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OwlFancier posted:Is it really that difficult for these upper crust types to keep their dicks in their pants? Humans as a group really like loving around and it takes a lot of effort to stop this (and it is by no means clear to me that it’s worth all the fuss). On the leadership election, I am reasonably certain that neither of the candidates is the right combination of competent and ideologically driven to stop the trend towards actual fascism under Boris from backsliding a bit from “hellish” to “merely poo poo”; I don’t think either can handle a GE either. Truss is a gaffe machine and Rishi has somehow managed to be the least relatable person in Britain.
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OzyMandrill posted:Dark chocolate is best eaten... cooked into a nice dark chocolate fudge cake. Those are amateur numbers. You don’t want to know how much goes into my fudge.
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Beefeater1980 posted:Humans as a group really like loving around and it takes a lot of effort to stop this (and it is by no means clear to me that it’s worth all the fuss). Neither candidate opposes that trend I'm not actually sure what Boris policies either of them disagree with
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OzyMandrill posted:Parma violets are modelled after old lady perfume. Can confirm. After a parma violet (and/or sex with old ladies) I like very dark chocolate and the bitterest coffee possible, none of this 'smooth' crap.
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Gort posted:Neither candidate opposes that trend Sorry to be clear: I don’t think they’re true believers and even to the extent they are, I don’t think they are competent enough to push the agenda through. So under either of them I reckon the most likely outcome is reversion to the mean and then turning in a poo poo performance in a GE.
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Jul 24, 2022 14:04
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NotJustANumber99 posted:olives suck I used to hate them but I started having half an olive a day to acquire the taste and now I love them. Was some advice from a celebrity chef on the radio.
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Jul 24, 2022 14:08
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I like Turkish Delight. I do. A lot if people don't like Turkish delight, I mean Fry's Turkish delight. The type with the chocolate on it and the purple wrapper. But I like it. A lot of people say "ugh Turkish delight that's disgusting. How can you eat that? It's like eating perfume, it's like eating old women's perfume. Like lavender water, or rose water or whatever it is. How can you like that?" But I like it. I like turkish Delight. I don't like it enough to get it for every day, or every week. In fact I can't remember the last time I got a Turkish delight. But every now and then, I'll be in a shop and I walk by the shelves with all the chocolate and I'll see a Turkish delight and I'll get it. It's nice, I like it. I like Turkish Delight. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Xuedh4i_8E
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RainMaker posted:I used to hate them but I started having half an olive a day to acquire the taste and now I love them. Was some advice from a celebrity chef on the radio. I also disliked olives for decades before trying them again on a whim and discovering they're good now. Tastes just change as you age, is all.
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If you don't like turkish delight, you probably won't like this. It's gross. I tried a tub after a friend wrote a scathing review of it. Sickly sweet and overpowering taste of rose water. Save your ££££s. 
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Jul 24, 2022 14:23
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rose water? rose water flavour? kid poo poo. just eat the flowers. stems and all. what are you afraid of thorns or something. grow up
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If you don't like turkish delight, you probably won't like this. that lid's not going to fit
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 GRUMPYPOST INCOMING RainMaker posted:I used to hate them but I started having half an olive a day to acquire the taste and now I love them. Was some advice from a celebrity chef on the radio. Noxville posted:Yeah most coffee that people have had is either crappy freeze-dried instant, or Starbucks who deliberately roast their beans to a crisp to guarantee a consistent (awful) taste. My wife rarely drank coffee before she met me, and when she did it needed milk and sugar, now she'll have a cup of black coffee a day with me because it's made properly with properly roasted beans amd it doesn't need sweetening. Last time we had coffeetalk in the Discord somebody recommended a V60 as an easy entry point and it's fine, but I still feel like I'm loving it up because it takes so long to pour over that by the time it's ready it's only lukewarm (since I'm already starting with below–boiling point water). Shouldn't it be piping hot?
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Angepain posted:rose water? rose water flavour? kid poo poo. just eat the flowers. stems and all. what are you afraid of thorns or something. grow up I used to have a friend who ate daffodil bulbs at Dingwalls in Camden Town when we were on trend and used to wear black clothes and hang out in the market in the 80s.early 90s. He got very sick.
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Jippa posted:People on the internet go way over the top in food arguments. TACD posted:I was incredibly excited to try some when I saw it in a shop and then incredibly disappointed when it turned out to be some weird gross jelly thing 🤢 Matinee posted:I like Turkish Delight. I do. A lot if people don't like Turkish delight, I mean Fry's Turkish delight. The type with the chocolate on it and the purple wrapper. But I like it. A lot of people say "ugh Turkish delight that's disgusting. How can you eat that? It's like eating perfume, it's like eating old women's perfume. Like lavender water, or rose water or whatever it is. How can you like that?" But I like it. I like turkish Delight. I don't like it enough to get it for every day, or every week. In fact I can't remember the last time I got a Turkish delight. But every now and then, I'll be in a shop and I walk by the shelves with all the chocolate and I'll see a Turkish delight and I'll get it. It's nice, I like it. I like Turkish Delight. 
