Author Topic: A random thread for food things that don't really warrant a thread of their own (Read 514923 times)

hellymedic · « **Reply #2500 on:** 15 May, 2018, 10:16:10 pm »

Sainsbury's own 'new' mango chutney is a disappointment: thin, sugary, salty but lacking acidity, pungency and spiciness.

I WANT GEETA'S!

Jakob W · « **Reply #2501 on:** 16 May, 2018, 01:46:43 pm »

Geeta's is indeed the best. Both Tesco and Asda stock it round my way; worth asking your other half to take a look when he's out and about?

hellymedic · « **Reply #2502 on:** 16 May, 2018, 02:02:33 pm »

No. Tesco has closed and the massive ASDA is so horrible that asking him to visit would risk his ire.

We will have to wait until Sainsbury's actually supply the stuff. [FWP]

hellymedic · « **Reply #2503 on:** 20 May, 2018, 03:48:52 pm »

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/av/uk-england-norfolk-44175205/royal-wedding-celebrated-with-battered-fruit-cake

hellymedic · « **Reply #2504 on:** 22 May, 2018, 12:04:37 am »

The Geeta's, it has arrived!!!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2505 on:** 29 May, 2018, 04:29:55 pm »

I've just had some yogurt which describes itself as "Fig and date yogurt with sunflower seeds, cereals and grains." So what's the difference between cereals and grains? They're the same thing aren't they? The full ingredients are listed as: yogurt, water, unrefined cane sugar, figs, sunflower seeds, dates, jumbo oat flakes, oat groats, barley flakes, buckwheat. Curious as to which of those it considers "cereals" and which "grains". Or is it just that it looks better with more words? Also curious to see the word "groats"; sounds Dickensian!

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2506 on:** 29 May, 2018, 06:02:41 pm »

As long as it is groats and not gruts.

citoyen · « **Reply #2507 on:** 29 May, 2018, 06:06:04 pm »

I think buckwheat might be a cereal that isn't a grain, but I'm not really sure. I don't think I could tell you what the distinction is.

Groats are the whole seeds, as opposed to porridge oats, which are usually rolled.

Either way, it sounds like an incredibly poncey yoghurt!

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2508 on:** 29 May, 2018, 06:57:57 pm »

I suppose it does sound rather poncey, but it was actually pretty tasty. And not poncily priced either.

ian · « **Reply #2509 on:** 30 May, 2018, 05:01:44 am »

Quote from: citoyen on 29 May, 2018, 06:06:04 pm

I think buckwheat might be a cereal that isn't a grain, but I'm not really sure. I don't think I could tell you what the distinction is.

Groats are the whole seeds, as opposed to porridge oats, which are usually rolled.

Either way, it sounds like an incredibly poncey yoghurt!

Sort of, cereals are specifically grass seeds. Buckwheat isn't a grass (it's related to sorrel and rhubarb) so in usage is a pseudocereal (as is quinoa). Grains are just anything small and, well, grainy.

Sounds like a posher bircher muesli thing like what I eat for breakfast sometimes.

T42 · « **Reply #2510 on:** 30 May, 2018, 07:12:55 am »

Fig & date yoghurt with birdseed.

citoyen · « **Reply #2511 on:** 30 May, 2018, 07:48:57 am »

Quote from: Cudzoziemiec on 29 May, 2018, 06:57:57 pm

I suppose it does sound rather poncey, but it was actually pretty tasty. And not poncily priced either.

It does actually sound like something I would happily eat. And now ian’s post has made me crave some bircher muesli...

Ham · « **Reply #2512 on:** 30 May, 2018, 07:59:26 am »

As a bye-the-bye, Mrs Ham's fiance bought himself some bircher muesli. Guessing (correctly) that he just thought it was normal muesli and had been using it as such, I prepared some for him in the approved manner (soaking in apple juice, adding grated apple, yoghurt). The end product was a bit of a surprise: "that's really nice!"

