What's for dinner ?
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Beachlover
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I'm following the advice of a now deceased Island woman, who'd tell her kids it's "Iffits" for dinner. "If it's" in the fridge then that's for dinner. Come to think about it, the same may well apply to the drinks cabinet tonight. 
MaC
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Funny you should say that; tonight was a 'I'm using up' sort of dinner. Himself wanted eggs, fine, but me and Son2 aren't that keen on eggs. So he got his eggs, and I cooked up the almost empty bags of stuff from the freezer; hash browns, peas, mozzarella sticks, and fried up some tomatoes and big chestnut mushrooms to go with it. Opened a jar of red pesto to use with it.
For freezer food, it was actually quite tasty
I'm munching on dried mango now
For freezer food, it was actually quite tasty
I'm munching on dried mango now
MaC
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Hear ? meant to say, Home Bargains are selling a four pack of Babycham for £2.49.....I reckon that that's cheaper than it was when I was a teenager
So, in the interests of a blast from the past I bought a pack.
Yep, it's still Babycham, it's still sweet and easy drinking.
Not classy, not fancy or anything posh, but still quite pleasant. Like Merrydown really.
M
So, in the interests of a blast from the past I bought a pack.
Yep, it's still Babycham, it's still sweet and easy drinking.
Not classy, not fancy or anything posh, but still quite pleasant. Like Merrydown really.
M
Jaggededge
Explorer
Hope you've been down the charity shop to get some genuine babycham glasses. Every home used to have them.
MaC
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Jaggededge
Explorer
Heathen.
BorderReiver
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MaC
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Well, to be honest, babycham just tastes like juice, and I quite happily have that in my mug.
I do have really nice glasses, ringing crystal, etc., silver tassies and quaichs, but the mug's right there, it fits it's wee matching coaster, it wasn't as though I was quaffing forty year old single malt.
I think you ought to try beer out of the big coffee mug, after all, that's all a tankard really is; a big mug. Doesn't get slippy with condensation and the handle's a good grip
I do have really nice glasses, ringing crystal, etc., silver tassies and quaichs, but the mug's right there, it fits it's wee matching coaster, it wasn't as though I was quaffing forty year old single malt.
I think you ought to try beer out of the big coffee mug, after all, that's all a tankard really is; a big mug. Doesn't get slippy with condensation and the handle's a good grip
We taste with our eyes and noses as well; If it doesn't look 'right' then it won't taste right, different materials smell different or direct smells differently etc
Nice65
Explorer
Burger and wine doesn’t fucking look ‘right’.
Burger and wine doesn’t fucking look ‘right’.
can’t argue with that!
MaC
Moderator
Y'know ? that's just what we did as girls. It was safe, it was at least as clean as pub tumblers, no one could add anything to it. It wasn't a big drink, it was easy to sip and could be abandoned without thinking it a waste if necessary.
I actually thought about drinking it from the bottle, but decided I'd grown up
Look lads, it's Babycham, it's cheap sweet plonk.
I drank it like juice with my dinner, so it went in a mug. I could have found a tumbler, but really
My mug's fine 'see through' white china, it showed off the colour, the sparkle, etc., quite nicely. Honestly it was no different than drinking elderflower cordial.
Jaggededge
Explorer
You don't have to justify yourself to us just because you lowered yourself to rank of vagrant.
BorderReiver
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Funnily enough I had that pointed out when I was on a trip to Canada; I ordered a Burger and a glass of red, the waitress looked shocked and said " Wine with a burger!?"Burger and wine doesn’t fucking look ‘right’.
Chacun a son gout.
Saint-Just
Administrator
There's nothing wrong with red wine. It's the burger bit that ia a faux pas 
Why do you need to have your meat pre-chewed?
Why do you need to have your meat pre-chewed?
MaC
Moderator
There's nothing wrong with red wine. It's the burger bit that ia a faux pas
Why do you need to have your meat pre-chewed?
To quote my husband while eating a pigeon breast and venison burger....."This is really good
it just melts in the mouth, full of taste, easy eating. Are there more ?"." Wine with a burger!?"
I think that may be a class thing, or at least regional. Vancouver's poverty-stricken bourgeoisie see the BBQ'd burger as a cipher of owning a second house (lake-side), their dreamed youth and a touch point of the Canadian dream. A stroll round the park and a stop in a moderately up-market, rusticated restaurant for a burger and big fat glass of red is absolutely the normal way of covering the rather more miserable economic reality of the place. In Toronto too, and Calgary. Possibly not in Montreal
BorderReiver
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We were on the Parkway side of the country.I think that may be a class thing, or at least regional. Vancouver's bourgeoisie see the BBQ'd burger as a cipher of owning a second house (lake-side), their dreamed youth and a touch point of the Canadian dream. A stroll round the park and a stop in a restaurant for a burger and big fat glass of red is absolutely normal. In Toronto too, and Calgary. Possibly not in Montreal
Saint-Just
Administrator
Yes, for the elderly who can’t chew, I get it.To quote my husband while eating a pigeon breast and venison burger....."This is really good
But for those who can?
Both pigeon and venison need to be rare. Mincing both meats not only destroy the texture but also dries them during cooking. You can work around part of the damage, but why?
Minced meats have their place in pies for example. But on their own in a burger? Lesser cuts like brisket why not, as the meat is tasteful but the texture is hard. But most burgers are not made with tasteful cuts.
Never mind, it’s what Americans do so it’s only fair it’s popular here.