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Title: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: andrewc on 12 June, 2011, 09:58:45 am
If five portions a day are so good, how come rabbits and slugs are so stupid? (http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2011/jun/12/stewart-lee-vegetables-fruit-bad)
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: nicknack on 12 June, 2011, 11:24:59 am
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Secretly, Cameron exists solely on a diet of nothing but Eton mess, a dessert concocted from strawberries, cream, meringue, mess and pieces of digestives left over from the historic "biscuit game", still played in Eton dormitories on the day of the costly school's annual cricket contest against Winchester College. But, typically, while Cameron guzzles the mess of the elite, he expects you and I to suck our nourishment from the dirt.

Oy! I like Eton mess.

Always wondered where the slight saltiness came from.
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: arabella on 20 June, 2011, 12:05:51 pm
Isn't it supposed to be 8 anyway, but they went with 5 as they thought no-one would even try if 8 were suggested?
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: Cudzoziemiec on 20 June, 2011, 12:49:13 pm
I'm sure I've seen 9 recommended in India, which might tend to confirm 8.
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: Regulator on 20 June, 2011, 12:57:48 pm
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Secretly, Cameron exists solely on a diet of nothing but Eton mess, a dessert concocted from strawberries, cream, meringue, mess and pieces of digestives left over from the historic "biscuit game", still played in Eton dormitories on the day of the costly school's annual cricket contest against Winchester College. But, typically, while Cameron guzzles the mess of the elite, he expects you and I to suck our nourishment from the dirt.

Oy! I like Eton mess.

Always wondered where the slight saltiness came from.

Except Eton Mess does not contain any biscuit....
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: Marj on 20 June, 2011, 01:33:39 pm
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Secretly, Cameron exists solely on a diet of nothing but Eton mess, a dessert concocted from strawberries, cream, meringue, mess and pieces of digestives left over from the historic "biscuit game", still played in Eton dormitories on the day of the costly school's annual cricket contest against Winchester College. But, typically, while Cameron guzzles the mess of the elite, he expects you and I to suck our nourishment from the dirt.

Oy! I like Eton mess.

Always wondered where the slight saltiness came from.

Except Eton Mess does not contain any biscuit....

Biscuits, no, no, no, no that's all wrong
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: hellymedic on 21 June, 2011, 03:36:31 pm
Eton Mess = Pavlova + hammer innit?
Meringue, whipped cream & soft summer fruits or
a meringue?
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: eck on 21 June, 2011, 03:40:26 pm
Eton Mess = Pavlova + hammer innit?
Meringue, whipped cream & soft summer fruits or
a meringue?
No, you're right enough.  :thumbsup:


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Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: Regulator on 22 June, 2011, 08:26:47 am
Eton Mess = Pavlova + hammer innit?
Meringue, whipped cream & soft summer fruits or
a meringue?

There is an argument to be had over whether it should contain sherry...

I don't mind either way.   ;D
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: clarion on 22 June, 2011, 09:44:36 am
If the current crop is anything to go by, everything coming out of Eton can make a Mess.
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: pcolbeck on 22 June, 2011, 09:51:51 am
Eton has produced some good guys:

George Orwell
Percy Shelly
Humphry Lyttelton

For example.
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: CAMRAMan on 22 June, 2011, 12:33:46 pm
Is Eton Mess a bit like a naval soggy biscuit?
Title: Re: The truth about fruit & vegetables...
Post by: clarion on 22 June, 2011, 12:42:55 pm
See suggestion above, quoted by nicknack from article linked in OP.  Not biscuit, obv, but meringue in this case.