My SIL is coming over tomorrow...

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And I've just bought a stunt pineapple!

You definatly need the step by step recipie and method for the casserole.

She will ask!

burning

Our chopping boards are mostly made from DGM's olive trees. She owns a cute little vineyard with a small olive orchard. But a few years ago she needed to cut down a lot of olive trees (sigh... they were so old and simply beautiful).

But the boards aren't carved. So... not sure where that leaves our boards :)

That does sound delicious. I love onions!

Now that Burning has taken the lead in random food-related interjections I would like to say that dividing up pre-made (raw) hamburgers and rolling them into little balls has revolutionised my life when it comes to making spagetti and meatballs.

Can a stung pineapple do that, can it? Can it?

(Possibly, yes).

or a stunt pineapple even?

Does a pineapple impress people?

This was my first reaction. Since when were pineapples posh?

[looks in fridge]

Would a pre-cut little plastic packet with the plastic spoon from the meal deal at Sainsbos count?

Actually, in one of those country home living magazines this month they suggested spray painting a pineapple with gold paint and using it as a table decoration for Christmas.

Just a suggestion.....

There was a very funny play last week on radio 4 that involved a stunt pineapple
www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b080xj88

All those don't think pineapples are posh must be so posh that they don't realise the power of the stunt pineapple to us rough uns.
Bet you all have naice ham instead of packet ham too!

Anyone old enough to have been given a tin of mixed fruit and carnation cream for a 'posh Sunday tea?'

Spray painting a pineapple as a table decoration?? What is it about pineapples? They're not exactly rare

green we used to have tip top not carnation

Awww I miss Tip top! Reminds me of my nan!

pineapples, lemons and limes are posh? Since when?
What other stuff is considered posh?

Haha! My mother in law stayed to dog sit while we were on holiday last month and I left her a pineapple, I casually told her to help herself to it but it went untouched.

Sister in law may or may not be dropping in tomorrow and I haven't got a bloody pineapple!

Green goddess yes! DM obviously felt guilty about it though because we all had to eat a slice of bread and butter first (the healthy bit )

I regularly bake my own bread. Your SIL would love me 💁

I may have put fruit cocktail and tip top on my shopping list

Yes to the casserole recipe! And make sure it is so fiendishly complicated that even Heston 'cleverclogs' Blumenthal would throw his hands up in despair

We often have pineapple because DH doesn't mind chopping it up & they're not really expensive if you buy them unprepared. I hope people don't think it's to impress!

We had a visitor due - one of DH friends coming to stay for the week. I was at the shops and VERY nearly went into auto pilot of buying fresh fruit and some sort of healthy food to buy DS for his tea.

Then I remembered that said visitor very definitely hadn't bought a stunt pineapple when we visited them. In fact they'd not actually got round to going to the shop to buy food yet.... when we turned up for dinner!

So all he got was old wrinkled satsumas in the fruit bowl and to see DS having fish fingers for tea. Although there were alphabet potato things - they're educational so suitable for visitors to witness, right?!

Is it some sort of code for how welcome / honoured a guest you are, then? .

I will put you out of your misery flog. If I remember correctly, A posted asked if anyone had stuff that they only put out especially for guests. As is the way with MN it took off in a parallel universe, with people relating the bizarre lengths they and theirs went to to impress guests.

We never had a stunt pinaeapple but we did have stunt loo roll when I was a kid. We always knew when guest were invited as we had Pink loo roll. It was put away again after the guest less. If I ever decided to do any vacuuming the kids automatically asked Who was coming to visit.

The guest left I mean.

I remembered what a stunt pineapple was but an totally lost on staged washing up area...

Burning I'm worried that you'll forget that happened and make tea in the morning with a teaspoon and it'll be all oniony.