4 wide eyed innocent questions for GC women

She's either incredibly polite or has no sense of smell and taste!

Nope.
the odd thing is that she drinks the tea I make with every sign of appreciation, although it's 10x stronger than the stuff she produces.

She's not from Anglesey by any chance is she? I've never been given a cup of tea in Anglesey that has had more than a tea bag waved at it.

One of my friends puts the milk in first. She also makes tea likes gnat's pee so the overall effect is of milky hot water.

attack blackberry.
Spot on. I picked a blackberry with due care and attention while dog walking this afternoon and was safe ((I've just about recovered from my last bramble injury, which involved both a bruise and a puncture). I need to go and pick some to make blackberry gin...

My thornless blackberry tastes like a normal attack blackberry.

Dolly Mixture flavoured blackberries.

Dolly mixture vodka?

The squirrels and blackbirds like them if that's any recommendation. I suspect the fox has tried some too judging by the state of the doings left behind.

Hmm, I've been pondering getting a thornless giant blackberry, but if they don't taste right, I may have to reconsider.

The other day, my daughter and I were blackberrying and one particular strand had an unusual taste. She said it was Dolly Mixture and by heck, she was right!

My southerner mum once made a Yorkshire pudding that shattered on impact but I identify as a scientist so I'd like to see a larger data set. She was quite aggressive and did throw it with some force, perhaps it was her Scottish ancestry.

I like a bit of sweet,cardamom chai but mostly I make minty hot chocolate in my velvetiser. 😁I think that makes me bourgousie so I doubt the left would have me.

Being a soft southerner I have a thornless blackberry, the fruit does not taste like proper blackberry, it smells strongly of maltose and gives a really good flavour to gin or vodka. I know nothing of their many varieties but I suspect they are all acceptable in alcohol.

Sometimes in despair dp does womanly housework because I'm on mumsnet, I allow myself a twinge of guilt. He has a tendency to leave clothes pegs on the line to go rusty so being a natural problem solver I bought some old fashioned dolly pegs for him us to use. ( bonus points for limiting my use of plastic)

I can't see the question about chips in the op, but depending on the mood and the crispiness I have mayonnaise, salt (no vinegar), actual curry (never curry sauce) and believe that most fried food is improved with a bit of sweet chilli sauce.

I quite like stodgy Yorkshires, it's how my mum used to make them in a 70s Pyrex casserole dish so we had a slice. Last time I made some they grew through the baking shelf above them. I totally underestimated how much they'd rise.

I don't take milk, I thankfully sidestep the whole issue.

I agree that pegs on the same item should match, although mind never do and I try not to think about it. T shirts in my house don't know what hangers are!

Gravy and mushy peas on chip shop chips, eaten with a wooden fork on the Blackpool seafront.

1. Do you believe all GC women agree that northern women make the best Yorkshire pudding batter due to their aggression? Totally, 100% the more aggression the better the batter.
2. I know a left wing woman who thinks the milk should go in before the tea, is this abhorrent behaviour a left wing thing and will you disassociate yourself from the left because of it? That woman should be shunned for all of eternity AND I'm cancelling my Labour Membership as soon as I've finished typing
3. Brambles mostly reproduce asexually. How many subspecies do you think there are? 57986 and 34 still be categorised.
4. Is my husband gender nonconformist because he hung up the washing? Should I be worried he might start keeping track of the family’s birthdays next? Depends, does he shake out the creases properly before hanging it up? And why isn't he already doing the birthday sorting? At least for his side of the family?

(Also t shirts - really good shake then stick on a hanger and peg the hanger on the line. I don't like different coloured pegs on the same items , towels always get tumble dried, Yorkshire Tea is the one true tea and chippy gravy, the stuff they just add water to that comes in massive tubs on chippy chips, mayonnaise or tomato sauce on takeaway fries, magi's on chips made at home).

Still can't get over the fact you admit publicly to knowing someone who puts the milk in first!!

Oh wow I've just had a huge Proustian* flashback to my granny having a pot of tea 'on the boil' all day! I think we were ashamed of it as it was linked to not having enough money to buy tea for a fresh pot every time, and I blanked it out of my memory. Until now.
We called it 'boil-o'.

*Literary note: alas no, granny didn't give us Madeleines with our boil-o

Yorkies - I hate them so they're all boufing. Not sorry either.

Tea - brewed in mug cos I'm a scottish heathen.

Brambles - jaggy feckers with fruit of dreams. Spiteful berries, they're called in this house.

Laundry - don't care how dh pegs it out as long as he uses a hundred pegs per item. Combination of East Coast winds and 3 cats who love to swing on the hanging bedding makes this non negotiable.

Chips - my favoured topping varies. Melted cheese and crispy bacon with tomato sauce is making me hungry right now I WANT CHEESY CHIPS!!!!!! Also beeeeg fan of malt vinegar and enough salt to give me a stroke. Then there's mayo....mmmmm. And pickled red cabbage. I'm an equal opportunities employer when it comes to chips.

I think landscape is OK for big towels - otherwise the ends can trail on the lawn, or are at least low enough for cats to take an interest.

Mash, I mash tea.

My friends' mother used to do this when we were kids(they lived next door but one),my mother was scandalised.

My wife is from Central Asia and they boil tea, making a small volume. They often leave it stewing over a tea light, they add a little to a cup, then milk, then plenty of freshly boiled water from the kettle.

Chips: in Newcastle, gravy and curry sauce, some people have mushy peas on the chips, others in a tub. Cheesy chips are just chips with grated orange cheddar.

In Sunderland, it's "cheesey" chips, a foil tray with grated mozzarella, given a turn under the pizza oven. In Middlesbrough, the only time I had them, they ladled white cheese sauce onto the chips; savages!

They do this in Tunisia, boil it all day til it's like tea soup/paintstripper. With geranium leaves and shovels of sugar.

People get tannin poisoning from it.

This is actually a really interesting one.

India, unsurpringly, started it - not on chips.

The British navy decided curry was a great way to liven up dull/disguise spoiled food on ships.

The Japanese navy wanted to increase protein consumption, asked the British navy for ideas, and developed katsu curry.

The Japanese passed it to the Chinese.

The Chinese came to the UK and, in areas not quite ready for the exoticism of a Chinese takeaway opened chip shops. Finding chips somewhat unexciting, they added curry sauce.

[Edit] someone else got there first with the explanation, so instead I'll use this post to raise awareness of the thornless blackberry.

And the cheesy beano.

I don't know about the OP, but I learned how to make jam drops.

I am in the north and use a naice Delia Smith recipe for my Yorkshires.

I brew tea in a pot. With a tea cosy. Milk always in first.

I have be seen brambles have sex, or seen anyone having sex in any brambles.

DH stores his balls in my handbag whilst he does the housework but it's always ok in the end.

I'm thinking of become transwealthy. I'm sure I'm a rich person trapped in a poor person's life

That's how my granny made it.

My mum always recounts with horror how in her first job she watched the lady who made the tea throw the tea leaves into a big pot with cold water and then bring it to the boil on the stove - it would then simmer all day, topping up with more water as needed!

I see
you need a taller person to do your pegging then
or stilts maybe