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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Oct 18, 2014
Rice does have a fabulus flavour of its own Or, to be more accurate, really tasty good rice does (try tilda pure basmati; 10 to 11 minutes into cooking, the smell hits you, so gorgeous and fragrent (interestingly more fragrent than so-called 'fragrent rice', IMO)
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KB Posted Oct 18, 2014
Maybe so, but I wouldn't eat it on its own for dinner unless I had no alternative...
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2legs - Hey, babe, take a walk on the wild side... Posted Oct 18, 2014
There is somethign to be said for eating a bowl of plain, unflavoured rice. its a very medatitive experience Mind, it does work a little better with a nice chicken madras, or lamb dansak besides it, a few pompadoms, a pishwari naan, some onion bhajis, with mint dip, some sargra allu, and... damnit. I've only just had breakfast and I'm craving a full Indian banquit Mmm... Proper persian biriani kashmiri chicken methi sod it. I@m going to the Indian su supermarket, thats solved the dilema of what to eat the next few days.....
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Pink Paisley Posted Oct 18, 2014
Probably the only legitimate use for bran flakes.
Tom Kerridge powders them and uses them in pastry.
http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/tasty_treacle_tart_68276
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SashaQ - happysad Posted Oct 18, 2014
Yes, I think there is something to do with taste-ability in relation to some of these products.
I can't say I've found rice to be particularly flavoursome on its own, although jasmine sticky rice is what I call tasty
However, the malt in branflakes is also what I would call tasty, so that's why I like them. I eat shreddies too, because they are denser, so the same volume contains more calories, which is what I need, but their taste is nothing compared with branflakes!
I notice the Shreddies advert no longer says "knitted by nanas" - that used to annoy me, because no way are they knitted, they're just layers of mesh stuck together - so now they just fuel nanas to stock shelves...
That's really interesting about Coca Cola - I had noticed the Classic Coke branding, but didn't realise what it meant (not that I drink much pop so I probably didn't notice the changes in flavour).
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KB Posted Oct 18, 2014
Yes, "knitted by nanas" was silly. What they should have said and probably meant to was "layers of mesh welded together by nanobots."
Much more sensible.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 18, 2014
I don't mind the taste of bran, but its texture can become a lot like cardboard if the concentration is too strong.
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Bluebottle Posted Oct 21, 2014
I thought they only claimed to like saying 'yes', not that they would always say 'yes'.
The bank I used to work for before it closed still isn't a trendy wine bar...
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Cheerful Dragon Posted Oct 23, 2014
Kellogg's didn't advertise bran flakes with "They're very tasty". It was Kellogg's Fruit and Fibre - "Apples, hazelnuts, bananas, raisins, coconuts, sultanas", plus the bran flakes. I'm guessing it was the fruit that was supposed to make them 'very tasty'.
Back in the days of "The car in front is a Toyota", it was usually a Ford Fiesta being driven slowly, often by an elderly person.
Many years ago, the Co-op was advertised as "Your caring, sharing Co-op", a slogan dreamed up by Murray Walker. Somebody from the company told him, "Actually, Murray, we don't care and we don't share". They still OKed the adverts, though.
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Bluebottle Posted Oct 23, 2014
Evian - 'There's something in the water'
So basically the ingredients in a bottle of water are:
Water
Something
Somehow I'm not convinced by their quality control. What is this 'something'? Arsenic? A Great White ? Jenkin's Ear? Do they know? Do we get a clue? Is it compatible with my balanced dietary requirements?
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 23, 2014
As a connoisseur of water, I can honestly say that it takes very little to make one water taste different from another. The tap water in my house makes my stomach hurt, but most jugs of spring water taste fine, albeit different one form another. Poland Springs water, which I buy in a pinch, is okay if a bit mineral-tasting. Everyone keeps telling me that my tap water *should* taste all right to me, but my stomach knows better.
Dopes it really matter which minerals/impurities are the reason for the difference? Not to me. As long as I can find something I like, I don't worry.
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swl Posted Oct 23, 2014
Tap water in Scotland has grown foul over the years in some areas. Especially when you boil it.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 24, 2014
Luckily, I've never gone to Scotland for the water.
Dialogue from "Casablanca":
"What brought you to Casablanca, Rick?"
"I came for the water."
"But there isn't any water. It's a desert."
"I was misinformed."
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Deb Posted Oct 24, 2014
Re branflakes:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DlnNLyG-Il8
Definitely tasty, tasty, very, very tasty.
Deb
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SashaQ - happysad Posted Oct 24, 2014
In a competition between Fruit & Fibre and Bran Flakes I know which ones I find tasty It's the banana I detest - ever since I used to have to have that antibiotic medicine stuff that was flavoured with "banana" to make it taste "better"...
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KB Posted Oct 24, 2014
Dried banana chips are awful things, even worse than the bran. Bananas on their own are ok, although they are a fuel-in-the-tank food I eat for nutrition rather than pleasure.
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paulh, vaccinated against the Omigod Variant Posted Oct 24, 2014
I stolidly kept bananas as part of my breakfast for decades, until I finally jettisoned them after the doctor told me I had to lose weight. Sure enough, eating an egg or a salad instead of a banana has led to a modest loss. Who expected that?
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