Nice people thread part 6 - thrice by twice as nice :)

PasturesNew

There is a difference between cheese on toast and Welsh rarebit.

Cheese on toast is ... cheese... on toast.

Welsh rarebit is more of a cheesy roux and other stuff, that's poured onto the bread. You can actually pour it into shallow slabs, then cut and keep or freeze it to be bread-shaped, thus making one batch and keeping it in the fridge for 2-3 days, or have frozen rarebit to hand in the freezer.

JM did it the other week on Saturday Kitchen. Rarebit involves: whole milk, an onion, a bayleaf, cloves, flour, an egg yolk, mustard, cheese, Worcestershire sauce, Tabasco, salt/pepper.

Here's the official recipe from the show - although I find they tend to alter it a bit live on air. In fact, the official recipe doesn't mention a bayleaf/cloves at alll - in the program he pinned the bayleaf to the onion using the cloves and dropped it into the milk for awhile. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/welsh_rarebit_with_46839

PasturesNew

For pizza, I rarely see one on a menu I like - and the "build your own" seems to be much more expensive than the pre-built ones with the same number of ingredients, which is annoying.

With free rein, I'd most likely choose:
[1] spicy beef [2] spicy chicken [3] meatballs (never actually had these but I would)

Then I'd want: onions, green peppers, jalapenos, extra mozarella, pineapple.

I prefer deep crust to thin - and have had a cheesy stuffed crust once, that was lovely.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Pffft tube, train, same difference. In the mornings there is a woman who always gets in the front carriage of the train I get which is a quiet carriage. If any day trippers got on and started making noise they would be basically threatened and told to be quiet. Anyone who even thinks about using a phone is in a lot of trouble! Unfortunately I haven't found out what time train she goes home on yet as I would get that one as well!

DW gets sick of the noise on the train to/from Waterloo. One day she heard two passengers in her carriage shouting loudly in their phones but facing away from each other and more or less taking turns talking on them She heard them shouting their locations to each other and it it dawned gradually on them they were on the same carriage and only a few feet apart. Pathetic.:rotfl:

Another mate would wait until somebody answered their phone by shouting into it. He would then shout more loudly " I'm on the train!".
Before anyone tries this themselves I should point out his work training meant he could deal very effectively with any comeback from the phone user. The carriage were always delighted.:D

PasturesNew

I was in a supermarket the other day just as a woman walking towards/past me answered her phone by shouting into it, I immediately said clearly towards her phone something like "you're bl00dy loud" ... and she didn't even notice. I don't have a good line in comebacks, if she'd said anything I'd have only been able to say back "Oh F*** off you loud lardy cow"

PasturesNew

Good Lord - BBC3 right now - they're on the streets of Liverpool in the daytime and there are loads of people dressed in their pyjamas and with their rollers in ... all individuals and mates, just going about their day ... wearing their PJs/with rollers in - and it seems like a lot of them do it, it's not unusual there at all!

Gobsmacked!

And that has been followed by some peculiar looking large ugly girl with piercings, a miniskirt right up her 'arris, going round in a silver sequin mini dress looking for a job. Good lord... it's not a world I've seen before.

chewmylegoff

michaels wrote: »

Perhaps you could post one of those little messages in the metro?

How about the left standers on escalators, is there anything worse?

I secretly enjoy people standing on the left on escalators as you can shove past them in an indignant manner whilst tutting. I once got this a bit wrong though by accidently walking straight into the back of one who had walked halfway up and stopped. He wasn't pleased with me at all and I reckon if I was a few inches shorter he would have punched me. I saw him again 3 minutes later waiting for a lift in my office building.

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I secretly enjoy people standing on the left on escalators as you can shove past them in an indignant manner whilst tutting. I once got this a bit wrong though by accidently walking straight into the back of one who had walked halfway up and stopped. He wasn't pleased with me at all and I reckon if I was a few inches shorter he would have punched me. I saw him again 3 minutes later waiting for a lift in my office building.

Nobody tells you about the left/right thing though ..... you have to work it out when somebody you're with/know yanks you over and tries to explain when you're probably already at the top

And if I ever go back - I'll have completely forgotten again as it'll have been years since the last time...

chewmylegoff

PasturesNew wrote: »

Good Lord - BBC3 right now - they're on the streets of Liverpool in the daytime and there are loads of people dressed in their pyjamas and with their rollers in ... all individuals and mates, just going about their day ... wearing their PJs/with rollers in - and it seems like a lot of them do it, it's not unusual there at all!

Gobsmacked!

And that has been followed by some peculiar looking large ugly girl with piercings, a miniskirt right up her 'arris, going round in a silver sequin mini dress looking for a job. Good lord... it's not a world I've seen before.

I think I would choose to "avoid" Lacey by flying to a different country / continent, or possibly drowning myself.

CKhalvashi

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Pffft tube, train, same difference. In the mornings there is a woman who always gets in the front carriage of the train I get which is a quiet carriage. If any day trippers got on and started making noise they would be basically threatened and told to be quiet. Anyone who even thinks about using a phone is in a lot of trouble! Unfortunately I haven't found out what time train she goes home on yet as I would get that one as well!

Genius! :eek:

PasturesNew

chewmylegoff wrote: »

I think I would choose to "avoid" Lacey by flying to a different country / continent, or possibly drowning myself.

What on EARTH does she think she looks like??? It's NOT a good look at all.

There were moments she looked like a man in drag.