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Booney wrote:Was one of those things, that along with quail and chook were always out in the backyard, helped the old man tend to them as a little tacker and never thought much about it as that was just what we did.

Quail and pigeon were rare, we didn't have them often. Usually when the population expanded and needed to be kept in check!

Also had pheasants, the odd sheep, even had an owl in the shed once! The old man worked for Ansett, someone brought in an owl from interstate, never collected in and being the early 80's it was whoever wanted it, so it came home and lived in the shed briefly before escaping.

For some clarity, we lived on a double block in Brooklyn Park, 1/4 acre with house and yard and then another 1/4 acre behind us that was ours, had a myriad of chook pens and enclosures and a massive shed.

amber_fluid wrote:The Ol' crumbed chops!
Loved it.
The old lady used to serve that weekly with mashed potato and peas and carrots.
Probably not all that good on the waistline but tasted great!

Pseudo wrote:Crumbed chops? Apricot chicken? Would have been luxury in my childhood.

I grew up with a rabid vegetarian for a father.

For years and years I thought nutmeat - a vegetarian protein loaf which comes out of a tin and can be cut into convenient slices - was actual meat. Nutmeat, chips and egg was a standard "quick meal" at our place.

Not that we ate vegetarian as a rule. Mum cooked meat more often than not, she just didn't serve it to the old man. There is a certain irony about being cajoled into eating your meat by a bloke who does not touch the stuff himself.

Booney wrote:

Pseudo wrote:Crumbed chops? Apricot chicken? Would have been luxury in my childhood.

I grew up with a rabid vegetarian for a father.

For years and years I thought nutmeat - a vegetarian protein loaf which comes out of a tin and can be cut into convenient slices - was actual meat. Nutmeat, chips and egg was a standard "quick meal" at our place.

Not that we ate vegetarian as a rule. Mum cooked meat more often than not, she just didn't serve it to the old man. There is a certain irony about being cajoled into eating your meat by a bloke who does not touch the stuff himself.

All the long term posters on this site are relieved to have a better understanding of you. There were, previously, lots of unanswered questions.

therisingblues wrote:I hate it when bakeries put CORN in their CORNISH PASTIES!!! If ever there was a food that did not belong in a pasty it is CORN!

Magellan wrote:

therisingblues wrote:I hate it when bakeries put CORN in their CORNISH PASTIES!!! If ever there was a food that did not belong in a pasty it is CORN!

Maybe they thought 'cornish' is the adjective that describes something with corn in it. You know, like cornish beef or cornish popcorn?

Booney wrote:

Magellan wrote:

therisingblues wrote:I hate it when bakeries put CORN in their CORNISH PASTIES!!! If ever there was a food that did not belong in a pasty it is CORN!

Maybe they thought 'cornish' is the adjective that describes something with corn in it. You know, like cornish beef or cornish popcorn?

Well I for one won't be trying their cumquat jam.

Magellan wrote:

Booney wrote:

Magellan wrote:

therisingblues wrote:I hate it when bakeries put CORN in their CORNISH PASTIES!!! If ever there was a food that did not belong in a pasty it is CORN!

Maybe they thought 'cornish' is the adjective that describes something with corn in it. You know, like cornish beef or cornish popcorn?

Well I for one won't be trying their cumquat jam.

Or anything garnished with shiitake mushrooms.

Magellan wrote:

therisingblues wrote:I hate it when bakeries put CORN in their CORNISH PASTIES!!! If ever there was a food that did not belong in a pasty it is CORN!

Maybe they thought 'cornish' is the adjective that describes something with corn in it. You know, like cornish beef or cornish popcorn?

therisingblues wrote:

Magellan wrote:

therisingblues wrote:I hate it when bakeries put CORN in their CORNISH PASTIES!!! If ever there was a food that did not belong in a pasty it is CORN!

Maybe they thought 'cornish' is the adjective that describes something with corn in it. You know, like cornish beef or cornish popcorn?

I hate popcorn with CORN in it!

JK wrote:Does or did, anyone here have any trouble with their kids being bad or fussy eaters?

My eldest is excellent, if anything eats too much, but he can pack away food of good substance.

For my youngest though, if it isn't hot chips or Sausages he won't eat it, and obviously we're not letting him have those things too often. He's about to turn 6 and has always been this way, if anything getting worse. Anyone else been through similar that might have any suggestions?

Magellan wrote:

therisingblues wrote:

Magellan wrote:

therisingblues wrote:I hate it when bakeries put CORN in their CORNISH PASTIES!!! If ever there was a food that did not belong in a pasty it is CORN!

Maybe they thought 'cornish' is the adjective that describes something with corn in it. You know, like cornish beef or cornish popcorn?

I hate popcorn with CORN in it!

BTW, when you said 'pasty', perhaps you meant those little adhesive things strippers stick over their nipples?

If so, please give me the address of your 'bakery'.

therisingblues wrote: I, as yet, do not have a generic policy on Cornish nipples. Strictly a case by case basis.

therisingblues wrote:Well, I wouldn't argue too much if that turned up at the bakery. Cornish is she?
Makes me want to say things like"Ohh, lassie! If I were a wee bit more'n twenty years younga I'd turn on a hefty bit a therisingblues charm and play a game a leprechauns an elves wi ye out n the paddock, then look fer yer pot o gold in the haystack after, so I would!"

therisingblues wrote:Cornish is she?