Anyanka
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jozz post_id=60865 time=1530862029 user_id=2600 said:
COLD beer? Youve not been to England, I take it.
Name your favourite beer
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COLD beer? Youve not been to England, I take it.
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Anyanka post_id=60886 time=1530889227 user_id=74 said:
I have a friend who lives in the English Midlands who has scolded me on more than one occasion for putting real ale type beers in the fridge.
Im not very keen on the practice of putting beer glasses in the freezer like they are prone to do in warmer climes. Theres enough water in the stuff already!
Mind you we deep fry battered chocolate (Mars) bars here in Scotland, and I bet not many people are keen on that practice either.
So if youre in a Scottish chip shop dont be surprised to hear somebody ordering a Mars supper (fried Mars bar with chips).
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I've heard of deep fried Mars bars, but I've never tried one. Yet. Shan't judge it till I've tasted it.
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Anyanka post_id=60913 time=1530975666 user_id=74 said:
They sort of appeared on the menu quite a long time back now, as a kids novelty, and I steered well clear.
Yet, considering some of the awful stuff Ive seen being thrown over the side of ships, I still eat fish. The bottom dwellers get the worst deal, as they have to scavenge all the debris that reaches the sea bed. My favourite is plaice, as youre almost guaranteed to get a taste of anything else that has fallen to the bottom and been snaffled by them.
However, the experts tell us we should only eat plaice that come out of the Irish Sea, as the ones from the North Sea are not sustainable. So next time you see plaice if it hasnt got a shamrock in its buttonhole you shouldnt eat it.
Courting pilot whales have been known to grab the odd flatfish, as they cavort near the bottom. Due to the fact they often have trouble swallowing flat fish because of their shape, only one of them actually eats the fish, and the other one acts as a standby to remove the fish from its partners mouth if it gets stuck. Hence the saying Your plaice or mine? :roll:
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Well, years ago, we had a local radio personality who, around Christmas time, would talk about a beer he called "Old Frothing Slosh", the pale, stale, ale with the foam on the bottom. Always wanted to taste that.
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In Norway we used to get kegs of an English beer called "Star Light" and it wasn't to our taste. We "customised" the brew by digging a hole in an ice bank, and placing the metal keg in it, covering the keg with snow and ice.
The considerable water content of the beer in the keg froze overnight, and we ran off the remaining neat alcohol into a container. We then had to dilute the neat alcohol with ice or water, until we got the equivalent of about three standard bottles of 50% proof vodka from the keg, (depending on the content of the keg when we froze it). For reasons of "health and safety" we had to make sure that about 10% of the keg content had been run off prior to the big freeze, as a burst keg would have given no return whatsoever, but would maybe have turned the snow and ice a pretty colour!
We called it "The Beast of Bardufoss", until they twigged that a few kegs had gone missing and stopped supplying us with it. (Then a few people went missing etc.)
Don't think it would ever have made it to the shops, as it really needed a dash of (frozen) Arctic berries to take the awful taste away, and Arctic berries aren't readily available anywhere else other than the Arctic. We tried Coca Cola, but it wasn't the same! Helped to see us through the Arctic winter when we ran out of "sputnik" (illegal distillation of water, potatoes and sugar). You can buy legally distilled vodka in Norway from the state run "vinmonopolet", if you sell all your furniture. My sister is over there visiting relatives at the moment, but she's missed the Star Light season by a couple of months. Hope they haven't sold the guest room beds to buy vodka for her coming!
The considerable water content of the beer in the keg froze overnight, and we ran off the remaining neat alcohol into a container. We then had to dilute the neat alcohol with ice or water, until we got the equivalent of about three standard bottles of 50% proof vodka from the keg, (depending on the content of the keg when we froze it). For reasons of "health and safety" we had to make sure that about 10% of the keg content had been run off prior to the big freeze, as a burst keg would have given no return whatsoever, but would maybe have turned the snow and ice a pretty colour!
We called it "The Beast of Bardufoss", until they twigged that a few kegs had gone missing and stopped supplying us with it. (Then a few people went missing etc.)
Don't think it would ever have made it to the shops, as it really needed a dash of (frozen) Arctic berries to take the awful taste away, and Arctic berries aren't readily available anywhere else other than the Arctic. We tried Coca Cola, but it wasn't the same! Helped to see us through the Arctic winter when we ran out of "sputnik" (illegal distillation of water, potatoes and sugar). You can buy legally distilled vodka in Norway from the state run "vinmonopolet", if you sell all your furniture. My sister is over there visiting relatives at the moment, but she's missed the Star Light season by a couple of months. Hope they haven't sold the guest room beds to buy vodka for her coming!
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