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Post by carolinec on Mar 29, 2008 11:50:07 GMT
Says I should give peas a chance. LOL! This has to be one of the daftest discussions I've seen on this board so far!
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Post by jkdunham on Mar 29, 2008 15:22:56 GMT
Between sprouts and broad beans there is an enormous gulf. That's probably why Dem can't find them in Sainsbury's. Now you know, Dem, the broad beans are near the sprouts on the other side of the enormous gulf - you might have to ask someone to help you reach them, what with your arm and everything... David! How can you not like peas!!!!! I know, Craig... what's not to like? They're small, they're green, they used to be advertised by Patsy Kensit... actually that could put you off them, depending on how you feel about Patsy Kensit... personally, I've never felt about Patsy Kensit but you know what I mean. Anyway, I think David likes peas really. I reckon it was just a thinly-veiled excuse for a pea-based pun. Frankly, I expected more from one of Britain's leading horror writers. Tell us the truth, David! How do you really stand on the green issue? Things are definitely hotting up though, with Coral making a concerted effort to attract the sprout vote, Craig risking alienation from the powerful broad bean lobby, David publicly distancing himself from the common or garden pea (the pea in the street?), and John adopting a zero tolerance approach (tough on sprouts, tough on the causes of sprouts). It seems the vegetable question is still something of a political hot potato... This has to be one of the daftest discussions I've seen on this board so far! Don't worry, Caroline, we can be much dafter than this!
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Post by David A. Riley on Mar 29, 2008 15:34:37 GMT
I've been found out. My only gripe with peas is how they scatter about a plate when you're trying to capture the last few on your fork.
My wife, being far more liberal than me, is now on a mixed veg thing, though she does have a thing about peas! She would half fill a plate with the dastardly little things if she had her way (provided she also had plenty of best butter to drown them in).
David
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Post by jkdunham on Mar 29, 2008 15:48:16 GMT
My only gripe with peas is how they scatter about a plate when you're trying to capture the last few on your fork. Ah, well that's where you're going wrong, David. You should always use your knife for peas.
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Post by Calenture on Mar 29, 2008 15:52:26 GMT
I've been found out. My only gripe with peas is how they scatter about a plate when you're trying to capture the last few on your fork. Now you've got me trying to remember which Sherlock Holmes film had Watson doing just exactly that - grumbling as he chases the last pea around his plate. Scene ends with Holmes grabbing his fork and squashing the pea.
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 29, 2008 16:08:51 GMT
Sprouts are good, broad beans are just not good.
But peas are definitely the sine qua non of the vegetable family and your wife, David has sussed out the technique. Invite me round for tea and I will eat your share of the peas or there is an alternative:
If I can add a continental flavour to this hot pot: In Germany the fork is not used in the English manner where etiquette demands a form of bizarre juggling act only seen in the top circuses. In Germany they use the fork like a shovel and miraculously the peas don't fall off. Switch to this method while alone David and you will be voting peas, peas, peas with those of us in the know
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Post by jkdunham on Mar 29, 2008 16:23:27 GMT
In Germany the fork is not used in the English manner where etiquette demands a form of bizarre juggling act only seen in the top circuses. I've got this image of Craig's dinner tied to a revolving wheel and Craig standing about 6 feet away, blindfolded, hurling his cutlery at it while the audience gasps as his fork narrowly misses a cowering marrowfat...
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Post by Craig Herbertson on Mar 29, 2008 16:25:04 GMT
Damn, my carefully guarded stage secrets exposed to the world.
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Post by David A. Riley on Mar 29, 2008 17:22:58 GMT
If I remember rightly, Watson was none too pleased. Wasn't there something grumbled by him about not squashing a fellow's peas?
I can't remember the title of the film offhand, but wasn't it the one about Jack the Ripper and the Masons. Could be wrong, though.
David
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Post by Calenture on Mar 29, 2008 18:00:14 GMT
If I remember rightly, Watson was none too pleased. Wasn't there something grumbled by him about not squashing a fellow's peas? I can't remember the title of the film offhand, but wasn't it the one about Jack the Ripper and the Masons. Could be wrong, though. David I've just remembered - I think James Mason played Watson in the film. And yes, he did grumble about not squashing a fellow's peas. It was one of those quietly hilarious scenes that sent me into fits. I've just Googled Mason and Watson and come up with Murder by Decree (1978).
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coral
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Post by coral on Mar 29, 2008 20:33:24 GMT
You're all forgetting the fantastic pea soup scene that never made it to the final cut of Disney's Snow White.
I'm telling the truth folks!
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 29, 2008 21:34:01 GMT
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coral
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Post by coral on Mar 30, 2008 20:33:17 GMT
Mr Monger, I can't get anything but a blank page from this link and I did want to read about spooky veg. Am I doing it wrong?
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Post by weirdmonger on Mar 30, 2008 20:52:44 GMT
Mr Monger, I can't get anything but a blank page from this link and I did want to read about spooky veg. Am I doing it wrong? Thanks for your interest, Coral, and sorry the link doesn't work for you. Perhaps it only works for me! Worry: is the whole of that whole blog-site unreadable by anyone but me and nobody has told me over the years about this because, probably, nobody has attempted to enter it before? Anyway I have now additionally put this very brief vegetable debate fiction here: weirdmonger.blog-city.com/exegesis.htm
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Post by jkdunham on Mar 30, 2008 21:27:27 GMT
I've attempted to enter expressblogs too, des, and the link bears no fruit or veg for me either. Just an expressblogs logo and a few scattered links but no blog I'm afraid. I tried going to the main page and searching for 'weirdmonger' blogs but got no joy there either.
Anyroad... I read your exegesis elsewhere and was quite taken with what it had to say regarding the practice of cutting little crosses in the base of sprouts.
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