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

lostinrates

chewmylegoff wrote: »

it's also just a ludicrous concept in my opinion. let's see who's the best at making one spoonful of food.

tell you what, let's see who's the best at sacking a load of tv executives who have run out of ideas.

Well, yeah, but....ideal for me. In fact, by the end those judges have had a lot of spoons.....with a full team the have had what seven by the end of first round?

That's a fair bit of food , they are big spoons.

Then the second round.......

lostinrates

PasturesNew wrote: »

I don't cook..... I look at nice pictures of food for hours, I collect recipes ... then I make toast

Well, you are welcome to collect recipes here sometime.

chewmylegoff

zagubov wrote: »

Most mexican food here's what you'd call tex-mex and milder than Mexicans themselves eat. Chewie's probably better informed on this!

I used to go to a good tex mex restauarnt in South Kensington. Just googled it- might be the Texas Lone Star but its donleys years ago. They have/had a dish called onion loaf that's pure delight.:beer:

No idea. I can tell you all about the Asian fusion, French and Italian restaurants in the hotel we stayed in in Mexico though...

PasturesNew

Since Saturday I've had fish pie/chips, pukka pie/chips, curry sauce/chips, chips, toast, 2 muffins (twice), scrambled eggs on toast, weetabix/sugar/milk (3x), bag of jelly babies, half a bag of snack size peanut choc bars, half a packet of dry roasted peanuts and a cup a soup.

chewmylegoff

Spent the day today interviewing applicants for our graduate programme. We had a few thousand applicants for about 20 jobs. We filtered out most of them over various stages and this was the final assessment centre with 40 people left. I was expecting them all to be pretty effing amazing as a result but it was a real mixed bag, the three that I assessed were very weak indeed and I can't help thinking that our filtering has gone horribly wrong. Was pretty depressing really.

silvercar

vivatifosi wrote: »

Thanks silver. Maybe it is some sort of other gathering. Black skull caps men and ringlets long sober skirts women. That's orthodox isn't it? Sorry if I come across a bit ignorant, don't know any orthodox Jews irl.
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Maybe it was a wedding. Can't think of another reason for a big gathering. (Unless it was a funeral!)

Very noticable ringlets suggest Chasidic sect, super religious.

Masomnia

I've been applying for graduate jobs recently Not got very far as yet. Not finance though!

Weak in what way? Basic skills for the job etc?

I think most people know how to BS their way through the application forms for these things, and know the things to say on a telephone interview. The filtering is probably pretty ineffective for that reason I'd have thought. But then how do you differentiate between thousands of people?

michaels

We always find with graduates that the ones that look great on paper are often not the ones who do best at interview and the interview (assessment day) is definitely much more important.

zagubov

chewmylegoff wrote: »

No idea. I can tell you all about the Asian fusion, French and Italian restaurants in the hotel we stayed in in Mexico though...

Forgot you mentioned a while back that spicy food has no power over you.

PasturesNew wrote: »

That sounds nice.

On Sunday Brunch last weekend, the chef had been to Texas and cooked a Texan chilli in the studio (no beans). It had chuck steak and scotch bonnet as the starting ingredients. It is cooked for 6 hours, then shredded and served.

Here it is: http://www.channel4.com/4food/recipes/tv-show-recipes/sunday-brunch-recipes/frito-pie-recipe

Brill! Onion loaf is a bit like onion bajia but as a crunchy loaf. with a lovely sauce to pour over it.

silvercar

chewmylegoff wrote: »

Spent the day today interviewing applicants for our graduate programme. We had a few thousand applicants for about 20 jobs. We filtered out most of them over various stages and this was the final assessment centre with 40 people left. I was expecting them all to be pretty effing amazing as a result but it was a real mixed bag, the three that I assessed were very weak indeed and I can't help thinking that our filtering has gone horribly wrong. Was pretty depressing really.

DS1 tells me that they all do online job applications for each other! Particularly public sector ones. Apparently with familiarity you can pass all these things, but it if you haven't got the time to familiarise yourselves with a particular set, you ask a mate!