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Autenrieth Road
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As someone who doesn't like alcohol, in my opinion the fastest way to ruin a perfectly lovely eggnog is to spike it. Yuck. So I'm fully in favor of people who prefer their alcohol uncontaminated by eggnog: please convert more people to your way of thinking and keep the whiskey away from the eggnog.
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Palimpsest
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But the alcohol and sugar keep the raw cream and eggs from being an ideal medium for culturing bacteria. It's purely an organic medicinal preservative. ![[Devil]](graemlins/devil.gif)
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Autenrieth Road
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All the more reason to guzzle down all the eggnog quickly, before it turns. Plus no hangovers from guzzling unspiked eggnog. What's not to like?
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Palimpsest
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Each to their own. But if you guzzle quantities of heavy cream and eggs you may have trouble digesting it.
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Ariston
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Dear Everyone:
The only alcohol that may be discussed here in Hell is Fernet Branca, and that's because I need it for brain bleach after reading your drivel.
This is a holiday cheer free zone. Dare I say it, but being sick of having cheer forced on you may be responsible for both the overconsumption of eggnog and the existence of this thread.
The discussion of seasonal beverages belongs in Heaven. This ain't Heaven. Pretty far from it, actually.
Now go away.
—Ariston, Smallhearted Hellhost.
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orfeo
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Originally posted by Tortuf:
Although this recipe is better. video
"Video geo-restricted by owner."
Bastards.
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RuthW
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Two guys make French toast using thicky sliced challah bread dipped in an cream/egg/cinnamon mixture then in crushed cornflakes and almonds before cooking as usual. In the follow-up video they top this with bananas carmelized in butter to which is added a squeeze of lemon juice and another of orange juice, plus maple syrup, and then powdered sugar goes on the whole thing.
I can feel my arteries seizing up just looking at it all. Granted, it might taste amazing, but it's kind of sickening to consider.
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Firenze
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Good thing it's geo-limited: you wouldn't want stuff like that spreading.
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Anselmina
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Originally posted by Kelly Alves:
I thought it was brandy.
Anyway, Anslemina, it's booze-- that's all you need to know.
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Golden Key
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Definitely of the "to the devil with the whole holiday" ilk is "The 12 Days After Christmas" (YouTube), performed by Deborah Voigt and the Mormon Tabernacle Choir.
It's a wicked rebuttal to "The 12 Days Of Christmas".
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mousethief
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I'll see you a Deborah Voigt and raise you an Allan Sherman
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Golden Key
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MT--
LOL, and thanks for that link! Over on the right, there are links to Dr. Demento Christmas music, and I was planning on looking some up.
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Ariston
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And I see all of those and raise you a Fr. Jack.
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Barefoot Friar
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Beignets and chicory coffee.
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Huia
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Thanks for that Ariston. I needed a laugh.
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Sipech
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Bloody hate train companies on Christmas Eve. The last two years they've let me down. In 2012 it took me 8 hours to travel a net distance of about 40 miles.
Even today, I just need to get to Victoria coach station but can't get any info from national rail enquiries as to whether I can get to Victoria in the first place, even though it's only 2 stops away.
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orfeo
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You've waited until NOW to try to find this out?
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Curiosity killed ...
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UK travel you have to double check on the day to make sure there are no additional little surprises. That checking still can't cater for the person who decides to throw themselves under a tube or train as you're trying to get somewhere, but it does check for other things.
(As another person who has just checked for delays on the route to Victoria Coach station.)
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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...so basically, we're checking for any announcements about unplanned delays? And complaining that we can't find an announcement confirming that nothing unusual has happened?
Yeah, I can see how hellworthy it is to blame transport companies for the fact that occasionally Shit Happens, and that they don't confirm for you on the day whether Shit Will Happen.
Here's a hint: if Victoria is 2 stops away, and transport normally runs to Victoria, assume the service IS running unless there's big signs announcing that unexpectedly it ISN'T running, and if for some reasons it ends up not running don't criticise anyone for not telling you something beforehand that wasn't planned to happen.
Or just get a taxi. Or for 2 stops, you could even try walking and working off the excess energy spent whining.
[ 24. December 2014, 06:21: Message edited by: orfeo ]
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Doc Tor
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Originally posted by orfeo:
Or just get a taxi. Or for 2 stops, you could even try walking and working off the excess energy spent whining.
But his bonnet will be ruined...
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Macrina
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And here in Christchurch Mother nature evidently couldn't wait any longer and gave us our earthquake early this year. Grr bugger off.
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Sipech
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I made it to Victoria (currently sat by gate 9). My complaint was that I could find no information, not just info on delays. Last year I had all my trains booked a month in advance but on Christmas Eve there were no trains heading out of London.
And taxis tend not to roam around my part of London. I think it's considered a bit rough.
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Lucia
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So our Christmas Eve started at 5.00am with clearing up after 10 yr old son who threw up on both his bedroom and the bathroom floor.
Thank goodness we have hard tiled floors here and not carpet...
Great start to Christmas. ![[Disappointed]](graemlins/disappointed.gif) Let's hope the rest of us don't go down with whatever it is.
Ho bloody ho...
[ 24. December 2014, 09:41: Message edited by: Lucia ]
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Tortuf
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Originally posted by orfeo:
"Video geo-restricted by owner."
Bastards.
Try this link
Or, this one.
The recipe is too good to not give it a try.
