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Post by ARENA on Apr 24, 2019 8:26:42 GMT
We had the Minister of Health frightening us all over eggs and now the scientists are telling us that they keep for ages and even if their not fresh they won't harm you.
Hardly a 'marketing ploy'.
PS My mum made mouthwatering scones by using sour milk.
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Post by honeybear on Apr 24, 2019 9:11:41 GMT
It all seemed to start with butter. We were told back then to avoid it and use margarine (yuck) instead. Since then so many things have been bad , then good.
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Post by aubrey on Apr 24, 2019 10:25:45 GMT
We had the Minister of Health frightening us all over eggs and now the scientists are telling us that they keep for ages and even if their not fresh they won't harm you. Hardly a 'marketing ploy'. PS My mum made mouthwatering scones by using sour milk.
The eggs thing with the Minister of Health was a specific problem, of salmonella: nothing to do with their being bad or not.
It used to be that eggs could be sold when they were bad and your only recourse was not to buy from there again - see "The Diary of a Nobody", entries for the 6th and 7th of August:
Eggs for breakfast simply shocking; sent them back to Borset with my compliments, and he needn’t call any more for orders... In the evening, hearing someone talking in a loud voice to the servant in the downstairs hall, I went out to see who it was, and was surprised to find it was Borset, the butterman, who was both drunk and offensive. Borset, on seeing me, said he would be hanged if he would ever serve City clerks any more—the game wasn’t worth the candle.
And Found Borset waiting. He had been three times during the day to apologise for his conduct last night. He said he was unable to take his Bank Holiday last Monday, and took it last night instead. He begged me to accept his apology, and a pound of fresh butter. He seems, after all, a decent sort of fellow; so I gave him an order for some fresh eggs, with a request that on this occasion they should be fresh.
It's a comic novel: but the point is that someone selling bad eggs isn't seen as anything especially unusual; and Pooter is gentry mocked by the author for complaining abut it, and for insisting on fresh eggs.
It's not so much that eating bad eggs can be harmful, it's that they taste unpleasant.
Sour milk might be lovely in scones, but it's terrible in tea.
Getting a post-Brexit deal with the US will mean accepting their food standards. The US rate for reported food poisoning is 10 times higher than in the UK.
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Post by aubrey on May 27, 2019 15:17:54 GMT
The way you can accidentally get Amazon Prime with one click by clicking on what is positioned as the option not to get prime on the checkout page, but it takes a bit of searching and several clicks to cancel it, and you're not sure you've done it even then.
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Post by rondetto on Nov 20, 2019 18:21:17 GMT
I see from today's newspaper that Michael McIntyre has a new show on tv. I have tried watching him but can't see what anyone sees in the bloke.
Never once has he cracked a joke, just talked a load of rubbish.
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Post by jimmy20 on Nov 20, 2019 20:32:43 GMT
I see from today's newspaper that Michael McIntyre has a new show on tv. I have tried watching him but can't see what anyone sees in the bloke. Never once has he cracked a joke, just talked a load of rubbish. I agree I would love him to appear in my bedroom in the middle of the night, I would get rid of him once and for all
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Post by jimmy20 on Nov 21, 2019 8:56:14 GMT
Advent calendars How ridiculous these have become, there are is now a calendar for your dog. How daft is that
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Post by aubrey on Nov 21, 2019 11:19:44 GMT
Advent calendars How ridiculous these have become, there are is now a calendar for your dog. How daft is that
That's ridiculous!!!
Do they have one for cats, do you know? Oh, and for kittens as well? I wouldn't want him missing out. 😽
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Post by althea on Nov 21, 2019 17:11:21 GMT
Michael McIntyre makes me roar with laughter when he does a one man show.
I think he is extremely funny. I don't like his big show on Saturdays though.
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Post by aubrey on Nov 21, 2019 21:15:58 GMT
He's good at what he does. I don't care for what I've seen of him, but it doesn't bother me: and I've never seen his real set, so I don't know what he's really like.
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Post by aubrey on Feb 25, 2020 9:19:04 GMT
That trick of unsolicited emails of starting the subject line with "Re:...", as if it's a reply.
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Post by jimmy20 on Feb 25, 2020 10:41:00 GMT
That trick of unsolicited emails of starting the subject line with "Re:...", as if it's a reply. I just delete junk emails without opening them. Interestingly if you ignore them for long enough they do dry up |
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Post by rondetto on Mar 2, 2020 18:50:15 GMT
Coronavirus, need I say more.
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Post by jonjel on Mar 3, 2020 15:49:38 GMT
Coronavirus, need I say more. So what are you going to do? Ignore it and put your affairs in order? |
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Post by jimmy20 on Mar 3, 2020 16:05:24 GMT
Just take sensible precautions as one would when flu or colds are about, and ignore the panicdemic
A lot of people are making a lot of money out of this hysteria
If you're going to catch it there's nothing you can do, and if you are elderly or weak you may be in trouble
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