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Nice, Mary! Anyone else have a penchant for these? I was an addict at ages 7-9.  Ohhh, I used to love those. The dark chocolate ones. Satisfyingly chunky chocolate. The mint ones were rather good as well. I only recently realised that they have stopped making them  |
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« Reply #106 on: 21:55:31, 14-03-2008 » |
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I only recently realised that they have stopped making them Not so, Mort! At least not where I work.  |
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« Reply #107 on: 22:01:33, 14-03-2008 » |
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I only recently realised that they have stopped making them Not so, Mort! At least not where I work. Send me some immediately!!  |
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« Reply #108 on: 23:08:33, 14-03-2008 » |
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« Reply #109 on: 06:24:14, 15-03-2008 » |
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I've never 'ad an eccles cake, I don't think.
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« Reply #110 on: 08:19:05, 15-03-2008 » |
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I had an Irish flatmate once (from Dublin) who didn't know what a pomegranate was.
Also, he didn't believe me when I told him. A fruit made up of little bits of pink flesh, that you eat with a pin? No, you're kidding me ...
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« Reply #111 on: 09:02:02, 15-03-2008 » |
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I've never 'ad an eccles cake, I don't think.
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« Reply #112 on: 09:06:16, 15-03-2008 » |
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Gosh, those look good George. I haven't had one in ages. I can almost taste them<slaveremoticon>
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« Reply #113 on: 09:18:03, 15-03-2008 » |
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Don't they just, Mort. Eccles Cakes are now on the shopping list for this morning. You are allowed to have them with custard apparently. Yum, yum.  I had an Irish flatmate once (from Dublin) who didn't know what a pomegranate was.
Also, he didn't believe me when I told him. A fruit made up of little bits of pink flesh, that you eat with a pin? No, you're kidding me ... With a pin, tinners?!  Gosh! They never taught us that at Oxford and I thought they covered most things.   The correct way Less so 'Pomegranate Pin' had better go on the shopping list too. [Thinks. That solves this year's Christmas present problems. Pomegranate Pins all round.] |
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« Reply #114 on: 09:31:15, 15-03-2008 » |
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'Pomegranate Pin'  Obviously you should have gone to Cambridge to have covered such matters, George. |
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« Reply #115 on: 09:58:47, 15-03-2008 » |
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I think pomegranates look more interesting than they taste, but they have a romantic aura to me. The name is lovely, and the seeds look like little jewels. Sprinkle them on anything almost and it looks inviting - on a tagine for instance, as we had at Christmas, or on orange slices, with a bit of mint, to make Nige Slater's orange and pomegranate salad. Very pretty.  |
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« Reply #116 on: 11:06:08, 15-03-2008 » |
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I had an Irish flatmate once (from Dublin) who didn't know what a pomegranate was..
They used to be extremely difficult to get here. Now they can be purchased without too much trouble. To be eaten with a pin? GOSH; that's a surprise. I never really knew how to...and I've wrestled with several in my time... |
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« Reply #117 on: 11:37:18, 15-03-2008 » |
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My plan for today: To read up on Levi-Strauss and, at some point when I'm feeling peckish, to go to the shops and purchase some biscuits.
What sort? I should probably change from Bourbon Creams for today, I feel. But to what? I couldn't say right now.
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« Reply #118 on: 12:04:35, 15-03-2008 » |
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Nige Slater's orange and pomegranate salad
That does look and sound appealing. I can see that will have to be attempted (but probably not this weekend). I think pomegranates look more interesting than they taste, but they have a romantic aura to me. The name is lovely, and the seeds look like little jewels. In Latin, they are 'Apples of Carthage' ('Punic apples') IIRC - they are in the Song of Songs Which Is Solomon's. Some attribute (can't quite remember what  ) belonging to the belovéd is compared to them. |
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« Reply #119 on: 12:39:50, 15-03-2008 » |
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The word means "grainy [seedy] apple" doesn't it? For some reason I've always thought that the golden apples of Greek legend were pomegranates, but I've probably invented that. Then there's grenadine:  |
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