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3 hours ago, BTRFTG said:

Kids today haven't lived.

Tuesdays (in the days when certain meat products arrived only on specific days) cycling home from school my mission was to pick up the faggot ingredients from the excellent butchers in West Street. All random sorts of offal plus the caul in which to wrap them. Into the hand grinder at home, wrapped as parcels and steaming hot for supper hours later with mushy peas.

Chitterlings, of course, were Thursdays from the pork butcher in North Street.

You can stick your quorn where the sun don't shine.

I have no idea whether chitterlings are still served in the UK, but they are readily available over here, where they are known as andouillette (often with veal intestines, rather than pork), and served with mashed potato and a mustard Source.

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5 hours ago, PHILINFRANCE said:

I have no idea whether chitterlings are still served in the UK, but they are readily available over here, where they are known as andouillette (often with veal intestines, rather than pork), and served with mashed potato and a mustard Source.

And very fine they are good Sir.

Best footy scran I've ever enjoyed is a toss-up between the offal brochette in Toulouse else the pissaladiere in Monaco.

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3 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

A post about the possible postponement of a football match due to adverse weather, has now evolved in to an in depth discussion on faggots, chitterlings and childhood local butchers...

Only on OTIB.

Was just about to post the same!

Weather is fine here this morning by the way ;) 

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4 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

A post about the possible postponement of a football match due to adverse weather, has now evolved in to an in depth discussion on faggots, chitterlings and childhood local butchers...

Only on OTIB.

True, but if local weather conditions were the sole interest, a quick glance at the weather forecast would suffice and the thread would not have reached a second page.

Black pudding is also very popular over here, served as a whole sausage with mashed potato and onion gravy.

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11 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

A post about the possible postponement of a football match due to adverse weather, has now evolved in to an in depth discussion on faggots, chitterlings and childhood local butchers...

Only on OTIB.

I haven’t had faggots for ages, I might have to go and buy some!

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3 minutes ago, elhombrecito said:

A post about the possible postponement of a football match due to adverse weather, has now evolved in to an in depth discussion on faggots, chitterlings and childhood local butchers...

Only on OTIB.

About to post exactly the same thought! 

And to add my bit to the faggot debate: my brother and I enjoyed them as kids and still like to reminisce. He married an American and has lived in the US for many years, Faggots are unknown to American cuisine so the word has only one meaning there and it’s pretty much equivalent to the N word. So the look of horror on my sister in laws face when me and my brother - and my Mum when she was alive - discuss them together is wonderful. 

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Just now, Dollymarie said:

That was yesterday, today is fine. I can post a pic of the view out my window if you want?

No need. Glad to hear though that the storm/s have not impacted any one. My mum lives on her own and its always worrying when you live over the other side of the world

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I’ve never had them, Adage Cutler sang about chitterlings, so they must be ok:

”Chitterling, chitterling, chitterling
Chitterling is all I crave
Fill me up with chitterling
Think of all the cash you'll save”

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12 hours ago, phantom said:

The weather isn't going to be world ending, we've all travelled somewhere in wet and windy conditions. 

Yesterday was clearly a bit more than “wet and windy” that we’ve all travelled in.

Not saying the game should be cancelled, I just said I was surprised it wasn’t. Could understand if games had been postponed for the weather

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55 minutes ago, Rocking Red Cyril said:

Yes weather sounds quiet from my bed. So time to get up, bath and organise my two grandsons for a trip down the gate and hopefully a nice 3 points 

Happy days- enjoy the afternoon with your grandsons ... 

Sadly I don't forsee 3 points - I'd take a point now as Boro are very strong.

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29 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said:

Food and weather.

Who else springs to mind bar mike fish!

Nothing to worry about he said.

By dinnertime we were dodging roof tiles.

I dont think weather was his forte.

Yes, I was driving the 24/25 bus to Lockleaze the next day after the 1987 hurricane and the roads were littered with broken roof tiles. never seen anything like it in my life.  I should have known though, as the day before a fence panel blew across in front of my bus and just missed it.  What a day that was, hope everyone is OK today and have not suffered any damage to their property or been hurt.  I suppose these storms have to be put down to global warming, although we have had the most snow this Winter since 2010/11 with barely a clear day since November, so we would like to see some global warming here.

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16 hours ago, Alan Dicks' Barmy Army said:

Completely unrelated to us

They are here, hundreds of flights safely flew today 

At last somebody sensible in this thread 

Nothing to do with distance, the problem is with St James' Park

Please tell me you were not actually being serious about this? 

The main celebration is tonight, tomorrow they just get presented to the crowd 

Why would there be? 

The storm has long passed, there are no problems at the ground, there is no problem with the weather tomorrow. 

I never cease to be amazed how our support get into such a frenzy about the weather impacting a game!! 

Whenever we have heavy rain or snow there's always a thread panicking about conditions, is it really that hard to realise what is actually happening out there? 

