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Peter Corlett wrote: On 23 Sep 2009, at 14:11, Sue Spence wrote: [...] Humbug. Don't know why you don't get yourself a job up in Huddersfield, though. :-) You seem to have used the words job and Huddersfield in the same sentence without any irony :) I disagree -- irony in that sentence was so tick that you can cut it with a knife... ;) Cheers -- Luis Motta Campos is a software engineer, Perl Programmer, foodie and photographer.
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2009/10/6 Luis Motta Campos luismottacam...@yahoo.co.uk Peter Corlett wrote: On 23 Sep 2009, at 14:11, Sue Spence wrote: [...] Humbug. Don't know why you don't get yourself a job up in Huddersfield, though. :-) You seem to have used the words job and Huddersfield in the same sentence without any irony :) I disagree -- irony in that sentence was so tick that you can cut it with a knife... ;) Thank you, Luis. Furthermore I wouldn't have suggested it if I had thought there was even a hint of a whisper of ghost of a chance that he'd have taken up the suggestion. Even Huddersfield doesn't deserve that.
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For bonus points, convince them to buy Guinness... Sent from my iPhone On 29 Sep 2009, at 17:02, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@develooper.com wrote: and the world I overheard a couple talking about choosing between Miller and Budweiser beer. I wanted to scream!
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* Mark Blackman m...@blackmans.org [2009-09-29T11:39:39] On 29 Sep 2009, at 16:26, Ricardo Signes wrote: fairly choose between them. There is a large culture of beer appreciation here. ...but there's also a large culture of beer ignorance. Would you care to speculate on the ratio of those populations in the US? (and/or outside). (Please CC me on replies; I am not a subscriber and the last thing I need is more mailing lists!) I can speculate, but it's really hard to say. I divide the adult world into three groups: people who do not drink beer, people who drink beer but don't strive to get the best, and people who take beer seriously. I'd guess that about half the adults I know do not drink beer; that's including people who will drink a beer at a party if it is offered, but would never buy one or ask for one. So, among everyone else? Frankly, I have no evidence worth anything for doing science. (My previous half claim was also totally thin-aired.) I'd probably divide the populace in half, again, but say that there is a fuzzy area that eats into the beer lovers camp of people who drink beer, notice that some beer is better than other beer, but do not do much to learn what beer they like most or why they differ. These are people who will gladly fall in love with a new beer you show them, but will not go looking for new beer. So, 50/25/25 in the crap/complacent/connoisseur camps? Like I said, though, this is total bull. I bet there are interviews with craft brewers about their actual research out there, though. -- rjbs
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* Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org [2009-09-29T13:43:39] [Mmm, my copy of mutt won't put Ricardo in the Cc:, even with group reply, which is hateful, because I know he's not subscribed to the list] ! Maybe it's a sign and I should subscribe. On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:26:17AM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote: That said, my absolute favorite brewery, Victory, apparently supplies some places in London. I urge you to see if HopDevil is available near you. I imagine it will have suffered a bit from the trip, but it's a fantastic beer. Spitfire doesn't survive the trip to Denmark. I've not spotted Victory anywhere. I'll keep a lookout. Do not judge it harshly. I live 90 miles from the brewery and the difference in what I get from my local compared to what I get at the brewery pub is astounding. Do you mean happoshu, or Japanese rice-adjunct lagers? I've never had an Asian beer that I liked much, but I'd love to find one. I meant things like Asahi and similar, which Japanese restaurants in the UK tend to serve. I find them quite drinkable. Then again, I find Cobra drinkable with curry. But elsewhere, oh so bland. I've had a few Indian beers that were drinkable with dinner, but that I surely wouldn't order in any other context. As for Ovid's distaste for American IPA, I'll just have to hope he finds himself in my neck of the woods sometime. IPA is among my favored beers, and I think we have a number of really great ones -- although also a lot of over-hyped ones. Boulder Mojo and Sierra Nevada Torpedo are excellent. Sierra Nevada's regular IPA is nice, but definitely overrated. (HopDevil is often listed as an IPA, but this is madness. HopDevil is an ale, but other than that it pretty well stands alone.) -- rjbs
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2009/9/22 Matt Follett matt.foll...@gmail.com: On Mon, Sep 21, 2009 at 5:25 PM, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@develooper.comwrote: On Sep 21, 2009, at 15:16, Abigail wrote: Well, we (booking.com) are. But that unfortunally requires a relocation to (or near) Amsterdam, and I can't imagine anyone willing to do that. At solfo.com we hire skilled Perl people once in a while too, but we're even farther away! (Los Angeles; although only half of us are there) :-) We are hiring a Perl programmer and aren't as far as LA, but sadly, are as far as St. Louis, MO. Hah, I call your ridiculously long international commute, and raise you! We're looking to hire a Perl developer, in Melbourne, AU. (Hey, come on, it's almost summer; doesn't anyone want to come and play in the sun?) -Toby -- Turning and turning in the widening gyre The falcon cannot hear the falconer Things fall apart; the center cannot hold Mere anarchy is loosed upon the world
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Abigail wrote: Me, I don't have a preference. I find anyone drinking alcohol a baboon. ;-) No anyone who has consumed enough alky starts acting like a chimp. Jacqui
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2009/9/30 Jacqui Caren jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com: Abigail wrote: Me, I don't have a preference. I find anyone drinking alcohol a baboon. ;-) No anyone who has consumed enough alky starts acting like a chimp. I feel I'm more likely to act like a sloth (okay then, more like a sloth than usual). Just fall asleep somewhere handy.
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Jacqui Caren wrote: Abigail wrote: Me, I don't have a preference. I find anyone drinking alcohol a baboon. ;-) No anyone who has consumed enough alky starts acting like a chimp. I have video to prove that this isn't true, although I would not like to be definite about exactly which species of ape.
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:18:15AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On the other hand, the Japanese managed to make decent lager from rice. [citation needed] How come America can't? I would have thought that the general shitty state of US beer was more due to prohibition shutting down all the small brewers - a situation that is now being fixed as more small brewers spring into existence. The same happened, to a smaller extent, in the UK - vast numbers of small breweries closed or got bought and merged by larger brewcos, leading to Watneys Red Barrel, Double Diamond, and the creation of CAMRA. -- David Cantrell | top google result for topless karaoke murders Did you know that shotguns taste like candy canes? Put the barrel in your mouth and pull the trigger for an extra blast of minty goodness!
