Nice People Thread Number 10 -the official residence of Nice People

silvercar

Tahlullah wrote: »

Wow, here I am showing my ignorance again!

What food do you cook which includes the use of blood, apart from black pudding?

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silvercar

lostinrates wrote: »

Btw, has any one else not nice they are selling chrain sort of stuff as a normal non 'ethnic' food now? Not called chrain ( of course) . Yum yum. I LOVE it.



I told the story here about my mother's Polish cleaner and DH, right?

chrain is a horseradish/ beetroot mix. I think it is polish /russian in origin. A polish deli has opened near us, I keep meaning to explore.

I don't recall the story of the polish cleaner.

vivatifosi

neverdespairgirl wrote: »

If you had all the possible combinations, I imagine it would be a booklet that people wouldn't even bother looking at?

Absolutely. But at what point does it become irrelevant or too confusing? I would like to be able to tick a box that says British mixed... That sums me up best. A bit of everything. English and Irish on mum's side, English, bit of Romany and goodness knows what else on dad's side.

It also annoys me that under the Nat Stats definitions, children born to say, white Polish parents can call their children white British; whereas parents who are both black and who have been here generations have to tick a box that says Black British/Caribbean or Black British/African. One rule for one colour, one for another. Michaels and I get wound up on this every now and again. Normally around the time of a census...

vivatifosi

silvercar wrote: »

chrain is a horseradish/ beetroot mix.

Sounds yummy. I now want to try this. I love beetroot and I quite like horseradish too.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Sounds yummy. I now want to try this. I love beetroot and I quite like horseradish too.

It is One of the best combinations in the world.

tomterm8

Weird things wikipedia knows blood as food.

lostinrates

silvercar wrote: »

I don't recall the story of the polish cleaner.

Its a nice one, but sounds a bit worrying in the middle.


The Polish cleaner was a sweet girl and looked surprised when I mentioned I was getting ready to cook something for some or other Jewish date because my husband, who she had not met, was Jewish.

She asked if I minded, I laughed and said no, and she asked if my parents minded and I said no.


A few weeks later I mentioned she was going to meet him and she looked inordinately excited. When they did meet she was sweet and charming but beckoned me aside.

'Where are they?'She asked

'Mwhere are what?"

'His horns?"


Now after I could catch my breath for hiccuping with laughter I was a bit sad that this university grad could have got through modern life thinking a group of peoe had horns, but instead I , and DH, were uplifted that despite thinking he was so other as to be possibly 'not quite human' was still open to being friendly and smiley and embracing of a situation where the unhorned and the horned marry happily.


You see, ignorance isn't always mean. I think she was quite, quite brave.

She now knows Jewish people are horn free but sometimes have dandruff.

lostinrates

vivatifosi wrote: »

Absolutely. But at what point does it become irrelevant or too confusing? I would like to be able to tick a box that says British mixed... That sums me up best. A bit of everything. English and Irish on mum's side, English, bit of Romany and goodness knows what else on dad's side.

It also annoys me that under the Nat Stats definitions, children born to say, white Polish parents can call their children white British; whereas parents who are both black and who have been here generations have to tick a box that says Black British/Caribbean or Black British/African. One rule for one colour, one for another. Michaels and I get wound up on this every now and again. Normally around the time of a census...

I always tick 'would rather not say'. If there is option for other I put mongrel then DH crosses out and ticks 'would rather not say':rotfl:

neverdespairgirl

lostinrates wrote: »

You see, ignorance isn't always mean. I think she was quite, quite brave.

She now knows Jewish people are horn free but sometimes have dandruff.

A lot of Poles I met, while living in Poland, are pretty anti-semitic, sadly.

silvercar wrote: »

I never realised until about 10 years ago that people ever made fun of someone for being ginger. Just never heard it at all.

Try coming from a family full of fair-haired people. You'll hear an awful lot of blonde jokes. That can get boring after a while.

My mother bought us all T-shirts a decade or two ago saying, "Speak slowly, I'm a natural blonde".

LydiaJ

vivatifosi wrote: »

It also annoys me that under the Nat Stats definitions, children born to say, white Polish parents can call their children white British; whereas parents who are both black and who have been here generations have to tick a box that says Black British/Caribbean or Black British/African. One rule for one colour, one for another. Michaels and I get wound up on this every now and again. Normally around the time of a census...

The form I've just filled in had three Black British options - Caribbean, African and Other.

I'm terribly boringly white British. No knowledge of any non-white or non-British ancestors on either side. My grandmother was born in India, but to British parents who were out there doing something to do with organising the building of railways, I think. (This was 1895.)

I'm also very boringly able to fit into most of the other official boxes these days too, although I still think of "widowed" as a mere legal technicality rather than an accurate description of my identity. I'm a lot more at ease about that now than I used to be, though. Having been on that "widowed young" weekend I posted about back in September, I feel confident that "real" widows are happy to accept me as one of them, but I also know that divorcees are happy to accept me as one of them too, so I now feel I belong in both camps rather than in neither.