Wymsey wrote:
On Thu, 23 Oct 2014 19:02:28 +0000, jimp wrote:

going to surgery is just a visit to the doctor and not the major event
it is here.

Going to the surgery is visiting the doctor/practice nurse.

Having surgery is the process of having bits cut, etc. The can happen at
the hospital or, sometimes, at the surgery.

I had thought I just said that...


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Jim Pennino

On 24/10/14 17:28, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Brian Reay wrote in :

I think the English have mastered the Biscuit.

Can't argue with that. Evenm the cheap shop's own brand ginger biscuits rock.
There are some flaws though, those weird tinned ones that look (and taste)
like soem papery composite, and the ones with a blob of jam as tough as
Torrseal, those take careful suspension of disbelief (and a friendly dentist
within easy reach too).


I think you mean 'Jammy Dodgers', dreadful things. Not to keen on 'Jaffa
Cakes' either- too soft and glue like.

Fig Rolls are good. Someone I knew (not sure who it was) called them
'dead fly rolls' and I always chuckle when I have one.

Hovis do a digestive which go very well with cheese, I had a couple last
night at my club (a Trafalgar Night Dinner). Excellent with glass of
good port. Not always easy to find in the shops but the large stores
tend to stock them.

Brian Reay wrote in :

Very much my normal tea and it MUST be made in a teapot, none of this
dunking a tea bag in the cup nonsense. Totally uncivilised.


Agreed. My Grandpa taught me how to make tea properly. I haven't doen it for
far too long, but there was a reason for each part of the method, and it
worked.

On the subject of biscuits, Furniss of Truro. I shall say no more, I can't
convey how good those are with anything I cn say, other than to try the
cherry chocolate, and to try getting the lemon fairings they seem not to make
anymore.. I don't think I ever tasted biscuits better than those. They still
thrive, and no wonder..

Brian Reay wrote in :

Normally it is Twinnings EG,
sometimes with honey and lemon.

That's the one I remember. Damn good stuff too.

Brian Reay wrote in :

'Jammy Dodgers', dreadful things.

Those be them, I wasn't around at thew time, but I imagined them beign served
during the war, at times when people needed to bite the bullet. Those things
would have been a good stand-in.

Brian Morrison wrote in
:

There are certainly people that drink coffee in bed, not so sure about
beer...


I've seen it done, but I did not partake. I think a syphon was more fun at
the time, and you don't want one of those in the bed!

On 24/10/14 17:37, Brian Morrison wrote:
On Fri, 24 Oct 2014 17:11:14 +0100
FranK Turner-Smith G3VKI wrote:

"Jerry Stuckle" wrote in message
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On 10/24/2014 8:48 AM, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
AndyW wrote in
. com:
was distribution of lactose-based products germane to the
conversation?

I have it on (possibly dubious) authority that the Germans love
milk.

No, there are only two drinks. Coffee and beer. One you drink
before noon, the other, after noon.

Do you mean to say there are people that get out of bed before noon?

There are certainly people that drink coffee in bed, not so sure about
beer...


A hot milk based drink is supposed to help sleep, hot chocolate or one
of the 'malted' drinks like Ovaltine or Horlicks etc. I'd think coffee
would be the worst thing last thing at night, or even tea as it has as
much caffeine per cup as coffee supposedly. Not convinced re beer (or
too much other booze) either. I'd have thought it would lead to needing
to needing to 'make a visit' ;-)

Brian Reay wrote in :

I'd think coffee
would be the worst thing last thing at night

I think the idea is to get them out of it (the bed), as opposed to beer,
whose purpose is simply to get them out of it.

On 24/10/14 17:55, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Brian Reay wrote in :

'Jammy Dodgers', dreadful things.

Those be them, I wasn't around at thew time, but I imagined them beign served
during the war, at times when people needed to bite the bullet. Those things
would have been a good stand-in.


No idea if that is true but it makes a good story ;-)

I picked up an interesting but useless fact the other week, during WW2
one of the foods which was never rationed was Fish and Chips. It was
thought that is would damage moral too much. Fish and Chip wagons would
tour the areas 'bombed out' to serve fish and chips to those in the
area. I'd have thought that the fish would have been in short supply due
to problems with fuel for the trawlers, trawlers being pressed into
service, sunk etc. but clearly not. These days it would be take away
Chinese and Curry or Kebabs (not that I've ever had a Kebab- they always
look like reconstituted fat).

On 2014-10-24 16:49:37 +0000, Brian Reay said:

On 24/10/14 17:28, Lostgallifreyan wrote:
Brian Reay wrote in :

I think the English have mastered the Biscuit.

Can't argue with that. Evenm the cheap shop's own brand ginger biscuits rock.
There are some flaws though, those weird tinned ones that look (and taste)
like soem papery composite, and the ones with a blob of jam as tough as
Torrseal, those take careful suspension of disbelief (and a friendly dentist
within easy reach too).


I think you mean 'Jammy Dodgers', dreadful things. Not to keen on
'Jaffa Cakes' either- too soft and glue like.

Fig Rolls are good. Someone I knew (not sure who it was) called them
'dead fly rolls' and I always chuckle when I have one.

Surely Garibaldi biscuits are the classical dead fly biscuits? Fig
rolls would be more macerated fly rolls.


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Percy Picacity