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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1525 on: 01 March, 2019, 11:58:03 pm »
Mmm, tapenade  :P

Food of the gods - after chorizo jam...
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1526 on: 02 March, 2019, 09:25:20 am »
Mmm, tapenade  :P

Yeah...





That second one was made by a chum, and was much heavier on the salt, capers, and garlic. It was by far the best I've ever had - the normal stuff is peely-wally in comparison.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1527 on: 02 March, 2019, 09:27:03 am »
That's Plan A.   Plan B is to see how many unstoned green olives I can eat in the next few days..... :jurek:

IIRC Arthur Koestler once lived for a month on a single enormous jar of large green olives.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1528 on: 08 March, 2019, 07:42:51 pm »
Chocolate chip Welshcakes.

WTF?

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1529 on: 08 March, 2019, 07:51:34 pm »
tapenade on oatcakes - a low GI staple round here, or at least in my office at home.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1530 on: 08 March, 2019, 08:14:32 pm »
Chocolate chip Welshcakes.

WTF?

Maybe they'd run out of currants?
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1531 on: 04 April, 2019, 05:27:32 pm »
Was offered a Vegan Panna cotta yesterday.

It was quite the most disgusting pudding I've had since I left school.
It is simpler than it looks.

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1532 on: 04 April, 2019, 11:58:58 pm »
Has anyone here tried the Heinz 'Seriously Good' Cadbury's Creme Egg Mayonnaise?

??? :sick:

I have not...

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1533 on: 05 April, 2019, 08:53:10 am »
Has anyone here tried the Heinz 'Seriously Good' Cadbury's Creme Egg Mayonnaise?

??? :sick:

I have not...

WTF?  No.

Are you sure that's not something left over from 1st April?
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1534 on: 05 April, 2019, 01:33:46 pm »
Has anyone here tried the Heinz 'Seriously Good' Cadbury's Creme Egg Mayonnaise?

??? :sick:

I have not...

I, for one, welcome the GBFO Flaming Meteor Of Death...
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1535 on: 05 April, 2019, 07:50:52 pm »
Has anyone here tried the Heinz 'Seriously Good' Cadbury's Creme Egg Mayonnaise?

??? :sick:

I have not...

WTF?  No.
Are you sure that's not something left over from 1st April?
Good thinking!
I only saw it yesterday...

Seems like it was in yesterday's Independent Online so a bit late for 1 April...

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/food-and-drink/easter-eggs-heinz-cadbury-creme-egg-mayonnaise-flavour-april-fools-a8854596.html


ETA Standard vid
https://www.standard.co.uk/lifestyle/foodanddrink/creme-egg-mayo-london-taste-test-a4110956.html

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1536 on: 05 April, 2019, 09:50:46 pm »
I saw someone on Twitter posting about it. Looked disgusting.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1537 on: 07 April, 2019, 09:16:18 pm »
Green olive tapenade... my bog, it's a real thing https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2012/jan/20/olive-recipes-hugh-fearnley-whittingstall   I've only ever had the black stuff....

Yup. A couple of years ago I bought three massive tubs of tapenade in Pezenas market. One black, one green and one white. Took them up to our friends near Limoges. All were amazing.
I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1538 on: 16 May, 2019, 10:03:38 am »
MrsT bought 100% skimmed milk when I was out on Tuesday. The tea tastes bleh, looks different too - translucent, no body. 

"Yes but it's all they had in the bio section".

AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaargh.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1539 on: 16 May, 2019, 12:32:01 pm »
That ^^^^ may actually be grounds for divorce.  Extreme mental cruelty or something.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1540 on: 16 May, 2019, 12:40:17 pm »
Barakta's been known to mix full-fat and skimmed milk to approximate the proper stuff.

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1541 on: 16 May, 2019, 01:19:47 pm »
Good idea, if you have the unskimmed milk to hand.

I'd forgotten the "full-fat" descriptor. I wonder who dreamt that one up.  Gives you the idea that someone thinks people should be all embarrassed to put it on the supermarket check-out conveyor, like schoolboys trying to buy condoms in the 60s.

I suppose it's what we used to call "milk".
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1542 on: 16 May, 2019, 01:28:09 pm »
I dunno, I fear full-fat milk, possibly because I was the last generation of school-milkees until Majestic Margaret swooped in to save us from the oleaginous, lukewarm terror that lurked in the corner of any given classroom. Our school replaced milk with cartons full of bright orange petroleum byproducts dissolved in sugar presumably so they could entertain themselves by watching the school descend into a kind of chaotic Brownian motion as children bounced off the walls and collapsed into juddering, jangly piles of sugar-slapped and chemically strummed nervous exhaustion.

On those grounds, I suspect the contents of a bottle of full-fat milk and a used condom hold a similar appeal.

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1543 on: 16 May, 2019, 01:33:19 pm »
I am not a huge milk fan only using small amounts in tea but if I was to drink skimmed milk, I would go for B.O.B or Cavendale as they both taste like "proper" milk rather than the normal white coloured water which makes up most skimmed milk you can buy.


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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1544 on: 16 May, 2019, 01:39:20 pm »
Unhomogenised here.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1545 on: 16 May, 2019, 01:44:25 pm »
Good idea, if you have the unskimmed milk to hand.

I'd forgotten the "full-fat" descriptor. I wonder who dreamt that one up.  Gives you the idea that someone thinks people should be all embarrassed to put it on the supermarket check-out conveyor, like schoolboys trying to buy condoms in the 60s.

I suppose it's what we used to call "milk".

It is.
We had a short break at Llanerchindda Farm earlier this month an I remarked that the milk on my cereal was SO nice. The proprietor confirmed it was whole milk, whose joys I had long forgotten.

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1546 on: 16 May, 2019, 01:48:13 pm »
CBH uses Jersey full fat milk to make a yogurt drink which taste terrible IMHO but which she likes.  I have tried drinking the Jersey milk but find it quite tasteless when reflecting back to the Jersey milk we sometimes got as a treat as a child.

Back then, milk actually had some taste.

Next... "bread isn't as good as it used to be," followed by "Call that a tomato..."

 

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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1547 on: 16 May, 2019, 02:12:53 pm »
Or possibly "call that a taste bud"?  :-\
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1548 on: 16 May, 2019, 04:03:43 pm »
Bud never did have any taste.
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Re: the food rant thread
« Reply #1549 on: 16 May, 2019, 04:55:54 pm »
I used to hate school milk, point blank refused to drink it. Still can't stomach milk in it's liquid form

Double cream in my coffee however, that's a definite treat, I'll even pop in a dollop of clotted cream if we have some 
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