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heidih

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2 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

Hey, give me enough breakfast wine and I'll eat all the stale bread you can throw at me!

 

What on earth do we think dip bread is?

I thought toast soldiers

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blue_dolphin

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7 hours ago, Maison Rustique said:

What on earth do we think dip bread is?

 

I have no idea whether this is correct or not but someone asked the same when this menu was posted on Facebook and another reader replied "The meaning of DIP TOAST is toast drenched with milk, cream, or melted butter."

 

 

 

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heidih

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30 minutes ago, blue_dolphin said:

 

I have no idea whether this is correct or not but someone asked the same when this menu was posted on Facebook and another reader replied "The meaning of DIP TOAST is toast drenched with milk, cream, or melted butter."

 

 

 

So "taking a dip toast"

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chromedome

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https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza

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“Who loves a garden, loves a greenhouse too.” - William Cowper, The Task, Book Three

 

"Not knowing the scope of your own ignorance is part of the human condition...The first rule of the Dunning-Kruger club is you don’t know you’re a member of the Dunning-Kruger club.” - psychologist David Dunning

 

liuzhou

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5 hours ago, chromedome said:

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2023/jun/27/pompeii-fresco-find-possibly-depicts-2000-year-old-form-of-pizza

 

Nonsense. It's a simple flatbread, if anything. There were no mozarella, tomatoes or delivery guys on bikes 2,000 years ago. There were flatbreads, though. Had been for centuries.

...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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Alex

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A fresco on the wall of a home in the destroyed Roman city shows a silver tray with food items including flat Focaccia bread, fruit and a goblet of red wine against a black background. The still life dates back approximately 2,000 years and “could be a distant ancestor” of pizza, the Archaeological Park of Pompeii said in a statement, adding that it was missing some classic ingredients of the dish.

 

Full story here

 

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"There is no sincerer love than the love of food."  -George Bernard Shaw, Man and Superman, Act 1

 

"Imagine all the food you have eaten in your life and consider that you are simply some of that food, rearranged."  -Max Tegmark, physicist

 

Gene Weingarten, writing in the Washington Post about online news stories and the accompanying readers' comments: "I basically like 'comments,' though they can seem a little jarring: spit-flecked rants that are appended to a product that at least tries for a measure of objectivity and dignity. It's as though when you order a sirloin steak, it comes with a side of maggots."

 

A king can stand people's fighting, but he can't last long if people start thinking. -Will Rogers, humorist

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Katie Meadow

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On 8/13/2023 at 5:10 AM, liuzhou said:

A couple of pics.

 

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Paradise Pudding (undated)

 

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Bill of Fare  1787

 

Paradise Pudding is so weird it's beyond awful. And now I can only hope that Syllabub and her sister Flummery are answers to crossword clues in what's left of my waking hours on earth. And leveret.

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liuzhou

liuzhou

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1 hour ago, Katie Meadow said:

Paradise Pudding is so weird it's beyond awful. And now I can only hope that Syllabub and her sister Flummery are answers to crossword clues in what's left of my waking hours on earth. And leveret.

 

I'll give Paradise a miss if they only serve that pudding. But the best meal I've eaten in the last 26 years in China was leveret. It was cooked by my late sister-in-law and absolutely delicious. I've also had syllabub (not in China) and although I wouldn't go looking for it again, it was O.K.

 

...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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liuzhou

liuzhou

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My favourite London pub
 
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Ye Olde Cheshire Cheese is a Grade II listed public house at 145 Fleet Street, on Wine Office Court, City of London. Rebuilt shortly after the Great Fire of 1666, there has been a pub at this location since 1538. The vaulted cellars are thought to belong to a 13th-century Carmelite monastery which once occupied the site.
The entrance to this pub is situated down a narrow alleyway and is unassuming, yet once inside visitors will realise that the pub occupies a lot of floor space and has numerous bars, narrow stairs  and gloomy rooms.
 
In winter, open fireplaces are used to keep the interior warm. In the bar room are posted plaques showing famous people who were regulars. Some of the interior wood panelling is nineteenth century, some older, perhaps original.
 
The pub is known for its literary associations, with its regular patrons having included Charles Dickens, G.K. Chesterton and Mark Twain.

 

And me!

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Tropicalsenior

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Should be able to date the photograph by the uniform on the London Bobby, fourth man on the left. When did they stop wearing the double-breasted tunics? And he has no belt.

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liuzhou

liuzhou

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Today in 1837...Pharmacists John Lea and William Perrins begin manufacturing Worcester Sauce, one of the best loved and versatile bottled English sauces.

 

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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Tropicalsenior

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2 hours ago, liuzhou said:

Today in 1837...

By pure coincidence, just as I received this email I was watching a program called Royal Recipes that was showcasing the Worcestershire factory. They told the history of the product and explained how it was made today. There have been very few changes and only four people know the combination of spices that go into it. It's a wonderful story about a wonderful sauce.

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Tropicalsenior

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23 minutes ago, liuzhou said:

Food truck, 1919

The women kind of look French. I'm not familiar with the license plates of France and to me they kind of look English. Wherever they are, it's a pretty generous spread of food for that close after the war years.

liuzhou

liuzhou

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21 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

The women kind of look French. I'm not familiar with the license plates of France and to me they kind of look English. Wherever they are, it's a pretty generous spread of food for that close after the war years.

 

They're certainly not British license plates. All British plates have always had letters and numbers from A1 onwards. French the same.

I assumed American, but based on no evidence whatsover.

 

I'd love to know when food trucks first appeared and number plates may well be the only way to roughly date images.

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...your dancing child with his Chinese suit.

 

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liuzhou

liuzhou

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10 minutes ago, Tropicalsenior said:

I think I found it.

 

Now I enhanced the image and looked closer, the plate says DC at the right. It's American. Have edited.

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