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Post by Patrick on Oct 24, 2008 19:55:35 GMT
Got Muvva visiting at the moment - Hence the lack of daft messages here! - So took her along to Wallings Farm for lunch - An odd little secret this - hidden away down a country lane - twice we've visited now and twice we've driven straight past the entrance as it appears before you suddenly! The best part is the ice cream - Here is a "flavour" of what's available!  |
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 25, 2008 9:18:47 GMT
You should set up a little tuck shop here Pat...eat while you natter.  Edit: I genuinely cannot remember the last time I saw so many flavours of ice cream...I'd be tempted to try them all in one sitting.  AH |
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Post by motorist on Oct 25, 2008 11:53:57 GMT
Tuck shops - mind, that takes me back. We had one in secondary school. They always ran out of mars bars first so you had to get in quick for them
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Post by Patrick on Oct 25, 2008 12:11:32 GMT
I liked the "Chocolate Tools" from our tuck shop - I've been looking around but I can't find anything like them today......  Mind you, the chocolate was always pretty cheap - not really, proper stuff. |
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Post by motorist on Oct 25, 2008 12:12:23 GMT
mmmm I'd forgotten about those *slurp*
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Post by everso on Oct 25, 2008 15:08:05 GMT
Ahhh. The sweets from schooldays.
Cough candy that used to make your salivary glands work overtime, sweet tobacco (made from coconut), black jacks and fruit salads, firemen's hoses (red licorice), parma violets and those thrupenny Jamboree bags that always promised more than they delivered.
Whatever happened to Bazooka Joe bubble gum?
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Post by Alpha Hooligan on Oct 25, 2008 15:21:45 GMT
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 25, 2008 16:11:27 GMT
What sounds so wonderful about Wallings Farm is that they make their own ice cream. Not the place for anyone seriously calorie counting, perhaps?
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Post by Patrick on Oct 25, 2008 17:31:13 GMT
What sounds so wonderful about Wallings Farm is that they make their own ice cream. Not the place for anyone seriously calorie counting, perhaps? Best Beloved had a Raspberry Swirl Milk shake, there. Now rasberry in something like an ordinary yoghurt or sweet always comes out as artificial and too sweet - but this was rather creamy and dreamy! Based on their Ice Cream - and probably extra cream added on top. Very Pink, of course! Came home with some "Bonfire Toffee" Ice cream which is light in colour with dark treacley swirls and chunks of Cinder Toffee in! It has a flavour of Gypsy Tart nearly. Quite scrummy. What I like - is that unlike Ben and Jerry's - it's all simple ideas. If you had the stuff you could make it at home. The flavour is so much subtler too. |
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Post by housesparrow on Oct 26, 2008 7:49:41 GMT
Jack used to make ice cream - it involved oodles and oodles of double cream and went down ery well at dinner parties -something we don't do much now and when we do, we have cheese and fruit for pud.
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Post by everso on Oct 27, 2008 13:27:34 GMT
Jack used to make ice cream - it involved oodles and oodles of double cream and went down ery well at dinner parties -something we don't do much now and when we do, we have cheese and fruit for pud. I made strawberry ice cream once: strawberries, sugar, cointreau and double cream. Man, that was some ice cream! |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 27, 2008 16:13:24 GMT
Jack used to make ice cream - it involved oodles and oodles of double cream and went down ery well at dinner parties -something we don't do much now and when we do, we have cheese and fruit for pud. I made strawberry ice cream once: strawberries, sugar, Cointreau and double cream. Man, that was some ice cream! Cointreau? Could you set fire to it?  My Dad used to come home with Mangoes that had fallen off the back of aeroplanes! - He made very good ice cream with those - bright pink! |
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Post by trubble on Oct 27, 2008 16:35:42 GMT
I thought mangoes grew on trees not aeroplanes...  |
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Post by trubble on Oct 27, 2008 16:37:00 GMT
I liked the "Chocolate Tools" from our tuck shop - I've been looking around but I can't find anything like them today...... Mind you, the chocolate was always pretty cheap - not really, proper stuff. The ones I remember from my yoof were yucky chocolate but keep searching, patrick because I bought some last christmas, and they looked to be superior chocolate, not the type you waste on silly kids.  |
