BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Linda Kelly
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 05:53 PM

Call me old fashioned or maybe it's a Hull thing having seen Les from Hull's comments, but isn't packing up why they invented tuppaware? If one goes on a long journey surely 10mins in the kitchen with a breadknife and a packet of cheese slices can save one a fortune? We use service stations for the toilets and not much else -Hazel and I can recommend Dr Kargs Emmental and Sunflower crispbreads for a tasty on the road snack-they take at least 4 hours to eat for adults and a child could suck their way through one in a bout 3 weeks-excellent fancy!

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 08:20 PM

Well yes Linda - like Les's list of places you can go other than motorway services - its a strategy. Good luck to you, both of you.

My point is that such a strategy shouldn't be necessary. The volume of customers they get - they should be able to provide decent food at a sensible price.

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Rowan
Date: 21 Nov 06 - 08:51 PM

Driving the Newell Highway I have found a selection of great food places; Coonabarabran and The Green Frog are two that come to mind that are quite inexpensive. Down the New England Highway and the Putty Road there are some more; some cater to truckies but are quite unpretentious and the food's OK, so long as you're not vegetarian, let alone vegan. Along the back roads from Tamworth to Yass via Dungog there's several great shops. Wodonga has a great bread shop that does beaut lunches.

Thankfully, my kids have no interest in McDonalds, or even in Coca Cola but some of the comments above reminded me of the first Kentucky Fried Chicken on the Hume Highway, north of Melbourne and many years ago. They sold nothing but bits of chook, according to the menu (plus chips, of course), but they bought an awful lot of rabbits from the locals. Perhaps there's some connection to why they're now called "KFC".

In the US, the only highway food outlet I found at all interesting was "Po' Folks" and I gather they were only ever in the south east.

Cheers, Rowan

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Les from Hull
Date: 22 Nov 06 - 10:49 AM

Well said Linda. And on our trips down to Warwick Festival I doubt if many people have eaten better than us. If we had a cappuchino machine we would never touch the services!

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 08:53 AM

A new sandwich shop recently opened nearby, they've called it

'Mange 2'!

IMO, Bad choice!

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 10:35 AM

I was in York last summer and bought a sarnie at a shop down the Shambles, roast ham salad £1.00 in fact all sandwhiches were a quid, great sarnies and great value, if they can do that in the centre of York they can do it anywhere.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 10:56 AM

The French (mange = to eat) is lost on you, eh?

BTW: over here in the US it's "sammitch" with no "d" in the pronunciation.

A public radio program here called The Splendid Table has a great segment every week about road food. It's wonderful, but many are off the beaten path.

Every busy arterial corner and freeway offramp looks the same around here, with McDonalds, Burger King, Wendy's, chicken joints, etc. When my kids were small we looked for the family restaurants with buffet so we could pick up bits and pieces that looked healthier and we knew the kids would eat. Shoneys, Bob Evans, etc. A lot of the buffet places are pretty greasy. I have found in recent years that (surprise!) Denny's, the ubiquitous pancake house 24-hour restaurant, has some very nice baked fish dishes and good sides of rice and steamed veggies. Another one like that is Applebees. They all look the same inside, and there is still plenty of junk, but you can begin to find some healthier stuff that tastes good.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 11:04 AM

SRS,

That's somewhat confrontational of you!

Of course I understand where the shop's proprietor is coming from in their title, play on words of 'Mangetout'

However, the in area its situated, it'll be unlikely understood by potential patrons, the term 'mange' implying something unsavoury or 'mangy'

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 11:07 AM

Mange is Italian for EAT!. It was used in an ad over here - can't remember what for. Probably Alka-Seltzer.

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 11:09 AM

That's what I was referring to--the English meaning of the word Mange is pretty unsavory, if you don't recognize it as another language. Here in the US there is a steady supply of late night program laughs provided by the poor translation choices (or not) of Asian restaurants. For the same reasons.

