Today's Gourmet Recipe

[Weyland]

Disclaimer:

• I don't like pineapple
  
• Not struck on corn either
  
• Only like Spam crisply fried in a Spam & egg sandwich ('50s nostalgia)
  
• And even then only once a year at most
  
• The can makes a good pencil holder
  

[aubrey]

The thing I miss most with being a vegetarian is the canned and jarred meats (Jarred meats - I don't know if jarred is a word: but I mean those weiners in jars of brine that you see in some polish-type shops).

I used to like spam, and those cans of ham - especially that one which comes in a kind of flattened oval shape.

[Weyland]

Aug 8, 2010 13:49:16 GMT aubrey said:

The thing I miss most with being a vegetarian is the canned and jarred meats (Jarred meats - I don't know if jarred is a word: but I mean those weiners in jars of brine that you see in some polish-type shops).

I used to like spam, and those cans of ham - especially that one which comes in a kind of flattened oval shape.

Of all the things you could have missed, those are some of the least healthy according to current orthodox sermons on food.

Wieners in brine are available at any branch of Lidl or Aldi, by the way. I love them in hot-dog rolls, with fried onions and German mustard, a dressed green and red salad, and possibly Belgian-style chips, but only very occasionally.

With reference to another thread . . .

There was another long discussion about whether a poster was sexist for pointing out that one of the groups on Jools Holland's show (the one that had The Fall on) had nice breasts. It kind of fizzled out after 50 pages.

. . . isn't that about as relevant as having a 50-page discussion about someone pointing out that they support Accrington Stanley?

The sexism is in the discussion, not the original comment. Sheesh.

[aubrey]

Well, he didn't say breasts.

It was really a discussion about sexist language, and what is acceptable. But the thing is, it didn't degenerate into name-calling. It very rarely does - sometimes it looks like it has done, but the name callers are joking.

I'm not sure that there hasn't been a discussion about someone supporting Accrington Stanley, as well. That kind of thing at least.


(There was a lovely thing last week from a bloke who was worrying because his cat had been out for 24 hours, and there had been a lot of cats in his area going missing. About an hour later, I had a last look before going to bed, and he'd been on to say that his cat had just turned up (as another poster had said he would). Really sent me to bed happy, that did.)

[riotgrrl]

Aug 9, 2010 18:54:30 GMT aubrey said:

Well, he didn't say breasts.

It was really a discussion about sexist language, and what is acceptable. But the thing is, it didn't degenerate into name-calling. It very rarely does - sometimes it looks like it has done, but the name callers are joking.

I'm not sure that there hasn't been a discussion about someone supporting Accrington Stanley, as well. That kind of thing at least.


(There was a lovely thing last week from a bloke who was worrying because his cat had been out for 24 hours, and there had been a lot of cats in his area going missing. About an hour later, I had a last look before going to bed, and he'd been on to say that his cat had just turned up (as another poster had said he would). Really sent me to bed happy, that did.)

But that sounds exactly like the kind of important and life-changing stuff we discuss here on the Stub!!!

[riotgrrl]

P.S. Who is Accrington Stanley?

[everso]

;D ;D ;D

I think he was that bloke that met up with some doctor in Africa.

[aubrey]

Aug 9, 2010 19:08:49 GMT @riotgrrl said:

P.S. Who is Accrington Stanley?

I think you're joking: but, in case not: it was a football team that went bust god knows how long ago - 50, 100 years? It was a term used in jokes - in England anyway - when you wanted a real no hope team: I mean, worse than Gainsborough Trinity. EG: two men on a desert island: "I wonder if Accrington Stanley are in the 1st division yet?"

But I think they have reformed themselves now, and play in some small league?

[riotgrrl]

Aug 10, 2010 9:43:04 GMT aubrey said:

Aug 9, 2010 19:08:49 GMT @riotgrrl said:

P.S. Who is Accrington Stanley?

I think you're joking: but, in case not: it was a football team that went bust god knows how long ago - 50, 100 years? It was a term used in jokes - in England anyway - when you wanted a real no hope team: I mean, worse than Gainsborough Trinity. EG: two men on a desert island: "I wonder if Accrington Stanley are in the 1st division yet?"

But I think they have reformed themselves now, and play in some small league?

Never heard of this before in my life.

Are they romantically mythical like Third Lanark?

[Weyland]

Aug 10, 2010 11:12:47 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Never heard of this before in my life.

Are they romantically mythical like Third Lanark?

You haven't lived.

They are romantically factual, like Blyth Spartans.

I imagine there was once a Stanley tools factory in Accrington, in pre-modern days, and their sports club turned into a Football League team. Like PSV Eindhoven -- Philips Sport Vereniging.

Please don't tell me you've never heard of PSV Eindhoven.

[everso]

Aug 10, 2010 11:12:47 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Aug 10, 2010 9:43:04 GMT aubrey said:

I think you're joking: but, in case not: it was a football team that went bust god knows how long ago - 50, 100 years? It was a term used in jokes - in England anyway - when you wanted a real no hope team: I mean, worse than Gainsborough Trinity. EG: two men on a desert island: "I wonder if Accrington Stanley are in the 1st division yet?"

