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I'm on the Chinese getting a take away, when did all the fing waving cats appear. Weren't there years ago and suddenly they are everywhere
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S'posed to bring you money and good luck.
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Now here's a funny thing.
Remember when the dessert option in Chinese restaurants was applie pie and custard (well it was in Halifax and Huddersfield) and the custard was always translucent?
I learned relatively recently that most Chinese are lactose intolerant, being a genetic thing that means they have a deficiency of lactase being the needed to deal with it - and historically most Chinese have not drunk milk.
Maybe that was why they made the Birds custard with water.
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Have you been imbibing Sire?
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Only a couple of glasses of rioja.
An even funnier thing is that the Chinese are now promoting milk drinking. I read somewhere that they are building, or have built, an intensive dairy farm with 100,000 cows.
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>> Only a couple of glasses of rioja.
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>> An even funnier thing is that the Chinese are now promoting milk drinking. I read
>> somewhere that they are building, or have built, an intensive dairy farm with 100,000 cows.
All the cows under cover.
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I've used the odd Chinese takeaway over my lifetime and don't recall there ever NOT being waving cats. I'd go so far as to say I can remember the first time I saw one, and that would be about forty years ago.
Perhaps it's an East Anglian thing that's spreading only now...
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>> Perhaps it's an East Anglian thing that's spreading only now...
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The giveaway would be if they have six toes on each paw.
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well i think they only rocked up about 15 years ago.
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Steady or there'll be another investigation
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Our chippy has one on top of the Coke fridge....only it doesn't wave. I asked the owner if she was too tight to buy a new battery for it ! She didn't take offence as she fancies me....and she's quite fit for her age.....and wrinkle free !
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I noticed a proliferation of those things in London's China Town earlier this year - all different sizes.
I put it down to another fad, like those birds on a stick that used to slowly judder down back in the '70s, or those rocking birds that would 'drink' water from the same period.
I've still got a 'rocking gorilla' that belts out La Macarena if I can be bothered to put a battery in it. Both daughters deny ever buying it. CAUTION, EARWORM: www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBYM6g8Tck
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>> I've still got a 'rocking gorilla' that belts out La Macarena if I can be
>> bothered to put a battery in it. Both daughters deny ever buying it. CAUTION, EARWORM:
>> www.youtube.com/watch?v=XiBYM6g8Tck
Did anyone buy one of these awful singing fish things?
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Thread drift alert!
Why does Rioja differ in taste so much when bought in a restaurant 'by the glass'?
I have got a mental list of regular eating places where the Rioja is good, and another list where it is just nothing like Rioja should be, and I always order the Merlot.
Don't tell me to buy a bottle, remember Ian is T Total and I can't drink one on my own during the course of a meal;)
Pat
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Why does Rioja differ in taste so much when bought in a restaurant 'by the glass'?
Aeration? If the glass comes from a bottle that's been open (and partially empty) for an hour or two, the wine will have had some time to react with the air. Most red wines, even relatively cheap ones, benefit from decanting to get some air into them a few minutes before serving.
No fancy kit required. We use a glass carafe from a French supermarket but even a jug will do.
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Could well be this.
I'd never serve Rioja without allowing for aeration. It can taste quite 'heavy' without aeration and can resemble a cheap basic red wine. The difference is, a cheapy wine will often improve, but a Rioja after an hour with the cork out is light years ahead.
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Yes... for some reason rioja seems worse for this than the average red. I buy Campo Viejo when it's on offer (usually Costco) and the one I opened last night was a 2008 Gran Reserva. A carefully poured glass from a newly opened bottle is horrible, so if it's all going to be drunk I pour it roughly into a carafe, otherwise I pour small glasses from a height to splash it around a bit and it's much better - very nice in fact. I also have one of those aerator funnels my son bought me, when I remember, I use that. (MD, there is still 1/3 of the bottle left, it will be fine tonight).
That was the last bottle of that. Next is some Reserva that was on at £6.99 in Morrisons a couple of weeks ago.
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Campo Viejo Reserva is our "normal" tipple of choice. Most of the time it's horridly overpriced, so like others we only buy when it's on "offerta".
Viña Sol was our white preference at around 5 euros a bottle.
I do recall, fondly, buying half a dozen 4 bottle cases of the Camp Viejo Reserva for a happy 19 Euros a case from Al Campo (Auchan in France) the Christmas before we returned to the UK.
SWMBO developed a taste for cava and in Spain we always bought Arestel from Lidl at about 2.80 euros a bottle. Popped into a Lidl yesterday and stocked up with the 4 bottles of self same stuff for about £4.85 a bottle.
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When I first saw this thread I thought it would be about picking up cats and waving them, rather than artificial cats which wave. I are disappoint. :-(
But if we're on to wine recommendations now, I advise those who like a red to pop in to Marks and Sparks and get a bottle of their Chateau Mukhrani Georgian wine (Saperavi varietal). And for the more adventurous, the fabulous Georgian white (orange) wine they also stock, Tblvino Qvevris.
www.marksandspencer.com/chateau-mukhrani-saperavi-case-of-6/p/p60054091
www.marksandspencer.com/tblvino-quevris/p/p60053880
They've got them on the shelf of my local M&S even if the website says out of stock.
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"I are disappoint"
Made me smile.
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Not my own work. I read it elsewhere and it made me smile. I have no idea why. But I'm glad to hear I'm not the only one.
As an aside, I'm getting loads of ads on this page now featuring pictures of cats. Which is also making me chuckle. I love a good internet cat picture/video, even though I'm not the world's greatest lover of the practically pointless species, if I'm honest.
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>> I'm not the world's greatest lover of the practically pointless species, if I'm honest.
We agree on the catarchy.
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Waving cats - No FM2R
