one or other of the politicians.
Skipweasel <n...@127.1.1.1> wrote: > In article <lant46dvdjpt3ldpf6hlv6aajstcinm...@4ax.com>, E-0C001302- > > I tend to ask them what their membership numbers are. They hold it as a > > central article of faith that only 144,000 will be saved- yet worldwide > > they have several million members.
> Ah - they have a work-around for that one. The kilo-gross are going to > travel first-class, the rest get a sort of Super-Saver ticket which > though not up with the posh-nobs is still better than being actually > dead.
What, like EasyAir? Book a flight to Heaven, get dumped in Limbo with a thirty minute walk to a kiosk where you can buy tickets for a three-hour bus ride into Paradise? Except that you don't have any local currency yet and the nearest ATM is at the other end of the bus ride?
Catman wrote: >>> I disunforget tasting a creme egg when I lived in Ireland. That was >>> the first time I tried something and found it too sweet. Up until >>> then I would've sworn that there's no such thing as "too sweet", but >>> I was proven very wrong indeed.
>> av yu ad Kendal Mint Cake ?
> As illogical as it may sound, I find it quite palatable. Sweet, yes > (given that it is nearly all sugar) but I suspect things like creem eggs > have things other than sugar added to make them sweeter still.
[Hunts out packet what I got a few fortnights ago, Scoff, chomp, slurp etc]
It is, IMHO, the mintiness which tempers the sweetness of the sugar.
I find pretty much any diet beverage, fizzy or otherwise, fart oo sweet, which is a shame as some otherwise nice things only come in low sugar varieties. Perhaps I am more sensitive to apsartame and suchlike than others, but I've always suspected that manufacturers assume that those wanting a low-cal product have and extra-sweet tooth and desire more sweetness.
I did molish a version of Hogwarts-style Butterbeer for the kids from a recipe involving butterscotch sauce[1] and cream soda. That was too sweet even for the kids, but a re-make with soda water was much better.
[1] Why is that so hard to find nowadays? Had to molish my own.
-- JonG I went to the polling station, but the only option given was to vote for one or other of the politicians.
>I did molish a version of Hogwarts-style Butterbeer for the kids from a >recipe involving butterscotch sauce[1] and cream soda. That was too >sweet even for the kids, but a re-make with soda water was much better.
>[1] Why is that so hard to find nowadays? Had to molish my own.
> I find pretty much any diet beverage, fizzy or otherwise, fart oo sweet, > which is a shame as some otherwise nice things only come in low sugar > varieties. Perhaps I am more sensitive to apsartame and suchlike than > others, but I've always suspected that manufacturers assume that those > wanting a low-cal product have and extra-sweet tooth and desire more > sweetness.
Your ideas interest me, and I'd like to subscribe to your wossname.
I'd like a third option to, "not oversweetened".. On a hot day, especially, cloyingly sweet stuff can be rather counter-wossname. Maybe I'm not quite as extreme as when I was little (I'd steal and consume concentrated lemon jews from the kitchen cupboard), but I do like things to taste of something other than sweet sometimes.
> I would have Mr Harriott as a house-guest long before I would ever let > Gordon F-Word Ramsey inside the front gate. I can understand those who > find him intensely irritating, but he is an amiable enough cove who > doesn't appear to take it at all seriously, dares to treat cooking as if > it is something to get pleasure from.
He'd have to agree to tone the shirts down, or bring an armful of welding masks, thobut. It strikes me as though he'd be reasonable company, after a small dose of valium or a jazz cigarette to slow him down a little.
Rusty Hinge <rusty.hi...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote: > Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: > > Mike Godwin is currently General Counsel to the Wikimedia Foundation. > > He is a good egg.
Dave Budd <d...@davebudd.org.ku> wrote: > nikittari...@yahoo.se says... > > I disunforget tasting a creme egg when I lived in Ireland. That was the > > first time I tried something and found it too sweet. Up until then I > > would've sworn that there's no such thing as "too sweet", but I was > > proven very wrong indeed.
> av yu ad Kendal Mint Cake ?
Isn't that like a very large After Eight?
Another thing that's UABly sweet: Dutch aniseed cubes, eaten whole instead of (as is the original purpose) dissolved in warm milk.
"Just zis Guy, you know?" <guy.chap...@spamcop.net> wrote:
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 16:34:31 GMT, ralt...@xs4all.nl (Richard Bos) > >Rusty Hinge <rusty.hi...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote: > >> Ancipital wrote:
> >> > I purchased a copy of Aelister Crowley's 777 in a sale, which had a very > >> > striking woodcut as a cover. That was left by the door, to have > >> > clutched in my hand as though I was in the middle of something. I also > >> > practised my Grin. That did quite well.
> >> Aleister Pshirley?
> >Anthony, I goove. I don't xabj whether Aziraphale has a first name.
> Eh? The woo-woo merchant was Aleister Crowley, born Edward Alexander > of that ilk. Were you gooving of some other creepy Crowley?
Och aye; the one in Good Omens, by Pratchett & Gaiman.
> In article<i33ahj$b7...@news.eternal-september.org>, > nikittari...@yahoo.se says...
>> Ahem A Rivet's Shot wrote: >>> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:01:39 +0100 >>> Rusty Hinge<rusty.hi...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> There is no such thing as a good egg.
>>>> Eggs is UAB
>>> Wot even Creme Eggs ?
>> I disunforget tasting a creme egg when I lived in Ireland. That was the >> first time I tried something and found it too sweet. Up until then I >> would've sworn that there's no such thing as "too sweet", but I was >> proven very wrong indeed.
