Guy Martin Tea revisited

Couldn't agree more

 

I don't actually care where *anyone* fits in the order (including
myself). I suppose that makes me working class, or perhaps I'm
American and didn't know it.

 

I look down on you because you are lower-class.

 

Quite. And it's obvious in many, many postings to ukrm on a daily
basis.

Which brings us back to your original comment: that this place is
ridiculously middle-class *nowadays*.

It's been like it for ages!

 

Well. If you don't know about star anise or cardamom I'd rather not eat
what you *do* cook..


Phil

 

That's ridiculous.

 

Are you taking this to an extreme for some sort of comedy effect? I do a
lot of cooking and don't use anise and never heard of cardamom.

 

Which is what I use Cardamon for.

 

Liar! I know you know what cardamom pods are, coz you were there when F
warned us about them.

 

I can't believe you've never heard of ginger and I refuse to believe
you've never heard of aniseed.

 

Heh. Two paragraphs to say, "Terence sold him a pint of Guiness."

 

I don't recognise either of those ingredients and I reckon I eat
pretty well most of the time. If you're too pikey to eat out that's
your problem.

 

I *buy* curries, I don't cook them.

 

Ah, the joys of living on expenses.

 

Do motocrossers count instead of horses? If so that makes my daughter
upper class and me skint at the time.

 

I do have to pay for own meals occasionally.

I've only got four more nights here and then I've got to migrate to
the south coast for the rest of the summer where I'll try to top up my
tan on company expenses for a couple of months before being banished
to Scotland for a couple more months where I've no chance of loafing
on a beach.

 

er, yes, I've heard of ginger. Cooked with it, even.

It was cardoman and star anise - how would I know that star anise has
some associated with aniseed?

 

Oh, that's what those foul things are called?

So why would one put something that tastes so unpleasant into some
food, with the assumption that people will scrutinise each plateful
and remove it? AFAIC, if it's on the plate, it's to be eaten.

 

No, meat should be eaten, anything green is decoration and should be left
on the side of the plate.

 

If an item is on the plate, it's obviously food. Food, after all, is
merely fuel and taste doesn't enter into it.

One should instruct one's servants accordingly, of course.

Like to see you /clear/ the plate that bore a T-bone steak, though. Or
do you hurl the bone to the rush-strewn floor for the dogs - or does
your manservant prune the meat from the bone and feed each morsel to you
from the tip of a two-tine silver fork? I don't know how you middle-
class folk live, see.