Yet Another Cycling Forum
Off Topic => The Pub => Food & Drink => Topic started by: hellymedic on 22 November, 2016, 12:09:49 am
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A guest to a gathering I hosted on Saturday brought some
Tesco 'Finest' hand cooked Cocoa and Spiced Rum flavoured potato crisps.
Not recommended :sick:
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I haven't had my first Stollen of the season yet, but Soontm. Not sure if I have the willpower to last until December or not.
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M&S have got some amazing winter berries and prosecco crisps. They're very tasty, actually fizzy and have gold glitter stars on them. What more do you need in life?
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On the other hand, I received an absolutely beautiful tray of Spanish clementines from Tesco.
This was a reusable hardboard tray containing at least a dozen huge, tasty fruit.
For £1.50...
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Bought the first mince pies in Waitrose today, while they're on offer at half price. :P
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I haven't had my first Stollen of the season yet, but Soontm. Not sure if I have the willpower to last until December or not.
Ooh, I need to make that delicious cherry stollen I made last year, again :P
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I had a Santa Paws at Brewdog on Friday. It was OK, a bit sweet.
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I had a Santa Paws at Brewdog on Friday. It was OK, a bit sweet.
I bought a couple of their Pumpkin Jack at knock down price a couple of weeks ago, spicy, pumpkin, nice
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I had a Santa Paws at Brewdog on Friday. It was OK, a bit sweet.
I bought a couple of their Pumpkin Jack at knock down price a couple of weeks ago, spicy, pumpkin, nice
I found two bottles of somewhat out-of-date Hoppy Christmas in the beer coffin. I know, out-of-date beer. The horror. I'm sure it won't kill me.
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Mikkeler Red and White Christmas :thumbsup: Obviously I had to get a second mortgage to afford it, but y'know.
And some half price Waitrose mince pies as was so kindly mentioned above...
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I had a Santa Paws at Brewdog on Friday. It was OK, a bit sweet.
I bought a couple of their Pumpkin Jack at knock down price a couple of weeks ago, spicy, pumpkin, nice
I found two bottles of somewhat out-of-date Hoppy Christmas in the beer coffin. I know, out-of-date beer. The horror. I'm sure it won't kill me.
I have a bottle of Fuller's Christmas ale from 2014 vintage, so about to see it's third Christmas this year. The bottle does not give a BB date :P
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I was in Belgium at the weekend (working). The guys I was working with took me out and insisted on buying me some beers including Gordon Xmas which whilst lovely is 8.8% - eek !!
Luckily they were merciful and only made me drink one of those.
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I have it on good authority (well, a chat with the head brewer) that Golden Pride's BB date is purely there for cosmetic effect.* I have a couple of the various Vintage Ales in my cupboard - maybe this Christmas I should do a taste test.
*Though there is presumably some limit - earlier this year I tried a Rochefort that was 16(!) years past its BB date, and it wasn't very nice. That might have been down to the cellaring, though - at the back of my F-i-L's garage for goodness knows how many years.
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Once upon a time (c2005), on arriving at the inlaws after a long and arduous train journey, we requested a refreshing beery beverage. Oh, I think we have some in the garage says the mother-in-law. Some minutes later she appears with two cans of Mansfield Bitter. Now I grew up in a town in which the pubs either stocked Mansfield or Kimberley, and I can vouch for the fact that both taste like canal water. The only real difference was that Kimberley probably was canal water. But still, it's beer, and canned nostalgia at that. So I took a big swig.
Pffffffffffftttttttttttttttttttttt!
Now I never remembered it tasting that bad. Eventually having recovered I looked at the best-before date on the bottom of the, come to think about it, rather vintage-looking can.
1977.
Some seriously literal nostalgia in that can. And probably botulin. They'd lifted a case from my wife's grandparent's pub back in the day and forgotten about it for nearly three decades.
The only plus is that they were so horrified that they now always have beer in the fridge when we visit.
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There's a bottle of 2013 or 2012 vintage Hoppy Xmas in the loft along with a couple of bottles of similar vintage Hello My Name Is SomethingOrOther. I'm sure they're still drinkable, I just need to make Mrs P is away at some point...
