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11 hours ago, IAN123. said:
I see the news broke their arse to stress "the alledged terror attacker today was a british national"...Grr!!
So the the cyclists and pedestrians run over by this evil cretin..have alledged injuries..why all this pusstfooting?..
I bet his name ain't JohnSmith.
No, it ain't John Smith, he goes by the traditional English name of Salih Khater https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-45193781
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52 minutes ago, nonnaB said:
Don't think they'd get away with stuffing mushroom stalks into snail shells in Italy. Even with a strong garlic taste you'd still taste the mushrooms.I don't like them , I love the taste but not the texture.
3That trick is usually reserved for the English holidaymakers who wouldn't know any better.
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18 minutes ago, nonnaB said:
Its like visitors to a foreign country complain when the locals don't speak English. There's more foreigners speak English than foreigners speak a second language.
Such as the family from Rochdale who I wrote about a couple of months ago. They were desperate to find someone who spoke their lingo properly. Rather than even attempting to speak French, they were in a whirlpool of their own making in refusing to do so.
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Difficult to say from a picture.
There's not always a substitution sometimes they are real, other times it is a chicken fillet with a rib bone pushed along the meat.
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The maggot cheese that Brenda mentioned is probably a Corsican cheese called casgiu merzu or casu marzu in Sardinia. I tasted it once during a visit to Corsica. It didn't get very far into my mouth before it was rapidly ejected. The feel of the maggots wriggling about in my mouth was just too much. I have to admit, though, that the flavour of the residues of the cheese was very nice but much improved by the wine used to remove the traces of maggot.
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I would eat horse more often but it is too expensive.
Regarding frogs legs, the things served to tourists as grenouille in restaurants down here are often small chicken breast fillets (just as escargots are mushroom stalks stuffed into a snail shell).
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There is nothing intrinsically wrong in eating cats or dogs or monkeys or budgies (although I understand they are a bit tough) or rats or mice or guinea pigs or almost any animal. It is merely a social convention that certain creatures are taboo.
Rabbits and hares are very popular around here, especially the latter stewed for hours in red wine and vegetables (carrots, onions, celery garlic etc.) together with a small amount of chocolate - real chocolate not that Dairy Milk muck.
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Too many Spanish in a Spanish hotel
https://metro.co.uk/2018/08/13/holiday-spain-ruined-many-spaniards-spanish-hotel-7832699/
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1 hour ago, katyjay said:
Whatever the occasion is, they have removed their hats, all but one man. In the days of everyone wearing a hat, it is an unusual photo.
Does the lack of hats by the menfolk (but not the few women in the parade) indicate a funeral procession?
Is there a cemetery or churchyard behind the stone wall, extreme left?
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American tourists seem to enjoy it.
When I was at People's College there were groups of students (including me, sometimes) who would bunk off afternoon lectures and hang around the castle entrance soliciting Americans to show them around the area.
There was no charge for us doing this but we always ended up with cash - usually dollars - as a tip.
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Must be that the Green Un didn't extend as far as the wilds of Hucknall. By the time I was living full time in the City (mid/late 60's), I don't think either of those publications existed.
I do remember the Evening Post was published in several editions throughout the day (seven o'clock, or was that seventh edition? being the most popular). Does that still happen?
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51 minutes ago, Commo said:
Nowt to do wi the Square, but as well as The Pink`Un, am I imagining it, but was there also a Green`Un on Saturday?
I remember The Pink Un.
As a child, I was regularly taken to the pictures on a Saturday evening. Usually, it was the Scala in Hucknall (Annesley Road, opposite the billiard rooms and National School, long, long gone). The Scala had separate queues for the Downstairs and for the balcony (the posh seats). There was always a news seller there and on a Saturday he would be selling The Football Post. He would patrol the two queues shouting "Pink Un, Pink Un" but when he reached the queue for the balcony he would change his shout to a singular "Pink One" and then quickly retreat to the downstairs queue with "Pink Un. Pink Un".
