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We're trying this instead of a comments section on Pumpkin Publog. If you read something on the Publog at any time and want to comment and don't fancy emailing us, then use this thread as a springboard for conversation. We'll put a link to it on PP and update if and when the thread gets long and we need to start a new one.

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark's Etiquette of entering unfamiliar pubs... post reminded me of a time, some years ago, when me and a pal were desperate for booze on a sunny afternoon, and so popped into an unfamiliar Portsmouth local. Rather than make a show of looking like we weren't sure it was the right pub, we stood by the door and made a show of sizing up everyone in the pub in terms of hardness relative to ourselves before realising the everyone staring at us. We made a hasty exit.

― robster (robster), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:34 (twenty-two years ago)

yes every time i enter a pub i still feel as if i'm wearing a dunce's cap that says "never been in a pub before"

hopkins's dunce's cap wd say "never left one"

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I find avoiding eye-contact with everyone helps in these situations. NB - approach causes problem once you reach the bar.

― robster (robster), Friday, 29 August 2003 09:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Always walk straight to the bar as if you own the place.

Avoid walking behind the bar as if you own the place.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 29 August 2003 10:23 (twenty-two years ago)

as someone who seems to be preternaturally first to the pub on almost every occassion, i still do the "looking round the pub to see if there's anyone i know there" in new pubs to check out in case it is scary (which it never is, of course)...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 29 August 2003 10:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I demand more pub entries in the blog

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 29 August 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

seconded, less of this food nonsense ;) however, it's not like we go to squillions of new and exciting pubs is it, i can see why there should be other stuff...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 29 August 2003 10:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I haven't been to a pub since Sunday :o(

― chris (chris), Friday, 29 August 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

If the first thing anyone says to you in a pub is "Are you behaving yerself" maybe it's not a good place. (The Crown, Copenhagen St)

― dave q, Friday, 29 August 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I find this one kind of Anglo-centric

― ModJ, Friday, 29 August 2003 13:33 (twenty-two years ago)

It is because only Britain does pubs properly. Though I'd appreciate reviews of furren drinking houses.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:41 (twenty-two years ago)

We'd love more stuff about non-Anglocentric things (this goes for all the blogs) but we can't magic up contributions, we're reliant on the goodwill and free time of the staff!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 August 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I want more food nonsense!

(Editors, if you would like more non-Anglocentric food entries, um, let me know)

― rosemary (rosemary), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I talked about Goth Real Ale! Wot more can you want? Blimey it were a nice pint though.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 29 August 2003 15:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Yeah... I think I might be voluntering here too...

― ModJ, Friday, 29 August 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I am not the publog editor Rosemary but I want non-anglocentric food entries pls!

― Tom (Groke), Friday, 29 August 2003 23:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I have never ever felt unwelcome in a pub, and it confuses me when other people make reference to this phenomenon. I keep thinking I've somehow missed out on something.

― N. (nickdastoor), Friday, 29 August 2003 23:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Ok, I am thinking up ideas now.

(Do cookbooks fall under Pumpkin Publog??)

― rosemary (rosemary), Saturday, 30 August 2003 03:27 (twenty-two years ago)

re: Tom's pizza story - aww!

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:41 (twenty-two years ago)

N is otm, pubs are one place where noone even looks at you if you don't want them to.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:44 (twenty-two years ago)

What about bars?

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:45 (twenty-two years ago)

possibly slightly more awkward

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

N. - have you ever been in the Pub Without Windows? In there you might be made to feel ill-at-ease.

― Cozen (Cozen), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

see i think this is either a recent or a metropolitan development: when i was growing up taking against pubs, you could definitely walk into THE WRONG PLACE if you weren't careful

ok this was exacerbated by me being young and shy and dementedly puritan ("IT"S A TRAP!!"), but also a such-and-such accent in the so-and-so part of could get you a beating (from ppl yr own age)

also of course this was the rural isolated country where "you'm baint welcome round these parts" has a basis in scientific fact

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:52 (twenty-two years ago)

obv my fault for visiting the part of town where the so-and-so's met

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

There used to be Rocker pubs...

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 1 September 2003 14:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It's possible to wind up in the Wrong Place, although I suspect the risk of actual violence against you as a result of this (rather than other inappropriate behaviour) decreases as you get older.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:03 (twenty-two years ago)

I was in a rocker pub in Newquay the day before yesterday. We wanted to stay for the band, No Picnic, but they took ages to go onstage so we left instead. There didn't seem to be any particular threat of upbeating, though it felt like we weren't especially welcome.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 1 September 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

No Picnic were probably waiting for you to leave. The Rocker pubs round our way have all gone a bit Simon Le Bon.

― PJ Miller (PJ Miller), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Simon Le Bon has gone a bit Rocker though, so perhaps there's been some kind of kosmik kompromise.

We had a good game of No Picnic bingo (i.e. we had to guess which of the assorted rockers present in the pub were in fact members of No Picnic). Sadly we don't know who won. I still reckon I did, though my best guess might have been blown when the fellow with really long wavy hair went behind the bar and started serving.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 1 September 2003 16:55 (twenty-two years ago)

"poorly done" = opp.of "well done" = rare?

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:27 (twenty-two years ago)

i really am looking forward to this angus steak house — for the discovery value if not for the food — visit and will write it up when it occurs (in abt three weeks time prob)

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:29 (twenty-two years ago)

We should actually do the World Cup Dining Club as a regular feature for Freaky Trigger natch.

Plus of course the Jesus Cup. (More on which very soon).

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 September 2003 13:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I have forgotten the details of the Jesus Cup, perhaps thankfully.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:39 (twenty-two years ago)

i fear i may remember them...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:42 (twenty-two years ago)

Tell! Tell! (BTW I'm currently researching a brilliant religion-related pub crawl).

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:46 (twenty-two years ago)

I meant to say the cheap food section should include the chicken samosas from those chain shops that are in the bus stations whose name escapes me. 75p and they're super.

― Ronan (Ronan), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The idea of the Jesus cup is to feed lots of people for the smallest amount of money. After much discussion (/drink) the format was something like do a dinner party for eight - three courses - for the smallest amount, ajudicaion used for the value of stock cupboard ingredients. The main rule is that no-one at the party must realise that this is being done, and if anyone comments on the poverty of the meal, you are out.

The cup is named after the famous dinner party thrown by Jesus with some loaves and some fishes, which at current price for fish would not go anywhere near winning the Jesus Cup.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 8 September 2003 14:56 (twenty-two years ago)

unless it was hoki...

i thought it was more just "feed ppl with loaves and fush", but yes, it all comes flooding back now.

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Monday, 8 September 2003 15:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Cheese Slice update: Isabel claims that it is more fun to put the whole slice into your mouth and break it up with your tongue.

― Tom (Groke), Tuesday, 9 September 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Toby's anecdote: classic!

― David. (Cozen), Monday, 15 September 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I have forgotten my login name and I have a piece written, can someone invite me again?

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 16:44 (twenty-two years ago)

oh, nevermind

― tokyo rosemary (rosemary), Wednesday, 24 September 2003 16:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Re. Magnus - adults are still expected to eat choc ices! They're just expected to pay about 8 times as much for them now cf the rise of MAGNUM or MUGNUM as it should be known, the biggest con I have seen in all my long marketing experience.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Grrr! I could contribute to Pumpkin but Tom has not sent me an invite. Ah well!
Ah the price... We can't resist - or rather couldn't - eating Magnum's with nuts in'em. Yummy! I haven't tried the green ice type because I am so used to the *real (non-pumped out of a gigantic machine-style) deal*. Has anyone ever tried ice-cream with shaved ice? My dad's absolutely obsessed with it. Personally I think THAT ice is a con: you get 90 percent watah and a few drops of icecream.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Will rectify invite situation today - sorry Nathalie!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 06:57 (twenty-two years ago)

The Magnum is different from a choc ice and you know it. Whether the price is justified or not.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Thicker chocolate coating, nicer chocolate, creamier ice cream, A STICK!