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Last weekend I had the Fierce brewery's festive offerings on tap at Brewdog: White Christmas and Black Christmas.
The White was very spicy (cinnamon, cardamom), the Black less so but more chocolatey.
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There's a bottle of 2013 or 2012 vintage Hoppy Xmas in the loft along with a couple of bottles of similar vintage Hello My Name Is SomethingOrOther. I'm sure they're still drinkable, I just need to make Mrs P is away at some point...
You keep your flippers off my beer! :hand:
Especially the Ingrid.
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There's a bottle of 2013 or 2012 vintage Hoppy Xmas in the loft along with a couple of bottles of similar vintage Hello My Name Is SomethingOrOther. I'm sure they're still drinkable, I just need to make Mrs P is away at some point...
You keep your flippers off my beer! :hand:
Especially the Ingrid.
This reminds me of when I saved up all the passion fruit yoghurts (back when I were living with the parents) and my mum ate the lot because she thought I didn't like them.
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This reminds me of when I saved up all the passion fruit yoghurts (back when I were living with the parents) and my mum ate the lot because she thought I didn't like them.
I had a mum like that: "I'm not buying any more $biscuits, you keep eating them!" >:(
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There's a bottle of 2013 or 2012 vintage Hoppy Xmas in the loft along with a couple of bottles of similar vintage Hello My Name Is SomethingOrOther. I'm sure they're still drinkable, I just need to make Mrs P is away at some point...
You keep your flippers off my beer! :hand:
Especially the Ingrid.
This reminds me of when I saved up all the passion fruit yoghurts (back when I were living with the parents) and my mum ate the lot because she thought I didn't like them.
It reminds of a certain chocolate situation.
Like mother like daughter ::-)
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There's a bottle of 2013 or 2012 vintage Hoppy Xmas in the loft along with a couple of bottles of similar vintage Hello My Name Is SomethingOrOther. I'm sure they're still drinkable, I just need to make Mrs P is away at some point...
They're not Hello My Name is SomethingOrOther, they're Hops Kill Nazis.
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There's a bottle of 2013 or 2012 vintage Hoppy Xmas in the loft along with a couple of bottles of similar vintage Hello My Name Is SomethingOrOther. I'm sure they're still drinkable, I just need to make Mrs P is away at some point...
They're not Hello My Name is SomethingOrOther, they're Hops Kill Nazis.
I'm prepared to share those ones... O:-)
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There's a bottle of 2013 or 2012 vintage Hoppy Xmas in the loft along with a couple of bottles of similar vintage Hello My Name Is SomethingOrOther. I'm sure they're still drinkable, I just need to make Mrs P is away at some point...
You keep your flippers off my beer! :hand:
Especially the Ingrid.
This reminds me of when I saved up all the passion fruit yoghurts (back when I were living with the parents) and my mum ate the lot because she thought I didn't like them.
It reminds of a certain chocolate situation.
Like mother like daughter ::-)
Many years ago I was saving all the crispy bits from a plate of chips - delayed gratification is such a middle-class thing. My mother nicked them all, with no justification that I'm aware of other than that she fancied them too.
I am still resentful. (We moved from the house where this occurred when I was six.)
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Currently succumbing to salt-, pepper-, onion- and lemon-seasoned pistachios. Have had to deploy clippers & 240-grit sanding disc several times to counteract Pistachio-Fancier's Thumbnail.
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Has anyone tried Heston's bacon and banana trifle?
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
From my Twitter feed, I present Boar's Head Chocolate Mint Dessert Hummus...
(https://pbs.twimg.com/media/DrwojjNVAAAQzLK.jpg:large)
The Hebrew caption was 'God Save us' but translated as 'name will keep'.
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"God help us" would be more appropriate!
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It's really not as bad as should be, it just tastes like chocolate spread.
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I suspected it might as chickpeas are pretty bland really.
Just seems so weird!
Anyway, who else has seen some 'interesting' offerings?
