A Tuna Revelation

This is worthy of a news announcement:





Why the hell don't we have this?
Tuna is a staple in everyone's cupboard (excluding vegetarians, unless they're the "i eat fish" one's'.
It's a staple because it's quick.
This is even quicker! The extra ingredients are already there.

Absolute genius.
This is the most ground breaking discovery since the wheel.

John, we need this in Britain asap.
Cheers.

Canned foods

I received a special request for a blog about chicken in a can.

Yes, a whole chicken in a can.

If you're feeling intrigued and brave, here's a video that might settle some of that curiosity.

Unfortunately i couldn't find the price for chicken in a can, but to be honest i don't think it will cost much judging by the look of it.

Whilst on the subject, i've collected a few more unusual canned foods:






Ok, the last product might not be true......yet.
Dedicated to Fran.

Red Sweets

It's a well known fact that red sweets are more than likely going to be the best tasting. Skittles, Starburst, Haribo(not including eggs), Refreshers etc.

This leads me to ask, why is the ratio of red sweets to other colours always less!? Everytime i have Skittles, because i eat them in specific colour order (save the best for last), there's always half the amount of reds to yellow. The same happens with a packet of Starburst or Fruit Pastels.
People don't buy sweets for the yellow ones! If i was a sweet manufacturing company i would exploit this fact and sell packets full of only red sweets. I'd be a millionaire!

Wine

There's white, there's red and there's rose. Sometimes pronounced like the flower by inexperienced rose drinkers.

White - the easy choice but can get a bit much. It starts off nice but for some reason always gets worse as you progress further down the bottle.

Red - difficult to find a good red, a lot of knowledge and experience needed, looks more sophisticated but results in black lips.

Rose - my personal favourite, a great middle ground. Not only does the title make you feel classy - in a look at me im speaking french way - it's also the safest taste-wise.

Rose seems to be slowly dominating the wine front as more and more University females discover it. I've heard the discrimintion against Rose, 'C'mon! Choose a team!' but there will always be a place for Rose in my heart/stomach.

Cobs

When i moved North to Mansfield one of the hardest things to adapt to was the 'cob'. This is a Midland's term for the bread roll. It has absolutely no ressemblance to the word roll what so ever.
If i asked for a roll, i'd just get a blank stare as if i were speaking Spanish. Even sandwiches are called 'cobs' - to me that's just laziness. I tried to defend the bread roll by explaining that on packets of rolls it is titled '4 white bread rolls'. In return i once had the reply that rolls were a dessert 'one of those long things with icing on'.

This is a quote from Wikipedia that all 'cob' people should read:

'Cob, a word often incorrectly associated with bread rolls by Midlands students studying English...' Why studying English i don't know but either way it proves bread roll is correct!

As for breadcake..... that's easy - cake, bread? Which is it? Bread.

Scone or Scon?

Scone... How do you pronounce it? Well there is only one way it should be said.

If i say scone or scon? it becomes very clear which way it should be pronounced. If you pronounce it as scone, you are correct. If you say scon im afraid the proof is in the spelling.

Charlotte, if we ever do end up opening our bakery, we will not be serving any scons.

McDonald's Collection Point

I went to McDonald's yesterday and encountered a very unusual experience. I ordered my food as normal but at the point of handing over change they said, 'your number is 173, if you'd like to make your way over to the collection point please'. What.....? I thought i was in argos.

It was so surreal to be standing in McDonald's with monitor above me flashing numbers. About 1 minute later 173 flashed on the screen so i walked back up to the counter 'the collection point' and collected my food.

I'm not sure if this is a new thing, or if this store was testing the idea, but watch this space and be prepared.