what do u plan to do next??

Anything!

 

Norma

deserts!

I'll think of them. Either that - or we have a favourite 'sweets' (as in favourite childhood 'nostalgiac' sweets - like penny arrow bars and black jacks).

 

Norma

 

 

Or fave choclate bar

is anyone gonna joing me for a cup of tea and a biscuit here today at all??

i think norri just voted there and now custard creams take a shock lead

custard creams take a shock lead

 

Yeuk!

 

Norma

 

Sorry I've been away for a while - went out on Friday night with sister in law and we both imbibed rather a lot!

did u recover well norma from your night out?

did u recover well norma from your night out?

 

I still feel sick!

 

Norma

 

HANGOVER?

HANGOVER?

 

One of the worst ... and I didn't even mix my grapes this time - it was red wine. I'm going to abstain now for two weeks.

 

Norma

 

i have a hangover today myself but i am over the worst of it i think :cry: U WUD WE KNOW WE ARE THE OLD ONES EH!! :o

i have a hangover today myself but i am over the worst of it i think :cry: U WUD WE KNOW WE ARE THE OLD ONES EH!! :o

 

I'm going to stick to dark rum and coke the next time I go out. I can usually manage half a dozen of those and still remember what I did the next day and feel fresh as a daisy at the same time.

 

Norma

about 8 points of bulmers is my maximum after that im in trouble

Good bank holiday weekend then guys?

ya had a great weekend and the waether is so good how about you shiv

Shameless - read this - from Brian Reade in the Mirror today. An article on the awful American biscuits 'Oreos'.

 

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/columnists/reade/

 

What Brian says:

 

Lock a Brit in an over-crowded Third World prison and there are certain things they will miss even more desperately than a chastity belt.

 

Chip-shop chips as they melt the butter on a thick-sliced butty. The head on a freshly-pulled pint frothing over the side of a glass in a warm pub.

 

And a digestive biscuit being lifted from a cup of strong, steaming tea and melting on to the tongue.

 

When you're stuck miles from home you pine so much for these sensations that your brain hallucinates. They hit at the very essence of what we are and where we come from.

 

And none more so than the great British biccy.

 

But now our proud armies of Rich Tea, bourbons, chocolate digestives and custard creams are facing the massed ranks of a chocolatey invader - the American Oreo, the world's best-selling biscuit ever

 

The cookie has already colonised China. And now bosses at makers Kraft are planning a full-scale British invasion, backed by a £4.5million advertising blitz. Already on sale in some stores over here, Oreos are about to go on sale nationwide.

 

But I say, enough is enough. It's time to make a stand on behalf of the great British biscuit.

 

Bourbons, ginger nuts, custard creams, digestives, HobNobs, malted milk, fig rolls... They all trip off the tongue as easily as children's nursery rhymes because that's how far we go back with them. As a baby, I had tea, not milk in my bottle. And with it, a biscuit. We weren't rich, but we always had a packet of Rich Tea.

 

It comes as no surprise that the Yanks would try to snatch the biscuits from our mouths and replace them with a tackier piece of inferior confectionery.

 

Let's face it, they've colonised every other aspect of our lives so successfully that we no longer go to shops but malls. Those gaudy, neon-flashing cathedrals to Satan, filled with Gaps, Wal-Marts, Hollywood Bowls, Starbucks and a thousand junk-food "drive-thrus".

 

We have to take a stand. We can't allow Kraft to do what they've already done in China and monopolise the market with their best-selling cookie.

 

We must scoff at their campaign to brainwash us into dipping their black-and-white, cocoa-tasting monstrosities into our cups of tea. We have to let them know that the British biscuit is not just a collection of sugared crumbs.

 

It is a treasured link all the way back to childhood and a noble accompaniment to our second greatest gift to the world after football - the cuppa.

 

Over the centuries, the "let's have a nice cuppa tea and a digestive" spirit has seen us through wars, divorces, deaths, Cup Final defeats and the loss of an empire.

 

So let us invoke the spirit of Churchill (no, make that Garibaldi) and draw a line in the pantry.

 

When the cookie invasion hits our shores, we must stand strong and deliver the following message to the Yanks: "You say billfold, we say wallet. You say sidewalk, we say pavement.

 

"You say twist, lick, and dunk your Oreo, we say go screw yourselves, buddies."

 

In addition it goes on to say what the fave biscuits of some of our famous folk are:

 

John Prescott - Digestive

Kelly Osbourne - Jammie Dodger

Natasha Bedingfield - Bourbon

Peter Kay - HobNob

Wayne Rooney - Chocolate Digestive

 

They've got a poll going too - but we got there first!

 

Norma

Edited May 6, 200817 yr by Sheila_Blige

it slike they took our idea all our biscuits are nearly mentioned there :o

it slike they took our idea all our biscuits are nearly mentioned there :o

 

Thought of a good idea for another poll on the food / drink subject .... and it was brought up in the Lounge - so we have a legit reason to invite people in here to vote.

 

Norma