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mine was about 20%

I'm not so sure I could go back to the UK now, just because it's so, so, so much easier to eat properly here. Even ready meals are practically non existent - the average supermarket has about one freezer with them in...compare to the UK and the freezer after freezer with them inside.

I find it easy to eat well here (in Scotland). I too have shops that sell greens & fresh meat.

Not as cheap as Poland, but as I've said before, I find spending money on something so important as food rather than a fancy mobile phone, or a stupid sky package, or a loan for a tv the size of the Vue, justifiable. (and do you earn the same amount as you would here cloud? or is "about three quid" an hours work?)

It's a joy shopping & cooking, I'd rather spend time making food than rushing it and slounging in front of the TV...it just takes a little bit of care, like most good things in life.

I know my post wasn't exactly too helpful, but from my experience of HAVING to create things as PDFs, and discovering I have to use no less than 3 different Adobe programs to get the most basic of editing done, I fucking despise them.

but..PDF's were originally developed as a "read only" tool anyway to basically get a document in a universal format to people compressed enough to be emailled...if any edits "need" to be made, do them in the "original" (word, pagemaker, inDesign, freehand....you name it, anything EXCEPT pdf (which is "just" an output device).

so don't hate the players, hate the game - sister, girl friend thang.

did you download "spooky homo-erotic paedogeddon part 3 ambient soundscape"...

I fear you visited the wrong site...

I'd just sent mr Tibet this link :

Slow Food International | good, clean and fair food

he'd mentioned bill Drummonds "food / art" stuff too : Penkiln Burn

In Aberdeen, I know of several artist working with food as a vehicle to stimulate debate in an artistic context...

it's all good - I will endeavour to make this happen - for those who care.

I'm going to look into it ... I'd said to Johnny that Merlyn Riggs is doing a lot of food / art discussion, so she might be up for joining in (She's doing a residency at Deveron Arts at the mo...so might well be up for it?)...

I'll look into getting some kind of sponsorship / partnership with a butchers...and I'll see if Transition "won't mind" (of course!).

I'll keep you posted... It's something I'd love to do - I kind of already do it as part of the Networking nights with Creative Cultures - but this is more around "the food" - much like merlyn's work...but I'd also like to see stronger relationships with the food community with the artistic....

There's only one life, and we should make the most of it!

good food and banter? (isn't that what it's all about?)

I should do a food / art thing...where I make a pot of ox tail and invite anyone who wants (here) to come and have lunch with me at transition extreme and shoot the breeze about art & culture...who'd be up for that?

High 5 for the ox tail. I've not had it for a long time!!!

The problem is people use supermarkets and cheap restaurants for convenience.

Obviously going to a butchers will give you better quality produce and, most likely, helpful tips on how to cook what you've just bought. It's about customer service really. Although, those who work in supermarkets are trained it's not quite the same as going to the butchers, the fishman and his van or, if there still is one near you, a fruit shop!!

Although Jamie Oliver is kinda annoying, kudos to him for actually trying to do something. The number of families who are disadvantaged but thing it's cheaper to buy ready meals need to be educated that cooking for scratch tastes far better and isn't any more expensive!!

I could go on... but I'll stop.

yeah, there is a fish van in Kingswells every Thursday (and he's got two others, and He's hoping to have one in Inverurie (I live there now...so I am happy).)

Again, this thing about convenience...

"I am too busy to cook" - I love this excuse...to busy to make something that is in fact, one of the simple pleasures in life. Too busy doing what? - putting the feet up in front of the TV, I'd imagine (no?)

It's most definitely because people don't know how to cook in the UK (well "the general public")...

Imagine if we had a food culture like Italy or France? I just think it'd make our lives so much more the richer, having the ability to make one of the fundamentals of life that brings pleasure. To put this aside for watching telly or working 12 hours a day...is a travesty.

and I think that Jamie "is annoying" (to most people), because he's actually so passionate about food that people just can't identify with that - OR they are embarrassed that they can't cook themselves, ergo, slag off the mirror holder.

... again, just some thoughts...

bring on the lips and assholes....

is that a proposition?....

he he...yeah, I do hear you about the "treat" of a fried brekfast...

but, imagine a fried breakfast with local saussages, black pudding, freerange eggs etc...the taste doesn't even compare...

now, where is there a place in Aberdeen that would do that for you?....and be "reasonably priced"...not many if any, I'd imagine, and I think that's my point...

if we didn't mind forking out for "a treat" - even if that was a fried brekkie...