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:53 (twenty-two years ago)

The stick makes choc ices HARDER to eat though!

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Lolly sticks without jokes on = dud.

― robster (robster), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

If it has a stick it isn't a choc ice.

You don't want to eat it out of the usual paper casing, accidentally squashing the bottom into a mulch, ensuring you can't eat the last eighth, surely.

Part of the fun of the Magnum is trying to eat every last bit of chocolate from around the ice cream (especially the little 'nobbles' where the chocolate meets the stick at the bottom of the lolly) and then.

You can't do that with a choc ice!

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:57 (twenty-two years ago)

Part of the fun of the Mars Bar...

Part of the fun of the Bourbon Cream...

Part of the fun of the Twix...

Part of the fun of the Tunnocks Tea Cake...

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:58 (twenty-two years ago)

It's a life skill!

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 09:59 (twenty-two years ago)

There's nothing to it... I say after having practiced on a gazillion Magnums.

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I just resent the way the boring minimalism of the Magnum has driven away the continental faux-sophistication of the Cornetto I think.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Choc ices are what your friends' mums give you. Them and ice poles. Euch.

Haha, yeah, maybe. They should do a burlesque Cornetto or Viennetta on A STICK!

Has anyone tried any of the Seven Deadly Magnums? Are they exotic?

Perhaps the Magnum and the Choc Ice are complementary rather than subsitutes. Luxury and thrift.

Perhaps the true forerunner of the Magnum, since run out of the country, is the Feast.

Viennetta always looked liked an accordion to me.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Why am I so concerned about Ice Cream?!

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I agree - cornettos are experiencing something of a rivival in my fridge - the ones the plastic cup to protect the flake are the best I think.

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:09 (twenty-two years ago)

You decadent bastards.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

The Feast lives on David! It is the best ice cream ever, #1 in the canon, etc. Alan and I bought five of them at once sometime last year for a reason that now escapes me.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Do they still do Mint Feasts?

There were three kinds of Feast too, weren't there? Chocolate, Mint and?

I remember Coconut, Biscuit and Caramel Boosts. The Feast has probably gone the way of the Boost, streamlined into one offering, pah.

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Aren't there times you yearn for the beautiful simplicity of a mini-milk?

― Nathan W (Nathan Webb), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:16 (twenty-two years ago)

I've only had one of the seven sins magnums and it was disgusting. I can't remember which one, but it was well and truly foul. Nothing worked in it at all, the icecream didn't go with the coating, and it had a very overpowering synthetic taste to it.

Actually, I don't even think it was mine, it was Chris's, I had a taste and it was so foul it stuck in my mind.

I want an icecream maker, but the only freezer we have is the fridge ice box. I actually bought one last year, then realised the container wouldn't go in the freezer, so gave it to my parents for chrismas :0(

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Magnus is a genius: Funny Feet!

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Mini milks are best. And they're so little you don't need to decide which flavour to have, you can have them all!

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I suddenly feel like a student.

Is student-guilt the same as working-class-guilt similar to indie-guilt?

― David. (Cozen), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:18 (twenty-two years ago)

I mourn the passing of 10p synthetic ICE BERGERS.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:22 (twenty-two years ago)

The one V is thinking of was the tiramisu one in a purple wrapper - at a service station on the M1 iirc - it wasn't very nice, no.

― chris (chris), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:25 (twenty-two years ago)

I've kind of gone off most of the icecreams on offer in shops these days. I always tend to go for a calypso now, much more refreshing, nice clean sharp taste.

I wish frozen yogurt was more widely available, that's scrumptious. Lovely and creamy without the sickliness many icecreams have.

― Vicky (Vicky), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:30 (twenty-two years ago)

I've often wandered past that big tacky frozen yoghurt place and thought about going in and trying one, but as its almost winter I suspect that'll have to wait another nine months.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Icecream makers? No need to buy that. After seeing Nigella stick her hands in strawberries and cream saying "Oh it's soooo easy to make it yourself!" ... hah. No, I only watch Nigella to copy her cuisine porn attitude.

Yoghurt icecream is delicious!

― nathalie (nathalie), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

I used to be an ice-cream man. I was justified and ancient. I sold lots of stuff. My favourite was the ice-cream itself (none of that Mr Whippy shite) which I could eat as much of as I liked as a perk of the job. I ate lots. Chocolate wafers with ice-cream and a 99 inside with raspberry sauce. Golly.

― Dave B (daveb), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Some of the seven deadly sins seem more like R&D products that are more technically advanced than interesting, like Doom3. Some of the others are great, though. The Pistachio one is very tasty, and the new white one has little sugar balls like you used to get in christmas cake icing all over. More food needs to have other food embedded on it.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I have the basest food tastes of anyone and even I like frozen yoghurt: Vicky OTM.

― Tom (Groke), Thursday, 25 September 2003 10:38 (twenty-two years ago)

surely it's acceptable and right to nibble the chocolate around the gooey middle and discard it (in a tidy and ladylike fashion?).

Dotting spittle-flecked bits of sugar-goo around the flat - CLASSIC OR DUD?

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 3 October 2003 08:25 (twenty-two years ago)

THEY WERE IN A TISSUE WHICH I PLACED IN MY HANDBAG AND THEN TRANSFERRED TO THE BIN.

Taking real life bickering onto the interweb, classic or dud?

― Emma, Friday, 3 October 2003 08:56 (twenty-two years ago)

K-classic!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 3 October 2003 08:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I'll go out on a limb and say 'classic'. Fuck reality TV!

― Dave M. (rotten03), Friday, 3 October 2003 09:00 (twenty-two years ago)

Can be amusing, but can also be cliquey if it goes on for more than one post and is about specifics rather than general topics that other people can get involved in.

I'm with Emma, can't let good chocolate go to waste. i actually like turkish delight, but the thought of it covered in chocolate makes me feel rather queasy.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 3 October 2003 09:02 (twenty-two years ago)

Vicky next time I will save the slimy Turkish Delight chocolate innards in a bag for you as a special treat.

― Emma, Friday, 3 October 2003 09:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Taking real life bickering onto the interweb, classic or dud?

CLASSIC!

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 3 October 2003 09:38 (twenty-two years ago)

mmmm, will it have handbag fluff on it? You'll have to coat it in talc first though, as it has to have the talc/jelly interaction that makes your teeth squeek.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 3 October 2003 09:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Is Turkish Delight just called Delight in Turkey?

I thought AlexT's bhaji story was inspired by all this sweet talk and was therefore going to end in a peculiarly Scottish way: "fries Turkish Delight".

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 3 October 2003 12:29 (twenty-two years ago)

It's called cyprus delight in cyprus, and comes in all different flavours.

We watched someone eat a deep fried mars bar with ketchup last night, on the discovery channel, bleuch.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 3 October 2003 12:39 (twenty-two years ago)

Which Discovery Channel? I was at a friend's house where they had it, and was amazed that there seemed to be about 38 varieties of Discovery Channel. I predict it will supplant the education system.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 3 October 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

There are loads of the buggers, yes, but investigation has lead me to conclude that they are essentially divisible into three. 1 main channel. 1 channel called home and leisure which seems to be largely devoted to fishing. And then 36 channels showing the same documentary about Hitler, only with it starting at a slightly different time on each.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Friday, 3 October 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

There are 57 varieties surely?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 3 October 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

um, the one that's on constant travel programmes. It might not even be discovery, actually. maybe it was globetrecker, or was that what it used to be called....? There are so many channels and it's so easy to flick that you don't take it in. I started watching a series 'frontier house' or something, about two families living the frontier life, and I can't remember which channel channel it was on, and I haven't found it since.

