The Banter Cafe

[quintessentone]

Sure.

No, there are lots of different ones. This one served real ales, great food, outside seating by a river, dogs welcome and set in lovely secluded countryside.

It sounds picturesque, somewhat like the wineries we have here. I would love to do road trips there with my partner. Maybe one day in the future if we are able.

[Encia22]

Bloody hell! Who knew?

Taking the biscuit: for 100 years we’ve been eating chocolate digestives wrong

Whether dunking, nibbling or munching a chocolate digestive, it seems common sense to keep the biscuity side down.

But we are getting it all wrong, according to Anthony Coulson, general manager of the McVitie’s factory in Stockport, Greater Manchester.

He insists that the chocolate should be on the bottom and the biscuit on top…

Well, sod it! I’m not flipping for anyone, can’t change a habit of a lifetime!

:beer:

[quintessentone]

Bloody hell! Who knew?

Taking the biscuit: for 100 years we’ve been eating chocolate digestives wrong


[Image: https://denyignorance.com/uploader/image...stives.png]


Well, sod it! I’m not flipping for anyone, can’t change a habit of a lifetime!

:beer:

I always eat chocolate covered biscuits with the chocolate side up, like a frosted dessert. Do you eat frosted cakes upside down too. Ha ha  It is messy with the chocolate melting from the heat of one's hands/fingers unless licking fingers is part of the eating experience (?)

[Oldcarpy2]

Ah, at the risk of starting a War, cream teas.

Jam on first, then cream, or cream on first then jam?

I go with the latter.

It's a Devon /Cornwall thing

[quintessentone]

Yeah, I was just looking at that region and they are known for their cream teas as well as having a unique way of speaking - Anglo Saxon/Celtic was it?

Wikipedia:

"A cream tea (also known as a Devon cream tea, Devonshire tea,[sup][1][/sup] or Cornish cream tea)[sup][2][/sup] is an afternoon tea consisting of tea, scones, clotted cream (or, less authentically, whipped cream), jam, and sometimes butter. Cream teas are sold in tea rooms throughout England, especially Devon and Cornwall, and in some other parts of the Commonwealth."

OMG, I'm in!

[Oldcarpy2]

Apparently, once they had to cancel a Devon and Cornwall music festival.

They couldn't agree to put Cream on first or the Jam....

[quintessentone]

Apparently, once they had to cancel a Devon and Cornwall music festival.

They couldn't agree to put Cream on first or the Jam....

Jam on first - after butter, so butter first, of course!

[sahgwa]

If you are too poor or contained in a mess hall dining situation what you do if you don't have pastries and you crave sweets? 
Buttered bread with sugar sprinkled on it.  Mmm classy. 

Bone of contention in the house is the term marmalade should only refer to the marmelo plant,ie quince,  not to a 'class' of spreads

[quintessentone]

If you are too poor or contained in a mess hall dining situation what you do if you don't have pastries and you crave sweets? 
Buttered bread with sugar sprinkled on it.  Mmm classy. 

Bone of contention in the house is the term marmalade should only refer to the marmelo plant,ie quince,  not to a 'class' of spreads

Or homemade cinnamon toast - bread, butter, sugar and cinnamon. Easy, peasy.

Well, a local woman here makes marmalade with pineapple added and it's top notch tasty, so in my books she can call it whatever she wants to.

[Oldcarpy2]

Condensed milk sarnie, anyone?