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To be annoyed with Stanley Tucci?

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FancyJapflack · 03/01/2024 14:45

Regarding his sandwich.

if looked so delicious on Instagram.

In actuality it was horrible. Prosciutto is like raw bacon. Mozzarella didn’t melt. Olive oil is tasteless grease. I like pesto with spaghetti but not, as it turns out, in a sandwich.

i was so looking forward to it. Went shopping on the way home specially 😕

What food have you had that didn’t live up to expectation?

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RNBrie · 03/01/2024 20:02

Stanley Tucci is so good in Big Night. Breathtaking.

I've never forgiven Nigella for ruining Christmas one year with her shitty 2.5 hour brined turkey recipe.... turkey was barely even hot, let alone cooked. Ffs.

Couchant · 03/01/2024 20:06

RNBrie · 03/01/2024 20:02

Stanley Tucci is so good in Big Night. Breathtaking.

I've never forgiven Nigella for ruining Christmas one year with her shitty 2.5 hour brined turkey recipe.... turkey was barely even hot, let alone cooked. Ffs.

He was!

Uricon2 · 03/01/2024 20:09

I sat in an isolation room watching my husband die for 2 solid weeks, to the point where I was hallucinating with tiredness, because every time I tried to sleep I was woken as the staff thought he was going. I was there, alone with him, I closed his eyes.

I don't judge people who can't do that.

Sp1ke3 · 03/01/2024 20:10

@Somepeoplearesnippy I’m so sorry about your Mum. Yesterday was the anniversary of my Mum’s death. I wasn’t able to be with her either. It doesn’t reflect the depth of love.

Take care of yourself.

dapsnotplimsolls · 03/01/2024 20:20

nadine90 · 03/01/2024 19:33

Please could you stop the noise, I’m trying to moist my bread!

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😁

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FancyJapflack · 03/01/2024 20:25

laclochette · 03/01/2024 17:49

Olive oil should taste grassy and herby, prosciutto should be so delicate that it virtually melts on the tongue like a wafer. Pesto may be an acquired taste in a sandwich but great fresh pesto is really just basil, cheese and pine nuts, it's hard to come by in the UK tho (most of it is made with cheaper nuts, cheaper cheese and cheaper oils not olive oil). Mozzarella doesn't take much heat to melt... Where did you get the ingredients from?

Oh. You know. The bottom of a bin. The usual.

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AngeloMysterioso · 03/01/2024 20:28

I wasn’t in the room when my Father died of cancer- I’d gone home for the first time in 5 days. But if Stanley Tucci’s late wife was in anything like his condition at the end, she won’t have had the slightest clue if he was in the room or not. He knew he needed to keep his strength for his children and I’ll not judge him for that, and nor should anybody else.

ImCamembertTheBigCheese · 03/01/2024 20:29

FancyJapflack · 03/01/2024 20:25

Oh. You know. The bottom of a bin. The usual.

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Quality of ingredients is a good point

LittleBearPad · 03/01/2024 20:31

NotAClueZ · 03/01/2024 19:19

@LittleBearPad
I would rather my husband was with our children.

in the first place, so what? I wasn't talking either about your or a situation where it was agreed.

in the second place, you may say that now but you have no idea how you would feel if you were actually in the moment of death approaching especially if you were going to die at a younger age. It's like all things that are traumatic but you have no personal experience of - people react differently in the moment to how they think they will or how you might think they will if you know them well.

But it’s ok for you to judge Stanley Tucci despite you knowing nothing of his situation.

If I die young, my children will be young. I will want my husband to be with them. They are more important than me in all circumstances but especially when their mother is dying.

Jellycats4life · 03/01/2024 20:37

ConstitutionHill · 03/01/2024 15:30

Agreed and sorry for the derail OP. I knew TY had a new partner and that his wife died very young but did he really scarper like that? How do you know?

I'd be gutted and would struggle to enjoy his music again if so.

This grim phenomenon a deserves a thread of its own!!

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Comments in this thread say a lot (I’ve also read similar on Reddit) so I’m sure it’s true. He’s a rock star, of course he’s going to cheat on his wife when she’s sick with cancer. I lost all respect for Thom and really struggle to enjoy his music now.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-4359020/amp/Thom-Yorke-new-girlfriend-Dajana-Roncione-hit-beach.html

The grossest thing for me is he never admitted he was married to Rachel. Call it keeping his private life private, but it sure does contrast with the ridiculously OTT wedding photos with the OW…

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peachgreen · 03/01/2024 21:29

I’m choosing to ignore the unpleasant aspects of this thread and instead say that a) he really IS amazing in Big Night, a film that everyone should watch and b) I have worked with his wife on several occasions and she is indeed absolutely lovely and fantastic at her job.