There are some very educational programmes, particularly for natural history, but of course the best (and bringing this back on topic) the food channel is the best.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 3 October 2003 12:49 (twenty-two years ago)

The fishing one is Called Home and Leisure, and unfortunately is only fishing obsessed on a Friday night/Saturday morning.

Lonely planet is on Travel and adventure.

There's loads of others:
civilization
animal planet
can't be bothered to remember the others

― chris (chris), Friday, 3 October 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

Cyprus or Turkish or wherever 'Delight' comes in many different flavours. Bubble bath comes in many different scents. YOU DO THE MATH.

Please stop taunting me with talk of cable as NTL hate us and are not calling.

― Emma, Friday, 3 October 2003 13:05 (twenty-two years ago)

some of the others that popped into my head without asking:

wings

sci-tech

history (I think - this is the hilter channel I think)

― chris (chris), Friday, 3 October 2003 13:09 (twenty-two years ago)

until I went to cyprus I always thought that turkish delight was rose flavoured. In fact I've never had turkish delight any other flavour.

― Vicky (Vicky), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:07 (twenty-two years ago)

in the v.old days it arrive in two colours (pink and grey)

there is actually a gummy turkish sweet which i think is better explored on PROVEN BY SCIENCE as it may be of use to rocket scientists and others in search of the strongest glue known to man

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I hope people have enjoyed our special Turkish Delight theme day on Pumpkin Publog. We hope to have more theme days like this to boost our ratings.

Bailey's Glide day coming soon. The Publog is still the only decent source on the web for this rubbish concoction.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Soon word will begin to spread, as in The Case Of The Cider Armadillo.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

A Case of Cider Armadillo? The ruin.

― Dave B (daveb), Friday, 3 October 2003 14:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm surprised that Bulmers haven't yet picked up on the sure-shot winner that would be the bottled armadillo.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:07 (twenty-two years ago)

I have added to turkish delight theme with an over-log post about a poncy drink.

It's my VERY FIRST blog entry ever. Clap please.

― Anna (Anna), Friday, 3 October 2003 15:15 (twenty-two years ago)

your post was good anna!!

tom i don't believe these strange-flavored crisps you're talking about actually exist except in yr brane!! they sound like they're from some alien planet

― geeta (geeta), Monday, 6 October 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

http://walkers.corpex.com/cr15p5/walkpix/prodpix/sensations_5pk.jpg

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 6 October 2003 12:31 (twenty-two years ago)

We had a bag of crisps at a party recently that was proper Lamb and Mint and tasted like it. They included on the ingredients list "Lamb Powder", to the unpleasant joy of non-vegetarians present.

They were in a big bag, pitched somewhere larger than The Real McCoys and smaller than Tortilla Chips bags. Does that sound about right? The bag was also mostly white.

xpost - that's them! Though they weren't forming like Voltron when I saw them.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 6 October 2003 12:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Yay Anna btw!

Lamb Powder!! This is cheating surely.

― Tom (Groke), Monday, 6 October 2003 12:40 (twenty-two years ago)

the picture on the "chili flavour" bag is exactly the same as the picture of the dead aliens in the car-boot in REPO MAN!

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 6 October 2003 12:41 (twenty-two years ago)

are south africans known as being rude?

― mitch lastnamewithheld (mitchlnw), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 10:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"i know it's true because pete told me" ©matt dc

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Er.
Yes.
It is a scurrilous prejudiced opinion though what I don't hold.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 8 October 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Celery also good in risotto base. But why o why do greengrocers usually only sell it in enorme quantities so that you make one risotto/soup then have a whole limp bunch of the stuff left?

― Archel (Archel), Tuesday, 14 October 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Snaxx/food you've been tempted to buy multiples of cos it's either hard to find or you think it's going to be withdrawn from the market in some awful rationalisation of product spread type push.

1 Tangy Hula Hoop Shoks
2 Curry XL Hula Hoops
3 Tom Yam packet noodles (of some brand i recognise but don't recall)

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:32 (twenty-two years ago)

I can well appreciate the trauma of a flavour being phased out. When I was a kid they withdrew my favourite flavour of Nesquik (powdered milkshake) which was pineapple. I was inconsolable for ages.

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure I'm going to regret this, but what should chocolate be, if not sweet?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

Bitter?

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Also the Fig Roll Bar is the laziest foodstuff ever, being just a standard fig roll of double length. Perhaps they have truly forgotten how to get the figs in, and all fig rolls these days are produced by asexual reproduction from a single fecund Mother Fig Roll in Chelsmford. The ones that die just before separation are no longer thrown away, and everyone wins.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

So why is it classed under sweets, rather than beer? Answer me that.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Cherry Menthol Airwaves! The chewing-gum of kings!

― David. (Cozen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

confectionary not sweets.
fig roll bar: where do you find of such wonderful things? (not the frig roll, which i typed 1st)

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

Mmmm, a bar that serves a fig roll with every pint, you find this in heaven.

― Madchen (Madchen), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

fig roll bar: where do you find of such wonderful things?

atop a tractor - not only is the farmer protected from nasty accidents, he is fed as he ploughs!

― MarkH (MarkH), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

It may be an Irish thing: Jacobs make them.

This site seems to posit Jacobs as Wonka-like food imagineers par excellance.

Also this one has a picture of another food abomination-cum-moneymaker.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Bah, the first link should be This

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 28 October 2003 12:23 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't know why, if they're not selling Cherry Coke in England, they don't try selling it in Ireland. It's an inextricable part of my ATP memories.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:20 (twenty-two years ago)

I can imagine it would be a bracing but effective post-ruin sugar replacement actually.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:23 (twenty-two years ago)

Not that you're one of those horrible drinking sorts Andrew!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I bought a can of cherry coke just the other day?

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The time I accidentally bought Vanilla Coke as it was right next door to normal coke still makes me shudder. I drink Yorkshire tea nowadays.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:27 (twenty-two years ago)

YES AND THATS ANOTHER THING. Packaging on disgusting variant brands (eg vanilla coke and the obscene Lemon Diet Coke) which is designed to trap the careless consumer - for gods sake make them look different even if you can't do the decent thing and put a colossal poison skull on them.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I love vanilla coke too, the label has more yellow on it, that's how you tell.

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:29 (twenty-two years ago)

num num, lemon coke

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:30 (twenty-two years ago)

Chris you like those things because you are INDIE.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Not if can is placed backwards so you only see the red and it is RIGHT NEXT to the normal coke!! Lemon diet coke is obviously just diet coke with added economy brand fairy liquid extract.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Pepsi Twist is even better. Like Diet Coke With Lemon - and SUGAR!!!

I like Cherry Coke. Fule.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Diet Coke with Sugar would be a good idea.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

You manage to identify crisp flavours from packet colours, right*? So where's the problem with fizzy pop flavours?

I keep hoping vanilla coke will be nicer than it actually is but I think I've given up on it now.

(*ignoring blue or green = cheese & onion / salt & vinegar traumas)

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:34 (twenty-two years ago)

See my apple crisps post from last week for worrying developments in crisp packet colours.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

broadening brands with variants = general dud, are there any good uns? I can only think of citrus polos.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:35 (twenty-two years ago)

I really should post about the onion crisps that Marks' did a few years back

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

CITRUS POLOS!!!????

I like special editions though.* The Mars Light And Dark is really sophisticated I reckon.

*except for no-nougat Snickers obv.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Not any more now the brave new world of Walkers Sensations give you pretty pictures as identifiers. I think the chicken and thyme flavour goes wrong by showing you a basket of EGGS on the cover. You start thinking your crisps are egg flavoured, then you start thinking about where they come from => your crisps taste of chicken arse => you give up and get a nice packet of lamb and mint instead. Mmm, lamb powder.

