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    #32
    looksee
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    For pigs trotters fans, there is the story of the butcher who had a sign outside his shop that read '4 pigs feet £1' and some smart guy went in and demanded 16 trotters for his £1.


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    #33
    Jellybaby1
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    BrensBenz wrote: »
    Yonks ago, in a work canteen, they served liver and onion every second Tuesday. No idea how they did it - rumour was that they simmered it for two weeks - but it wasn't chewy liver with rubber bands going through it. It was "almost" mushy and packed with onionie flavour. Mrs. BrensBenz won't buy liver a tall a tall so, for me, it's a thing of the past.

    PS: My only begotten children won't eat gurrcake! Unfortunately, they have also refused to buy it for their aging, ailing papa. When asked why, I got "people might see us!"

    Ask Mrs BrensBenz very nicely to buy you the ingredients and then cook it yourself, why doncha? Gurrcake also as well!!


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    #34
    BrensBenz
    Registered Users Posts: 1,292 ✭✭✭BrensBenz


    Jellybaby1 wrote: »
    Ask Mrs BrensBenz very nicely to buy you the ingredients and then cook it yourself, why doncha? Gurrcake also as well!!


    Hmmm, interesting, verrrryyyy interesting. Jast van or two minor details ferst:

    Remember "lines of demarcation" and "specialisation of labour"? Mrs. BrensBenz doesn't enter my boatshed and I don't interfere with her kitchen, except to fix breakages, with secret tools from my boatshed.

    However, the lines are blurred when it comes to buying ingredients. I am allowed to buy stuff for barbies but there always seems to be some "if you don't know, I'm not going to tell you" reason why I shouldn't have bought ingredients for "proper" interior cookery.

    My expertise on cookery is limited to "black is good". Can liver and onions be cooked to a pulp on a barbie? My barbie can achieve temperatures similar to that of the surface on the Sun, on a very sunny day, but wouldn't I need some sort of secret cookery fluid on the liver to prevent it turning to volcanic ash?

    But making gurrcake??? Wohchootawkinbout? My grandparents both explained this process to me.....in slightly different terms:

    Ordinary mortals can't make gurrcake. Gurrcake can only be made by angels, (no-hoper apprentices), from magic ingredients, (leftover fruit), gently compressed, (sat on by the horse with hairy bellbottoms), expertly packaged, (dumped), between two layers of light, buttery (stale and soggy) pastry and loving wrapped in castor sugar (newspaper). Me?....make gurrcake?....Wohchootawkinbout?


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