On Thu, 04 Aug 2005 19:12:52 GMT, WaltA
<please@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
> since it is a bit quiet round here at the mo.,,,,
>
> A montage of what we wrote :
>>> Have you noticed how difficult it is, these days, to get a straight
>>> answer to a simple question on usenet newsgroups ? ! I am in your
>>> debt, I owe you a virtual pint :)
>>These days? It's always been difficult to get a straight answer in
>>Usenet. "Go not to Usenet for answers, for they will answer yes and no
>>and 'try another newsgroup'" <g>...
>>And this newsgroup is not altogether serious
>
> Quite so, I was not being toooo(!) serious in my comments either as
> indicated but some chuckles-epithets in another part)
> but I cite in my defence m'lud the old adage of "if you cant stand the
> heat you ought not to be in usenet" :-))
Not quite the adage I remember, but the thought is there <g>.
>>> the Korean War.,,,,Rusk strongly defended the Vietnam War."
>>> Ah yes, it all comes back ,,,, tough gnarled old boot, probably ideal
>>> meat for use in a burger :) !
>>One of the Burgers of Calais, possibly <g>.
>
> ****rly you dont mean our brethren the Burghers of Calais and the
> others of that region so cruelly repressed, by our neighbours The
> French, in recent times :-?)
I have a picture of a fiend and myself outside McDonalds at the ferry
terminal eating the Burgers of Calais. Strangely they tasted just like
the ones in London <g>...
>>> Or even, as I sometimes do, leavened with a culture of wee beasties
>>> raised from the flour itself, ie. sourdough and similar stuff.
>>
>>I wonder whether that counts as leavened in the Jewish sense?
>>Interesting...
>
> Something is tweeking at my remaining braincell, perhaps it was more
> to do with the time available, ie. passover and the ghost etc were
> about to happen and there wasn't any time left to wait for the bread
> to rise ?
Something like that, yes.
> note to self : must do some googling
>
>>> (Re. the perry -- you bastard <g>...)
> Sorry ;-) heheee (vbg)
>
>>>> that the other is infact some sort
>>>> of leavened-cooked-flour mixture or am I way off ,,,
>>>Well, that's one way of referring to bread!
>
> It never ceases to amaze me (even after 40+years of bread making in an
> amateurish sort of way) how such a simple mix of such simple(?)
> ingredients can give rise to such varied and more-ish products ! But I
> fear that I am totally offtopic now ! So I'll shut up,,,
Since when has being offtopic been a cause for shutting up in this
group? I've never made bread, I keep thinking about getting one of the
bread machines but truth is I don't eat it enough to justify it. Most
of the so-called bread in this country is rubbish anyway, unless it's
home made...
Chris C
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