Nice People Thread Number 11 - A Treasury of Nice People

vivatifosi

Spirit wrote: »

Typing on phone.

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

Gen's doing great under trying circumstances and seems to be doing better since he found a treatment (cream?) to help with the side effects, he's enjoying the football and cooked a blinding looking meal. He's also trying to stay awake at conventional times.

Lir is MIA, we're hoping that she's too busy to be around and that she's either got house guests or broadband issues rather than health concerns.

fc has been around and lurking too (waves to fc)...

Spirit_2

My daughter has changed her Facebook picture to one of her as a new born in her dad's arms. The youthful mop haired mr spirit has drawn a lôt of fire .

PasturesNew

vivatifosi wrote: »

.... I moved back to the UK in the 70s .... 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.

That pretty much covers it.
I remember there were some triangles that were 6 different flavours in the box! Had them once; nice, but, like everything, you love 1-2, like 2-3 ... and wish somebody else would eat the others.

Vesta Beef Curry was our exotic food, never had the Chow Mein one.... we understood "curry", nobody would have known what a chow mein was, and you didn't take chances with furren stuff.

Spirit_2

vivatifosi wrote: »

Gen's doing great under trying circumstances and seems to be doing better since he found a treatment (cream?) to help with the side effects, he's enjoying the football and cooked a blinding looking meal. He's also trying to stay awake at conventional times.

Lir is MIA, we're hoping that she's too busy to be around and that she's either got house guests or broadband issues rather than health concerns.

fc has been around and lurking too (waves to fc)...

Thank you. Will hope for the best for all.

Nikkster

PN, I'm assuming that was a midnight... Walk?

zagubov

PasturesNew wrote: »

Vesta Beef Curry was our exotic food, never had the Chow Mein one.... we understood "curry", nobody would have known what a chow mein was, and you didn't take chances with furren stuff.

Vesta Curry was ace!

Spirit wrote: »

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

They're not that kind of bugs.


Found out that Paul Temple and Captain Scarlet and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo have all died.:(

PasturesNew

Spirit wrote: »

.... The youthful mop haired mr spirit has drawn a lôt of fire .

So you DID go to the beach in the moonlight ....

PasturesNew

Nikkster wrote: »

PN, I'm assuming that was a midnight... Walk?

Yes, with one of my very attentive toyboys. He was nuts about me ... I found him ... useful

We'd been out to some pub or other and/or a random drive along the coast ....and ended up there ... so I had this bright idea. Can't think when it was now ... must have been in about 1998/99.

PasturesNew

zagubov wrote: »

Found out that Paul Temple and Captain Scarlet and Shaggy from Scooby-Doo have all died.:(

Not sure what this means..... aren't they cartoon characters?
Never heard of Paul Temple.
Captain Scarlet was a puppet.
Shaggy was a cartoon.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

vivatifosi wrote: »

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.

LOL, those bring back memories.

Don't forget the soft cheese in tubes, Primula? Sometimes with flavoured bits in them (pineapple? ham?), although those might have been early 80's?

And Angel Delight.... Butterscotch flavour was actually OK.

Cup-A-Soup too, that was the 70's.

And salad cream.... Vile stuff.