It's a shopping list! Twin Snakes??

[CountryShepherd]

Duck sounds rather posh.

Quite standard otherwise, very specific on the chocolate choice - Minstrels.

Ginger, lemon, whiskey - someone has a cold?

Twin Snakes has me foxed - some sort of family shorthand? (eg we call breaded cod pieces 'fish hands' - i.e larger than fish fingers)

I'd have been just as baffled at twin snakes OP, though now I know (thanks to Google, mustn't speculate 😉) I have heard of them.

I do hope the shopper enjoyed their duck dinner, I love a bit of duck

I’m 45 and I love twin snakes, one side of the conjoined snakes is sweet and one is sour. Delicious.

I’m wondering just how off their faces the Haribo product development team were, to come up with that one!

Seems pretty normal. Twin snakes are sweets. A pretty expensive list!

Maybe it’s toilet duck? 🦆

Love the handwriting, much clearer than my messy lists!

🤣

I love a shopping list thread! Takes me back to the simpler days of MN and “naice ham”.

Please go away.

Moving on.. I love a shopping list and fear they are on the way out now that everyone taps everything into their phones.
i imagine from analysing the hand writing this is an old man with his trolley doing his weekly shop, including the grand kids with the snakes purchase.

Someone mentioned the possibility of having port with minstrels. So I googled it.

"Port and Minstrels"
refers to the connection between ports and minstrels, especially in late medieval and early modern England, where civic minstrels or "waits" in port towns performed special duties such as calling out the hours and warning of dangerous conditions like wind, filling the night with music and serving as a vital part of the urban landscape….

And loads more like this. Pity Google doesn’t really work any more

You might be right, sadly.

Whilst he's rarely off his phone normally, DH loves a written list.

Ours has 3 different sets of handwriting - DD and I add our special requests to his list of basic provisions.

I think they're talking about the next thing you said

Fatandfluffy · 20/09/2025 15:58

A 2 second google could answer your question rather than soliciting the view of a forum surely

Thats why they are saying the point of threads like this is to chat rather than just googling.

Its a conversation starter, that's all.