i was waiting my whole life for greek yogurt apparently. love it. in the 90's all i could get was Erivan yogurt. still want a trendy falafel place though.
― scott seward, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
It certainly makes a good khorma, and is just lush with honey. You can get a tub of Greek Yoghurt and a bag of Kale in my local Co-op for a not very petit bourgeois price of just under 2 quid.
― calzino, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:00 (seven years ago) link
btw lex said what I was going to say re falafel/houmous/clueless whites but that reminds me to remind the thread that the influence of shit comedians in keeping the "I have run out of houmous #mostmiddleclasssentenceever #britishproblems" idiocy alive is as much a factor as that of shit columnists. Russell Kane is probably saying something about houmous right this very moment somewhere― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 4:52 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Tuesday, November 29, 2016 4:52 PM (four hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
No lie, a few posts into this thread and all I could think of was Russell Kane shrieking 'CoriANDER!!!!'Think this was from about a decade ago and it's clearly annoyed me ever since
― kinder, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 21:58 (seven years ago) link
Tbf he's a cunt
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:17 (seven years ago) link
surely not
― kinder, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:25 (seven years ago) link
Remember the irst time I came across this kind of thing and it was a piece Michael Crick did around one of the Labour party conf (early 00s but could easily be wrong by five years either side) and he was playing with this awful Blairite activist who said something dumb around mushy peas.
Recently came across that Orwell fragment when quoted by Michael Deacon on twitter iirc and Orwell is totally the fuel these ppl consume when spouting this guff (but I suppose its much wider given the US dimension I am seeing but don't have time right now to process). I suspect Orwell has had an incredibly destructive effect on British politics that is being felt in a partic way at this very moment. I've got to read that Raymond Williams book on him to think about this.
― xyzzzz__, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 22:44 (seven years ago) link
the godawful right-wing comic strip mallard fillmore was like 50 percent "jokes" about liberals sipping lattes. it was almost kind of impressive how many latte-related ideas the guy managed to come up with.
― (The Other) J.D. (J.D.), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:03 (seven years ago) link
Muscular Labourarity is an unfortunate legacy that Orwell has left for right wing cocks in denial
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:04 (seven years ago) link
it seems wrong that politically bad drinking ranges from sipping via quaffing and slurping to swilling but politically bad eating features only munching
― mark s, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
Omg
― Spiritual Hat Minimalism (Sund4r), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:09 (seven years ago) link
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― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:13 (seven years ago) link
nibbling! good call
(tho nail-nibbling does not strictly speaking belong with the others)
― mark s, Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:15 (seven years ago) link
thought maybe its appeal had broadened since the 80s
― diary of a mod how's life (wins), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:20 (seven years ago) link
can't help wondering why right wingers don't find themselves constantly disappointed by comrades who turn out to secret lefies
― brex yourself before you wrex yourself (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:40 (seven years ago) link
Oh wait, "lettuce-munching" = ARUGULA.
...which has been part of every McDonalds salad for years now
― (rocketcat) (kingfish), Tuesday, 29 November 2016 23:41 (seven years ago) link
Alexei Sayle did this sort of stuff back when he was a bad Bootle alt. comic... as opposed to whatever it is he is now.
― The Doug Walters of Crime (Tom D.), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 00:02 (seven years ago) link
https://twitter.com/stephenkb/status/803913297598812160
― mark s, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 10:50 (seven years ago) link
an national embarrassment iirc xp
― trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 11:11 (seven years ago) link
The food in question is always soft, pale and a bit foreign.
In the UK this goes back at least as far as the Macaronis of the C18th.
The thing I remember about the Mandelson/guacamole story is that when it appeared in the Guardian they felt the need to make clear to their readers that the "Scallops 50p" that could be seen on the chippy's price list in the accompanying photo were in fact slices of deep-fried potato in batter, and not Coquilles St-Jacques.
― mahb, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 11:19 (seven years ago) link
i'm guessing since it's a seaport that you could actually also buy shellfish in hartlepool even in the 1980s, though maybe not at a chippie
― mark s, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:15 (seven years ago) link
Thread reminds me of this - a story which sort of sums up Enda Kenny for me:
On to the Omni Park centre in Santry. Enda went to his favourite canvassing spot – a cafe. He whacked a man on the back to announce his presence, moving swiftly on as the man removed his fork to check if he still had any teeth. He sat beside a couple having their breakfast and cooed at their baby. Then he left them, bewildered, in his wake.What did he say? “The beans and the rashers,” replied the Dad. “He just said ‘the beans and the rashers’.
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:22 (seven years ago) link
http://1.bp.blogspot.com/-GrX1TiJ_gwY/US6TNrwmLrI/AAAAAAAAALg/bQdDmTzqfHM/s1600/BNO_FATTY_beans.jpg http://3.bp.blogspot.com/-ZpBZlXGOpS8/UiD_LviwOKI/AAAAAAAAAto/uhIInP83SJU/s1600/rasher
― mark s, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:28 (seven years ago) link
(the pig is called rasher)
― mark s, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:29 (seven years ago) link
i found these images while hunting for an image of a phenom in uk comics (=beano and dandy, not 2000AD) of slap-up feeds that consisted of ICE CREAM AND CHIPS (a huge mound of ice cream with chips sticking out of it, much as you see bangers & mash depicted in the same comics, except it was ice cream and chips)
i specifically recall these as an occasional item in the three bears (persistent story = the three bears eat a lot, cannot pay, are required to do the washing up) and bad penny (a lesser known version of minnie the minx and beryl the peril)
i remember being baffled by this aged 7 or so and asking mum why they were eating ice cream and chips -- and her saying the 1967 equivalent of "because it's two great tastes together at last"
― mark s, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
fuckin hell, hungry now
― more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:37 (seven years ago) link
Googling bangers and mash, was reminded of these two rapscallions:
http://schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/5/5/20553238/6138925_orig.jpg
There was also a tv show, with, iirc, a theme tune by Chas and Dave.