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does anyone have an Ideal Logic Combi C30 gas boiler? need halp
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OzyMandrill posted:Dark chocolate is best eaten... cooked into a nice dark chocolate fudge cake. Oh hey, that's the recipe I've been using for years. It's insanely good. Pro tip with the ganache, don't try to pour it on if you only have the cake on a dinner plate, in your newly rented apartment with a carpeted kitchen. Desperately trying to catch overflowing molten chocolate in your hands while spraying it everywhere. Cake is awesome tho.
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Mebh posted:carpeted kitchen. 
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kecske posted:whatever you do, dont i just need to know if it needs a thermostat. i've bought a place and it has boiler but no thermostat  gas heating is new to me
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TACD posted:I would quite like to get into 'proper' coffee but all the ways to do it seem to involve spending a huge amount of money on gear and then lots of time grinding beans and other faff. I'm not interested in "the ritual", I just want my coffee! I just use beans, a cheap hand grinder, and a £20 press. If I'm feeling fancy I'll crush a cardomon pod or two in there. If you already like caffeine and the smell of nice coffee then you learn to enjoy the little ritual really fast, freshly ground beans smell amazing to me. You can get 3-4 mugs out of a standard cafetierre and you get a fair few cafetierre's worth if you use an electric grinder so it's not like you need to faff about for every cup
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Was my first proper salaried job at £12,500 pro rata. I found a 1 bed flat half a mile from work for £500 a month. Couldn't afford to be picky!
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Anyone noticed how Corbyn, "accidentally" portrayed by the BBC as wearing a fur hat makes him a Russian asset, yet Liz Truss in what is definitely a Russian-style fur hat is doing nothing more than channelling Thatcher?
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Miftan posted:Even the coriander thing only applies to fresh coriander. You can put dried coriander in most of those people's food and they'll like it (speaking as someone with the soap gene) Just Another Lurker posted:Bloody strange isn't it, absolutely love dried coriander but the fresh stiff is like eating a bar of Life Boy. Are you talking about the dried shredded leaves, or the light brown powder? Because the powder is dried coriander seed, which has a completely different flavour and usage
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crispix posted:i just need to know if it needs a thermostat. i've bought a place and it has boiler but no thermostat  That's pretty similar to mine, when my thermostat ate poo poo a few years ago I did diagram C but with a light switch instead of a thermostat. Switch go on, boiler go hot. It looks as though yours can do OpenTherm too though, so you could wire in a low voltage thermostat like a google nest or what have you
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Jaeluni Asjil posted:If you don't like turkish delight, you probably won't like this. Ugh, after an accident while making ‘gilded rose’ fudge back in February where I misjudged the strength of the rose essence, I can’t stand that smell/taste. Entire house stank of concentrated roses for three days after.
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 Gonna put this dark chocolate bounty here: the perfect confection
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Scientastic posted:Are you talking about the dried shredded leaves, or the light brown powder? Because the powder is dried coriander seed, which has a completely different flavour and usage Either are fine for me and I can't stand the fresh stuff.
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I used to think I loved coriander until I started cooking HelloFresh and I used it fresh for the first time. I still like it, I just have to be... sparing. Also Turkish Delight - I tried some brought back from Turkey once and it didn't taste like icing/caster sugar coating the outside, it seemed more like flour? Absolutely vile. The chocolate bar is fantastic though.
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Now i want Knafeh. Possibly the greatest dessert ever made. Molten salty mozzarella cheese with spun pastry ontop soaked in sugar/rosewater syrup with pistachios. Unf. Like a millon calories.
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Surprise T Rex posted:I used to think I loved coriander until I started cooking HelloFresh and I used it fresh for the first time. I still like it, I just have to be... sparing. I think it's cornflour mixed with icing sugar.
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I don't particularly care for courgette.
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TACD posted:I would quite like to get into 'proper' coffee but all the ways to do it seem to involve spending a huge amount of money on gear and then lots of time grinding beans and other faff. I'm not interested in "the ritual", I just want my coffee! I wouldn't call V60 an easy entry point - it's got too many variables, some of them skill-based. I'd start with an Aeropress or a Clever Dripper, which are cheap, easy to clean, and fairly foolproof at making nice coffee. Usually you'd be using near-boiling water too. The biggest leap going from "normal person" coffee to specialty (snob) coffee is using freshly-ground beans, preferably roasted in the last few weeks and using a burr grinder that doesn't suck. This would probably be the "money on gear" part, and it's definitely not pocket change, but it doesn't have to be new-hobby money either. My go-to setup would be Baratza Encore electric grinder (or an equivalent quality hand grinder for less money) Clever Dripper OR Aeropress Digital scale Also agreeing with Spangly that the ritual can be nice, and it's nowhere near home espresso levels of crazy. You can go from entering the kitchen to sipping a cup in well under 10 minutes, inc cleanup.
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Dead Goon posted:I don't particularly care for courgette. Me neither. It's too slimy.
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i never really got into peas. broccoli i can handle but peas? no. get away. no peas. also uh uk politics uh boy those tories eh? still bad
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