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Post by Patrick on Sept 13, 2009 15:06:41 GMT
Interesting little prog on Radio 4 just now was talking to Joan Rivers about her relationship with food over the years, from how she was brought up to how she brought up her children. Apparently she claims to have constantly battled with her weight and sees herself as 'too fat'!!  My Mum was/is a good cook - and we were brought up on healthy food with a good variety. As chief cook and bottle washer in our house - I now do my best to balance things in the same way. Having just been visiting relatives we did overeat a bit and came back feeling a tad fat - so are trying to repair the damage with as lighter meals as possible this week - so far having ham salad and mackerel salad (you mix the (smoked) fish with cream cheese, a bit of lemon juice and salt and pepper). My Mum once entered an early MacDonalds with mself and brother in tow and discovering that you were expected to eat with your fingers walked straight out again. Saying that though - I remember for a treat we'd go to the "Egg and Griddle" in town and have Egg and Chips occasionally. They came on a plate with knife and fork.  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Sept 13, 2009 15:11:21 GMT
In the days before civilisation, food meant a full tum and basic survival.
In the modern age (in first world countries) it is viewed as something that should be enjoyed. I personally will not eat anything that I do not enjoy...if I'd lived even a few hundred years ago, I probably would've had to eat stuff that I didn't like (sprouts, fish etc).
AH
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Post by Patrick on Sept 13, 2009 15:22:50 GMT
A little bit of what you fancy..................  |
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Post by everso on Sept 14, 2009 0:27:01 GMT
Food means such a lot to me and to Mr. E. I like my own cooking and coming home on a cold winter's night to a lovely beef casserole and dumplings is our idea of heaven.
As you know (all together now), Mr. E. loves my dumplings.
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Post by riotgrrl on Sept 14, 2009 6:40:44 GMT
Gothboy has a typical council palatte - he doesn't do fish,lamb or pork and is suspicious of anything fancy or foreign (I mean beyond the usual fajitas or spag bol.) He feels physically sick when he catches me with my olives, bread and oil favourite snack.
It means that the evening meals (which I cook) are depressingly samey week after week.
I remember in 'What Katie Did' she remarked to her cook that she wished they would invent a new animal to eat as she was running out of ideas . . I didn't understand that as a child when I read (and re-read) 'What Katie Did', but I do now.
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Post by everso on Sept 14, 2009 10:29:35 GMT
I remember reading that book as a kid. I'm blowed if I can remember what she got up to though.
I also love the bread, oil, balsalmic and olives as a snack.
Is it lunchtime yet?
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Post by Patrick on Sept 14, 2009 10:35:23 GMT
The nearest I come to that is frying garlic gently in olive oil (or) butter then adding small pieces of bread.
Olives themselves are evil!
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Post by riotgrrl on Sept 14, 2009 10:35:39 GMT
IIRC what Katie actually did was to break her back.
I always found it a bizarre plot for a childrens' book.
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Post by percyplum on Sept 14, 2009 12:09:09 GMT
Olives...yum!
Crusty bread dunked in olive oil and balsamic vinegar is heaven on a plate.
We try to eat healthily but I like cooking, and particularly baking. I made rock buns the other day and as everyone knows, they have to be eaten on the day they're made as they don't keep...
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Post by Patrick on Sept 14, 2009 12:15:54 GMT
Olives...yum! Crusty bread dunked in olive oil and balsamic vinegar is heaven on a plate. We try to eat healthily but I like cooking, and particularly baking. I made rock buns the other day and as everyone knows, they have to be eaten on the day they're made as they don't keep... I got assaulted by our very large long haired tabby cat one day for a piece of rock cake. He saw I was eating something so came up onto the settee for a closer look, then he climbed up on my lap - then - having scented his victim he started heading up my front and I had to hold one arm in the air to keep it safe! |
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Post by percyplum on Sept 14, 2009 13:55:39 GMT
Olives...yum! Crusty bread dunked in olive oil and balsamic vinegar is heaven on a plate. We try to eat healthily but I like cooking, and particularly baking. I made rock buns the other day and as everyone knows, they have to be eaten on the day they're made as they don't keep... I got assaulted by our very large long haired tabby cat one day for a piece of rock cake. He saw I was eating something so came up onto the settee for a closer look, then he climbed up on my lap - then - having scented his victim he started heading up my front and I had to hold one arm in the air to keep it safe! My dog will assault people if they're eating an apple. He's addicted to them since we allowed him to eat the cores from ours. Now I have to warn people when we're out to keep their Cox's out of reach! Particularly children. He almost climbed into a push chair one day to get to an apple from a toddler! Fortunately, he was on the lead so I was able to stop him in time.  |
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Post by riotgrrl on Sept 14, 2009 14:29:22 GMT
I'm confused by a world where cats eat cakes and dogs eat fruit.
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Post by percyplum on Sept 14, 2009 14:59:58 GMT
I'm confused by a world where cats eat cakes and dogs eat fruit. That's because they see themselves as just members of our pack...they don't think in terms of "I'm a cat therefore I don't eat cake". |
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Post by motorist on Sept 14, 2009 15:46:55 GMT
Shelob absolutely drools (literally - on your arm or shoulder) for cake or biscuit if someone is eating one, and they don't go "GERROUDOVIT!!". Sauron isn't so bothered about snacks, he prefers cat noms
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Post by stephan on Sept 15, 2009 11:00:13 GMT
I grew up with a dickhead of a father and a not very good cook for a mother so food was something one tended to enjoy more at school. And yes they served `curry` back in 1965.
Then later I used to go potato picking in the school holidays and the Italian women took pity on this very skinny(it was a long time ago)lad and fed me pasta and strange things called olives.
So come 1972 and off to University-self catering-it was learn to cook or live on fish and chips or mince.
Years later I still worry about eating in India-not the food -I love that. But I`m a leftie and so want to eat with my left hand
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Post by riotgrrl on Sept 15, 2009 11:04:07 GMT
Stephan - when I was in India we ate with knives and forks (but that probably says more about my India experience than it gives a cultural insight.)
Do you eat with your hands when there?
And is it considered not acceptable to use the left, because that's the toilet hand? (Or have I got that mixed up with the middle east or made it up completely or something.?)
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Post by stephan on Sept 15, 2009 11:11:35 GMT
Yes knives and forks are the norm but we went to a couple of `family` places where it was eating by hand and off a banana leaf. I`m sure I could have had a plate and knife/fork but heck-I was in a local eatery so why not go native? I sat on my left hand
And yes the left is the `toilet hand`
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Post by riotgrrl on Sept 15, 2009 11:16:02 GMT
I don't want to get into something icky here, but wouldn't most right-handed people use that hand as their 'toilet hand'? I mean naturally?
Do cultures that eat with their hands have to deliberately train themselves to use the other one?
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Post by stephan on Sept 15, 2009 11:19:29 GMT
I`m not right handed so I would not know!!
But these customs do vary.
For example in some parts of Italy it`s OK to use a spoon to help wrapping spaghetti where as others say just the fork
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Post by everso on Sept 15, 2009 12:36:57 GMT
Can I just say here and now that there is no way I'll be forced to use my left hand for toilet business.  Knives and forks are proper things to use.  I mean knives and forks are proper things to use to eat with! Isn't it funny when you check what you've just typed? |
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