The ADs seek joy and aubergines

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We got a bit cut off there didn't we? Thread 15 now.

All this talk 9f BSE has reminded me of the burgers MIL used to get for family BBQs pre BSE. She was always of the food can never be too cheap persuasion and if these burgers had been any cheaper they would have been paying her to take them. They used to shrink to half their size when cooked and smelled overwhelmingly of tripe. We always passed on them and just had sausages that were at least mostly cereal.

Last year I went to pick DS up from scouting and found myself coming home with a brace of pheasants. (I did sort of have the DCs with me... 50m behind sobbing and wailing at the pheasants dangling like macabre puppets! To the point where we had to use pedestrian lights seperately as they would not come anywhere near me!)
I filleted them the next day and froze them for Christmas. I did have to lie to DS2 and tell him it was duck (he likes pheasant and has had it before) and I did confess a few months later. DS1 enjoyed the revenge for the panic atrack.

It was odd fileting them, and I did appologise to them as I disposed of them, but when I have done things like that, I think it's important to keep the connection between animals and food.

DH is connected to the food industry and been to sites at every stage of it. The only thing he won't eat is donner kebab which is fair enough.

OH catches fish in the summer months, sea bass this week and mackerel. In the winter pheasants, rabbits etc. some friends welcome the extra to their larders, others think euw. how cruel, barbaric. We do have an odd relationship to food in this country.

I was more worried about CJD than covid - & I was a life long vegetarian from a vegan family then! (to my knowledge I've never eaten anything cow related ... I do eat a lot of sardines now though!)

What pisses me off most about Neil is that they way ppl throw around the 500k deaths number as if he saved us from that. That was his model's suggestion for deaths if we did absolutely nothing at all - that was never going to happen. And has has been demonstrated by the fact that community infection rates peaked before lockdown what the government were doing - social distancing, no hand shaking, hygiene the much mocked wash your hands & encouraging people to work from home etc etc was working. Despite the dementors re-writing the government never proposed to do nothing.

According to his model Sweden with their social distancing/light touch approach should have in excess of 40k deaths by this point - they have 5k. If we adopted their approach he modelled anywhere between 125-250K UK deaths, given how far out he was with Sweden who knows how accurate that is?

Regardless he didn't bloody save half a million people. Though I applaud his shagging around, that was a nice touch.

and I did appologise to them as I disposed of them
This made me giggle. Reminded me of last year, our house cats eventually persuaded me to let them free in the garden after months of passive aggressively crying at the patio doors (old house didn't have A garden just a tiny yard so they weren't allowed out there) .

Anyway about A week in, it's summer the doors are open, Ds is in bed and me and dp are sat in the living room.

All of a sudden loads of noise from the dining room. The cats had brought in a bird and between them literally ripped the poor thing to pieces.

I apologized profusely to the poor bird about the murdering bastard cats and I felt so guilty putting him in the bin.

I don't think I could bring myself to kill / butcher anything. I mean I can't even watch the Tele when they show any kind of Insides. I'm a right wimp.

Man, I swear to good god if I hit quotes one more time instead of bookmark...
Just me or anyone else struggling with the fact that they've clearly done an update to the app?

And has has been demonstrated by the fact that community infection rates peaked before lockdown what the government were doing - social distancing, no hand shaking, hygiene the much mocked wash your hands & encouraging people to work from home etc etc was working. Despite the dementors re-writing the government never proposed to do nothing.

I will continue to mock Boris's earnest entreaty to the over 70s not to go on a cruise though.

I mean, it was sounded so specific!

(disclaimer: do understand the reasoning behind it etc)

the government never proposed to do nothing.

... once it was demonstrated it was spreading in the UK. They (& the follow the science advisors/PHE etc) were utterly complacent & useless at preventing it getting a foothold in the first place and at keeping it at controllable levels.

I very rarely eat meat...maybe once or twice a month but often less than that, and never from a takeaway or restaurant (remember them, back in the good old days ). Burgers, sausages and pies I haven't eaten since I was a child. It's not through ethical reasons, more about the texture of it. Also I'm deemed slightly weird because I have never had a burger from McDonalds or anywhere else.

is banana curry a real thing?

I wondered that - realfood.tesco.com/recipes/banana-curry.html

Though I have to hide the bannas, when I can get them, to do anything with becuae otherwise I turn around and they're gone.

"I will continue to mock Boris's earnest entreaty to the over 70s not to go on a cruise though."

@HesterShaw1 by bloody 75 year old MIL & her more elderly partner were determined to go on a cruise to Northern Italy departing on March 11 ... BJ might have saved her life

But if you're 69 you can cruise away, baby!

I give up ... 'my' bloody

.... I am baking this atm, highly recommended, easy & looks impressive too www.nigella.com/recipes/strawberry-meringue-layer-cake

Bath pretty busy today- needed to pop out for a bottle of Gin for fathers day. Ended up at local shop as Waitrose queue pretty long. Think the shops might do Ok here based on what I saw today.

69s, aubergines, cruises. Won't someone think of the death toll of so much heddonism????

Was it Chris Witty who at the beginning talked about between 30-50k deaths, if so he wasn`t far out was he

@dlk55 and @LadyOfTheImprovisedBath

It sounds weird but it is real. I actually use this recipe from cbbc:

www.bbc.co.uk/cbeebies/watch/my-world-kitchen-tanzanian-banana-curry-recipe

But add fresh ginger and chili's for an extra kick.

Todays figures

England 71, Scotland 2, Wales 1, NI 1 = 75.

These figures will be adjusted for care homes in England later of course so will be higher.

Bloody hell, why does every thread on mn turn into the soddin covid police?
A simple question asked turns into “why are you not social distancing”. No wonder our mental health is going down the pan.

Nobody is 100% obeying the rules around here and I couldn’t give a shit any more. Groups of laughing young adults in gardens or in the park? Good for them I say.

Anyway, glad to have found this thread and hello.

@Weedsnseeds1

I did actually know someone who died of CJD, but don't know anyone who died of COVID19

Same here. My friends brother did. It was awful.

I remember my mum stopping me eating beef when it all came out. I was gutted! I loved a steak. However, after reading Weeds very informative post I think I may have to become vegetarian! I genuinely don't think I'd eat meat if I had to kill my own.

@Jourdain11 At least you get to go home. I had a catheter briefly after DS was born. I had no idea until they came to take it out. Hopefully you won't have yours for long.

I remember we stopped eating Fray Bentos pies at the time of CJD (classy ). And I’ve always made a point of buying steak mince only.

I remember being a bit scared by it at the time, though I was only young - I was born in 82. And then there was a big cluster of cases in a village in our county, that was scary and terribly sad.

I wonder if Neil Ferguson has been using the same programme to make all his predictions...! He does seem to overestimate somewhat

Hello all. Good to find you again, even of you are doing unspeakable things with aubergines.

weirdos

Todays figures

England 71, Scotland 2, Wales 1, NI 1 = 75. Outside england hospital setting a further 57 so final tally 128 deaths today.

CJD terrified me with two small boys who ate burgers and lots of mince at the time. Then Ferguson said it was a 30 year time bomb with the virus lurking within the brain waiting to go off. Thank god the time has elapsed now. However autopsing this cjd is very specialist so the figures may have been higher as with covid we will never know accurately.

Down on 181 from last Saturday’s reported figure.