Has anyone had French Fries fish and chips flavour?

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:37 (twenty-two years ago)

My favourite special edition of yore was the orange Curly-Wurly. BRING IT BACK!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Brand expansion was a massive fad a couple of years ago and I expect that a lot of the R&D money dedicated to it then is only now coming to product fruition. It's based on wrong-headed thinking about branding IMO.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:40 (twenty-two years ago)

when are they going to do the decent thing and release Orange Mars Bars?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:41 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure that when Boost bars were launched it was the coconut flavour only, then the supernummysicklysweet biscuit followed on from that, whereas now the terrible spawn seems to have usurped its parent bar as I haven't seen coconut boosts for ages. But all this could just be me. And don't even mention the guarana flavour (or guacamole flavour as a dear friend of ours once called it).

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Good grief, that would be SO GOOD!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Coconut BOOSTS?? Don't you mean "Bounty Bar"?

Coconut Toffee Crisps were nice. Or am I thinking of coconut Boosts? Surely not. They were in a blue packet? NOW I AM CONFUSED. What is real?!

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:47 (twenty-two years ago)

I'm sure I was talking about Boosts upthread in relation to the disappearance of variant Feasts.

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I pity the oft neglected Star Bar. Oft neglected cos it's a bit rubbish really - a dismal combination of the usual gubbins that SOME poor sod has to lay claim to. having said that, i quite like em

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Sarah, they definitely existed and I am CONVINCED they were the original flavour. Maybe in a red packet? I dunno.

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Round about here.

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

cola-flavoured refreshers!! if i wanted sweeties that tasted like a mouth full of washing-up liquid then i'd er take a swig of washing-up liquid!!

i think these did vanish eventually

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

ALAN: WHAT THE FUCK ARE YOU TALKING ABOUT?

Yes, Emma, a red packet. There was a brown packet-ed Boost too.

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

boost was originally coconut flavoured

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:50 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.cadbury.co.uk/OurProducts/Boost.htm

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

I am extremely relieved we sorted that out except now I want CHOCS.

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:52 (twenty-two years ago)

Worst brand expansion ever = Champagne Crunchie surely.

A bar I miss is Maverick - it was one of those 'everything bars' but done really well. Quietly put down a couple of years back.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Was it in a blue packet? Did coconut toffee crisps exist?

There is nothing sadder than realising your favourite special edition is ceasing and then the guilt-ridden torment when there are only 5 left and you wonder if you should BUY THEM ALL. I loved those orange curly-wurlies.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

I am talking about Star Bars

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Hang on, Boost was launched in 1984? I was sure it was later. I am so old.

Tom, Maverick is a totally shit name for a choc bar.

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

i like the quiet identity war between lion bar and picnic bar

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:55 (twenty-two years ago)

I have four peanut butter twixes in my possession. they weigh 52 grammes, 17 grammes of this is fat! num num

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

it shd be called yummerick

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:56 (twenty-two years ago)

lion bar has much too large and cloying a wafer in it. picnic totally kick lion bar's ass

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I know it had a bad name but it had an inner beauty.

It was around at the same time as the bizarrely named Aztec 2000 which was a Light and Dark Mars striking out on its own into a cruel and unfeeling world.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

"[star bars are] a bit rubbish really" is not a sentence i can compute!!!!

you all love chocolate a lot.

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

i had a Maverick phase, but it wasn't as good as Fuse - is Fuse still on sale?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:57 (twenty-two years ago)

let's hear it for.... Applause!

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Lion >>>>> Picnic. Actually I'm not sure I ever had a picnic while there was a ready supply of supper-substitute Lions in our college bar. Picnic is a bad name - makes me think of fish paste.

It was SO MUCH BETTER than Fuse Steve - Fuse was disgusting. I think Maverick took Fuse down with it.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:58 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuse was massively popular for a while, it was beating even the likes of KitKat (btw Alan's opinion's on KitKat Kubes should be ignored since I managed to scoff most of the pack num num)

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

The Aztec 2000 was a brief relaunch for the worst advertised chocolate bar ever - the early 1970's Aztec. Add campaign consisted of virgins being sacrificed on to of an old pyramid, their blood running downt he pyamid until it spelt the word "Aztec". A portentious, voice-over intomanted "What would you sacrifice, for an Aztec".

Kids ran screaming from the room*.

*Possibly out to play at being murderous Aztecs.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

geometry of snax is v important. 3d crisps being always much better than 2d. Only advantage of Lion bar (according to ad): when you snap it in two it looks a bit like a Lion roaring. This advantage is clearly also a lie.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:01 (twenty-two years ago)

actual-real objective correlative of fishpaste = raisins

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:03 (twenty-two years ago)

aw, the raisin/fruit club bar! is that still around? this was my idea of luxury when i was 9

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh no the Fuse bar is super tasty, like an ultra compressed Lion bar without all the bits which were too gooey! TOFFEE CRISPS THOUGH taste like sticky chocolate breakfast cereal without the minus point of UGH milk. It is a far better breakfast food than the so-called "breakfast nutrition bars" threatening to take over our chocolate stalls. NONE of them are nice!

Although I'm tempted by the Cheerios Bar.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:04 (twenty-two years ago)

During the Summer heatwave our local newsie was sensibly putting all the bars in the fridge, and cold Toffee Crisps are simply gorgeous.

I like Banana Trackers Sarah - do they count as a breakfast nutrition bar?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom you are wrong about Maverick > Fuse! Fuse was Cadbury's, Maverick was Nestle - Cadbury's chocolate > Nestle chocolate (Nestle's chocolate is usually too sickly-sweet, and Nestle were/are cunts)

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I am with Andrew Farrell on the chocolate sweetness question. And with an amoral eye I have to say that Nestle's Double Cream k-beats Cadbury's Dairy Milk.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Please to be able to report Nestle still are cunts, and boycotting them is a middle class salve that makes plenty of us feel that we are not complete 100% bastards.

Damnm that Kit-Kat killing babies.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:09 (twenty-two years ago)

cadbury = rowntrees = quakers
nestle = n4zis
mars = 12-ft-lizards

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Trackers do not count as breakfast bars, more as hahaha the healthy chocolate bar that you can imagine being sold in healthfood shops to entice young children into the joys of nuts and bran and of course BUTTLOADS OF SUGAR but less of that for now ahem. I like the chocolate and hazelnut ones - you can get MAHOUSIVE boxes of them in every pound shop in the land super cheap.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:11 (twenty-two years ago)

Have Nestle ever made any chocolate bars worth attention?

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Er, hello, Kit-Kat?/?????

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

Is there a company just as bad as Nestle but making nastier things that I can boycott instead? (NB my boycott of Nestle is far from total, see latest Publog post for why)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:12 (twenty-two years ago)

But Rowntrees now owned by n4zi Nestle!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

There's something not quite right about Nestle Double Cream but I can't put my finger on it.

(All this talk of chocs has forced me to have a Belgian Choc Options drink in an effort to subdue choc cravings that will no doubt fail and result in a crazed dash to nearest choc shop.)

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:13 (twenty-two years ago)

What happened in the quest for the Rown Tree by the way? I missed out on it when I stopped sleeping on Pete and Emma's sofa.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I never ever liked Kit-Kat. I never ever drunk tea though either. These two are possibly linked. My dad likes both.

Something about the paucity of chocolate (quality and quantity) on Kit-Kat just made them seem not value fr money.

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:14 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a crazed illness driven trip to Woolies the other day where I bought a no doubt MILLION YEAR OLD creme egg for 25p, a double pack of toblerone (the fact that was 49p somehow convinced me this was right) and also an Aero Honeycomb WHATEVER ON EARTH THIS MAY BE!

