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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 10:35:51 GMT
Pineapple on pizza. Whoever decided to make it a thing needs to be hung, drawn and quartered. Proud to say it's my favourite topping. Add a sprig of rocket to bring it into thw 21st century. And call it 'Artisan'. |
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 1, 2018 12:02:17 GMT
The 'sugar tax' can bog off.
I love this hot weather that we only get very occasionally. When it arrives I do not sit in the garden but seem to thrive and get more stuff done. Then I need a lovely cool drink. I only drink sweet, sugary stuff during weather like this so, in actual fact, hardly ever. Now all my favourite drinks taste like cats' pee and I'm left with a nasty saccharine taste in my mouth and, worst of all, still thirsty as they do not quench.
I don't see why I should be penalised for people who don't know how to regulate their calories.
There. I've said it now.
Anyone know where I can get a life-time supply of out-of-date San Pellegrino orange or grapefruit? Or cranberry juice?
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 12:10:06 GMT
I was angry enough when the supermarkets announced they were going to help people make healthy choices by taking the unhealthy option away (that is LITERALLY THE OPPOSITE OF CHOICE) but now my strawberry Ribena doesn't taste right? LAME. I'll pay the surcharge for a drink that tastes the way I expect it to taste and that I enjoy, thanks all the same.
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Post by kathryn on Jul 1, 2018 12:37:32 GMT
The 'sugar tax' can bog off. I love this hot weather that we only get very occasionally. When it arrives I do not sit in the garden but seem to thrive and get more stuff done. Then I need a lovely cool drink. I only drink sweet, sugary stuff during weather like this so, in actual fact, hardly ever. Now all my favourite drinks taste like cats' pee and I'm left with a nasty saccharine taste in my mouth and, worst of all, still thirsty as they do not quench. I don't see why I should be penalised for people who don't know how to regulate their calories. There. I've said it now. Anyone know where I can get a life-time supply of out-of-date San Pellegrino orange or grapefruit? Or cranberry juice? I saw on Twitter the other day someone who went into a newsagent to buy a can of Iron Bru, and the shopkeeper just said ‘38%?’ and then pulled a can of the old stuff out from under the counter for her. I just love the idea of there being an under-the-counter trade in Iron Bru. |
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 1, 2018 12:49:03 GMT
I like sweetener. I think the full sugar versions are too syrupy. They also leave that furry coating on your teeth and make your breath smell.
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 1, 2018 13:43:50 GMT
I love the idea of black market full-fat drinks! Only select, certain ones are ok BurlyBeaR. I agree that many of them are syrupy. And as for bear-breath...  |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 14:16:26 GMT
I agree. Drinks with sweeteners in them are the Devil's work. They taste disgusting (I find them too sweet but in the most vomit inducing artificial way) and now thanks to people who can't help themselves drinking ten gallons of cola per day and feeding their kids the same, most drinks all taste like Diet Coke which let's face it, you may as well drink embalming fluid. AND I have to pay extra for the privilege. Eff orf Theresa May.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 1, 2018 15:24:57 GMT
I'm used to the taste of sweeteners now but I wish manufacturers would stop trying to claim they taste exactly the same as sugar. In particular, anything that contains saccharine is going to taste of saccharine and nothing else.
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Post by Jon on Jul 1, 2018 15:45:04 GMT
I’m not that fussed about Pride, I understand why it exists but it has never appealed to me
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Post by Tibidabo on Jul 1, 2018 16:15:54 GMT
Well, I'm pleasantly surprised to discover that my unpopular opinion about sweeteners isn't so unpopular after all!
Mr Tibs tells me to 'Stop yer moo-aning!' as he cannot tell the difference. Though, to be fair, his tastebuds are probably totally inefficacious after all those years of my cooking.
MiniTibs, who is now officially one 6th doctor (and the other 74(ish)% proof) also tells me to shut up as some ridiculous amount of millions is spent on the NHS as a result of obesity.
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Post by BurlyBeaR on Jul 2, 2018 18:59:05 GMT
Well I’m not getting rid of my aspartame recipe book. My fairy cakes were the talk of the BI last year. Not to mention my fudge fingers.
