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I don't see him ordering it at the Cafe Royale but he may have drunk something similar in Reading Gaol.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
He might have made something out of the following publicity shot though:
When in decades past the idyllic country home of Miss Rose Gribble became a local inn, legend has it that the inquisitive local ferrets frequented the pub's back door on a mission to sample its own reputed brew. In their honour it was named Fursty Ferret.
Yes quite an idylic little write-up for the Fursty Ferret.
I'm just waiting for my blueberry muffins to come out of the oven and then I'm going to munch one or two with a cup of tea. Then I'm going to drink a Tangle Foot.
Blueberry muffins and tea followed by Tangle Foot doesn't sound like an ideal combination. It reminds me of Miss Marple and Eddie Waring.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
Right now, after a plate of Heinz beans with sausages, I am drinking some real beer. Not Fursty Ferret, which at 4.5% just won't do, but Carlsberg Special Brew which at 9% will ensure the kind of sleep I like. I have a few nibbles to hand which should last until the beer is finished.
:smilielol5: Oh, dear. I hope those sausages are not out of the tin of beans, please say they are of an organic variety and the beans are separate? I can tell you how they make those sausages if you don't know already. Also, Carlsberg Special Brew is the ultimate no, no in alcoholic beverages, that and the likes of Carling, boy oh boy.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
I'm drinking the Tangle Foot at the mo, but unfortunately it tastes more like Sweaty Foot - it's not going down too well. Where's the Fusty Ferret when you need it?
Looking forward to some good wheat beers at the weekend; I'm into the German wheat beers at the moment.
I'm about to join a workmate and a few of the contractor's we work with for dinner at "Der Rathskeller" German restaurant. Not sure what I will sink my teeth into just yet, but I'm certain it will be washed down with Spaten Optimator on draft.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
I'll report back later.
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In that case don't forget about this thread.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
I'm having chips and salsa.
chestnuts!
So here we are again and I am eating some roasted cashews and Japanese crackers with a bottle of Conti Serristori Chianti 2008 following on from spaghetti on toast.
A pint of Double Drop and my own cheese and onion bread is just bubbling in the oven.
hamburgers, fresh sugar-snap peas, and some (literary folks get ready for this): two-hearted ale. (The ale is great!)
I made a couple cups of barlys and kalula in hopes of getting some kind of drunk but it doesn't seemed to have worked. Oh well, it's getting late anyway. I ate some soy burgers earlier, but I am really craving vegetarian tacos right now, but my madre is passed out on the couch with her cold.
I have two Fursty Ferrets and one Black Sheep in the fridge and I'm thinking about them...
Not long ago I've just finished off two homemade, spicy vegetable burgers served with my own mint yogurt sauce. I sat this on a bed of fried greens and cabbage, soy sauce and a little side of my own freshly baked bread. Very nice indeed.
I have just finished a cheese sandwich with olives as my main meal of the day as I don't want to bother with cooking. In an hour's time I shall be off to the food and drink store for my nightly sleeping draught of beer and snacks.
Aghh, tut, tut. We all have cheese sandwich days, but for Brian it is a daily occurrence. Let's hope he comes back from the beer off with a Fursty Ferret or two...fingers crossed xx.
mushroom and spinach omelette accompanied with raspberry jam on toast.
Just back from the food and drink store with a couple of Carlsberg Special lagers and, in deference to Nelly's preference for bottled beers, a Polish lager called Okocim which was the strongest they had at 7.1% alcohol. I am drinking it now and it's OK but I think on balance I prefer the Carlsberg.
Oh, and I almost forgot, I am drinking it with a packet of Turkey and Stuffing crisps and another packet of salt and vinegar Hula Hoops.
Not exacly nectar and ambrosia but the next best thing.
Oh dear, oh dear, oh dear.:frown2: Though I might actually do a Brian and have my first bag of crisps for about the last month - might go well with my current Ferret. (I didn't get out for my German beer, perhaps tomorrow lunch?)
Crisps are one of the greatest food inventions ever because they go with any drink from vintage Champagne to Mild and Bitter. They are, it is true, tremendously fattening but, although artificially taste-enhanced, simply the tastiest foodstuff known to man.Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
As for the German beer, stay true to your original intention and go for it.
Yes definitely, I missed the wheat beer today due to circumstances too dull to go into, but I intend to have a few at dinner tomorrow if possible.
Maybe if you like crisps, have a go at making your own organic versions? If my potatoes, growing on the front and back, properly develop (I planted them a little late), I'm going to do just that. Neely's potato chips, ideal for Fursty Ferrets, Black Sheep and even dodgy polish lager! Hugh Fearnly-Whittingstall move over.
Currently finishing my Black Sheep and about to decide between reading a little more of the fantastic "On Liberty" by John Stuart Mill or watching episode 4 season 6 of River Cottage? Maybe the River Cottage just now, then beauty sleep.
Glass of drinking yogert.
At this very moment, I am eating an egg salad and drinking a white Burgundy 2008 from the well-known vignerons Bouchard Aine & Fils. At just over a fiver per bottle it is highly recommended.
Just finished off a lemon muffin (Sunday night is treat night) but it wasn't as good as last week's blueberry. Also drinking a glass of Westons Organic cider.
A bowl of unethical chicken chili soup and a bottle of Dos Equis Amber.
A packet of prawn cocktail crisps to go with a bottle of Cotes du Rhone Villages2008 Darriaud Reserve. A bit pricey at £6.99 a bottle but one must expect to pay extra for the Villages although ordinary Cotes du Rhone is very serviceable for people who like red wine.
