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You are so nice, t-p.  Morticia, yes it has a soft perfume. I thought it took much longer than that to grow. The wisteria on my brother's house was there when they bought it 20 years or so ago - a good enough reason for buying a house. |
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Beautiful I agree Mary, there is one near here which I admire every time I walk up the road.
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Bit late to discuss breakfast beverages but I start the day (and continue it) with Rooibos tea:  or  though the current one I'm drinking is a Fairtrade one from Oxfam so it tastes even better! Those of you who like strong tea probably won't like it - it's very subtle - but I was tired of fruity herbals as a caffeine-free alternative. After having stayed with friends who drink it all the time I soon converted to it. I don't like milk anyway so it's perfect for me. MJ XXX My first pic has vanished and I can't get it to return. |
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Merely corroborative detail, intended to give artistic verisimilitude to an otherwise bald and unconvincing narrative.
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I love rooibos tea, or redbush (or indeed as our household calls it, rubbish tea).
But a South African friend of mine cannot understand it, as he regards it as the drink of the poor.
Lucky poor, I say.
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Made by Thompson & son, at the Violin & c. the West end of St. Paul's Churchyard, LONDON
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« Reply #1054 on: 08:25:31, 04-05-2007 » |
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Poor often were lucky in this way in the past. For example fish used to be the food of the poor because it was cheaper. Now it is only for yuppies. Food before was mostly local and vegetables were fresher and they had less preservatives and chemicals on them. They were full of vitamins.
Oh, thoses old days, days long gone. They were beautiful days of factory smoke and coal mining. The fresh air and no polution, good minimal wage and social assistance, many poor children running about with no education. What else was good?
But I am in a happy room. We have a sunny day and I had relative successs with one of my students finishing the piece yesterday. I am very happy today.
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« Reply #1055 on: 08:36:25, 04-05-2007 » |
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Yes, t-p, when I was somewhat poorer than I am today, (not that I am in any way 'well off' now), a staple was smoked mackerel risotto. However, the cost of such a dish has approximately trebled in real term in the interim.
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« Reply #1056 on: 09:03:50, 04-05-2007 » |
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Oysters were once regarded as `poor mans food`, I believe. Glad they`re not now, I can`t abide the things!  |
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« Reply #1057 on: 09:10:21, 04-05-2007 » |
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Oh, thoses old days, days long gone. They were beautiful days of factory smoke and coal mining. The fresh air and no polution, good minimal wage and social assistance, many poor children running about with no education. What else was good?
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« Reply #1058 on: 10:09:19, 04-05-2007 » |
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That's true about oysters. Vegetables were once considered peasants' food because they came from the ground and so were lowly. It is reckoned that if cod becomes scarcer it will be renamed sea cod (like sea bass) and move from the fish and chip shops into exclusive restaurants.
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« Reply #1059 on: 10:11:27, 04-05-2007 » |
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Salmon and chicken used to be luxury foods, and now they are staples.
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« Reply #1060 on: 10:19:45, 04-05-2007 » |
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That`s true Mary. I remember my mother telling me that when she was a wee girl that she and her sister used to complain when roast beef appeared, yet again, on the table for Sunday lunch. They would have preferred chicken.
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« Reply #1061 on: 12:14:54, 04-05-2007 » |
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Apparently, in the late 1800s it was thought that meat was at the top of the good foods, followed by game,fish and then vegetables,fruit at the bottom, a theory based on a pyramid type food chain thingy. I would not say fish is 'yuppie' food, especially as you can get rather cheap tins of fish from tescos |
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« Reply #1062 on: 12:21:21, 04-05-2007 » |
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`Cheap` because it`s in a tin. Fresh fish is different matter altogether. Trying checking out monkfish or halibut. Or fresh tuna.
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« Reply #1063 on: 12:43:54, 04-05-2007 » |
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Yes, t-p, when I was somewhat poorer than I am today, (not that I am in any way 'well off' now), a staple was smoked mackerel risotto. However, the cost of such a dish has approximately trebled in real term in the interim.
Eeee! You young-uns don't know you're born! When I were a nipper we had a twelve-mile walk to school wi' a satchel full o'coal, and when we came home in t' evening Dad would cut us up wi' t' breadknife! Or summat |
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Click me -> About meor me -> my handmade storeNo, I'm not a complete idiot. I'm only a halfwit. In fact I'm actually a catfish. |
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« Reply #1064 on: 12:50:14, 04-05-2007 » |
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`Cheap` because it`s in a tin. Fresh fish is different matter altogether. Trying checking out monkfish or halibut. Or fresh tuna.
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