The Night Mail

[J. S. Bach]

7 hours ago, jamie92208 said:

 ...snip... We once went out with a good friend for an Indian in Leeds.  Estelle was heard to say afterwards, " For horses doovres we had thrre turds on a plate".

Jamie

I used the phrase "horse drivers".

[PhilJ W]

6 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Humans are edible, taste like pork and apparently, once you’ve eaten human flesh, it is very addictive and you go back for more (a new twist on the “veggie burger” made with real vegetarians!)

So you mean vegan restaurants don't have real vegans on the menu then?

[JohnDMJ]

Good Evening,

 

I see the food debate continues and offer (not offal) as follows:

 

Liver and bacon, a school staple, yes please

Kidneys  Ditto or in a steak and kidney pie..

Black pudding, some versions are better than others... but generally not impressed..

Tripe,  never tried it

Lungs and heart, useful to feed the Dog

Haggis.  tried it once; overrated IMHO..

 

and to add:

 

Ox Tail and Ox Tongue, yum.

 

Now for the cruncher:

 

11 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Like most offal, liver is inedible if not properly cooked (and leaving it in the pan until is dried and leathery doesn’t much help). Properly cooked, liver, kidneys and sweetbreads are most delicious (and when in a haggis, lungs and heart are delicious as well). The only things I don’t really like are brains and tripe - although I’ve only tasted either once (may try again)

 

A bit like Brussels Sprouts! Cook them properly and they're delicious; boil them to death and you've wasted your money buying them!

 

8 minutes ago, PhilJ W said:

So you mean vegan restaurants don't have real vegans on the menu then?

 

I like restaurants which have a Children's' Menu; I could never eat a whole one.

[simontaylor484]

Can't stand offal or baked beans all invention of Satan if you ask me.

 

@Happy Hippo The 2 part wood fillers are usually good the last i got like that was Tetrion it smelt like Plastic Padding car body filler

[J. S. Bach]

20 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

You won't find "organ meat" in the supermarkets in the US although you can buy it from specialist butchers.

 

Makes it a bit difficult to make snake-and-Sidney pie.

 

Not quite true, liver is sold in almost every market that I have been in and kidney in some of them. Beef heart also, although if I want one, I will ask the butcher to get one in; fresh, not frozen. The market that I usually shop at does carry a varied assortment of odd (to me) pig parts for the locals.

 

 

Edited November 16, 2021 by J. S. Bach
To do a minor edit.

[AndyID]

11 minutes ago, J. S. Bach said:

Not quite true, liver is sold in almost every market that I have been in and kidney in some of them. Beef heart also, although if I want one, I will ask the butcher to get one in; fresh, not frozen. The market that I usually shop at does carry a varied assortment of odd (to me) pig parts for the locals.

 

 

 

I've never seen liver on display in AZ, NJ, ID, WA or CA but I haven't tried asking for it. Assorted pig parts on the other hand are often on display here in ID 

[Northmoor]

6 hours ago, Canal Digger said:

https://www.facebook.com/MetroUK/videos/401732644827874

My wife saw that and thought it was an episode of The Goodies.

[Dave Hunt]

8 hours ago, iL Dottore said:

Good lord! Such extreme involuntary emesis at the mere mention of offal and I thought the Night Owls were made of sterner stuff (what with being former aviators, soldiers and sailors and all).

 

I could probably cause an awful lot of the Night Owl posters to go into complete psychiatric meltdown if I were to invite them to dinner and serve a certain Mexican delicacy (deep-fried tarantulas) or some bona fide “bush tucker” (e.g. Witchetty grubs).

 

”Wimps” - the lot of you! 

 

 

When on the several survival courses the RAF sent me on in various outflung bits of the planet from arctic to desert to jungle, I have eaten such things as centipede stew, snake, ants, grasshoppers, jungle rat and other fairly horrible things. Probably the worst, though, was a McDonalds concoction that purported to be a hamburger that Jill persuaded me to try in Sydney. Hence, Flávio, I await your dinner invitation with equanimity.

