This will still be in Gaming Hours. I am curious to see what proportion of the Fine Gamers of Scotland have turned the bleedin’ thing off.
(In America they use it for advertising. Because of course they do.)
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“Ye can tak ma fush but ye’ll never tak ma penguin!”
The gaming may not be entirely 100% serious.
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Tired wave from the Surgical Assessment Unit.
I have been scanned.
Things are taking a long time to heal, & I need more antibiotics, so I am staying the night.
Food will be “whatever is left on the trolley”.
Carinthia. xx
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Hugs being sent dear one
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Poor Chatelaine. No fun at all.
Hugs
Gxx
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No, it’s a bit grim, really. Much sympathy - for all the good that does, Carinthia-Dear - and lots of gentle fuzzy hugs.
Soo xxxxxx
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Grrr.
Sparrer Delivery is indicated.
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Indicated? Bluddy essential, I’d say.
Soo xx
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More hugs from me, Carinthia. I do feel for you.
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Jacket potato with butter, cheese & salad.
Baked beans were offered too
Rice pudding for pudding so I swerved that too.
Carinthia. xx
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Pursuant to a discussion somewhere or other, is rice pudding ever called “rice dessert”? Or semolina pudding, “semolina dessert”?
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Nothing should ever be called dessert imo, solely because I remember only too well the horrors of the ‘dessert trolley’ in the ‘70s. Black forest gateau or orange surprise, anyone?
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Was anyone ever surprised by the orange surprise?
Spring surprise, now, that’s different…
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Is not “pudding” in this case a description of the nature of the thing? “Dessert” is only ever (in my idiolect) the mode in which it is eaten, after the main course and before the cheese and liqueurs, which “pudding” can also imply—but I think not “x pudding”.
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As far as I remember, the debate concerned whether things were named xyz dessert, or xyz pudding. Figgy pudding and Christmas pudding and chocolate pudding and so on have the word in the name, no matter when in the meal you eat them; same for Yorkshire pudding and pease pudding, which do not in general get served after the main course and before the cheese and liqueurs and nuts (and other things which might properly be called desserts, I suppose).
It rather suggests that the English for the things is “pudding”, and “dessert” is either a Frenchification or came over from America at some point.
in 1988 Chambers defined dessert as “the final course of a meal, pudding”
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To me pudding is a steamed item like haggis black pudding white pudding and sundry other things in a case
Steak and kidney pudding is just one savoury suet pastry steamed pudding
Then there’s the sweet suet pudding
Puddings are not often served now as folk are brainwashed to avoid fats at all costs
I rather like proper pudding that sticks to your ribs
I might do a proper pudding soon just for the heck of it
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I don’t believe I have ever met that formation.
Meanwhile, an small fish supper with cheesy garlic mushrooms.
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Fruit-dodgers of a nervous disposition?
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Black forest gateau takes me back to college in Wales. Friend and I would venture into a local tearoom and enjoy a Russian tea with a half slice each of BFG. We could make this treat last for an hour or more and the kindly proprietors put up with us with good grace. Happy times!
Soo xx
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I have been fancying fish & chips all day today.
Thatizz very impressive forran small fish (supper), Dunnock.
Carinthia. xx
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