Pan-fried / oven-roasted rant

[ClaireFromWork]

How the bloody hell else are you supposed to pan or roast something! Winds me up.

Nooooo - please don't, Tee. There will be carnage, I tell you - carnage!!!

And you are too young for such trauma!

I'm not that much younger than you, SDT.

oh yes- this makes me MAD

oh,and baked potatoes here too...

Hmm - I think I am too old to be glared at by my mum (or at least, too old to be reduced to a quivering wreck by it, anyway) but you are too young to suffer such trauma. I am now going to vanish under the weight of my own illogic!!

The one that gets me at the moment is "Tee" rather than t-shirt, or "Slouch" rather than baggy jumper. Does anyone actually use those words outside of a catalogue??

Fruity wine .... Its likely to be made of grapes, which are fruit

Then why do some red wines have a oak chip flavour or strawberry aroma - the wine isn't made of oak chips or strawberries?

I thought you meant me, Limburg! I often refer to tees.

I did say "likely" to be made of grapes and not just "made of grapes".

I stand by my baked potato's moniker of a baked potato. The expression "jacket with cheese" makes me think of a slow roasted, aromatic, oven baked yet still market fresh donkey jacket covered in cheddar, man vs food style.

I get twitchy about 'mains' and 'sides'

Hand cut chips

I know it means they haven't been cut in a machine, but it's still poncey to say it.

hand fried even scarier

I'm always suspicious about 'hand cut chips' because I'm sure that it could cover chips made in a machine that is powered by a human hand rather than cut with a knife in a human hand.

My mum always says "egg omlette".
I love that.

"Freshly cut sandwiches"

The ones I saw were probably made three days before and cut into triangles when they were ordered

Beta exactly

Inwith pmsl very amused at egg omelette

70 guess they were FRESH one day lol.

love this OP!
PAN fried :me and DH laugh at this too
JUS likewise
also SEA BASS
Singleton....I too loath MAINS [and MAYO]

YANBU... and can we get rid of the execrable 'jus'? And what the actual focaccia is 'foam' ...???? Looks like spit.

Drizzled. FFS

Soz but they ARE jacket potatoes.

What is there to complain about with sea bass?

I agree
And 'hand made' artisan blah blah

Give me a nice hygienic, uniform machine over some spotty, grubby, bored hand assembler any day

ivy - unfortunately a lot of Australian wines do have oak chips in. They make the wine in stainless steel industrial vats, chuck shovel loads of oak chips in then leave it to marinade for six months before bottling it instead of letting it mature slowly in oak barrels.

Low priced Australian wines are consistent and knocked French wines off the shelf but they do tend to be a bit 'hit you on the head' with their oaky fruitiness.

I said 'marinade'.

Sorry.