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  • Nick Armstrong
    Host
    • Nov 2010
    • 26523

    #61
    Originally posted by vinteuil View Post
    ... I seldom condemn. Tho' I have been known to contemn...

    I love the way you amuse yourself, vinchaud!
    "...the isle is full of noises,
    Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
    Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
    Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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    • Nick Armstrong
      Host
      • Nov 2010
      • 26523

      #62
      Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
      One wonders what other simple pleasures he spurns, his palate sated by Parisian sophistication.









      "...the isle is full of noises,
      Sounds and sweet airs, that give delight and hurt not.
      Sometimes a thousand twangling instruments
      Will hum about mine ears, and sometime voices..."

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      • french frank
        Administrator/Moderator
        • Feb 2007
        • 30253

        #63
        Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
        One wonders what other simple pleasures he spurns, his palate sated by Parisian sophistication.
        Chips, chocolate, ice cream - three that I spurn habitually , plus jelly, chicken mcnuggets and other such childish whimsies ... (I may wink - but it's true).
        It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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        • Flosshilde
          Full Member
          • Nov 2010
          • 7988

          #64
          Originally posted by french frank View Post
          chicken mcnuggets
          Do you really classify these as a pleasure?

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          • teamsaint
            Full Member
            • Nov 2010
            • 25195

            #65
            Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
            Do you really classify these as a pleasure?
            what do they taste like then ?
            perhaps they are yummy. I wouldn't know, obviously.
            I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

            I am not a number, I am a free man.

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            • MrGongGong
              Full Member
              • Nov 2010
              • 18357

              #66
              Originally posted by french frank View Post
              chicken mcnuggets .
              Which part of the chicken is the "nugget" I wonder ?

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              • french frank
                Administrator/Moderator
                • Feb 2007
                • 30253

                #67
                Originally posted by Flosshilde View Post
                Do you really classify these as a pleasure?
                I have never knowingly eaten a mcnugget. But they appear on Kids Menus (themselves an abomination) and I have witnessed children eating them. With chips!
                It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                • teamsaint
                  Full Member
                  • Nov 2010
                  • 25195

                  #68
                  Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                  Which part of the chicken is the "nugget" I wonder ?
                  perhaps there is a clue in the "Mc".......
                  I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                  I am not a number, I am a free man.

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                  • Flosshilde
                    Full Member
                    • Nov 2010
                    • 7988

                    #69
                    Originally posted by MrGongGong View Post
                    Which part of the chicken is the "nugget" I wonder ?
                    The parts that are inedible unless they are stripped from the carcase with high-pressure water jets.



                    (oops - watch out for mclibel lawyers)

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                    • hmvman
                      Full Member
                      • Mar 2007
                      • 1097

                      #70
                      Only a couple of days left......

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                      • Stephen Smith

                        #71
                        I have no connection to the said Mc XXX - but a friend worked for them as a buyer, and to be fair she told me (years ago) that they are punctilious as to the quality of the food they supply (and it is of good quality) and they inspect their suppliers. One might not like what they do with it, though, I agree.
                        I'm picking up from industry insiders interviewed on the media that its the supply to local authorities, public sector users that are at particular risk of substitution of cheaper inredients.

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                        • french frank
                          Administrator/Moderator
                          • Feb 2007
                          • 30253

                          #72
                          Originally posted by Stephen Smith View Post
                          I'm picking up from industry insiders interviewed on the media that its the supply to local authorities, public sector users that are at particular risk of substitution of cheaper inredients.
                          And it was my error to include the prefix before the word 'nugget' anyway. Jamie Oliver - that champion of school dinners - has a recipe. Just the job with a bowl of chips ...
                          It isn't given us to know those rare moments when people are wide open and the lightest touch can wither or heal. A moment too late and we can never reach them any more in this world.

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                          • Byas'd Opinion

                            #73
                            Any aficionados of Edinburgh chippy sauce - the strange mixture of HP-style brown sauce diluted with vinegar they slather on chips over there? And where exactly are the outer limits of the so-called "brown sauce triangle"? I know it extends into parts of West Lothian, but what about the Borders and Fife?

                            I marked myself out as being irredemably "from the West" during the spell I was living in Edinburgh because I'd always answer the question "Salt'n'sauce?" with "No, salt'n'vinegar".

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                            • mangerton
                              Full Member
                              • Nov 2010
                              • 3346

                              #74
                              Originally posted by Byas'd Opinion View Post
                              Any aficionados of Edinburgh chippy sauce - the strange mixture of HP-style brown sauce diluted with vinegar they slather on chips over there? And where exactly are the outer limits of the so-called "brown sauce triangle"? I know it extends into parts of West Lothian, but what about the Borders and Fife?

                              I marked myself out as being irredemably "from the West" during the spell I was living in Edinburgh because I'd always answer the question "Salt'n'sauce?" with "No, salt'n'vinegar".

                              http://www.edinburghseasons.com/2010...e-n-edinburgh/
                              I refer the member to my answer above (#8). I can state confidently that Hawick was in the salt'n sauce zone in the early 60s, and knowing the conservative (small "c") nature of border folk - common expression, "it's aye been", I expect it still is.

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                              • teamsaint
                                Full Member
                                • Nov 2010
                                • 25195

                                #75
                                While holidaying in the lake district recently, we visited a chippy a couple of times, which served simply exquisite mushy peas.

                                How do they do it? what do they do to them? is there a secret ingredient?

                                An area in which I have to concede that the north has it over the south.
                                The Milbrook chippy does a mean pea fritter,TBF.
                                I will not be pushed, filed, stamped, indexed, briefed, debriefed or numbered. My life is my own.

                                I am not a number, I am a free man.

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