WCMUT....what cheered me up today

It’s called a ‘Spork’ :)
 
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Had sporks for many years. Replaced Mrs Nod's old one with a Titanium one for commercialmas.
 
Norkie said:
Don’t the Cornish folk call them “Tiggy Akky “ or something similar?
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I've heard Gin**ers described as vomit pies down there. Telling that there are VERY few of their trucks headed West from their factory!
 
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I assume that anything that brings a smile can go here ....:)

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Yuk! I wouldn't feed their pasties to someone I really dislike - I'm not that cruel. :puke:
 
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Norkie said:
As explained here…

https://www.cornishpasties.org.uk/t...w.cornishpasties.org.uk/tiddyoggy.htm[/QUOTE]
I grew up in a small Cornish village and potatoes had two dialect words, Spuds, which has become more common outside Cornwall since then and Taadties, which is the closest I can get in print to the actual sound of the word.
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Nod said:
I've heard Gin**ers described as vomit pies down there. Telling that there are VERY few of their trucks headed West from their factory!
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I no longer live in Cornwall, but the locals that I know down there consider describing the Gin**ers product as a Pasty should be made an offence under the Trades Descripton Act
 
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We went to Penzance in 2024 and the best bakery we found, was Loafs Bakery, in Causewayhead. The pasties were made with rough puff pastry, very light, not at all stodgy and the fillings were excellent. I think I could live off pasties if they were all like that.
 
My wife makes the best sausage rolls in the world!

Minced venison and haggis filling, homemade pastry.

Gorgeous ;)
 
Mass factory produced food is never going to be pleasant.
 
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Earley Man said:
I no longer live in Cornwall, but the locals that I know down there consider describing the Gin**ers product as a Pasty should be made an offence under the Trades Descripton Act
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Marc said:
Their sausage rolls are even worse!
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Wow, that must make them the epitome of inedible food. :)
 
In common with the vast majority of British citizens, I enjoy so called "Mass factory produced food" as much as anything else.

I also like that such food ensures that people with limited resources can keep their families well fed and healthy.
 
Norkie said:
My wife makes the best sausage rolls in the world!

Minced venison and haggis filling, homemade pastry.

Gorgeous ;)
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I'll need a few samples to check on that claim...
 
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Bit of a long trip up to Norfolk.


WCMUT was the best venison steak I think I've ever had. They're always good at Otterton Mill but today's was as close to perfect as could be. Tender, tasty and succulent.
 
We buy ours online, The Wild Meat Co. High quality and good value.
 
WCMUT (well, actually yesterday, but we don't have a WCMUY thread) - was the resurfacing of this thread...

Over 12 years and still bubbling up now and then...

read through it again from start to finish yesterday, and it struck me just what a fun place this was - and how much i'd prefer it to be like that again, instead of all the sniping and moaning about various political issues.
 
It was nice being able to update my booking on Eurotunnel for a different car reg without having to pay. Just a little thing, but sometimes it's nice not to feel like every business is just trying to take my money.
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
In common with the vast majority of British citizens, I enjoy so called "Mass factory produced food" as much as anything else.

I also like that such food ensures that people with limited resources can keep their families well fed and healthy.
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I agree with you Andrew, but I also think that a lot of people could learn to cook properly, because food is much cheaper when you do so. A few weeks ago, my wife made a Persian style stew, called Aab Goosht, a very basic lamb, bean. vegetable and pearl barley dish, with subtle spicing, very economic, using the cheapest meat cuts. I also make my own sausage rolls, which IMHO are tastier than all but the most expensive rolls.

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Abgoosht Recipe - Dizi Sangi — I got it from my Maman

Aabgoosht is a traditional Persian potato bean and lamb stew. The name Aabgoosht translates to ‘water meat’, perhaps because the original recipe, which is hundreds of years old, consisted only of meat, legumes and water. This made it a nutritious, high-energy dish.
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ancient_mariner said:
It was nice being able to update my booking on Eurotunnel for a different car reg without having to pay. Just a little thing, but sometimes it's nice not to feel like every business is just trying to take my money.
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Come on then, spill the beans, where are you off to? I really look forward to my Shuttle trips abroad and living in Kent, it is quite easy.
 
andya700 said:
Come on then, spill the beans, where are you off to? I really look forward to my Shuttle trips abroad and living in Kent, it is quite easy.
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Back to the house in France to give it a spring airing. We use the tunnel 2-3 times per year, which is frequently, but not frequently enough for a discount.
 
andya700 said:
agree with you Andrew, but I also think that a lot of people could learn to cook properly,
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Yes, it isn't that hard. I learned from mum when I was still living at home and when I got married, the kitchen became my domain although my wife can cook (she was happy for me to do it).

I do appreciate though that it can be difficult for some people depending on their circumstances. Because of disability, I can no longer prepare food so I've become a director in the kitchen. My wife works part time and has her own business as well as looking after me so we order more prepared food than we used to.
 
Marc said:
Yes, it isn't that hard. I learned from mum when I was still living at home and when I got married, the kitchen became my domain although my wife can cook (she was happy for me to do it).

