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Roll up, roll up, Hollywood Handshakes for all! Great British Bake Off 3rd Thread

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Myimaginarycathasfleas · 03/10/2018 09:14

And we’re off

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ppeatfruit · 04/10/2018 11:27

Thanks whatashower I need it!! Grin I encourage myself by reminding myself of the calories H.W. uses up!

Gersemi · 04/10/2018 11:35

My school not only committed the beetroot with vinegar horror, they regularly paired it with spam, the production of which frankly should be a criminal offence. I got very hungry those days.

glamorousgrandmother · 04/10/2018 11:53

Gersemi you must have had the same school dinners as me. They made me sit in front of the uneaten meal until the end of lunchtime when they had to let me go back to class.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/10/2018 12:18

SPAM!!!!

I LOVED aspam fritter!

whatashower · 04/10/2018 12:31

@schaden
Ah, memories of girl guide camps and ruskoline frittered spam for me (just googled it and you can still buy ruskoline, who knew?)

SneakyGremlins · 04/10/2018 12:49

I've never had spam. Is that the stuff in tins? Confused

FuzzyCustard · 04/10/2018 12:54

My daughter once made a beetroot cake and I was really disappointed as I thought the red streaks were jam

It's not to late to have her taken into care Fuzzy.

It might be...she's well up her 30's and a far better cook than I am. Perhaps I can be taken into care instead?

FuzzyCustard · 04/10/2018 12:55

Gersemi did it also come with an ice cream scoop of the world's palest and lumpiest and coldest mash? Ostensibly potato but possibly wallpaper paste?

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/10/2018 12:58

Our spam fritters were deep-fried in batter shower. Greasy with lard and similar delights!

Sneaky - you can get spam in tins, yes.

School spam was a thing unto itself, though. A slice was almost as big as the dinner plate and resplendent with golden batter, deep-fried in the choicest of animal fats. The tine will have been big one - army catering sizes, I expect.

SneakyGremlins · 04/10/2018 13:10

The only thing I remember about school dinners was the desserts!

FuzzyCustard · 04/10/2018 13:36

I used to take a plastic bag into the dining hall to scrape all the inedible bits (ie most of it) into, thus being able to present a clean plate to the mafia teachers.
I had to have big pockets.

Gersemi · 04/10/2018 13:44

Fuzzycustard, we would have regarded mash as a luxury. So far as I can remember, it came with bread and butter. And not the freshest bread, either.

Glamorous, did your school vary the horror with disgusting so-called Russian salad? That was nearly as bad as the beetroot.

FruitofAutumn · 04/10/2018 15:04

I know Dan.His food is delicious and he's great. Sad he's gone :-(

rebelworld · 04/10/2018 15:23

Do you all REALLY think it’s as time pressured as they make out it is?

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/10/2018 17:08

Sorry about that Fruits - but at times his face was against him . . . .{sad]

SchadenfreudePersonified · 04/10/2018 17:16

*Sad, not {sad]

glamorousgrandmother · 04/10/2018 19:50

Gersemi I don't remember the Russian salad, maybe I blocked it from my mind.

Fuzzycustard was a genius although I'm not sure plastic bags were so easily available in 1960.

ppeatfruit · 05/10/2018 07:59

Oh no not SPAM and vinegar beetroot OMG Gersemi It's wonder you're here to tell the tale !

Now spam IS the work of the devil Schade

ppeatfruit · 05/10/2018 08:01

Not so much Dan's face but his attitude, it really seemed as though he thought he had it sewn up!!

SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/10/2018 08:07

I remember "Russian Salad" . . . .

Direct from the Gulag to my plate . . . .

School meals were a nightmare.

ppeat - in the interests of science, I have recently re-tried Spam (not in the legal sense - I mean that I bought a tin and tried it. Again> After 50 years.)

Anyhooooo

It was awful. I don't know how ate those fritters.

All I can think is that in the tasteless desert of school dinners, there arrived a fried delight, rich in lard and batter; among the uniform grey food, a bright orange and pink extravaganza; among the cold, slimey mush, a crunchy-ish foodstuff that burned the skin off your lips as you ate it!

No wonder we went wild! Deprived of any sensory delights at all, SPAM seemed the answer to our girlish dreams.

In retrospect, it is indeed FILTH. Sad Another icon shattered.

FuzzyCustard · 05/10/2018 11:40

schady Spam is definitely guilty. Although as an impoverished student I used to eat a lot of spam curry (Probably to disguise the spamminess).

What is Russian Salad? I have never heard of it. Beetroot and vodka?

grumiosmum · 05/10/2018 16:03

I would just like to point out that you cannot put honey in a vegan cake.

On account of it not being vegan (made by bees).

I usually substitute maple syrup.

abbsisspartacus · 05/10/2018 16:08

Russian salad is apparently chopped boiled eggs potatoes carrots peas tinned ham (or spam) and coated in mayonnaise with a sprinkling of chopped green stuff on the top

SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/10/2018 16:25

What is Russian Salad? I have never heard of it. Beetroot and vodka?

If only!

I would then have just pushed the beetroot to the side of my plate and necked the vodka.

SchadenfreudePersonified · 05/10/2018 16:26

It isn't nearly as nice as it sounds from spartacus description (and tbh - it doesn't sound very nice there)

Everything is cut in tiny overcooked bits and mushed together

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