I never liked the taste of that stuff, not that I have eaten many dashboardsCruel……their dashboards always looked like they were made of caramac (shows my age)
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Ah, Caramac - That takes me back, an acquired taste! Cadbury's Old Jamaica rum and raisin bar would have been my choice back in that time.Cruel…
Yes, bloody awful stuffI never liked the taste of that stuff, not that I have eaten many dashboards
You can still get it, but it’s just called bourville rum n raisin, and is about half the thickness
I found a crunchie in my glovebox the other day, must be pre-covid, and compared it to one I’d just bought…it’s half the size!
Sounds like we are all chocoholics, though I also like good plain chocolate, Bournville etc. Black Magic too. I did see on telly that the daily portion is three for those, oops!
Unexpectedly made a surprise discovery the other day. Mrs J was making chocolate crispies for the grandchildren - Rice crispies with chocolate melted over them - for which she uses Lidl's dark cooking chocolate. I pinched a couple of squares when she wasn't looking. By gum, it really makes a pretty good eating chocolate if you're into dark chocolate.Sounds like we are all chocoholics, though I also like good plain chocolate, Bournville etc. Black Magic too. I did see on telly that the daily portion is three for those, oops!
Yes, much prefer dark chocolate, (have bournville in the fridge) but not green n blacks or Lindt…have recently discovered Ukrainian dark chocolate liqueurs, (nice spirits in them) neighbours brother is housing some refugees, and they all like milk chocolate so I get them!
As kids my sisters and I used to eat the cubes of Chivers jelly, so they never got to the bowl of hot water, mind you we also ate sugar sandwiches and not at the same time, beef dripping sandwiches.
I tell you what I did like but cannot get any more is Meltis Berry Fruits, the boxes of jellys with the crystal sugar balls of fruit juices inside, they did do some bags for a while but taste was different.
@porta Is that part of your heart medication?
I tell you what I did like but cannot get any more is Meltis Berry Fruits, the boxes of jellys with the crystal sugar balls of fruit juices inside, they did do some bags for a while but taste was different.
@porta Is that part of your heart medication?
Those berry fruits were Mrs J's absolute favourites. Always used to buy her a box at Christmas, New Year, Birthday, etc. Waitrose was the last place up here that used to stock them. I then managed to buy them, at a "silly" price on the internet for a couple of years but I agree, they didn't taste quite the same. Then they just completely disappeared. I sometimes buy her York Fruits which are very nice but just aren't the same.As kids my sisters and I used to eat the cubes of Chivers jelly, so they never got to the bowl of hot water, mind you we also ate sugar sandwiches and not at the same time, beef dripping sandwiches.
I tell you what I did like but cannot get any more is Meltis Berry Fruits, the boxes of jellys with the crystal sugar balls of fruit juices inside, they did do some bags for a while but taste was different.
@porta Is that part of your heart medication?
Edit. As a youngster - 5,6,maybe 7 years old - I used to spread Marmite on chocolate cake! No idea why I liked it? Strange eh? Mind you my middle brother used to sit in the coal shed eating coal. Mum took him to the doctor who discovered he was lacking some sort of stuff in his diet and prescribed medical charcoal for him to eat. Wasn't the same though as you could always tell when he'd been at the "real stuff" from the black deposits around his mouth!
Yes, I like the Bournville too. My oldest boy always gives me a large bar of it for father's day. Green and Blacks? not so much, can't recall what the Lindt stuff tastes like although I'm sure I must have had some at some time, love those Lindor balls they make with the soft middle! One I would avoid is an American brand, which I have to say my daughter loves, but I think tastes disgusting.
Yes…plain chocolate is great for the heart…I thinkAs kids my sisters and I used to eat the cubes of Chivers jelly, so they never got to the bowl of hot water, mind you we also ate sugar sandwiches and not at the same time, beef dripping sandwiches.
I tell you what I did like but cannot get any more is Meltis Berry Fruits, the boxes of jellys with the crystal sugar balls of fruit juices inside, they did do some bags for a while but taste was different.
