You just need to visit a Scottish supermarket and compare it with one in England.
Far more pies: far fewer fresh fruit and veg.
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>> Far more pies:
Scotch pies... mmmmmm!
You can't get those in Kensington & Chelsea. Lots of ponced-up rabbit food though.
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Halls pies in Morrisons.
Wonderful with gravy, chips and baked beans..
as part of a calorie controlled diet.
Err...
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>>You just need to visit a Scottish supermarket and compare it with one in England. Far more pies
I worked in Safeway at the time of the Morrisons takeover and the footage given over to pies and pastries trebled overnight so blame the Yorkshireman!!
I also remember the first Christmas of Morrisons when we got inundated with pork pies. When we queries this with the buyers it was because everyone has pork pies at Christmas time? We assumed this must be another Bradford speciality.....
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>> I also remember the first Christmas of Morrisons when we got inundated with pork pies.
>> When we queries this with the buyers it was because everyone has pork pies at
>> Christmas time? We assumed this must be another Bradford speciality.....
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It's a Yorkshire thing, certainly common throughout the West Riding.
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>> It's a Yorkshire thing, certainly common throughout the West Riding.
I can eat a small boughten (Bristol dialect term) pork pie but all the brands seem more or les identical, with the filling in a homogenized solid lump, virtually no jelly and excessive fat, also homogenized, in the pie and in the pastry. They are a bit better heated - one can hardly ever be bothered - but still too fatty.
A good homemade one is another matter of course. My late lamented father had a good recipe. My middle daughter who is an excellent cook made one for my 70th birthday. At the end of the party, having spent the evening chattering and getting thoroughly intoxicated seven ways to sundown, I felt absolutely ravenous and thought I would eat a very large greedy piece.
The damn carphounds, including the daughter, had scoffed the goddam lot and there wasn't any left at all. They will suffer for that in the afterlife I hope. And if they are in the same place as me they will feel the prongs of my red-hot trident.
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>> I can eat a small boughten (Bristol dialect term) pork pie but all the brands
>> seem more or les identical, with the filling in a homogenized solid lump, virtually
>> no jelly and excessive fat, also homogenized, in the pie and in the pastry.
I like pork pies but can't bear the jelly, so this suits me down to the ground.
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You won't appreciate it, AC, especially given that we very rarely interact - but that made me laugh quite a lot.
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>> You won't appreciate it,
What on earth makes you think that Cc? 'We aim to please', so to speak. I'm not a gong hog like Certain Elements, but a quiet appreciative word never comes amiss.
Thank you comrade.
The daughter is here tonight with two of her nippers. Perhaps I will put in an order for a new pie come my 75th end August.
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You intoxicated A.C Don't believe you.?:) Can't eat like I used to but when I played darts yonks ago.I liked the sheperds pie and a couple of pints.Good food.
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>> You intoxicated A.C Don't believe you.?:)
You can believe it all right. Takes time, money and effort, but is possible.
I've ordered the new pie and been promised it. But she's busy and scatty so I'm keeping my fingers crossed.
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>> It's a Yorkshire thing, certainly common throughout the West Riding.
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Certainly is, I remember my mum having to order them weeks before xmas. Virtually everyone I know orders a pork pie usually a stamp pie. Does no-one else in the rest of the country eat them at xmas?
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>> Certainly is, I remember my mum having to order them weeks before xmas. Virtually everyone
>> I know orders a pork pie usually a stamp pie. Does no-one else in the
>> rest of the country eat them at xmas?
Do you mean a stand pie, or is a stamp one something different. I think they were stand pie because that's the way they're cooked - they don't have to be cooked in a dish or mould, they stand up on their own.
I do like a growler. As previously confessed.
www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=10689&m=237878
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>> I do like a growler. As previously confessed.
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>> www.car4play.com/forum/post/index.htm?v=e&t=10689&m=237878
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No doubt the same thing, just a different word used.
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>>Does no-one else in the rest of the country eat them at xmas?
Certainly not a Scottish choice!
Having said that, other than the traditional turkey & trimmings, and steak pies on New Years Day (real butcher ones), I can't really think of any other festive specific food for up here.
Re steak pies, many butchers open up at 6am on Hogmonay to cater for the sheer volume of customers buying their pre ordered Steak Pies.
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"But who wants to live until they’re 100 if they’re in the hospital for much of their older life"
Woman down the road here weighs 6 stone and has been howsebound for 10 years, she's getting on though.
She is about to go into care and her olde cottage will be sold to help pay the bills.
I should buy the place I supose, and rent it out to Hungrygarians.
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Dog, I believe there is now a vacant apartment at the Ritz she could have???
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I don't know whether her old age pension would run to that Bobby, but I'll put the suggestion to her, thanks.
;)
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Bad luck, Bobby. Scowlyfeatures, whoever it is, must be having a late lunch.
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>> Bad luck, Bobby. Scowlyfeatures, whoever it is, must be having a late lunch.
I just gave him one, wouldn't want this post to think it was being discriminated against.
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>>whoever it is, must be having a late lunch.
Or, is out-to-lunch!
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>> I don't know whether her old age pension would run to that.
Neither did Maggie's.
The Barclay brothers were however prepared to 'sub' her.
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The Feudal lords of Herm eh? (sorry and Sark now)
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>> The Barclay brothers were however prepared to 'sub' her.
Dammit Bromptonaut, you preempted me (not for the first time). Is that established though? It certainly doesn't seem impossible.
