It would probably be the time I roasted a chicken with a plastic bag of giblets still inside- I can still remember the smell... In fairness I’m so used to not getting giblets unless I specifically ask, so I didn’t even think to check to see if any had been supplied.

The best thing about this is how much fun Dame Helen is having with it...

5¼” apparently...

The Mr Mistoffelees/Rum Tum Tugger gave me a serious Team America: World Police flashback. Especially as what came after...

Not according to the Spanish...

Gay: The Musical...

We had something similar here in Dublin where US pint glasses were being passed off as imperial pint glasses.

No onion. A true tortilla is just eggs, potato and seasoning.

“that they, for example, too frequently end with the hero battling some (usually) forgettable supervillain or army in an orgy of CGI destruction.”

Ha, I immediately went with Ajoblanco. And salmorejo- gazpatcho’s classier cousin...

Channel 4. And I’m afraid I actually prefer Noel and Sandy to Mel and Sue. The only downside are the ad breaks.

Nope- he might have been bigger in the US than in Europe.

There are quite a few beers that are bittered without hops- Fraoch (heather) and Meabh Rua (bog oak) come to mind.

Terminator 2- I was lucky enough to see this on the opening weekend in the US (the Friday to be precise) while on holiday, so the whole Arnie is a good guy was a complete surprise for me. This was back in the day when movies could have taken up to a year to get over to the UK/Ireland. Definitely by the time the movie…

That’s the way I read it, I was wondering why there was no reference to the row in the article, or even what it was over.

Totally. Eddie Izzard was a massive stand-up comedian. Geoffrey Rush was the Oscar winning actor from Shine. Greg Kinnear I knew from Talk Soup. William H. Macy- Fargo. And Tom Waits, though I wasn’t a fan at the time, I still knew who he was (Rain Dogs has since become one of my favourite albums). I would have known…

Sorry, but Blue Rajah was brilliant “Mother, I’m an effete Englishman”.

Isn’t “peel” the plural of “peel”. Or do you mean “peelings”?

Groundnut oil is usually my go-to, with rapeseed oil as backup. If sauteing then use butter (proper butter not one of those “I can’t believe...” garbage options).

Now do the “why did the British one have to be gay?”