Thursday, March 12, 2009

Nourishment

I'VE HAD YUMMIE ROAST BEEF DINNERS three days in a row now. This is a great advantage of living in England among what the French call "les Roast Beefs" ~ you can get frozen ready boil-in-bag roast beef or lamb in gravy, along with ready-crisped roast potatoes, Yorkshire puddings (which I eat as snacks. They start off like a small cookie, rise and are done perfectly at 200C in 20 mins) or la crème de la crème: Iceland's own Crispy Potatoes, which are diddly roast potato bits "in a light batter" (which you'd never notice due to't immense crispiness) and... oh my Mamma Mia with broccoli-cauliflower-carrots selection frozen veg it's heavenly!

Is it true you Americans cannot buy add-hot-water gravy mix in your Walmart-type supermarkets?? If not then wow. I've eaten so well this weak ~ pub lunch every day ~ it's unbelievable.

Now while I'm ont subject I must apologize for't Northern Accent all't week long. I can't help it, me mind's bin brainwashed ter-wards it..

So from now on Majesterial Queen's English prevails...

Oh while we're on the subject (ON THE SUBJECT, note well, not "ONT SUBJECT"!) Iceland now do one of my all=time favourite bakery items (I can't call 'em cakes because they're not) ~ that is caramel chocolate shortbread slices... 7 for £1 yummMEE! Today I got on special offer for £1 2xpacks of Fox's Malted Milk Creams. I luurve malted milk, it goes ultra-well dipped into British Rail-style tea I like to make. Caramel Coloured drink so strong the spoon "stands up in it" as my mother used to say...

Now as for drug addiction "news" there is none. I keep fantasizing about taking a day off and making that the beginning of a life free totally of drugs... somehow somehow this just does not happen...

And I don't know why, because this never used to be the case, but I feel nervous and uptight before going to antidrug meetings and just want to get out as soon as possible.

I've yet to be tortured right through the end of this false memory therapy multiple personality psychotest I'm stuck into. I dread to consider the results... My poor little Trotters might have to go without an owner/ feeder/someone to poke them with a chopstick when I'm permanently sectioned and tied to a chair in a Victorian lunatic asylum on receipt of copper-plated Indian inked handwritten con-damnation!

I don't know what else to say except a caramel-dark shot of morphia is all that can soothe these itchy unpleasantnesses... the same unpleasantness from which I so long to be freed. But how can I ever enjoy a roast beef dinner again? or face a day? or force self under cold needle-sharp dawn shower? without hardcore opiates dulling my system? How am I ever to cope with life on its own short terms, let alone quirks I lob into the kettle of fish!? Of this I've no idea at all!

... As purloined from David Tellez's blog...

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20 comments:

  1. Dad and Mom12 March 2009 at 13:20

    Hi,

    I see you like your meals. That is good, food is a welcome distraction for anything. Now as far as getting meals and food from Walmart supermarkets, no self respecting cook in the US expects to get good freash food from Walmart.

    But if you want something quick you can pick up, you have never had anything as good as Kansas City Bar-Be-Que. But if you want to fix your own there is nothing like 14 hours of smoking ribs and brisket over a low heat smokey real wood fire.

    If you have the guts google Kansas City Bar-be-que and you will be planning your trip soon just for lunch.

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  2. Jeannie12 March 2009 at 13:42

    I'm in Canada and we do get Bisto as well as some other similar gravy mixes if that's what you're talking about - and that is available even at our puny discount grocery that has little selection in general compared to the big superstores. I make yorkshires from scratch because it's simple - but it also makes quite a lot and takes 40 minutes so you are fortunate to have "instant" ones. There are many frozen heat and serve meats but I regret that lamb doesn't seem to be one of them. Not that I buy much processed food. My husband would. Lamb is very expensive here as it is not a common meat for most people and is almost always frozen. Pork, beef, and chicken are the main ones.

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  3. Gledwood12 March 2009 at 14:03

    Dad&Mom: Thanks for that... When I DO go to the States I wanna experience how the REAL people live...

    Jeannie: I wasn't sure they even HAD Yorkie pudz in Canada..! The beef I get is like school dinners or pub lunch ~ ie roast but ultra-thinly sliced like you'd never be able to do at home... They don't have (cheap) lamb in Canada? How odd. Pork's my "bete noir" ~~ I hate it!

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  4. Liz Hinds12 March 2009 at 14:45

    That poor dog! Doesn't he look embarrassed?


