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6/16/21

The best way to make toast though ...

6/16/21

6/15/21

Slightly curious about the King Cone/Cornetto bit in that quiz. In the UK, King Cone was produced by Lyons Maid who originally had a Four Kings range. That morphed into four varieties of King Cone.

6/15/21

Plan B is a morning-after pill in the UK.

6/15/21

Ancient history now but during my final year in London there was a glut of imported lobster. They were stacked high in supermarkets with an assortment of BOGOF deals, two for a tenner. I move to Wales and my mum in her final days decides she would like some lobster. That seems easy enough and I trot over to a supermark…

6/15/21

If you are making fried bread you really need lard.

6/15/21

One of our local cafes has been doing little star-shaped bits of fried bread with the Full English. Plus you get toast.

6/15/21

Long time back, I saw a documentary about supermarkets where they revealed that “Broccoli 2" was the holy grail of produce. Don’t know if they have ever found it?

6/15/21

They are not.

6/15/21

I have no idea.

6/14/21

Those aren’t lollies in the top pic.

6/14/21

An Australian colleague got slightly nervous when she was in Ireland and a chap asked her if she wanted a Poke.

6/14/21

“The poop is used in a food-safe way to smoke malt

6/14/21

I’m trying to work out why a tin of Elsinore Bouillabaisse costs £6.68 on Amazon but only £1.80 in Waitrose?

6/11/21

What about the parasites in the papaya seeds ... ?

6/10/21

Presumably the Kaiser’s shilling is at the bottom of those glasses?

6/10/21

Is it just me or are Nandos being very quiet?

6/10/21

King Henry IV of France no less!

6/10/21

We tend to forget that the shift from chicken meat as a luxury item to a staple is relatively recent. My home town is famous for its chicken breeds so probably had a role in that. Not that you would regard it as chicken territory these days.

6/10/21

Back in the Nineties, I was a guest of the Green Jackets and our sergeant for the day regaled us with tales of dried and boil in the bag rations which were marvelous - but had been withdrawn due to budget cuts. So it was back to things in cans.