> av yu ad Kendal Mint Cake ?
Iol loiks the braaahn stuff, especially covered in dark chocolate...
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On 1 Aug, 12:17, Frank Erskine <frank.ersk...@btinternet.com> wrote:
> >av yu ad Kendal Mint Cake ?
> Awful stuff innit.
It's my opinion that they used to quarry it only for putting on snowy roads, but started wrapping it up and selling it to gulible touristicals for a laugh.
>>>> I disunforget tasting a creme egg when I lived in Ireland. That was >>>> the first time I tried something and found it too sweet. Up until >>>> then I would've sworn that there's no such thing as "too sweet", but >>>> I was proven very wrong indeed.
>>> av yu ad Kendal Mint Cake ?
>> As illogical as it may sound, I find it quite palatable. Sweet, yes >> (given that it is nearly all sugar) but I suspect things like creem >> eggs have things other than sugar added to make them sweeter still.
> [Hunts out packet what I got a few fortnights ago, Scoff, chomp, slurp etc]
> It is, IMHO, the mintiness which tempers the sweetness of the sugar.
> I find pretty much any diet beverage, fizzy or otherwise, fart oo sweet, > which is a shame as some otherwise nice things only come in low sugar > varieties. Perhaps I am more sensitive to apsartame and suchlike than > others, but I've always suspected that manufacturers assume that those > wanting a low-cal product have and extra-sweet tooth and desire more > sweetness.
> I did molish a version of Hogwarts-style Butterbeer for the kids from a > recipe involving butterscotch sauce[1] and cream soda. That was too > sweet even for the kids, but a re-make with soda water was much better.
> [1] Why is that so hard to find nowadays? Had to molish my own.
I tend to imagine it as like a cross between butterscotch and ginger beer, and not too sweet...
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>Argh bloodyell, damnit. Lots of nice things that are gelatine free, even >some jelly sweets. I may have to have you shot, now.
I bought nearly 30 squids worth last week (for the various grandkids) On the other hand, the stash is going down at the moment without the kids' aid, dagnammit
> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 23:01:39 +0100 > Rusty Hinge <rusty.hi...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote: >>> On Sat, 31 Jul 2010 22:20:38 +0100, Rusty Hinge >>> <rusty.hi...@foobar.girolle.co.uk> wrote:
>>>> Just zis Guy, you know? wrote:
>>>>> *Bzzzzt!* I'm not Mike Godwin and I call you on that! >>>> Who is Mike Godwin? >>> He who posited Godwin's Law, being as follows: "As an online >>> discussion grows longer, the probability of a comparison involving >>> Nazis or Hitler approaches 1."
>>> Mike Godwin is currently General Counsel to the Wikimedia Foundation. >>> He is a good egg. >> There is no such thing as a good egg.
>> Argh bloodyell, damnit. Lots of nice things that are gelatine free, even >> some jelly sweets. I may have to have you shot, now.
> I bought nearly 30 squids worth last week (for the various grandkids) > On the other hand, the stash is going down at the moment without the > kids' aid, dagnammit
It's not even exclusively any form of nostalgia for me, just that I are sick of dodging the boiled-up cows in sweets. Swedish fish are amazing, but those are also an order from the Intarpipes wbo- or pick them up from Cybercandy in Covent Garden.
That said, aquarterof do have sherbet lemons, which are one of the best boiled sweets ever. Grr.
On Sun, 01 Aug 2010 16:22:23 GMT, Richard Bos <ralt...@xs4all.nl> wrote in <4c559e60.12728...@news.xs4all.nl>:
> Another thing that's UABly sweet: Dutch aniseed cubes, eaten whole > instead of (as is the original purpose) dissolved in warm milk.
OTOH, I love that salty Dutch liquorice.
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Andrew Marshall wrote: > I've never tried it, and wouldn't, even if I encountered some. I don't > mind very sweet things in small amounts (I like the occasional creme > egg, and I'm fond of good fudge TAAW), but to me, mint is UAB^many.
Ancipital wrote: > I are sick of dodging the boiled-up cows in sweets.
I admit that gelatine is the only dead animules ingredient I knowingly eat, I don't like the goove of it, but I is weak ... I did used to eat prawn crackers when I was under the misapprehension they might have seen a prawn waved in their general direction, rather than containing substantial amounts of prawn.
> Swedish fish are amazing, > but those are also an order from the Intarpipes wbo- or pick them up > from Cybercandy in Covent Garden.
Never heard of 'em, they have a very }=Parr(*> like logo innit?
>> I are sick of dodging the boiled-up cows in sweets.
> I admit that gelatine is the only dead animules ingredient I knowingly > eat, I don't like the goove of it, but I is weak ... I did used to eat > prawn crackers when I was under the misapprehension they might have seen > a prawn waved in their general direction, rather than containing > substantial amounts of prawn.
Yes, it are a tricky one, and have a lot of sympathy for your sleight-of-brian too.. I managed it for a few years. I suspect that when they started listing it as "beef gelatine" or "pork gelatine", my cognitive dissonance slipped an' fell orft.
>> Swedish fish are amazing, >> but those are also an order from the Intarpipes wbo- or pick them up >> from Cybercandy in Covent Garden.
> Never heard of 'em, they have a very }=Parr(*> like logo innit?
Yer, they'm leftpondian. They are a bit chewy and most satisfying to bite. They don't have a very strong flavour, and I can't put my finger on what it is.. possibly crack. They evaporate shortly after you open the bag- even the hootering huge ones.