Elvis1956 · 03/01/2024 21:39

Flamango · 03/01/2024 17:37

@Elvis1956 I’m afraid it’s definitely a when, not an if.

Not if you've stood at the crossroads at midnight. I sold my soul and I ain't going till Bristol Rovers win the premiership!

forgivingfiggy · 03/01/2024 21:47

I imagine Stanley Tucci would slice himself thinly and serve in a ciabatta roll, if he had the chance. He's quite dashing, and I used to quite like him but he's overexposed himself seems the type to enjoy the smell of his own pumps. This is nothing to do with him shying away from death, nor his substandard sandwich recipe.

I'm just reeling from the eyelash sandwich? Porcine or human?!

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FancyJapflack · 03/01/2024 21:50

forgivingfiggy · 03/01/2024 21:47

I imagine Stanley Tucci would slice himself thinly and serve in a ciabatta roll, if he had the chance. He's quite dashing, and I used to quite like him but he's overexposed himself seems the type to enjoy the smell of his own pumps. This is nothing to do with him shying away from death, nor his substandard sandwich recipe.

I'm just reeling from the eyelash sandwich? Porcine or human?!

Bwahahahahaha!

Yes he’d sniff appreciatively whist murmuring “Mmmm….mort-za-RELL-ah”

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GCAcademic · 03/01/2024 22:31

dapsnotplimsolls · 03/01/2024 18:44

I've been thinking about Ross' sandwich all the way through this thread. With a soundtrack of Paranoid Android.

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MY SANDWICH!!

GCAcademic · 03/01/2024 22:37

RNBrie · 03/01/2024 20:02

Stanley Tucci is so good in Big Night. Breathtaking.

I've never forgiven Nigella for ruining Christmas one year with her shitty 2.5 hour brined turkey recipe.... turkey was barely even hot, let alone cooked. Ffs.

Nigella ruined my cooker with her ham in coke recipe. It turns out that the sugar in coke makes it corrosive and you need to wipe up any spills quickly.

I won’t forgive her either.

Jamesclaton007 · 03/01/2024 22:53

GCAcademic · 03/01/2024 22:37

Nigella ruined my cooker with her ham in coke recipe. It turns out that the sugar in coke makes it corrosive and you need to wipe up any spills quickly.

I won’t forgive her either.

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Coca-Cola is acidic due to carbonation and phosphoric acid. The acidity can help tenderize the meat.

LittleBearPad · 03/01/2024 23:19

GCAcademic · 03/01/2024 22:37

Nigella ruined my cooker with her ham in coke recipe. It turns out that the sugar in coke makes it corrosive and you need to wipe up any spills quickly.

I won’t forgive her either.

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Both are great recipes.

MadWifeInTheAttic · 03/01/2024 23:42

Tucci was stunning as Adolf Eichmann in Conspiracy, about the conference where the Nazis decided to exterminate every living Jew as policy.

I had only seen him in lightweight Hollywood shite and thought he was pretty rubbish till I saw that film.

MadWifeInTheAttic · 03/01/2024 23:43

Also: we all die alone.

LenaLamont · 03/01/2024 23:51

Big Night is a masterpiece.

stomachameleon · 04/01/2024 00:04

I like him in Julie and Julia.

MouseMinge · 04/01/2024 00:14

I left the room at the hospital where my mum died because I was exhausted. It didn't matter. I'd been with her through the night, moisturising her dry skin, stroking her head, putting those small damp sponges in her mouth and telling her that it was okay to go. The fact I wasn't there at the moment of her death means nothing. The fact that he wasn't there at the moment of her death means nothing. He was there for all the moments of hoping to keep her alive and he has loved and cared for their children and his stepchildren. He still talks about her with love, ffs. Some people are deeply, deeply judgemental and plain nasty.

His voice makes me happy, he seems to be a decent man with no pretence of perfection, there are actual unpleasant people out there to lay into. Food related, I'd like to try the courgette spaghetti. I once made a courgette and lettuce soup, a recipe from a top chef, can't remember who, and it was so subtle but absolutely divine in its simplicity.

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