I am happy that I felt too crap to eat them yesterday as they are now waiting for me at home! This is if I am up to eating tonight that is. I am up to eating but my stomach is not up to keeping things down sadly.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:15 (twenty-two years ago)

I had an Aero yesterday after all the Wispa talk. It was disappointing.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Had. HAD.

I've never had a walnut whip - are they sold anywhere apart from Woolies? Neither have I had a Turkish Delight.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:16 (twenty-two years ago)

Chocolate and computer games = the ideal marriage!

― David. (Cozen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:17 (twenty-two years ago)

Computer games + carton of five alive = bettah

Grah sodding Temple of the Gods but yes another thread calls...

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:18 (twenty-two years ago)

When Wispa came out, my grandma - a bit Aero fan - tried one and said it was like a mouthful of flour. I have to agree with her. Aeros are way nicer.

I am ardently anti dunking and I love KitKats, though somehow they are more in the snack category than the choccie treat category for me. The best thing about the Kubes was that a couple were ALL CHOCOLATE mmm.

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:19 (twenty-two years ago)

Big Aero fan even.

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:20 (twenty-two years ago)

surely you mean a "mouthful of velvety darkness" emma?

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Mint Aero >>>>> Wispa

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:30 (twenty-two years ago)

the Rowntrees/Quest For The Rown Tree campaign was never resolved i think. this is a shame as the ice maiden type woman was, perhaps inappropriately, rather hawt

kitkat is the only decent thing on Nestle's repertoire. i am a Cadbury's whore/booster.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

But mint wispas are luvverly! Also, here are some of my thoughts on chocolate:

Picnic is PATENTLY NOT the same as a lion bar because it has peanuts. This is OBV to anyone with any sense of taste whatsoever, pah.

A raisin club is no good because the raisins get in the way of biting the chocolate clean away, which you can do with an orange, mint or plain chocolate club.

I believe Nestle have given up on trying to make poor African mums feed their children rubbish powdered milk and are now calling in piddly £1m-ish debts owed to companies they have taken over in their feverish sprawl by African countries where the £1m-ish equals their entire public spending budget or some such. So no Aeros, Kitkats, toffee crisps etc. for me at the moment. This causes me great pain, but it lessens the guilt whenever I pull on my sweatshop-made gap jumper.

Is Dime still the only indie chocolate bar?

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:32 (twenty-two years ago)

One other thought on chocolate: GIVE ME MORE

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

why do they never refer to the standard Aero bar as Aero Plain (hahahaha)?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

oh wait maybe they did

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Dime bars are SICK. All Dime & Turkish Delight bars should be blasted into outer space and blown up with a nuclear bomb.

Cadbury Caramel mmmmmm.

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:36 (twenty-two years ago)

interesting fact you already knew: the Cadbury's Caramel bunny rabbit from the 80s ads was voiced by Miriam Margoyles

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

are the girls here buying Yorkies incidentally?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

turkish delight = like sweet sweet vaseline mmmm vaseline

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

of course not, they're not allowed

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I was raised on Yorkie bars, kindly gifted to me by my Nanna. By the age of 19 I was playing rugby.

― Madchen (Madchen), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:42 (twenty-two years ago)

They were giving out Mint Aeros on Princes' Street last Saturday and Catherine managed to get two -- but I was only able to eat one section: it was RANK! Not chocolatey at all, just kind of plastic and green.

Coconut boosts were great and the first time I remember a bar disappearing and thinking 'oh fuck': some point when I was at university, possibly quite early on. The newsie tried to palm us off with a Star Bar but it was rub, if I recall. Funny how the newsie will never say 'oh they don't make that any more, and no other bar would be as good so why not buy an apple from across the road instead'.

Tom is OTM: chilled toffee crisps = num num; unchilled however = yuk.

― alext (alext), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

Dime bars are great, especially when they decide to do a "Two for one" offer. Frys Turkish Delight are equally fine.

Anyway, talking of Rowntrees - what happened to those Rowntree things that were flat, in three different fruit flavours, and peeled out to reveal their logo? They were around about a year or so ago, like the fruit winders, only far more plasticy but far more enjoyable. My description is admirably crap there. They were three flavours stuck together in strips, like a tricolour flag, and were fantastic.

And they're aren't called Cadburys Caramel any longer, they're something like Dairy Milk Caramel - Cadburys rationalising their ranges or something.

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:43 (twenty-two years ago)

i still quite like Time Out

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:48 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't like Yorkies, but I think this is because I don't like Nestle ChoclateI boycott Nestle.

Best spesh edition - orange Twix. Num num.

― Dave B (daveb), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

this thread nums my brain

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:51 (twenty-two years ago)

i used to like Raisin & Biscuit Yorkie - gone now (and for some time) i presume?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:52 (twenty-two years ago)

I was with a mate in college yesterday who was eating a Raisin and Biscuit Yorkie, so they're still around.

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 12:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Dairy Milk is to chocolate bars what Walker's is to crisps.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:01 (twenty-two years ago)

Holy cow, I've killed another thread.

I'm sticking to ILM where people will talk to me. 8-(

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Surely a Blokie.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:14 (twenty-two years ago)

They've some sort of golden-covered yorkie as well, possible miscegination with a Crunchie?

The pick-n-mix in Peckham Woolies includes individual pyramids of Toblerone. Fancy.

Surely all crisps are brand extension?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i am under a self-imposed Toblerone embargo after breaking a tooth on one of them a couple of Chrimbos ago.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Walkers crisps are rubbish, bring back Frisps. what the fuck is the deal with supermarkets only seeming to stock multipacks of their own brand or Walkers? if they would only replace Steak McCoys with Rock Salt i would buy those multi-packs in droves however.

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Steak McCoys are hardcore.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:47 (twenty-two years ago)

Toblerones are fantastic, your teeth are big wusses. My dad used to buy us a ginormous Toblerone on the ferry back from family holidays to France so now I associate Toblerone with cross channel ferries and driving through Dover. but I still love them. (Though the dark chocolate variant is quite inferior, too sweet.)

― Emma, Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:50 (twenty-two years ago)

There are only Walkers now. It has become the crisp Megabrand. Soon we'll be calling all crisps 'Walkers', like we do with hoovers.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 13:59 (twenty-two years ago)

I lament the days of Smiths Squares (they were, weren't they) before the Walkers takeover. OF COURSE THE ONLY THING THAT HAS CHANGED TO MY UNTRAINED TONGUE is the packaging but that is serious enough.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-two years ago)

They were Smiths, aye. Smiths Salt'n'Shake have now been Walkerized as well.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

I have a trained tongue

NB this is not a lie

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No more smith's square then? Chipsticks are still around in their old packaging aren't they? Perhaps a journey across the road this afternoon.

Also Toblerone packaging (not the thing itself unofrtunately) is a real actual shape, so well done.

― Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:01 (twenty-two years ago)

my work canteen sells Smiths Squares still - i didn't notice them labelled Walkers but perhaps they were

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:05 (twenty-two years ago)

There are only Walkers now. It has become the crisp Megabrand. Soon we'll be calling all crisps 'Walkers', like we do with hoovers.

I suspect many of you know this, but crisps are Taytos to multiple generations of the Irish.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

Andrew there is a fundamental difference in that the UK defaults to ready salted flavour whereas Ireland defaults to the cheese and onion something which I fear is CRAZY and leads to the Bad Taytos as spotted in old work canteen.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 14:55 (twenty-two years ago)

That's related to the brand extension thing: the UK has a ridiculous notion of a platonic ideal (Ready Salted) which all other crisps are versions of, whereas the Irish live in the tension between several different-but-equal flavours.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:10 (twenty-two years ago)

haven't walkers only hived off salt n shake and left smiths with squares, chipsticks etc? or what that merely my fevered imaginings?