@porta Is that part of your heart medication?
US chocolate is foul…
I do confess to keeping a supply of CadburyFruit and Nut in fridge, I buy a box of it when at Bookers cash and carry. When I open the fridge with youngest grand daughter (2yrs) she has a hard choice between that and the Extra Mature Cheddar I like, though she has the solution , two hands, food in both.
A really well matured Cheddar with those wee crunchy white bits on the outside - salt crystals I think? You just can't beat it can you?I do confess to keeping a supply of CadburyFruit and Nut in fridge, I buy a box of it when at Bookers cash and carry. When I open the fridge with youngest grand daughter (2yrs) she has a hard choice between that and the Extra Mature Cheddar I like, though she has the solution , two hands, food in both.
Wensleydale, Lancashire crumbly and red liecester (for cheese on toast) are my favourites. Wensleydale Creamery do a nice cheddar in both sheep and cattle varieties
I used to love Red Leicester cheese but doesn't seem to taste the same these days.
When we were young and being hard up , my sisters and I used to love when the Devon Dairy Festival came in June to the sea front sponsored by the Milk Marketing Board I think as they had loads of free samples of cheese and milk so we would "fill our boots", strangely this brings up another memory, in Secondary School I got the job of milk monitor so I could drink all the spare 1.3rd bottles of milk each day, even when finishing my paper round I would go to the local dairy and whilst they were giving me the change I would drink the pint of milk and return the empty, full fat of course. All that calcium must have helped as only bone broken has been my nose in a car crash and most of my teeth have lasted, though would have benefited from a better dentist as a child.
Lovely full fat…if we see a sign, on the way home from somewhere, for ‘raw milk’ we usually stop and buy a couple of pints.
What makes me laugh about those ‘good bacteria’ products I think to myself ‘I bet it’s all they good stuff the take out of milk’
What makes me laugh about those ‘good bacteria’ products I think to myself ‘I bet it’s all they good stuff the take out of milk’
Hey…! Well,…yeah…some of it is crap, just gotta know what not to eat. Like Russell’s…bleah.
Mrs.Cheest is a cheddar fanatic. The sharper the better. Myself, a good hard Swiss, Spanish Machengo, or Wisconsin Colby. Though a bag of fresh cheese curds, aka squeaky cheese, and I become Gollum. My Precious.
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Well I nearly lost it completely over this but have a positive result.. The way the hire representative went straight tio the tiny marks on the screen was noteworthy. The whole thing has caused me serious stress. I made a lot of points including the possibility of court action. In Italy this seems to work differently and for the sum of about £12.80 I could lodge a 'quarela' this is a statement setting down a complaint as far as I can tell and would be looked at by a prosecutor. If the prosecutor feels that a scam or fraud has been perpetrated he would convene a hearing and require all parties to attend. Prosecution could result. I put my arguments to the CEO of Europcar and said that as a quarela has to be lodged immediately I needed a response by Friday 16:00. I did also say he could only imagine how angry I was and how far I would go in preventing what I saw as a scam or how much money I would throw at it. For whatever reason, and I hope it was because they accepted I was right, they have withdrawn the damage charges. I pointed out that I have around 30 years accident free insurance record and am a certificated advanced driver - police trained. I still think 581 euros to fill half a dozen stone chips on the windscreen was an outrage. The last time I hired a vehicle it was a van, I sustained a bullet chip in the windscreen. I went staight to a windscreendepot and paid to have it repaired immeditelty. Cost was around £35. If I had had a stone impact I would have done the same here. In the area of the screen where the 'damage' was it would not cause any issues or MOT failures in this country and would only get repaired by me if I got around to it. Repair kits work well and cost just a few £.
The reason given for removing the charge, was that on the closest inspection they felt the damage might well predated my hire..... I will never hire anything again unless I desperate. - as indeed I was on this occasion. Maybe going straight to the top man is a good approach. At least this man has resolved this in what I believe is the right way. Him being new in post may well have helped me.
