The Bluestocking Women’s Pub - Where Everybody Knows Your Username

[MarieDeGournay]

Welcome to the Bluestocking Arms, the home of good company, excellent drinks and delicious cakes which magically have no irksome contents like gluten or sugar or calories or the kind of alcohol that causes problems - but you wouldn't know

Food and drink are served by a keen staff of gerbils, and other animals such as capybaras, quokkas, etc., also fulfil vital roles, while looking cute AF.

New Bluestockingers always welcome.

Earl Grey tea, hot, here; no milk, no lemon - oh, & decaff. Basically, boiled water.😂

Once a day I make up for it with strong coffee (anything with chocolate notes) with loads of frothy milk.

Toasted soda bread with sausages sandwiched in between and a wee bit of sauce. Some people prefer a bacon soda for breakfast.

Now the Belfast pastie is not well known elsewhere, and it's not really like a Cornish pasty. You get sausagemeat, mashed potato, onions and plenty of seasoning, mash it all up into a circular kind of burger form, dip it in batter and deep fry it. You can have it with chips (pastie supper) or have it in a bap.

This is as nothing compared to the confusion of people who visit Belfast and encounter vegetable roll 😉

As ever, Google is your friend

If we ever start considering a united Ireland, trying to reconcile breakfast differences is going to be up there with Tayto vs Tayto.

Breakfast rolls all the way here.

That said, the Belfast pastie sounds like a culinary achievement up there with the spice bag.

Having said that, the best thing to go with tea in the daytime is Veda and cheese.

Wheat allergy in Belfast would be even more frustrating than it is everywehre else.

The Walrus says "Correct".

Apparently I am wrong.

I too wondered about fizzy drinks with sausages in.
Lost in translation!

Well done Walrus.

What's veda?

It's a small brown malted loaf. There used to be similar breads produced across the British Isles, but NI seems to be the last holdout. Toasted veda with a slice of cheese is yum.

@FuzzyPuffling

heading north on Friday, detouring into Wigan to buy pie - I don’t get it really as I’m a soft southerner who prefers Cornish pasties but dh loves this place (plus will need petrol by then)

Being chased by a tall ship, not under sail.

We appear to have joined a party catamaran, with many young potential influencers.

I haven't seen so many tattoos, piercings and string thong bikinis ever.

I have however perfected the perfect throw your head over your shoulder, so your hair obscures your face, while propped up on your elbows, showing off your belly piercing pose, despite not having long hair or a belly piercing.

They are such lovely young people and I do hope they are not solely relying on their youth and looks, but also have some character about them.

Can they knit?

I have been told by someone from St Helens that Wiganers aren't called pie eaters because of any culinary choices but because the Wigan colliers were the first to give in and go back to work during the 1929 General Strike. They were said to have eaten humble pie.

It may not be true as there is a fair degree of animosity between Woollybacks and pie eaters.

Just wow!! Beats hosing the spaniel down after wallowing in a cow pat any day…

With gravy of course…

I must admit I prefer the sort of catamaran you stand on the edge of supported by a wire (‘trapeze’) to stop it capsizing, or else can sprawl on the fabric between the hulls (‘trampoline’). Sounds more athletic than it really is!
But I fear our days of sailing Darts on Neilsen holidays are a thing of the past.

I learned to sail in Croatia nearly 20 years ago. Nothing beats moving with the boat under sail.

@SionnachRuadh I just Googled vegetable roll. I understand the confusion!

I make a mean soda bread if I do say so myself, but some of my ancestors hailed from Kerry so I assume it's genetic 😉

I have learned that discussing Norn Iron food can cause confusion with friends in England.

I've no doubt some of them think we have sausage flavoured Dr Pepper...

I missed all this Irish culinary stuff, a neighbour called... hours ago, I see!

I'm familiar with an egg soda, and an Ulster freyyyyyyyyyyy, but sausage soda is new to me; easily deciphered though once you know what an egg soda is.

I suppose you could have an anything-soda. How about a Portobello Mushroom Soda, for those with Notions?
Or Plant Based Burgers with Fake Cheese Soda? You'd love that, wouldn't you Errol?

Loving your traveller's tales, Myrtle! The picture of the catamaran briefly evoked dear Swash's pirate ship, but on reading the description of the people on board... er.... perhaps not...

Sionnach, 'small brown malted loaf' sounds like a term of endearment from an old Gaelic song that has lost something in translation
A bhuilín beag donn maltaithe
'S tú d'fhág mo chroí chráite.. etc.
😃

Dear lord, and we thought sparp was an aberration only an AI would come up with.

😂

Foxy will never speak to me again, but in my experience, never underestimate a six-counties menu planner's commitment to universal scurvy. And comfortably rounded contours.

Except my friend V who produced wonderful (and in summer homegrown) salads.