Are you on a diet?
No fried bread, tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, white pudding, fruit pudding, Lorne sausage, haggis, toast, butter and marmalade?
No kidneys?No kippers?
Are you on a diet?
No fried bread, tomatoes, mushrooms, black pudding, white pudding, fruit pudding, Lorne sausage, haggis, toast, butter and marmalade?
No kidneys?No kippers?
As a young subbie in 3RTR it was not usual on your first invitation from your Tp Sgt to his mess to be faced by half a pint of Creme de Menthe, on subsequent invitations you might even get a half pint of Creme de Menthe Frappe, happy daysDon't know why, but Stella always gave me a filthy splitting hangover, next day, even 1 pint included on a pub crawl, with other beers and lagers, and apart from getting absolutely shit- faced, I've never suffered bad heads.
Rather drink creme de menthe than that vile pi55.
Agreed Stella always produced a bad head.
Warsteiner - causes no hangover - it liquifies your brain which then drops out of your arse - ergo - no hangover.Grolsch, for headaches par excellence, first time, every time....
JB
But it would have to be consistently rubbish in order to brand and market it, unless you're just selling to the London supermarkets.I'm not sure of the veracity of this, but a friends brother was an engineer, who used to work in the food and drink industry.
He claims that all of the cheap ,smart price type lagers and ciders, are just the result of a massive vat of Fosters/Carling/Strongbow etc, that didn't quite make the grade.
It makes sense on two levels,
1. Who would throw away 20000 litres of slightly sub standard booze, and 2. Who would go out of their way to actively produce 20000 litres of slightly sub standard booze.
Shepherd Neame are canny in that way. They got early rights to make imported lagers, and they do them well.At Ashford in 1973, a friend and I discovered that a pub in nearby Westwell, had this new, amazing Stella on tap.
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Rather than gagging on Watneys Red Barrel in Ashford's places of amusement, we spent our squids there, and tried to keep it a Secret. Unfortunately, the tri-service component of JSIW also discovered it, so we had to share space with crabs and fishy people. The pilsner was fantastic, and the road back to Templer Bks relatively straight, but for a few bends and corners and things.
I'm not sure of the veracity of this, but a friends brother was an engineer, who used to work in the food and drink industry.
He claims that all of the cheap ,smart price type lagers and ciders, are just the result of a massive vat of Fosters/Carling/Strongbow etc, that didn't quite make the grade.
It makes sense on two levels,
1. Who would throw away 20000 litres of slightly sub standard booze, and 2. Who would go out of their way to actively produce 20000 litres of slightly sub standard booze.
Sounds about right. If you look at the small print, most “own brands” give it away. Aldi/Lidl go much further and just give the head office address, but an address is good. Anything in Burton is Marston’s plc, for example.In the other direction about thirty years ago we got a trip round the Charlie Wells brewery in Bedford. They had a batch of Red Stripe that couldn't be sold to the public as it was over strength so sold off to the brewery workers.
I don't know if it's still the case but Sainsbury's own brand bitter was simply relabeled Ruddles and the labels on most supermarket beers gave the game away as the brewer's address was put on them.
Nowadays they just have' Brewed for Tescos, Cheshunt' and the like.
I get that. I just think that what you pour down your neck and swallow through your gullet is important.@RangdoOfArg As Sainsburys at the time sold branded beers too, it may have been part of the contact to be ambiguous.
Cheshunt is Tescos head office so much the same approach as Lidls and the rest.
I'm not sure of the veracity of this, but a friends brother was an engineer, who used to work in the food and drink industry.
He claims that all of the cheap ,smart price type lagers and ciders, are just the result of a massive vat of Fosters/Carling/Strongbow etc, that didn't quite make the grade.
It makes sense on two levels,
1. Who would throw away 20000 litres of slightly sub standard booze, and 2. Who would go out of their way to actively produce 20000 litres of slightly sub standard booze.
Geeze you are a rambling drunk waster !I find that hard to believe to be honest. Fortunately, as non of the drinks mentioned make the grade, and are cheap nasty chemical aberrations, they won't be going near my mouth anyway.
I find that hard to believe to be honest. Fortunately, as non of the drinks mentioned make the grade, and are cheap nasty chemical aberrations, they won't be going near my mouth anyway.
I find that hard to believe to be honest. Fortunately, as non of the drinks mentioned make the grade, and are cheap nasty chemical aberrations, they won't be going near my mouth anyway.
Remember the advert for a certain brand?Faggot.....
Depends how many you have to feed doesnt it?Buying quality produce does not have to break the bank. Local farm stores, farmers markets and a good butchers can be very competative, pricewise.
I can't get proper Somerset cider or Somerset cheddar where I live, so I stock up when I go home. However that doesn't mean I can't get good cider and cheese where I live.
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Home - Connage Highland Dairy
www.connage.co.uk
Local meat and fish (especially) are excellent. I can quite happily survive without too much processed food and it isn't that much more expensive.