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How little self respect or how little money must Anthony Worrell Thompson and Gary Rhodes have to do that appalling Fairy Chemical Burst (warning may cause blindness, seek medical advice) advert with Ainsley Harriott.
Tossers.
Written by exmonkey on June 27th, 2006 with 3 comments.
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Shirley Conran once famously said “Life’s to short to stuff a mushroom”.
I would argue that life is to short not to.
We find ourselves in a situation where lifestyle type adverts are telling us that 70 second microwave burgers are a meal and that pouring a bottle of Uncle Ben’s gloop on some chicken pieces is cooking.
Any European visitor to this country may be forgiven for thinking that we (the British) hate food. II think this notional visitor would be right. Take, for example, spaghetti.
In this country, it was for many years received wisdom that the way you tested whether spaghetti was cooked (or not) was by throwing is against the wall. If it stuck, the wisdom said, it was cooked.
Compare this to the Italians. These backward peasants actually taste it to see if it’s cooked. Yuk.
So basically, we throw our food at a wall to see if it’s edible. That’s how much we love food.
I did a quick search for “How to see if spaghetti is cooked” on Google. Here is a transcript of a short conversation on the subject I found at this forum
jonski: Help please, my mam and dad are on holiday and my g/f aint answering her phone and i cba to get a chinese, again! All there is to eat is spaghetti but i dunno how to cook it, do i juts leave it in a pan full of boiling water till it goes soft or sumthin? Plz help before i starve!
gazmannus: Spaghetti’s easy. Boil a pan of water. Put spaghetti in. Wait a bit. To test if spaghetti is cooked, take a strand and throw it at the wall. If it’s cooked, it will stick. Throw a bit of salt in too, for flavouring.
No really.
We are all doomed.
Written by exmonkey on June 27th, 2006 with 4 comments.
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