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 11:26:17AM -0400, Ricardo Signes wrote: Even a fair bar has a number of good beers on tap, though, and they're almost always all American. I think that we Yanks who like our great American beer would love to share knowledge of it with the rest of the world -- but it's mostly produced by local concerns who don't make enough to supply the world. That said, my absolute favorite brewery, Victory, apparently supplies some places in London. I urge you to see if HopDevil is available near you. See http://london.randomness.org.uk/wiki.cgi?Category_American_Beer You will notice that four out of five are south of the river, demonstrating beyond a shadow of a doubt that northerners are appallingly closed-minded and ignorant, believing that the best the US has to offer is Coors. -- David Cantrell | Enforcer, South London Linguistic Massive When a man is tired of London, he is tired of life -- Samuel Johnson
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On Sep 30, 2009, at 9:19 AM, David Cantrell wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:18:15AM +0100, Nicholas Clark wrote: On the other hand, the Japanese managed to make decent lager from rice. [citation needed] The problem with Japanese lagers is that they're generally quite bland - Kirin, Sapporo and Echigo Koshihikari all fall into that category. That said, I do quite like the Echigo with sushi when I'm not in a Sake mood. On the other hand, there are a few fantastic Japanese ales made with rice. No idea if you'll find them anywhere in London, but Hitachino Nest Red Rice Ale and Hitachino Nest Japanese Classic Ale are both fantastic. Some Whole Foods stock them in the US, so you might be able to get hold of them in a Fresh and Wild somewhere. How come America can't? I would have thought that the general shitty state of US beer was more due to prohibition shutting down all the small brewers - a situation that is now being fixed as more small brewers spring into existence. I'd actually go so far as to say it *has* been fixed - loads of small craft brewers have sprung up or expanded in the 5 years I've been living here, to the point where my first task in any new city is to seek out a liquor store and see what the local microbrew scene is like. This coming from someone who was convinced that he'd never have a decent beer again when he first moved Stateside. And the fact that Sierra Nevada is now large enough to export a significant amount of beer outside the US is... well... generally a good thing (although, personally, they're not my favourite; they have a worrying tendency to over-hop, and I think the beer in general suffers a little from the scale it's now being brewed at). For me, though, the ultimate sign of Real Beer Victory in the US is the fact that Anheuser-Busch felt threatened enough to develop Budweiser American Ale, a faux-craft-ale that, whilst still revolting swill, is slightly less awful than their usual pisswater, and at least acknowledges the idea that there is, in fact, a world beyond pisswater. sb
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:40:30AM -0700, Simon Batistoni said: This coming from someone who was convinced that he'd never have a decent beer again when he first moved Stateside. Mr Batistoni had done much of the pioneering, trail blazing work for me when I moved out to SF including introducing me to the fantastic Toronados (and the adjacent Rosamunde's sausage shop) with its bevy of fantastic microbrews and Belgian ales. That said, whilst I do love certain American beers my major complaint is that their IPAs are nothing like our IPAs. Not to say I don't like 'their' style but quite often they tend to be almost too hoppy and they're still quite fizzy and I find my self craving a pint of Hen or Pride - something nutty and not as gaseous. The Mad Dog In The Fog, opposite Toronaos does have Pride on tap but it's inexplicably nitrokegged which renders it almost undrinkable. Fortunately Whole Foods, for all their other sins, have a large and decent selection of bottled British beers from Youngs (inc Double Chocolate Stout) and Fullers to St Peters and Sam Smiths and even Black Sheep, Badger and Wychwood. All that said - given a choice between a pint of Directors and a pint of Anchor Steam or Sierra Pale Ale during lunch up in the mountains during ski season I'd go for the American beers everytime.
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On 26/09/2009 21:40, Billy Abbott wrote: Assuming we're not referring to fried email, than the answer is yes. http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=254168 That assumes you live in Hawaii, of course. The Hawaiian love of Spam has scared me since I heard of it. It should scare you; I've heard a theory that Spam is popular in the Pacific islands because it tastes similar to... more traditional meats that they can't eat any more. S
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SC == Simon Cozens si...@simon-cozens.org writes: SC On 26/09/2009 21:40, Billy Abbott wrote: Assuming we're not referring to fried email, than the answer is yes. http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=254168 That assumes you live in Hawaii, of course. The Hawaiian love of Spam has scared me since I heard of it. SC It should scare you; I've heard a theory that Spam is popular in the SC Pacific islands because it tastes similar to... more traditional meats SC that they can't eat any more. too bad, the real answer is more mundane. spam was invented (if you can use that word) for the US army in ww2 and was the c (or k?) ration - meat in a can. it was of course ubiqitous in hawaii during the war as there was a massive military presence there. it became a cheap source of meat for the locals as well as the military. so spam became an accepted and now popular part of the food culture there. this is also true for other asian islands and countries (at least according to wikipedia). and for you brits, spam was about the only non-rationed meat during the war so you have likely some dna in you created from spam molecules your ancestors ate! the monty python spam song was based on the mass of spam eaten in the war and offered on menus. uri
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- Original Message From: Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com SC It should scare you; I've heard a theory that Spam is popular in the SC Pacific islands because it tastes similar to... more traditional meats SC that they can't eat any more. too bad, the real answer is more mundane. spam was invented (if you can use that word) for the US army in ww2 and was the c (or k?) ration - meat in a can. it was of course ubiqitous in hawaii during the war as there was a massive military presence there. That's the same reason so many Americans like piss, er, rice lagers. Due to grain rationing in WWII, rice was often substituted for barley. It results in a much weaker, watery beer with no flavor and Americans seemed to forget that beer can actually taste good. Heck, I learned to *like* Diet Coke after drinking enough of it. I have no taste, either. This is the gustatorial equivalent to if you lie often enough, people will start to believe it (the *real* Fox News motto).. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:06:32AM -0700, Ovid wrote: That's the same reason so many Americans like piss, er, rice lagers. Due to grain rationing in WWII, rice was often substituted for barley. It results in a much weaker, watery beer with no flavor and Americans seemed to forget that beer can actually taste good. Heck, I learned to *like* Diet Coke after drinking enough of it. I have no taste, either. That's what you say. I think that this is just a large Yankee conspiracy to make the rest of the beer-appreciating world think that there is no decent beer in America. This way America can keep the good stuff to itself, because no-one realises that they need to get upset because it's not exported. (I think that the Danes adopt the same policy, and the Germans do for wine) On the other hand, the Japanese managed to make decent lager from rice. How come America can't? Nicholas Clark
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2009/9/29 Uri Guttman u...@stemsystems.com SC == Simon Cozens si...@simon-cozens.org writes: SC On 26/09/2009 21:40, Billy Abbott wrote: Assuming we're not referring to fried email, than the answer is yes. http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=254168 That assumes you live in Hawaii, of course. The Hawaiian love of Spam has scared me since I heard of it. SC It should scare you; I've heard a theory that Spam is popular in the SC Pacific islands because it tastes similar to... more traditional meats SC that they can't eat any more. Chortle. too bad, the real answer is more mundane.[...] Bloody Vikings!
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 10:18:35AM +0100, b...@textor.com wrote: This email address is no longer active. Please check the website www.textor.com for our contact details. Well, clearly someone's software doesn't grasp Precedence: list, envelope from, or subjects starting Re: . (Yes, I have chosen to effectively waste 850 subscribers' time by replying to this message, because I want to draw everyone's attention to this, so that they don't screw up this way themselves. Autoresponders to lists, of any form, do not a good advertisement make.) Nicholas Clark PS Magic pixies acted upon the inferred unsubscribe request. No beer was harmed in the manufacture of this message.
