Slowlycatchymonkey

Flying saucers. Forgot about them. Used to love them. Parma violets I never bought but always had at Christmas because they were the sweets left over in the variety box that no-one else wanted so I have soft spot for those chalky perfumed lilac discs. I’m with Saul on the caramac, it’s one of the few I still buy along with bournville chocolate. Always think yuk this is too sweet but then buy it again anyway Used to love space dust and those little cardboard dice filled with powder. From the icecream van I liked those plastic cones that looked like upside down Darleks with the ball of chewing gum in the bottom. I think they were called screwballs? Woolworths was the best place for pick and mix.

They only mastered nitrate free cured meat in the last two or three years so unless it’s declared nitrate free it’s not. I’ve cured my own meat and fish so have an understanding of the chemicals you can use to denature proteins. Your meat is cured with saltpeter (saltpetre) which is a traditional curing process that is thousands of years old. Saltpeter is a nitrate. A highly toxic substance that is now rated up with smoking due to its carcinogenic effects. Look it up, you’re eating the same nasty stuff as the brits

Personally I like them all.

In the UK ham is any cured hind pork cut you then cook. 'Cured meat' is from any area drenched in awful sulphites presenting itself as antipasti.

lol explaining gammon to gammons

'Cured pork' would be a better approach. Cured ham is HAM and that needs boiling to death or slicing into gammon portions and frying otherwise the worms will make you blind ... or die

ps I don't mean anything that entices the OP into your vestry.

What are your favourite childhood sweets and what childish sweets do you like now?

Love hate relationship with them. I know they're crap, if sweet old ladies were compressed into sugary discs of powder this is what would make a Parma Violet and yet somehow like disgusting Turkish Delight I will voluntarily put that perfumey crap in my gob again at some point hoping for a different level of joy. For a super concentrated powdery sugar fix I prefer swizzles love hearts. I last had those over 10 years ago so in the main.. no thanks. Hmm this has peaked my curiosity. New thread arriving.

Sounds lovely. I hate walking but I'd walk that! Adding the rowing machine back into the mix with the yoga tomoz. Think it will be so horrible I'll wish I walked

You were bloody missed. Nearly gave up, these curmudgeonly ol' bastards lack of sunny dispositions is very apparent when you're not about

Wot you doing spouting all this common sense? You won’t last long here

Awesome shit. Happy to stumble on this.

Goddam I thought the same thing as Buckster

I’ll go where I can afford a 4 bed student house. Competitive drug dealing could be a selling point heyho heyho its off to crime we go, with a hoody n pick and a shovel of shit, heyho heyho heyho heyho Plus sounds like a bargain bike could be coming my way soon

Nope the people who use them were sent to f*ck with our heads.

Not possible, someone in authority has to judge you a risk!

Don’t tell Pete, you’ll get black listed

You might need this stack then! https://smile.amazon.co.uk/EVADOW-Management-Conceal-Extension-Organizer/dp/B08Y987PHH/?_encoding=UTF8&pd_rd_w=1qZcJ&content-id=amzn1.sym.ef3907ff-f91d-4263-9e4a-2471c52bf60e&pf_rd_p=ef3907ff-f91d-4263-9e4a-2471c52bf60e&pf_rd_r=D7MD2T0AJW4RJWJZD2M7&pd_rd_wg=B1yfi&pd_rd_r=d7b8c6f7-2197-4597-b57f-f18222f20677&ref_=pd_gw_ci_mcx_mr_hp_atf_m

I prefer a scruffy fecker to a neat freak, they do my head in!

@boboneleg just looking at houses in Bristol, fecking hell How much?! I mean HOOOWW MUCHHH?!! Ridiculous. Thought I'll have to look at Kingswood and Lawrence Weston, still ridiculous.

Difficult with a family to keep the spaghetti under control. Cable charging box https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B091KKYSM8/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 And table charger if your watch/EarPods/phone can charge wirelessly (somewhere else like accessible on the kitchen table). https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B099RMY971/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1 Has saved me a lot of pain and the arguments about who's taken who's lead stopped!

Paramount+ or you can pay for it on Amazon (the UK doesn't have HBO).

Sounds like bliss.

Yep If it ever turns up we'll see