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On 28/05/2023 12:00, charles wrote:
In article <u4va44$r9v5$1@dont-email.me>,
gareth evans <headstone255@yahoo.com> wrote:
On 28/05/2023 09:51, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
\"Mary had a tin cow,
She milked it with a spanner*.
The milk came out in shilling** cans
And small ones, for a tanner***\".
Mary had a little dress,
\'Twas split right up the sides
And every time she wore that dress
The men could see her thighs.
Mary had another dress
\'Twas split right up the front.
She didn\'t wear that one very often.
Mary had a little pig.
She couldn\'t stop it gruntin\',
So she took it down the garden shed
And kicked its little \"couldn\'t\" in.
Mary had a little lamb
And tied it to a pylon.
The electric spark flew up its arse
And turned its wool to nylon.
Mary had a little lamb
Unfortunately, it\'s dead.
Now it goes to school with her
Between two bits of bread.
Mary had a little lamb
She also had a duck
She put them on the mantelpiece
To see if they would...fall off....
On 27/05/2023 21:42, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 27 May 2023 20:42:57 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 16:50, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-05-27, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
We never had food rationing.
During WWII we did. Our rationing ended long before the UK\'s.
Do you mean when Americans only had 15 different kinds of ice cream
flavours?
Dark days.
That used to be a dig at the lack of onerous rationing in the US in WW2.
I was at Safeway last week and wanted to get some vanilla ice cream.
There wasn\'t any. There were about 20 weird flavors, mango and banana
and worse. I got dulce de leche, as close as they had.
Try to buy plain potato chips. They are hard to find.
Do you mean ready salted, or do you have the ones with the salt in a
little bag?
Before they found a way to flavour \"crisps\" (as we call them) all our
crisps were plain, with salt in a little screw of blue paper so you
could add as much or little as you liked. Now you can get plain with the
salt in a little blue bag.
On 27/05/2023 22:24, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-05-27, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 16:50, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-05-27, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com> wrote:
We never had food rationing.
During WWII we did. Our rationing ended long before the UK\'s.
Do you mean when Americans only had 15 different kinds of ice cream
flavours?
Your point that our rationing wasn\'t as bad as your rationing is taken.
However, the U.S. had rationing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States#World_War_II
Of course our food rationing wasn\'t as bad as yours, because we had
a lot more acreage under cultivation. And nobody was bombing it.
\"At the start of the Second World War in 1939, the United Kingdom was
importing 20 million long tons of food per year, including about 70% of
its cheese and sugar, almost 80% of fruit and about 70% of cereals and
fats. The UK also imported more than half of its meat and relied on
imported feed to support its domestic meat production.\"
You guys were in real trouble, no doubt about it.
While you guys sat back and made money out of us, till Japan kicked you
in the balls.
On Sun, 28 May 2023 11:55:19 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 21:42, John Larkin wrote:
Try to buy plain potato chips. They are hard to find.
Do you mean ready salted, or do you have the ones with the salt in a
little bag?
Plain means salted to me. Not bbq, not cheese flavor, not Flaming Hot,
just potatoes and salt.
Before they found a way to flavour \"crisps\" (as we call them) all our
crisps were plain, with salt in a little screw of blue paper so you
could add as much or little as you liked. Now you can get plain with the
salt in a little blue bag.
I\'ve never seen that here, separate salt. Would anyone like unsalted
chips? Seems unlikely.
On Sat, 27 May 2023 20:48:44 +0100, Max Demian wrote:
In the UK, you can buy macaroni cheese in cans or plastic trays to heat.
But you have to add the topping (grated cheese plus packet breadcrumbs)
before you put it in a conventional oven (or under a grill).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyCKmyDRns
It says a lot about the decline of the mean IQ in the US that someone
thought a 2 minute youtube tutorial was necessary.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyCKmyDRns
Review of the original boxed version:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FwlJbya9KoE
On Sat, 27 May 2023 16:29:58 +0100, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
No, I mean having it in \'kit\' form.
I can buy ready to microwave macaroni cheese which isn\'t bad, but a kit?
Psychology. Early in the game housewives thought of prepackaged cake mixes
as cheating. Marketers found that if they were instructed to add milk and
an egg, both of which were unnecessary, they felt they were baking from
scratch.
The US population was wary of millenia of non-stop european wars. As
continue today.
Do you mean ready salted, or do you have the ones with the salt in a
little bag?
Before they found a way to flavour \"crisps\" (as we call them) all our
crisps were plain, with salt in a little screw of blue paper so you
could add as much or little as you liked. Now you can get plain with the
salt in a little blue bag.
On Sun, 28 May 2023 11:55:19 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:
On 27/05/2023 21:42, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 27 May 2023 20:42:57 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 16:50, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-05-27, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com
wrote:
We never had food rationing.
During WWII we did. Our rationing ended long before the UK\'s.
Do you mean when Americans only had 15 different kinds of ice cream
flavours?
Dark days.
That used to be a dig at the lack of onerous rationing in the US in WW2.
Back then, there were three ice cream flavors.
I\'ve never seen that here, separate salt. Would anyone like unsalted
chips? Seems unlikely.
If you were really unfortunate they were married together in
\'Neapolitan\'. I didn\'t like strawberry and considered vanilla a waste of
time so that was not a favorite.
I\'ve never seen chips with separate salt. You can find unsalted but they
assume you don\'t want salt and don\'t provide any.
On 27/05/2023 22:33, rbowman wrote:
On Sat, 27 May 2023 08:10:26 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
We never had food rationing.