 

Dave

Edited November 16, 2021 by Dave Hunt

[DenysW]

To clarify scope a little for the the world of opportunities in Welsh Whisky, the fair village of Llanfairfechan offers a single malt called Aberfalls. It's not just Penderyn, folks, although their liquor (Merlyn) is dangerously slurpable.

[polybear]

7 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

When on the several survival courses the RAF sent me on in various outflung bits of the planet from arctic to desert to jungle, I have eaten such things as centipede stew, snake, ants, grasshoppers, jungle rat and other fairly horrible things. Probably the worst, though, was a McDonalds concoction that purported to be a hamburger that Jill persuaded me to try in Sydney. Hence, Flávio, I await you dinner invitation with equanimity.

 

Dave

 

A Royal Marine hit the news some years ago when on a Dartmoor survival course - he phoned home (reverse charges) and got his SWMBO to book him into a pub.  He came unstuck cos' his big gob got the better of him whilst in the bar that evening and told people he was on the survival course - someone overheard and bubbled him to the Marines....

They said they couldn't discipline him because "participants are expected to survive on their merits" - which he had done.  However, they then added "But he WILL be repeating the course again....."

And you can be sure they went out of their way to really make him suffer.

[Dave Hunt]

1 hour ago, JohnDMJ said:

A bit like Brussels Sprouts! Cook them properly and they're delicious; boil them to death and you've wasted your money buying them!

 

There is a substance in Brussels Sprouts called phenylthiocarbamide that is apparently very bitter tasting. I say apparently as not everyone can taste it (one such person being me) but if you can, it makes sprouts pretty horrible. This makes it quite understandable that the population is divided into those who cannot taste PTC and generally find sprouts to be a pleasantly normal vegetable and those who can and therefore detest them. Hence there is no way that someone who can taste PTC can be persuaded to enjoy sprouts no matter how hard they try. 

 

Dave

[Northroader]

Nobody has mentioned chitterlings? OK, but not common these days.

[AndyID]

6 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

I've warned you about eating all those cucumber sandwiches before......

 

Dave

 

More tea Vicar?

[Dave Hunt]

10 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

More tea Vicar?

 

"Yes please, two sugars and a drop of that stuff in the bottle with the red label....."

 

Dave

[AndyID]

Well I think I've just about caught up

 

An interesting couple of days. The "cascading of the pickups" is complete.

 

Son flew over from Tacoma yesterday morning to get the RAM 1500. I picked him up at Spokane and let him drive it back here. I wanted to fill it up with diesel for his return trip so we stopped at a filling station a few miles from here.

 

For once I was prepared and I had remembered to find the spare key. To make sure he got both keys I had clipped them together. While the tank was filling he wanted to see how the bed cover worked so I attempted to open the tailgate to show him but it was locked!

 

Which, naturally meant that the entire truck was locked and that the both keys and both our phones were it .  After a certain amount of buffering about AAA arrived and the nice man broke into the truck in about 30 seconds.

 

Just as son was setting off to drive to Tacoma the wind started to pick up. It turned into a real howler as a cold front moved in but he made it back safe and sound. One of the front brake disks was making a nasty squeal by then but that seems to have been caused by a bit of tumbleweed that got wedged in the brake.

 

When he went to license it he was slightly shocked to learn that it would cost him $2,700 for a "use fee" (a fee to used the roads). It's basically a form of purchase tax based on the value of the vehicle. The State of Washington does not tax income so they have to find other methods.

 

Here's my replacement. It's a lot smaller. The RAM seats six but this one is only good for two adults and two very small people but the bed is six feet long and the towing capacity is well above the weight of our travel trailer. MrsID was never too keen on driving the RAM, but unfortunately she really likes driving this

 

Just after I took this pic it started snowing but it's just a shower and it's not sticking.

 

 

 

 

 

[polybear]

3 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Here's my replacement. It's a lot smaller.

 

 

 

 

 

 

And that's "a lot smaller?" 

