Le Prevo Round Knife Help

[gmace99]

I never ask for spotted dick when I go to America. It is a very nice desert here. can't understand why they don't like it in America.

[zuludog]

Bumbags are still used by runners; that's what I was thinking of. I forgot that they were at one time a fashion item

[Kerryanne]

gmace99 I have fruit pudding in my freezer, it's my Scottish visitor tax. I can't get and miss - Edinburgh chippy sauce, black bun and fresh butteries (from when I lived in Aberlour for a few summers).

Zuludog I have been known to wear one when dog training.

[Art]

I never ask for spotted dick when I go to America. It is a very nice desert here. can't understand why they don't like it in America.

Well, the way it is presented in your neck of the woods is, shall we say, sometimes quite graphic, especially in the application of the custard sauce. If it became popular over here, I could imagine the creativity of the line cooks becoming a little riskey.

Art

gmace99 I have fruit pudding in my freezer, it's my Scottish visitor tax. I can't get and miss - Edinburgh chippy sauce, black bun and fresh butteries (from when I lived in Aberlour for a few summers).

Zuludog I have been known to wear one when dog training.

Oh darling, I hope you brought back some of that excellent single malt. Little known over here, but one of the best Speysides.

Art

[gmace99]

Two weeks till I move to my Scottish house for good and get to eat things like Black Pudding, Fruit Pudding, Tattie Scones, Haggis and Deep fried Mars bars.

I might have to spend a lot of time on my boat fishing. Dang why is life so hard. And you never know I might make a belt making video and fish at the same time.

Names off other foods you can get in the UK are Faggots....Fitless Cock Hobnobs a nice yummy banger Toad in the hole and nothing like having a nice cream tea.

Art.....They never made a bad whisky they just made some better than others.

[Kerryanne]

Oh darling, I hope you brought back some of that excellent single malt. Little known over here, but one of the best Speysides.

Art

Aberlour is my favourite easy drink whisky. I also like Talisker and love Laphroaig. I really like Drambuie, have you tried that? It's a whisky liqueur, but the recipe supposedly came from Bonnie Prince Charlie so it's grand.

First time I got drunk was with my Dad on Rusty Nails (whisky and Drambuie). I was 12, my mum was not pleased.

[zuludog]

Names off other foods you can get in the UK are Faggots....Fitless Cock Hobnobs a nice yummy banger Toad in the hole and nothing like having a nice cream tea.

Don't forget ginger nuts, though personally I don't like them

[gmace99]

Ginger nuts are better when you dip them and get them wet.

Beat you on the getting drunk age Kerryanne. I was one and a half. I would not go to sleep when there was a party at my granddads. So he gave me a wee tate of whisky saying that will knock the wee bugger oot. What he did not know was my granny my uncle and my own dad had the same idea. I was more awake in my cot after that. and still like a dram today

[Art]

Aberlour is my favourite easy drink whisky. I also like Talisker and love Laphroaig. I really like Drambuie, have you tried that? It's a whisky liqueur, but the recipe supposedly came from Bonnie Prince Charlie so it's grand.

First time I got drunk was with my Dad on Rusty Nails (whisky and Drambuie). I was 12, my mum was not pleased.

Kerryanne,

Yes, I have tried Drambuie and it was ok, however I really don't like anything in my whisky but, only if necessary, a few drops of water. ++ on the Laphroaig or Ardbeg if you like the smoke (ok by me).

I'm from an era when alcohol was medicinal, and as a baby I had my share (at least I'm told); it gave me a most welcome appreciation for C2H6O. Of course my own kids were not deprived of the wondrous nectar. I recounted some of these experiences at a gathering of progressive types one night and was thereafter treated as if I had Genghis Kahn and about 250 of his most trusted compatriots locked in the shop (garage) waiting to be unleashed onto the unsuspecting neighborhood. Good thing the kids were grown-up or they would never have gotten babysitting jobs after that. Of course there were the liberal progressives (tree hugging, Prius driving, spotted owl saving, upstanding people that they are) who were thoroughly convinced that I was some kind child molester. I guess I should have known after the wife smacked son on the ass in church for screwing around (and generally being the wise-ass everyone knew he was, being the product of my evolutionary skills), and promptly receiving more than eight but fortunately less than a full dozen smoking letters extolling our various virtues and how to not apply them to our children. But I digress; after that I need a whiskey.

Art

[Trox]

Trox Fid is a Scottish word for food. Fud is another Scottish word that is very rude. You would call someone a fud if you are insulting them. Also in Scotland if you are a friend then we might insult you to show you are a friend, I would be banned from this site if I told you some of the names I call my friends.

I will explain the word Fud. So be warned stop reading if you don't like rude words.

A Fud is the part of the woman's body a baby comes out.

Thank for the explanation, that's what I thought it meant yes.

[Kerryanne]

Art, shame you don't like Drambuie - I bloody love it!

gmace99 I was of course teethed with whisky - that is just standard lol. My pals mum use to put a wee bit of whisky in his milk!