 

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Exeter are meant to be playing Barrow today, but their stand suffered damage on Friday, so they called the game off then to avoid a wasted journey for the visitors.  That was considerate of them, however, it means the rearranged fixture will now be one mid week evening. It's over 300 miles each way; how many visiting fans will turn up?

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52 minutes ago, EstoniaTallinnRed said:

Yes, I was driving the 24/25 bus to Lockleaze the next day after the 1987 hurricane and the roads were littered with broken roof tiles. never seen anything like it in my life.  I should have known though, as the day before a fence panel blew across in front of my bus and just missed it.  What a day that was, hope everyone is OK today and have not suffered any damage to their property or been hurt.  I suppose these storms have to be put down to global warming, although we have had the most snow this Winter since 2010/11 with barely a clear day since November, so we would like to see some global warming here.

It's called climate change now so they get a double sided coin to play with, it's really cold Oh! that's climate change, it's really hot Oh! that's climate change they can't lose.

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8 minutes ago, pillred said:

It's called climate change now so they get a double sided coin to play with, it's really cold Oh! that's climate change, it's really hot Oh! that's climate change they can't lose.

You won't find any climate scientist attributing a single storm to climate change. Indeed you will find plenty of quotes from the last few days stressing that point.

And climate and weather aren't the same thing.

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/13/whats-the-difference-between-weather-and-climate/

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32 minutes ago, Oh Louie louie said:

Would have been, the old city dart buses, then!

Went to wembley that year in one!

The depot on winterstoke road hired them out.

Yes, the old Mercs, I was based at Muller Road. mainly did the 8/9 24/25 71/72 services. 

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Unfortunately I can't remember where in East Bristol it was but in the early 80s, there was a chip shop that used to sell faggots, peas and gravy. We used to stop there on the way back from band practice in Bath.

Absolutely gorgeous with chips. Anyone know where it might have been?

 

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2 hours ago, Oh Louie louie said:

Food and weather.

Who else springs to mind bar mike fish!

Nothing to worry about he said.

By dinnertime we were dodging roof tiles.

I dont think weather was his forte.

And later he claimed he was addressing concerns from a woman living in the US. Yeah right nice try Mr "I got it very wrong" Fish.

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7 minutes ago, Norn Iron said:

Unfortunately I can't remember where in East Bristol it was but in the early 80s, there was a chip shop that used to sell faggots, peas and gravy. We used to stop there on the way back from band practice in Bath.

Absolutely gorgeous with chips. Anyone know where it might have been?

 

There used to be a chippy on Station road, Kingswood, just up the road from the Brains factory, that used to do that. Bloody lovely they were too! 

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6 minutes ago, richyy66 said:

They look like Brains ... Shame on you ?

I had the misfortune of picking up a tray of Brains when I was in Asda a few years back, I think it was a quid for four of them.

Haven't had faggots since. They were vile.

I only got them as I was feeling nostalgic for the food I had as a child and thought that Brains, peas and mash might be just the ticket.

It wasn't.

Still, I had a strawberry Super Mousse for afters.

That was shit as well.

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41 minutes ago, Bristol Rob said:

I had the misfortune of picking up a tray of Brains when I was in Asda a few years back, I think it was a quid for four of them.

Haven't had faggots since. They were vile.

I only got them as I was feeling nostalgic for the food I had as a child and thought that Brains, peas and mash might be just the ticket.

It wasn't.

Still, I had a strawberry Super Mousse for afters.

That was shit as well.

Did my work experience at Brains. Seeing & smelling the raw ingredients every day put me off for quite some time!

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2 hours ago, chinapig said:

You won't find any climate scientist attributing a single storm to climate change. Indeed you will find plenty of quotes from the last few days stressing that point.

And climate and weather aren't the same thing.

https://climate.nasa.gov/faq/13/whats-the-difference-between-weather-and-climate/

The point I'm making is that almost every kind of weather is now blamed on "climate change" the people that go on about it are in a position where they are always right they seem to want it both ways hotter colder wetter drier it's climate change, where as you point out it's weather and especially in this country it has been unpredictable since time began, we have been tropical covered in ice you name it at any one time, the hardest job in the world must be trying to predict what the weather will be like here more than 3 days in advance.

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8 minutes ago, pillred said:

The point I'm making is that almost every kind of weather is now blamed on "climate change" the people that go on about it are in a position where they are always right they seem to want it both ways hotter colder wetter drier it's climate change, where as you point out it's weather and especially in this country it has been unpredictable since time began, we have been tropical covered in ice you name it at any one time, the hardest job in the world must be trying to predict what the weather will be like here more than 3 days in advance.

Give it 10 years and when it doesn't hit the crazy temperatures as predicted, we will hear "that's because we did x 10 years ago", and then because it hasn't hit those giddy heights that were predicted, we will also hear "send more money as it's obviously working". A win win if you like, whilst some people will be making an absolute fortune from it, the manufactured Greta being one of them.

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