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:17 (twenty-two years ago)

andrew that's incorrect, the platonic ideal is - despite or surely BECAUSE OF its relative carcity - the UNSALTED crisp (intr.to UK by Smiths 1920)

(blue bag intr.1923)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:23 (twenty-two years ago)

i never liked the bags. who in their right mind would prefer to salt their own crisps? crispists!

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:25 (twenty-two years ago)

Salt And Shake crisps == huge salt-throwing fights on school trips.

― cis (cis), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Walkers have got hold of Cheesey wotsits too, seeing as GW have gone tilt

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:48 (twenty-two years ago)

No, check the Squares - the design is the same, but it's now foil bag instead of good old placcy and there's a Walkers logo on it. I didn't know about the Wotsits though - I was still buying Golden Wonder a week or so ago - have they just gone?

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:52 (twenty-two years ago)

erm, info I have from a place I go every day [please don't google me!]

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 29 October 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2003_10_01_pumpkinpublog_archive.html#106753131953391953

i keep reading this as "food which is not valid", rather than "food to give to poorly people"...

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Friday, 31 October 2003 10:34 (twenty-two years ago)

i think it works both ways!!

one day when i am strong i will try "Nutritious Lemonade" and blog the results on PROVEN BY STOMACH PUMP SCIENCE

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 31 October 2003 10:43 (twenty-two years ago)

I am going to have a toast sandwich this lunchtime Mark!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 31 October 2003 10:50 (twenty-two years ago)

Fullers Pride looks pretty as crystals. I think after ploughing through their "How we did it" bit that the beer is gently frozen between two glass slides.

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 31 October 2003 10:55 (twenty-two years ago)

wasabi ice cream!!!!!

i will do a post sometime on all wasabi-flavored-foods

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:01 (twenty-two years ago)

if wasabi soda exists then there truly is a god

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:04 (twenty-two years ago)

wasabi yoda

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

The key question Alan is Why Did They Do it.

I like the screensaver. It is a quiet, office friendly way of pledging your love for beer.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:07 (twenty-two years ago)

Science moves in mysterious ways. /looks for mac screensaver...

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:08 (twenty-two years ago)

wasabi yoda = why do you think he is GREEN?!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:10 (twenty-two years ago)

bcz he just just tried some EGG WINE!?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:22 (twenty-two years ago)

Good Lord, they have Double Diamond. I thought that had long since ceased to exist. My Dad was in a poster campaign for Double Diamond.

― Madchen (Madchen), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:33 (twenty-two years ago)

Double Diamond was the unattainable goal for five year old Pete. By the time I had got old enough, it was nowhere to be seen.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 31 October 2003 11:53 (twenty-two years ago)

surely modern science can rebuild DD from the picture alone?

― mark s (mark s), Friday, 31 October 2003 13:04 (twenty-two years ago)

I drank Double Diamond in the bar at Dover Athletic FC only this season. It worked wonders.

― Tim (Tim), Friday, 31 October 2003 13:07 (twenty-two years ago)

modern science has!! they call them the diamond dogs!!

― geeta (geeta), Friday, 31 October 2003 13:08 (twenty-two years ago)

um the kraftwerk post shd be on proven not publog, sorry abt that

i tried to deleted it but i don't think i have the right privs

― mark s (mark s), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 19:02 (twenty-two years ago)

the anchor and hope sounds fantastic. how expensive is it, tim?

― toby (tsg20), Tuesday, 11 November 2003 20:04 (twenty-two years ago)

It is trivvic. My bowl of tripe was £7.90, the hare was, I think, £11. Considering we're used to paying £6 or £7 for fairly generic steak pie & chips in other pubs, I thought it good value.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 09:56 (twenty-two years ago)

I've never had tripe...might have to check it out at some point.

I can well understand the Gastropub problem. The Tandem in Kennington (the village south of Oxford, not the Oval one) has recently become a gastropub, part of a bizarre chain called Hungry Horse. Not only do the staff wear wacky uniforms with a horse's head poking from the shirt pocket, but there is a large pile of cuddly furry hungry horses behind the bar, like some kind of twee knacker's yard.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 10:01 (twenty-two years ago)

"twee knacker's yard" = phrase of the week!!

(thx FT ed.who removed the rogue publog entry)

― mark s (mark s), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

haha kraftwerk are like the patron saints of proven by science!!

we are so scientific it hurts

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 12:56 (twenty-two years ago)

It is trivvic. My bowl of tripe was £7.90, the hare was, I think, £11. Considering we're used to paying £6 or £7 for fairly generic steak pie & chips in other pubs, I thought it good value.

this sounds fantastic. i am so going there v v soon.

― toby (tsg20), Wednesday, 12 November 2003 13:32 (twenty-two years ago)

the Big Tasty is okay if you like that sort of thing (sometimes i'm afraid i do), but Boiger King's 'Winter Whopper' absolutely trounces it as far as i'm concerned

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

TELL ME OF THE WINTER WHOPPER

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:31 (twenty-two years ago)

i cannot, you have to experience it for yourself

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:38 (twenty-two years ago)

I think I'll go across the road from the office and try a Winter Whopper then. I'll report back in 15 mins.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:40 (twenty-two years ago)

Are there berries?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

IT IS FULL OF MUSTARDY GOODNESS

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Pervert.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I think this lil' fella should be the new mascot of the publog:

http://www.bierwereld.com/korewolf.jpg

― Jerry the Nipper (Jerrynipper), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh, that was nice! A whopper, but with crispy bacon and English mustard mayo. The good things about this are:

1. Crispy bacon. REAL crispy bacon, not that crappy floppy excuse for bacon they use in McDonalds. Crunch. Yum.
2. Mustard mayo. Christ, it has a kick to it. Yum.

And apart from that it's just a normal Whopper. A thing of goodness, no less. And I managed to sit through Westlife slaughtering "Mandy" and Mariah Carey murdering "Santa Claus is coming to town" while eating it.

The Big Tasty has got to be very very good to beat that.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:55 (twenty-two years ago)

Hmm I always ask for bacon with a whopper anyway (and no onion or pickle). BK have always won the bacon wars and it's good to see McDonald's throwing in the towel there. But the mustard mayo sounds tasty.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:57 (twenty-two years ago)

I sound like an eight year old there. Go find, Tom, you'll really enjoy it.

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 24 November 2003 15:58 (twenty-two years ago)

after all this kerfuffle i def. want one tonight now as well

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

What's the difference between the Big Tasty and the Big Mac? It just looks like a bit of a bigger Big Mac to me. Are we allowed to eat British meat again?

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:01 (twenty-two years ago)

No onion, no pickle, better cheese, nicer sauce, fresh tomato (might be on big macs too, I don't know), and the burger is MASSIVE sarah.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:02 (twenty-two years ago)

The Big Tasty is one big beef patty - a third pounder! - in a bun, with lots of cheese as well, with lettuce and tomato. Not tried it, and having done the Winter Whopper challenge just now, don't think I want to bother. Surely a 'third pounder' is just one of those Birds Eye Mega Burgers anyway?

― Rob M (Rob M), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

No onion and no pickle*, hurrah! Fresh tomato though = dud. DEATH TO THE HOT TOMATO.

Is a third pounder a burger THREE TIMES BIGGER than a normal burger?? And they are the size of a SPACESHIP like the telly advert?!

(Sorry, Pickle).