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2009/9/29 Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org On the other hand, the Japanese managed to make decent lager from rice. How come America can't? That's easy. The Japanese *know* rice.
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On 29 Sep 2009, at 10:31, Nicholas Clark wrote: [...] (Yes, I have chosen to effectively waste 850 subscribers' time by replying to this message, because I want to draw everyone's attention to this, so that they don't screw up this way themselves. Autoresponders to lists, of any form, do not a good advertisement make.) ... especially autoresponders which send to the From: or Reply-To: address instead of the envelope sender, which should (eventually) unsubscribe the address. The various email RFCs are freely-available and easy to read. Why don't people bother?
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On 29 Sep 2009, at 09:13, Uri Guttman wrote: [...] the monty python spam song was based on the mass of spam eaten in the war and offered on menus. I understand the sketch is actually a parody of there being *chips* with everything on cafe menus. Spam was substituted to make the whole thing more surreal and funny. Certainly, you'll have a hard time finding a greasy spoon that sells spam, but it's even more of a challenge to find one that doesn't do chips.
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* Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org [2009-09-29T05:18:15] On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 02:06:32AM -0700, Ovid wrote: That's the same reason so many Americans like piss, er, rice lagers. Due to grain rationing in WWII, rice was often substituted for barley. It results in a much weaker, watery beer with no flavor and Americans seemed to forget that beer can actually taste good. Heck, I learned to *like* Diet Coke after drinking enough of it. I have no taste, either. That's what you say. I think that this is just a large Yankee conspiracy to make the rest of the beer-appreciating world think that there is no decent beer in America. This way America can keep the good stuff to itself, because no-one realises that they need to get upset because it's not exported. I suppose that as a Yank, I can't properly dismiss this theory, but I'll try. We have some totally amazing beer here. My favorite beers are all American, and I've had enough good British, Irish, and European beer to feel like I can fairly choose between them. There is a large culture of beer appreciation here. ...but there's also a large culture of beer ignorance. It's 11:18 here, local time, and the guy across the aisle from me on this motor coach just finished drinking a pint can of Busch, a horrible beer in the family known as American adjunct lagers. The adjunct in question is, yeah, rice. These are the beers that America is infamous for in the rest of the world, and rightly so: they're ubiquitous and awful. A crappy bar will always serve Miller, Busch, Bud, and Molson. Maybe there will be one or two local beers of random quality. Locally, you will *always* find Yuengling Lager. If you say, gimme a lager, you get that. It's actually beer (unlike Busch) but it's not great. Even a fair bar has a number of good beers on tap, though, and they're almost always all American. I think that we Yanks who like our great American beer would love to share knowledge of it with the rest of the world -- but it's mostly produced by local concerns who don't make enough to supply the world. That said, my absolute favorite brewery, Victory, apparently supplies some places in London. I urge you to see if HopDevil is available near you. I imagine it will have suffered a bit from the trip, but it's a fantastic beer. (I think that the Danes adopt the same policy, and the Germans do for wine) On the other hand, the Japanese managed to make decent lager from rice. How come America can't? Do you mean happoshu, or Japanese rice-adjunct lagers? I've never had an Asian beer that I liked much, but I'd love to find one. -- rjbs
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On 29 Sep 2009, at 16:26, Ricardo Signes wrote: fairly choose between them. There is a large culture of beer appreciation here. ...but there's also a large culture of beer ignorance. Would you care to speculate on the ratio of those populations in the US? (and/or outside).
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On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:26, Ricardo Signes wrote: ...but there's also a large culture of beer ignorance. Once at the local Beverages and More[1] where they have hundreds of different beers from around the country and the world I overheard a couple talking about choosing between Miller and Budweiser beer. I wanted to scream! - ask [1] http://www.bevmo.com/ - the and more part of the name is really just to make it sound like a store name. Beverages would be more accurate.
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On 30 Sep 2009, at 00:23, Paul Makepeace wrote: On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 9:02 AM, Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@develooper.com wrote: On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:26, Ricardo Signes wrote: ...but there's also a large culture of beer ignorance. Once at the local Beverages and More[1] where they have hundreds of different beers from around the country and the world I overheard a couple talking about choosing between Miller and Budweiser beer. I wanted to scream! What's with targeting Americans here? There's no shortage of ignorance on the subject the world over. I see people buying Heineken all the time, f'rinstance. Last time I was in NY, I hit a few bars trying to find *anything* local and they were all proud of their fine imported European beers. Like Heineken, Kronie, Amstel... Twats. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
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2009/9/29 Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@develooper.com On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:26, Ricardo Signes wrote: ...but there's also a large culture of beer ignorance. Once at the local Beverages and More[1] where they have hundreds of different beers from around the country and the world I overheard a couple talking about choosing between Miller and Budweiser beer. I wanted to scream! What the real ale fetishists and general beer nerds here like to forget it is just how well that American Budweiser stuff appears to sell in England. I see people drinking it *all the time* and when it first started getting a foothold back in the '90s I had thought the fad might blow over. Whatever -- if people want to drink it, let 'em. http://company.monster.co.uk/anheuseruk/ The UK The UK is Anheuser-Busch's second-largest market outside the United States. The UK market is managed by Anheuser-Busch Europe Ltd; a fully autonomous business unit within Anheuser-Busch International. Head office functions are based at Thames Link House, Richmond and brewing is carried out by Anheuser-Busch brewmasters at the Budweiser Stag Brewery in Mortlake. Brewing Budweiser locally helps meet the strong demand for Budweiser in the UK. *The *
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Sue Spence wrote: 2009/9/29 Ask Bjørn Hansen a...@develooper.com On Sep 29, 2009, at 8:26, Ricardo Signes wrote: ...but there's also a large culture of beer ignorance. Once at the local Beverages and More[1] where they have hundreds of different beers from around the country and the world I overheard a couple talking about choosing between Miller and Budweiser beer. I wanted to scream! What the real ale fetishists and general beer nerds here like to forget it is just how well that American Budweiser stuff appears to sell in England. I see people drinking it *all the time* and when it first started getting a foothold back in the '90s I had thought the fad might blow over. Whatever -- if people want to drink it, let 'em. ooo this could yet morph into serious philosophy / anthropology if we aren't careful. Question: why do so many (british/possibly english) people drink so much tasteless (bland?), yet reasonably alcoholic beer? What is it about the good stuff that seems to put most people (a category which probably excludes nearly everyone on this list) off drinking it. Please don't say oh if only they would try it and they would change their mind because we / Camra went through that phase in the 1980s / early 1990s. We and they have come out the other side and are watching the year on year decline of mainstream, nationally (or even just regionally) available real beer that tastes of something. Even saying oh people have moved over to lager isn't enough, because if you give them decent lager (say real Belgian/German/Czech stuff), they won't touch it. They stick to the bland/sweet rubbish. Don't blame the brewers, they will keep producing the stuff if they can sell it. They can't, and brew after decent brew is disappearing. Dirk
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On Tue, Sep 29, 2009 at 07:32:19PM +0100, Dirk Koopman wrote: What is it about the good stuff that seems to put most people (a category which probably excludes nearly everyone on this list) off drinking it. Tastes take training. Bitter tastes in particular are something that need to be acquired. If you've grown up on hypersweetened everything, that's harder. If you don't know other people who are drinking bitter things, and indeed if drinking bitter things will get you looked on as a weirdo, why bother? R
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2009/9/29 Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk: Question: why do so many (british/possibly english) people drink so much tasteless (bland?), yet reasonably alcoholic beer? Advertising marketing budgets that, combined across all the large brewers of mainstream lagers, easily stretch into the hundreds of millions of pounds. Iain
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Iain Tatch wrote: 2009/9/29 Dirk Koopman d...@tobit.co.uk: Question: why do so many (british/possibly english) people drink so much tasteless (bland?), yet reasonably alcoholic beer? Advertising marketing budgets that, combined across all the large brewers of mainstream lagers, easily stretch into the hundreds of millions of pounds. Nope, that is a cop out. There is still perfectly good stuff out there brewed by the majors that is not being drunk. Crucially, they see it declining and, if asked, their customers seem to agree. Yet the horrible stuff, their customers like it and are buying more of it. What do you expect them to do? What would you do in their position?
