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[Illaveago]

Early morning dog walk all done , now chilling music on, waiting for Mrs 73 then birthday presents and off to the coast for the day. With the odd pint along the way , fish and chips and what ever else I fancy. That bike shop I’ve seen looks temping

Happy Birthday .

 

[KnittyNorah]

These have raisins but I'm no sure that's mandatory. As for candied peels... do some people have no standards?

If they have any form of dried grape within - keep them away from me!
Last year I spied mini stollen with apfel in one of the German discounters ... oh yeah bloomin' apple AND SULTANA when I checked the ingredients - blergh!

 

[KnittyNorah]

Don't like Christmas cake either. It's too sweet.

The texture and flavour of all those various shrivelled-up bits of grape are so unpleasant as to be vomit-inducing, especially when combined with the occasional shock of the tooth-searingly strange sensation of biting through a lump of glace cherry and the crunchy, bitter nastiness of a piece of candied peel. If the cake has been fed with rum or whisky, even the bits of crumb taste like I imagine used engine oil might taste; if with brandy then bits of the cake might be tolerated in my mouth long enough for me to give the impression that I've eaten some.

Yet I like cakes made with some other types of dried fruit in them ... it's the vine fruits, cherries and peel that I hate with a vengeance.

 

[Jameshow]

The texture and flavour of all those various shrivelled-up bits of grape are so unpleasant as to be vomit-inducing, especially when combined with the occasional shock of the tooth-searingly strange sensation of biting through a lump of glace cherry and the crunchy, bitter nastiness of a piece of candied peel. If the cake has been fed with rum or whisky, even the bits of crumb taste like I imagine used engine oil might taste; if with brandy then bits of the cake might be tolerated in my mouth long enough for me to give the impression that I've eaten some.

Yet I like cakes made with some other types of dried fruit in them ... it's the vine fruits, cherries and peel that I hate with a vengeance.

Wow your excellent company tonight!!

 

[KnittyNorah]

Wow your excellent company tonight!!

Well, if there was something you really, really disliked and people constantly kept offering this thing - and little else - to you 'because it's the time of year', you'd feel pretty fed up too!

I am finding there are more of us about than most people imagine - it's very far from the mythical 'everyone' who likes christmas foodstuffs!

For instance, at choir we normally get tea/coffee and biscuits - just bog-standard variety of biscuits - now we are getting tea/coffee and a mince pie. So I took a couple of biscuits with me so I had them to eat with my coffee.

It's interesting - I'd say about 75% of the choir members say oooh mince pies! Lovely!; there are about 12.5% who say nothing, but look around furtively for somewhere to quietly deposit said mince pie, and the rest say 'no thanks' to the mince pie, put it back on the plate, then when they saw me eating a digestive biscuit said, ooh where did you find that? Are there any more? So us non-mince-pie eaters are now going to take turns in bringing really nice biscuits in for the next few weeks!

 

[DCLane]

@fossyant - glad your sense of taste is coming back. Mine's still awol four months after having Covid.

Went to son no. 2 today for lunch after a ride out this morning - a nice lunch at the Canalside Heritage Centre in Nottingham.

Then to my parents, with some difficult conversations about the next steps (medical treatment, funeral plans). My mum's getting weaker with her cancer progressing fast; it's only a few weeks since diagnosis (stage 4 oesophageal cancer) but she's declined massively in the three weeks since I last saw her in person. Chemo and radiotherapy start at the end of the month to see if she can then actually eat anything more solid, but the chance of it working is apparently low; she'll be shortly unable to drink otherwise.

One of the things we did was set her up to buy online using the new verified by Visa thing, as she'd not been able to since it was introduced. What did she buy? Some nice new bed sheets. As an ex-district nurse she knows what's coming and wanted some new sheets for her bed for when carers (NHS/Macmillan/etc) visit.

As a family we've decided that she'll be here for Christmas, it just may be that we celebrate her last Christmas early.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

Old school cup and cone. The threaded part is still in the frame but the outside edge has completely broken away in a complete circle. I'll take a photo in daylight as I've never seen that happen before.

Its those track sprinter thighs, too much power.

 

[Deleted member 1258]

If they have any form of dried grape within - keep them away from me!
Last year I spied mini stollen with apfel in one of the German discounters ... oh yeah bloomin' apple AND SULTANA when I checked the ingredients - blergh!

You won't like my breakfast, cornflakes with mixed dried fruit and chopped mixed nuts.

 

[KnittyNorah]

You won't like my breakfast, cornflakes with mixed dried fruit and chopped mixed nuts.

My idea of a nightmare breakfast! And I expect you have it with milk, too ...?
I don't think I've had cornflakes for about 70 years!

 

[Reynard]

The texture and flavour of all those various shrivelled-up bits of grape are so unpleasant as to be vomit-inducing, especially when combined with the occasional shock of the tooth-searingly strange sensation of biting through a lump of glace cherry and the crunchy, bitter nastiness of a piece of candied peel. If the cake has been fed with rum or whisky, even the bits of crumb taste like I imagine used engine oil might taste; if with brandy then bits of the cake might be tolerated in my mouth long enough for me to give the impression that I've eaten some.

Yet I like cakes made with some other types of dried fruit in them ... it's the vine fruits, cherries and peel that I hate with a vengeance.

As an automotive engineer, I can tell you that christmas cake and engine oil taste completely different. Although the latter is far more useful than the former.

 

[Reynard]

I like a *good* mince pie.

Some offerings are just far too sweet or the pastry is claggy and greasy. Or both. In the contest between a bad mince pie and a chocolate biscuit, I'd much rather have the biscuit.

Besides, a girl can never have too much chocolate.

 

[KnittyNorah]

I like a *good* mince pie.

Some offerings are just far too sweet or the pastry is claggy and greasy. Or both. In the contest between a bad mince pie and a chocolate biscuit, I'd much rather have the biscuit.

Besides, a girl can never have too much chocolate.

If the pastry is really good - I had an aunt who made a plain shortcrust pastry which was utterly delicious - then I'll eat that and leave the innards behind!

 

[Reynard]

Oooh, Arsenal have just beaten Wolves 2-0

Happy Reynard

 

[Deleted member 1258]

My idea of a nightmare breakfast! And I expect you have it with milk, too ...?
I don't think I've had cornflakes for about 70 years!

Yes I have it with milk. I've been making cornflake cakes tonight.

 

[KnittyNorah]

Yes I have it with milk. I've been making cornflake cakes tonight.

One of the very few acceptable uses for cornflakes, in my opinion!