    Packet gravy. My work colleagues tease me about that because I'm a gravy-snob. They were discussing packet mixes and I said, in my best Queen Victoria voice, 'Packet gravy?!'

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  5. Lone Grey Squirrel12 March 2009 at 15:14

    I never understood the popularity of Yorkshire puddings but perhaps I never ate anything but cafeteria and British Rail type fare.

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  6. Reeny's Ramblin'12 March 2009 at 15:52

    Nuthin compares to homemade gravy NUTHIN. However, when in doubt there is Bisto. When I was over there last year I had the best roast dinner ever known to man and it was in a pub. WHODATHUNKIT. I guess that's how ya'll roll over yonder, two thumbs up you guys are rad ;)

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  7. Gledwood12 March 2009 at 16:18

    Liz: aye he does that! Talking of Queen Victoria have you seen't new film yet?

    LoneGrey: industrial Yorkshire puddings aren't much good really; it's only int' last 20 years anyone but chavs would've bothered wi' 'em. You're sporst to mek own int' bowl and pour int tut moulds then (way I mek 'em any road) they bluster up into nuclear mushroom cloud shape (and sized) explosions...

    Reeny/Eileeen: rad, aye!

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  8. Whitenoise12 March 2009 at 16:24

    Gled- don't try to start a life free of drugs. Try to have ONE day free of drugs. Then, maybe try to make it TWO days. The drugs will always be there to go back to. Even after 20 years clean and sober- you can go back to your current life ANYTIME.

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  9. Reeny's Ramblin'12 March 2009 at 19:15

    R-A-D-I-C-A-L ;) Aye.

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  10. Crushed12 March 2009 at 19:36

    I think I'll do a post in Brummie one day, that'll really annoy people...

    I dow think yis should beat yisself up about the scary ass shit these scary psychodudes is putting in yis head. It's early dies, dudes, and yis ownly jus beginin.

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  11. Akelamalu12 March 2009 at 19:47

    Good to hear you're still eating well Gleds.

    Our dog used to run in his sleep, though he never actually got up and ran into a wall! I suppose it proves that dogs dream. :)

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  12. Syd12 March 2009 at 20:15

    We have gravy mix stuff over here. I'd rather make gravy from the pan juice though. Too much instant this and that IMO. Le bouef is okay by me.

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  13. Lou12 March 2009 at 22:55

    Wow, what was wrong with that dog?
    Nightmares??

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  14. Memoirs of a Heroinhead13 March 2009 at 07:55

    Instant solution for a drug free life: hold your breath for 4 minutes.

    Another great post Gledwood... you make food seem so appetizing. God, what the french are missing out on!

    Take care & if you survive
    4 minutes try 5.

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  15. Anonymous13 March 2009 at 13:27

    WHITENOISE: that's right!

    REENY: aye, yer not wrong!

    CRUSHED: gor on then, lad!

    AKELAMALU: definitely they do, cat's too...

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  16. Anonymous13 March 2009 at 13:28

    SYD: I wonder why somene got back to me months ago totally bemused by my talk of packet gravy?... I thought "poor Americans, do they have fresh potatoes there too?!" (for you can take nothing for granted...)

    LOU: for sure!

    HEROINHEAD: cheers, but surely French cooking trumps hell out of British...

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  17. Memoirs of a Heroinhead13 March 2009 at 13:35

    French cooking trumps british... that all depends on who's cooking it.

    Actually, outside of restaurants we eat pretty much the same. Frozen food is international. For a working french family the kids will come home to burger and chips or pasta with a shit sauce... ok, theres no yorkshire puds... so we have snails. It's almost the same. ;)

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  18. Gledwood13 March 2009 at 13:45

    a myth exploded! no way! i'm white in the face and fainting as we speak...

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  19. Baino14 March 2009 at 04:07

    I'm with Liz, packet gravy indeed! Awful stuff and frozen dinners? Get some fresh into you! And yes, try a day at a time. I thought you were going a couple of days on meth and rationing the smack . . are you using every day? Maybe you should get out more . . distractions et al.

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  20. Gledwood16 March 2009 at 12:11

    JACK: thanks for saying hi yer welcome any time ;->...

    BAINO: frozen's far better than canned. think of those frozen paeleolithic gentlemen in near perfect condition, now imagine a man tinned in 3500BC ~ which would be better preserved? hence I go for frozen every time... aye I know I'm meant to get out more but it only throws me into a world full of addicts and dealers, know what I mean..?

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