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Cake day: June 14th, 2023

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  • I went on a ‘Business Enterprise’ programme back in the UK in the very early ‘90s. Basically it was how to run a business 101. Six sessions on different things: accounting, HR, etc. etc.

    One of the other guys on the course turned out to be the son of the biggest coke dealer in the city.

    He was a nice kid. By the end of the course a bunch of us had bonded and someone invited us all to a house party.

    The son of the coke dealer turned up with a briefcase literally full of cocaine. That was a fucking awesome party, let me tell you.











  • Oh, this isn’t ‘rando’. Chippies in Scotland will deep fry any fucking thing. Pizza? Standard. Mars bar? Of course! In some chippies you can even take something you’ve bought somewhere else and ask if they’ll batter and fry the fucker for you and they’ll say yes.

    Whenever I get home to Scotland, my personal supper of choice is the haggis supper - a sausage of haggis meat, battered and deep fried, and served with beautifully fried chips, of course. The second night I’m home (especially if the wife isn’t with me) is a haddock supper. Fuckin’ grand.

    I don’t have much of a sweet tooth, but I’m told by those who do that the deep fried Bounty is just the wrong side of the acceptable line of deep fried sweet shit.


  • Only the Brits would colonize half the world looking for spices and then refuse to use them in their food.

    Oh, do fuck off. It’s such a tired cliché and wrong. Our traditional dishes predate conquering almost the entire fucking world. So, no, they don’t tend to feature spices other than pepper and nutmeg because that was all we had 500 years ago.

    But now our national dish is chicken tikka masala. We love our BIR curries, like Madras; Jalfrezi; Vindaloo; Korma; Pathia; and Balti. These were invented here, in the UK, for UK palates. So you can fuck off and shove whatever cuisine your country has up your fucking arse while you’re at it.




  • Let’s start with:

    Fish and chips
    Chip butty
    Yorkshire fishcake butty
    Whitebait
    Scottish smoked salmon
    Cromer crabs
    Potted shrimp
    Scallops and Black Pudding
    Sunday Roast (beef, lamb, pork, chicken, vegetarian)
    Beef Wellington
    Full English
    Full Scottish
    Full Welsh
    Ultster Fry
    Deviled kidneys
    Mixed grill
    Gammon, egg and chips
    Steak and Ale pie
    Steak and oyster pie
    Meat and potato pie
    Pork pie
    Chicken and Mushroom pie
    Scotch pie
    Game pie
    Fish pie
    Shepherd’s pie
    Cottage pie
    Steak and kidney pudding
    Lancashire hotpot
    Irish stew
    Cornish pasty
    Scotch egg
    Sausage roll
    Ploughman’s lunch
    Haggis
    Afternooon / Cream / High Tea
    And of course the full range of BIR curries: Chicken Tikka Masala; Madras; Jalfrezi; Vindaloo; Korma; Pathia; and Balti
    And a bunch of puddings and sweet things, sticky toffee pudding, apple pie, mince pie, hot cross buns, etc., but I don’t have a sweet tooth

    Depending on where you get said foodstuffs it can be everywhere from grim inedible sadness to glorious sublime perfection.