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Nov 2023
12:34am, 16 Nov 2023
5,850 posts
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jelly
My mum used to make a date and walnut cake without the walnuts!
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Nov 2023
12:46am, 16 Nov 2023
1,739 posts
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Mark J
My mum used to make a date and walnut cake without the walnuts!
Good job too. Walnuts = devils food. Along with sweetcorn and celery.
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Nov 2023
6:41am, 16 Nov 2023
6,335 posts
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quimby
I read that with my distance contact lens in and thought you said walrus = devil's food.
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Nov 2023
8:00am, 16 Nov 2023
6,759 posts
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Oscar the Grouch
Just catching up...
Liebfraumilch too!
...which translates as milk of the free woman. Not quite so keen to drink it...
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Nov 2023
8:45am, 16 Nov 2023
64,997 posts
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LindsD
I actually think it's milk of Our Lady (i.e. Mary) which is worse imo
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Nov 2023
8:59am, 16 Nov 2023
1,740 posts
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Mark J
I read that with my distance contact lens in and thought you said walrus = devil's food.
Nah! Walrus is lovely, twice cooked like a land shank. Needs a bloody big oven, though.
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Nov 2023
9:02am, 16 Nov 2023
7,900 posts
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um
Doesn't it come with a free tooth pick?
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Nov 2023
9:05am, 16 Nov 2023
3,462 posts
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Fitz
I'm glad we're moving on to booze from biscuits. Biscuits are my downfall. If they didn't exist I would probably be 2 stones lighter. Or I would have invented biscuits and made my fortune.
Snowballs at Xmas: check. Just advocaat and lemonade, the former having been sat in the "drinks cabinet" (aka a side-cupboard in the sideboard) since the Xmas before and probably the Xmas before that.
Liebfraumilch: check. Horrible sweet sugary stuff that gave German / Alsace wines a bad name.
My dad's drink of choice in pubs was Light & Bitter - half a pint of keg bitter with a bottle of light ale on the side. Rotten stuff. I imagine my dad thought he was getting one over on The Man by getting more than a pint each time: beer glasses did not have pint / half measurement lines back then so the bitter was a half-pint "by eye," sweet-talk the barperson into pouring generously, add a 330ml bottle of light ale = more than a pint for the price of a pint!
My early forays into drinking were lager-shandies in the pub with my dad or the Snowballs / LFM at home. Once my mates and I started drinking in pubs it was mostly bitter - Courage Best or Directors, other brands that I have forgotten - and for some reason there was a mad brief fad for Pernod & blackcurrant. The indelible purple vomit stain from the latter was a permanent feature of my bedroom carpet for a few years...
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Nov 2023
9:08am, 16 Nov 2023
48,829 posts
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EvilPixie
wasn't there another German wine beginning with N?
we had AS as a treat at Christmas
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Nov 2023
9:17am, 16 Nov 2023
7,352 posts
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bigleggy
snakebite and black
That was called Diesel were I drank 
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