I'm just out of the bath (reading John Stuart Mill, amazing stuff) and the smell of my just baked bread is driving me crazy - got to have a little with some jam (the best jam of course). After that I'm going to crack open a beer, maybe a Black Sheep or a Hobgoblin. Then I'm going to have the last of the organic cider, Westons, which I bought yesterday (during the famous chicken trip); a very good cider, nicely dry and a far strength.
Your post provides such good exercise in skimming and scanning!Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
:smilewinkgrin:
As for me: Tea and tuna sandwich
*hopes that lack of label/price tags in her own post does not go unnoticed*
Detail Sch, detail, it is all in the detail. As it happens the beer was Brian's favourite: Fursty Ferret and not the Black Sheep, though I'm going off the Ferret.
P.S. The jam I used on my bread was Bonne Maman strawberry, though I also have the blueberry and peach in the fridge.
As a bit of self-indulgenece, I decided to watch Poirot on Youtube in the series of Who Killed Roger Ackroyd. I got to part five of seven and after finishing my vino reddo I couldn't care less who killed R.Ackroyd or why. I'm off to bed.
:lol: It wasn't the butler; it never is. I've read loads of those and apart from a few, can never remember who the hell did it. That or it all gets mixed up with all the blackmailing or the long lost nephew who has been masquerading as a gardener and things like that. Good fun though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
I'm just finishing off the lovely Westons cider, really savouring every drop of its dry loveliness, not to effervescent too - just right. Shame that I can't get real cider on my poor side of town, I'll have to take another trip to the posh end or the city centre if I want another one. I tell you, Sheffield is the most divided of cities, it's ridiculous, I can't live like this for much longer! Just because I live this end doesn't mean that I don't have standards, Christ, I feel like a leper.
Added detail for Sch ;):
Finishing that and the page or two I'm on and then I'm off to bed as well, s** it.Quote:
A flavoursome organic cider produced from organically [spot the repetition there?] grown cider apples produced to Soil Association organic [and again?] standards. Fully matured in old oak vats to develop its rich smooth character.
Lucky Charms
Reporting back:Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
We began with a sampler plate of wurst followed by main course of Jäger Schnitzel with potatoes and sauerkraut.
Adult beverage - litre of Spaten Optimator
One of our party arrived “pre seasoned” shall we say, convinced that he could speak German. His lackluster attempts at “salat und huas drezzing” succeeded only in causing much confusion for our poor waitress. He then resorted to “English” with a deep southern draw. More confusion ensued but at least I, being from the south, could translate this dialect for the waitress.
Tonight:
One tin of Salmon, a few Snyder’s pretzel rods, hunks torn from a French Loaf, pistachios and a few glasses of Australian Merlot.
Out of the box by the hand fulls?Quote:
Originally Posted by papayahed
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coffee and dark chocolate
Nothing but just finished traditional eid breakfast ( in my dads family anyway ) Fatah... which is rice bread meat and meat soup... and that was my second brekfast as we went to pray at dawn and got back starving so my aunt and I had a proper breakfast with earl grey in a china pot and on best china with my aunt while the meat stewed and the people snoozed.
When I was working in Germany I lived off sauerkraut and bratwurst during the week because I would go down to Munich for the weekends and arrive back in Nuremberg broke to the wide. I quite liked the sauerkraut though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
Ah, the follies of youth.
Nope, in a bowl with 2% milk.Quote:
Originally Posted by Gilliatt Gurgle
I am sitting in front of my computer with a bowl of roasted cashew nuts and a pint of Carlsberg special brew, having just partaken of a plate of Udon noodles with tofu. Standing to one side of me is a bottle of Dows fine ruby port wine and a plate of Dutch Gouda cheese called old Amsterdam which I shall have after the beer. Of course, I wont drink the bottle as, unlike ordinary wine it is fortified with brandy and is 19% alcohol, so perhaps a couple of glasses will suffice.
Beer.
Can you elucidate ?Quote:
Originally Posted by Neely
I would love to but Scher might shout at me!!:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Brian Bean
Oh, what the hell.
Tonight's choice of liquid refreshment comes in the form of Hobgoblin. Hobgoblin is a nice little brew, dark, ruby red in appearance and nicely bitter on taste front, but not too sharp. It has a warming little complexity making ideal as a winter warmer, in fact it is often strongly associated with Halloween due to its Hobgoblin logo and theme.
It is fairly strong clocking in at 5.2%, though nothing in compare to your er, choice of beverage and is brewed by the Wychwood Brewery which is an excellent little brewery. I say little, but I think it has has grown in size and stature considerably and has now become a leading real ale supplier which is why it is readily available (even on poor street - violins please). The brewery is based in Oxfordshire. According to the label it made using English Fuggles hops and Styrian Goldings?
Standard price comes in at around £1.65 for a typical 500ml bottle, but the large supermarket chain which I purchased it from has reduced it to a whopping £1.00 per bottle at the moment as they probably have some excess stock left over from Halloween. At this price it is a real must, super little beer.
Foodwise, I have, in the last hour eaten a couple of slices of my bread which I baked yesterday with a generous helping of butter - Clover, which is actually quite nice.
Think I might finish off my Hobgoblin and watch the rest of River Cottage. Hugh is selling tomatoes.
I am currently eating the remainder of Dutch Gouda cheese and drinking a few glasses of the port mentioned yesterday, This follows a meal of light salad accompanied by a bottle of Pinot Grigio from Pasqua 2007. I am hoping to sleep well tonight.