Nice people thread part 5 - nicely does it

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

Chewy is saying exactly what the nutritionists told me. They start out with 'put less in, take more out ' which is true, but there are all sorts of complications and get outs to this. It's not as simple as it seems when. Something goes exceptionally wrong or right.

"The warning that snacking at night makes you fat is on similarly thin ice, Vreeman and Carroll discovered. At first glance, some research suggests there may be a link, with one study showing that obese women tended to eat later in the day than slimmer women. But according to the BMJ article, "The obese women were not just night eaters, they were also eating more meals, and taking in more calories makes you gain weight regardless of when calories are consumed.""

PasturesNew

SingleSue wrote: »

Some members also didn't agree that a nice voice can get you far, as far as I am concerned, if you sound like a chav, who would want to employ you in a customer facing well paid job?

s'gud init - no1 wuntz 2 taek on peepz wot carnt speek rite. rizult init.

http://www.independent.co.uk/news/education/further/elocution-lessons-who-wants-to-speak-the-queens-english-6291537.html

There are quite a few stories in the news today regarding elocution.

Gettin dawn wit da rych homies

lemonjelly

PasturesNew wrote: »

No I am not veggie, but I am veggie aware. I love meat, but it has to be completely lean (no fat, bone, skin, gristle) and I don't eat fish (unless it's fish fingers or fish cakes).... and seafood's a big no no (except white crab meat).

Therefore I look down a menu and if I don't fancy the meat stuff, then I look at the veggie stuff.... hate mushrooms though.... and most poncy veggie stuff.

Most of the stuff I cook (from scratch) is veggie as it's not easy to buy meat stuff for one portion. I buy meat-based things if I am buying ready meals, mostly.

Today I've had toast, beans, scrambled eggs for breakfast and a spicy chicken pizza for tea.... then a packet of instant chocolate custard, made in a mug and eaten with a serving spoon

I'm not veggie, but friends are.
I don't eat red meat. Purely on a taste basis that one. Never have. Never liked it.
I have to say, there are veggie options out there which taste better than the meat option imo. I love the quorn mince. Makes brilliant spag bol's, & phenomenal shepherds/cottage pies. Also works wonders in home made(ish) lasagnes. There's no fat or gristle, & I feel that texture wise it is so much nicer.
I have gone through phases of sticking with veggie sausages.
There used to be a veggie bacon thing which I adored, but haven't seen it about for a while.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Is that at fifteen?

Tbh, I realise this sounds awful, but I don't think that's is a bad price at all. Since we moved we have been eating out at a different restaurant each month (I love that we live somewhere this is possible). My favourite by far was one I wanted to hate, Jonny deep owns it, and it's painfully cool for a countryside market town but it was good. There is another one I like too, but it's more expensive and full of people who want to be seen there who don't really get food. It has an amazing wine menu though..


Edit: having Seen NPs link I can see why it's that price. Tbh doesn't do that much for me that menu.

chewmylegoff wrote: »

we used to go somewhere different every week, worked our way through loads of central london restaurants, although not much posh stuff as we normally hold that back for birthday treats. these days we just alternate between the two local pubs that do really good food, and an italian restaurant down the road run by an eccentric drunk who refuses to have a menu and just cooks whatever he feels like.

and i agree, the JO tasting menu is reasonably priced, although i bet the one at 15 in london is getting on for double that.

We clearly have different definitions off the phrase "reasonably priced".:)

lemonjelly

Wheezy wrote: »

I want meat! sniff sniff...

Awwww! Man up!;)

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

We clearly have different definitions off the phrase "reasonably priced".:)

Food on a tastingmmenu is meant to be amoung the best food offered by top chefs in the country. It is not sustainance but appreciation of art and produce. Compare it to tickets for music at top venues, to theatre tickets with big name star, to tickets for top league spoting events.....
This is food planned by those at the top of their discipline, cooked by those trained by them, and in usually nice surroundings. To pay for the surroundings, and a devent wage for people in kitchen and front of house its goiong to cost more. Its skewed by the abbys,al psuedo food at the bottom of the industry...caghe reared, and preped by machines and people on what is rarely a decent living wage or lifestyle. Paying seems reasonable to me.

I don't think it fares that badly in comparision.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I'm not veggie, but friends are.
I don't eat red meat. Purely on a taste basis that one. Never have. Never liked it.
I have to say, there are veggie options out there which taste better than the meat option imo. I love the quorn mince. Makes brilliant spag bol's, & phenomenal shepherds/cottage pies. Also works wonders in home made(ish) lasagnes. There's no fat or gristle, & I feel that texture wise it is so much nicer.
I have gone through phases of sticking with veggie sausages.
There used to be a veggie bacon thing which I adored, but haven't seen it about for a while.

I simly cannot thank a post in defence of quorn. Imo its heinous stuff. I adore vegetarian food. I was vegetarian as a teen for a while and dh and i both eat a lot of vegetarian food, and vegan food come to think of it. But quorn i do not like.

lemonjelly

lostinrates wrote: »

Food isn't definitive in terms of best for me. Its about where, when, who with....how you mother did it etc etc. and good wine. Fine dining and home cooking are also very different to me. And home cookking rather than home eating fuel.

Agree with pretty much all of this.

lostinrates wrote: »

Beans on toast is sometimes just the ticket. I like it with marmite on the toast, dh likes it with a grating of cheese over the top. But i do like cooking, and eating, new, exciting, creative or comforting, and beautiful things.

I really like watching people eating something I have made, especially if I've "played" with how I cook it, or what is in it.

lemonjelly

michaels wrote: »

Thanks DG - DW has just sent me out of the room for laughing and I am not a laughing person.

My extension smells, can't say what it smells like but unpleasant - any thoughts?

Is that a euphemism? Funny you type that after reading DG's link...

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Agree with pretty much all of this.



I really like watching people eating something I have made, especially if I've "played" with how I cook it, or what is in it.

Feeding people is joyful. Seeing people like wHat you offer, or even eat it politely. I don't think its a terribly healthy atiittude...particularly women seem to associate feeding people with loving them, but it does seem pretty instinctive.