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I tried to explain "gammon" to my Australian brother. It took a while, considering I had to start with "gammon is what the British call raw ham".
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Joan wrote:
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I tried to explain "gammon" to my Australian brother. It took a while, considering I had to start with "gammon is what the British call raw ham".
You don't have gammon in Australia? Oh you poor things.
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You don't have gammon in Australia? Oh you poor things.
You can get pickled pork, and ham steaks**, and cooked ham of course.

Now I think about it, I may never have eaten baked gammon. If an Australian cook wanted roast gammon at Christmas, they would buy a joint of cooked ham, glaze and put it in the oven long enough caramalise the glaze.

**True story: a common dish in oz would be a "ham steak and pineapple". It's a gammon steak with a slice of grilled pineapple on top. At my first ever job at a cafe run by Greeks, they had "ham, steak and pineapple" on the menu. It was a (beef) steak topped with a slice of sandwich ham and a ring of pineapple. :D
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Post by Rutabaga » 5 years ago

Gammon and pineapple used to be a standard offering in places like Wimpy Bars and Harvesters. Might still be, for all I know. Salt and sweet is usually a good taste combination.
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Gammon and pineapple used to be a standard offering in places like Wimpy Bars and Harvesters. Might still be, for all I know. Salt and sweet is usually a good taste combination.
I may have cooked it myself in the dim and distant past. Take the juice from a tin of pineapple ring and warm it through, thickening with cornflour whilst I fried the rings to caramelise.

I may have to try it again.

You can still buy Vesta curries too
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Just back from a lovely funeral at Clare College for the Prof’s tutor who died aged 101. He’d been a fellow of the college for 61 years. I shed a tear as his coffin was carried through the college arch and over Clare Bridge. A journey he’d made countless during his life. I’d met him on many occasions. He’d kept the Prof on the straight and narrow during her time in Cambridge including rescuing her when her landlady kicked her out of her lodgings for dismantling her motorbike in the shared kitchen. He was a lovely lovely man.
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Thinking of buying a portable cd player, been looking at Currys website and Amazon, names I have never heard of, I am bewildered.
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Lullabelle wrote:
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Thinking of buying a portable cd player, been looking at Currys website and Amazon, names I have never heard of, I am bewildered.
I'd so love to help you, but the last time I did research on Discmans (Discmen?) was close to 30 years ago.
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I'd so love to help you, but the last time I did research on Discmans (Discmen?) was close to 30 years ago.

There are times I want to listen to a cd that isn't on my pod,so rather than faff about I just want to pop in a cd and go with the flow.
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Post by Dunckel » 5 years ago

This evening we are going for a meal in town, then spending a couple of hours sat infront of Rich Hall.
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This evening we are going for a meal in town, then spending a couple of hours sat infront of Rich Hall.
Have fun!! Sounds lovely - he really makes me laugh.
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Have fun!! Sounds lovely - he really makes me laugh.
His documentaries about America are very good as well.
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A tiny bit poncier that I really needed.
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And here’s to Vernon
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Post by Dunckel » 5 years ago

Someone is cutting their lawn, you have to admire their optomism.
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