There’s a link to a recipe in the post. It’s a soup that is usually made with two types of mustard (a ground one and one with intact mustard seeds, cream, bacon bits, usually onions or leek as well. Should be creamy and hearty.

I beg to differ...Dutch pea soup is definitely a meal. It is also undeniably a soup! That goes for other soups as well... A good French onion soup will leave no room for anything else.

Dutch Mustard soup

As an eternal Grey (wrong time zone, I guess) I applaud your initiative!

Not to mention the sounds of”evil violent autist” I’m getting from various armchair psychiatrists...

*wince* I’m glad that for me it was just deodorant stick on the toothbrush...

The pessimist part of me came up with the same explanation. Poor thing...

I have put deodorant on my tooth brush on multiple occasions...

I go to London once a year and have been doing so for 25 years. And the east, the area around Brick Lane, Spitalfields- always shifting, always something new. A strong sense of community, wave after wave of immigration, and a cool factor that comes with contrast and change. There are plenty of real problems in London,…

My Dolores Umbridge was part of the board of directives of a hospital. Her quest was keeping the hospital’s volunteers to as strict a set of rules as the paid workers. First, she demanded that everyone start work half an hour earlier- to be recorded by a time clock. Then she sent away everyone over 70 for being too…

Let’s comfort each other and shed a few tears about this existential limbo that we are seemingly stuck in forever...

I like that. That actually has meaning beyond just an expensive bit of crystallized carbon.

Short and sweet like a sledgehammer to the cranium.

I have one word of advice on saving. Don’t put the money that is left at the end of the month in the bank. Instead, have your bank automatically put a realistic amount of money in a savings account every month on the day your pay comes in.

Seconded as a European. Going to a restaurant is about more than just food; it’s a social event. If I get the impression that the waiters want me to leave as quick as possible and take away my plate before I’m ready I do not return to that particular restaurant. On the other hand, of course, when a place is very busy…

So they have just been pretending they were dead?

Leave my favourite German teleporter out of this! BAMF!

It’s van de Velde. The prefixes in Dutch names are never capitalized.

I hope it’s a good story. On the other hand, I hope they never explain Lion. Lion just is.

You’re kidding me, right? You sound like you have never travelled abroad once in your life. You have only ever been in places where you happen to speak the dominant language... And now you expect that the whole world speaks exactly that. That is not how it works! I hope you never come to Europe, you would be in for a…