NurseHolliday

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• Mince Pie Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 day, 22 hours

  

  Totally agree, the sugar crystals embedded in the puff pastry add further disgust to the situation

• Mince Pie Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 2 days, 13 hours

  

  Be good to hear your feedback

• Mince Pie Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 11 hours

  

  Aforementioned Dusty Knuckle mince pie loose lid. This one wasn't connected at all, came right off. Not what you expect at that price point.

• Mince Pie Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 11 hours

  

  I'm definitely not using boss man in a casual racism way but happy to stop using it if that's the way it's perceived.

  I've always seen it as a term of deference to an authority figure - owner of a shop - in the same way I call most brown men older than me uncle, often just to wind them up if they're obviously a similar age or younger than me

• Food

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 20 hours

  

  Awkward situation in the Italian deli yesterday. Went in hoping to get some fennel pollen after the butcher recommended it for the porchetta and a quick Google confirmed it. Owner of deli looked at me quizzically, then said that I'd got the wrong word and I was looking for fennel seeds and I had to stand there and listen to him tell me how to make a porchetta while holding in the intense desire to say, akchually ....

• Mince Pie Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 23 hours

  

  My downstairs neighbour's son is a boss man in Forest Gate and he handed me a few decks of Mr Kiplings (and some broken Twirls for some reason) and they're really really sweet but when you get free mince pies it's rude to not eat a whole deck in one sitting

• Mince Pie Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 23 hours

  

  By comparison, the lauded Dusty Knuckle boy is good, but what's the point in that height if there's a cm of air between the filling and the lid. That lid comes right off too, barely secured down.

• Mince Pie Appreciation

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 3 days, 23 hours

  

  Ashamed to say this mfer was £3.50 and it wasn't a big boy, but hands down the best I've had.

  Esters in Stoke Newington

  Short, crumbly pastry with a good level of browning, filling was more boozy and tangy than sweet, and importantly it was filled right up to the top!

  I'd back 5 of these in a row I reckon

• Food

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 6 days, 21 hours

  

  Can we start gearing up for Christmas porchetta chat?

  Booked my 5ish kg pork belly with the butcher. He recommended splashing out on fennel pollen if I'm going full traditional

• Car appreciation... the aesthetics, the engineering, etc

  in Miscellaneous and Meaningless • 1 week, 3 days

  

  Used the spray on ceramic/hydrophobic coating which is quite impressive for just something you spray on then pressure wash off