Mushy peas...

They're... mushy...

Absolutely Misti, it's wrong, isn't it?

Well, that and the fact that they taste like... peas!

Ah...I like unmushy peas...

What's wrong with mushy? Don't you mush up your ginger cake in the custard?

no! NEVER!



To be honest, can't see me eating ginger cake with custard. Isn't it just something you eat with, well, afternoon tea? Custard is for putting with strudel, crumble or pie...

Ginger cake with custard is very nice.
Sort of like any sponge pudding with custard really.

now you've given me an idea. Must try chips with custard

Suddenly gravy with chips sounds like something that should be served in the Ivy...

Chips and gravy. Definitely the best way of having chips.


How can you not have gravy on yorkshire pudding. They're at their best when filled with gravy... (especially onion gravy).

This thread is making me very hungry now.

Work took us out for a company dinner last week. We had very nice steak and chips. I was in heaven because there were so many different sauces to be had with the chips - bearnaise, mayonnaise, dijonnaise, mushroom gravy, peppercorn, ...

Yes, ginger cake is something you have for tea... as a pudding with custard.

Ok, well one day last week we visited a family member in the west midlands, and had tea at a country park/ retail outlet sort of place.

We all had carrot cake - which was very nice - except to serve it, the waitress squirted caramel sauce in squiggles all over the plate before placing the cake on top.

The cake was fine, but I didn't particularly like the caramel sauce with it.

For ages I've been trying to work out what the colour scheme of this website reminds me of, and I've finally realised - it's roughly the same colour combination as First Capital Connect trains

Rosfrog had mushy peas with his fish and chips yesterday. And his OH had TWO servings of mushy peas!!!

You know those gherkins that you find in a huge jar in many chip shops? I like them

Mushy peas? Rosfrog is most welcome to them

I like gerkins in potato salad.

Not a lot wrong with that

I can't imagine having them with chips though...

Gherkins are awesome in potato salad

Imagine...and enjoy...

Gherkins are awesome.

I now have a craving for custard (and ginger cake)

Car Expert's signature looks a little like a car wearing a hat

My evening's dose of manbeer is affecting my concentration!

HAHA! I'm loving this current thread-in-thread! missed it while relocating to university having only just aquired internet!
try this one, A new flatmate I went out with last night put ketchup in his BEER (as more of a joke and actually drank most of it!) then when I was away (talk about spiking much) put vinegar in my S.ex on the beach! BLERGH!
CHIPS WITH LEMON BTW! (ocationally Mayo..)
I am guilty of food crimes only so far as to put pesto in sandwiches Student life may create more

I woke up at 04.33. All was quiet.

The best drink "spike" I've heard of is to replace someone's pint of lager with a pint of water into which has been put a very small amount (several drops) of Guinness. It looks the same as lager but it tastes like plain water, and when the recipient takes a big mouthful expecting lager taste but gets water, the reaction is usually instinctively to spew it all out.

Ha ha. I posted this about a year ago (it was actually true - I woke up and my digital clock read 04.33) but I don't think anyone saw the 'joke'...

Related to previous threads, why do I so often seem to look at a clock or watch, and the time reads 11.11 or 23.11 , or even sometimes 13.11

I expect I'm being dense, but

John Cage's composition 4′33″ is 4′33″ of silence.

Cage.

In my uni days at Nottingham (about 1966) someone gave a recital of Cage's work including various items for 'prepared' piano etc.
The 4' 33" was included.
The signal he had started was opening the piano lid, and the end was closing the piano lid. A clock sat on the piano top.
Must check when this was composed !

Later edit, it was 1952. Couldnt have taken him very long. I reckon I could compose a piece in less time than that !

So; would I need to pay royalties if I sat at the piano in public for 4' 33" and played absolutely nothing?

SB

I wonder whether the duration has any significance or is simply random.

Sorry to inadvertently copy you Cyrilla.

I just woke up, looked at the digital clock and thought 'I must post that somewhere'.


Apparently it was the duration of the first performance, or so I read last week.

John Cage's composition pretentious, smart-aleck attempt at 'art' - 4′33″ ...

On my journeying today, I went on the Docklands Light Railway. It was being operated manually (usually the trains drive themselves) by the train captain. She was reading a newspaper while operating the controls. Did I have good reason to be a bit worried?

Not at all! Great minds, etc.etc.etc.!!

My piano teacher has an article about her trip to Istanbul to adjudicate a piano festival in LCM's Forte magazine.

oooooo : want to read, want to read

I'll keep hold of it.

thanks

Or you can read it here.
It's on page 19.
Page 9 is also worth a look.....

Even better, thanks!

I don't think you need to worry. When I went on last year there was a group of school children on a school trip to the Boat Show, and the 'Train Captain' let one of them start the train!

SB

Reminds me of something I saw at the boat show itself - one year, they had the HMS Exeter tied up off the exhibition centre. Now at this show there were some quite swanky yachts which we went to traipse around and marvel at the tastelessness. most of them had little snooty cards on the white leather seats that said "Please do not sit" (so we didn't). Then we went up the Exeter, and there were excited little kids everywhere - including pointing the gun at whatever and sitting in the captain's chair and riffling through what looked like a logbook.

It was heartwarming in a way