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Tue, Feb 21 2017 4:43 PM (52 replies)
  • Wutpa
    4,803 Posts
    Mon, Feb 6 2017 10:37 AM

    Jimbog1964:
    the Queen has been on the throne for 65 years today

    I guess she had something a bit stronger than a chicken tikka masala then.

    Still, hats off to her for a 65-year reign, that's quite something.

  • PhilEStein
    1,269 Posts
    Mon, Feb 6 2017 11:11 AM

    'n I can recall her Coronation as if it was just a few days ago. At school we each received a Coronation mug and book. Neither of which survived very long but at least we had a day off school. Probably to go catching newts, lizards and field-mice. Followed by scrumping fruit from people's back garden fruit trees as it got dark. No doubt about it, we were little heifers.

  • RyjaTybas
    5,150 Posts
    Mon, Feb 6 2017 11:38 AM

    Wutpa:
    I guess she had something a bit stronger than a chicken tikka masala then.

    A gut-wrecking vindaloo a day perhaps!

    I suppose Methuselah might have been on the throne for 65 years - but then he was almost 900 or something and perhaps had a dodgy diet.

  • PhilEStein
    1,269 Posts
    Mon, Feb 6 2017 11:39 AM

    YankeeJim:

    PhilEStein:
    In the UK Jim, it could be what used to be our national dish. Fission chips. With lashings of salt on and no vinegar thank you.

    Oh man, gotta have the vinegar.  :-D

    Never have liked malt vinegar for some reason, yet the white vinegar that I get my pickled onions in, I can drink like a thirsty camel. But generally I am very catholic in my tastes. One other 'food' I detest intensely are jellied eels and I'm a cockney.

    Which for the millions that don't know, means I come from what was the deprived part of east London and cockneys are synonymous with eating jellied eels. Well this one sure ain't.

    I found them to be a totally disgusting, slippery, slimy mess, much the same as they are when you are unfortunate enough catch them on rod and line. The one mouthful I tried got halfway down my gullet before exiting like an ICBM. I shudder just thinking about them.

  • HittyHard
    775 Posts
    Mon, Feb 6 2017 1:46 PM

    PhilEStein:
    Which for the millions that don't know, means I come from what was the deprived part of east London and cockneys are synonymous with eating jellied eels

     

    The jellied eels to me are an acquired taste. From Accrington Lancashire - Mum and Dad got me on pigs trotters and tripe before I can remember (only 44). Still get them now and again, but eels.......still struggle with them when I get my passport stamped and travel south.

    Black pudding daily - not far from Bury which makes the World's best.

    Now't better than offal.

  • Jimbog1964
    8,378 Posts
    Mon, Feb 6 2017 7:49 PM

    I often stopped off at Tubby Isaacs for some welks smothered in malt vinegar on my college night.  Stones throw and from memory still easily in sight off Lloyds London and the start of the square mile business district, yet deepest East End....................

    Never a lover jellied eels either.  Oh the childhood memories of my father sucking that goo as I remember it, and it put me off for life.

     

    Shame to see such a place shut down, but even most all the pubs in that area also closed.  The "newer residents" are more keen on other things .....................I will stay politically correct:)

  • alanti
    10,564 Posts
    Mon, Feb 6 2017 8:58 PM

    I love the way threads go so far off topic....and improve because of it.

    I was based in London for 10 years or so, loved it but as for British food.....Fisk and Chips was as about as quintessential as the cuisine got. I despised malt vinegar on fish and chips at first, but like so many food groups, such as Guinness and warm beer - it grew on me.

    But Jellied Eels, Whelks, Black Pudding and Lambs Fry.......just were not in my edible category. Food is about look and smell first...then taste.....those three missed out on every front.

    But London is  a foodies heaven with all cuisines available.....some quality places rivalling the best in the world..........................,and some diabolical eateries catering for the drunks leaving the local watering holes.....dodgy Scottish eggs, dubious kebabs . dried out pies that taste like cardboard with a dehydrated filling and day old fish and chips that missed the lunch time rush.

    The last time I was back in the UK was a number of years ago now, the East End was beginning to go upmarket and the locals were getting squeezed out. I am not sure I liked where it was going.....but change is inevitable. 

    The wheelers and dealers were being replaced by the new age folks.......

    A far cry from the days when I would pop along to Upton Park when I was in town to watch the Hammers invariably get humiliated.....followed by a few pints to commiserate the loss....followed by the obligatory trip to one of the above-mentioned dives after the pub closed (barring when you got locked in).

     

     

  • overtheedge
    5,885 Posts
    Tue, Feb 7 2017 6:40 AM

    garyk49:

    overtheedge:

    So now after every hole we have to 'X-out" on the scorecard. The "Continue" at the bottom of the scorecard DOESN'T WORK

    Jeff, if at times the Continue isn't active, run your mouse cursor about a half an inch below the scorecard in the black area.  You will get another continue to light up and that one will work.  It will be below the one on the scorecard.

    TY Gary. 

  • overtheedge
    5,885 Posts
    Wed, Feb 8 2017 2:20 PM

    overtheedge:

    garyk49:

    overtheedge:

    So now after every hole we have to 'X-out" on the scorecard. The "Continue" at the bottom of the scorecard DOESN'T WORK

    Jeff, if at times the Continue isn't active, run your mouse cursor about a half an inch below the scorecard in the black area.  You will get another continue to light up and that one will work.  It will be below the one on the scorecard.

    TY Gary. 

     

    overtheedge:

    garyk49:

    overtheedge:

    So now after every hole we have to 'X-out" on the scorecard. The "Continue" at the bottom of the scorecard DOESN'T WORK

    Jeff, if at times the Continue isn't active, run your mouse cursor about a half an inch below the scorecard in the black area.  You will get another continue to light up and that one will work.  It will be below the one on the scorecard.

    TY Gary. 

    This doesn't work for me but the "ENGINEERS" will eventually figure it out,,,LOL! Ya!,,,,,,,ooooooooookay,,lol.

  • whooshdangit
    1,246 Posts
    Tue, Feb 21 2017 2:14 PM

    RyjaTybas:

    Wutpa:
    I guess she had something a bit stronger than a chicken tikka masala then.

    A gut-wrecking vindaloo a day perhaps!

    I suppose Methuselah might have been on the throne for 65 years - but then he was almost 900 or something and perhaps had a dodgy diet.

    Hi

    Sounds like the start of another anus horribilis to me!

    Cheers!

    Rich

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