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[newts]

Whatever you do, don't put your soldering/soddering/sodding iron in the hummus, it'll ruin the taste. A couple of ice cubes when you blend the ingredients is however a very good idea.

 

[Reynard]

Oops, sorry, madame Renarde ! 'Umblest hapologies !!

Hapologies accepted

 

[briantrumpet]

Whatever you do, don't put your soldering/soddering/sodding iron in the hummus, it'll ruin the taste. A couple of ice cubes when you blend the ingredients is however a very good idea.

I didn't like the taste of a soldering iron in the first place, but thanks for the warning about making it even worse. Noted.

 

[ColinJ]

If you do that, the room tends to fill with the smell of burnt pork. It's pretty horrid. Besides, your fingers hurt like hell.

I did notice!

 

[steverob]

I had a schoolfriend who managed somehow to burn a hole in his tie with a soldering iron in our Design and Technology classes when he was supposed to be doing something with a circuit board. He refused to replace it, still having the hole-y tie on our last day at school three years later.

Houmous/hummus (however you spell it) with a touch of sweet chilli sauce, scooped on to tortilla chips is the go-to in my house.

 

[briantrumpet]

For those wondering, the French for hummus is 'houmous', and has an aspirate H, so is 'le houmous' or 'du houmous'.

I do find it intriguing why it's called an 'aspirate H' in French, as they don't ^haspirate hit hat hall. (It just means that you don't treat it like a non-aspirate H as in "l'heure".)

 

[briantrumpet]

I had a schoolfriend who managed somehow to burn a hole in his tie with a soldering iron in our Design and Technology classes when he was supposed to be doing something with a circuit board. He refused to replace it, still having the hole-y tie on our last day at school three years later.

Houmous/hummus (however you spell it) with a touch of sweet chilli sauce, scooped on to tortilla chips is the go-to in my house.

Might need a bit more hummus on toast to keep me going for the rest of the afternoon. I think my breath might be losing its garlic power too.

 

[classic33]

Might need a bit more hummus on toast to keep me going for the rest of the afternoon. I think my breath might be losing its garlic power too.

Vampires getting closer!

 

[briantrumpet]

Vampires getting closer!

Almost catastrophe - I'd forgotten I'd run out of bread. Crisis averted by finding a pack of cream crackers to use with the hummus to fend off vampire trombonist pupils.

 

[Ming the Merciless]

Why do people who lose their sense of hummus get onto committees?

 

[rjsterry]

Anyway why are soldering tools called soldering irons when they are made of copper?

Because the old ones that you had to heat up in a fire were made of iron.

 

[classic33]

Because the old ones that you had to heat up in a fire were made of iron.

Mine aren't.

 

[Chris S]

For those wondering, the French for hummus is 'houmous', and has an aspirate H, so is 'le houmous' or 'du houmous'.

In Birmingham it's pronounced 'humus', as in compost.

 

[First Aspect]

Americans still pronounce it without the 'L'

And yet they pronounce "buoy" pretty much phonetically.

Boowee.

 

[classic33]

How can a cemetery raise its prices, yet blame it on the cost of living?