I went for Afternoon Tea today and winked round the table about the 'cream tea'. The English wimin did not laugh and Adam just just gave me the sigh of a long-suffering man. I'll have to remember about liking to dip ginger nuts for the next time :D

[Art]

Kerryanne,

The best thing I can do with Drambuie is put it in my coffee after dinner. It is a little too sweet to drink straight. Have you tried Southern Comfort, absolutely horrid stuff, might be a USA thing. The 100 proof will sneak-up on you and knock you on your keister.

Art

[Trox]

Where I live we use something a bit stronger in the coffee. It's between 94 and 96 % pure alcohol and we make it our self. I belive you call it moonshine. We call it coffee doctor over here, I think that's because you often need to see one after drinking it

Tor

Edited August 8, 2015 by Trox

[gmace99]

I never drink whisky unless it is for medicinal purposes. As I have a bit of athritic pain I have to take a we dram about twice a month.

When I was a kid I wanted to be an alcoholic when I grew up. I think its good to have an ambition. However my ambition went downhill and I became a saddle maker.

Trox I taught in South Carolina for about a year and moonshine was a good local measurement.

As to drinking laphroaig. You would get the same taste if you went to Islay and ate the peat straight of the ground.

Edited August 8, 2015 by gmace99

[Art]

You have to age it a little (well a lot) to mellow that out. You can't just go and lay down under the still spout! Bruichladdich (I hope I'm spelling this correctly) is something you might want to try, especially some of the unpeated versions. They casked some before they closed, and then reopened, but it is 25 years old and might cost an arm and leg. Some of the newer stuff is lightly peated also.

Never was much of a drinker (except in my 20s when I was pretty good at it), but the Dr. told me to start a one or two a day program. I appreciate his advice. I also sleep better too. Whiskey is kind of a hobby now. Never more than two a day, well ALMOST never.

Art

[gmace99]

Art you spelt the name correct translated it means rocky shore. On the name thing I am a saddlemaker. my surname is MacEachran translated it means Son of the Lord of the Horses.

Whisky is good for you tale.

A old man went to the doctor........the doctor asked did he drink......the old man said yes doctor a good class of whisky every day......the doctor said oh my you can't do that whisky is bad for you.......the old man said no way I will keep drinking my glass every day.

The doctor is ready for the old man at his next appointment.......he says to the old man I have prepared an experiment to show you what whisky does..

The doctor puts two glasses on his desk one with water the other with whisky in it........He gets a worm and puts it in the glass of water and the worm swims around in it........he then puts a worm in a glass of whisky immediately the worm dies.

The doctor looks at the old man and says I hope that is taught you a lesson.

The old man says yes doctor I just cant thank you enough for showing me that.

I now know if I keep drinking my whisky I will never get worms.....

[Trox]

That's a nice story MacEachran When I grew up people could not afford buying alcohol. The government has monopoly on selling both wine and spirits. You had to stand in line sometimes for hours to buy some. They added several hundred prosent tax so people could not afford it. We inherited distillation apparatus and the knowledge from our fathers, as they had from their fathers. The spirit was made from sugar and yeast, distilled once or twice to get it over 92 % strong (96 % is maximum before it turns in to gas). Some that had fruit in their gardens made the liquor based on that and that tasted sometimes better. From the strong clean spirits people mixed their own whiskey and Brandy, but it tasted like crap. The best way was to drink it clean (96 % strong) with Coffey and sugar.

Saturday night when we went to the dance party they served only halv full Coffey cups, but every body was drunk as H.... Every year before Christmas my father made alcohol, it was not legal but the police turned the blind eye. Everybody who was not rich did it, the police families too.

The government still have the wine and spirits monopoly, but the prices has normalized (still the most expensive place in Europe, thought). They have turned it in to a regular shop with service minded people. Most people want to keep the government monopoly, because they treat their customers well and they have a huge product range. Young people today do not make their own liquor, but many buy from smugglers. The smugglers sell to everyone including kids, so I do not know what the government trying to achieve with their alcohol policy

[gmace99]

That is the joy of living in Europe everything is taxed to the hilt then on top of that we have VAT tax at 20%. I would love to know how to make a nice spirit Don't know why moonshine is not made here .

[Art]

Making alcohol is passed down from father to son, and has been probably since the pharaohs. Farmers tend to produce much more than the local community can consume. In farming communities the grain sold for a pittance because of oversupply. In times when transportation was inefficient, shipping grain was prohibitive. So the farmer turned grain, corn, and sugar into alcohol. It lasts forever and if in wood seems to get better. Also a gallon of alcohol has less volume than the corresponding volume of grain. Remember that back in those days, alcohol eased the pain of hard manual labor. In the dense agrarian culture of Europe, the need to store grain wasn't as prevalent as the need for pure water, so beer/mead/ale was the primary product. With efficient transportation, commodity exchanges, and water and sanitary systems, the physical need to store value may have went away, but the taste had already been developed.

Art