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Post by Weyland on Nov 7, 2010 11:44:10 GMT
Here's one especially for our gourmet fast-food correspondent, Trubs:
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Post by Weyland on Dec 30, 2010 16:35:45 GMT
Ate out this afternoon, on account of not having a functioning kitchen, on account of burst pipes. Went to a big food pub outside Shrewsbury and had Chicken New Yorker, which is chicken breast topped with bacon, cheese, and BBQ sauce, with chips, onion rings, peas, and salad. The place was packed.
The chicken was worthy of Michelin. Michelin tyres, that is. The cheese was like a yellowy scab, the BBQ sauce like golden syrup, and the peas dayglo.
Couldn't really complain about the price: £6.99, including a free pint of not-bad beer.
The icing on the cake of an otherwise perfect afternoon. I'd gone to Shrewsbury specifically to pick up some ordered stuff at Argos. Pea-soup mist all the way, and then I couldn't even get into the retail park. Traffic queues on the approach roads, queues to get into the carpark, queues to get out, queues at the petrol station, cars as far as the eye could see. I buggered off to another shopping centre -- same story. Got the chicken on the way home.
The Festive Season.
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Post by aubrey on Dec 30, 2010 19:45:02 GMT
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Post by sesley on Jan 1, 2011 15:59:24 GMT
had macoroni cheese for lunch made with the left overs from the bits of cheese last night then a cup of tea with home made fruit cake.yum. Happy New Year to you all!
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Post by aubrey on Jan 1, 2011 16:36:33 GMT
I think if I could only keep one drink, it would be tea. I'd sigh over whisky, but go for tea every time.
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Post by bonbonlarue on Jan 1, 2011 17:37:01 GMT
I haven't had a proper cup of tea for 5 years...I've tried it without milk and those namby pamby fruit teas but it's not the same...
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Post by Weyland on Jan 1, 2011 17:51:22 GMT
I haven't had a proper cup of tea for 5 years...I've tried it without milk and those namby pamby fruit teas but it's not the same... It's a scandal! Why not, BonBon? Are you in a place where proper tea is not available? I know Holland and Germany have proper tea, if one knows where to find it -- it took me a while, but I hunted it down. There's a lovely tea shop in Paris. Even in the USA, I dare say.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 1, 2011 21:24:24 GMT
All proper tea is theft!
(Boom-tish.)
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Post by everso on Jan 1, 2011 23:58:40 GMT
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Post by Weyland on Jan 2, 2011 10:47:55 GMT
All proper tea is theft! (Boom-tish.) The Pun Squad has been notified. Your only hope now is to make your Confession at St Andrews Cathedral and claim sanctuary. Tell them I sent you. On second thoughts,
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Post by aubrey on Jan 2, 2011 11:20:53 GMT
I haven't had a proper cup of tea for 5 years...I've tried it without milk and those namby pamby fruit teas but it's not the same... There's a bloke on the Fall forum reckons he's started having tea and coffee without milk, and now regrets the last 30 years when he had milk, which he considers as wasted. That's something to try in the future; but not yet, I reckon. I'd have thought that decent tea is perfectly possible in the US, but only if you make it yourself: they do not like using boiling water. My cousin lives there and she told me that it was quite difficult finding a kettle; here, it's the first thing you buy when you set up a house, but there they're not that common. What a weird place.
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Post by everso on Jan 2, 2011 13:46:50 GMT
I haven't had a proper cup of tea for 5 years...I've tried it without milk and those namby pamby fruit teas but it's not the same... There's a bloke on the Fall forum reckons he's started having tea and coffee without milk, and now regrets the last 30 years when he had milk, which he considers as wasted. That's something to try in the future; but not yet, I reckon. I'd have thought that decent tea is perfectly possible in the US, but only if you make it yourself: they do not like using boiling water. My cousin lives there and she told me that it was quite difficult finding a kettle; here, it's the first thing you buy when you set up a house, but there they're not that common. What a weird place. Oh, I'll say. I love the US and have spent many lovely holidays there, but I always try to remember to take my PG Tips tea bags. Their tea is diabolical. The whole point about making tea is that boiling water is used (which is why I get on my high horse when I see people making tea and putting a tea bag and milk into a mug before pouring on the boiling water - the water will immediately cool because of the milk). I used to use loose tea but I honestly can't tell the difference between using tea bags and loose tea, provided boiling water is used. Coffee, of course, shouldn't be made with boiling water - Riot will confirm this and I know it's a bugbear of hers.
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 2, 2011 15:51:04 GMT
Indeed.
Putting coffee in milk is a madness . . you are creating some kind of bastardised milkshake, not coffee.
But, if using coffee granules (cheaper and easier than real coffee, and of an acceptable flavour for everyday) the water must be boilED, not boilING. It must have boiled, and now be still. The bubbling stopped. Otherwise you singe the beans.
How on earth did you remember that I had a thing about this Ev?
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Post by everso on Jan 2, 2011 16:05:26 GMT
Indeed. Putting coffee in milk is a madness . . you are creating some kind of bastardised milkshake, not coffee. But, if using coffee granules (cheaper and easier than real coffee, and of an acceptable flavour for everyday) the water must be boilED, not boilING. It must have boiled, and now be still. The bubbling stopped. Otherwise you singe the beans. How on earth did you remember that I had a thing about this Ev?I suppose I remembered because I have this thing about milk being put in a mug before the boiling water is poured on the tea bag, and therefore empathised with you. Similarly I remembered that Aubs likes "All Right Now" by Free because I do. I thought of him when I danced to it on New Year's Eve. However, ask me what I had for dinner last night and I'll give you a blank look.
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Post by Weyland on Jan 2, 2011 16:07:47 GMT
But, if using coffee granules ... It must have boiled, and now be still. The bubbling stopped. Otherwise you singe the beans. Yeah. Singe the granules. Right. Disclaimer: I very rarely drink coffee. Love the smell, but the taste leaves a lot to be desired. Any coffee, any preparation method -- I've tried hundreds.
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Post by everso on Jan 2, 2011 16:25:41 GMT
Tea at breakfast
Coffee at 11 am
Tea after lunch
Tea mid-afternoon
Tea mid-evening
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Post by riotgrrl on Jan 2, 2011 16:30:43 GMT
Why on earth would you drink tea first thing? That's the time, more than any other, when you need to get heavy caffeine blasts into ya.
(On a working day, I can have up to 10 mugs of black coffee during the day, but none ever after I come home from work.)
I only drink tea if I'm hungover, and then it's usually green tea which has magical hangover-reducing properties.
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Post by everso on Jan 2, 2011 16:35:30 GMT
Ooo no! Coffee first thing is not nice. And especially not real coffee. Bleugh. Tea oils the throat and makes speaking possible first thing in the morning.
I always drink Gold Blend coffee, never the real stuff. And one sugar, please, in tea and coffee.
Actually, I DO like espresso coffee after a meal. A couple of shots of espresso and I'm wide eyed for hours.
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Post by Patrick on Jan 2, 2011 16:38:52 GMT
Love coffee, but it always seems slightly dirty to me. An association developed over the years with Polos and cigarettes. The three going hand in hand like the old Lyon's Maid sign.
So it's two to three cups of tea for the ultimate wake'd uppedness. THEN coffee. Coffee throughout the day until five when everything stops for tea again. Years ago before alcohol was really big in my life I could happily drink more coffee then in the evening before a last cup of milk at bed time - these days it's tea before bed and either whisky or water in the hours leading up to it.
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Post by everso on Jan 2, 2011 16:39:39 GMT
Oh, and I like Sergeant-Major's tea too - vair strong.
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