Nice People Thread No. 14, all Nice and Proper

PasturesNew

GDB2222 wrote: »

I really love vol au vents.

Taramasalata is the fishy one. It's pink and should be left on the side of the plate. That's considered politer than saying "Phewww! What foul stuff."

In the past, when confronted with a 70s/80s buffet I'd always head for the vol au vents.... chicken/sauce ones first.

Loanranger

Carols from Kings, Cambridge on BBC2, must be christmas. Beautiful place, wonderful voices. I'm an atheist but love this programme. It's when christmas starts for me.
Happy Christmas to you!

silvercar

PasturesNew wrote: »

Make a note for next year.... I hope he's not eating stuff that's been bought for a specific purpose ... I hope he's sticking to bog standard bread and bog standard cheese with some branston pickle.... and hasn't got his sticky mitts into anything 'important'.

said sticky mitts have been warned off the salmon, that he thought "looked substantial". It should do, its the main dish for 10 people expected one evening next week. The fact he needed to explore the freezer when there is a fridge full of food is beyond me.

One year I tried giving them the password to Tesco online and told them to add what they wanted. We had 48 packets of salt and vinegar doritos, bread sticks and coke cola. And nothing else.

GDB2222

PasturesNew wrote: »

In the past, when confronted with a 70s/80s buffet I'd always head for the vol au vents.... chicken/sauce ones first. I'd eat one, put one on the plate, eat one, put one on the plate .... fill the rest of the plate (quiche, sausage rolls, couple of sandwiches, sausages on sticks, pineapple/cheese) .... then dash back to the buffet table to eat one, put one on the plate, eat one, put one on the plate .... repeat until all vol au vents gone.

Surely it'd be politer to say "Phewww! What foul stuff" ensuring the host doesn't go out of their way to serve you that 5h1t EVER again?!

Luckily for me, I managed to find out that the starter tomorrow is something I can't bear (to even be in the same room as), so I managed to let them know I won't be needing that

If you order mixed mezze in a Greek or Turkish restaurant, this usually involves them loaning you Taramasalata. They pop some Taramasalata on the plate of mezze, and you give the Taramasalata back to them after you have polished off everything else on the plate.

PasturesNew

silvercar wrote: »

We had 48 packets of salt and vinegar doritos, bread sticks and coke cola. And nothing else.

On the basis they were getting fed Xmas dinner and knew "all the usual stuff" would also be available .... that looks pretty much like my order would've been in the same situation

michaels

zagubov wrote: »

Get yourselves to Star Wars at the earliest opportunity. The whole family saw it including MiL and the verdict is [STRIKE]we've wasted our lives till now[/STRIKE] it's pretty good.

I have heard the same - would it be ok for DS who is 6? Should I get DKs to watch the original trilogy first?

Loanranger wrote: »

Carols from Kings, Cambridge on BBC2, must be christmas. Beautiful place, wonderful voices. I'm an atheist but love this programme. It's when christmas starts for me.
Happy Christmas to you!

That was probably the best bit of my time there (watching not taking part...I am pretty much the opposite end of the spectrum to choirboys and not just in singing ability).

PasturesNew wrote: »

michaels' light's out .... bet he couldn't stand the fear of missing out ..... and dashed to the shops ..... and managed to not only get 3 turkeys for 20p, 6 lumps of venison at 50p each, 3 whole salmons for 40p each, 6 tins of biscuits for 30p, 200 party nibbles for 14p, 3 Xmas trifles at 10p each ... and, when he went through the till, the alarms went off and he was presented with a £200 voucher for "10,000th customer since the branch opened". And as he left, somebody stopped him and invited him to their house party tonight.

He's one jammeh MF.

Well Homebase was duff - no cheap decorations, Aldi a big success but not actually for Christmas food (except for an xmas pudding down form 9.99 to 2.99, no xmas meat left) but all bread products, all veg and a lot of meat was half price or less - came back with loads for only 13 quid. Lidl struck out again - they had birds left but only down by a third and claimed that was as far as they would go. Tesco not great either but got a few bits and pieces that had been out of stock at the other stores and DW got two crabs reduced from £10 each to £1 for both - not sure how to cook/eat them though, we don't have any crackers so may need to use the hammer....Finally Asda - again no xmas birds but we got the Caribbean stuff that the other local supermarkets don't stock and lucked out on 8 hot chicken portions for 20p (total).

Oh I nearly forgot, at Tesco we got some 4p rolls, bread, luxury cookies and (American) muffins.

The ladies of the house are off to midnight mass later if they are still awake we will all go to the family service tomorrow morning as well.

Also just found another present for DS in the garage bought a few months ago so he now has 3 whereas the DDs only have one each - oops.

HAMISH_MCTAVISH

Well I'm still not feeling especially festive - finishing off a load of paperwork - but Mrs McT is so excited she doesn't have to cook a Turkey tomorrow (for the first time in a decade) she has decided we're having a drinking game tonight, and well, who am I to argue with such sound logic?

Apparently it's movie themed....

We've started with Big Lebowski White Russians... "Dude"

I imagine it's going to go downhill from here.

GDB2222

Tesco had yellow-stickered some chocolate trifles down from £2.50 to 25p. Bargain, and I put two in the trolley. Then disaster struck! DW spotted them. "The yellow sticker does not reduce the calories." So, I put them back. Ten seconds later, they had both gone.

The customers follow the girl with the yellow sticker machine, like gulls flocking round a trawler.

Generali

That sounds lovely PN.

It's Christmas morning and the Generalissimos are having a blast. The house is now covered in Lego and torn wrapping paper.

It's lovely sunny weather here, going to be 24C apparently. I think this is the first sunny Xmas I've had since moving here, normally it's cloudy and dull.

PasturesNew

Did the "duty phone call" .... something I don't have to fit in tomorrow... everybody wins as they also didn't get interrupted in the middle of shuffling dinner between the fridge/worktop/oven etc.

Generali wrote: »

That sounds lovely PN.

It's Christmas morning and the Generalissimos are having a blast. The house is now covered in Lego and torn wrapping paper.

It's lovely sunny weather here, going to be 24C apparently. I think this is the first sunny Xmas I've had since moving here, normally it's cloudy and dull.

It must be lovely, knowing you don't really have to plan round the weather too much ... as in, it won't be freezing, soaking wet, blowing a gale, all of those.... nice, warm weather. I hate the weather we get in the UK. All the countries we invaded over the years, how come we handed back the ones with better weather??