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Subject: British goodies on line From: katlaughing Date: 19 Oct 99 - 09:38 PM For all of you Uk'ers living in the USA or any others who might be interested, here's a really neat site called GoodWoods where you can buy all kinds of goodies, as they say, "We offer the finest in British groceries including: Frozen Bacon & Meats, Baking & Desserts,Beverages,Biscuits & Cereal, Shortbread & Cakes, Chemist & Household Supplies,Fish, Fruits & Vegetables,Jams & Preserves, Pickles & Relishes, Sauces & Spices, Soups, and Sweets." Have fun! |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: bill\sables Date: 20 Oct 99 - 04:26 AM Hi Kat, but can you get Yorkshire Tea there Cheers Bill |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Graham Pirt Date: 20 Oct 99 - 05:03 AM Or Stottie cyeks an Neucassel Broon yell ? |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Fionan Date: 20 Oct 99 - 05:17 AM Yes you can get Yorkshire Tea...and some Bewleys Tea I can't find in the UK... |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: alison Date: 20 Oct 99 - 08:51 AM I found a deli round the corner from me where I can now get proper potato bread, soda, and black and white puddings... yummm... real Ulster fries coming up for tea pretty soon...... slainte alison |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Melbert Date: 20 Oct 99 - 11:34 AM WOT - no faggots n' peas? |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Malcolm Douglas Date: 20 Oct 99 - 02:06 PM No Henderson's Relish, either... Malcolm |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Bert Date: 20 Oct 99 - 03:17 PM No sugar mice? Just teasing Kat. That's a good link, Thanks. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 20 Oct 99 - 06:47 PM But I see that they do have Marmite. Do they keep it with the jam? http://www.macgrath.freeserve.co.uk/Songlists/Blowing the whistle.htm#The Marmite Song (Sorry, I haven't yet worked out how to get a blue clicky thing in mt thread replier) |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: katlaughing Date: 20 Oct 99 - 06:54 PM Harlow, there is a wondeful example, by our illustrious Joe Offer, showing exactly how to do blue clicky thingies in the Mudcat Jargo thread. I just refreshed it, yesterday or today. Bert, sugar mice, on top of what you called bread, which as near as I can tell is just a bunch of gelled up sweetened lime juice?!! My, my, we do have a sweet tooth don't we?!! As you say, my friend, just kidding.**BG** Glad you liked the link and HEY! All of you critics, they DO ask that you let them know if there is something they don't carry that you'd like them to! So..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Oct 99 - 01:27 PM Thanks kat - now I'm going to see if I've understood it right. If I've done it right the clicky thing links to my home page. But before I risk going to the USA sometime, is there any -place out there you can get fish and chips?
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Oct 99 - 01:31 PM Bugger that - maybe it'll work better this time now I've modified it.
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Bert Date: 21 Oct 99 - 01:48 PM McGrath of Harlow, Sure you can get fish and chips, just come to our house. We have a fish fry every week or so and all the neighbors come over. Especially when our neghbor Jim has had a good day's fishing. Can't get 'rock' though, which is one of my favorites. Kat, that recipe was for lime marmalade not BREAD. It's kinda like Rose's Lime Marmalade but has more of a tang to it. ...and sugar mice, (yes I have a sweet tooth) why don't they make them over here? American kids miss out on such an important part of growing up. It's great fun hanging them up by their tails and nibbling their noses. Bert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: catspaw49 Date: 21 Oct 99 - 02:30 PM First let me say that Cleigh is now very concerned over meeting you at anytime now Bert. I mean he's used to the butt thing, but now he's run off and is hiding after reading your post. Next, do they have LongJohns? Cletus is running all over asking people for a pair......I gotta remember not to walk out and leave this damn thing online. