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Antje77 said:
See, threads like this bring us all kinds of useful information!
Did you know herrings communicate through farts?
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So if you’re scuba diving and see a herring . . .
 
Antje77 said:
You could try to talk to him in his language...
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Just don’t say rollmop. What’s the Dutch/Flemish for that? Having written rollmop, I must add them to next week’s shopping list. Wish I had them in the larder now.
 
Oh what have I started. A rollmop, or rolmop fest is underway. All your fault really @Antje77, we’ll be hunting supplies and opening the jars. Do we need anything else? Tell us some Dutch delights we should search for. Please. I do know they may still be stuck at Felixstowe but it’s good to have a goal in life.[/USER]
 
The etymology, it’s delightful! Rol, to roll; mop, a german pug dog. Related to hotdogs?
 
Fairygodmother said:
Oh what have I started. A rollmop, or rolmop fest is underway. All your fault really @Antje77, we’ll be hunting supplies and opening the jars. Do we need anything else? Tell us some Dutch delights we should search for. Please. I do know they may still be stuck at Felixstowe but it’s good to have a goal in life.[/USER]
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Am I the only one who doesn't like rolmops?
I love herring when it's Hollanse Nieuwe though, which judging from the expats in this Dutch course is something exclusively Dutch! :hilarious:
I like smoked herring too. :)

 
Anyone else found there's no crisps of ANY sort in the supermarket? Ok it's not a big Tesco's or Sainsbury's, but it's a fair size. You can normally manage to get your weekly shopping there quite well with an occasional visit to a bigger supermarket. Oh, and they also had a very empty toilet roll aisle again. Crisps I can live without, but toilet rolls ...... mmh!! Could be fun!!
 
Hopeful34 said:
Anyone else found there's no crisps of ANY sort in the supermarket? Ok it's not a big Tesco's or Sainsbury's, but it's a fair size. You can normally manage to get your weekly shopping there quite well with an occasional visit to a bigger supermarket. Oh, and they also had a very empty toilet roll aisle again. Crisps I can live without, but toilet rolls ...... mmh!! Could be fun!!
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Thanks.
I love, love, love crisps before bed (especially cheese and onion) but I found it impossible to dose for as they tend to come back at me with a bit fat spike some 4 or 5 hours later when I'm fast asleep. So I don't eat them anymore.
And now I want crisps.

If given the choice between unlimited TP for the rest of my life but never again crisps, or being able to eat crisps without messing up my BG's but never using TP again I'd have a hard time choosing to be honest...
I'm rather sure I could find a way to work around the no TP situation if it meant eating crisps all worry free! :D

As it is, I might find myself without TP or crisps, how did that get into the equation?
 
I'm lucky to live close to a small supermarket and other small shops, and a number of shops and a bigger Iceland supermarket about half a mile away.

So I've never short of choice, but I have noticed since about the time brexit happened.
A lot of shelves are empty, and the biggest problem we have here is delivery drivers.
You can guarantee that something you want off the shelves, is always vacant.
Which of course you have to explain why it's not in the shopping bag. I never thought that I would be writing about shopping, never mind actually shopping.

Anyway when I ventured abroad to the near continent, namely, Belgium, Netherlands and Germany. One of the things we liked to test was the local delicacies and one of the not so unusual was the jar of Apple sauce, that was quickly emptied by the locals and the generous donations of chocolate, that somehow would appear on the table.
Then there's the lunch in a German factory. Zwei bier bitte!! And lots of sausage.
But for me it was the desserts. And of course Belgian chocolate made in front of you.
I could go on but I need to stop thinking about food.

Every Tuesday my father had for his tea, a north of England delicacy called 'tripe'.
With onions of course!
I preferred another delight called 'peawack'!!
Every weekend, if you went to the local hostility (pub) the pub would be selling this with a bread batch to soak up the residue at the bottom of the bowl. This is otherwise called pea and ham soup. But that doesn't describe the art of getting the thickness and the right ingredients the delicious taste demands.
You can always tell that the bowlful you get is good, because you need to be early enough before it all goes. When the other half makes a huge panful, for some reason the kids always find a reason to visit with the grandkids.

This is a good thread, maybe tell you of my first experience of very fresh, full fat Greek yogurt. Also some of my favourite Greek dishes......
 
Lamont D said:
Every Tuesday my father had for his tea, a north of England delicacy called 'tripe'.
With onions of course!
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My mum loved tripe, but oh the smell of it cooking was enough to put me off for life!! I can "smell" it now eugh!! The onions were fine, but the tripe, no thanks.
 
Lamont D said:
Every Tuesday my father had for his tea, a north of England delicacy called 'tripe'.
With onions of course!
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Of course.

Sorry for being sarcastic but tripe must be the most offensive piece of a cows innards to be sold. I have seen that stuff before it got processed once, and if seen you would swear off of it as I have

But, but if you want to make chicken pies with a higher profit margin, use a third tripe flesh in with the rest of the chicken pies mix. Make sure sure it's not the honeycomb bit in with the.chicken or even tinned. crab meat.
Lamont D said:
Then there's the lunch in a German factory. Zwei bier bitte!! And lots of sausage.
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Sounds like a great place to have a bier or drei. I like that German sausage called Bratwurst with that nice German mustard on it. We had a German club where I used to live a fair while ago, that did a good feed of them at Oktoberfest that was held every year there.
 
I agree about the tripe @Riva Roxaban. If anyone ever asks if there’s anything I won’t eat, the answer’s always tripe. That and jellied eels. The peawack sounds good. Ironically the first time I had sweetbread, aged 15, I thought it was the food of the gods, little did I know that five years later . . .
 
Antje77 said:
No idea really.
But if I delete it now you won't see my reply, which doesn't seem fair!

Are you bored enough to report this nonsense thread (with lies too!) to give my colleagues something to do?
Why are there fireworks where you live?
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Just in case it looked as though I was having a sulk, and not responding, my mitigating circumstances: Right after my last post in this thread, I was ‘frozen out’ in that I was not able to login. For three whole days! I am guessing that was just a coincidence. ;);):hilarious::bag::arghh:

Of course, I was able to read, just not contribute. Very humbling. In my solitude I did consider the rules , and @Antje77 , you have not transgressed. :). In fact, were my post to be misunderstood, and you thought I was criticising, you could do me with a C10. :bag::bag:. “10. Creating forum content, with the intent of criticising Moderators will not be tolerated.” Or even C12 “Entering a discussion to belittle or discredit someone”.
Though I assure you, that was not my intention. :angelic:

At this point, I am not to proud to grovel, and admit it is a very interesting thread indeed. Just the right amount of frivolity with a touch of educating, random facts.
It could fact become one of my favourite threads if it continues in the same way. :D
Don’t delete the thread, pleeeeeze.
 
Ps. I was disappointed that we couldn’t chastise a mod who had admitted to telling lies.
;):hilarious:
 
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