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On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 12:37:10AM +0800, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: Last time I was in NY, I hit a few bars trying to find *anything* local and they were all proud of their fine imported European beers. Like Heineken, Kronie, Amstel... Twats. Discussing beer isn't any different from discussing computer languages, is it? Anyone drinking a beer/using a language you don't like is a baboon. Me, I don't have a preference. I find anyone drinking alcohol a baboon. ;-) Abigail
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Thanks James. I'm going to have to move to bloody London aren't I? :) You could be the single solitary perl coder who volunteers to work at BBC North ... Oi, that's my slot!
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David Cantrell wrote: Counter-example: strawberries, which are sweet, go really well with black pepper and a splash of elderflower vinegar. Hmm steak, watermelon and strawberries :-) Ok in the mid-west at the peak of summer do you really want to be eating hot veg? Steak and strawbs Hmmm. Jacqu
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2009/9/27 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com - Original Message From: Billy Abbott bi...@cowfish.org.uk The Hawaiian love of Spam has scared me since I heard of it. Then I saw these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi Hawaii is one of the most fearsome places in the world. Given that the one time in my life I was homeless was in Hawaii, I have to agree. It's a far scarier place than people know ... unless they're a tourist and have plenty of cash on hand. Did the shelters serve spam? Or was the lack of spam a problem? * trying to keep this thread on topic *
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Ovid wrote: --- On Fri, 25/9/09, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: From: Smylers smyl...@stripey.com So does the existence of Spam fritters imply that Spam is innocuous and free of social stigma? Assuming we're not referring to fried email, than the answer is yes. http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=254168 That assumes you live in Hawaii, of course. The Hawaiian love of Spam has scared me since I heard of it. Then I saw these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi Hawaii is one of the most fearsome places in the world. --billy -- http://billyabbott.co.uk
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James Laver wrote: Frankly, if you don't want to drink your vinegar, it's not fit for your food. Hie thee to a flavor-tripping party: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Miracle_fruit I've got a small bag of freeze dried powdered Miracle Fruit in the fridge and a bottle of white wine vinegar sitting unused in the cupboard. Maybe, just maybe... --billy -- http://billyabbott.co.uk
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- Original Message From: Billy Abbott bi...@cowfish.org.uk The Hawaiian love of Spam has scared me since I heard of it. Then I saw these: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spam_musubi Hawaii is one of the most fearsome places in the world. Given that the one time in my life I was homeless was in Hawaii, I have to agree. It's a far scarier place than people know ... unless they're a tourist and have plenty of cash on hand. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
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Some people seem to just like interviewing candidates. Probably makes them feel like they're doing something useful, perhaps, or something... -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.rfi.net/ On Monday 21 September 2009 16:51:37 James Laver wrote: On 21 Sep 2009, at 15:11, Dominic Thoreau wrote: LOVEFiLM is powered by Perl and we are hiring. (I don't work for them - although I did try at one stage) Lovefilm have been hiring for what seems like decades. Most of london.pm have been there and few have gone very far and it's certainly not for a lack of talent in london.pm
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:37 PM, Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com wrote: --- On Thu, 24/9/09, James Laver james.la...@gmail.com wrote: From: James Laver james.la...@gmail.com It's [Scunthorpe] a chav-filled hateful shithole and there is absolutely nothing going for it. Come to think of it, I can't even think of a decent pub in the whole town. Oddly, one of my friends is from there. He has hair well past his shoulders, always wears Iron Maiden t-shirts, has an Iron Maiden tattoo running down one arm and drinks like a fish. He has an accent so thick (I'm told it's even thicker than other scunts), that even his British friends have trouble understanding him. Y'see, when I met him, I didn't think his accent was particularly incomprehensible. Possibly playing up the yorkshireness a little, but nothing too bad
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Richard Foley wrote: Some people seem to just like interviewing candidates. Probably makes them feel like they're doing something useful, perhaps, or something... Never understood this - interviewing is hard work - and you only seem to do it when you are already short handed! :-) Also the last time we had a hunt, we had a lot of very skilled people (whose egos would have never fitted in) but ended up with someone with no real perl skills but he picked perl up in no time and left a year or two ago and is now the perl expert in his new job! Jacqui
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Yours sounds like a success story (one more Perl person too :) And I couldn't agree more with your sentiment, it's the right people you need, not the ability to quote from the man page. After all that's why it's there: to RTFM ;-) -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.rfi.net/ On Friday 25 September 2009 09:32:18 Jacqui Caren wrote: Richard Foley wrote: Some people seem to just like interviewing candidates. Probably makes them feel like they're doing something useful, perhaps, or something... Never understood this - interviewing is hard work - and you only seem to do it when you are already short handed! :-) Also the last time we had a hunt, we had a lot of very skilled people (whose egos would have never fitted in) but ended up with someone with no real perl skills but he picked perl up in no time and left a year or two ago and is now the perl expert in his new job! Jacqui
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On 24/09/2009 12:37, Ovid wrote: one of my friends [...] always wears Iron Maiden t-shirts, has an Iron Maiden tattoo Well at least he has good taste in music. :-) I saw a youngster at the skatepark the other day wearing a Number of the Beast T-Shirt. I was about to tell him that I once slept (well, drunk beer) outside Hammersmith Odeon all night to get a front-row seat for the Beast on the Road Tour. But then I realised that this must have happened at least 10 years before he was born and I suddenly felt rather old... A
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 10:22, Andy Wardley a...@wardley.org wrote: To: publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com, London.pm Perl M[ou]ngers london.pm@london.pm.org What's that when it's at home? Cheers, Philip -- Philip Newton philip.new...@gmail.com
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On 25 Sep 2009, at 01:27, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] Oh god, don't. I shall be touring with a band in early November and whilst the first two dates are civilised: London and Oxford, but from then on we're in arse-ends like Sheffield, Excellent drinking: I recommend the Devonshire Cat, Fat Cat, Dove and Rainbow, and possibly the Red Deer. The Winter Garden is worth an amble through. Nottingham, The Trip to Jerusalem pub is an interesting historic building, although the beer is merely adequate and you'd be better off going to the Saluation Inn round the corner. Nottingham Castle is nice to wander around. It's otherwise a fairly dull city, which is why I left at age 18 and never looked back. Stoke and heaven forbid, Glasgow. I can't say that Stoke appeals, but I really do want to visit Glasgow one day to see if people really do eat deep-fried Mars bars, or whether they were invented to wind up the English.