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Bert Date: 21 Oct 99 - 02:53 PM Tell Cleigh that it is only for sugar mice, we would never dream of doing that to a possum! |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 21 Oct 99 - 05:17 PM Right then Bert, next time I'm in your neighbourhood I'll be around with my newspaper to wrap them in. That's one reason for not going to the States crossed off. I agree, Rock Salmon is the best for fish and chips. Of course it's really dogfish, which is a small shark (I suppose it sounds more edible in a country where dogs are sacred). Maybe it's available under some other name in usaland? The only time I gave my son a pink sugar mouse he went into a rage at the thought of anyone eating it. I think it's probably still in a cupboard somewhere, crumbling into dust. But are you really allowed to hang children up by the tails and nibble their noses in America? |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Melbert Date: 21 Oct 99 - 05:23 PM McGrath - it's available in the UK under different names as well! When we used to live in Luton the chippies there called it "Gurnet" |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Melbert Date: 21 Oct 99 - 05:23 PM McGrath - it's available in the UK under different names as well! When we used to live in Luton the chippies there called it "Gurnet" |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Penny S. Date: 21 Oct 99 - 05:40 PM Kentish version - Huss, or 'uss, or "You and me". Our local chippy had to stop calling it rock salmon, in case anyone thought it was salmon - he was beoing got under the trades description act or some such. Kevin, I'm going to get back to you about that park thing. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Penny S. Date: 21 Oct 99 - 07:45 PM Bert - how keen are you on the mice? There's a shop down the road with them. (The shop's South African - I'm not sure about the mice.) Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: katlaughing Date: 21 Oct 99 - 08:14 PM Kevin- great site! I loved your monologue on Young Colin! That's my son's name, so naturally I had to read what you'd said! Bert, thanks for the clarification. I never could stand any kind of marmalade we had over here; always tasted bitter to me, but somehow i don't think your's would:-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Bert Date: 22 Oct 99 - 10:21 AM Great one McGrath, 'hanging kids up by their tails' I missed that completely when I wrote it - ROTFL. (Of course that's the only way to treat them.) Penny, I like real mice as well as sugar mice. When the kids had lots of reptiles, keeping them in feeder mice got too expensive so I started breeding them (mice that is McGrath, we'd finished breeding kids by then). We had a mousery of over 200 at one time. It's amazing how many of them got to be 'keepers' because we'd become attached to them. All the breeding pairs had names. I used to have to keep all of the exercise wheels lubricated or the noise was too distracting. I hear that harvest mice and dormice are getting quite rare in England now. Do they have breeding programs for them? Bert. |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: katlaughing Date: 22 Oct 99 - 10:31 AM Harvest mice, Bert? And, which crops do they *harvest*; mostly grains, I'll bet! Do the dormice wear little valet outfits and work only at the best hotels, or are they obsolete because everyone opens their own nowadays? Or, maybe they created a perceived extinction....just to get into a breeding program!LOL Remember that old Kliban cat(the black & white cartoon cat with red tennis shoes and slouchy socks) song? I had it on a teatowel:
Love to eat them mousies katwhodoesnotchasenoreatmice! |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Penny S. Date: 22 Oct 99 - 11:34 AM I'll have to do a bit of research on the harvest mouse and dormouse situation. It's more likely to be protecting habitat as far as I know. The only thing I do know is about glis glis, the edible dormouse, which has taken to living in lofts in the Chilterns,a nd is a bit of a problem. Like having protected gophers up there, I suppose. Penny |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: McGrath of Harlow Date: 22 Oct 99 - 03:00 PM I believe the edible dormouse was brought to england by the Romans, who saw it as a delicacy. There aren't any in the Goodwoods catalogue - maybe there's a catalogue for exiled and hungry Romans that might have them. Maybe that's where the idea for pink sugar mice came from originally? Though I think they'd probably taste better done fried in batter like fish, or Mars Bars. A bit like crunchy scampi... Naah, stick to Marmite soldiers. |
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Subject: RE: BS: British goodies on line From: Penny S. Date: 22 Oct 99 - 04:42 PM Good laugh, Mr. McGrath! I don't know how many of you have come across the detective books of Lindsay Davies, with the Roman informer Didius Falco. She puts forward the hypothesis that the so-called dormouse fattening pots were the equivalent of the sort of gifts we buy from novelty catalogues. Given, but never used.
Penny |