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Post by clocketpatch on Apr 20, 2008 4:18:40 GMT
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Post by Kit on Apr 20, 2008 13:39:02 GMT
...Wow.
That's all I can say.
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Clifford
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Caan has Dalek now pls?
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Post by Clifford on Jun 20, 2008 15:28:01 GMT
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Post by jjpor on Jul 24, 2008 23:17:30 GMT
Ah, Cadbury's Smash!!! I remember these so, so well from my 80s UK kidhood!!! You're right, they are kind of creepy.
Smash is the kind of thing that we used to eat all the time as kids - I don't know if you have it on the other side of the pond, but it is, with the benefit of hindsight, absolutely vile. One of the more unpleasant things human beings have forced themselves to eat over the millennia - Daleks would probably love the stuff.
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Post by magnusgreel on Jul 24, 2008 23:25:20 GMT
Well, you do have deep-fried Mars bars with ketchup over there, too... Australians have vegemite!
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Post by jjpor on Jul 24, 2008 23:58:02 GMT
We have Marmite - yeast extract or something. Good lord, as the Brig might say.
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 25, 2008 1:04:16 GMT
Fried Mars bars with...   Now, I like ketchup as much as the next person (maybe more so...) but really. There are limits! Vegemite is icky. I've never had marmite so I can't tell. Probably icky too if it tastes the same but then, I can't really judge until I down a spoonful. Instant potatoes in ANY form are icky. I remember when I was little my Mum made some and they were so dry and inedible that she started rummaging through the cupboards looking for something to mix with them to give them any flavour other than chalky ick. We didn't have much at the time and she ended up mixing in a can of sardines. I think I ate half a bowl before being all, okay, this is nasty. Put me off instant potatoes and sardines for life (together or seperate). Some things just aren't natural. hmmm... if I sound a bit picky, going on about how ew this and that is. I really aren't. I *did* eat half the bowl of the fishy potatoe goop. I'll eat pretty much anything if it doesn't run away from me. Bugs, weird sea food, organ meat, dubious discount produce, garlic...  |
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Post by jjpor on Jul 25, 2008 16:42:39 GMT
Clocket, your mum's approach to cooking sounds very much like my mum's. Ah, the things I've eaten in my time...
All this talk of reconstituted potatoes invokes a strange nostalgia in me - memories of eating Smash and fishfingers at my granddad's house on a Saturday afternoon while the football results flashed up on Grandstand ('twill mean nothing to you non-UKians out there), then sitting down in front of the telly afterwards to watch Colin Baker doing something unsuitable for children, probably involving people eating rats, or someone getting their leg shot off by a Dalek... Those were the days...
Talking of eating rats, they probably taste better than Marmite, is all I'm saying.
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Post by Stripes on Jul 25, 2008 17:28:41 GMT
Saturday afternoon while the football results flashed up on Grandstand ('twill mean nothing to you non-UKians out there) Football is big in my family. We make it a huge event when Euro and World Cup are on. I have some great memories of going to a bar full of dutch people, all in orange, cheering and singing. I don't know too much about clubs (A little harder to find here in Canada, but you can watch a match if you look hard enough). |
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Post by jjpor on Jul 25, 2008 19:00:26 GMT
Sorry Newton, I'm not really parochial enough to assume that people outside the UK know nothing about football, honest I'm not. I was really talking about Grandstand, which was
BBC 1's long-running Saturday afternoon sports programme, and, in its way, nearly as much of a British institution as the good Doctor. I wasn't sure non-UK people would know what it was, although I guess they might have heard of it in the context of Who, because traditionally Who was always on after it (before they moved Seven to Wednesday nights in an effort to kill him by running him opposite Coronation Street).
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 25, 2008 19:02:11 GMT
So... it's sort of like Hockey Night in Canada but with football?
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Post by jjpor on Jul 25, 2008 19:10:26 GMT
It wasn't just football, it was all kinds of different things - quite often you'd get complete randomness like bowls or table tennis or something. It always used to end with the footy scores, though, flashed up by this teleprinter thing, and then, after a quick news bulletin, Doctor Who!
Sadly, Grandstand is no more...they still show sports programmes on a Saturday afternoon, but somehow it just isn't the same...
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Post by clocketpatch on Jul 25, 2008 19:16:47 GMT
I know what you mean. Drat change! Drat it! |
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Post by Stripes on Jul 25, 2008 20:59:52 GMT
It wasn't just football, it was all kinds of different things - quite often you'd get complete randomness like bowls or table tennis or something. It always used to end with the footy scores, though, flashed up by this teleprinter thing, and then, after a quick news bulletin, Doctor Who! Sadly, Grandstand is no more...they still show sports programmes on a Saturday afternoon, but somehow it just isn't the same... Oh! You mean the tv show, not football. Ok. *hugs my football* |
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Post by jjpor on Jul 25, 2008 22:45:23 GMT
Football is indeed very huggable - my team are Liverpool FC - the once and future kings of the English game (I like to think!)
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