SRS

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Bernard
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 11:28 AM

We-e-ell... 'mange' is a disease that causes dogs and cats to lose their hair/fur... Mange 2 is, by definition, the sequel!!

;o>

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Mr Happy
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 11:36 AM

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mange

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Mingulay
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 02:28 PM

Going off at a tangent (which I always thought was a segment of tangerine) deos anywhere else in the world apart from the Indian sub-continent have the plethora of dingily lit and unsavoury looking kebab stalls that we have in the UK? The kebabs themselves look no better as they resemble a glutinous mass of compressed eyelids and arseholes occasionally warmed by a small calor gas flame.

Even a dozen pints of quasi Australian falling down water couldn't tempt me.

The other thing that bothers me is why do fish and chip shops close so early these days?

To you, dear reader, these may seem like senile ramblings but to me they questions of national importance.

Yes nurse, I have taken my medication!

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: gnu
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 03:19 PM

It's similar to mange moi... it's an insult either way around here.

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: SINSULL
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 03:44 PM

Isn't that what the mushroom said to Alice?

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Donuel
Date: 19 Nov 09 - 05:38 PM

Once I started tipping I got 4 times the chicken in my hot garlic chicken chinese food.

I heard a couple in PA was arrested for not tipping!

I thought the old wimmin in sandwhich shops topic was about the terrible gang situation where these old wimmin are taunting and mugging passerbys for sandwhichs.
In our area these senile deliquints are so troublsome that even getting take out is like taking your life in your hands.
I can still hear their terrifying threats... "gimme your pickle sonny or I'll gum you to death!"

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: GUEST
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 06:22 AM

Donuel, I always thought they were the ones working there who said: "You want ketchup/mayo/pickles/fries with that" and it was a threat not a question.

Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Michael
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 06:25 AM

Oops! That last Guest was me without cookie.
Mike

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Dave Hanson
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 10:19 AM

Named after Lord Sandwich, who didn't want to leave the gaming table to eat, NOT Lord Sammitch.

Dave H

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Eric the Viking
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 03:40 PM

What about subway? You can choose from (processed!) meats,cheese, salads and several different types of bread...toasted and non toasted. Mrs V and I go sometimes when we are back in civilisation. jOhn...do you still work in the curry shop? You could start a nice line in cold Bhuna and pakora butties.

Don't people call them "Sarnies" anymore? I do....perhaps it's just me. I don't know what they call them up here.

In subway they have a sort of formula. 3 slices of this, 3 slices of that. Never seen any old wimmin in one though. Lots of blokes with different accents and some young ladies with varying degree of bosom showing.

But the best sarnie ever come from Orkney. A big poppy seed roll, filled to the brim with (local) prawn and marie rose sauce and salad. £ 1.80...Can't beat that! Eaten overlooking Kirkwall bay with seals swimming, sea trout and salmon leaping and ferries to the North isles coming and going.

Donuel, arn't these the "Hells grannies"?

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Paul Burke
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 03:52 PM

There was a caff in Sheffield called Sam and Ella's. When the Midland Hotel in Manchester got poshified back in the 70's they thought they'd recall the boats that used to ply the nearby canal, and named one of the lounges The Butty Bar- and were upset by the people who came in to try to by sandwiches. Ureshiku-san will explain if you don't understand.

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Stilly River Sage
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 06:14 PM

Duh, Dave. We're not talking history here.

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 07:33 PM

butties, sarnies and pieces ...and no one agrees which is what or what goes in them or what to call them. *grin*

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Dave Roberts
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 09:06 PM

Personally, I always like to go down to the beach for lunch, because of the sand which is there.

Those who do not immediately grasp the subtle play on words in this venerable joke may apply for an explanation. But not to me.

Subject: RE: BS: Old wimmin in sandwidge shops
From: Bill D
Date: 20 Nov 09 - 10:17 PM

I get it, I get it! (I 'got' it when I was 12 years old.. ☺)