I'd love to set up a place that did "taste" ranther than "price" - I think people would flock - quality always gets noticed...or so I hope (!)

my favourite "cut" is the ox tail - doing a slow roasted moroccan stew (cinamon, star anis, pepper, tomato & big chunky ox tail) probably costs about 5 to make 3 days worth of stew...it's tasty and lasts - but people

A, don't like "offal"

B, don't have a clue how to cook it

C, can't get holod of it in a supermarket (easily).

but...it's worth it - banter with the local butcher, satisfaction you are sourcing local produce (ok, not the spices)...and it's tasty to boot.

I'm just on a ramble, as I love good food...and just wanted to throw in a few things to a discussion about where's the best fried brekkie in aberdeen - knowing that ultimately, there isn't one really...(cheap grey saussages, tastless factory eggs, salty, watery bacon etc).

To be honest though, if the fat lazy buggers don't care what they're eating, then leave them to it. Natural selection and all that.

now that....I kind of do agree with...but you've got to try haven't you?

besides, think of the strain on the NHS from fat lazy turds...if they ate "better" - then we'd have a better system, in the long run....wouldn't we?

BBC NEWS | World | Monkeys work in Japanese restaurant

and that on the same page...what a day for japan!

Jamie Oliver is a prick though, making the whole point null and void.

I guess you are right, someone caring so much about food production, values and trying to get people passionate and themselves caring about what they put inside themselves, other than buying a new xbox or big telly every year....

yeah, he's a prick alright....because he's pretending all that...and he's got a fat tongue & a silly accent.

Morrisons on King Street do a damn fine breakfast.

can you define "damn fine" ?

If cheap saussages made out of lips and assholes, with watery, salty bacon, slimey batery eggs & some cheap beans is "damn fine" - AKA cheap for a hillock of shite food - then I'll stick to bran flakes.

I'm not getting at your Lucky, I just think that people questing for lots of food for as cheap as possible are really missing the point to "good food".

Who here tries to save money by first buying cheap food?

I'm watching the Jamie programme on C4, and agree completely with him...and when people moan that "posh food is too expensive" - yet happily pay 25 - 35 quid a month on mobile phones, or getting a huge telly - they certainly have their priorities wrong.

what is the most important thing in life? - surely the stuff we put inside ourselves, rather than gadgets and trinkets?

(sorry...I had a wee rant there).

anybody else think that "good food" doesn't have to mean "expensive food" ? (and even if it is, the expense is worth it?)

* normal transmission resumes *

it depends if the PDF has been protected, obviously...

but you can "save as" - a rich text, then you can format accordingly, I think there is also "OCR reader" too (if it is protected)...but, you need to keep an eagle eye on the gubbins it can spit out.

good luck indeed.

I got barred from the Dutch Mill a long time ago. It involved a rousing performance of Great Balls of Fire & got one of their barstaff sacked at the same time.

Oops!

I hope it didn't involve a flaming sambuka!

whe I used to work on Albyn, we used to troop up to the Dutch Mill on a friday for a pint and a Pie...lovely.

big lady lyle

i'd like to quickly complain about the service in The Buttery, that newsagents opposite drummonds. the woman behind the counter yesterday afternoon was fucking useless, openly hostile to the idea of something being bought, and stank of booze.

"do you want a sausage butty?" asked my girlfriend conversationally as we bought some fags and a paper in an otherwise empty shop. but even as she asked the question, the lassie behind the counter's putting on her (even more) pissy face and going "make a decision. i've got other fucking things to do"

probably another three bottles of gin

perhaps a lighter under the nose, and with the fumes, she'd erupt into flames, run out the shop holding her head shouting "aiiiiieeeeeeeeeeeee" - and plummet off union bridge, Denethor-esque

I beg to differ.

Bean on toast FTW

jolly good.

thanks for posting that.

peep

he's got a chelsea wry smile! (look at the left side of his mouth!)

he'll get nowhere, didn't buy her a drink to even drop her a roofie...too young to smoke a ciggie, but he's thinking she might try a beef cigar tonight...

I signed up and tried to log in to read the posts, but I was logged out every 5 seconds (literally).

Did I miss much?

like any decent hardcore song length?

you conformists.

Errrrm:

For a second, I thought his name was Fried Dickends.

PS...this is a little time machine thread...wasn't this "bad lp cover" site trawled a year or two ago?

PS, that kid deserves to have his breakfast pummeled, he's wearing an Ankh...that in't no crusifix, you gad-damned soft assed bastid!