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Post by 49thand8th on Jul 2, 2018 19:21:37 GMT
I agree. Drinks with sweeteners in them are the Devil's work. They taste disgusting (I find them too sweet but in the most vomit inducing artificial way) and now thanks to people who can't help themselves drinking ten gallons of cola per day and feeding their kids the same, most drinks all taste like Diet Coke which let's face it, you may as well drink embalming fluid. AND I have to pay extra for the privilege. Eff orf Theresa May. The aftertaste is THE WORST. Even the "natural" ones, like stevia, taste like a balloon. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 2, 2018 22:08:50 GMT
Even the "natural" ones, like stevia On that subject, I hate the use of "natural" to describe foods or medicines. If it's made in a factory, wrapped in plastic and shipped to the the store in a truck it's given up any right to be considered "natural". And it's no good trying to say it's made from natural ingredients because everything is made from natural ingredients. OK, some of them are more processed than others, but it's not as if there's a point where the product undergoes a nature extraction process and from then on it's infused with artificiality. And in a similar vein, I'm amused by companies with a name that attempts to evoke images of nature but an address that begs to differ: The Frolicking Cow Natural Farm Creamery Ltd
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Post by 49thand8th on Jul 3, 2018 14:00:50 GMT
Even the "natural" ones, like stevia On that subject, I hate the use of "natural" to describe foods or medicines. Agreed. You know what's also natural? Cocaine! Cocaine is natural. |
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Post by kathryn on Jul 3, 2018 14:51:27 GMT
On that subject, I hate the use of "natural" to describe foods or medicines. Agreed. You know what's also natural? Cocaine! Cocaine is natural. Also arsenic. Entirely natural. Doesn't mean it's good for you. |
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Post by glossie on Jul 3, 2018 18:45:06 GMT
I was going to buy a quiche from Tesco the other day. I always read ingredient labels to check just what horrors lie within. A cheese and smoked bacon quiche - with smoked re-formed bacon with added water...
I put it back, went home and made my own (without the re-formed bacon).
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Post by mistressjojo on Jul 4, 2018 3:05:42 GMT
I was going to buy a quiche from Tesco the other day. I always read ingredient labels to check just what horrors lie within. A cheese and smoked bacon quiche - with smoked re-formed bacon with added water... I put it back, went home and made my own (without the re-formed bacon). At least it contained bacon, even if it was 're-formed'. Unlike the Peanut Butter Tim Tams that contained no actual peanut butter, just 'peanut butter flavouring'.  |
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Post by showgirl on Jul 4, 2018 3:24:43 GMT
What frustrates me about any form of sweetener, real or artificial, is that it's always TOO sweet. A drink is not refreshing when it's too syrupy and it's the same with a lot of manufactured cakes and biscuits. Plus if I make my own, I often cut down significantly on the amount of sugar specified.
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Post by hal9000 on Jul 8, 2018 17:41:33 GMT
Danny Dyer is a natural and talented actor. Loved him (!)in Andrea Arnold’s Oscar-winning (!!) short WASP, in which the tension in the film is regulated by his reaction to the lie the leading lady told him. I just about melted.
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Post by ellie1981 on Jul 8, 2018 19:19:50 GMT
I’m rooting against England in the World Cup just because I want the football obsessives chanting Three Lions in the street all week to learn a lesson.
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Post by Deleted on Jul 11, 2018 21:27:59 GMT
The link describes how one of the women who damaged an ambulance has been identified and arrested and follows it up with a picture of Kate Middleton. |
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Post by duncan on Jul 12, 2018 6:20:17 GMT
I'm not English ergo I wanted England to get utterly humiliated.
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Post by crowblack on Jul 12, 2018 8:13:30 GMT
just because I want the football obsessives chanting Three Lions in the street all week to learn a lesson. But members of the team that beat them reportedly sang a fascist song in their dressing room after beating Argentina, and were supported by racists as the 'all white' team. |
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Post by Deleted on Jul 12, 2018 11:56:42 GMT
just because I want the football obsessives chanting Three Lions in the street all week to learn a lesson. But members of the team that beat them reportedly sang a fascist song in their dressing room after beating Argentina, and were supported by racists as the 'all white' team. The dark history of Croatia isn’t much talked about but was very much to the fore in the nineties after the Balkan war. There is a recent report about the resurgence of fascism there, modelled on the puppet Nazi state and the Ustasha who controlled it. Other European countries are similarly concerning, such as Austria, Poland, Hungary and, of course, Russia but pretty much all are in similar danger. The far right famously used football as a recruiting area in the UK but that has run up against the fact that we are now a wide ethnic mix. Croatia, on the other hand, is pretty monocultural and it is no surprise if their supporters and players are amenable to the far right. |
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