Early Risers.

[Ozexpatriate]

3 hours ago, Tony_S said:

As for question 9 I will upgrade to Turkey/chicken/pork/veal Milanese with chips.

6-d

9-Wiener schnitzel mit pommes und salat

 

I did look them up.

[Winslow Boy]

8 hours ago, The White Rabbit said:

 

 

 

I also know 'DPU' as military camouflage clothing (disruptive pattern uniform - sometimes known as DPM, disruptive pattern material). Then data processing unit (IT). Not to mention point motors for shhh, you know whats, especially from a firm with connections to both Australia and Settle. 

 

 

Morning all. Grey and murky outside, we've got the tail end of Baz's fog and I had a broken night, so I'm not feeling enthusiastic about gettingamoveon with anything very much. We don't have a deep fat fryer, so can't do scallops ourselves but I've seen them on sale, either in chippies (as Baz said) or as the frozen, oven cook reheat variety which raises our Swiss correspondent's hackles. Someone with a bakery used to do potato farls which I liked. Plus one for leftover mashed potato being used as the cornerstone of bubble and squeak. 

Also a DPU is a Damp Proof Undercoat.

[Ozexpatriate]

8 hours ago, tigerburnie said:

There's "tattie scones" up here and very nice they are too

Potato bread and potato rolls are quite popular here.

 

They're not much different to regular bread - maybe a little 'starchier'. There are many, many recipes for potato rolls.

 

Growing up, a popular 'fancy' picnic food was a different kind of potato roll. It was a layer of cooled mashed potatoes with a filling (perhaps cream-cheese based - I don't remember) with green onions. It was formed like you would a Swiss roll cake and sliced to serve at room temperature. It was one of the dishes assigned to Mum to bring for the extended family Christmas dinner (lunchtime). It was always popular.

[Tony_S]

15 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

6-d

 

So that was the stuffed pigs trotter. Definitely not my first thought, which was a footballer. 

[Tony_S]

19 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

6-d

9-Wiener schnitzel mit pommes und salat

 

I did look them up.

I didn’t do any looking up, as you can probably tell!

[Ozexpatriate]

1 minute ago, Tony_S said:

I didn’t do any looking up, as you can probably tell!

Without looking them up I would have had many (though maybe not all) of your answers and had seen Flavio's @iL Dottore's reply. 

 

I don't think I knew any of the ones you guessed at.

[Tony_S]

1 hour ago, BoD said:

We used to call them fritters.

We didn’t even have to specify that they were potato fritters, we couldn’t afford anything posh like spam.

I think the only fritters we had at home were apple fritters. At school, very rarely spam fritters appeared though spam more frequently appeared as the protein accompanying a salad. 

[Ozexpatriate]

1 minute ago, Tony_S said:

I think the only fritters we had at home were apple fritters.

Apple fritters came up a while ago. A versatile term for several different preparations:

• fried battered apple slices
• apple chunks and batter 'pancakes'
• a doughnut with apples

Does the word pikelet have currency in the UK? It is an Australian term for what would be "silver dollar pancakes" in the US.

[monkeysarefun]

2 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

 

That shouldn't happen if people would follow the rules of service writing in Joint Services Publication (JSP ) 101 which states that when using acronyms in a document the first use should follow the phrase written in full (as above) and thereafter used throughout the document.

 

Dave

 

Official documents also come with a glossary, I'm thinking more of emails that people dash off and send along the lines of: 

 

"Need to confirm with VVGFO  when the HHO will be able to connect via  RSG with the ADSO.  Suggest you use KKFD in first instance though be aware of  KOD. Perhaps involve UYT? Do CASSO still need the BBF data from there too? If so, talk to the guys at UFFS about getting it via MMN.

 

(Actual acronyms have been changed for reasons of national security.   Though since we apparently  now have so many people  down here who know all about US nuclear submarine capabilities, security seems a little bit quaint.)

