Cooking just for yourself is a pain in the arse, isn't it? Who can be bothered?

[Berni]

I certainly can't. My wife is away for the week and I seem to have regressed. I have not eaten a meal off a plate since Sunday, preferring to grab handfuls of whatever I find in the fridge, shove them into my mouth and move on.

As I ate alternate handfuls of cold roast pork and cooked, cold cabbage left over from Sunday's dinner on Monday, I wondered if perhaps things had gone a little bit wrong. So last night I cooked. I made popcorn. With a microwave.

I expect I'll be going through people's bins by Friday. :shrug:

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

The stereotype food of students but a fine meal nonetheless.

Or cheese on toast.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Surely there will be some kebab action?

I'm thinking of making some Thai-style crab cakes tonight, but I'm worried that they won't hold together on the spit.

[Jake]

As well as extremely pissed.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

You sir have surely moved into the area of 'takeaway food when one is alone'.

[Berni]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

his chosen method of dealing with this issue is eating leftovers from the fridge.

Surely, under these circumstances, any caring friend would recommend the kebab option?

[Witharby 2-3 weeks]

and eat what you like every night. Might die sooner than expected but it's great fun

[Pat Vegas]

I had the same sort of situation. Ended up sick a dog throwing up constantly.

It might have been that I had takeaway Pizza for 2 days in a row for each meal :hide:

so it didn't turn out to be the ****ing, junkfood, playstation fest I had envisaged.

[Hendon Gooner (Only Easy Day Was Yesterday))]

And I think they alert the local coronary hospital unit when you order one... :nurse:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11633235/Pizza-Hut-j ust-put-eight-meat-pies-in-its-pizza-crust.html (http://www.telegraph.co.uk/foodanddrink/11633235/Pizza-Hut-just-put-eight-meat-pies-in-its-pizza-crust.html)

http://i.telegraph.co.uk/multimedia/archive/03319/pizzahut_3319465b.jpg

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Simply that I like to stick to the topic.

Ftr I nearly had a kebab for lunch just now but instead went for Nasi Goreng which I am hugely disappointed to admit came with a fried egg that was not soft / runny.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

A man who has faced an over cooked egg may face any travail with impunity, sw.

[Berni]

pointless, inadequate, unsatisfactory and ultimately rather depressing thing. :-(

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

*******s to the merit of character building.


I think it was Shaw, George Bernard.

[Classic Jorge]

I love a deep pan pizza, me, it's literally my favourite variety but these stuffed crusts are a step too far

[Berni]

happens :-( I had it once in a Cafe Rouge (I know!) and complained. They told me company policy was not to serve runny eggs. :cry:

Less forgivably, I once had it happen in The Ritz. But, since someone else was paying and it was a business meeting, I felt it would have been wrong to send it back.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I expect it sounds a gentle as the breeze.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I did for a second think "bet Jorge would like that".

And there we have it.

[Jake]

[Billy Goat Sverige]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Surely he reposes south of the border?

[Classic Jorge]

I mean, there's enough cheese/meat etc on the pizza, no?

Also, your crust is literally your reference point for the rigidity of the thing.

Stop this stuff crust madness

[Classic Jorge]

Also, are you playing in Rich's position today?

[Berni]

It's the thick end of the wedge. Quite liderally.

[Classic Jorge]

Well I say "I have" it's more the Mrs and her doughey kitchen aid stylings

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Sure and indeed begorrah.

[Pat Vegas]

are not even done over there. They trial them here first. Like the Hotdog crust.

This country is becoming verrrrrrrry strange. I overheard some business types the other day talking about a WOW Factor Meeting.
:-(

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

I have had said dish in the past and been served crispy rashers, which admittedly were nice but not what I had asked for.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

Nothing at all like the northern benefit junkies who eat at Pizza Hut.

[Classic Jorge]

Not that I dont like napoletana, romana or taglio. It's a broad church, just without Sophie from Peep Show and Dr Who

[Classic Jorge]

http://www.pizzahut.co.uk/locations

[Jake]

A pizza shouldn't look and taste like a cake, basics.

[Classic Jorge]

Like the provisional wing

[Classic Jorge]

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

I was using 'northern' in its most literal sense, meaning 'common'. :nod:

[Classic Jorge]

Except, of course, that refers to a certain town in Kent

[Jake]

I'm sure you had plenty of experience before you were married.

[Pat Vegas]

somebody says something 'Sucked' How weird did that sound.

You couldn't imagine saying it yourself.

Now everyone is talking like a c**t. Endless baseball expressions being used too.

:shrug:

I like Americans. Let Americans do that american stuff. I am in England and more or less English. When I go for dinner I don't want some fake chirpy woman referring to our table as 'HEY GUYS'

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

which as you know is anathema to my egalitarian principles.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

It's a slippery slope.

[Pat Vegas]

May I recommend avoiding won with a Floyd rose tremolo system.

I've been trying to tune it properly for 3 days :-( guitar is lovely otherwise.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Luis Anaconda]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Now he uses the term "pissed" to mean annoyed, in the American sense.

Not even pissed off, just pissed.

Causes a lot of confusion here when he often refers to being pissed.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

[Pat Vegas]

I was only there 3 years but enough, Plus my Dad talks funny.

[Sir Charlie of Nicholas]

There is a lilting, lyrical, rhythmic quality that reminds me of birdsong, and early morning hoors on the streets of Swansea.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

:-|

[Pat Vegas]

My dad's lived in England now 30 something years but still has his Canadian accent.

But Irish people always ask him if he's from Cork.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Trust me.

[Berni]

He would never do such a thing. And clearly she is a woman beyond reproach (as witnessed by her excellent choice in husbands).

[Luis Anaconda]

I work/socialise with a lot of Americans - so it is sometimes easier to adopt their terminology - though I refuse to use the term douche, that is just silly.

I was with an Australian and and Yank the other day and mentioned that I was going on a stag do in a couple of weeks. Blank looks all around. "A bachelor party" - recognition from the American, blank look from the Aussie. :rolleyes: "A buck's party" - ah all got it now. Three nations divided by one language as they say. At least the Canadians say Stag, I believe

[Berni]

I mean I sort of know what they are, but have no reason to use them as derogatory terms. You might as well call someone a bidet.

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

Now PM me your IBAN details for payment.

[Berni]

I can tell you're curious and susceptible to a bit of flattery. A few drinks, a nice meal - maybe dancing - and I reckon you'd be putty in my hands. ;-)

[Steve Williams - gay for Mark Knopfler]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M-duDKzm3mY

[Luis Anaconda]

[Berni]

on an angry rat. Priceless.

So good I almost missed the chap playing the accordion who I first thought was a midget standing up, only to realise belatedly (and with not a little disappointment) that it was a trick of the black and white footage and his dark suit.

[eastgermanautos]

[Jake]