― more like dork enlightenment lol (Bananaman Begins), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link
https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/en/f/ff/Quichereilawjd.gif
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:40 (seven years ago) link
http://schoolreading70sbooks.weebly.com/uploads/2/0/5/5/20553238/2147320.jpg
One day this summer I was riding through Letchworth when the bus stopped and two dreadful-looking old men got on to it. They were both about sixty, both very short, pink, and chubby, and both hatless. One of them was obscenely bald, the other had long grey hair bobbed in the Lloyd George style. They were dressed in pistachio-coloured shirts and khaki shorts into which their huge bottoms were crammed so tightly that you could study every dimple.
Probably not socialists. Just from Letchworth
― Lennon, Elvis, Hendrix etc (dog latin), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:48 (seven years ago) link
"obscenely bald" oh noes how disgusting
― mark s, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 12:50 (seven years ago) link
a bobby charlton-style combover counts as 'obscenely bald' imo
― trump le monde (bizarro gazzara), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:05 (seven years ago) link
that one might be a bit offensive to Stephen Kinnock.
― calzino, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:07 (seven years ago) link
classic enda
― identity politics rooted in tolkienism (darraghmac), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:40 (seven years ago) link
how on earth he managed to be pm of ireland for so so long is beyond me...
― Bein' Sean Bean (LocalGarda), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 13:58 (seven years ago) link
This week's Economist described posh, Conservative-voting villages as "gin and jag" towns. As if poor people don't drink gin. Or have crying jags.
― trishyb, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 14:23 (seven years ago) link
"latte-sipping, cum-guzzling"
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― dylannn, Wednesday, 30 November 2016 16:25 (seven years ago) link
just reddit :(
― xiphoid beetlebum (rushomancy), Wednesday, 30 November 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
@andyburnhammp
Bit bizarre hearing these right-wing calls for a "Barista Visa". God forbid the idea of waiting longer in the morning for their posh coffee
^^^suspect this was actually a poorly formed joke abt typical journalist priorities -- nicknaming the visa for pret staff rather than say carers -- but of course it has landed as an attempt to revisit owen smith's "frothy coffee in a mug" triumph
― mark s, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 09:47 (seven years ago) link
Andy Burnham - too real for Starbucks
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 09:48 (seven years ago) link
he should have a pop at this American "hammed burger" nonsense next
― Raul Chamgerlain (Noodle Vague), Tuesday, 18 April 2017 09:49 (seven years ago) link
It's a good formula though - just add "posh" or "organic" before something innocuous/foreign/innocuously foreign = instant "man of the people"
Posh coffeePosh lettucePosh hamburgers Organic falafelsEtc
― Chuck_Tatum, Tuesday, 18 April 2017 14:37 (seven years ago) link
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2017/apr/26/dip-back-in-beat-the-hummus-crisis-with-this-quick-recipe
Obviously this is peak-Guardian, and as a red-blooded male I was unaware that the hummus crisis was even a thing, but this is self-evidently part of a right-wing conspiracy to starve Corbyn supporters to death ahead of the general election.
― Matt DC, Saturday, 29 April 2017 09:06 (seven years ago) link
Hummus crisis mentioned on HIGNFY last night too, complete with "this is a disaster for us liberal media elite types" self-flagellation.
― Daniel_Rf, Saturday, 29 April 2017 09:12 (seven years ago) link
I heard an interview with some dude who wrote a book about Hummus and he was very dismissive of what passes for it in the UK. He stated if you haven't tried freshly made Hummus from the Middle East or Israel then you really don't know what it truly is. I'll be looking to see if the Hummus Crisis has hit my local Co-op laters!
― calzino, Saturday, 29 April 2017 09:13 (seven years ago) link
"You will need tahini. Nigella Lawson prefers peanut butter"
You metropolitan elites are savages!
― calzino, Saturday, 29 April 2017 09:50 (seven years ago) link
the turkish-run cornershop where they call me "boss" if anything has more cheap hummus than usual at the moment
(i am not their actual boss)
― mark s, Saturday, 29 April 2017 10:12 (seven years ago) link
There is no scarcity of it's base ingredients, so it pretty much isn't a crisis.
― calzino, Saturday, 29 April 2017 10:23 (seven years ago) link
there is literally endless hummus every time i go in the supermarket, wtf is this alleged shortage supposed to be?
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 April 2017 11:11 (seven years ago) link
one of the suppliers who sells to Sainsburies/Waitrose has manufacturing problems. It is just some wacky Ed Balls Day type meme really.
― calzino, Saturday, 29 April 2017 11:14 (seven years ago) link
nobody ever knocks taramasalata-munchers just because of the physical difficulty of reading it
― Brexectile dysfunction (Noodle Vague), Saturday, 29 April 2017 11:16 (seven years ago) link