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[Tony_S]

14 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Does the word pikelet have currency in the UK? It

Yes it is regional. Where I was brought up, a pikelet was what was called elsewhere a crumpet.  In some places a pikelet is a very thin crumpet. I have lived in Essex so long now I would describe them as crumpets. 

Edited October 8, 2023 by Tony_S

[monkeysarefun]

18 minutes ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Apple fritters came up a while ago.

 

 

Most milk bars/take away shops as well as selling plain  "Chicken and chips"  or "fish and chips" also upgrade them to a "Hawaiian Pack" with the addition of a banana fritter and a pineapple fritter.

 

Both are done as per potato scallops but use fruit.

 

[Andy Hayter]

58 minutes ago, Winslow Boy said:

Also a DPU is a Damp Proof Undercoat.

 

 

And there was me thinking it was the new modellers currency:

 

The Deltic Purchasing Unity - as in for example, the car broke down and it cost 3 DPUs for the spare parts.

[polybear]

34 minutes ago, Andy Hayter said:

 

 

And there was me thinking it was the new modellers currency:

 

The Deltic Purchasing Unity - as in for example, the car broke down and it cost 3 DPUs for the spare parts.

 

WHAAAT??  Do away with the Deltic?  That'd be like doing away with the good 'ol British Pound and going over to the Euro.

 

[petethemole]

Today was Mrs mole's 60th birthday so we went for Sunday Lunch with friends at a pub in the New Forest, the Green Dragon at Brook.  The food was good and plentiful, unlike some pub Sunday roasts I've had where portions were disappointing.  I had roast pork belly with Yorkshire Pud, parsnips, roast spuds and veg, followed by cheese and biscuits.  We attempted to go for a walk afterwards but didn't get far, too full.  Now watching TV and about to get on with some eBay updates as Mrs mole takes part in an online music session.

[PupCam]

Evening All

 

4 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

We had those in the RAF; they were called (well, the polite version anyway) Buzzword Generators. I believe that they originated in the US Navy.

 

No, it wasn't that 😉 

 

Now what was it?  It's on the tip of my tongue .....

 

3 hours ago, Dave Hunt said:

That shouldn't happen if people would follow the rules of service writing in Joint Services Publication (JSP ) 101 which states that when using acronyms in a document the first use should follow the phrase written in full (as above) and thereafter used throughout the document.

 

True, but does require one to read the entire document and have a memory.   That generally ruled me out on two counts.    I've never been very good at RTFM 🤣

 

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Nah mate. Togs are what you wear when you go swimming. Could be boardies, Speedos/budgie smugglers, bikinis or a one piece - punters' choice there. A 'rashie' is different though. Not togs.

 

Nah mate.  Togs are what you wear to protect your arsx AND your elbows when riding motorcycles.     Why, only this morning I was fully togged up.        No budgies were smuggled at anytime!

 

2 hours ago, Winslow Boy said:

Also a DPU is a Damp Proof Undercoat.

 

I spent quite a lot of  time many years ago developing a Data Programming Unit but I'd better not say what for or I'd have to shoot you and nobody likes a mess.

 

ION

 

I dared to take the RD out for a run today after the "petrol pipe and carb furtling" activities of yesterday and met up with some former work colleagues who also happen to be bikers.     I'm pleased to say that the petrol pipes remained full of fuel at all times and the bike went well.   This afternoon I had a bit of a photo call for the three Amigos.

 

 

Just wondering if I need a blue and a red one now?    I expect SWIMBO would say no!

 

Night All

 

 

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[Coombe Barton]

Crumpets use yeast as the raising agent, pikelets use something else. Pikelets use a more fluid mixture so they are flatter

[monkeysarefun]

12 hours ago, pH said:

 

DPU means something else in some countries other than the UK. From a Union Pacific website:

 

DPU – Stands for Distributed Power Unit, a locomotive set capable of remote-control operation in conjunction with locomotive units at the train's head end. DPUs are placed in the middle or at the rear of heavy trains …

 

 

Here DPU refers to a small relocatable building or  put up either as a kind of granny flat for the relo's or on a minesite etc for workers. The full term is Dependent Persons Unit though for some reason they are just called a Donga.

