Grumpy Old Man
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@Machpants said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Victor-Meldrew said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Catogrande said in Grumpy Old Man:
I good mince pie is a thing of beauty. This rules out virtually all shop bought stuff. But a home made pie with quality mincemeat, proper home made pastry and a thin layer of marzipan twixt the two is sublime.
Ignore the marzipan, but agree on home-made. Mincemeat matured for a month or so in brandy, freshly baked and with brandy-infused clotted cream. Heaven
Clotted cream is what makes mince pies, I don't have them in NZ, but when in Kernow I eat a fuck load
Hated mince pies until Mrs M came into my life. Makes her own mincemeat (link for @boobo) and lets it mature for a month or 3. Shortcrust pastry, icing suger and cream - heaven.
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@taniwharugby said in Grumpy Old Man:
Oh, and I love me some quality Christmas cake with marzipan icing...fuck you all
Making ours next week. Think we're doing marzipan this year - was a honey/toffee topping last year with walnuts and brazils. Feeding the cake with brandy is taken seriously at Meldrew Towers.
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@dogmeat I expect that is hangover from the days when the old diamond on the road as you approached the crossing was a thing, unlike now where most people, particularly young people just walk out and expectation is that the cars will stop, which most do.
I always stop and check before crossing and give the courtest wave too.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
Took the boys to KFC recently.
I know, I know, don’t judge me, only happens every now and again.
Fuck me, the chicken pieces in my quarter pack were seriously tiny and the potato and gravy tasted like liquid cardboard.
Didn’t KFC used to be good ?
It's proportionate to the hangover. Hungover = marvelous, sober = terrible.
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@MN5 said in Grumpy Old Man:
Didn’t KFC used to be good ?
I had the same reaction when first trying it again a year or two ago - after a decade or two of not having any.
@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
No
I do wonder... did it used to be good, and is just shit now?
Or - was it always shit - but so fucking good compared to the muck we got served at home?
A topic which has come up a few times recently in conversations - the absolute shite that parents in the 80s used to cook. (and 70s/90s, probably)
Boiled-to-mush vegetables. Chops cooked until they were charcoal. Bland-as-faaark sausages. Fuck - the fact that Watties-fucking-tomato-sauce is/was somehow considered a condiment ("a substance ... that is used to add flavour to food") - is a fucking dire indictment.The idea was raised recently... when somebody throws a 1980's themed party - offer to do the catering. And do it faithful to the theme. Sawdust cheerios. Mushy canned asparagus rolls. White-bread with fucking hundreds/thousands. In fact - bland white-bread with EVERYTHING.
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@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
White-bread with fucking hundreds/thousands.
don't you fucking DARE! i will absolutely cut a bitch
Fairy bread fucking owns
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@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
I do wonder... did it used to be good, and is just shit now?
Or - was it always shit - but so fucking good compared to the muck we got served at home?
A topic which has come up a few times recently in conversations - the absolute shite that parents in the 80s used to cook. (and 70s/90s, probably)
Boiled-to-mush vegetables. Chops cooked until they were charcoal. Bland-as-faaark sausages. Fuck - the fact that Watties-fucking-tomato-sauce is/was somehow considered a condiment ("a substance ... that is used to add flavour to food") - is a fucking dire indictment.The idea was raised recently... when somebody throws a 1980's themed party - offer to do the catering. And do it faithful to the theme. Sawdust cheerios. Mushy canned asparagus rolls. White-bread with fucking hundreds/thousands. In fact - bland white-bread with EVERYTHING.
I wonder if the British Empire didn't eventuate as a result of people willing to risk it all in the chance there was better food.
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
White-bread with fucking hundreds/thousands.
don't you fucking DARE! i will absolutely cut a bitch
Fairy bread fucking owns
You don’t like Bacon but you like Fairy Bread ?
Jesus Christ…..
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i like bacon, just not heaps of it, and contrary to popular belief, it doesn't need to be on everything
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@mariner4life said in Grumpy Old Man:
i like bacon, just not heaps of it, and contrary to popular belief, it doesn't need to be on everything
Yes it does.
I just value my arteries or else I’d have it multiple times a day.
Damn you Bacon.
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@Kruse I definitely think something has changed at KFC, I used to work and I used to like eating it, I reckon in the last 20 years I have had it twice, didnt enjoy either.
The P & G aint made like it was, the chips use a different salt, who knows if they have made changes to the cooking process, or the time it can stay in the warmers or anything, but it isnt as good.
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@dogmeat said in Grumpy Old Man:
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@voodoo said in Grumpy Old Man:
I walk a lot (100km/week) and always acknowledge someone who stops to let me cross at a pedestrian crossing.
Funny mate, I also always acknowledge cars that stop, someone who crossed at sametme as me asked my why one day, I didn't know really, just politeness? Same as I generally will give way to driver coming onto street I driving down, once again, I figure if I can't lose 20 seconds or so to let someone in, best I actually leave a bit earlier so I don't need to hurry.
I was wandering home from supermarket a few weeks back when a hearse and cars pulled out of a house down street, I stopped talk off my cap until they passed, once again why? Don't know just something I do . -
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
@Dan54 said in Grumpy Old Man:
talk off my cap
You are a filthy fluffybunny, but I like the euphemism
Lol obviously forgotten how to spell and check my posts too mate.
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Right, let's have at it then... doubling down...
Fairy bread is shit. Flavourless colourful shit on top of flavourless white shit. Pretty/sparkly nonsense for the stupid kids.
Bacon is over-rated. It's decent, but it's over-rated. The Bruce Springsteen of processed meats.
Watties tomato sauce is also flavourless... perhaps 'shit' is too harsh, it maybe has a use for re-hydration/lubrication when eating a dry-as-fuck overcooked 1980s sausage/chop/pie. It's the Butter-Chicken of condiments.
There.
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@Kruse said in Grumpy Old Man:
Watties tomato sauce is also flavourless... perhaps 'shit' is too harsh, it maybe has a use for re-hydration/lubrication when eating a dry-as-fuck overcooked 1980s sausage/chop/pie. It's the Butter-Chicken of condiments.
I don't understand where the word shit comes into it
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@Bones said in Grumpy Old Man:
I don't understand where the word shit comes into it
Short version: Watties Tomato Sauce.
Longer and less disengenuous:
"Watties tomato sauce is also flavourless ..." the obvious next word is "shit"... but I back away from going that far... and explain why.
You've seemed a step slower these last few months... everything okay?
(But yeah... can see how that read ambiguously)