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:28:12AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: I can't say that Stoke appeals, but I really do want to visit Glasgow one day to see if people really do eat deep-fried Mars bars, or whether they were invented to wind up the English. Both. They were invented as a joke to sell to tourists, but now they sell to the more-easily-led locals too.
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2009/9/25 Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk: On 25 Sep 2009, at 01:27, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] snip Stoke and heaven forbid, Glasgow. I can't say that Stoke appeals, but I really do want to visit Glasgow one day to see if people really do eat deep-fried Mars bars, or whether they were invented to wind up the English. oh aye, thats a good yin. aah suppose its awll in hoo ya frame the question, no? you would find Gla city centre ( in fact all over) full of excellent supplies of excellent beer :) mart.
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Roger Burton West wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:28:12AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: I can't say that Stoke appeals, but I really do want to visit Glasgow one day to see if people really do eat deep-fried Mars bars, or whether they were invented to wind up the English. Both. They were invented as a joke to sell to tourists, but now they sell to the more-easily-led locals too. Our local chippy does them. A good friend of the family is mars bar crazy (a chocoholic) and Paul got him one when we had a chippy supper a while back. He *loved* it! My fave is deep fried bannana/plantain. Jacqui
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Surely when it's something innocuous like plantain, we call it a 'fritter' and the social stigma is taken away? --James Sent from my android phone, please forgive my brevity. On Sep 25, 2009 1:05 PM, Jacqui Caren jacqui.ca...@ntlworld.com wrote: Roger Burton West wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:28:12AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: I c... Our local chippy does them. A good friend of the family is mars bar crazy (a chocoholic) and Paul got him one when we had a chippy supper a while back. He *loved* it! My fave is deep fried bannana/plantain. Jacqui
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James Laver writes: Surely when it's something innocuous like plantain, we call it a 'fritter' and the social stigma is taken away? So does the existence of Spam fritters imply that Spam is innocuous and free of social stigma? Smylers
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--- On Fri, 25/9/09, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: From: Smylers smyl...@stripey.com So does the existence of Spam fritters imply that Spam is innocuous and free of social stigma? Assuming we're not referring to fried email, than the answer is yes. http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=254168 That assumes you live in Hawaii, of course. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
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Ovid writes: --- On Fri, 25/9/09, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: From: Smylers smyl...@stripey.com So does the existence of Spam fritters imply that Spam is innocuous and free of social stigma? Assuming we're not referring to fried email, Mmmm, fried e-mail ... than the answer is yes. http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=254168 That assumes you live in Hawaii, of course. Seems an entirely reasonable assumption for London.pm. Smylers
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On 25 Sep 2009, at 18:28, Peter Corlett wrote: I can't say that Stoke appeals, but I really do want to visit Glasgow one day to see if people really do eat deep-fried Mars bars, or whether they were invented to wind up the English. Careful. In danger of giving the Dutch the culinary high ground here. Which in Holland, isn't very high. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
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On 25 Sep 2009, at 16:18, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] Careful. In danger of giving the Dutch the culinary high ground here. Which in Holland, isn't very high. Deep-fried Mars bars still have the edge on kroketten.
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On 25/9/09 16:47, Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Sep 2009, at 16:18, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] Careful. In danger of giving the Dutch the culinary high ground here. Which in Holland, isn't very high. Deep-fried Mars bars still have the edge on kroketten. My wife loves those things, esp. out of vending machine/kitchen places at Schiphol Den Haag. Mind you, she is Dutch. S.
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Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Sep 2009, at 16:18, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] Careful. In danger of giving the Dutch the culinary high ground here. Which in Holland, isn't very high. Deep-fried Mars bars still have the edge on kroketten. Really? I wonder what DFMBs taste like with mustard?
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On 26 Sep 2009, at 00:06, Simon Wilcox wrote: On 25/9/09 16:47, Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Sep 2009, at 16:18, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] Careful. In danger of giving the Dutch the culinary high ground here. Which in Holland, isn't very high. Deep-fried Mars bars still have the edge on kroketten. My wife loves those things, esp. out of vending machine/kitchen places at Schiphol Den Haag. Mind you, she is Dutch. Circular reference then. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
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Stir fried spam, a selection of veg with a nice Thai sauce and noodles makes a quick,warm and very tasty meal for 1...n people. A good standy to keep as an emergency in the store cupboard along with a few packs of frozen vegetables like peas,sweetcorn,carrots, beans,etc. So you can stay a healthy Perl programmer. Visual Basic programmers leave out the veg. Haskell programmers add salmon or tuna. Andrew in Edinburgh 2009/9/25 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com --- On Fri, 25/9/09, Smylers smyl...@stripey.com wrote: From: Smylers smyl...@stripey.com So does the existence of Spam fritters imply that Spam is innocuous and free of social stigma? Assuming we're not referring to fried email, than the answer is yes. http://www.kare11.com/news/news_article.aspx?storyid=254168 That assumes you live in Hawaii, of course. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/http://use.perl.org/%7EOvid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
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On 25 Sep 2009, at 17:22, Dirk Koopman wrote: Peter Corlett wrote: [...] Deep-fried Mars bars still have the edge on kroketten. Really? I wonder what DFMBs taste like with mustard? Given that they're sweet, I expect it'd be worse than without. More appropriate condiments might be sugar, raspberry syrup, or if you want to scare onlookers, tomato ketchup.
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 06:03:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Sep 2009, at 17:22, Dirk Koopman wrote: Peter Corlett wrote: Deep-fried Mars bars still have the edge on kroketten. Really? I wonder what DFMBs taste like with mustard? Given that they're sweet, I expect it'd be worse than without. Counter-example: strawberries, which are sweet, go really well with black pepper and a splash of elderflower vinegar. -- David Cantrell | Nth greatest programmer in the world Guns aren't the problem. People who deserve to die are the problem.
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:02 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 06:03:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Sep 2009, at 17:22, Dirk Koopman wrote: Peter Corlett wrote: Deep-fried Mars bars still have the edge on kroketten. Really? I wonder what DFMBs taste like with mustard? Given that they're sweet, I expect it'd be worse than without. Counter-example: strawberries, which are sweet, go really well with black pepper and a splash of elderflower vinegar. A local (SF) delicacy: maple bacon donuts, salted licorice ice-cream, and bacon peanut brittle. Latter is practically crack.
