Grumble Thread

[oddoneout]

I am still reeling from seeing that half water melon with a lid on - René Magritte could have dreamed that one up!

Does preclude making proper watermelon slices though, cutting the fruit in half that way.

[Pulcinella]

I think it might be a layered breakfast jar - those are raspberries on top. Designed to be posted on social media rather than being a sensible way to take breakfast to work or wherever, as the contents can't be mixed in situ, and in a jar that narrow and filled to the top just getting a spoon in would make for an overflow mess. Emptying the contents into a bowl means another item to carry or source and wash up, and inevitably makes for waste as stuff will get left on the sides of the jar and whatever it is decanted into.

We quite often make that sort of thing as a dessert, admittedly in a wider glass.
Layers of crushed Oatie biscuits (possibly dosed in sherry or a liqueur), Greek yoghurt (possibly honey flavoured), and fruit (blueberries, raspberries).
Quick and easy.

[Old Grumpy]

Milk cartons have obviously not yet reached you up wherever you are, somewhere obscure beyond Barnet.

Not much left of my Barnet, S_A - hence why I am often pictured with a flat cap

Yes, we have cartons - I just couldn't be bothered with the extra typing...

...although where we lived previously in Anton's manor we had a real milkman who delivered bottles though pinties, not pintas as they would have been in my boyhood [in fact I had a holiday job as the milko's assistant for a while in my youth].

[Old Grumpy]

I think it might be a layered breakfast jar - those are raspberries on top. Designed to be posted on social media rather than being a sensible way to take breakfast to work or wherever, as the contents can't be mixed in situ, and in a jar that narrow and filled to the top just getting a spoon in would make for an overflow mess. Emptying the contents into a bowl means another item to carry or source and wash up, and inevitably makes for waste as stuff will get left on the sides of the jar and whatever it is decanted into.

Who takes breakfast to work? Surely one has breakfast before one sets off for work!

[Serial_Apologist]

Not much left of my Barnet, S_A - hence why I am often pictured with a flat cap

Yes, we have cartons - I just could be bothered with the extra typing...

...although where we lived previously in Anton's manor we had a real milkman who delivered bottles though pinties, not pintas as they would have been in my boyhood [in fact I had a holiday job as the milko's assistant for a while in my youth].

[oddoneout]

Who takes breakfast to work? Surely one has breakfast before one sets off for work!

If your working day is 9-5 perhaps...

[smittims]

Of course one should breakfast before leaving, for the sake of one's health. But many make do with something on the train. I was disgusted one week when I had to make an early journey to Nottingham and saw people eating Mars bars on the train at 0710. I had had coffee and Scott's porage oats before leaving so I wasn't thinking of food at all.

[LMcD]

Of course one should breakfast before leaving, for the sake of one's health. But many make do with something on the train. I was disgusted one week when I had to make an early journey to Nottingham and saw people eating Mars bars on the train at 0710. I had had coffee and Scott's porage oats before leaving so I wasn't thinking of food at all.

'A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play' (Remember the tune?)

[cloughie]

'A Mars a day helps you work, rest and play' (Remember the tune?)

…and ‘go to work on an egg!’

[LHC]

…and ‘go to work on an egg!’

Popularised thanks to Fay Weldon, who also came up with the phrase "Vodka gets you drunker quicker", although perhaps unsurprisingly the add agency she worked for at the time was rather less keen on building a campaign around that one!

[Dave2002]

Of course one should breakfast before leaving, for the sake of one's health. But many make do with something on the train. I was disgusted one week when I had to make an early journey to Nottingham and saw people eating Mars bars on the train at 0710. I had had coffee and Scott's porage oats before leaving so I wasn't thinking of food at all.

Are you relacing "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"? A more northern version, perhaps!

[LMcD]

Are you relacing "Disgusted of Tunbridge Wells"? A more northern version, perhaps!

'Relacing' suggests that somebody's having trouble putting their shoes on.

[cloughie]

'Relacing' suggests that somebody's having trouble putting their shoes on.

Must need some ‘casuals’.

[LMcD]

Must need some ‘casuals’.

I now wear slip-ons because I'm no longer able to lace up, let alone relace, shoes!

[Dave2002]

'Relacing' suggests that somebody's having trouble putting their shoes on.

Only sometimes!
Clearly the gremlins in my keyboard - though nowadays I find that something in the computer does change what I type. Very annoying - grumble, grumble ....

Probably was my typing in the shoes reference, though. Darn it - just did it again. Hopefully corrected to what I meant to reply.