Overheard at the LFGSS golf club bar

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Did you mean: cinghiale

Sir, once again you bring this thread to a new level. I doffs my golf hat to you.

Seen them on a menu in China before:

China, Islington.

menus in China are always fun

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Pigs' ears were a staple on the menu when I was travelling down the Yangtze. One of the more palatable dishes on offer, really. I largely survived on a diet of rice, smoked pigs' ears (complete with stubble) and Tsingtao.

Had pigs ears in Barcelona yonks ago. Tasted exactly like ears.
Thankfully hasn't dampened my hunger for playfully nibbling human ones. Form an orderly queue.

Close Shanghai!!

It was early.

Maybe they'll bring some to Allestree

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-derbyshire-59248186

Confessions thread >>> I learned to play golf there.

You can get pig's ears - and indeed trotters and a lot of the rest - in most (all?) Szechuan restaurants in London.

e.g. My Old Place and Sichuan-Folk, both around Spitalfields.

My Old Place

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(food not service obvs)

You can get ears and trotters at St John in Smithfield. (Don’t golf club me for saying that.)

If he doesn't like it he should give it to me.

I generally have 3 pairs of each shoe

Dario Cecchini

Hadn't heard of this guy my whole life, now I've seen his name twice on the forum (previous time a direct recommendation to stop by his restaurant in Tuscany) in less than a week. We need some sort of Hipster/Golf Club/Dario Venn diagram.

You'd enjoy the Cafe Baader-Meinhoff too.

I can't speak for the upland moors

They shoot grouse, plant heather for the grouse to eat, then burn it regularly. They cut drainage channels to get rid of water.

Peat moorland should be like Kinder. A wet, green blanket of Sphagnum moss with thigh sucking peat bogs beneath.

Not fun to walk in admittedly. However, the UK has 15% of the world's peat bogs and it's our biggest carbon trap.

Grouse shooting has changed the landscape over many generations (as has sheep farming) and we think it's normal.

Just glad that some of the major landowners aren't renewing the leases now and allowing the Moors to be rewilded by blocking the drainage channels.

Still. Peat accumulates at 1mm a year so the sooner we start the better.

Yes the Granuad but top Google was the people who manage the Grouse shooting Moors...

They shoot grouse, plant heather for the grouse to eat, then burn it regularly.

Because the new green shoots are grouses' favourite part of the heather plant, and the abundance of new growth sustains a larger grouse population. They also persecute hen harriers, who like to eat young grouse, shooting and poisoning one of Britain's rarest raptors.

They cut drainage channels to get rid of water.

Which means the water drains much faster, causing problems down stream when there is heavy rain. The flooding of Hebden Bridge in 2021 (and 2015 and 2019) is a direct consequence of it being down stream from moors turned over to grouse shooting.

His place is a bit overrated IMO.

Always amazing when you go to hebden and places have marks on the wall showing where the water got to. Basically the whole ground floor in some of them.

This I know.

I'm guessing you are explaining it for other people?

Yes.

Even Leeds was underwater in 2015.

This really kicked off the protection schemes along the Aire.

The Calder now has some very high walls along it and the streams that feed it are getting deliberately choked with fallen wood to slow the water down.

Just need colonies of Beavers I guess?