[monkeysarefun]

10 hours ago, The White Rabbit said:

I also know 'DPU' as military camouflage clothing

 

 

The Australian army unnoficially terms them "Drinking Pyjamas".

[southern42]

8 hours ago, Tony_S said:

1, probably. I have only noticed potatoes mentioned but I am happy to be informed. 

2, Guess, walnuts 

3, Deli counter in Switzerland?
4, chopped tomatoes?
5, Half moon chopper.  We have one. From Alaska!
6, No idea, would have guessed a footballer without the clues. 
7, Some sort of Obstler? Aditi has a pear based Obstler in a cupboard for “medicinal use” 

8, No idea. On our recent trip to France the big thing seemed to be organic or gluten free beers made with water from specific glaciers. Still tasted like Eurolager or IPA.

9, No idea but the clue suggests turkey twizzler and chips!

10, Spinach. 
 

I am sure it won’t take long for someone to get more than 2/10 !

 

It won't be me. NIL POINT I'm afraid.

 

But I did enjoy a Sausage and Bacon Bap, one packet of Salt and Vinegar Crisps,* and two slices of DF (aka Vegan) Mocha Cake at the weekend when going to see things that run on parallel bits of metal - the 1:1s from Kidderminster and the 1:48s at the Get Together at Highley. I did buy one item. I have been looking for one of these for years but never found one I fancied. This one was love at first sight! First thought: it needs a driver...

The tow bar is in the little bag, far right.

 

On the way to the above,  I noticed this beary fella on watch duty in the shop on the platform at Llangollen ready for the unmentionable "festive" season. Just gifts and toys, cards and books, etc, now - the serious 1:76 stuff which once adorned glass wall cabinets has gone.  

 

 

[Barry O]

Forget potato fritters/ banana/apple/spam......

 

We used to have corned beef fritters... a thing of great taste! Generally served with chips and red sauce. 

 

We had an excellent Bullsh1t Bingo sheet. We used it in meetings with other British Airports Authority staff and contractors. Once you got a "line" you had to form an understandable sentence with the words to gain your prize (generally a chocolate biscuit or kitkat).

 

Busy day today.. I dug up the last of our potato crop.. lots of red skinned potatoes.. could be time to find some frikadellan and have them mit pommes frites und chip sauce for tea one day this week?

 

Sleep well all!

 

Baz

 

[PhilJ W]

2 hours ago, Ozexpatriate said:

Apple fritters came up a while ago. A versatile term for several different preparations:

• fried battered apple slices
• apple chunks and batter 'pancakes'
• a doughnut with apples

Does the word pikelet have currency in the UK? It is an Australian term for what would be "silver dollar pancakes" in the US.

I prefer baked apple in a (pastry) jacket. Take one Bramley apple, peel and core the apple then roll it in spices of choice, fill the centre with dried fruit, spices and demerara sugar, wrap in pastry and bake.

[Winslow Boy]

RTFM - Roll Towel Front Maximum

 

RTFM - Root Towards Foot Material.

 

    ?

[PhilJ W]

Evening all from Estuary-Land. The arthritis is playing up again, prime suspect is the humidity as its getting very muggy, Nurofen has been taken.

[Ozexpatriate]

24 minutes ago, Barry O said:

We used to have corned beef fritters... a thing of great taste!

Indeed they are. Also roast beef fritters - with left over roast beef.

[zarniwhoop]

5 hours ago, Tony_S said:

One of the French or  Italian majority areas? It would be something like Giftkuchen in a German speaking area…

I came upon that item on wikipedia some months ago when I was looking at pages related to the Valais/Wallis and thinking about sourdough. But no interest in the other questions., so did not attempt to answer earlier.