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Paul Makepeace wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 12:02 PM, David Cantrell da...@cantrell.org.uk wrote: On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 06:03:24PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Sep 2009, at 17:22, Dirk Koopman wrote: Peter Corlett wrote: Deep-fried Mars bars still have the edge on kroketten. Really? I wonder what DFMBs taste like with mustard? Given that they're sweet, I expect it'd be worse than without. Counter-example: strawberries, which are sweet, go really well with black pepper and a splash of elderflower vinegar. A local (SF) delicacy: maple bacon donuts, salted licorice ice-cream, and bacon peanut brittle. Latter is practically crack. All of which are either Dutch or Scandinavian in origin. And so round we go again...
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On Fri, Sep 25, 2009 at 11:28:12AM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: On 25 Sep 2009, at 01:27, Dave Hodgkinson wrote: [...] Oh god, don't. I shall be touring with a band in early November and whilst the first two dates are civilised: London and Oxford, but from then on we're in arse-ends like Sheffield, Excellent drinking: I recommend the Devonshire Cat, Fat Cat, Dove and Rainbow, and possibly the Red Deer. The Winter Garden is worth an amble through. +1 on the Fat Cat - most excellent beers and the Purple Haze was gorgeous last time it was on. Nottingham, The Trip to Jerusalem pub is an interesting historic building, although the beer is merely adequate and you'd be better off going to the Saluation Inn round the corner. Nottingham Castle is nice to wander around. The Pit and Pendulum - I never drank the beer there but did try one or two of their seven deadly sins. snip
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On 25 Sep 2009, at 20:02, David Cantrell wrote: Counter-example: strawberries, which are sweet, go really well with black pepper and a splash of elderflower vinegar. And they go well with Balsamic vinegar too, it's one of my strange favourites. Although I *have* been known to drink small glasses of vinegar. Frankly, if you don't want to drink your vinegar, it's not fit for your food. --James
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2009/9/24 Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk On 24 Sep 2009, at 00:58, Sue Spence wrote: [...] Does this mean that Huddersfield is in fact somewhere you'd like to relocate to? I had only picked it because the name sounds like naughty cow parts. Come on, is that the best you could do when there is Penistone just down the road :) Gosh no. If I had wanted to move the conversation in that direction, I'd've suggested Sc**thorpe. Huddersfield is a satellite town of the Leeds/Bradford conurbation. It's a fairly stereotypical grim Northern town. I'm sure it must have some appeal, but not to me. Not when there is Manchester or Leeds nearby. Awww, Huddersfield has a lot of character for an old mill town, and a surprising amount of charm IMO. It also has a working Tardis, which the Dr is kindly letting the police use(*). J-L. Picard makes a point of visiting regularly as well, though nobody has actually seen the Enterprise at the same time (unless they were watching tv). Real ale is plentiful. The train station is an architectural gem (grade I listed) with a tasteful statue of Harold Wilson in the plaza in front. It's hardly Venice (or even Skipton) but the canals and mill redevelopment set it off nicely in certain spots. I won't be moving there from North Yorkshire anytime soon but Leeds and Manchester are definitely further down my own personal list of 'places I'd consider living in'. :-) (*) http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_yorkshire/8111364.stm
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 01:06:51AM +0100, Sue Spence wrote: 2009/9/23 Lesley lesl...@herlug.org.uk And I have been to Amsters from time to time but never work related. Last time I went a travelling companion was most distressed at the price of baked beans. Heinz baked beans cost a fortune over there. That's so strange, isn't it? You'd think they were imported or something. Has HP sauce got cheaper in The Netherlands in the past couple of years? Nicholas Clark
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Has HP sauce got cheaper in The Netherlands in the past couple of years? Huh. Wikipedia claims production was moved to Elst, The Netherlands in 2007. One would expect it to show up in Dutch shops, in that case ... (More precisely, Elst for Europe, and North York, Ontario for Canada). -- Jurgen Pletinckx
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Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: Has HP sauce got cheaper in The Netherlands in the past couple of years? Huh. Wikipedia claims production was moved to Elst, The Netherlands in 2007. One would expect it to show up in Dutch shops, in that case ... Altoids are made in Wales, but you only seem to get the Cinnamon ones in the USA and Cybercandy... --billy -- http://billyabbott.co.uk You say tomato, I say EMACS
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On 24 Sep 2009, at 09:57, Jurgen Pletinckx wrote: Huh. Wikipedia claims production was moved to Elst, The Netherlands in 2007. One would expect it to show up in Dutch shops, in that case ... And A1 Steak Sauce is only made in Vauxhall and only consumed in the USA, much to the chagrin of all my american friends living in London. I suspect parting with a twenty during smoke break time out the steps at the back of the factory would get you a couple of bottles. --James
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2009/9/24 Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 01:06:51AM +0100, Sue Spence wrote: 2009/9/23 Lesley lesl...@herlug.org.uk And I have been to Amsters from time to time but never work related. Last time I went a travelling companion was most distressed at the price of baked beans. Heinz baked beans cost a fortune over there. That's so strange, isn't it? You'd think they were imported or something. Has HP sauce got cheaper in The Netherlands in the past couple of years? Heh. I wonder if they actually sell enough there to justify dropping off a case or two every so often at A. Heijn after loading up the containers that head to the UK. :-)
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On 24 Sep 2009, at 07:05, Sue Spence wrote: Gosh no. If I had wanted to move the conversation in that direction, I'd've suggested Sc**thorpe. Which, alas, is where I went to college. And yes, the college internet filters blocked googling for it. It's a chav-filled hateful shithole and there is absolutely nothing going for it. Come to think of it, I can't even think of a decent pub in the whole town. --James
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2009/9/24 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: And A1 Steak Sauce is only made in Vauxhall and only consumed in the USA, much to the chagrin of all my american friends living in London. http://www.panzers.co.uk/ - USA Foods - Pickles A1 Sauce, £5.80 a bottle (ow), with a handy A1 Steak Sauce picture to the right. They're located in St John's Wood, so not that hard to get to. I've directed a few Americans in the UK to Panzers before, and they seem to be particularly well-liked for traditional Thanksgiving ingredients. An American colleague who likes to cook has also recommended Selfridges for some ingredients. -- James Coupe
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:14:01AM +0100, James Coupe wrote: 2009/9/24 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: And A1 Steak Sauce is only made in Vauxhall and only consumed in the USA, much to the chagrin of all my american friends living in London. http://www.panzers.co.uk/ - USA Foods - Pickles Oh, wonderful. Compare that with http://www.panzers.co.uk/pickles.phtml Frames are bad, m'kay. Deep linking is your friend, and drives natural traffic. Basic S.E.O. is not rocket science. (As isn't site speed optimisation) Yet most of the world *still* doesn't seem to get it, 10 years on. Nicholas Clark
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On 24 Sep 2009, at 11:25, Nicholas Clark wrote: Oh, wonderful. Compare that with http://www.panzers.co.uk/ pickles.phtml Frames are bad, m'kay. Deep linking is your friend, and drives natural traffic. Basic S.E.O. is not rocket science. (As isn't site speed optimisation) Yet most of the world *still* doesn't seem to get it, 10 years on. Nicholas Clark Impressively feigned surprise there. Rule 1. HTH. --James
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2009/9/24 Nicholas Clark n...@ccl4.org On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 11:14:01AM +0100, James Coupe wrote: 2009/9/24 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: And A1 Steak Sauce is only made in Vauxhall and only consumed in the USA, much to the chagrin of all my american friends living in London. http://www.panzers.co.uk/ - USA Foods - Pickles Oh, wonderful. Compare that with http://www.panzers.co.uk/pickles.phtml Frames are bad, m'kay. Deep linking is your friend, and drives natural traffic. Basic S.E.O. is not rocket science. (As isn't site speed optimisation) Yet most of the world *still* doesn't seem to get it, 10 years on. Damn, you tempted me to click on a link inside the site. They say it is for 'foodies' (not even going to worry about the gulf in definition of that word between how i'd define it and how they obviously do), but they are selling the most garden variety foods possible. Predictable, but funny anyway..
