I WAS ALL SET on stocking up on the prime ingredients of a lower-class tea for supper:~ all potato waffles, Heinz baked beans (value are poorly sugared and full of water; I heartily advise against them) and several litres of frying oil. Heck, I even had the Benson & Hedges ciggie for afterwards!But what attack of prissiness has struck the modern "supermarketing community"... NO frying instructions upon ANY of their industrial foods' packagings... am I really going to GRILL my greasies? I think not... especially as I live in a fleapit so ill-equipped we don't even HAVE a grill ...
And what is it with CHICKEN. CHICKEN CHICKEN CHICKEN cluck-cluck-clucker!~?? Chicken chicken EVERYWHERE and yet no pleasantly battered simple sqauares of fish. How dreadfully vulgar. ALL I wanted was battered fried fish with potato waffle in baked beans and a fag on:~ what's wrong with that? And yet my attempts at purchase were thwarted by a supermarket that stocks ALL chicken (e.g. chicken fingers) where it should be fish... and no frying (shallow or deep) cookery instructions. New Labour is like that short story we did at school where someone trod on a butterfly in time travel... then the world was ever so subtly, sinisterly different.
Not only do they erode our human rights. E.g. they're going blue in the face for the right to lock someone up without charge for 42 days (of course they would do this in the name of anti-terror)... they INSIST on ID cards as a cure for... guess what? yeah, TERROR. even though Spain - surely a tie with Britain for most-bombed country in Europe HAS identity cards and ID cards would NOT have prevented the 7:7 attacks. They keep 4,000,000 people's DNA profiles WITHOUT their permission... the only thing they do well with data is to frequently LOSE it. Oh and they assume they already HAVE the right to SPY on our CARS with some Orwellian device that MEASURES THE VOLUME OF BLOOD IN THE VEHICLE. Nobody even remarked how intrusive or sinister this was: the issue at stake was "should we have number of person in car lane charging things?" answer no and stop snooping. They EVEN want to instal a gizmo in each and every motor vehicle in the UK that would record by satellite tracking literally EVERY journey - no matter how short - taken by every vehicle in this country. Cross-referenced and checked against the 4,000,000 security cameras we already have snooping on us.... TONY BLAIR: a big fat thank you for setting up ALL THAT IS REQUIRED for when a TRUE DICTATOR DOES COMMANDEER THIS COUNTRY ...!
Right I have to go it's late and there were squeaks from my trottery earlier! Yes, that would-be Napoleon Bonaparte of the Roborovskis, Baby Itchy was probably asserting her ever-higher rungs and echelons on the hamster-peckery... and pink nose to pink nose knocked her housemate over and all manner of squarking ensues! (Well anything to change the subject off the state failures of Tony Blair...) righto better go ~ as they used to say each evening at Welwyn Stores:~~ GOODNIGHT EVERYONE; GOODNIGHT!
Heinz baked beans meanz fartz! Hhehheee Night Night Gledwood!
ReplyDeleteCatching up..read that article on the anti's myself the other day, doesnt life suck,lol, Ive just been prescribed the happy green pill as I havent been sleeping too well etc only to find I might as well take a placebo..To be honest I think they may be right, time away doing something really challenging would do me more good than a pill...I know it
ReplyDeleteGlad your leg appears to be getting better, I once had to have an abcess aspirated with a syringe so I know how painful it can be, and because of its location it turned out to be one of the most embarrassing moments of my life,of course the procedure was carried out by a handsome young intern who had to ring the consultant for advice as to whether I would need to go to theatre to have it done, and all the time Im thinking JUST GET THIS OVER WITH SO I CAN HIDE SOMEWHERE!!!!!! Could gather together stories and bring out a book on memories of abcesses and how they scarred us!!!
Always buy Heinz...always
You need frying "instructions"?
ReplyDeleteIt's not exactly a quadruple bypass--just heat up some grease in a frying pan, make a batter, dip the shit in the batter, and when what you are cooking stops kicking, eat it.
(Well, maybe with chicken, make sure there are no pink spots in there harboring salmonella. Also, maybe spring for olive oil--sounds like you are getting enough HDL's on a daily basis to clog Mr. Ed's arteries.)
And don't forget: Some well-placed endive garnish on the plate adds a festive touch to baked beans on a potato waffle!!
(Is this dish colloquially called, "Shit on a shingle"?)
Think of it this way: Tuna is chicken of the sea.
Using the transitive property, chicken must be, "tilapia of the barnyard."
Bon appetit!