But I think they have reformed themselves now, and play in some small league?

Never heard of this before in my life.

Are they romantically mythical like Third Lanark?

Oh, I thought you were joking! Sorry.

[rjpageuk]

Accrington Stanley went bust in 1966 according to wiki and reformed in 1968.

I always thought the joke came from that famous milk advert: (I couldnt listen to it as I am at work, but I think thats the one).

I thought it was just because they were rubbish and for some reason picked on, I didnt realise it was because they disbanded.

[riotgrrl]

Made Skinny Curry tonight (it's curry, but low in calories comparitively).

It was delish too.

[alanseago]

Stanlew was rather presumptious on his first meeting with his doctor. I was told that the Accrington Stanley name was a reference to Laurel and Hardy.

[everso]

Aug 10, 2010 18:05:26 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Made Skinny Curry tonight (it's curry, but low in calories comparitively).

It was delish too.

Could you let me have the recipe, Riot? Ta!

[aubrey]

Riot - did you see that J Meades programme about Scottish football teams, about how hardly any of them seem to have a name that is the same as the town where they are based? It made all Scottish football seem to be at least striving to be mythically romantic.

(and I used to think there was something wonderfully romantic about a bottom of the Scottish 2nd division match played in the middle of winter ending in 0-0)

[riotgrrl]

Aug 12, 2010 10:46:02 GMT aubrey said:

Riot - did you see that J Meades programme about Scottish football teams, about how hardly any of them seem to have a name that is the same as the town where they are based? It made all Scottish football seem to be at least striving to be mythically romantic.

(and I used to think there was something wonderfully romantic about a bottom of the Scottish 2nd division match played in the middle of winter ending in 0-0)

No, I didn't, and I'm not sure it makes sense.

These are the Premier League Teams at present:

1 Aberdeen 0 0 0
2 Celtic 0 0 0
3 Dundee Utd 0 0 0
4 Hamilton 0 0 0
5 Hearts 0 0 0
6 Hibernian 0 0 0
7 Inverness CT 0 0 0
8 Kilmarnock 0 0 0
9 Motherwell 0 0 0
10 Rangers 0 0 0
11 St Johnstone 0 0 0
12 St Mirren 0 0 0


Now, Celtic and Rangers maybe . . although both are known as 'Glasgow Celtic'/'Glasow Rangers' (or, in Rangers case, often just 'Glasgow') but surely nobody finds Rangers and Celtic romantic?

Mind you . .Hearts and Hibs (both Edinburgh), St Johnstone (Perth) and St Mirren (Paisley) . . I'd give you.

Aberdeen, Dundee, Inverness, Hamilton, Kilmarnock, Motherwell . . very much named after their towns.

Scottish football is only mythically romantic in the sense of the romance of losers.

[riotgrrl]

Aug 10, 2010 23:47:11 GMT everso said:

Aug 10, 2010 18:05:26 GMT @riotgrrl said:

Made Skinny Curry tonight (it's curry, but low in calories comparitively).

It was delish too.

Could you let me have the recipe, Riot? Ta!

Ev, here's a link to the recipe, but I made it with chicken (as well as with mince). (EDITED TO CLARIFY: I made it two separate times, once with mince as per the recipe and then again with chicken. I didn't, like, make it with both at once. That would be crazy.)

www.channel4.com/food/recipes/healthy/cook-yourself-thin/club-skinny-keema-curry_p_1.html

One of the tricks seems to be that you mix olive oil and water in a spray bottle. You're meant to use 8 parts water to one part olive oil, but I think that's too little so I use more oil than that. Then you spray stuff to be fried. The water evaporates and the oil coating is then very fine, and you avoid all the oil calories.

It is a nice curry though.

[aubrey]

OK, Riot, I exaggerated - he went to a few of those places, though, that had weird names. I don't think you get that in England at all.

I meant, the romance of thinking of people going to a game up in the North of scotland, about 500-1000 people, say, and it's really cold and misty and they're in the middle of nowhere, and it ends at 0-0. It would not be romantic if you were there; but it is quite romantic to think about it from a warm front room in London.

[riotgrrl]

Aug 12, 2010 19:07:40 GMT aubrey said:

OK, Riot, I exaggerated - he went to a few of those places, though, that had weird names. I don't think you get that in England at all.

I meant, the romance of thinking of people going to a game up in the North of scotland, about 500-1000 people, say, and it's really cold and misty and they're in the middle of nowhere, and it ends at 0-0. It would not be romantic if you were there; but it is quite romantic to think about it from a warm front room in London.

The two main teams in the North are Inverness Cally and Aberdeen; both are in big cities.

And you'd probably get your head kicked in at either match. Aberdeen, in particular, has a very active team of casuals.

Not romantic. No. Third Lanark are romantic now . . sometimes I walk by where they used to play and think about them.

The most romantic team is Queens Park. My local team. They play at Hampden (the national stadium) and they are the last senior team to still be amateurs (or something like that.) They're utterly crap of course.