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On 24 Sep 2009, at 11:52, Sue Spence wrote: Damn, you tempted me to click on a link inside the site. They say it is for 'foodies' (not even going to worry about the gulf in definition of that word between how i'd define it and how they obviously do), but they are selling the most garden variety foods possible. Predictable, but funny anyway.. But wait! A CORPORATE DISCOUNT OF 5% ON ORDERS OVER £3,000 Clearly that makes all the difference. --James
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2009/9/24 James Laver james.la...@gmail.com: On 24 Sep 2009, at 11:52, Sue Spence wrote: Damn, you tempted me to click on a link inside the site. They say it is for 'foodies' (not even going to worry about the gulf in definition of that word between how i'd define it and how they obviously do), but they are selling the most garden variety foods possible. Predictable, but funny anyway.. But wait! A CORPORATE DISCOUNT OF 5% ON ORDERS OVER £3,000 Clearly that makes all the difference. I like the way they sell canola oil for £5.80 (for some indeterminate amount) when one can buy it in Sainsbury's. -- Jasper
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2009/9/24 Jasper jaspermcc...@gmail.com: I like the way they sell canola oil for £5.80 (for some indeterminate amount) when one can buy it in Sainsbury's. It's practically rape. /joel
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On 24 Sep 2009, at 12:37, Ovid wrote: He has an accent so thick (I'm told it's even thicker than other scunts) Contrary to popular belief, there is no scunthorpe accent. I'm *loving* the word 'scunts' though. Head a few miles away to Goole and there are accents galore. Goole is possibly the only small town to have it's own set of regional accents. North Goole is nothing like East Goole. Sad, but when I was somewhat younger, we used to look forward to going to scunthorpe. It was actually considered a day out. Of course since I came from somewhere that had nothing more exciting than 6 charity shops... --James
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--- On Thu, 24/9/09, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: From: Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org I like the way they sell canola oil for £5.80 (for some indeterminate amount) when one can buy it in Sainsbury's. It's practically rape. That was an awful, awful pun. You should be ashamed of yourself. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
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2009/9/24 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com: --- On Thu, 24/9/09, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: From: Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org I like the way they sell canola oil for £5.80 (for some indeterminate amount) when one can buy it in Sainsbury's. It's practically rape. That was an awful, awful pun. You should be ashamed of yourself. It was, and I'm not. /joel
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2009/9/24 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com --- On Thu, 24/9/09, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: From: Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org I like the way they sell canola oil for £5.80 (for some indeterminate amount) when one can buy it in Sainsbury's. It's practically rape. That was an awful, awful pun. You should be ashamed of yourself. Did you think so? I thought it was ravishingly beautiful.
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2009/9/24 sue s...@pennine.com: 2009/9/24 Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com --- On Thu, 24/9/09, Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org wrote: From: Joel Bernstein j...@fysh.org I like the way they sell canola oil for £5.80 (for some indeterminate amount) when one can buy it in Sainsbury's. It's practically rape. That was an awful, awful pun. You should be ashamed of yourself. Did you think so? I thought it was ravishingly beautiful. true. also, yellow for some value of synesthesia.
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On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:54:17PM +0100, James Laver wrote: On 24 Sep 2009, at 12:37, Ovid wrote: He has an accent so thick (I'm told it's even thicker than other scunts) Contrary to popular belief, there is no scunthorpe accent. I'm *loving* the word 'scunts' though. Head a few miles away to Goole and there are accents galore. Goole is possibly the only small town to have it's own set of regional accents. North Goole is nothing like East Goole. Sad, but when I was somewhat younger, we used to look forward to going to scunthorpe. It was actually considered a day out. Of course since I came from somewhere that had nothing more exciting than 6 charity shops... oh Sheffield lad, then ?
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On 25 Sep 2009, at 03:45, lesl...@herlug.org.uk wrote: On Thu, Sep 24, 2009 at 12:54:17PM +0100, James Laver wrote: On 24 Sep 2009, at 12:37, Ovid wrote: He has an accent so thick (I'm told it's even thicker than other scunts) Contrary to popular belief, there is no scunthorpe accent. I'm *loving* the word 'scunts' though. Head a few miles away to Goole and there are accents galore. Goole is possibly the only small town to have it's own set of regional accents. North Goole is nothing like East Goole. Sad, but when I was somewhat younger, we used to look forward to going to scunthorpe. It was actually considered a day out. Of course since I came from somewhere that had nothing more exciting than 6 charity shops... oh Sheffield lad, then ? Oh god, don't. I shall be touring with a band in early November and whilst the first two dates are civilised: London and Oxford, but from then on we're in arse-ends like Sheffield, Nottingham, Stoke and heaven forbid, Glasgow. -- Dave HodgkinsonMSN: daveh...@hotmail.com Site: http://www.davehodgkinson.com UK: +44 7768 490620 Blog: http://www.davehodgkinson.com/blog Photos: http://www.flickr.com/photos/davehodg
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On Tuesday 22 September 2009 18:35:29 Dirk Koopman wrote: In any case, what's wrong with a culture that has a whole class of food that is specifically designed to enable one to consume more alcohol? You mean, because Dutch food is so damned terrible, presumably ?-) -- Richard Foley Ciao - shorter than aufwiedersehen http://www.rfi.net/
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I was in Amsterdam a couple of times last year and ate and drank around a bit. It was distinctly mediocre and quite expensive. The highlight was probably the Scotch place with over 1,000 whiskies, but at typically EUR10/20ml, was a rather inefficient way to get pissed. Good scotch is not for getting pissed on, but for savouring and enjoying :)
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On 23/09/2009 09:41, Avleen Vig wrote: I was in Amsterdam a couple of times last year and ate and drank around a bit. It was distinctly mediocre and quite expensive. The highlight was probably the Scotch place with over 1,000 whiskies, but at typically EUR10/20ml, was a rather inefficient way to get pissed. Good scotch is not for getting pissed on, but for savouring and enjoying :) You're not from round here, are you :-) Dave...