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Post by trubble on Oct 27, 2008 16:38:34 GMT
What sounds so wonderful about Wallings Farm is that they make their own ice cream. Not the place for anyone seriously calorie counting, perhaps? Also Losely? Losley(sp?) Farm, I remember visiting there and watching their free range pigs running in the field, they feed their leftover icecream to the pigs, what happy sausages. |
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Post by trubble on Oct 27, 2008 16:44:09 GMT
What sounds so wonderful about Wallings Farm is that they make their own ice cream. Not the place for anyone seriously calorie counting, perhaps? Best Beloved had a Raspberry Swirl Milk shake, there. Now rasberry in something like an ordinary yoghurt or sweet always comes out as artificial and too sweet - but this was rather creamy and dreamy! Based on their Ice Cream - and probably extra cream added on top. Very Pink, of course! Came home with some "Bonfire Toffee" Ice cream which is light in colour with dark treacley swirls and chunks of Cinder Toffee in! It has a flavour of Gypsy Tart nearly. Quite scrummy. What I like - is that unlike Ben and Jerry's - it's all simple ideas. If you had the stuff you could make it at home. The flavour is so much subtler too. Look it, Ben & Jerry's must never be dissed when I am on board. I might flounce.  However...wow they sound good. I want to know what a Yorkshire Crunch is.  We found an exquisite ice cream parlour in Barcelona, more flavours than you could possibly think of, and I tried Pistachio for the first time there, oh my god, I can still feel happy just thinking about it. De. Lish. Us. I was looking for a picture I had as a kid: Snoopy eating ice cream with the caption '49 Flavors'. It was a motivational poster for me, my dream! And I found this instead:  Remember Snoopy Ice Creams? I think I do... |
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Post by rjpageuk on Oct 27, 2008 16:58:35 GMT
Jack used to make ice cream - it involved oodles and oodles of double cream and went down ery well at dinner parties -something we don't do much now and when we do, we have cheese and fruit for pud. I have done this too but the ice cream was a little too rich even for me. It was basically just double cream frozen with a bit of vanilla. It also ended up really hard and it was hard to get it soft to serve as it just melted around the outside and the centre remained rock hard. Look it, Ben & Jerry's must never be dissed when I am on board. I might flounce. I love Ben & Jerry's ice cream too, it is much nicer than Haagen Dazs. My favourites are the Cookie Dough one and the Strawberry Cheesecake (although the Haagen Dazs strawberry cheesecake is good too). |
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Post by everso on Oct 27, 2008 19:28:44 GMT
When we were in New Zealand a few years ago, Mr. E. tried licorice flavoured ice cream. He was in seventh heaven and couldn't stop talking about it. We were in Devon a couple of years back, in a small village that I've forgotten the name of but will probably remember as soon as I've posted, when he saw it being sold. It turned out the person selling it knew the person who sold it in New Zealand!
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Post by Patrick on Oct 27, 2008 21:21:27 GMT
When we were in New Zealand a few years ago, Mr. E. tried licorice flavoured ice cream. He was in seventh heaven and couldn't stop talking about it. We were in Devon a couple of years back, in a small village that I've forgotten the name of but will probably remember as soon as I've posted, when he saw it being sold. It turned out the person selling it knew the person who sold it in New Zealand! It's a small world innit! ;D |
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Post by Patrick on Oct 27, 2008 22:00:36 GMT
Look it, Ben & Jerry's must never be dissed when I am on board. I might flounce. Aaaaaaaaaaaaargggh! OK! OK! I like B & J's honest - but they are a teensy weensy bit sugary! However...wow they sound good. I want to know what a Yorkshire Crunch is. Well Next time your passing - After all................ We found an exquisite ice cream parlour in Barcelona, ..........It's not as far to go as Spain for a scoop! (So Rich!)  I was looking for a picture I had as a kid: Snoopy eating ice cream with the caption '49 Flavors'. It was a motivational poster for me, my dream! And I found this instead: Remember Snoopy Ice Creams? I think I do... Garfield used to do that for me - and I eventually followed his example by staying in bed all day also! |
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