Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

An unusually wine filled few days for me...although I have had beer too .
We are ambling our way back from Cornwall. Now on Dartmoor, had an unsuccessful search for a pub dinner so ate a kebab.

I'd like a full itinerary of where you went, what you saw

If you'd logged on I could have told you where to head for to look for a pub dinner! I'm a bit of an expert in the region (not in pub dinners except to know where people who eat nice pub dinners would head for).

Off the top of my head I could list experiences near Lands End, posh/michelin restraurants on the North coast and the middle, quirky olde places, haunted pubs, sea views, off the beaten tracks ..... all sorts.

I also know a fair few kebab places.

Dartmoor's big, but I'd have suggested Borough Arms carvery at Bodmin on the Dunmere Road.... or Bodmin Gaol restaurant (posher).

I'll now google Dartmoor to see where it starts/ends...

michaels

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not sold as a commonplace foodstuff in the UK to regular people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11926609

Ski yoghurt were the first to start advertising/promoting in the mid-60s. Stuff had a slower take-up back then, so it was about another 10 years before I saw a pot (not on a telly advert). Parents certainly never bought any; it wasn't in school dinners. So I had no access to it.

I can easily imagine that yogurt in pots with sugar and things added is a 'new' phenomenon but youghurt itself? I have learned something new.

PasturesNew

I can't google it. Google maps is playing up for me again.... I type it in and it doesn't take me to it/show where it is ... so I can't see the boundaries .... d4mned stupid new google maps.

PasturesNew

michaels wrote: »

I can easily imagine that yogurt in pots with sugar and things added is a 'new' phenomenon but youghurt itself? I have learned something new.

Before Ski only "freaks and foreigners" would eat yoghurt ... and they'd be hard pushed to find it I bet.

Spirit_2

PasturesNew wrote: »

I'd like a full itinerary of where you went, what you saw

If you'd logged on I could have told you where to head for to look for a pub dinner! I'm a bit of an expert in the region (not in pub dinners except to know where people who eat nice pub dinners would head for).

Off the top of my head I could list experiences near Lands End, posh/michelin restraurants on the North coast and the middle, quirky olde places, haunted pubs, sea views, off the beaten tracks ..... all sorts.

I also know a fair few kebab places.

We thought we would move around as we had a motor home however got to treyarnon bay and stayed put! The only drinking hole was the yha. We have our dog with us so posh was out. I took some food with me...hm. Bread. Chicken & leek pie, asparagus &. Chorizo quiche, terrine plus cooked breakfast and rib eyesteaks & lamb chops.

Tonight. We needed pub food.

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Not sold as a commonplace foodstuff in the UK to regular people.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-11926609

Ski yoghurt were the first to start advertising/promoting in the mid-60s. Stuff had a slower take-up back then, so it was about another 10 years before I saw a pot (not on a telly advert). Parents certainly never bought any; it wasn't in school dinners. So I had no access to it.

This was the music to it, while grinning people slid down mountains to indicate health.

Instead of singing about the bacteria in it they substituted the lines Na- Na- Na -Na- Na, as in those days nobody could imagine friendly bacteria, only ones that wanted us dead in doublequick time.:eek:

vivatifosi

michaels wrote: »

I can easily imagine that yogurt in pots with sugar and things added is a 'new' phenomenon but youghurt itself? I have learned something new.

I don't know about food here in the 60s as I moved back to the UK in the 70s, but I do remember supermarkets being very limited. Exotic cheese was Edam, soft cheese came in the form of Dairylea triangles and if you wanted pasta it was always spaghetti and almost always came in a tin. "Foreign food" was a Vesta Chow Mein. If someone had shown me an aubergine I would have imagined it came from out of space.

Spirit_2

Typing on phone.

How is LiR? How is Gen ? Can someone update me please?

Spirit_2

zagubov wrote: »

This was the music to it, while grinning people slid down mountains to indicate health.

Instead of singing about the bacteria in it they substituted the lines Na- Na- Na -Na- Na, as in those days nobody could imagine friendly bacteria, only ones that wanted us dead in doublequick time.:eek:

I cannot bring myself to try yakult as I can only think of evil smelling green bugs.

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

We thought we would move around as we had a motor home however got to treyarnon bay and stayed put! The only drinking hole was the yha. We have our dog with us so posh was out. I took some food with me...hm. Bread. Chicken & leek pie, asparagus &. Chorizo quiche, terrine plus cooked breakfast and rib eyesteaks & lamb chops.

Tonight. We needed pub food.

I know Treyarnon exceedingly well.

You should have gone up the road to St Merryn.

I've spent many a holiday at Treyarnon and all the bays round there and stayed at St Merryn.... where you'd have found: Rick Stein's pub (en-route to Padstow on the left); the Farmer's Arms pub (cheap carvery + other pub meals); a clean chippy with a good range; an indian restaurant on one of the holiday chalet sites.

Or, the pub on the main road as you turn off from Treyarnon's got some good views (was a bit of a dive last time I was in the pub though) ... or plod on to Padstow proper, where there's an abundance of choices (and pasty shops)

I've even had a moonlight **** on Treyarnon beach Did you?