So, who wants to help... to perpetuate the cellar?

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The core food groups are salt, sugar, garlic and grease.

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You forgot chocolate.

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sugar + grease, if viewed reductively/made by Cadbury’s.

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This is veering strongly in the direction of omelette Arnold Bennett*
*far from the finest hour of the Savoy, imo, but magnificently calorific

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Oh, well, now you’ve given it a name, perhaps I’ll have a go at it again.

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Smoked haddock, sauce hollandaise, parmesan.

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The important thing in chocolate isn’t the sugar or the grease. It’s got theobromine as well.

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OAB was one of the skills tests in a recent series of professional Masterchef: some absolute horrors ensued. I was tsssking away like anything.

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That’s why there are other people.

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…and Tena Lady.

soz

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Gus it delights me to know that you tsk at the same things I do

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I doubt that would be adequate to cope with drinking tea/beer/wine/gin/whatever all day, but you are thinking along the right lines there Gus. There are some things other people just can’t do for you, no matter how hard you try to persuade them.

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And much does rather depend on where you’re sitting

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Think I’m going to enjoy dinner tonight. Leg of lamb, potatoes (roast + boiled in skins), sparrergrass, carrots…

…and just to wash it down:

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(It was supposed to be for Christmas dinner in 2018 - I bought it the day before I went into hospital and have been looking for an excuse to broach it ever since)

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Are we in a birthday situation?

The whole thing sounds gorgeous.

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Blimey Joe

I would have had a whole list of excuses before now…

Carinthia.xx

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Could be…

Made a pig’s ear of the cake, so needed cheering up. (Being presented with a bottle of Bombay Sapphire definitely helped :slight_smile: )

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Happy Birthday to ?
Have a grand time, whatever. Food and drink seem perfecto!
Soo xx

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joe dere, I have a sneaking feeling that your ‘:pig2:’s :ear:’ is probably most people’s idea of a pretty good :birthday:. Not that Bombay Sapphire ever comes amiss.

Many happy returns to the birthdayee. Cheers! Up!

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Happy birthday to who
Happy birthday to who
Happy birthday dear mysterious
Happy birthday to who.

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