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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 12:25:24 GMT
I’m making a paella this evening, and have found it impossible to source some saffron.
Before we know where we are, we’ll be back to beans on toast and liver and onions.
Turn the clocks back 50 years folks.
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Post by expatjohn on Feb 7, 2020 12:35:12 GMT
Beans on toast with real butter. Luxury!
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Post by southsideblue on Feb 7, 2020 12:56:40 GMT
Lurpak ..... or will Brexit mean we can't have that ? Anyway Ex Pat John , are dog , cat , rat and bat off the menu off the menu yet ?
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Post by BillyNoMatesformerlyTheMadFrog on Feb 7, 2020 12:57:27 GMT
Beans on toast with real butter. Luxury! I like the Tins of Heinz sausage and beans on toast. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 12:58:12 GMT
Beans on toast with real butter. Luxury! I like the Tins of Heinz sausage and beans on toast. Heinz - German. 😉 |
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Post by BillyNoMatesformerlyTheMadFrog on Feb 7, 2020 13:02:30 GMT
I like the Tins of Heinz sausage and beans on toast. Heinz - German. 😉 Oh ffs hes off on one again.🙄😯🤣 |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 13:06:59 GMT
Oh ffs hes off on one again.🙄😯🤣 You walked into that one, didn’t you? Engage brain before typing Romes. Oh, wait a minute, there’s a problem with that, isn’t there Romeo? 😂 😆 😝 |
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Post by expatjohn on Feb 7, 2020 13:21:32 GMT
Branston beans. Shame about HP.
The one likeable thing about a visit to the four sheds was the aroma from HP and Ansells. Problem was if the wind came from the north.
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Post by tonyhancock on Feb 7, 2020 14:51:52 GMT
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 14:57:27 GMT
Founded by German immigrants. |
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Post by tonyhancock on Feb 7, 2020 15:25:01 GMT
Founded by German immigrants. So I see. Born in the US in 1844. Second cousin of The Donald twice removed, apparently. I think AsMadasaBoxofFrogs can let that one slide. No saffron. Where do you live? Mrs Hancock got some cheap from TK Maxx |
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Post by BillyNoMatesformerlyTheMadFrog on Feb 7, 2020 15:32:41 GMT
Saffron.wtf You really are in another world Will. Your so middle class its ridiculous.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 17:36:20 GMT
Saffron.wtf You really are in another world Will. Your so middle class its ridiculous. I like to keep the lower classes at arm’s length as much as possible in case I catch a nasty dose of something. Like cideritis. And in response to Tony H, I would have to travel to Torquay to find a TKMaxx, and I’m afraid that is very much beneath me. Anyway, to put your minds at rest, I ventured into Morrisons which is very nearly empty now that Lidl has opened one of its food banks in Teignmouth, so I was able to avoid meeting too many of hoi polloi. I think they must be trying to attract people of discernment like myself, as they had some saffron, and I was also able to purchase some delicious olives and what looks like a very interesting Portuguese lager. So all is well, and a trip to Torquay is averted. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 18:15:12 GMT
The farce of course is that we don't need to import saffron as it grows very happily in our climate. Indeed Saffron Waldon is so named because of the prolific industry there in it's history.
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Post by bluenoserob on Feb 7, 2020 19:05:03 GMT
They call it Mellow Yellow!
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Post by tonyhancock on Feb 7, 2020 19:22:17 GMT
Saffron.wtf You really are in another world Will. Your so middle class its ridiculous. I like to keep the lower classes at arm’s length as much as possible in case I catch a nasty dose of something. Like cideritis. And in response to Tony H, I would have to travel to Torquay to find a TKMaxx, and I’m afraid that is very much beneath me. Anyway, to put your minds at rest, I ventured into Morrisons which is very nearly empty now that Lidl has opened one of its food banks in Teignmouth, so I was able to avoid meeting too many of hoi polloi. I think they must be trying to attract people of discernment like myself, as they had some saffron, and I was also able to purchase some delicious olives and what looks like a very interesting Portuguese lager. So all is well, and a trip to Torquay is averted. Teignmouth !!! Ha ha ha ha ha. First of all well done. I'm very envious. Good for you. I'm really pleased for you. But the guy living in the 97.8% white Teignmouth thinks we're racist for not wanting more Somalian youths hanging about 24/7 fcuk me. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 7, 2020 19:39:53 GMT
I like to keep the lower classes at arm’s length as much as possible in case I catch a nasty dose of something. Like cideritis. And in response to Tony H, I would have to travel to Torquay to find a TKMaxx, and I’m afraid that is very much beneath me. Anyway, to put your minds at rest, I ventured into Morrisons which is very nearly empty now that Lidl has opened one of its food banks in Teignmouth, so I was able to avoid meeting too many of hoi polloi. I think they must be trying to attract people of discernment like myself, as they had some saffron, and I was also able to purchase some delicious olives and what looks like a very interesting Portuguese lager. So all is well, and a trip to Torquay is averted. Teignmouth !!! Ha ha ha ha ha. First of all well done. I'm very envious. Good for you. I'm really pleased for you. But the guy living in the 97.8% white Teignmouth thinks we're racist for not wanting more Somalian youths hanging about 24/7 fcuk me. WUM of 2020 is now closed. Congratulations Tone. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 18:14:54 GMT
I popped into Sainsbury’s in Northfield on my way home last night and was thinking of this thread.
