I am planning to eat some more cheese tonight. There is still a scrap of Red Storm, and a smidgeon of Gorgonzola, plus some nice goats cheese and Brie. And quite a lot of nice wine. And gin. Today is my ‘Boxing Birthday’ and as such I shall be eating up leftovers. I didn’t have a cake. I don’t particularly care about cake. Cheese is a finer substitute. And it goes with red wine. Which cake does not. I think I am losing the title of ‘light weight’. I’ve been practicing (quite a lot) and am getting much better at drinking.
Well, there is an argument for closing cake shops (ie cake doesn’t go with either gin or wine). Then again, sometimes cake is nice. And some people don’t even drink alcohol. Honest, some people really don’t. Some of the Invasion crew don’t, for instance a certain Dragon who’s been on the missing list for a while. Hope she’s alright!!
You won’t know all of this Fingers unless you’ve taken on the Herculean task of reading through the whole thread (thus far only one person has achieved that feat as far as I know - well done Kay).
By the way, are you any relation to Fingers McGee, that infamous bank robber. He spent 4 months in 1986, carefully, quietly, very sneakily, tunnelling into the Nat West Bank vault. He managed it, but was a bit late. The bank had sold up and had been turned into a pub. It would’ve been OK if he’d at least landed up in the cellar (he could have drowned his sorrows), but he found that he’d ended up in the gents loo. He was a rubbish bank robber.
Funny you should mention that. That pub he broke into is The Fool and Bladder. Fingers McGee has a plaque, on the wall, in the gents’ toilet. It says, “Now wash your hands.” He may have been a rubbish robber but his personal hygiene was impeccable. AD (President of the Fingers McGee Society)
I think a bakery which sells celiac products would be good, I then wouldn’t be going to different supermarkets to get different things Asda’s smaller stores are the pants for gluten free.
I think a gluten free section of all IOD outlets, eateries, shops, etc should have a gluten free section. But I think we should make a coeliac diagnosis card obligatory for the persons wishing to buy said products. Too many fad diets claim ‘gluten free’ is a good idea. And it’s generally not. Unless you have coeliac disease. Which is crap. We should also invest in gluten free (ie properly gluten free, not just wheat free) options for people who don’t get a fair crack at all the varied foods of the world. There are way too many food stuffs that are lovely that are impossible for coeliacs.
The funny thing is though without these fads and famous people telling the good things from a coeliac diet we wouldn’t have the choice we have now. my loaf that I buy has eleven slices is 300g and costs over £2.00. But it is so far the best I have found. Compare it to a 400g loaf at 90p.
(St) Mary Berry says cake is not fattening but a lot of cake is. Is Fingers McGee related to the ‘Lovely Debbie McGee?’ to Sue – a belated Happy Birthday (or as they say in Radnorshire - Penblwydd Hapus!)
I really hope Fingers McGee is related to the lovely Debbie McGee. (Just her name makes me think of Ms Merton ‘what first attracted you to the millionaire Paul Daniels Debbie?’)
Diolch yn fawr for the birthday wishes (Google is a wonderful thing!)
And (St) Mary Berry says a lot of things I don’t pay any attention to.
See, just the mention of Mary Berry and people start wanting cake!! ‘Let them eat cake!’ she said. Which was of course the famous motto from the Great British Bake Off. Or it might have been ‘Let them eat model houses, windmills and sculptures made of cake’! I do get confused sometimes between octogenarian TV food presenters and executed French queens.
I’m still finishing off the stinky stuff left over from the other night. Shame we had no red wine. The Gorgonzola could have done with it (just a teensy bit over ripe).
