No energy

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You can tell when you've sat on your a*** too long by the fact that when you get back in the saddle everything starts to hurt again.

Oh that and I've eaten 20 of these nice little Italian cakes over the BH weekend.

 

[515mm]

Try four pints of perry and half a bottle of vino blanco.

Bit sleepy this morning........

 

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Try four pints of perry and half a bottle of vino blanco.

Bit sleepy this morning........

Jesussss...

 

[515mm]

No, but I do look like him!

 

[515mm]

In my defence, m'lud, we had lunch first, then drank the perry whilst watching Swansea City vs Reading, then went for dinner where we had the wine.

 

[hotmetal]

<rant> Well thank goodness some people still know/remember what perry actually is!
I'm fed up with seeing it referred to as 'pear cider' by the manufacturers for all the post-Magners generation who believe that "they drink it with ice in Ireland"
If it's made with pears it's perry, cider is from apples. If you don't believe me ask Wiki.</rant>

Sheesh! I must be becoming a grumpy old man. I never drank Babycham though. Even (or especially) after that big butch (camp?) black dude in the ad said "Hey! Ah'll have a Babycham!"

 

[stevetailor125]

Whats alcohol, haven't been able to have any of that for over a year, now on a lifetime of tablets so thats put paid to that. I can fill my face with choclate cakes though

 

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<rant> Well thank goodness some people still know/remember what perry actually is!
I'm fed up with seeing it referred to as 'pear cider' by the manufacturers for all the post-Magners generation who believe that "they drink it with ice in Ireland"
If it's made with pears it's perry, cider is from apples. If you don't believe me ask Wiki.</rant>

Sheesh! I must be becoming a grumpy old man. I never drank Babycham though. Even (or especially) after that big butch (camp?) black dude in the ad said "Hey! Ah'll have a Babycham!"

Family of cider drinkers here, I'm teetotal but my old man used to love scrumpy. And yes. calling it "pear cider" p***es me off a little. Its like calling Pepsi or any other cola "coke".

 

[515mm]

Family of cider drinkers here, I'm teetotal but my old man used to love scrumpy. And yes. calling it "pear cider" p***es me off a little. Its like calling Pepsi or any other cola "coke".

......and referring to sparkling wine as Champagne when it ain't from Champagne. We were on holiday in Barcelona and the wine waitress referred to the local fizz - Cava - as Champagne. A local tore her off a strip. Turns out a great many inhabitants of Barcelona own a couple of rows of vines, the fruit of which they sell to the Cava producers...........


Yes, getting old and grumpy here too.

 

[hotmetal]

Yeah, my Missus is from Spain. Remarkably though, she doesn't drink. In defence of the waitress, she might have been calling it Champagne because she's fed up of having to explain to Brits what cava is… though equally possible she was trying to oversell it. Mind you, the name "Champagne" can be a bit overhyped - I'd rather have a good cava than a crap Champoo any day, and I'd have enough change from not buying French fizz to pay for a meal besides. Your local strip-tearer is correct though - Champagne and cava are not the same, but mainly because cava is not grown or made in the Champagne region of France. (I don't think there's much difference in the process but may be wrong). Whether his motivation was pedantry, wine snobbery, or whether he felt that cava should be due equal respect will remain a mystery.

 

[515mm]

Through his broken English and my thoroughly busted Spanish he was fiercely proud of his local fizz that, in his eyes at least, he helped create. I quite agree, good Cava is way better than average Champagne. I can certainly recommend vintage Cordonui or Frexinet (sister labels). Funnily enough our local Co-op has an excellent selection.

It's worth looking at English Sparkling Wine too..........