Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up

briantrumpet

pinno said:

Nothing like really good mash.
Best served with sausages cooked in an onion and one sauce.

I have spuds growing in the garden. They'll make top mash.

Good, but I think even better with liver & bacon.

pinno

Ooh, Not liver.

There's something about Liver. It's just wrong. I don't mind the smell when it's cooking but the taste.

bompington

pinno said:

I still haven't sourced any of those rubber biscuits yet.

🎵Load up, load up, load up the ru-u-ubber biscuits

capt_slog

I watched the Zwift cycle race last night, the one which had Chris Froome racing against various other sporties and celebs.

I liked that former Spice Girl Mel C, managed to absolutely trounce professional football player, Steph Houghton.

pblakeney

Watching the "return to hope & glory" types being confronted by Churchill's past.
Especially so if they have displayed woke tendencies.

Pross

capt_slog said:

I watched the Zwift cycle race last night, the one which had Chris Froome racing against various other sporties and celebs.

I liked that former Spice Girl Mel C, managed to absolutely trounce professional football player, Steph Houghton.

She's done a bit of triathlon in the past.

shimanobottombracket

It sucks when I need to do something to my bike but it turns out I haven't the right tool. So I go online and order it. Acquiring new tools, particularly the more specialised ones such as bearing tools feels good. I think it's a guy thing. Women will have the same feeling from shopping.

mrfpb

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

Related. The number of diet "experts" on TV and online that express shock that bread has sugar on the ingredients list. Perhaps making bread will enlighten them.

can't say i've ever added sugar to a bread dough.

Can't stand baking though.

Cooking - great. Baking. Awful.

How did you activate the yeast?

pangolin

mrfpb said:

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

Related. The number of diet "experts" on TV and online that express shock that bread has sugar on the ingredients list. Perhaps making bread will enlighten them.

can't say i've ever added sugar to a bread dough.

Can't stand baking though.

Cooking - great. Baking. Awful.

How did you activate the yeast?

Doesn't need sugar, the flour will do it in my experience. Some recipes have you mix the yeast with a little water and around a teaspoon of sugar for 10 mins or so I guess. I doubt the experts were shocked over a teaspoon in a loaf though.

rick_chasey

mrfpb said:

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

Related. The number of diet "experts" on TV and online that express shock that bread has sugar on the ingredients list. Perhaps making bread will enlighten them.

can't say i've ever added sugar to a bread dough.

Can't stand baking though.

Cooking - great. Baking. Awful.

How did you activate the yeast?

Seems to work fine without it.

I'm no bread making connoisseur but I've not seen any recipes for savoury bread with sugar.

Stand by it though. Baking is awful.

Then again, I struggle to have opinions on bread.I know the difference, just it doesn't seem to have a view to differentiated opinions on it, which for me, is fairly remarkable.

capt_slog

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

Related. The number of diet "experts" on TV and online that express shock that bread has sugar on the ingredients list. Perhaps making bread will enlighten them.

can't say i've ever added sugar to a bread dough.

Can't stand baking though.

Cooking - great. Baking. Awful.

How did you activate the yeast?

Seems to work fine without it.

I'm no bread making connoisseur but I've not seen any recipes for savoury bread with sugar.

Stand by it though. Baking is awful.

Then again, I struggle to have opinions on bread.I know the difference, just it doesn't seem to have a view to differentiated opinions on it, which for me, is fairly remarkable.

The amount of sugar added to a loaf sounds a lot but I think it would be difficult to taste it. Perhaps it's that the yeasts go for the sugars first and they get used up?
But then again, the sugar is often there to make a crispier crust, so maybe not

Wheelspinner

capt_slog said:

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

Related. The number of diet "experts" on TV and online that express shock that bread has sugar on the ingredients list. Perhaps making bread will enlighten them.

can't say i've ever added sugar to a bread dough.

Can't stand baking though.

Cooking - great. Baking. Awful.

How did you activate the yeast?

Seems to work fine without it.

I'm no bread making connoisseur but I've not seen any recipes for savoury bread with sugar.

Stand by it though. Baking is awful.

Then again, I struggle to have opinions on bread.I know the difference, just it doesn't seem to have a view to differentiated opinions on it, which for me, is fairly remarkable.

The amount of sugar added to a loaf sounds a lot but I think it would be difficult to taste it. Perhaps it's that the yeasts go for the sugars first and they get used up?
But then again, the sugar is often there to make a crispier crust, so maybe not

The sugar content in bread (rolls) used in the fast food places is high specifically so that toasting makes them caramelise more and quicker. That crust then slows the roll going soggy from fat soaking off the burger pattie while it sits in the warming trays waiting for sale. I vaguely recall a sugar content figure of about 10% in the bread recipe.

pinno

Wheelspinner said:

capt_slog said:

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

Related. The number of diet "experts" on TV and online that express shock that bread has sugar on the ingredients list. Perhaps making bread will enlighten them.

can't say i've ever added sugar to a bread dough.

