The Nice People Thread, No.16: A Universe of Niceness.

Pyxis

Jackmydad wrote: »

Now you're getting lair-y!

Is it me, or is this turning a bit eyrie?

PasturesNew

Pyxis wrote: »

I do like the taste of some alcoholic drinks, but not the inebriation.

That's how I am. I'll sometimes have a drink, just for the taste - but can't then enjoy another as I don't like to get drunk.... for me, Xmas dinner, a fizzy Schloer's as good as (better than) any wine. I do like fizzy stuff....

silvercar

Some yogurts have cornflour, (added to thicken it up),which may be from maize, or it may be from wheat, it doesn't say, so I'm avoiding them anyway.

Surely cornflour must come from corn aka maize? Otherwise it would be just flour?

Having been through many intolerance tests, it is often the case that you (or me or anyone) can tolerate small amounts of something that causes a reaction when you consume larger quantities. So not worrying about small amounts could make the testing a lot easier. That is why you are looking for intolerances not allergies.

chris_m

silvercar wrote: »

Surely cornflour must come from corn aka maize? Otherwise it would be just flour?

Whilst cornflour (as called in the UK) does indeed come from maize, it is not actually a true flour in that it is not the ground seeds of the corn. It is solely the starch extracted from the maize seeds, which do also contain gluten.

In other countries, what we call cornflour is called corn starch to differentiate it from their versions of corn flour, or corn meal, which are the whole seeds ground to differing degrees.

Flour itself is a generic term for "ground stuff", mainly seeds, but also other things. Apart from the more common wheat flour, there are such delights as acorn flour, chestnut flour, chickpea flour, hemp flour, potato flour and banana flour amongst many others.

ivyleaf

PasturesNew wrote: »

Don't set yourself goals and you can have a cream tea when you want.

Goals are evil, sent to punish. Don't fall for it. Live free, have a cream tea

I love this, it's exactly what my husband would say

PasturesNew

Handyman came, which you probably guessed as I wasn't here moaning

He's cracking on with the work. He works 9-1, so will be here tomorrow too, which will be the painting jobs.

EDIT: And we're done for today. Made some essential progress... all the jobs I couldn't do alone. Just one job I can't do outstanding as he needs a particular size of socket to do something.... then the painting.

Good bloke.

ivyleaf

That's good Pastures. I'm so pleased for you :j If he was a bit closer to our area I'd ask you to get him to come over when he's finished at yours, and reattach the coving that's coming down in our bedroom, as repeatedly asking OH and DS to do it has yielded zero results so far after more than three years!

Pyxis

ivyleaf wrote: »

That's good Pastures. I'm so pleased for you :j If he was a bit closer to our area I'd ask you to get him to come over when he's finished at yours, and reattach the coving that's coming down in our bedroom, as repeatedly asking OH and DS to do it has yielded zero results so far after more than three years!

Yes, and you'll get someone in to do it, and then when it's done, they'll admonish you for the expense of paying someone to do it, saying, "But I said I would do it!"
:rotfl:

Pyxis

silvercar wrote: »

Surely cornflour must come from corn aka maize? Otherwise it would be just flour?

Having been through many intolerance tests, it is often the case that you (or me or anyone) can tolerate small amounts of something that causes a reaction when you consume larger quantities. So not worrying about small amounts could make the testing a lot easier. That is why you are looking for intolerances not allergies.

Well, when I googled it to find out, several sources said it could be either, although they didn't specify whether that's true in the UK or not, so I decided to err on the side of caution.

Looking at some yogurts today, one said tapioca starch, and one said rice starch, which is usefully specific, so I'll stick to those.
it's just that my favourite black cherry one (not too sweet!) was a bit ambiguous! Never mind! It won't hurt for a month!

ivyleaf

Pyxis wrote: »

Yes, and you'll get someone in to do it, and then when it's done, they'll admonish you for the expense of paying someone to do it, saying, "But I said I would do it!"
:rotfl:

True, true