Apparently a consignment of lard has washed-up in Scotland.
Storms over the east coast have resulted in several unusual relics from World War II washing up on an Angus beach.
Staff at St Cyrus nature reserve said four large, barrel-shaped pieces of lard have appeared on the shore.
The fat is believed to have escaped from the [...]
Posts under ‘Food’
Lard of the Glen.
I thought I’d died and gone to Hebburn…
A few days ago I was in the local Co-op buying bleech or some such. Anyhows, they have an area manager in and he is uttering the latest diktat. The woman on the till is astonished, gob-smacked by it. It went like this…
“You have to stock aubergines - tell Terry*.”
“But, but… what do you ever [...]
Scrumpy
RAB’s posting below, with it’s prominent promotion of scrumpy, reminds me of the first time I ever had the pleasure of scoffing the stuff.
It was in about 1981, I was newly arrived in England and was still in sightseeing mode. One Sunday afternoon I went up to the British Museum to have a captains, and [...]
How times change…
I have been re-organizing stuff round here (decorating) and found a slim volume aimed at gels from the typing pool in their first gaff. It’s called, “Cooking in a Bedsitter” by Katherine Whitehorn. First published in 1961 this “New and Fully Revised Edition” dates from 1982 [it was probs anachronistic then].
Here is a sample [...]
Complete and utter Bollocks Study of the Week Pt 69.
But bloody nice try guys!
This is the study that all us fellas would absolutely love to be true, but it’s the usual crapola based on statistical insignificance and wishful thinking.
But come on ladies, it might be true, think of all the expensive shit you shovel on your faces in the hope of beating wrinkles, the [...]
Culture and food…
Last year I went on two foreign jaunts. The first was to Turkey and the second to a small town in Poland (Silesia). Well, one country is essentially Muslim (though technically secular and I hope shall remain so despite the government there going mental and banning things like elective C-sections for some reason).
Anyway! Food! And [...]
Damn you for offering us food choice
A visit from SAoT’s matriarch meant that she and Mrs SAoT were watching the Beeboid last night. After the usual ‘the Olympics is great’ type show tediously explaining the finer points of swimming and something about volcanoes, there was this utterly vile North Korean type thing called “the men who made us fat” or something.
There had [...]
I do not care if Joseph had a long coat of many colours or a long sleeved coat - he was a very naughty man.
Athiests tend to regard religion as unimportant (some athiests are actually obessed with religion - but they are a weird minority of athiests), but actually it is very important.
For example Marxism has long used the Heaven-on-Earth promise (it is a lot older than Marxism - indeed it is often called “the oldest heresy”) and the [...]
The Plate of the Red Death!
From The Telegraph: Red meat is blamed for one in 10 early deaths!
I note the rather oddly passive phrasing of that.
The Department of Health was last night urged to review its guidance on red meat after a study found that eating almost half the daily recommended amount can significantly increase the risk of dying [...]
Vat Burger
Well, there finally seems to be a head of steam behind artificial meat. Time indeed will tell if this is economic nonsense - certainly they’ll have to do an unprecedented number on getting production costs down because this stuff ain’t exactly going to be competing with a bit of genuine Aberdeen Angus any time soonish. [...]
Obesity Epidemic?
One of the things in the press that annoys me no end is the idea that Britain is in the rip of an “obesity epidemic”. now the first thing to say is obesity is not communicable so the word “epidemic” is inappropriate anyway but what really annoys me is that over the last few years [...]
Captain Carrot!
I guess I have written loads of stuff here on a whole variety of subjects ranging from war and peace to aviation and buses. I have written on religion and politics, on culture both contemporary and esoteric. I have even dabbled in the dismal science of economics and yet something was always missing…
Well it [...]
Not shallot of people have heard this…
… Yes it’s the Vegetable Orchestra of Vienna.
They’re having a go at the oranges now…
Following on from the cucumbers of (non)-calamity and the beansprouts of buggeration we now have the orange juice of obesity.
MILLIONS of people are putting their health at risk after research showed that natural fruit juice is so packed with sugar it can be addictive.
Drinking just two glasses a day could give people a “sweet tooth”, [...]
