Nice People Thread No. 15, a Cyber Summer

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

What difference does the gender of the child make?

Hahahahahaha! I've just this minute read that, before I read your post, and thought, oops! it sounds like I'm referring to the child!

Then I read your post!

I will correct the grammar tout-de-suite!

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Cpt Darling: "Ooh, cappucino. Have you got any of the brown stuff to sprinkle on it?"
Baldrick: "I'll have a root around and see if I can find some"
Cpt Blackadder: "No, that'll be all Baldrick"

Classic.

I think that was the same episode with the difference between sauteed and fricasseed rat - can't remember which way around it was but one used just a slightly larger rat

Now I've got to look up the difference!


Edit.......Quote....
"Many cooking references describe fricassee simply as a French stew, usually with a white sauce.[3] Julia Child in Mastering the Art of French Cooking describes it as "halfway between a saut! and a stew" in that a saute has no liquid added, while a stew includes liquid from the beginning. In a fricassee, cut-up meat is first sauteed (but not browned), then liquid is added and it is simmered to finish cooking."

So now I know!

Some of my stir-fries must turn out to be fricassèes in that case!

(Yes, yes, I know it should be an acute accent, but I reckon a grave accent is better than a fridging exclamation mark! :rotfl:)







Edit..
Oooh! Just heard that the Egghead CJ de Mooi has been arrested on suspicion of a historical killing, 20years ago!
Interestingly, (not that it's got anything to do with this), I never liked him; he came across as arrogant and patronising.

Doozergirl

CJ? I can't believe they gave the guy his own show at one point!

You know when you hear something and you're not entirely surprised?

chris_m

Pyxis wrote: »

I think that was the same episode with the difference between sauteed and fricasseed rat - can't remember which way around it was but one used just a slightly larger rat

Now I've got to look up the difference!

Edit.......Quote....
"Many cooking references describe fricassee simply as a French stew, usually with a white sauce.[3] Julia Child in Mastering the Art of French Cooking describes it as "halfway between a saut! and a stew" in that a saute has no liquid added, while a stew includes liquid from the beginning. In a fricassee, cut-up meat is first sauteed (but not browned), then liquid is added and it is simmered to finish cooking."
So now I know!

Ah, but this was the Baldrick version - nothing as fancy as that.

IIRC you take the freshly shaved rat and marinade it in a puddle until it's drowned, stretch it out over a light bulb for a while, then make sure you're in dashing distance of the latrines and scoff it right down.
:rotfl:

michaels

Doozergirl wrote: »

CJ? I can't believe they gave the guy his own show at one point!

You know when you hear something and you're not entirely surprised?

Hmm - Not a long distance from jailing people cos they look like badduns and then onto hounding paedatricians....

SingleSue

PasturesNew wrote: »

In Blackadder, WW1 episode, Baldrick's making tea and the conversation brings out that he's been out of sugar for months and been using dandruff instead.... then he offered him milk, that they also haven't had ... he'd been using spit.

I loved milk growing up. It is lovely. But I stopped buying it and started having black coffee about 35 years ago when, living alone, I realised that I either had no milk for my coffee, or what I had had gone off. With a growing collection of "gone off milk" accumulating it seemed easiest to just start drinking coffee black

At home we used to have "silver top" - I find if I buy "blue top" these days it's not got the same depth of texture that the old silver top had. Silver top used to have an inch or so of cream on top, that you then mixed in by shaking the bottle. You don't have that with blue top.

Shake it! Nah, we used to spoon it out much to mum's annoyance.

PasturesNew

Doozergirl wrote: »

You know when you hear something and you're not entirely surprised?

Henceforth referred to as that Saville Moment.

Doozergirl

PasturesNew wrote: »

Henceforth referred to as that Saville Moment.

Well, exactly

Pyxis

chris_m wrote: »

Ah, but this was the Baldrick version - nothing as fancy as that.

IIRC you take the freshly shaved rat and marinade it in a puddle until it's drowned, stretch it out over a light bulb for a while, then make sure you're in dashing distance of the latrines and scoff it right down.
:rotfl:

Ah! A lovely puddled rat!
Is that the same as jugged hare?

michaels wrote: »

Hmm - Not a long distance from jailing people cos they look like badduns and then onto hounding paedatricians....

I know! Hang everyone with shifty eyes. And women who do herbal medicine. And men with asymmetrical faces. And women with black cats and brooms.
Hang the lot of them!
Oh....and people who put apostrophes in plurals. They're the worst of the lot!
Hang 'em all!






Seriously though, if the paediatrician thing weren't so awful, it'd be laughable. So much for the British education system.

Doozergirl

michaels wrote: »

Hmm - Not a long distance from jailing people cos they look like badduns and then onto hounding paedatricians....

Hardly. He's been arrested on suspicion of murder, presumably because they have evidence.

His picture should be next to 'smarmy' in the dictionary.