Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[ebikeerwidnes]

I just found out what a Supatap is!

Me to
taps like we had in the kitchen in the 1960s!

 

[Dogtrousers]

I just found out what a Supatap is!

Something I've known since childhood. In the mid 60s we moved to a new house and the taps were supposedly exciting one called supataps. They looked a bit like horses' heads, unlike the taps at the old house.

But I've only just learned that it was their washer changing abilities that made them supa

 

[Alex H]

Found this on the beach a couple of days ago

It's the egg sac of a dogfish. Dogfish are a type of shark, fairly small, the most common of which is the Spiny dogfish or Squalus acanthias.

Commonly sold in fish and chip shops as 'huss' or 'rock salmon'

I never knew I was eating shark.

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Used to catch the when I was a kid and we went on holiday in Ireland
WAY down south - Bere peninsula - a little area miles away from anywhere - with a pier only used by 2 lobster fishermen

we used to catch loads of mackerel and then fish for flat fish using the mackerel as bait on the hooks
dogfish used to take the bait instead sometimes


They all went into old fertiliser bags and when we got back to the pier we just dumped the bags on the pier and left them
One of the locals turned up later on and took them to the Church where the priest salted or dried them and used them to help out people who were struggling to afford food and stuff

Good Times - and a Catholic Priest that seems to have read the bible properly!!!

 

[Alex321]

Found this on the beach a couple of days ago

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It's the egg sac of a dogfish. Dogfish are a type of shark, fairly small, the most common of which is the Spiny dogfish or Squalus acanthias.

Commonly sold in fish and chip shops as 'huss' or 'rock salmon'

I never knew I was eating shark.

I knew "rock salmon" was a euphemism for dogfish, I didn't know Huss was. And I've always (as long as I can remember) known that dogfish were basically sharks.

 

[figbat]

That you can not have a ‘Vesper’ martini as described by James Bond in Casino Royale. It uses “half a shot of kina lillet”, which has been out of production for many years and there’s no equivalent substitute.

 

[Profpointy]

That you can not have a ‘Vesper’ martini as described by James Bond in Casino Royale. It uses “half a shot of kina lillet”, which has been out of production for many years and there’s no equivalent substitute.

Amazingly I read the same thing today as well

 

[Alex321]

That you can not have a ‘Vesper’ martini as described by James Bond in Casino Royale. It uses “half a shot of kina lillet”, which has been out of production for many years and there’s no equivalent substitute.

I'd never even heard of that, so looked it up.

As you say, no longer in production (stopped 1986). They "replaced" it with Lillet Blanc, but as that has reduced the quinine which flavoured it, it is not going to be the same.

 

[Pblakeney]

That you can not have a ‘Vesper’ martini as described by James Bond in Casino Royale. It uses “half a shot of kina lillet”, which has been out of production for many years and there’s no equivalent substitute.

Not only that but the alcohol in question was 100 proof (50% ABV), not the measly 40% ABV we get today. Plus they would be 1/4 gill (30ml) measures, not the standard 25ml today. 120ml of 100 proof, that'll get things happening! 😂

“Three measures of Gordon’s, one of vodka, half a measure of Kina Lillet. Shake it very well until it’s ice-cold, then add a large thin slice of lemon peel.”

 

[Chris S]

Terraced houses used to have communal attic spaces. It was possible to move from one to another through them.

 

[Profpointy]

Terraced houses used to have communal attic spaces. It was possible to move from one to another through them.

I'm fairly sure my grandmother's attic was open all the way down the street.

I do remember one story from when the hatch had been left open for some job and a cat from down the street jumped down onto her in bed in the middle of the night

 

[Dogtrousers]

Terraced houses used to have communal attic spaces. It was possible to move from one to another through them.

Years ago I lived in an upstairs flat of a converted Victorian terraced house and the loft was indeed shared with next door. I think there was a brick wall up the other side. I don't recall if you could get to next door but one...

 

[ColinJ]

Terraced houses used to have communal attic spaces. It was possible to move from one to another through them.

I discovered that in a house in Penzance belonging to my then girlfriend's mum. They asked me to store some stuff up there and I was shocked to see that I could roam freely up and down the communal attic.

Apart from the potential for theft, voyeurism, and general dodginess... the thing that struck me was that it was a huge fire hazard! If one house caught fire there was an obvious risk that the flames could quickly spread to the whole terrace via that attic space.

 

[simongt]

Commonly sold in fish and chip shops as 'huss' or 'rock salmon'

My favourite chippy choice; tasty and just one cartilaginous lump down the middle to remove.
Result - !

 

[simongt]

The surname 'Baxter' is a derivation of 'Backster', an early term for a woman baker. A reference now lost somewhere in the mists of time of the bakery profession.