Author Topic: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 514961 times)

spesh · « **Reply #2425 on:** 31 December, 2017, 09:07:45 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 31 December, 2017, 08:26:02 pm

I'm quite fond of Serrano ham, but a 2.7Kg piece of the stuff as a present ? I'm a single chap & don't entertain much. I'm going to be eating this until Easter!

And "keep in a cool place & do not refrigerate" ? That's going to work well in my tiny open plan flat! I guess I could hang it outside, the seagulls would have a field day....

Or you could channel your inner Hogfather and give chunks of it away.

nicknack · « **Reply #2426 on:** 08 January, 2018, 06:56:24 pm »

I'm not entirely sure if this counts as a "food thing", but anyway...
I had my first Starbucks "coffee" the other day.
It was shit.

SteveC · « **Reply #2427 on:** 08 January, 2018, 07:54:02 pm »

Quote from: nicknack on 08 January, 2018, 06:56:24 pm

I'm not entirely sure if this counts as a "food thing", but anyway...
I had my ~~first~~ last Starbucks "coffee" the other day.
It was shit.

FTFY (or I hope I have!)

Paul · « **Reply #2428 on:** 09 January, 2018, 11:30:17 pm »

Quote from: andrewc on 31 December, 2017, 08:26:02 pm

I'm quite fond of Serrano ham, but a 2.7Kg piece of the stuff as a present ? I'm a single chap & don't entertain much. I'm going to be eating this until Easter!

And "keep in a cool place & do not refrigerate" ? That's going to work well in my tiny open plan flat! I guess I could hang it outside, the seagulls would have a field day....

If you tell me where you are I'll bring bread, wine, oil, salt and garlic and help you out of this mess.

nicknack · « **Reply #2429 on:** 10 January, 2018, 10:28:23 am »

Quote from: SteveC on 08 January, 2018, 07:54:02 pm

Quote from: nicknack on 08 January, 2018, 06:56:24 pm
I'm not entirely sure if this counts as a "food thing", but anyway...
I had my ~~first~~ last Starbucks "coffee" the other day.
It was shit.
FTFY (or I hope I have!)

Jurek · « **Reply #2430 on:** 11 January, 2018, 01:03:12 pm »

I've just eaten a bowl of Pea N'Ham soup which I defrosted yesterday, having made on Dec 23rd, chilled it rapidly and then frozen it.

That's Dec 2016......

ian · « **Reply #2431 on:** 11 January, 2018, 01:50:52 pm »

I ate some best-before Dec 2016 Ready Brek on Monday (last weekend was the annual toast-to-porridge switchover on Planet ian).

They weren't lying.

Kim · « **Reply #2432 on:** 11 January, 2018, 01:55:12 pm »

What's the half-life of Ready Brek anyway?

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2433 on:** 11 January, 2018, 03:54:21 pm »

Quote from: Kim on 11 January, 2018, 01:55:12 pm

What's the half-life of Ready Brek anyway?

You tell us. You're known for being only half alive before breakfast!

hellymedic · « **Reply #2434 on:** 11 January, 2018, 04:18:25 pm »

Do you want your kids to glow in the dark?

ian · « **Reply #2435 on:** 11 January, 2018, 04:33:13 pm »

I know, I was disappointed that it had decayed so soon. I expected to hang around for a couple of thousand years but other than some sundry vitamins, it's just oats and oat flour. No exotic isotopes of our favourite elements. Not a hint of transuranic perkiness. No positrons, gamma rays, or bubbly little alpha particles. I like radiation. I one poked a nuclear reactor with a stick (honest, but it wouldn't be bragging to say it was a long, long stick).

Anyway, despite being unopened it was stale enough not to be edible, not even with a substantial dose of blueberry syrup.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2436 on:** 11 January, 2018, 04:36:23 pm »

Suspect the oils go rancid. Doubt that's harmful but tastes meh.

citoyen · « **Reply #2437 on:** 15 January, 2018, 11:41:41 pm »

Icelandic lobster soup is my new favourite thing.

Torslanda · « **Reply #2438 on:** 16 January, 2018, 12:43:20 am »

A geothermally heated bisque with added volcanic rock...?

citoyen · « **Reply #2439 on:** 16 January, 2018, 08:17:05 am »

Pretty much that - would probably explain why it’s so salty.

ian · « **Reply #2440 on:** 16 January, 2018, 08:45:51 am »

Quote from: hellymedic on 11 January, 2018, 04:36:23 pm

Suspect the oils go rancid. Doubt that's harmful but tastes meh.

I didn't die. I have some Waitrose porridge now to go with my blueberry syrup now (and live blueberries). I'm tempted to make pancakes but I'm mostly too lazy (and supposed to be working) in the morning. I'll be in Philadelphia in a couple of days, someone there can make pancakes for me, on every trip to the US I have to have pancakes once, by the end of which I've reached maximum stodge for the rest of my visit (and the subsequent month).

hellymedic · « **Reply #2441 on:** 19 January, 2018, 03:23:27 pm »

Partner has just returned home from Costa in Brent Civic Centre, Wembley.

He wanted TEA with cold milk but they served his TEA with hot milk.

He is unimpressed.

T42 · « **Reply #2442 on:** 19 January, 2018, 04:21:23 pm »

Must have been a French teaperson, then. Here it's usually made with water at 80°C and if you just ask for milk they steam-heat it for you. It's usually budgie-piss Lipton's Yellow, too.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2443 on:** 19 January, 2018, 05:16:14 pm »

I think he would grudgingly accepted that sort of excuse for TEA in a more FOREIGN location but in a Costa attached to a BRITISH Civic Centre, he was disappointed.

T42 · « **Reply #2444 on:** 20 January, 2018, 09:08:32 am »

Foreign name, though.

Pingu · « **Reply #2445 on:** 26 January, 2018, 04:32:55 pm »

First world problem: leaving your stroopwafel too long and ending up with a soggy, coffee-flavoured caramel wafer.

mllePB · « **Reply #2446 on:** 26 January, 2018, 07:55:21 pm »

Latest Brummie delight

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Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2447 on:** 29 January, 2018, 10:42:25 am »

Some enterprising Indian is bound to introduce that to India. I reckon it'll be a hit there, like chapati with jam is. The chocolate stout might not transfer so well.

Legs · « **Reply #2448 on:** 31 January, 2018, 12:23:41 pm »

What is the point of unsmoked bacon? I'd eat it in extremis, but it's just not as good as the smoked stuff, is it?

ian · « **Reply #2449 on:** 31 January, 2018, 12:27:18 pm »

Not it isn't, but curiously every greasy spoon I go to seems to only have unsmoked bacon and the server looks at me like I'm some kind of libertine hipster every time I ask for it.

Mind you, I also ask for poached eggs. One day I might ask, you know, whether they have some smashed avocado to go with that.