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

of course Wimpy's Halfpounder remains the majestic sentinel of boigers

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

it might be a spaecship like the SF short story where the fleet of invading aliens menace from the skies by radio, and the earthlings all cower and say "we surrender" and the fleet lands and all drowns in a puddle bcz they are teenytiny

― mark s (mark s), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

The halfpounder is a long-standing kebab van wangle - 'weight when frozen' i.e. 'when encased in block of solid ice weighing 7/16 of a pound'

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:20 (twenty-two years ago)

it's still bigger than the others tho

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 16:38 (twenty-two years ago)

Tom we should go to the pub so weI have an excuse for having a beerthe Big Tasty.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:10 (twenty-two years ago)

Why do you need the pub as an excuse for the Big Tasty???

I will be down the boozer tomorrow.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:12 (twenty-two years ago)

roll on GeetaFAP! Winter Whoppers for all!

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:13 (twenty-two years ago)

Well yes I shall be there too obv but that looks like real actual food rather than the BIG TASTY.

Tom if you hafta ask...

Or perhaps I'll have a Winter Whopper. Does it come with holly? I am not that big a fan of moutarde though.

― Sarah (starry), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:16 (twenty-two years ago)

you wish to eat holly? i am afeared

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:19 (twenty-two years ago)

it's worth noting that in the US it is the Big'N'Tasty.

― typo acapulco (gcannon), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:21 (twenty-two years ago)

Has no-one any love for the pickle?

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:23 (twenty-two years ago)

oh dear oh dear oh dear.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 24 November 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

following Tim and Dave's pub quiz reports, anyone interested in joining me for the quiz at The Swimmer next Monday? i think Pete and/or Carsmile have already experienced it - otherwise that one in Stoko Newington sounds pretty good and i wonder if Dave B fancies pitting his wits against other ILXers?

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:12 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be up for Swimmer Quiz action. Its not the best, but big money is at stake.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I might go for the top beautiful ale action. Although north London is Dirty.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:29 (twenty-two years ago)

I can't show my face at the Swimmer pub quiz after what happened last time.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

you mean DIRRRRTY

it's about time for my arrival...at Harringay Sainsbury's

― stevem (blueski), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

"Where did Ewing's great reputation die?"

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 14:31 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd be up for this as well.

― Ricardo (RickyT), Wednesday, 26 November 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Any more on the Swimming quiz?

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:28 (twenty-two years ago)

yes, I want to do this tonight and so does my future wife

― chris (chris), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:37 (twenty-two years ago)

I'd like to come one day but I can't tonight. Let me know when you go again!

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 December 2003 13:39 (twenty-two years ago)

will do bazza

those who are coming i'll see you in the pub around 7/7.30

― stevem (blueski), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:48 (twenty-two years ago)

Prolly be there eightish.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:53 (twenty-two years ago)

7.30 ish for me

― chris (chris), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:54 (twenty-two years ago)

Tho at the moment the friend who I should be seeing tonight isn't returning my messages, so...

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 1 December 2003 14:59 (twenty-two years ago)

there's a couple of anchor and hopes in the world but i hope tim means the one here, it looks FAB!

― prima fassy (bob), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:05 (twenty-two years ago)

Sadly that's not the one, though I do quite fancy making the trip to Woolwich's bleak shores. A special enthusiasm fro trading estates is obviously very much required.

― Tim (Tim), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:12 (twenty-two years ago)

good thing i'm wharves crazy! 'bugsby's way' impels my very marrow

― prima fassy (bob), Monday, 1 December 2003 15:45 (twenty-two years ago)

Tesco Value Lager! Now I think I have remembered the key reason for my dislike of Huddersfield Town and Brighton & Hove Albion.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Pete's idea of an advent calendar of alcohol strength is an inspired one. I can't think of any drinks offhand which have abv in the 20-24 range, as wines and beers have less and spirits have more, but then again, the run-up to Crimbo is usually so busy for everyone that being let off the Pumpkin hook is prolly something he's relieved about.

(oh and I'm prolly wrong and there's loads)

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:26 (twenty-two years ago)

PETE'S idea???????!!!!!!!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

!

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:30 (twenty-two years ago)

says Pete B4r4n at the bottom of each entry doesn't it? how was I to know, hein?

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

:(

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:33 (twenty-two years ago)

:-0

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:34 (twenty-two years ago)

Mark, you weren't to know, don't feel bad. But we should perhaps leave it up to the robber Baran himself to explain the chain of events.

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:43 (twenty-two years ago)

if he doesn't do so here, I shall look out for his explanation on the Bold Claims thread.

― MarkH (MarkH), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 15:46 (twenty-two years ago)

Baileys and similar drinks are in the 20% range, aren't they? Also, some ports.

― Markelby (Mark C), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.sortilege.ch/caribou_en.html

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:24 (twenty-two years ago)

The first entry is actually by Tim, and I apologise profusely for it being posted under my name, but since we did not get a post until the 2nd I thought for posting unity and sense that we could back date it: but I had to do it by replacing my Nightingale post and hence it came out as me.

The idea of the advent calendar I believe is Tom's, though I daresay was fuelled by the joint drinking at the time between me, Tim and Tom. The Tenants LA piece and Tesco's Value Lager are both mine, as you would not expect coinesseurs of Tim & Tom's ilk to have ever supped Tesco's Value Lager.

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:31 (twenty-two years ago)

Who are you calling a coin issuer, bub?

― Tim (Tim), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:41 (twenty-two years ago)

Royal Minted!

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 17:42 (twenty-two years ago)

What are you all talking about? Tesco Value Lager is refreshingly delicious!

May I suggest Guinness Extra Stout (imported from Nigeria) for the 7-8% category?

― gobemouche, Wednesday, 3 December 2003 19:06 (twenty-two years ago)

'refreshingly delicious'!

― geeta (geeta), Wednesday, 3 December 2003 23:00 (twenty-two years ago)

as opposed to deliciously refreshing!

― MarkH (MarkH), Thursday, 4 December 2003 08:52 (twenty-two years ago)

As opposed to fizzy piss in a can.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:32 (twenty-two years ago)

depressingly residuous

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:33 (twenty-two years ago)

what was that in the bottom of your pint glass last night Steve? it looked minging. As opposed to the IPA, which was nummy (until the barrel went)

― chris (chris), Thursday, 4 December 2003 10:35 (twenty-two years ago)

i was too afraid to ask in the end. it looked like a flake of wallpaper or coated plywood tho. maybe it fell from the ceiling into my pint?

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:15 (twenty-two years ago)

it didn't rise to the top of the glass tho, what are the scientific implications of that, if any (must it have been in the glass before beer was poured in for example)?

may revert back to bottles now...

― stevem (blueski), Thursday, 4 December 2003 11:17 (twenty-two years ago)

http://www.freakytrigger.co.uk/pumpkin/2003_12_01_pumpkinpublog_archive.html#107089584820107905

point of order, 2 litre bottles of perry, containing as they do roughly 4 pints of the ruin of the world delicious peary goodness retail for 10 english pounds, not 5. clearly mr baran's brain has become permanently scrambled by the stuff ;)

(i know a certain irish feller's has, eh andrew?)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 10:59 (twenty-two years ago)

the Government appears to have taken the Winter Whopper away from us - total bastards

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Fuckers! On what grounds? Surely not of taste!

― Ricardo (RickyT), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:49 (twenty-two years ago)

There is now the Falmin' Hot Raoyale though to tickle ver tastebuds.

― Pete (Pete), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

pah, it can't hold a candle to mustard mayo

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:51 (twenty-two years ago)

Shite! I never got to try one! WAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

rest assured i'm taking this all the way to City Hall

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 12:08 (twenty-two years ago)

I think you made them up.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 13:34 (twenty-two years ago)

fair cop guv

― stevem (blueski), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 13:42 (twenty-two years ago)

The Flaming Hot Royale's posters originally said "Only available under 5th December". But unfortunately they only became available on the 4th of December, at least in Cardiff anyway, so BK have hastily stuck little stickers over the date now. I'll try a Flaming Hot thingy tomorrow and report back. OK?

