Mintball wrote:Highly topical: man cooking and Tom Sharpe. The man in question is tb, and he learnt how to do a braai out in SA. I should have known my comments would elicit the better examples, I mean, the cremators of nasty firelighter-flavoured cheapo burgers weren't ever going to step forward. My rant was provoked by the greasy smoke cloaking my neighbourhood, against which I have had to close the windows to avoid the the sitting room and bedroom smelling like a kebab shop on a busy Saturday night.

Mintball wrote:Highly topical: man cooking and Tom Sharpe. The man in question is tb, and he learnt how to do a braai out in SA. I should have known my comments would elicit the better examples, I mean, the cremators of nasty firelighter-flavoured cheapo burgers weren't ever going to step forward. My rant was provoked by the greasy smoke cloaking my neighbourhood, against which I have had to close the windows to avoid the the sitting room and bedroom smelling like a kebab shop on a busy Saturday night.

It's always bloody freezing in Wiv.

Hedon at hers mate.

Meh. Same difference.

Apart from it's full of red and white t0ssers here.

Do you mean locust (or carob if you prefer) bean?

It was available in any UK greengrocer when I was a kid, as an alternative to chocolate. I spotted a tree when on holiday in Greece with my daughter. I climbed up and snagged a few pods and she ate more than was good for her. I did try to tell her they also had laxative properties, something that is seldom needed in Greece.

Useless fact: the carob bean was the original measure for diamond weight, hence carat

Ah, but you were living in that throbbing multicultural hedonistic hotbed that was 1950's Kingston upon Hull.
The closest we in the West Riding got to exoticism was Fry's Turkish Delight.

tb has a tendency to mutter at neighbours doing their 'BBQ' thang – mostly because he gets eye-rollingly annoyed that start cooking while it's still too hot.

And funnily enough (we had one yesterday as I mentioned), we were also discussing the readiness with which some people appear to assume that, because it's a 'barbie', you can get away with really cheap meat.

If anyone is partial to liquorice and the odd tipple (as I am), you could do worse than pop down to your local Lidl and blag a bottle of Liquore di Liquorizia. £5.99 per 50cl bottle, 25% alc by vol and currently on a BOGOFF.

It's lilke drinking Victory 'V's

The Carob - thats the one, was trying to find the name, grows all over the place in the wild in Portugal, there were some just over the fence of the apartment I was staying at, just served thinly sliced down the length of the pod.