Sunday 17 February 2013

Beef, Pork, French Fries and Fizzy Drinks


Today in our little community it was the valentine’s lunch and we all go, it is less about Valentines Day and more about lunch and there is always loads and loads of food as one would expect from a very rural farming community. One thing I have learnt is that rural communities in general eat better than those in towns, Ok we don’t have all the fancy restaurants but let’s face it the masses do not eat in such places the masses eat thing burgers in well known food chains with skinny little dried up French fries and fizzy drinks.

The bulk of the people at the valentines lunch had beef (real beef from a cow), I have never been a beef fan so I opted for the pork option with roast potatoes, boiled potatoes, stuffing, peas, red cabbage and various other things followed by lemon cheesecake and ice cream with loads of double cream, and it was jolly good too there were seconds and thirds of both courses but I think my towny genetic background let me down so I was unable to keep up with the true locals who polished off several main courses and a few puds.



 However the valentine’s lunch did mean that I was expected to look less dishevelled and scruffy and was told that even in the wilds of the country in general it is not good form to have bits of stuff falling off you at local events. And the odd mouse peering out of your hair during second helping of pudding is a sure way to get banned next year, I have to say that seems rather hard but it did mean I was required to be sort of clean and tidyish.  So that was the morning well and truly used up.

After the meal it is traditional to have a raffle, everyone takes a prize along which is also traditional and so there are loads of prizes, however for some reason I did not understand I did not manage to win any of the prizes even using my cunning trick of increasing my options of winning by rearranging the numbers on my tickets. That has always worked in the past but this time round it seems I just did not have enough fives to cheat (sorry win), next year I may buy my own book of raffle tickets that way I will have all the options ready and will be able to win all the prizes HAH HAHHAH HAH Hah ahh hah ahhah ha hahahhah hahahahha ha hahaha

OK that’s is it for now I am off to have supper some cheese and crackers, a pork pie and various other things  . . . . . . Maybe some twiglets, we all like twiglets YUM.

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12 comments:

  1. I am not sure what a pud is - pudding?

    My son asked us to meet them at Salt Grass restaurant last night and we had a great time, although we had to wait over a half hour just to sit down. But the timing worked out greatly because I got to see my cousin (favorite?) at the petrol station on the way home. He just happened to be working on a computer problem, so we chatted briefly and plan to lunch veRy soon.

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    1. I have looked at the salt grass site and it does look like good food in the pictures. Any place where you have to wait to sit usually means that the food is good or there is nowhere else to eat.

      It is always good to meet family so I hope you do get to meet up for lunch it is easy to let life and the universe stop these things happening as we run out of time. . .

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    2. yes pud is indeed pudding . . . I have changed computer and this one is not happy

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    3. I spent the entire PM dealing with unhappy computers, routers and modems. So then their un attached onto my happiness, yet I am not sure the other unhappiness decreased, causing a certain (un)kind of global warming (in my mind) (semi-colon goes here) (gasp) to increase, melting my bipolar caps, making imaginary polar bears think, "I see far more swimming in my future.".

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    4. The Ghost Writer spend the day with computers, but it appeared to be people who may be unhappy as he told them what they want to do might take longer than the time they have allocated for the IT changes. Sometimes people forget computers do not run they walk and only at their own pace.....

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    5. Hmmm, your words about walking and running gave me an idea. In computer science a supercomputer is typicaLLy an accumulation of coordinated walking computers that seem to run. So if several people, walkers, were put together to an apparent run, would that be a 'superpeople'? This is a pre-coffee just woke up thought, so if it appears abit (insert word here) then hopefooly you wiLL take that into account, hold it, is this another dream?,,,hello? Hello?

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    6. I was trying to think of a word to insert into the space provided . . . . But not with a lot of luck. I was thinking what would be a pre-coffee sort of thing, but all that came to mind was Oooo Cheese ans Crackers so I have come up with the word . . . Wensleydale.

      They do say if you eat cheese just before going to sleep you have strange dreams, so Wensleydale may be a good word after all

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  2. I'm so hungry now, haven't had my roast dinner today. Oh well, maybe next week!

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    1. I do not have a roast dinner on a regular basis but it was nice to have one today along with two hundred others all having a good time. I hope all is hunky dory and you are doing well with all your writing projects.

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  3. If Mrs H had known cheesecake was being served somewhere in the local region she would have been down there in a flash with a giant spoon in her hand. hahahaha.

    I'm always amazed at how people react to raffles. We usually do a raffle at new years and our site birthday in August and folks go mad! Even though the prizes are usually stuff we couldn't sell in the shop they will pay loads more than the original asking price just so they can win something.
    crazy. But it keeps us in flowers and shrubs so I guess it all works out in the end.

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    1. It was good cheesecake Mr H and there was loads of it too so a stranger with a large spoon would not have been noticed by the majority. There were all sorts of puds as it happens all of them good.

      And yes we all love a good raffle, I think it is all the banter and chaos that goes with these things that people enjoy. If it was super clinical and all to do with winning it just would not be the same. The fact that most of the prizes are not worth a great deal helps because all us looser's don't get bitter and twisted over a bottle of wine which a lot would if the person next to you wins £100,000

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