Can't stand baking though.

Cooking - great. Baking. Awful.

How did you activate the yeast?

Seems to work fine without it.

I'm no bread making connoisseur but I've not seen any recipes for savoury bread with sugar.

Stand by it though. Baking is awful.

Then again, I struggle to have opinions on bread.I know the difference, just it doesn't seem to have a view to differentiated opinions on it, which for me, is fairly remarkable.

The amount of sugar added to a loaf sounds a lot but I think it would be difficult to taste it. Perhaps it's that the yeasts go for the sugars first and they get used up?
But then again, the sugar is often there to make a crispier crust, so maybe not

The sugar content in bread (rolls) used in the fast food places is high specifically so that toasting makes them caramelise more and quicker. That crust then slows the roll going soggy from fat soaking off the burger pattie while it sits in the warming trays waiting for sale. I vaguely recall a sugar content figure of about 10% in the bread recipe.

That came about after the deployment of the 'clam shell' grills at the big McBurger outlets. I worked there as a student.
The old meat griddles gave you 3mins to toast and prepare the bun but the new clam shells cooked the meat patties in 30 seconds and to time it, the burger were given a higher sugar content to toast quicker.
I think Burger King still uses flame grills and it would be interesting to see if their buns have less sugar than MacD's.

Wheelspinner

pinno said:

Wheelspinner said:

capt_slog said:

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

rick_chasey said:

mrfpb said:

Related. The number of diet "experts" on TV and online that express shock that bread has sugar on the ingredients list. Perhaps making bread will enlighten them.

can't say i've ever added sugar to a bread dough.

Can't stand baking though.

Cooking - great. Baking. Awful.

How did you activate the yeast?

Seems to work fine without it.

I'm no bread making connoisseur but I've not seen any recipes for savoury bread with sugar.

Stand by it though. Baking is awful.

Then again, I struggle to have opinions on bread.I know the difference, just it doesn't seem to have a view to differentiated opinions on it, which for me, is fairly remarkable.

The amount of sugar added to a loaf sounds a lot but I think it would be difficult to taste it. Perhaps it's that the yeasts go for the sugars first and they get used up?
But then again, the sugar is often there to make a crispier crust, so maybe not

The sugar content in bread (rolls) used in the fast food places is high specifically so that toasting makes them caramelise more and quicker. That crust then slows the roll going soggy from fat soaking off the burger pattie while it sits in the warming trays waiting for sale. I vaguely recall a sugar content figure of about 10% in the bread recipe.

That came about after the deployment of the 'clam shell' grills at the big McBurger outlets. I worked there as a student.
The old meat griddles gave you 3mins to toast and prepare the bun but the new clam shells cooked the meat patties in 30 seconds and to time it, the burger were given a higher sugar content to toast quicker.
I think Burger King still uses flame grills and it would be interesting to see if their buns have less sugar than MacD's.

I was the Oz Supply Chain Manager for Burger King local operations back at the end of the 80’s. My comment refers to the specifications for the bread rolls we had baked specifically for us - 80 million dozen a year back then. No idea what the spec for Macca’s was.

orraloon

I have been in a McDonalds 4 times:
in Brussels in 1987 because my (numptie) boss had a massive Belgian beer hangover and needed one of those things rather than proper food;
in Budapest in 1990 in what had once been a railway terminus with the locals coz that was cool, then, apparently;
in San Francisco in 1995 as my then 4yo daughter wanted some fries and a fizzy drink;
in Milton Park services off the A34 in 2001 with a minibus full of 11 year olds on a birthday excursion.

In none of those did I partake of the "meat" products on offer.

I have never been in a Burger King.

pangolin

orraloon said:

I have been in a McDonalds 4 times:
in Brussels in 1987 because my (numptie) boss had a massive Belgian beer hangover and needed one of those things rather than proper food;
in Budapest in 1990 in what had once been a railway terminus with the locals coz that was cool, then, apparently;
in San Francisco in 1995 as my then 4yo daughter wanted some fries and a fizzy drink;
in Milton Park services off the A34 in 2001 with a minibus full of 11 year olds on a birthday excursion.

In none of those did I partake of the "meat" products on offer.

I have never been in a Burger King.

Someone get this man a statue

thistle_

shimanobottombracket said:

Acquiring new tools, particularly the more specialised ones such as bearing tools feels good. I think it's a guy thing

I'm not sure about it being specialised tools, but good quality tools that just work and you know they're going to last from the way they feel.

pinno

pangolin said:

orraloon said:

I have been in a McDonalds 4 times:
in Brussels in 1987 because my (numptie) boss had a massive Belgian beer hangover and needed one of those things rather than proper food;
in Budapest in 1990 in what had once been a railway terminus with the locals coz that was cool, then, apparently;
in San Francisco in 1995 as my then 4yo daughter wanted some fries and a fizzy drink;
in Milton Park services off the A34 in 2001 with a minibus full of 11 year olds on a birthday excursion.

