Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

ivyleaf

PasturesNew wrote: »

Lunch today was 5 frikadellen meatballs (Lidl, pack of 20) .... and some instant mash. Meatballs nuked for 2 minutes and a splash of hoisin sauce added (because it's a jar I've had/open for over a year and I really need to crack on and use it up.

Had the same for tea last night, but I had a squeeze of Heinz curry sauce with that

FIVE Frikadellen? I like them but have difficulty eating two, never mind five!

I'm obviously a complete lightweight (though not physically, unfortunately).

ETA Sorry, just realised you mean the smaller ones that are meatball-shaped, as opposed to the larger patty-shaped ones :D

LydiaJ

gfplux wrote: »

So Autumn has arrived, here in Luxembourg the calendar says so but who will notice a difference?
For me I have decided to change over my Summer wardrobe to Winter. The biggest reason is I am leaving for England tomorrow for 10 days and don't want to be caught wearing short sleeve shirts if the weather turns cold.
So it's out with the shorts and beige long trousers and in with the jeans and corduroys.

It is definitely getting colder here. One of the labs I teach in is one of the coldest rooms in the school - an old part of the building with narrow windows and an extremely high ceiling, so any heat just disappears upwards. In any of the other labs in the school, if I was cold I'd just light a few Bunsen burners - they warm a room up very quickly - but this lab is the only one without gas. Fortunately the technicians have a small fan heater I can borrow. The students have started complaining that it's cold, so I've been getting the fan heater out for them. They concentrate better when they're not whining about the temperature, and I get to feel warmer and more comfortable too.

PasturesNew wrote: »

The single life is one of continually eating things up, getting through things, so you do need to minimise the times this happens by opting for (slightly inferior, but long/er shelf life) alternatives.

I feel your pain, PN. I wish I could find a smaller pack size of Brussels pate. I like it, but DS and DD don't, so if I buy some, it's down to me to eat it. But the smallest available pack size is certainly more than I can eat within the "consume within 3 days" limit.

GDB2222

Can Brussels Pate be frozen?

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

I had a quick look, via mysupermarket, at pate pack sizes.... 175grams seems to be the smallest. Then somebody will quip "get what you want from the deli" - but I'd point out that you're then paying 3x the cost/100g so you might as well get the smallest pack anyway! Else you feel ripped off

I've never had pate, except the crab-named variety .... the thought of it grosses me out

The deli counter at the supermarket should be cheaper.

Doozergirl

I went to Birmingham Grand Central today. Fabulous piece of architecture containing the train station and a huge posh alert John Lewis.

I didn't think I could get excited about a train station but it's a temple of light. A dramatic contrast to the old station which was a dingy concrete warren with no natural light.

It also links two parts of the city that felt quite far away on foot.

And it has food and wine in it. Posh shops too so it feels a bit like an airport or at least gives the impression of affluence.

On y first trip to Birmingham, I arrived at Digbeth coach station and found my way into the old Bullring shopping centre. I actually cried, it was that horrid. Amazing how things change. That was 16? Years ago.

Doozergirl

I just ate a thing that tasted like a cross between cough medicine and dishwasher tablets.

Probably won't buy that again.

Doozergirl

Did anyone else watch the BBC programme about the family that spend the GDP of a small country on branded food and eat exactly the same meal every day in perpetuity?

I can't fathom how people could spend £225 on eating dolmio spag bol and fajitas.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

No, missed that one!

I've never had a dolmio spag bol ... I don't buy/use jars and neither did my mother (not that she was a good cook, whipping up marvels, but we'd not get stuff of that ilk). Never had a fajita. But I'm guessing it's just a posh name for "shove some slop into a tortilla and call it something else".

I do find with mexican food that it does seem
to be the same stuff, organised differently and given a different name.

Masomnia

PasturesNew wrote: »

I've got BBC1 on - WDYTYA - I didn't know it was on, so I've missed 3/4s of it. He's just found out that his 10x Great grandfather was close to the King/court - and his ancestor's job title was "Groom of the Stool" - he wiped the King's 4rse and cleaned out his loo.

That was a job of nepotism too, he was got the job so his relative could get "close to the King's ear".

He then got sacked from the bog job as his relative was some toff (Somerset) that got booted out.

Then he was beheaded.

They then took the programme participant (some bloke in a wheelchair/no idea who he is) .... back to show him how he is a direct descendant of William the Conqueror.... as they usually do when the participants speak a bit posh

I watched it tonight, was really good! I'd recommend watching it from the start if you can on iPlayer. He's Frank Gardner the security correspondent for BBC news.

michaels

We do jars, it is just easy and avoids buying loads of ingredients, however they are another of those items with a 'made up' rrp regularly on offer at half price - ie normal price.