Certainly we did.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States
My parents kept chickens and also had a vegetable garden. Eggs or
chickens could be bartered for sugar and other commodities.
One of the family stories told how my father had acquired a 5 gallon
tin of motor oil through barter. All was good until my mother went to
the garage one day and saw a rat sitting on the can. She hated mice and
rats although they went hand in hand with raising chickens. Being a
self- sufficient woman she got her 16 gauge and blew the rat to hell,
along with most of the oil can.
Footnote: although it has almost vanished today a 16 gauge was
considered a ladies shotgun; my father and I used 12s.
16 gauge? Is that like a 20 bore? Oh, its a 16 bore. So halfway between
a 12 and a 20...or a serious gun and a \'rook rifle\'
Back then, there were three ice cream flavors.
If you were really unfortunate they were married together in
\'Neapolitan\'. I didn\'t like strawberry and considered vanilla a waste of
time so that was not a favorite.
While you guys sat back and made money out of us, till Japan kicked you
in the balls.
On 27/05/2023 23:12, rbowman wrote:
On Sat, 27 May 2023 20:48:44 +0100, Max Demian wrote:
In the UK, you can buy macaroni cheese in cans or plastic trays to heat.
But you have to add the topping (grated cheese plus packet breadcrumbs)
before you put it in a conventional oven (or under a grill).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyCKmyDRns
It says a lot about the decline of the mean IQ in the US that someone
thought a 2 minute youtube tutorial was necessary.
A simple written instruction is better than having to sit through a
verbose video.
Looks rather revolting, with the bright yellow. Is that artificial
colouring?
I put half the cheese in the sauce, which also contains milk
and cornflour (corn starch) and a little salt; and I like to add a
little English mustard powder (1/2 tsp per serving). The other half of
the cheese is mixed with packet breadcrumbs as I described above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyCKmyDRns
Review of the original boxed version:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FwlJbya9KoE
Looks as revolting.
The 20 bore, as you say, has become very popular in the US.
https://www.gundogmag.com/editorial/the-return-of-the-16gauge-shotgun/
385243
That article claims it was the skeet shooting rules that favored the 20.
Skeet wasn\'t popular where I grew up and was seen as a bit snobby like
golf and the 20 bore wasn\'t considered to be useful for hunting. Some kids
would start with a .410 but my father taught me with a 12.
The .410 has regained some popularity since there are revolvers chambered
for it.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smith_&_Wesson_Governor
On Sun, 28 May 2023 10:00:13 -0700, John Larkin wrote:
On Sun, 28 May 2023 11:55:19 +0100, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com
wrote:
On 27/05/2023 21:42, John Larkin wrote:
On Sat, 27 May 2023 20:42:57 +0100, Max Demian
max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 16:50, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-05-27, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com
wrote:
We never had food rationing.
During WWII we did. Our rationing ended long before the UK\'s.
Do you mean when Americans only had 15 different kinds of ice cream
flavours?
Dark days.
That used to be a dig at the lack of onerous rationing in the US in WW2.
Back then, there were three ice cream flavors.
If you were really unfortunate they were married together in
\'Neapolitan\'. I didn\'t like strawberry and considered vanilla a waste of
time so that was not a favorite.
It gradually gor better but some imported goods remained expensive for a
long time. Hitlers U-boats shagged the merchant fleets something
rotten.
On Sun, 28 May 2023 09:43:29 +0100, The Natural Philosopher
tnp@invalid.invalid> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 22:24, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-05-27, Max Demian <max_demian@bigfoot.com> wrote:
On 27/05/2023 16:50, Cindy Hamilton wrote:
On 2023-05-27, John Larkin <jlarkin@highlandSNIPMEtechnology.com
wrote:
We never had food rationing.
During WWII we did. Our rationing ended long before the UK\'s.
Do you mean when Americans only had 15 different kinds of ice cream
flavours?
Your point that our rationing wasn\'t as bad as your rationing is taken.
However, the U.S. had rationing.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rationing_in_the_United_States#World_War_II
Of course our food rationing wasn\'t as bad as yours, because we had
a lot more acreage under cultivation. And nobody was bombing it.
\"At the start of the Second World War in 1939, the United Kingdom was
importing 20 million long tons of food per year, including about 70% of
its cheese and sugar, almost 80% of fruit and about 70% of cereals and
fats. The UK also imported more than half of its meat and relied on
imported feed to support its domestic meat production.\"
You guys were in real trouble, no doubt about it.
While you guys sat back and made money out of us, till Japan kicked you
in the balls.
The US population was wary of millenia of non-stop european wars.
As
continue today.
We could have made more money selling food and weapons to England and
Germany.
On 27/05/2023 23:12, rbowman wrote:
On Sat, 27 May 2023 20:48:44 +0100, Max Demian wrote:
In the UK, you can buy macaroni cheese in cans or plastic trays to
heat.
But you have to add the topping (grated cheese plus packet breadcrumbs)
before you put it in a conventional oven (or under a grill).
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyCKmyDRns
It says a lot about the decline of the mean IQ in the US that someone
thought a 2 minute youtube tutorial was necessary.
A simple written instruction is better than having to sit through a
verbose video.
Looks rather revolting, with the bright yellow. Is that artificial
colouring? I put half the cheese in the sauce, which also contains milk
and cornflour (corn starch) and a little salt; and I like to add a
little English mustard powder (1/2 tsp per serving). The other half of
the cheese is mixed with packet breadcrumbs as I described above.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aoyCKmyDRns
Review of the original boxed version:
https://www.youtube.com/shorts/FwlJbya9KoE
Looks as revolting.