The Mothership is always banging on about Saltbeef sandwiches and how she hasn't had one since we left London.
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Quote: RubyMae - Glamourous Snowdrop at Large @ August 31 2009, 8:35 PM BSTThe Mothership is always banging on about Saltbeef sandwiches and how she hasn't had one since we left London.
Dead easy to DIY if you have 2-3 hours to spare and a big pan.
Think Denis Nilsen but with pickled brisket...
I live quite close by so an currently enoying a salt beef bagel, soon to be followd by salmon and cream cheese.
One of the great things about London is all places cuisine turn up here. Even South African Bunny Chows and Ethiopen Lema bread.
Quote: Rob0 @ August 31 2009, 8:23 PM BSTWhat is it with certain words and foods. My girlfriend can't stand the word "shallots". I find it quite amusing but it really sets her on edge.
Fruit, tasty, toast and crisps, the sound of those words will force me out of the room if repeated ad nauseum, as they often are:
"How's your fruit salad?"
"Tasty. How's yours?"
"Tasty."
"Mine's really tasty. You wanna try?"
"Ooh, that's tasty."
At that point, I bite so hard on my spoon I fracture my jaw. That is if the earlier sound of multiple courses of toast and poppadum haven't sent me to the bathroom with a steak knife.
Some words make me feel weird too.
Um... like if people say 'fresh fish'. Or fresh anything really.
There are others, but they're not coming to mind at the moment.
Ooh, if people call a toddler a 'tot'.
Agh.
Actually 'toddler' is a bit annoying too, but bearable.
Mmm, tots. 
Quote: zooo @ August 31 2009, 10:34 PM BSTlike if people say 'fresh fish'. Or fresh anything really.
Fresh - agreed, I too hate that word. Fresh cream, fresh fish, fresh fruit. Argh!
Kumquat is a very strange word, as it sounds like swearing. Americans love using the word knicerkbocker, which sounds like old lady pants.
But without a doubt, any poncey Master Chef words get on my nerves - drizzle, sousant, jhuis (juice? jooce?), etc. and when they use foreign words to basically describe boiling a potato.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 31 2009, 10:46 PM BSTBut without a doubt, any poncey Master Chef words get on my nerves - drizzle, sousant, jhuis (juice? jooce?), etc. and when they use foreign words to basically describe boiling a potato.
Jus.
Quote: SlagA @ August 31 2009, 10:39 PM BSTFresh - agreed, I too hate that word. Fresh cream, fresh fish, fresh fruit. Argh!
Why? The actual sound or what it means? All those phrases sound really appetising to me.
It must be a mixture of things.
Because I don't mind someone saying 'Jelly tots'.
But cannot STAND people calling a kid a tot.
Quote: Dolly Dagger @ August 31 2009, 10:58 PM BSTJus.
Thanks for the correct spelling of Jus. I don't like the 'poncification' of food and the use of code to hide what it really is. I watch Master Chef (usually whilst eating beans on toast 
) and the contestant will read out a menu that is about forty pages long when all they're making is chicken, potatoes and a salad.
What's the word I'm looking for? Pretentious.
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 31 2009, 11:03 PM BSTThanks for the correct spelling of Jus. I don't like the 'poncification' of food and the use of code to hide what it really is. I watch Master Chef (usually whilst eating beans on toast
Yep, well said!
Quote: Renegade Carpark @ August 31 2009, 11:03 PM BSTThanks for the correct spelling of Jus. I don't like the 'poncification' of food and the use of code to hide what it really is. I watch Master Chef (usually whilst eating beans on toast
What's the word I'm looking for? Pretentious.
You don't like poncification yet you watch masterchef while you claim to be eating baked beans on toast whilst doing so. You probably found the word you were looking for. People have hobbies is all.
Eating's not a hobby, it's what you do to stop yourself from starving to death.
Quote: Tim Walker @ September 1 2009, 12:11 AM BSTEating's not a hobby, it's what you do to stop yourself from starving to death.
Eating is not the hobby.
I might have missed something, but wouldn't people on here rather eat fresh fish, fruit, cream, etc, rather than fish, fruit, cream etc which is still perfectly edible but not quite as fresh?
Quote: Aaron @ August 31 2009, 8:29 PM BST'Shallots' sounds like a form of diarrhea.
Doesn't mention of this word trigger a thread getting locked? That's shallot.
(Rather than Aaron's spelling of diarrhoea, which to be fair is difficult to spell but shouldn't really be for a self-confessed spelling pedant)