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Comedic "things you would ban": minor things that irritate you
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GusB
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Add my name to the League Against Sprouts list. Blergh!
75A
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just had sprouts with my tea - yummy!
adrock1976
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Regarding the erectile dysfunction ads, I recently saw the Numan one where near the end a chainsaw appears with a voice over "for when it stops working" or words more or less to that effect.
It does not fill me with much confidence if the chainsaw is implying to dismember yourself when a man's equipment does not function so well compared with 20 to 30 years previously.
Yes, I've read about that sort of thing in the news !
SuspectUsual
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The condiment police
Why should it be mustard on beef, apple sauce on pork, cranberry sauce with turkey? The correct answer is mint sauce - and lots of it - with everything
Why should it be mustard on beef, apple sauce on pork, cranberry sauce with turkey? The correct answer is mint sauce - and lots of it - with everything
Absolutely.
I frequently have mint sauce, horseradish sauce and mustard on the same meal (you need it to make vegetables edible !)
Techniquest
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I have to agree here, in fact I was talking about apple sauce with a friend who's never had it before when we were talking about Saturday's meals. I still want some apple sauce right now! Mint sauce, YES! I love a good bit of mint sauce, I don't buy it too often and I don't know why.
A nice big plate of vegetables, gravy and mint sauce, ooh yes that sounds far more appealing than the sandwich I'm currently having!
All these people who only have their condiments with certain foods, they can go away for sure. I don't think they'd have liked my sliced beetroot sandwich I had the other day, which I know will sound weird but honestly, it was really nice!
I sometimes have veg with no seasoning! It's not very exciting, granted!
On a similar theme, white wine with poultry. I love some poultry washed down with red wine!
Techniquest
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That's a thing? I used to enjoy red wine with whatever I fancied, a good Australian shiraz was fantastic on its own!
I never really got all this 'food pairing' stuff, good food tastes great without needing to be expertly matched with a particular type of drink, and vice versa.
Mind you, my taste in food can be weird. The other day, I made a sliced beetroot sandwich and, as weird as it sounds, it was amazing!
Gloster
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Well, I never eat poultry and never drink white wine. At the moment I am off wine (doesn’t mix with my pills), but usually I’ll drink red wine with anything. The reason is simple: I like the taste of red wine, preferably south of France cheap gutrot. I don’t see why I have to follow other people’s rules about what goes with what. Mind you, if you choose the wrong wine in the presence of James Bond he’ll kill you.
61653 HTAFC
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Bleurgh!
I'd ban lazy food combinations like drowning lamb in mint sauce with the consistency of tar. Store-bought mint sauce is truly the devil's caviar.
The correct way to do sprouts is to parboil them, then drain, and sautée in garlic butter with pine nuts or chestnuts.
Acey
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I find the best way to do sprouts is to wash them ,peel off the outer leaves,boil them for 2 minutes ,coat them with melted butter seasoned with garlic and sea salt ,pop them in an oven on a high heat for 10 minutes ,remove carefully and finally throw the whole into the nearest bin ,or alternatively give them to someone you dislike !
Gloster
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Supermarkets that ask you if you want to help the environment by not taking a till receipt. This in a building that is chock-full of fluorescent lights, fridges and just about every possible electricity guzzling gadget.
Busaholic
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By extension, you could offer to help the environment by not bothering till staff or self-service machines with your goods and just go 'do a Madeley (Richard of that ilk)', preferably with quantities of expensive booze. Extra Clubcard points if you can get away with this twice!
Peter Mugridge
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I agree; I always thin my mint sauce down a bit in a larger jar although it took quite a bit of practice to get the proportions of malt vinegar and sugar to add to it correct. Second nature now.
birchesgreen
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Waitrose mint sauce is the best, especially with marrowfat peas.
scotrail158713
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If it's just plain beetroot then no, I'd hate that. I can't stand plain beetroot. Pickled beetroot however is a good one - if you look past the bread looking like it has been stabbed.
Gloster
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I must admit that beetroot is one food that I ought to like but loathe. Perhaps it is because at school every Monday for six years lunch was spam, potatoes boiled in their jackets until the jacket falls off (they become all fluffy) and sliced beetroot, followed by semolina and jam. The amount of beetroot served was one thing I did not enjoy about my year in Sweden.
Techniquest
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If it's just plain beetroot then no, I'd hate that. I can't stand plain beetroot. Pickled beetroot however is a good one - if you look past the bread looking like it has been stabbed.
It was out of a Baxters jar of sliced beetroot, so plenty of additional flavour. I was really hungry the other day, so didn't notice the bread looking slightly odd
Acey
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Black pudding ,just the thought of it makes me nauseous,must be like eating an artery !
"Snap !" nearly -- though for me it was a mere two years; and, substitute cold roast "cow or sheep"; and chocolate pudding with chocolate sauce (which latter I had never encountered before, and which struck me as perverse). The experience put me, for life without a doubt, off the vile purple thing "in any shape or make"; though indeed, so many people love it and praise it highly, that I feel that it must be me who's in the wrong.
Mmmm, a delicious artery !
Despite being a true southernerm, I agree, - I've liked black pudding since I was a child, especially as part of a fry-up. It can be difficult to get a decent BP down southas many of them seem to be treated as a tubular pate'. Morrisons are I presume 'Black Pudding suppliers to the Queen' as a northern supermarket with branches near to the English palaces, - theirs is usually better.
However true to London origins, I still like jellied eels, whelks, winkles (when they're around) and brawn - another 'difficult to get' thing.
nlogax
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It's possible to get over that bilious feeling you get when thinking about what black pudding is. Five years ago I had the same opinion of it as you do. Now I think it's bloody delicious.
Olives on the other hand. Nope, never, ever going to start liking those. Shoot them all into the sun please.
Techniquest
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Black pudding I just don't understand the love for, such an unpleasant idea. The creator of such a bizarre thing needs to rethink their life! Dead or alive, don't care how they re-evaluate themselves if they're already dead but it needs doing.
Similar to whoever came up with the idea of eating things like animal livers, hearts etc. What a disgusting idea, it's enough to make one weep for humanity...!
Similar to whoever came up with the idea of eating things like animal livers, hearts etc. What a disgusting idea, it's enough to make one weep for humanity...!
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