Perhaps they have an agent among us distributing red gongs.
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>> Dammit Bromptonaut, you preempted me (not for the first time). Is that established though? It
>> certainly doesn't seem impossible.
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It's reported in today's Guardian that she was a 'guest of long time supporters and media tycoon the Barclay brothers who own the (Ritz) hotel'.
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>> >> I don't know whether her old age pension would run to that.
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>> Neither did Maggie's.
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>> The Barclay brothers were however prepared to 'sub' her.
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As Dennis was a millionaire...
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>> As Dennis was a millionaire...
Even at that rate £3000 plus a night might be a stretch........
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I am not sure the Riitz is too pleased at having its dead guests carted out in full view of the worlds media.
What was wrong with a private nursing home? I know afternoon tea is not as good, but hey.
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I remember one of the viral emails that did the rounds supposedly stating the old American pensioner who lived permanently on the cruise ship as it worked out the same price as a nursing home...........
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Having seen a 2 second TV clip the the lady's departure from the Ritz I am not sure which is worse, going in a bit of style but obviously, in a hearse, or being rushed out of the goods entrance in a white Transit? The latter was what was shown
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>>>> As Dennis was a millionaire...
>> Even at that rate £3000 plus a night might be a stretch........
Yup. An ordinary millionaire would find living in the Ritz a bit dear, especially with the interest rate so niggardly.
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>> Dog, I believe there is now a vacant apartment at the Ritz she could have???
The good news is, its the jocks that cark it first. Just as well, we would be over run with the things.
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I think its only fair that us Jocks get our act together and eat healthily.
Don't think its fair that Brown & Blair might leave at an early age.......... :)
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Hey, as soon as you get independence, they are being deported matey. Up the road they go.
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>> Hey, as soon as you get independence, they are being deported matey. Up the road
>> they go.
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If they have to walk, most will die on teh road.
The better news is that Man United will lose their manager..
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To be fair I think Brown is already up here but not sure where war criminal man lives!!!
We can maybe start doing a trade off at the border like you used to see in the old commy states - always looks better though if it happens on a bridge.
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>>not sure where war criminal man lives
Have a scout around North Queensferry ;)
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Tony Blair lives in London sorting out the world..
www.tonyblairoffice.org/
If he is extradited to Scotland, English property prices will collpase..
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Brecqhou is the name of the Channel Island owned by the Barclay Brothers , it is nowhere near Herm but sits close to and is separate from Sark.....
...useful information garnered from Private Eye who take frequent potshots at said brothers......
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>> Brecqhou is the name of the Channel Island owned by the Barclay Brothers , it
>> is nowhere near Herm but sits close to and is separate from Sark.....
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>> ...useful information garnered from Private Eye who take frequent potshots at said brothers......
Well it got too small for them
stolen from wiki
Transition to a new system of government
Main article: Sark general election, 2008
In 2008, Sark dismantled its previous system of government, which had evolved gradually from its original system established in 1565. Change was influenced by the Barclay brothers on the premise that this was necessary to comply with the European Convention on Human Rights.[11] Under the old system, Sark's parliament consisted of a 54-member chamber that included the Seigneur, the Seneschal, 40 tenant members and 12 deputies. On 16 January 2008 and 21 February 2008, the Chief Pleas approved a law which introduced a 30-member chamber, with 28 members elected in island-wide elections, one hereditary member and one member appointed for life. The old system was described as feudal, and hence objectionable, because the Tenants were seen to be able to sit in Chief Pleas as of right, and the new system has been described as democratic, and hence acceptable. Also, the Tenants were also elected by and from among only the joint owners of each Tenement.[12] On 9 April 2008, the Privy Council approved the Sark law reforms,[13] and the first elections under the new law were held in December 2008 and the new chamber first convened in January 2009.[14][15][16]
Some Sark residents have complained that the new system is not democratic and have compared the powers the new law granted to the Seneschal, an unelected member whose term the new law extended to the duration of his natural life, to being imperial or dictatorial. The Court of Appeal has indeed ruled his powers to be in breach of the European Convention on Human Rights and his powers are subject to further legal challenges on these grounds.[17]
In March 2012, the BBC Today programme reported on local disquiet about the influence of the billionaire identical twins David and Frederick Barclay.[18] The New Yorker magazine further illustrated the ongoing and escalating tensions between the Barclays and some of the longer term residents in October 2012.[19]
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you cant beat a pukka pie...i live within a smell of the factory, syston
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The assumption is always that there is something about the place or the eating habits of its inhabitants that determines longevity.
I offer the alternative theory that it is genetic. The longest living people over many centuries have been from families with a tradition of Church of England clergymen and academics from the old universities.
The population of Glasgow are simply unlucky in probably not sharing this gene-pool.
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>> The assumption is always that there is something about the place or the eating habits
>> of its inhabitants that determines longevity.
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>> I offer the alternative theory that it is genetic. The longest living people over many
>> centuries have been from families with a tradition of Church of England clergymen and academics
>> from the old universities.
>> The population of Glasgow are simply unlucky in probably not sharing this gene-pool.
I suspect that owes more to healthy food in the academic's refectory and frugal stipends in the church more than breeding.
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Nothing's all bad.
If you live in Glasgae, Blackburn or Darwen you'll get a much better annuity rate so at least you'll have more disposable income for pie purchasing.
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Britain's deadliest places to live - madf