I do appreciate though that it can be difficult for some people depending on their circumstances. Because of disability, I can no longer prepare food so I've become a director in the kitchen. My wife works part time and has her own business as well as looking after me so we order more prepared food than we used to.
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Sorry to hear about that Marc, I am struggling on, because my wife is still working (she retires next month thank goodness) and my collection of maladies, including the dreadful tremors (which get worse as the day goes on) makes planning and food prep with sharp knives a bit hairy. The smell of a lovely homemade Bouef Bourgignon or a lasagne makes it more than just worthwhile.
 
ancient_mariner said:
Back to the house in France to give it a spring airing. We use the tunnel 2-3 times per year, which is frequently, but not frequently enough for a discount.
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Do you mind me asking, roughly what area your house is in, because I am a true Francophile, I absolutely love the place.
 
andya700 said:
Sorry to hear about that Marc, I am struggling on, because my wife is still working (she retires next month thank goodness) and my collection of maladies, including the dreadful tremors (which get worse as the day goes on) makes planning and food prep with sharp knives a bit hairy. The smell of a lovely homemade Bouef Bourgignon or a lasagne makes it more than just worthwhile.
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Absolutely. We made Pastitsio last week and the smell of it cooking was awesome. Had the leftovers (from frozen) last night and it tasted even better.

Haven't had a store bought lasagna for a long time, but iirc, it doesn't smell of anything while it's in the oven. They also skimp on the meat, bulking it out with too many layers of pasta. When we make it, it's (from the bottom):

Ragu
Sauce
Pasta
Ragu
Sauce
Pasta
Ragu
Sauce
Parmesan

Only two layers of past required.
 
andya700 said:
Do you mind me asking, roughly what area your house is in, because I am a true Francophile, I absolutely love the place.
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It's in the Morvan national park, 71, about 20k from Autun: Cussy en Morvan. Bourgogne really, and so French + local colour. The are is lovely with managed woodland, hills and lakes, lots of streams and small rivers.
 
Any chance of a sample to go with my Islay single malt? :)
 
andya700 said:
I also think that a lot of people could learn to cook properly...
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I agree.

In the 1960s, one of the secondary schools I attended had compulsory cooking lessons for both girls and boys. It was very basic stuff, such as how to cook potatoes and so on. I don't know if schools currently have a similar policy.
 
ancient_mariner said:
It's in the Morvan national park, 71, about 20k from Autun: Cussy en Morvan. Bourgogne really, and so French + local colour. The are is lovely with managed woodland, hills and lakes, lots of streams and small rivers.
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Lovely place to be. We used to stay in the Beaune area, when we visited France and then take trips out to the Morvan (Autun) and the Beaujolais region. Stunning countryside, first class cuisine and don't get me started on the wines:)
 
AndrewFlannigan said:
I agree.

In the 1960s, one of the secondary schools I attended had compulsory cooking lessons for both girls and boys. It was very basic stuff, such as how to cook potatoes and so on. I don't know if schools currently have a similar policy.
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Sadly no, it was just the girls who did home economics, whilst we did woodwork and technical drawing.
 
andya700 said:
Sadly no, it was just the girls who did home economics, whilst we did woodwork and technical drawing.
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At the other two secondary schools I attended, that was the case also. :(
 
andya700 said:
Lovely place to be. We used to stay in the Beaune area, when we visited France and then take trips out to the Morvan (Autun) and the Beaujolais region. Stunning countryside, first class cuisine and don't get me started on the wines:)
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Beaune, Chalon sur Saone and other towns and villages in the area are fascinating. Wines are still good but food seems to have fallen off a cliff in France unless you spend substamtially in the evening. Sometimes you can find a great menu, but it's getting trickier, and ready meals are common in hypermarches now. The best food we've eaten was cooked by a friend and neighbour.

It's quite a poor area, and what was once busy with timber and agriculture is now heavily depopulated. The main street in the village was renamed Rue de l'Europe because of all the foreign nationals living there in maison secondaires, as well as Parisiens (2 of our immediate neighbours are both from Paris)
 
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andya700 said:
Sadly no, it was just the girls who did home economics, whilst we did woodwork and technical drawing.
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That was the case in my school too. I wanted to do cookery/home economics but wasn't allowed to. Not a bad cook though, thanks to Mum, Mrs Nod and a love of all aspects of eating!
 
Sunshine!!! Our day has been fully booked so we couldn't really get out to enjoy it but it's been nice to see a change from the recent total cloud cover.
 
ancient_mariner said:
Beaune, Chalon sur Saone and other towns and villages in the area are fascinating. Wines are still good but food seems to have fallen off a cliff in France unless you spend substamtially in the evening. Sometimes you can find a great menu, but it's getting trickier, and ready meals are common in hypermarches now. The best food we've eaten was cooked by a friend and neighbour.

It's quite a poor area, and what was once busy with timber and agriculture is now heavily depopulated. The main street in the village was renamed Rue de l'Europe because of all the foreign nationals living there in maison secondaires, as well as Parisiens (2 of our immediate neighbours are both from Paris)
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I agree about restaurant prices in France, but we did notice that the standard of the hypermarche ready meals was very high, although to be fair, the last few times we have booked apartments with kitchens and I quite like cooking, particularly given the quality of French fruit, veg, meat and fish. Just talking about it makes me want to book a trip away.
 
We're currently in the process of trying to move from a house to a bungalow. Not long after we put our house on the market, we went to view a bungalow that we'd had our eye on for a while and fell in love with it. So much so that we put an offer in for the asking price. We were told that the vendors would consider our offer once we have a buyer which is fair enough.

Fast forward a couple of weeks to yesterday and we received a call from their agent, asking how our sale was going and if we were still interested in the bungalow. We replied that we have a viewing this weekend and we're still very much interested. This morning, I looked on Rightmove and the bungelow has been removed. We emailed the agent and got a call straight away.

Turns out the vendors emailed the agent last night, asking them to take it off the market as they're happy to wait for us to sell our house and don't want any more viewings.

Now, this isn't our first rodeo, so to speak, so we know nothing's for certain at least until the contracts are exchanged, but it did brighten up our day, especially as I had to go for a CT scan.
 
Fingers crossed for you, Marc - for both the house sale/purchase and the CT scan results.
 
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