Topic: Simple Pleasures (Read 2522 times)

magpie · « **Reply #25 on:** December 02, 2009, 03:54:45 pm »

Quote from: Adam Lincoln on December 02, 2009, 01:32:48 pm

Quote from: andi_e on December 02, 2009, 01:32:04 pm
Gotta get me some Nando's crisps!
The hot ones are HOT!

They are aren't they! Good though.

Quote from: nik at work on December 02, 2009, 01:18:49 pm

Magpie, step up to the plate, do the girly and suggest chocolate would you?

I would have to suggest most types of cheese, crusty bread with lots of salted butter and olives and feta cheese drizzled with balsamic vinegar before chocolate even got a look in, sorry.

magpie · « **Reply #26 on:** December 02, 2009, 03:55:56 pm »

Also, I shop at ASDA and think it's fine, although the two main ones I use are Superstores and in fairly well to do areas, so that might have some effect on the quality and choice.

Adam Lincoln · « **Reply #27 on:** December 02, 2009, 10:16:22 pm »

Oh and some nice crumbly lancashire cheese!

And call me a big girl but i do have a thing for

With a few cherries in.

lagerstarfish · « **Reply #28 on:** December 02, 2009, 10:33:39 pm »

Quote from: Adam Lincoln on December 02, 2009, 10:16:22 pm

And call me a big girl but i do have a thing for

With a few cherries in.

I like it with a few cointreaus in it, but I think that would be heading off topic.

Now, if that cheese was a bit mouldy blue.....

Plattsy · « **Reply #29 on:** December 03, 2009, 09:24:19 am »

Quote from: SA Chris on December 02, 2009, 09:23:10 am

Currently loving the ASDA Extra Special West Country Yoghurts.

Got some of these (4 for £2). The boss loved her Champagne Rhubarb one and the Heritage Raspberrry one was great too.

SA Chris · « **Reply #30 on:** December 03, 2009, 10:07:15 am »

Cool. Toffee and Lemon Meringue are also ace.

Jaspersharpe · « **Reply #31 on:** December 03, 2009, 11:46:13 am »

Scumbags.

slack---line · « **Reply #32 on:** December 03, 2009, 11:50:39 am »

Quote from: Jaspersharpe on December 03, 2009, 11:46:13 am

Scumbags.

Where can you get these? Will Asda stock them?

Jaspersharpe · « **Reply #33 on:** December 03, 2009, 11:52:22 am »

Only at the Chapeltown branch.

Fiend · « **Reply #34 on:** December 03, 2009, 01:03:59 pm »

See. Jasper's cuntish snobbishness or is it snobbish cuntishness knows no bounds. I'm surprised that people can get away with a Simple Things food thread on here.

Anyway at the moment my simple thing is:

Rock solid, bitter as hell, turns your tongue black. Nom.

Oh, and:

I could eat these until they killed me raaaarrgghh.

nik at work · « **Reply #35 on:** December 03, 2009, 01:05:31 pm »

Is that a Chicken (Mc)Nuggett?

slack---line · « **Reply #36 on:** December 03, 2009, 01:14:16 pm »

Quote from: magpie on December 02, 2009, 03:54:45 pm

I would have to suggest most types of cheese, crusty bread with lots of salted butter and olives and feta cheese drizzled with balsamic vinegar before chocolate even got a look in, sorry.

Bread with a plate of balsamic and olive oil mixed together for dipping is sooooo simple, yet scrumptious.

Quote from: Fiend on December 03, 2009, 01:03:59 pm

I'm surprised that people can get away with a Simple Things food thread on here.

The simple things are the best.

Quote from: Often attributed to Einstein, but not documented in Alice Calaprice's book of Einstein quotes The New Quotable Einstein

We should make things as simple as possible, but not simpler

This is in essence simply Occam's Razor.

Adam Lincoln · « **Reply #37 on:** December 03, 2009, 01:34:30 pm »

Quote from: SA Chris on December 02, 2009, 09:23:10 am

Currently loving the ASDA Extra Special West Country Yoghurts.

Off to get some of these later, though i suspect they have more calories in them than my muller yogurts!