Full compliment of spices there including the sought after Saffron.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 18:52:18 GMT
I popped into Sainsbury’s in Northfield on my way home last night and was thinking of this thread. Full compliment of spices there including the sought after Saffron. Well the people of Northfield are very lucky to have a Sainsbury’s. I have to travel all the way to Newton Abbot, Dawlish Warren and Tor-bloody-quay. Mind you, you should see all the traffic heading in the opposite direction towards our Lidl’s - all that fuel being burnt off just to save 2p on a tin of beans. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 21:56:11 GMT
I popped into Sainsbury’s in Northfield on my way home last night and was thinking of this thread. Full compliment of spices there including the sought after Saffron. Well the people of Northfield are very lucky to have a Sainsbury’s. I have to travel all the way to Newton Abbot, Dawlish Warren and Tor-bloody-quay. Mind you, you should see all the traffic heading in the opposite direction towards our Lidl’s - all that fuel being burnt off just to save 2p on a tin of beans. I popped to the Torquay Sainsbury’s petroleum station after the annual Christmas visit to see the niece. Luckily here I’ve got 4 within a 10 minute drive. Longbridge - site of the old factory Northfield - opposite the black horse on the row of shops where Jack Smiths barbers was Maypole - across the road from were the pub was which is now several takeaways Selly oak - at the back of battery park not the old one on chapel lane Got the Morrison’s on the old rubery hill site and Waitrose in Harborne with M&S in Longbridge. Asda in Barnes Hill can feck off they just sell multi packs of crisps and pop in there |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 22:04:04 GMT
Well the people of Northfield are very lucky to have a Sainsbury’s. I have to travel all the way to Newton Abbot, Dawlish Warren and Tor-bloody-quay. Mind you, you should see all the traffic heading in the opposite direction towards our Lidl’s - all that fuel being burnt off just to save 2p on a tin of beans. I popped to the Torquay Sainsbury’s petroleum station after the annual Christmas visit to see the niece. Luckily here I’ve got 4 within a 10 minute drive. Longbridge - site of the old factory Northfield - opposite the black horse on the row of shops where Jack Smiths barbers was Maypole - across the road from were the pub was which is now several takeaways Selly oak - at the back of battery park not the old one on chapel lane Got the Morrison’s on the old rubery hill site and Waitrose in Harborne with M&S in Longbridge. Asda in Barnes Hill can feck off they just sell multi packs of crisps and pop in there Yeah I know all of those apart from the Asda. I was still coming up to see mum until 2011, and used to do her shopping for her when I visited. I know the Longbridge and Selly Oak ones are new but I’ve seen them both. Bit different from when I lived in Northfield and there was the Sainsbury’s in the Grosvenor - I can even remember it moving from the middle of the shopping centre to the bottom. When I was a kid we used to go to George Mason’s over Fairfax Road. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 11, 2020 23:21:15 GMT
I popped to the Torquay Sainsbury’s petroleum station after the annual Christmas visit to see the niece. Luckily here I’ve got 4 within a 10 minute drive. Longbridge - site of the old factory Northfield - opposite the black horse on the row of shops where Jack Smiths barbers was Maypole - across the road from were the pub was which is now several takeaways Selly oak - at the back of battery park not the old one on chapel lane Got the Morrison’s on the old rubery hill site and Waitrose in Harborne with M&S in Longbridge. Asda in Barnes Hill can feck off they just sell multi packs of crisps and pop in there Yeah I know all of those apart from the Asda. I was still coming up to see mum until 2011, and used to do her shopping for her when I visited. I know the Longbridge and Selly Oak ones are new but I’ve seen them both. Bit different from when I lived in Northfield and there was the Sainsbury’s in the Grosvenor - I can even remember it moving from the middle of the shopping centre to the bottom. When I was a kid we used to go to George Mason’s over Fairfax Road. My Nan in her later years used to work in the one in the grosvenor. Will Fairfax Road these days is a no go zone, that road is feral |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 9:06:08 GMT
Yeah I know all of those apart from the Asda. I was still coming up to see mum until 2011, and used to do her shopping for her when I visited. I know the Longbridge and Selly Oak ones are new but I’ve seen them both. Bit different from when I lived in Northfield and there was the Sainsbury’s in the Grosvenor - I can even remember it moving from the middle of the shopping centre to the bottom. When I was a kid we used to go to George Mason’s over Fairfax Road. My Nan in her later years used to work in the one in the grosvenor. Will Fairfax Road these days is a no go zone, that road is feral Yeah, I got that impression about Fairfax a while ago. Back in the 60s and early 70s it was a nice little shopping area with a Woolworths, Mason’s, a bakers, a couple of greengrocers, a butchers, a launderette and an electrical shop that sold records - you could get all of the Top 30 singles in there, 6 shillings and 8 pence was what the first ones I bought (Dave Clark 5 and Beatles mainly) with my pocket money cost. I had to rein back a bit when they started charging 7/2d though! 😆 oh, and there still is the chippie which serves the most humongous portions of chips! |
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Post by southsideblue on Feb 12, 2020 13:19:40 GMT
Will , where exactly did you grow up ?
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Post by Deleted on Feb 12, 2020 14:46:52 GMT
Will , where exactly did you grow up ? There are some on here who will say I never did. That notwithstanding, I spent all of my childhood just off Longbridge Lane, in Kingswood Road. I went to Cofton County Primary and Kings Norton Grammar. When I was 16 the Jolly Fitter became my local, although I used to go to the Thurlestone and the Cofton from time to time. I also worked at Laughton’s on Alvechurch Road during uni vacations. |
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