I could kill for fried fish, potato anything and baked beans. Yum.
ReplyDeleteno answers ...Just a HELLO glad you came in ATTIC CLUTTER an ''love those darling gerbils/hamsters (:) so cute~~~!!
ReplyDeleteI take no antidepessant..just vitamens an Smokes(:) hehe... do you call them fags?? HAPPY DAYS are here AGAIN!!!!
interesting site will come again ..Hugs Patty
Beans, beans the musical fruit. The more you eat the more you toot.The more you toot the better you feel.So eat beans for every meal.
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good rant Gled.
ReplyDeletechicken fingers are def WRONG.
fish fingers - RIGHT (on occasion) esp. in sandwiches with mayo.
I have never seen a potato waffle before. Is this something that's always eaten with baked beans?
ReplyDeleteI too am in favour of fish instead of chicken. I don't like frozen chicken anything. I buy fish fillets sometimes that are "oven-bake", but we don't have an oven in the garden-room yet, so I just shallow fry them in a pan. I wouldn't worry about any grilling or baking instructions, I'm sure you can just fry it in your pan.
Oh, surely you can get fish somewhere? They must have fish, they must! I INSIST! ;-)
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ReplyDeleteAnon: touche!
Audrey: I have found the more "mental" one's problems might be at root the more likely medication is to work. Pills/drugs never have been/never will be a cure for life!... I looked for proper medical film of general anaesthetic abscess surgery but found none... I'd really like to see how the pus was removed, how the healthy surrounding flesh treated... etc... and how it packed internally... as for the beanz: yes: has to be Heinz or VERY BEST ownbrand never cheapie cheap is nasty in the world of beanz...
ZenWizz: I do like to know PRECISELY how long to keep the food sizzling... but more to the point need to know it's recommended for frying at all... dunno if you've ever tried shallowfrying something not recommended for such..?.. it can turn out pretty disastrous! ;->...
Nessa: me too!
ReplyDeleteAttick: your site was pretty wondrous too... by smokes you mean nicotine not cannabis I take it? cannabis really doesn't suit me! not at ALL!!!
Preposterous: ... something like that... break wind through a hat... tat-tatt...
Lettuce: I love chicken but get fed up of it where dead white industrial overfished fish should be!
Nicole: yes it is a very common thing people who can't be bothered to cook chips eat for tea... you're really meant to grill them... they go really well with baked beans and the dreaded harbinger of the early 80s: "Crispy Pancakes"... ugh the fillings were SO chock full of E numbers (yeah and I loved 'em at the time: how typical!)
Vincent: seriously one pretty large supermarket NO fish I'm serious!
Glad to see that you're feeling better, Gled.
ReplyDeleteRather scary- those security proposals. Surely they'll never be adopted...?
Never be adopted you ARE kidding most already HAVE been!!
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If shallowfrying is what I think it is, I shallowfry everything.
ReplyDeleteI follow my own advice and use olive oil--because my cholesterol is through the roof--and it is expensive as F***.
Of course in London, people pay like $200 for a hamburger so I was thinking the transition FOR YOU would not be so traumatic.
Generally, I think chicken should be fried for about 20-minutes at 350-degrees Farenheit.
(I'm not sure how many degrees that is in Left Wing Euopean Wussy-Assed Socialist-Degrees...)
Shallowfrying? Is that not an American expression? How weird I've never heard of that!
ReplyDeleteI thought very carefully about WHAT precise oil I was going to use. In the past I've used olive "pomace" (cloudy ~ basicallyl the last pressing rather than "extra virgin" (the first))... they didn't have that in the vulgar supermarket and American soya oil has gone from our shelves (probably to do with having genmod ingredients which Europeans (especially Brits) DO NOT WANT~ though the American trade people seemed to think we had no right to refuse this and have intimated at starting a trade war over genetically modified ingredients several times. Let me tell you from the ground people this side of the pond DO NOT WANT genmod stuff! "Frankenstein foods" as they're so aptly labelled...
My choice came down to sunflower or rape. Sunflower oil usually comes from France. Rape seed oil is British... you will seen massive fields of waving bright yellow flowers in spring... I considered my allegance (to my own country of course: business should begin at home as does charity)... and checked the saturates level. Rape was far better than sunflower something like 7.5g per 100g saturates as opposed to nearly 13g from sunflower oil...
what a brilliant dinner idea, thanks! way too much healthy food in my house... and since the bean's away, leaving just the 2 of us, i guess health rules may be ignored.
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