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

Generali

lemonjelly wrote: »

Last night I had soup & toast for tea.
I remember as a child having toast with soup frequently. Nowadays it is almost always bread. For some reason, I wanted to reminisce.

I love home made tomato or oxtail soup with fried bread. That reminds me of childhood.

I love fried bread although I eat it very rarely.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

I love milk. I drink at least a pint a day alone. Plus what I have in tea.
I'd struggle to live without milk.

I really miss milk. . It was a staple for me too.


When I started having the food investigations last year they gave me the cheerful factoid that everyone becomes lactose intolerant eventually if they live long enough.

Generali

silvercar wrote: »

Why do we eat ox tail, but not ox mince or ox steak?

Similarly, I've never eaten cow tail soup.

Probably because the poor people (Germans) ate the tail and the kidneys so called them by the German word: Ox.

Rich people (French) got the meat so called it by the French word: beef.

lemonjelly

Generali wrote: »

Count Arthur Strong considers vegetarian sausages to be a vegetable to be eaten alongside proper sausages.

Turkey bacon, it's like carrot fish or bread lamb. A nonsense. Over here we have 'shoulder bacon'. It's disgusting, absolutely vile.

It's a long weekend here for Australia Day. The weather is filthy. Hot and super humid all day and now drizzly rain. Forecast to be nicer tomorrow and then horrid for Sun and Mon. Oh well. We're planning a trip to look at houses south of Sydney tomorrow followed by a couple of hours at the beach. Then lunch with friends on Sunday.

Heavy rain & gales here this weekend. Still no sign of snow & no real frosts. This is a bizarre "winter".

Generali wrote: »

I love home made tomato or oxtail soup with fried bread. That reminds me of childhood.

I love fried bread although I eat it very rarely.

I had tomato & basil soup. As a kid it was almost always tomato soup with toast. Occasionally oxtail.

lostinrates wrote: »

I really miss milk. . It was a staple for me too.


When I started having the food investigations last year they gave me the cheerful factoid that everyone becomes lactose intolerant eventually if they live long enough.

Nnnnnnooooooo!:(
I'm confused by these almond milks & whatnot. Currently see no reason to go anywhere near them though.

lemonjelly

Generali wrote: »

Probably because the poor people (Germans) ate the tail and the kidneys so called them by the German word: Ox.

Rich people (French) got the meat so called it by the French word: beef.

We (ie the British) appear to have imported names for meat, so we don't refer to meat as the animal. So sheep becomes mutton (mouton), cow becomes beef (bouef), pig (porc) and so on. I think we're quite unique in that, but await a rash of replies correcting my assumption.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

Nnnnnnooooooo!:(
I'm confused by these almond milks & whatnot. Currently see no reason to go anywhere near them though.

Almond milk is delicious, a drink in its own right, but tastes different in the UK. It has a tiny percentage of nut in it here. Sweetened and with a decent nut percentage its like drinking marzipan . (Obviously not a daily indulgence!) Also good with coffee. Likewise hazel nut milk. With tea, IMO both suck.

lostinrates

lemonjelly wrote: »

We (ie the British) appear to have imported names for meat, so we don't refer to meat as the animal. So sheep becomes mutton (mouton), cow becomes beef (bouef), pig (porc) and so on. I think we're quite unique in that, but await a rash of replies correcting my assumption.

We have imported names for lots of things.

By British I think though you mean English language speakers.

Generali

lemonjelly wrote: »

We (ie the British) appear to have imported names for meat, so we don't refer to meat as the animal. So sheep becomes mutton (mouton), cow becomes beef (bouef), pig (porc) and so on. I think we're quite unique in that, but await a rash of replies correcting my assumption.

AIUI, often the table word for meat is French and the animal/field world is German.

Anglo Saxons raised meat for Normans to eat.

lostinrates

Serious question,.,,


How many nice people still occasionally scrub floors, like on hands and knees? I cannot find any way to clean floors that us better.


Second part of question how many nice men (or women) have NEVER scrubbed a whole floor rather than just a spot clean?


We've been trying to use the wet floor cleaner for the concrete floors. (Because I am not meant to bend over or keep my head low for long periods of time, and we have a lot of concrete floors), The areas I have scrubbed are notably cleaner and lighter coloured that the bits than have been bissel -ed, steam cleaned or worst of all mopped.

michaels

We clean the wood floor in the kitchen by hand as it is not really suitable for mopping, without pets though it doesn't really need scrubbing more wipping. We do have those washable no pile rugs in front of the cooker and sink though.