I don't recall a Green Un (or even Green One).
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Leo McKern - perfect as Rumpole of the Bailey.
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Is the Oz Bovril made by Unilever, do you know? Or is some other company cashing in on the name (ex-pats, for instance)?
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Regarding Bovril. Is that ingredient listing for the Oz version of the product? I seem to remember that Unilever tried removing the beef content from Bovril only to be met with protests from aficionados complaining that it had turned Marmite-like and lost all of its characteristic "beefiness". Unilever reverted to the real beef content version after being faced with rapidly falling sales.
I've not seen Bovril per se in France but according to the current Tesco UK website, Bovril comprises:
Beef Broth (50%) [Water, Beef Bones], Yeast Extract (27%) [contains Barley, Wheat, Oats, Rye], Salt, Water, Colour (Ammonia Caramel), Corn Starch, Beef Powder (1%) , Flavour Enhancers (Disodium Inosinate, Disodium Guanylate), Acid (Lactic Acid), Flavourings (contain Celery).
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Today is nice and warm and sunny, temperature about 30 deg. There was enough rain yesterday to give the ground a good soaking but nothing disastrous as there was a bit further west.
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I was born in 1945 and I remember Pearces from before I started school to well in my secondary school days. Don't what happened after that, or why the company had slipped completely from my memory.
Thinking back now, I recall a school sports day held on the rec. on Linby Lane (actually Linby Road) where there was an altercation between Buckleys (who were on the rec. and had the contract to supply) and Pearces who wanted to be there but had to supply from the roadside.
This was the occasion us kids found a block of dry ice at the back of the ice cream van (don't know whose, but it doesn't matter) and we had a great time breaking bits off and chucking it into the puddles that were around and producing huge clouds.
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Pearces Ice Cream. That's a name that had completely dropped from my memory. I even remember that poster now.
Pearces used to be rivals with Buckleys in Hucknall with their travelling ice cream businesses.
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I'm not familiar with any of them. It's just that I was told about Francis and how dreadful he was as an entertainer.
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Isn't Lea Francis the name of some dreck comedian AKA Keith Lemon or Bo Selecta?
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Tree shakers (rather than bashers) are very common here for gathering olives and, to a lesser extent, the local bigarade oranges.
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I remember when Pork Farms first started. The vans and street hoardings announced "This Is A Pork Pie Area" - no mention of the word "Farms" - this appeared later, added via a caret so it seemed to be an afterthought.
They had a shop in Hucknall at the corner of Watnall Road and the High Street - where Proctor's jewellers used to be, next door to May Bullen's, Newsagents. At the time, I thought their products were really good and tasty. In fact, I thought that all the time I lived in Hucknall and Nottingham.
When I was in the UK last Christmas I noticed in Chichester Sainsbury's that Pork Farms Pork Pies were still available. I indulged myself and bought one. What a disappointment!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Far from being a full of flavour meaty treat, the pie was an abomination of rock hard pastry, NO jelly and tasteless fatty meat. As happens so often, a superior local brand loses all character and quality when taken over by some big conglomerate.
I should add that I gave some of the pie to my carer to try. Bearing in mind he is French and used to eating all sorts of strange things, he spat it out and declared it as inedible.
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Great!!! Thanks for that. It's coming back to me now.
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There is a fair amount of suggestion on the forum regarding underhand dealings by "those in authority" on the council and the like and I am wondering if there is concrete evidence (legal records etc) that this actually took place. I am more than prepared to accept that it did and I remember a scandal involving the Chief Constable, Popkess, which happened around the late 50's - 60's.
Also, is my memory correct in thinking that a Director of Education (I think for the county, not city) killed himself by jumping under a tube train in London?
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You Couldn't Make this Up !
in Owt' Abaaht Nowt !
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Regarding the Morendi Bridge disaster. I obviously have deep sympathy for all those who have been, and are, suffering from it but (and this is probably not the right time to be querying this) what are those in charge doing about it?