[AndyID]

55 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

There is a substance in Brussels Sprouts called phenylthiocarbamide that is apparently very bitter tasting. I say apparently as not everyone can taste it (one such person being me) but if you can, it makes sprouts pretty horrible. This makes it quite understandable that the population is divided into those who cannot taste PTC and generally find sprouts to be a pleasantly normal vegetable and those who can and therefore detest them. Hence there is no way that someone who can taste PTC can be persuaded to enjoy sprouts no matter how hard they try. 

 

Dave

 

I don't know if there is any scientific support for this but my "extensive research" that some people can curl up the sides of their tongues to form a sort of tube and while others are quite incapable of doing it.

 

Makes for an amusing after diner party game, but only after sufficient inebriants.

[polybear]

3 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

I don't know if there is any scientific support for this but my "extensive research" that some people can curl up the sides of their tongues to form a sort of tube and while others are quite incapable of doing it.

 

Makes for an amusing after diner party game, but only after sufficient inebriants.

 

Certain Bears can too....

[pH]

9 minutes ago, AndyID said:

 

I don't know if there is any scientific support for this but my "extensive research" that some people can curl up the sides of their tongues to form a sort of tube and while others are quite incapable of doing it.

 

Makes for an amusing after diner party game, but only after sufficient inebriants.

Yes, it’s genetically determined - you’re a ‘roller’ or you’re not.

[pH]

23 minutes ago, AndyID said:

Which, naturally meant that the entire truck was locked and that the both keys and both our phones were it .  After a certain amount of buffering about AAA arrived and the nice man broke into the truck in about 30 seconds.

I remember three of us going out for a drink and the first order being “Three pints and a coat hanger, please”.

[Winslow Boy]

49 minutes ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

"Yes please, two sugars and a drop of that stuff in the bottle with the red label....."

 

Dave

 

What cough syrup Vicar? I didn't know you had a cold. You should have said. I would have given you a glass of Penderyn with honey.

[AndyID]

13 minutes ago, polybear said:

 

And that's "a lot smaller?" 

 

Compared to this...

 

 

 

 

[jamie92208]

8 hours ago, pH said:

I remember three of us going out for a drink and the first order being “Three pints and a coat hanger, please”.

A friend of mine once locked himself  out of his ford escort at Whitley Bay. I said no problem, we just need a coathanger. I took him into town and found a laundrette. I went in and asked for a couple of coat hangers. The young lady adked me what I needed them for. "To break into a car" I said. No other comments. She just handed me two coat hangers with a smile. Took me all of 30 seconds to get into the car when we got back.

 

Jamie

Edited November 17, 2021 by jamie92208

[Dunsignalling]

Back in my banking days, a work colleague locked himself out of his month-old Mk4 Cortina estate just inside the entrance to the biggest car park in town.

 

We got round it by flagging down any of our customers that we recognised who were driving Fords and asking to borrow their key. Fifteen minutes, and four cars later, we were back in.

 

A pal of mine in the trade reckoned that you could open any Ford of that year with one of only five different keys, so we beat the odds, but only just.

 

John  

[Mike Bellamy]

1 hour ago, Dave Hunt said:

. . . . phenylthiocarbamide  quite understandable that the population is divided into those who cannot taste PTC and generally find sprouts to be a pleasantly normal vegetable and those who can and therefore detest them. Hence there is no way that someone who can taste PTC can be persuaded to enjoy sprouts no matter how hard they try. 

 

 

I thought you were talking about TCP which is an Antiseptic Liquid which I remember having to gargle as a child for a sore throat!

 

For those interested in the technical details the contents are

 

"aqueous solution of Phenol 0.175% w/v and halogenated phenols 0.68% w/v".     "Other ingredients: glycerol, concentrated phosphoric acid, quinoline yellow (E104) and purified water".

 

"Halogenated phenols act on all pathogenic micro-organisms similarly and to approximately the same degree - i.e. they are non-specific, their activity is not appreciably reduced by the presence of relatively large amounts of non-living organic matter, their relatively simple chemical constitution means that their use is not liable to encourage the emergence of strains of micro-organisms adapted to resist their action".

 

I didn't like the taste of TCP and I guess I don't like PTC either . . . . . . .

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