Oh, it’s real. My dog Otis’ tongue nearly drags on the floor. When he sleeps, it falls out because there isn’t enough room in his mouth. When he licks my face, he starts at the chin, and I have to clean my glasses when he’s done.
Strange that we have a Yorkshire Pudding Day, when I hardly know anybody who’s not British and has ever made or even tasted Yorkshire pudding.
And I like my beef very very rare… but none of the English people I’ve known would touch what’s on that plate.
I’ve heard that medium rare has gained popularity with younger Brits… but my friends, alas, no longer qualify as “younger”, and they like their meat the way their parents did. Dead as a doornail.
I’m sure there really is brain soup somewhere….
not human brain, and probably not in a can, but plenty of cultures eat beef, pork, and sheep brains, so some must make soup.
Consumption of beef brains went down when it was implicated in the transmission of mad cow disease, and hasn’t risen, though now brains from 30 or more month old cattle must be destroyed by law, and the disease is pretty much eradicated.
I had an old cookbook with a recipe for scrambled eggs with brain, and I remember a time when you could buy them at the supermarket. I don’t know if they were beef.
Oh… I just realized… tacos de sesso, or seso?… pork brain
.. were on the menu at taquerias in the 70s. I never tried them, and I guess I haven’t seen (or thought about) them for years.
A Deinhard Sekt bottle parade, in Germany, c. 1920.
It was an advertising stunt for Deinhard’s dry sparkling wine.
Sales had fallen, of course, during the war.
By the 1920s they saw new marketing opportunities in a rising middle class and more liberated women, so they tried to shed their stuffy, elite image, and appeal to modern sophisticates.
Sprats sometimes, and definitely Whitebait, yes. But not the kinds of fish (Cod, Skate, Haddock, Rock eel [Dogfish]) you would normally get from a chippy.
This is thought to be the first photo ever taken of Queen Victoria, in 1844, when she was 25 years old.
The little girl is her first-born child, Crown Princess Victoria, age 4.
Princess Victoria married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858, when she was 18, and later became the German Empress and Queen of Prussia for just 99 days, from the time Frederick inherited his title, until he died, in 1888
Queen Victoria was born on 24th May 1819 (Not 1814 as I put earlier…), and married Prince Albert on 10th February 1840. Princess Victoria was born on 21st November 1840. for info.
* Brain fart between seeing the date, and tryping it out!
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!!! That can’t be real.
Oh, it’s real. My dog Otis’ tongue nearly drags on the floor. When he sleeps, it falls out because there isn’t enough room in his mouth. When he licks my face, he starts at the chin, and I have to clean my glasses when he’s done.
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Strange that we have a Yorkshire Pudding Day, when I hardly know anybody who’s not British and has ever made or even tasted Yorkshire pudding.
And I like my beef very very rare… but none of the English people I’ve known would touch what’s on that plate.
I’ve heard that medium rare has gained popularity with younger Brits… but my friends, alas, no longer qualify as “younger”, and they like their meat the way their parents did. Dead as a doornail.
A very British recipe I have (and used) yields a result like pictured above.
I like beef rare in the middle, and almost burnt on the outside. But I’ve often been told I’m not ‘normal’.
My attitude to steak is; walk the cow past the cooker and serve it up.
Do as we do: Take that as a compliment.
I’m quite happy not being ‘Normal’, being ‘Normal’ is too boring.
“Give me a box of Band-Aids and I’ll have this thing mooing in no time!”
Father liked his beef hit over the head, just barely warm. His grandmother was from Ireland/Liverpool.
You’ve got to have horseradish sauce on roast beef.
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I saw trees that looked a little like that on my walk yesterday in Rock Creek Park (Washington DC).
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Oooh!
It just shows that even the alienated denizens of Hopper’s imagination are cheerful in the land of Legos.
Detroit-1902
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I’m sure there really is brain soup somewhere….
not human brain, and probably not in a can, but plenty of cultures eat beef, pork, and sheep brains, so some must make soup.
Consumption of beef brains went down when it was implicated in the transmission of mad cow disease, and hasn’t risen, though now brains from 30 or more month old cattle must be destroyed by law, and the disease is pretty much eradicated.
I had an old cookbook with a recipe for scrambled eggs with brain, and I remember a time when you could buy them at the supermarket. I don’t know if they were beef.
Oh… I just realized… tacos de sesso, or seso?… pork brain
.. were on the menu at taquerias in the 70s. I never tried them, and I guess I haven’t seen (or thought about) them for years.
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No! No! I just got finished rolling in that dead possum and got my scent just right!
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I’m starving! They’re all overpriced and I don’t have any change!
Change?
Surely you jest.
yes, I suppose it’s credit cards and dollar bill trays
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A Deinhard Sekt bottle parade, in Germany, c. 1920.
It was an advertising stunt for Deinhard’s dry sparkling wine.
Sales had fallen, of course, during the war.
By the 1920s they saw new marketing opportunities in a rising middle class and more liberated women, so they tried to shed their stuffy, elite image, and appeal to modern sophisticates.
And nothing says “elite” and “sophisticated” like putting on a bottle costume.
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So in the U.K. they batter and fry a whole fish? I guess the A.I. hasnβt yet made the jump to S.I.
Sprats sometimes, and definitely Whitebait, yes. But not the kinds of fish (Cod, Skate, Haddock, Rock eel [Dogfish]) you would normally get from a chippy.
I just hate it when I crunch into an eyeball
Whitebait are very small, normally a couple of inches long. My sister doesn’t like the idea that they have the eyes left in them either.
So the illustration above is more of an exaggeration than an hallucination. Thank you (I suppose) for the information.
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This is thought to be the first photo ever taken of Queen Victoria, in 1844, when she was 25 years old.
The little girl is her first-born child, Crown Princess Victoria, age 4.
Princess Victoria married Prince Frederick William of Prussia in 1858, when she was 18, and later became the German Empress and Queen of Prussia for just 99 days, from the time Frederick inherited his title, until he died, in 1888
Queen Victoria was born on 24th May 1819 (Not 1814 as I put earlier…), and married Prince Albert on 10th February 1840. Princess Victoria was born on 21st November 1840. for info.
* Brain fart between seeing the date, and tryping it out!
Um… Wikipedia says 1819, not 1814. Which is why they’re 25 and 4 in this picture π
Not only Wikipedia:
https://www.coburg.de/coburg-erleben/stadt-und-stadtgeschichte/beruehmte-coburger/inhaltsseiten/frauen/victoria-koenigin-von-england.php
In German; use “MenΓΌ” for English.
You are correct, I looked at Wiki which is where I got the date. I think someone copied it incorrectly…..
Don’t know who that could have been…….
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Nope, I can’t find it.
The only one I see is in the title.
An F among the E’s would be instantly visible.
This is the sort of ‘puzzle’ they give to drunk people.
ok, try again
Got it this time!
Got it!
β π°ππ΄ π΄π₯ππ± πΆπ¬π² π‘π¦π‘ π±π₯π’π―π’…
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Tat’s what you get for showing off.
Eurasian Bullfinch (Pyrrhula pyrrhula).
Dompfaff aka Gimpel; male.