(Why am I suddenly the BK tester around here? Not that I mind...)

― Rob M (Rob M), Tuesday, 9 December 2003 15:44 (twenty-two years ago)

Don't bother with the BK Flaming Hot Royale - they're crap. I'd happily take them to the Trade Descriptions people as it's neither Flaming nor Hot. The campaign to re-introduce the Winter Whopper starts here.

― Rob M (Rob M), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 13:38 (twenty-two years ago)

ah, this has just reminded me about something, publog post ahoy in a short while (i think it's going to be a little contentious...)

― CarsmileSteve (CarsmileSteve), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Is it "why CarsmileSteve no likee the Swimmer?"

― Pete (Pete), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:11 (twenty-two years ago)

I say, the RSS feed for this blog seems to be broken. When I try to subscribe to it, I get the Brown Wedge feed instead. Any chance of a fix?

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 15:49 (twenty-two years ago)

OOPS! use the link on the FT front page, the link on the blog is indeed to the wedge's rss.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Wahey! That worked, cheers.

― retort pouch (retort pouch), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:06 (twenty-two years ago)

I often wonder if there is much use of the rss feeds, but unfortunately there's no way to check rss usage. All the stats we have come from the free sitemeter service which only works on the HTML pages.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:14 (twenty-two years ago)

!!! I would never have sanctioned all this RSS malarkey if I knew it might be taking away from my precious, precious sitemeter hits!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:16 (twenty-two years ago)

B-but, the extracts are only TEASERS - 256 chars max with a link to the blog, so it drives more ppl to the site. eep. (that sounds believable)

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 16:19 (twenty-two years ago)

I don't think there's anything too controversial about your post Steve - I have always been disappointed by BK Bacon Double Cheeses myself and learned early on that you had to always ask for extra ketchup to stop them being so dry. The day BK let you get extra bacon/cheese on anything is the day I ate my last Bacon Double.*

*(not quite - every now and then BK go price mental and do them for 99p at which they're just about worth it)

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 17:57 (twenty-two years ago)

almost exactly what tico said. but it's the XL that's way too big and dry - the regular bacon double cheeseburger is ok, tho extra ketchup is still usually a good idea.

― Jaunty Alan (Alan), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:09 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh God the XL is monstrous.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Wednesday, 10 December 2003 18:20 (twenty-two years ago)

Ack! Save us all! Baran has just blogged about CHIMAY!

Actually, Chimay tastes absolutely gorgeous BUT on the one occasion I've ever drunk it, which was only about a month ago, it gave me the most gutwrenchingly nasty hangover I've had in years. I don't think I could cope with going near the stuff again for a while.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:17 (twenty-two years ago)

The San Miguel hangover I had after Monday's FAP was appalling considering I only had 4 pints of it. Did any of you lot slip me a mickey?

― Markelby (Mark C), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:18 (twenty-two years ago)

san miguel is harsh though!

― charltonlido (gareth), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

No Barry, it is NASTY LAGER!! No wonder! I vowed not to drink any and mostly kept to promise - the one pint of lager I had was shopped to me by Charlie but I was promised a real b33r, in my defence. I admit I wasn't complaining at the time but give me more than one of those pints of lager and I die.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:21 (twenty-two years ago)

I was enjoyingthe San Miguel on Monday? URALLGAY

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:22 (twenty-two years ago)

I was on the San Miguel all night on Monday and it didn't do me any harm.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

UROCK

― chris (chris), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:23 (twenty-two years ago)

San Miguel is nasty.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

I really don't enjoy more than one pint of lager at the best of times, I'll admit.

Then again i have just remembered I had a few cocktails after the several pints of shit lager but still not enough to cause such unproportionate pain and suffering.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

URUGUAY!

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Thursday, 11 December 2003 14:24 (twenty-two years ago)

Hey good one on white zinfandel Pete. I'm planning on getting a bottle in for tonight! Score.

― Sarah (starry), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:05 (twenty-two years ago)

That's me, the backlash backlasher.

― Pete (Pete), Thursday, 11 December 2003 17:08 (twenty-two years ago)

Vicky, you should try the ginger wine on its own (maybe with an ice-cube for edge). As lovely as the Whiskey Mac is, Ginger Wine is the childhood taste of dressing up a Christmas tree for me.

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 15 December 2003 10:42 (twenty-two years ago)

I will Pete, once I've bought a bottle. But it would have to be pretty special to beat a whisky mac. Which reminds me, I need to buy a cheap blend too so I can make them at home.

― Vicky (Vicky), Monday, 15 December 2003 10:48 (twenty-two years ago)

It doesn't beat it, it is more of an aperitif. It is also great kiddy bouze, if the kids like the taste of ginger.

(I meant to buy a bottle yesterday but didn't get round to it.)

― Pete (Pete), Monday, 15 December 2003 11:59 (twenty-two years ago)

God, I hate to think how many bottles of cassis we got through at uni! It was the miracle booze, which meant that you could buy dirt cheap white wine and make it palatable AND more alcoholic at the same time!

― Vicky (Vicky), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 15:36 (twenty-two years ago)

Blimey V. you are well hardcore. Respect.

― alext (alext), Tuesday, 16 December 2003 16:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Have you ever gone to the Notting Hill Carnival on a blazingly hot August day, and tried dancing for hours on end?

What you really need are two bottles of Guinness Foreign Extra from the fridge.
With pints, you can't really dance without spilling everything.
With only one, you end up doing that continually lurching in the direction of the bottle holding hand as your balance is thrown out.
But with two, you can wait twice as long between fights to the bar, you're balanced for as long as you remember to alternate your swigs, and you get to do Bez impressions.

For best results, you need to couple with a completely mashed up sound system, or maybe just couple.

If you like Guinness Extra (aka the bottled stuff before they worked out how to cram the English one pour travesty into cans and bottles), try it in summer, on the grass, with cream crackers. It's a winner.

And although it's known in London as Nigerian Guinness, it's the same stuff they sell on the continent, and most of it comes from Dublin, where they've promised to start selling it now that we have a significant immigrant population, but they haven't. Bastards.

etc. S.

― Oy! Nob Slime!, Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:01 (twenty-two years ago)

There's a bottle of it in my fridge currently.

Are you whom I suspect you are?

― Ronan (Ronan), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:03 (twenty-two years ago)

White Spirits: search & destroy

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 17 December 2003 00:13 (twenty-two years ago)

We can't post to freakytrigger.co.uk for a few days while we sort out our move to a new server, so for Advent Calendar of Alcohol fans a question - would you like to wait and read it on the publog, or should we put it here?

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 19 December 2003 14:03 (twenty-two years ago)

Haha - advent calendar of alcohol fans. haha.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:27 (twenty-two years ago)

Oh well I liked it.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:28 (twenty-two years ago)

I love it! I'm wondering whethering I can write something about my night on the aforementioned Caribou for the 24th, but you've probably planned something, and anyway I don't remember it that well :(

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 19 December 2003 15:50 (twenty-two years ago)

one month passes...
I've been to Miso. It's fucking rubbish.

― Matt DC (Matt DC), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:37 (twenty-two years ago)

Yes, that was my general impression.

― Pete (Pete), Friday, 30 January 2004 12:50 (twenty-two years ago)

one year passes...
Greate site. Thank you :)

― James, Friday, 11 November 2005 20:02 (twenty years ago)

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― Luigio, Thursday, 17 November 2005 12:34 (twenty years ago)

[soon all hyperlinked spam will be gone, then where will you be, eh?]

― Norman, Tuesday, 22 November 2005 10:54 (twenty years ago)

one month passes...
spam

― Ginger, Monday, 9 January 2006 14:50 (twenty years ago)


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