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Aldi have re-wrapped the hollow chocolate bunnies
of the apocalypse in their Rudolph foil again. Not particularly interesting, other than the blatantness of it.
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M&S are doing a pork pie with cranberries on the top, so far so standard but then - and this is the genius bit - a pig in blanket perched on top of that. Seasonal porky heaven !
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I always keep an eye out for Ecclefechan tarts, much better than your average mince pie.
https://www.epicurious.com/recipes/food/views/ecclefechan-tart-109500
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M&S are doing a pork pie with cranberries on the top, so far so standard but then - and this is the genius bit - a pig in blanket perched on top of that. Seasonal porky heaven !
I think over on Faceache someone commented on a 'pigs in blankets' pizza...
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
From my Twitter feed, I present Boar's Head Chocolate Mint Dessert Hummus...
Where can I buy this thing of wonder?! :o
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Ladies and Gentlemen:
From my Twitter feed, I present Boar's Head Chocolate Mint Dessert Hummus...
Where can I buy this thing of wonder?! :o
I think it might be hard to source in the UK TBH. All the links I followed were American.
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American, eh? No wonder chocolate mint dessert hummus is even a thing, then.
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Chocolate mint sounds too healthy. I recommend both the brownie batter and snickerdoodle dessert hummuses to the more discerning palates. If I recall, you can get them in UK Whole Foods Markets.
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Snickerdoodle - is that a chocolate and peanut bar shaped like a bichon frise?
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Sadly not, more properly it's just a cookie sprinkled with cinnamon sugar. I'd skip the hummus and just eat the cookies, tbh.
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Good thinking.
There's a time and a place for cookies, and there's a time and a place for hummus, but not at the same time and place.
Unless you are doing a niche re-booting of the fridge scene from 9 1/2 Weeks... :demon:
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46573052/pigs-in-blankets-turned-into-ice-cream-at-hitchin-parlour (https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-beds-bucks-herts-46573052/pigs-in-blankets-turned-into-ice-cream-at-hitchin-parlour)
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https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/dec/15/supermarket-chefs-christmas-creations-giant-pig-in-blanket (https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/dec/15/supermarket-chefs-christmas-creations-giant-pig-in-blanket)
Foot long sausage/bacon combo I can see the place for that, but profitercoals FFS? Heston seems to be on a downcurve these days.
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https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/dec/15/supermarket-chefs-christmas-creations-giant-pig-in-blanket (https://www.theguardian.com/food/2018/dec/15/supermarket-chefs-christmas-creations-giant-pig-in-blanket)
Foot long sausage/bacon combo I can see the place for that,
As endorsed by Ron Swanson. "Give me all of the bacon..." :demon:
but profitercoals FFS?
Reminds me of the black burgers that Mcdonalds and Burger King were selling a few years back, and yep, WTAF?:
https://web.archive.org/web/20150507141411/http://gawker.com/i-ate-burger-king-japans-black-cheeseburger-and-the-mcd-1642725148
Heston seems to be on a downcurve these days.
After that Christmas pud, the only way was down... ;)
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Boxing Day pie.
Bottom layer is traditional pork filling then a layer of apricots then a layer of chicken.
That was rather splendid. Didn't last until Boxing Day though :(
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Aldi have Greek Style Mince Pie Yogurt, I didn't get any and now wish I had...
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Aldi have Greek Style Mince Pie Yogurt, I didn't get any and now wish I had...
tried this last week, I found it over sweet & didn't taste that much of mince pie. I much prefered the one they did last christmas which I can't remember what it was called but has bits of clementine & a winter spice flavour
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Went shopping today, just our normal eatables, I had to hunt for longer cause these crimbo specials have moved the items we normally eat to somewhere else. This is my biggest hate of supermarkets, they fecking move stuff about so I have spend longer in them ...
What I noticed too, the panic people where in, we NEED this and NEED that, parents snapping at kids taking too long to find what parent requested. People stopping dead to look at the new crimbo flavoured X and just grabbing things of the shelves.
Someone said on twitter, if we panic like this for two days off, how is March and April 2019 gonna look.