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On 23 Sep 2009, at 09:51, Dave Cross wrote: You're not from round here, are you :-) Dave... We don't all have gold-plated cats, Dave. Good scotch is too expensive to get pissed on and is for enjoying, beer on the other hand can be enjoyed while getting pissed ;) --James
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Peter Corlett wrote: I was in Amsterdam a couple of times last year and ate and drank around a bit. It was distinctly mediocre and quite expensive. The highlight was probably the Scotch place with over 1,000 whiskies, but at typically EUR10/20ml, was a rather inefficient way to get pissed. Er.. One of the standard ways of getting pissed is drinking several qw(pils jenever) tuples (otherwise known locally as headbangers). This is generally cheaper than drinking imported scotch. In any case, what's wrong with a culture that has a whole class of food that is specifically designed to enable one to consume more alcohol? Alcohol that, I note, comes from other nations... You are either (deliberately?) drinking foreign muck or frequenting the wrong establishments. You may also be prejudiced against drinking stuff that you mistaken call lager. This would be a mistake, as they don't taste anything like lager does in the UK and, in any case, there are other local alternatives (some *much* darker in colour). Ale is, however, not a native concept that one sees much on the continong. I still reckon the People's Republic of Yorkshire produce the best beer. Each to his own, it's OK but nothing special. But at least you will comfortable with the concept of having a noticeable layer of foam on the top of your beer. Shame it's mostly undrinkable by the time it's travelled to London. Agreed. Dirk
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On Tue, Sep 22, 2009 at 09:50:58PM +0100, Peter Corlett wrote: I still reckon the People's Republic of Yorkshire produce the best beer. Shame it's mostly undrinkable by the time it's travelled to London. Why not brew your own? R (last time I was in Amsterdam involved jonge genever (sp?) and gets a bit hazy)
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- Original Message From: Avleen Vig avl...@gmail.com Good scotch is not for getting pissed on, but for savouring and enjoying :) Could you explain that to my niece? I visited the US recently and brought over a bottle of Green Spot. She took one sip, said it was great, and then shot the rest. I could have cried. Next time, I'll buy her whiskey which comes in a soft plastic bottle. Cheers, Ovid -- Buy the book - http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/perlhks/ Tech blog- http://use.perl.org/~Ovid/journal/ Twitter - http://twitter.com/OvidPerl Official Perl 6 Wiki - http://www.perlfoundation.org/perl6
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Good scotch is not for getting pissed on, but for savouring and enjoying :) Could you explain that to my niece? I visited the US recently and brought over a bottle of Green Spot. She took one sip, said it was great, and then shot the rest. I could have cried. Next time, I'll buy her whiskey which comes in a soft plastic bottle. Technically, Green Spot is Irish Whiskey, not Scotch. That said, *cry* - Do you know how hard that stuff is to get in the US?
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On 23 Sep 2009, at 13:38, Ovid wrote: Could you explain that to my niece? I visited the US recently and brought over a bottle of Green Spot. She took one sip, said it was great, and then shot the rest. I could have cried. Next time, I'll buy her whiskey which comes in a soft plastic bottle. I've always just had the rule You're welcome to drink my scotch if I think you'll appreciate it. Gets around cases like this. Other good rules: - You can't have it if you're going to mix it with coke - You can't have it if your usual purchase is Bells - You can't have it if you're going to put an ice cube in it (controversial, that one) Also applies to good ports, wines and other spirits --James
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2009/9/22 Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk I was in Amsterdam a couple of times last year and ate and drank around a bit. It was distinctly mediocre and quite expensive. The highlight was probably the Scotch place with over 1,000 whiskies, but at typically EUR10/20ml, was a rather inefficient way to get pissed. A few years ago I used to report to a manager based in Amsterdam, where my $work maintains a rather large data centre and quite a few staff. As a result I was fortunate enough to go there several times and spend a bit of time. The food on offer appeared to be of a reasonable standard. I particularly enjoyed some of the Indonesian food I had, but there was nothing particularly bad about the rest. On the whole I really like Amsterdam the Netherlands and it wouldn't take a lot to convince me to go work there, if I were looking for another job. In any case, what's wrong with a culture that has a whole class of food that is specifically designed to enable one to consume more alcohol? Alcohol that, I note, comes from other nations... I still reckon the People's Republic of Yorkshire produce the best beer. Shame it's mostly undrinkable by the time it's travelled to London. Humbug. Don't know why you don't get yourself a job up in Huddersfield, though. :-)
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2009/9/23 Sue Spence s...@pennine.com: 2009/9/22 Peter Corlett ab...@cabal.org.uk I was in Amsterdam a couple of times last year and ate and drank around a bit. It was distinctly mediocre and quite expensive. The highlight was A few years ago I used to report to a manager based in Amsterdam, where my $work maintains a rather large data centre and quite a few staff. As a At the moment head office for me is Amsterdam, and I work in small outpost of three and a bit people. I travel there several times a year - if anyone can get specific recommendations about good places to eat in Amsterdam that charge on a scale I can fit on my expense claims, that would be good. I suppose adding reviews of the places I went to a hypothetical randomness guide to amsterdam would be good, because randomness is the best word to describe the boss's hotel selection for staff traveling. Dominic -- Better to remain silent and be thought a fool than to speak out and remove all doubt. -- Abraham Lincoln
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 2:11 PM, Sue Spence s...@pennine.com wrote: I still reckon the People's Republic of Yorkshire produce the best beer. Shame it's mostly undrinkable by the time it's travelled to London. Humbug. Don't know why you don't get yourself a job up in Huddersfield, though. :-) Oh, don't do that, it's awful: last bank holiday weekend I had to choose between five concurrent beer festivals. I only made it to three. Horrifying hardship, that. -- Matt
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On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 02:11:01PM +0100, Sue Spence wrote: A few years ago I used to report to a manager based in Amsterdam, where my $work maintains a rather large data centre and quite a few staff. As a result I was fortunate enough to go there several times and spend a bit of time. The food on offer appeared to be of a reasonable standard. For brits. -- Philippe Bruhat (BooK) The way to a man's heart is through his stomach- a route which takes you nowhere near his brain.(Moral from Groo The Wanderer #28 (Epic))
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On Sep 23, 2009, at 5:38, Ovid publiustemp-londo...@yahoo.com wrote: - Original Message From: Avleen Vig avl...@gmail.com Good scotch is not for getting pissed on, but for savouring and enjoying :) Could you explain that to my niece? I visited the US recently and brought over a bottle of Green Spot. She took one sip, said it was great, and then shot the rest. I could have cried. Next time, I'll buy her whiskey which comes in a soft plastic bottle. There's a definite culture of doing that kind of thing here (I'm in the US too now) with the younger generation. Get blatted as fast as possible. Never mad sense to me :)
