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

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

I bought one of those duvets and spent a fortune only to discover I'm allergic to it and can only have the horrible polyester ones:mad:.

On a more fun note, My brother did a spot painting, he bought one of the canvases from an art superstore quite cheap and then used placed the free CDs/DVDs from magazines on it to get a sense of how many spots he wanted. Once happy, he drew round the CDs with a pencil and then coloured in with paint in shades to match his living room. It looked really good.

I love silk scarves and have loads, but haven't worn one in ages.

I think silk duvets ate ok for people with allergies. I want silk duvet.

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

My dream toaster would be able to accommodate a naan bread, or a fat muffin. So that'd be a long variable width toaster. But I think variable width have wide slots that mean regular sliced bread takes a long time to toast.... so maybe it'd mean having two toasters. Although the reality is that a frying pan will toast muffins or naan bread just as well/better.

I want a rotary toaster like we had at school. After years of not eating toast from all the toast they fed us at school, now i feel...nostalgic for it for some reason. Barking mad. Agas/ ranges make the best toast, then a fire and toasting fork. We decided that it was too expensive to install an aga or similar just to use as a toaster though. A rare shot of common sense in the rates household.

silvercar

My dream toaster would be wifi enabled. From a remote control it could pick the bread out of the bread bin and toast it perfectly, plate and butter it and put it on the breakfast table. That is the basic model. The deluxe model interacts with the kettle and serves tea at the same time.

lostinrates

Emin, not a fan of her as a person, nor the famous bits. Summer exhibition 2003 she showed some beautiful amd intense little watercolours though.

Po boys are wonderful. I have never had a corn dog, and have always wondered what they taste like.

Dh has lost the car keys, he has been Looking for forty minutes now.

PasturesNew

I've had toast on a toasting fork (1970s power cuts) and our cooker when I was growing up had a toaster. I didn't use a toaster that plugged in until I was about 30..... wasn't used to toast being done on both sides, so that took some getting used to, I like toast done on one side.

Never used an Aga for anything, never had one though.

I have been in two hotels that had a toaster conveyor belt, where you feed bread in by putting it on a moving rack... and it eventually drops out as hot toast in about a minute - when there's a queue behind you though you feel greedy for making two pieces as the queue waits.

PasturesNew

lostinrates wrote: »

Dh has lost the car keys, he has been Looking for forty minutes now.

They're in his car door.

zagubov

lostinrates wrote: »

Po boys are wonderful. I have never had a corn dog, and have always wondered what they taste like.

Corn dogs are rubbish. Don't bother. Like a corn muffin with a hot dog in it.

Loved creole and cajun food in New Orleans.

From the rest of the US the only distinctive food I recall was scrapple in Philadelphia (the city, not the cheese).:)

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

Corn dogs are rubbish. Don't bother. Like a corn muffin with a hot dog in it.

Loved creole and cajun food in New Orleans.

From the rest of the US the only distinctive food I recall was scrapple in Philadelphia (the city, not the cheese).:)

Or grits - yuk! The other thing I don't understand is the obsession with apple sauce. I like apple sauce, but I wouldn't want to spoon it out of a container and eat it by itself. I don't think Americans understand my love of Marmite either though.

zagubov

vivatifosi wrote: »

Or grits - yuk! The other thing I don't understand is the obsession with apple sauce. I like apple sauce, but I wouldn't want to spoon it out of a container and eat it by itself. I don't think Americans understand my love of Marmite either though.

There's no taboo about not mixing sweet and savoury on the same dish. American breakfasts would have jam (jelly) and bacon etc. all on the same plate.

I don't recall grits.

Having said this, I find haggis tasty and have had (eel) pie and mash since living in London and very much enjoy it.

Never found any distinctive Surrey food though!

vivatifosi

zagubov wrote: »

I don't recall grits.

They look like porridge (yum) but taste like wallpaper paste (yuk).