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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quote:
Originally posted by Tortuf:
quote:
Originally posted by orfeo:
"Video geo-restricted by owner."
Bastards.
Try this link
Or, this one.
The recipe is too good to not give it a try.
Hmm. You have apparently mistook my mild irritation as a Host that you're posting links not accessible to all Shipmates as some kind of genuine interest in the subject matter.
I can see how you could make that mistake. Once.
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Lucia
Looking for light
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Oh and I now take back what I said about being glad of the hard floor as despite two rounds of cleaning it appears the the vomit has eaten into the surface of the tiles so you can continue to see the mark of where it was including every splatter, as the angle of the light coming through the window across the floor highlights it very effectively. Vomit pattern is not the best tile decoration....
Marvelous start to Christmas. I'm starting to feel ill myself but maybe that is stress. So much still needs to be done before tomorrow, not including the stuff I've already mentally jettisoned and said 'stuff it, people will just have to put up with me not doing that'.
[ 24. December 2014, 11:32: Message edited by: Lucia ]
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Alan Cresswell
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Originally posted by Sipech:
And taxis tend not to roam around my part of London.
Open your Yellow Pages. Under something like "Taxis/Private Hire" you'll get loads of numbers. Give one of them a ring and the taxi will come to you. Usually cheaper than hailing a passing black cab too.
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Alan Cresswell
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Originally posted by Lucia:
Vomit pattern is not the best tile decoration....
Make sure all future vomitting hits different parts of the floor. Your floor colour will change, but you won't have the pattern on the floor.
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Lucia
Looking for light
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Thank you for at least making me laugh Alan!
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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by Lucia:
So our Christmas Eve started at 5.00am with clearing up after 10 yr old son who threw up on both his bedroom and the bathroom floor.
Thank goodness we have hard tiled floors here and not carpet...
Great start to Christmas. Let's hope the rest of us don't go down with whatever it is.
Ho bloody ho...
Back in the day when Mr Sioni Sr was in the RAF we lived in married quarters (sort of council houses for soldier's, sailor's and airmen's families). The furniture and fittings were 'solid'.
The prized examples were the rugs (no wall to wall carpeting until well into the 1970's) and these were in what was known as 'Fruit Salad' pattern, which had the benefit of remaining unaltered despite any amount of spillage, vomit, blood, oil, Black and Decker thingummy or anything short of a thermonuclear bomb (and we nearly had them tested for that, at the time of the Cuba crisis).
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Pigwidgeon
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Originally posted by Autenrieth Road:
Eggnog takes its revenge
It's Utah -- they don't know you're supposed to chug beer.
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Palimpsest
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Well, the nasty stuff that comes in milk cartons is not real eggnog. Fake or real it's not something to guzzle or chug. Made properly, it's a rich drink to sip in small quantities very occasionally.
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Al Eluia
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Originally posted by Palimpsest:
Well, the nasty stuff that comes in milk cartons is not real eggnog. Fake or real it's not something to guzzle or chug. Made properly, it's a rich drink to sip in small quantities very occasionally.
I'd love to get a good eggnog recipe. Have to confess I've never had the real stuff. Since this is Hell, I'll mention that last year I saw eggnog in the dairy case at my local Safeway on SEPTEMBER 25. I actually went and complained. The employee I talked to had a look in her eye like "This person is insane," which was probably justified. She said she'd pass my complaint on to the manager.
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Alan Cresswell
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They're afraid politics will drive people to drink?
Though, they may be onto something.
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Pigwidgeon
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It wasn't that along ago that liquor stores, bars, etc. were closed all over on Election Day. Utah is the last hold-out on many drinking laws. I learned this summer that you may not order a second glass of wine when you're almost finished with the first -- only one glass per person on the table. I believe they still have to pour drinks at the bar behind a "Zion curtain."
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irish_lord99
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Originally posted by Al Eluia:
The employee I talked to had a look in her eye like "This person is insane," which was probably justified.
For some reason I'm visualizing your avatar complaining about eggnog in September.
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John Holding
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Hot cross buns went on sale a month ago at one of the big local supermarket chains.
John
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Penny S
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Hot cross buns have been on sale continuously for some years. At all the supermarkets I've been in. (Not the same buns - they do change the stock.)
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Alan Cresswell
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Someone needs to be brought to task for that.
Fetch ... the comfy chair.
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Ariel
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It's only a couple of days until the chocolate bunnies and eggs are out in the local supermarket, if last year is anything to go by.
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Golden Key
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Noo, not the comfy chair!
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Golden Key
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{Sticks a sprig of holly in Comrade Doc Tor's heart.}
There, that's better. Very festive. ![[Biased]](wink.gif)
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orfeo
Ship's Musical Counterpoint
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There's a market for this stuff all year round, just as there's a market for fruit and vegetables all year round so that people are gradually losing their awareness that certain foods are naturally available at particular times of year.
If you're going to complain about fake eggnog cartons turning up at what you apparently think is the wrong time of year for fake eggnog, have the decency to also complain about the sulphur dioxide-treated grapes being shipped across hemispheres, trans-Pacific asparagus and all the other stupid things that are based on the philosophy of telling customers that yes, they can have whatever they want whenever they want it like the spoiled children we've all become.
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Sober Preacher's Kid
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You've never been to Frankenmuth, Michigan have you?
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molopata
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I was (in an October many years ago), but they weren't giving anything away for free.
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