English people are charmingly stupid - proof

TyroneShoelaces · Post by **TyroneShoelaces** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:17 am

amar wrote:
Martin Milner wrote:Amar, is that a picture of your ass?
yes, it is.

rather hairy, isn't it?

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:23 am

emmline wrote:
dubhlinn wrote:
Traditionally,a Cadburys 99 Flake would be jammed into an ice cream cone and sold from an ice cream van.
Alas,modern packaging and retailing has left us with these things,

Just not the same thing

Slan,
D.
Must be a very recent loss then, as we got some of that stuff from a van in 2000--not prepackaged. There were numerous vendors, in fact, clustered around the Tate Gallery district. I'm sorry to say it did not resemble ice cream as we ever knew it.

You'll get that around the Hotspots but 'tis an awful long way from the Tate Gallery district to where I am..

But that English Ice cream...oh no...don't start me talkin'...

It's ice cream Jim...

Slan,
D.

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:26 am

Martin Milner wrote:Name a bird with a long neck - Naomi Campbell

This strikes me as perfectly intelligent and reasonable.

jbarter · Post by **jbarter** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:26 am

dubhlinn wrote:But that English Ice cream...oh no...don't start me talkin'...

If you want decent ice-cream you have to leave England and go to Cornwall.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:27 am

You can still get Mr. Softee Ice Cream from most ice cream vans round these parts. It's rumoured that they add a little vaseline to get it to flow nicely in the machine...

I recently read the rules and regulations about sounding ice cream van chimes in built up areas, but I won't bore you with the details.

susnfx · Post by **susnfx** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:28 am

Bloo, why do you suppose the first thing I thought of when I saw your new avatar was Jack the Ripper? It's awfully menacing.

Susan (trying to ignore Martin's "vaseline in the ice cream" remark - gag)

TomB · Post by **TomB** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:29 am

Martin Milner wrote: I recently read the rules and regulations about sounding ice cream van chimes in built up areas, but I won't bore you with the details.

We get that over here also, from time to time. Sometimes it has even spanned a lawsuit or two- yeah, I know, big surprise.

When I spent my 3 years in London, I didn't each much of the ice cream, but I did become a fan of Cadbury's chocolate.

All the Best, Tom

Bloomfield · Post by **Bloomfield** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:30 am

susnfx wrote:Bloo, why do you suppose the first thing I thought of when I saw your new avatar was Jack the Ripper? It's awfully menacing.

Susan (trying to ignore Martin's "vaseline in the ice cream" remark - gag)

It's Vienna, not London. And I'm turning my back.

dubhlinn · Post by **dubhlinn** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:31 am

Martin Milner wrote:
Name a kind of ache - Fillet 'O' Fish

Hake..?

Slan,
D.

amar · Post by **amar** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 10:54 am

TyroneShoelaces wrote:
amar wrote:
Martin Milner wrote:Amar, is that a picture of your ass?
yes, it is.
rather hairy, isn't it?

i've shaved since.

Martin Milner · Post by **Martin Milner** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:03 am

amar wrote:
TyroneShoelaces wrote:
amar wrote: yes, it is.
rather hairy, isn't it?
i've shaved since.

Headline:

Amar likes good clean craic.

Cees · Post by **Cees** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:34 am

susnfx wrote:Susan (trying to ignore Martin's "vaseline in the ice cream" remark - gag)

If you think THAT is sick and wrong...I've heard of the "Iron Chef" TV show, but never knew what it was till the channel was on the Food Network for some reason the other day. We left it on as we were doing other things and this new "Iron Chef America" show came on. For the unenlightened, two chefs get picked from a lineup and have an hour to make 5-6 dishes with a secret ingredient that gets revealed at the start of the show.

Well, there was an American chef and a Japanese chef on the show my husband and I were watching. The secret ingredient was trout. Now, they don't HAVE to make dessert, but they can if they want, as one of their dishes. What did the Japanese chef make for his dessert?

*drum roll please*

TROUT ice cream!! He blended up raw trout to a puree, mixed in milk and sugar, and dumped it in the soft-serve machine. I still cannot believe the judges ate it. (Oh, and there was a bit of decorative fried trout skin sticking out of the ice cream as a garnish.)

He didn't win the competition. I don't know if it was the ice cream's fault, but if I was one of the judges...

Flyingcursor · Post by **Flyingcursor** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:44 am

Martin Milner wrote: Yup, baked potato in it's skin. The skin should be a bit crunchy.

Traditional toppings would be butter, grated cheese, baked beans, cottage cheese, maybe a curry, not all at once. Not Jam.

Marmite?

izzarina · Post by **izzarina** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 11:44 am

Cees wrote: What did the Japanese chef make for his dessert?

*drum roll please*

TROUT ice cream!!

There's a place in Bar Harbor called Ben and Bill's Chocolate Emporium. They are famous for their Lobster ice cream.

Here's a bit about it:

http://www.captaind.com/newsmakerbenandbill.html

thewesleyan · Post by **thewesleyan** » Wed Jan 05, 2005 12:33 pm

I'm sure even the most stalwart British patriot would concede that ice cream is better in the US than it is here. But I reckon our chocolate is better, and that makes us quits.

Our beer puts us out in front.

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