In none of those did I partake of the "meat" products on offer.

I have never been in a Burger King.

Someone get this man a statue

It'll only get pulled down in 100 years or so.

pblakeney

Finding this everyday street scene in York amongst some old digital scans.

orraloon

On my way back to station (after a positive Eye Hospital clinic check up) seeing a lady cyclist passing wearing a loose fitting white cottony top and a long white cottony skirt. Oxford cool innit. Except that by that time it was raining quite heavily. Interesting.

pblakeney

My wife getting back into baking.
Scones and cakes can now be had either post ride, or mid ride should I choose.
Bonus feature. Going back in time to being a child to lick the spoon and bowl.

pinno

orraloon said:

On my way back to station (after a positive Eye Hospital clinic check up) seeing a lady cyclist passing wearing a loose fitting white cottony top and a long white cottony skirt. Oxford cool innit. Except that by that time it was raining quite heavily. Interesting.

Mmm...

briantrumpet

orraloon said:

I have been in a McDonalds 4 times:
in Brussels in 1987 because my (numptie) boss had a massive Belgian beer hangover and needed one of those things rather than proper food;
in Budapest in 1990 in what had once been a railway terminus with the locals coz that was cool, then, apparently;
in San Francisco in 1995 as my then 4yo daughter wanted some fries and a fizzy drink;
in Milton Park services off the A34 in 2001 with a minibus full of 11 year olds on a birthday excursion.

In none of those did I partake of the "meat" products on offer.

I have never been in a Burger King.

Roughly the same for me. I think a couple of times in London, once somewhere between the Jura mountains and Annecy, because we were almost hypothermic (hot chocolate was a cup of hot water and a sachet of powder), and once for a coffee en route to Wales. Every time I think they can't be as bad as I remember it, and every time they are just as bad. The £1 espresso was the best bit, mainly as it was cheap.

pblakeney

Wrong thread.

surrey_commuter

briantrumpet said:

orraloon said:

I have been in a McDonalds 4 times:
in Brussels in 1987 because my (numptie) boss had a massive Belgian beer hangover and needed one of those things rather than proper food;
in Budapest in 1990 in what had once been a railway terminus with the locals coz that was cool, then, apparently;
in San Francisco in 1995 as my then 4yo daughter wanted some fries and a fizzy drink;
in Milton Park services off the A34 in 2001 with a minibus full of 11 year olds on a birthday excursion.

In none of those did I partake of the "meat" products on offer.

I have never been in a Burger King.

Roughly the same for me. I think a couple of times in London, once somewhere between the Jura mountains and Annecy, because we were almost hypothermic (hot chocolate was a cup of hot water and a sachet of powder), and once for a coffee en route to Wales. Every time I think they can't be as bad as I remember it, and every time they are just as bad. The £1 espresso was the best bit, mainly as it was cheap.

some years ago I took my hangover into a service station and bought a coffee from Burgerking. After taking a sip I returned to the counter to ask for a replacement as this one was tasted awful. The youngster behind the counter replied "no point mate it will just taste the same"

orraloon

The next big thing?

https://www.thebulletin.be/belgian-man-climbs-col-du-tourmalet-space-hopper

pinno

orraloon said:

The next big thing?

https://www.thebulletin.be/belgian-man-climbs-col-du-tourmalet-space-hopper

Vid here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XkyQwo6BQOs

Then I got distracted by the Col Collection; Tourmalet, Luz Ardiden etc...

kingstongraham

The VIZ twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/vizcomic/status/1274979939683450881

Stevo_666

kingstongraham said:

The VIZ twitter feed.

https://twitter.com/vizcomic/status/1274979939683450881

Basically that's the Viz 'Top Tips' section from the comic moved online.

thepeopleschamp

orraloon said:

I have been in a McDonalds 4 times:
in Brussels in 1987 because my (numptie) boss had a massive Belgian beer hangover and needed one of those things rather than proper food;
in Budapest in 1990 in what had once been a railway terminus with the locals coz that was cool, then, apparently;
in San Francisco in 1995 as my then 4yo daughter wanted some fries and a fizzy drink;
in Milton Park services off the A34 in 2001 with a minibus full of 11 year olds on a birthday excursion.

In none of those did I partake of the "meat" products on offer.

I have never been in a Burger King.

Similarly I did three McDonalds in three different countries in one day on a bike trip last year and it was glorious. I like how they have the local twist with country specific beers & products in each.

Seemingly trivial things that cheer you up indeed, I was most pleased with myself then and still am now. Which has made me think, how many McDonalds in different countries could I do in a day? Is there a world record for this?