What Are You Munching On? V2. Stimulants, pizza and Gatorade

[BigG]

Jayzus, G.

How the hell do you maintain your physique on a diet of card!?

In relation to all of this pizza talk - has anybody heard from Squid recently?

Its called hard graft Don my old son....

You youngsters today don't know what graft is

(30 miles a day there and back, uphill both ways, in the snow, still had change from a tenner etc.etc....)

I think squid has done as I often threaten to do and fucked off for good....

 

[SmokingAces]

Magnum chocolate coated ice cream after an asortment of nice weed and hashes = yum :D

 

[consumer]

Jayzus, G.

How the hell do you maintain your physique on a diet of card!?

In relation to all of this pizza talk - has anybody heard from Squid recently?

Squid posted a while ago she was leaving EADD. I guess she was sick of all the constant drama. Cant blaim her really. She may come back now things have settled down..at least for the time being.

 

[Shambles]

Sounds good tinker.....

I still prefer these though......

Aha! They sell those at Tesco's too and those are precisely the ones I was meaning when saying they were deeply disappointing. Didn't like 'em at all tbh.

In related news, I actually had pizza for dins tonight. Co-Op own brand El Cheapo frozen "Texas BBQ" chook 'n' bacon jobbie that I jazzed up with fresh baby plums, spring onion, garlic sausage, couple bird's eye chillies and extra cheese. Base was shite as you'd expect but the topping was just scrummy. I would go so far as to say YUM!!!

 

[Don Luigi]

Base was shite as you'd expect but the topping was just scrummy. I would go so far as to say YUM!!!

 

[Shambles]

I'm down with this kind of thing.

(did you see what i did there or has it been so long since i saw that episode this post didn't work in quite the way intended)

 

[Sadie]

Sham, there is nothing cheapo about Texan anything! Tread carefully boi!

I had home made soup ( just random bit and noodles ) and a wensleydale stuffed mushroom for dins. All I've been craving is yogurt and the bastards around here have such shit selection.

I will get some yogurt soon!

 

[BigG]

Gettin ma Greggs on!!

(Going to have to stop eating all this shit or this six pack is going to be a distant memory....)

 

[Don Luigi]

Greggs has only just recently arrived here, but it still hasn't reached my sleepy corner of the province. I last had some in Glasgow back in November. You don't need to travel far to find one as they're so ubiquitous.

I'm currently cooking up (*ahem* heating up *ahem*) some chilli beef.

 

[BigG]

Only just arrived??

You can't walk 50 feet around here without seeing a Greggs. Just in my small town alone there are 10.....

4 in one street....

Cheese pasties are the dogs though...

 

[Don Luigi]

Aye just in the last year or so. They're spreading like the blight, mind you.

God help me,
I miss you so much,
No water or milk compares to your touch.

Twenty some years you comforted me daily,
Now I struggle through the days ever so frailly.

Without you, most people I oft' want to throttle,
Can you even hear me, contained in your bottle?

One day, just a fleeting memory you will be,
I'll be all grown up and into drinking tea.

Lucozade, tell me,
Do you miss me?

This is getting out of hand. I don't even know when I stopped drinking the stuff but it's a nightmare. I thought the worst was over but my body just craves a hit of the looky

 

[BigG]

Were you a lucozade sport man or did you prefer the "proppa" stuff? The sort of stuff that in my day came in a glass bottle wrapped in cellophane that your mum would give you when you were off school poorly .....Also standard faire for anyone in hospital.....even those who had diabeties

 

[Don Luigi]

Were you a lucozade sport man or did you prefer the "proppa" stuff? The sort of stuff that in my day came in a glass bottle wrapped in cellophane that your mum would give you when you were off school poorly .....Also standard faire for anyone in hospital.....even those who had diabeties

The proper original stuff. In my day, the aul' hospital champagne also came in the same packaging. I used to always bang my teeth off the glass in my eagerness to get it down me. I only see the glass bottles in pubs now.

I had a rather heavy weekend and I appreciate just how much I miss it when I'm hungover/on a comedown/both.

 

[BigG]

Hospital champagne!!!
Haha!! Love it!

 

[Shambles]

Just finished nomming scampi, roast veggies (tatties, red onion, red & yellow peppers, few slices of chorizo, black pepper and extra paprika for flavour) and aioli. Really rather scrummy.

Greggs has only just recently arrived here, but it still hasn't reached my sleepy corner of the province. I last had some in Glasgow back in November. You don't need to travel far to find one as they're so ubiquitous.

Same here (well, 30-odd miles from here in the nearest town). It has tables outside so presumably considers itself some kinda trendy bistro style o' thing rather than the pie shop it appears to be on closer inspection. Not tried the pies, sarnies are okay but nowt special, bread/rolls are reasonable.

 

[BigG]

One of our (many) Greggs has those tables outside too. Another one has inexplicably the service part in one aras of the shop and the tills about half a mile away at the other end of the store...what the fuck is that all about?

The sausage and bean pasties are nice but the cheese and oinion are just fantastic.

Also I just found out that a "stottie cake" is purely a north east thing and they are called something else in other areas (barn or balm cakes or some such shite...will always be a stottie to me though)

 

[Shambles]

I'd heard both terms and did not realise they were (sort of) the same thing. According to wiki...

A barm cake is a soft, round, flattish bun from northern England, traditionally leavened with barm.[1][2][3]

The original barm cake is found in areas of Lancashire, North West England. Elsewhere in the country, a similar bread roll would be known instead as a "breadbun", "breadcake", "bap, "cob" (a Midlands term referring to a crustier roll), "teacake" (West Yorkshire/some parts of Cumbria; without currants or currant teacake with currants) or even a "stottie," a larger, spongy bread native to North East England.

Apparently stottie bread is also known as "oven bottom bread" which would be the name I've had 'em under in the form of Co-Op "oven bottom muffins". Apparently supermarket versions don't have the stodgy/doughy texture that is specific to such bready goodness. Live 'n' learn, eh

 

[Sadie]

I really didn't fancy eating but I know I'm meant to eat at least 3 meals a day. Dragged my heels and I'm so glad I did.

I made fresh tomato soup with a bit of rich pesto and extra garlic. Oat cake croutons and a stilton, leek and Wensleydale stuffed mushroom. SO TASTY!

At least I enjoyed it and I've eaten.


poached / roasted a chicken today so that's in the fridge waiting to be sliced for dinner. Gonna use the broth to boil my potatoes in for my broccoli and potato soup and use the rest of the broth to make chicken noodle soup out of.

Meh, make every bit count eh?

 

[BecomingJulie]

Around these parts, a bread roll is called a cob.

And just across the county line, the Food of the Gods was created: the Staffordshire Oatcake.

(Interestingly, I'm the first of my immediate family not to be born in Stoke-on-Trent -- and I have been told I don't cook bad oatcakes, for a non-Stokie.)

 

[Sadie]

i hope to taste your oatcakes one day Jules xx

I do like a sassy oat,

Yeah, that doesn't make sense. Nap time I thinks....