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2513 on:** 30 May, 2018, 08:27:57 am »

Talking of rhubarb, I was reading about the Opium Wars recently. Apparently at the time of the First Opium War, 1840, the Chinese Emperor refused to take British military aggression seriously on the grounds that Europeans were unable to live without supplies of Chinese rhubarb and tea. Though he did later revise this to say that only tea was in fact vital to life (and he was correct, of course!)

Mr Larrington · « **Reply #2514 on:** 30 May, 2018, 01:30:18 pm »

Further, the local Chinese bigwig ordered that supplies of rhubarb to the British be cut off in the hope that "with their repulsive diet of greasy meat and boiled vegetables, they will become hopelessly constipated" and therefore go home.

My history O-level was longer ago than I care to temember, but that one stuck ha ha.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2515 on:** 30 May, 2018, 03:42:18 pm »

I don't care for purple hair but think the UK could make rather better use of its blackcurrant crop than waste 90% of it in feckin' Ribena.
I want jam, compote, sorbet, ice cream, pie and more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44303626

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2516 on:** 30 May, 2018, 03:49:00 pm »

I looked into one of the big Chinese/Oriental food shops earlier today. There are several in the centre, mostly catering to foreign students. I didn't expect to see rhubarb, but I also didn't expect to see 3kg bags of Birds custard powder, wholesale sized packs of sesame snaps and little tins of luncheon meat.

fimm · « **Reply #2517 on:** 30 May, 2018, 03:50:38 pm »

A nice waiter in a bar in a town in the south of France could not sell me ice cream last week because "We only have ice cream in summer, when it is hot"!!!
I thought it was hot enough...

hellymedic · « **Reply #2518 on:** 30 May, 2018, 04:01:50 pm »

Ice cream is perennial in the UK and the vans usually appear here in mid-February.

Other places consume less.

Jakob W · « **Reply #2519 on:** 31 May, 2018, 11:11:31 am »

Quote from: hellymedic on 30 May, 2018, 03:42:18 pm

I don't care for purple hair but think the UK could make rather better use of its blackcurrant crop than waste 90% of it in feckin' Ribena.
I want jam, compote, sorbet, ice cream, pie and more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44303626

Isn't ribena the reason for the blackcurrant crop IYSWIM? Thought the reason it became so popular was that it was pushed as a source of vitamin C in rationing-afflicted WW2 Britain.

barakta · « **Reply #2520 on:** 31 May, 2018, 11:48:25 am »

I liked ribena till they changed the full-sugar version to be full of sweeteners. It was one of the few squashes I'd drink.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2521 on:** 31 May, 2018, 12:31:53 pm »

Quote from: Jakob W on 31 May, 2018, 11:11:31 am

Quote from: hellymedic on 30 May, 2018, 03:42:18 pm
I don't care for purple hair but think the UK could make rather better use of its blackcurrant crop than waste 90% of it in feckin' Ribena.
I want jam, compote, sorbet, ice cream, pie and more.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-leeds-44303626

Isn't ribena the reason for the blackcurrant crop IYSWIM? Thought the reason it became so popular was that it was pushed as a source of vitamin C in rationing-afflicted WW2 Britain.

Possibly though recently some 14 year-olds thought they'd test how much Vit C there was in Ribena and didn't find much...

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2522 on:** 31 May, 2018, 12:45:59 pm »

Waitrose "Basics" do a nice blackcurrant jam.

hellymedic · « **Reply #2523 on:** 31 May, 2018, 02:20:41 pm »

Thanks! My point was the scale of Ribena manufacture, when SO much more can be done with the fruit.

Cudzoziemiec · « **Reply #2524 on:** 31 May, 2018, 02:37:59 pm »

Well if you buy more jam (or compote, pie, ice cream, sorbet or hair dye) then those uses will increase! But that's not going to stop people drinking Ribena.