Thought Id start this one going because its rather dead on this board at the moment and I suppose all my usual muckers are either at the Stella tennis event watching Dim Tim (lose again) or at Henly Regatta eating cucumber sandwiches (they wish,...NOT).

Anyway please feel free to just talk to yourself blast away and let it go on any company or subject you wish. Just wish Id thought of this one before.

cheers GF.

"Lochmuir is a brand name for salmon created by UK retailer Marks & Spencer to help market Scottish salmon. The name was chosen by a panel of consumers as it represented and reinforced the concept that the salmon was from Scotland."

fred - your post is almost entirely composed of inaccuracies and worse, so that i shan't even bother to correct it ..... at school, it would have had a red line straight through it with a comment that you should go away and re-do

chris - sorry, but i think McD's burgers are vile, as are the milkshakes ..... fortunately i can nearly always avoid, but unfortunately on penultimate trip to m/e it was not possible as my "driver" needed some breakfast ...... KFC spare-ribs are even nastier, but have managed to avoid those since the last century

Tripe is still eaten extensively in the UK and France. You often see it on menus in France.

cynic - I agree re KFC , sadly for me I do enjoy McDonalds cheeseburgers and fries it's a weakness I can live with now and again :O)

i'll pray for your soul :-)

Not quite ambrosia, and I haven't eaten one for about 15 years, but there was a time and place where only one of these with extra chilli sauce would suffice.

ah - salmonella on a stick! ..... at least in turkey and m/e you get the real thing that is not made from mince containing no doubt a sizeable proportion of reconstituted meat slurry

skinny - been a few years but when I lived in Southport, opposite the railway station (long gone now, sadly) Kebab house, mainly shish with the combination of fresh pitta, salad and both chilli sauce and garlic sauce, stable diet 3 nights a week, marvelous :o)

surely a freudian slip with "stable diet" but perhaps nearer the truth than intended!

Chris - I wouldn't touch one now, but at the end of a long night, there was nothing better and that 'carpet' finish to your teeth in the morning that only MSG can achieve ........

cynic - Aye, but when your young a stable diet is totally meaningless, as in my case then couldn't give a toss what the stockmarket was doing either :O)

Tripe is often posted by Cynic.

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Must admit I have tried tripe once after persuading my mother, who was a good cook, to prepare it.

From memory, it was the only dish I couldn't swallow.

But, the gardener ate it for his lunch to-days running, with pleasure on his face.

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I backed a horse last week at ten to one. It came in at quarter past four.

i think the french "tripe a la mode de caen" is very similar to the traditional lancashire "tripe and onions", neither of which do i care for .... however, i recollect that in germany that it was served with a piquant mustardy sauce, and that i enjoyed a lot, seam more than honeycomb

The EU regulatory handbook on financial affairs contains around 4 million words. At an average reading rate of 130 words a minute it would an office worker over 3 months of work time to read it. That doesn't mean understand any of it or have a working knowledge of it.

Tim - As posted previously get back to Man U thread accross the road and carry on squelching. Your'e good at that! xxxxx

I'm sure they will find a use for it.

the Government is powerless to impose a ban on meat imports unless the contaminated beef is found to be a danger to people's health.
"Arbitrary measures like that are not actually going to help. Firstly we are bound by the rules of the European market," he told Sky News.
"Should this move from an issue of labelling and fraud and there is evidence of material which represents a serious threat to human health, I won't hesitate to take action."

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i'm sure that during the BSE scare, the french (and germans?) banned the import of uk beef, notwithstanding that it was not contaminated - in truth, it was purely to help their own totally inefficient farming industry ...... as an aside, the french (and germans) also denied ever having any cases of BSE, which assuredly must be a barefaced lie, but no surprises there then

anyway, there does not need to be a gov't ban .... the public will do its own banning .... it'll be interesting to see if there now an upsurge in vegetarian alternatives - e.g. quorn and tofu, or even more radical, a general swing towards a more vegetarian-based diet

Chris doesn't know what tripe actually is.

In years gone by the only processed food people ate was something like Spam or corned beef, mostly it was fresh stuff from a butcher and it was possible to see exactly what you were eating. If you buy processed food you have no idea what actually you are eating.

cynic your post above is good reading and fact .