The childminder took *Moondog's* children to Macdonalds today......

[moondog]

so,question is,am I being unreasonable by terminating her contracy forthwith??

excellent thread, moondog.

LOL at

awww steady on missy salt-N-sauce diluted with the vinegar.mmm da best.white puddin supper n curry sauce -yummm

excellent threat haven't laughed this much in ages slagging maccy d's and floury spuds aaaah going to bed happy

lol at potato theme.

oops meant thread not threat too much sauvignon blanc

sauvignon blanc on yer chips- oh fancy pants hark at you me saltNsauce but mebbe wee bitty sauvignon does the trick

im still lmfao at chicken vagina on first page - classic

shall never think of kfc in the same way again

LOL at this thread this morning.

Many apologies Moondog for hijacking your perfectly justified rant at your CM for crimes against food snobbery humanity.

These Irish. Can't keep them under control you see. They are everywhere. Give them an inch and they take a mile - and in doing so get the EU to spent squillions on a road to get them there! You will have to forgive MadameC's perfectly legitimate excitement at the road. The best thing in Wicklow is the road out you see. Esp as it leads to Dundrum. For those of you not in the know Dundrum is a suburb of Dublin. A suburb that had a lovely new shopping centre. A shopping centre that has such havens as Harvey Nichols and House of Fraser. And Yo Sushi (although they are every where now - a bit common really).

And then there is in inevitable potato conversation. You can't beat an Irish Rooster - balls of flour, balls of flour. And parents seem to generally be stuck back in famine-mode where a meal isn't a meal unless it has potatoes with it. My Mum loves curry - but has to have it with chips. She likes Bolognaise but doesn't really like spagetti and would often have mashed potatoes instead. Sigh.

I do have to say though that this sauce on chips thing passed me by. Maybe I left too early. I left in 1987. I think Abrakebra was beginning to appear but I have never been in one. I used to frequent a kebab stand on Baggot Street - Ishmael's Kebabs. Yum. Haven even eaten an Ishmael kebab in the restaurant in the Shelbourne Hotel! I used to work there an one night was out with a group from the hotel and we all went to Ishmaels after a nightclub and as we were walking back past the Shel we noticed some of the managers and waiters were sitting around a table in the restaurant having supper so we joined them. Twas very funny.

When in Scotland I have been know to have mashed potato pie and chips. With cheese on top. Yum.

As you were.

I fruckinlove spuds! Engloirish for tats! I'm still up but going to bed now. WTF is wrong with potatoes? Stop showing off Buda, your just a bleedin mulchie! [wonk] Goodnught and may your God go with you.

Ok, so I'm a feckin genius, the whole drunky stylee typos are just for effect..........I bleedin wish! Goodnight/morning yis muppets. x

Oh I enjoyed the Irish sidetrack. I had an Irish boyfriend for many tears (Newcastle Co. Down) so a lot of it is familiar.

Ags, lol at the hotel panicking about there only being two kinds of potatoes.

What are Roosters btw?

Potatoes........roosters are potatoes. Moondog, you can sidle away quietly or I can give you five thousand variations on the spud.........the choice is yours!

Is it slang for a particular type or a generic term for them all?

I love the whole potato thing. Dh and I went to Ireland last summer. Now we can eat but even we were stumped by volume and variety of potato dishes at every meal.

White, Queens's pinks, Golden wonder,

Rooster = bright red dry skinned potato. Only tastes good with half a pot of hummous on top. Did they have hummous during the famine

My mum must have been very cosmopolitan becausae in the 1980s She would make spaghetti bolognese, with pasta of course, but say "if anybody would like to have the bolognese with a potato instead I have some in the pot".

ps,. i want to try the scottish national dish of deep fried mars bar. That sounds heavenly. Big cup of tea to wash it down....

Typical. Next to no one on the boards but mention potatoes and two Irish women arrive from nowhere to chew the cud over the spud!

I had a wry smile to myself when I saw this thread!
You are lucky you haven't got the CM who tutored me on my how-to-be-childminder-even-though-i've-done-it-for-7years course.
She said that she takes her 3 under 5yr old charges to Burger King 3 times a week for lunch as "it's easier for me"
Don't get me wrong I take my Dses there occasionally, but I certainly wouldn't take mindees every week.

so Domino's and KFC are not legit alternative foodgroups?

That's gross! Maccie D's icecream is gopping.

Now a nice Happy Meal would have been fine

No.

Have I missed notice of termionationt hen??

How did it go?

(I woul;d have dismissed wihtout a secnd thought being a up-her-arse veggie (own description)

god would anyone believ i etemp and a audio typist?

yum yum we love McD's and KFC

No harm in the odd million calories and fat and all that cack once in a while.

MadameCholet, ds1 used to get "spaghetti bologneses and potatoes" in the creche. When I questioned him further it turned out that there was no spaghetti at all, just mince and spuds!

PMSL at wickedwaterwitch's 'chicken vaginas'

Dd found a happy meal toy on the coathooks at toddler group and I let her have it - it was a little penguin and she adored it and took it everywhere. She was sitting holding it in her Makaton Sing & Sign class (where you can't move for Bugaboos and Boden) and the teacher grinned and sang out "Someone's been to Macdoooonalds!". It took every fibre of my being not to shriek that we hadn't, honest - we'd simply stolen the toy!