SA Chris · « **Reply #38 on:** December 03, 2009, 02:17:36 pm »

Quote from: Fiend on December 03, 2009, 01:03:59 pm

The famous Aberdeen rowie / Buttery. Possibly the most unhealthy pastry ever invented. Aitken's Bakery here in Aberdeen is famous for them. Girlfriend's dad and a colleague jokingly auctioned one on ebay for charity a couple of years back and got a load of cashfor charity!

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/scotland/north_east/4938868.stm

edit - maybe not a couple of grand.

Houdini · « **Reply #39 on:** December 06, 2009, 08:46:23 am »

I'd shop at Asda if I had one to shop at; I shop everywhere except Waitrose - but only because I've never seen a Waitrose to shop in.

I currently shop in a chain of supermarkets called Migros, a Turkish firm. I've shopped in them while in Istanbul too, frightful prices w/ poor choice; choice is something one doesn't have in Kazakhstan.

So my simple pleasure is not a food as such, but wandering around and buying goods from traditional outdoor markets such as Hamburg's Isermarkt, which is held under a particularly long railway bridge, giving a great market feel w/out getting pissed on in the rain. The produce here is as good as anything in Germany.

Support market traders!

Houdini · « **Reply #40 on:** December 06, 2009, 08:53:11 am »

Lindt have an impressive range and I enjoy their products; some may care to know they use GM ingredients.

We have a similar thread called The Good Things.

EDIT ~ Oh! I used to be partial to malt vinegar sandwiches: white sliced bread, butter (which must be spreadable and scored to stop the vinegar running off) and good old Sarsons. This is probably more a Simpletons' Pleasure, mind.

Jim · « **Reply #41 on:** December 06, 2009, 12:45:13 pm »

isn't nando's portuguese?
where do you get those crisps? i've never seen them before

magpie · « **Reply #42 on:** December 06, 2009, 01:16:17 pm »

Quote from: Jim on December 06, 2009, 12:45:13 pm

where do you get those crisps? i've never seen them before

I get mine from the local Spar. :classy:

SA Chris · « **Reply #43 on:** December 06, 2009, 10:05:13 pm »

Quote from: Jim on December 06, 2009, 12:45:13 pm

isn't nando's portuguese?

lmgtfy - http://www.nandos.co.uk/default/ABS8/Our_Story.html

Portugese cooking, but the chain is South African.

Houdini · « **Reply #44 on:** December 07, 2009, 03:00:14 am »

Quote from: magpie on December 06, 2009, 01:16:17 pm

Spar.

Ah, Spar. The worst retailer on the planet. Buying veg from Llanberis spar is the most soul-destroying experience man can have; even standing near 'beris spar is enough to kill all creative, positive thought. I wish them bankruptcy.

magpie · « **Reply #45 on:** December 07, 2009, 09:08:29 am »

They sell good crisps 24hours a day, a short stagger from my flat, they have some redeeming qualities.

SA Chris · « **Reply #46 on:** December 23, 2009, 11:49:53 am »

Fox's Chunky, fruit and nut extremely, chocolatey, cookies.

Quite a mouthful!

Bubba · « **Reply #47 on:** December 24, 2009, 05:01:48 am »

Quote from: Adam Lincoln on December 02, 2009, 10:16:22 pm

Oh and some nice crumbly lancashire cheese!

Pretty much any proper cheese does it for me, especially along with another simple pleasure, home made bread

Most supermarket cheese is distinctly average though Tesco do some nice stuff in their "Finest" range last time I was in, including a few raw milk cheeses.

On the Asda debate, I used to shop at the huge Handsworth Asda as it was the only thing open 24hr and remotely on the way home from my old work. I thought the quality and choice was generally pants. Morrisons do a far better job as a "budget supermarket".

nai · « **Reply #48 on:** December 24, 2009, 08:10:27 am »

Quote from: Bubba on December 24, 2009, 05:01:48 am

Most supermarket cheese is distinctly average though Tesco do some nice stuff in their "Finest" range last time I was in

Check out this stuff from Tesco, very nice:

Combine with

and

for a scrummy quick snack

dontfollowme · « **Reply #49 on:** December 24, 2009, 03:20:22 pm »

I've bought some Colston Bassett to have over xmas

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