I don't understand the appeal of...

[Mikey]

I think so- it's one of the things I miss from being in NI. I can occassionally get soad bread in Tesco over here though, but no vegetable roll...
They have a thing called square suasage though, which almost the same but not quite, I imagine it's like the equivalent of methadone to a heroin addict.

Hah! Funnily enough, I worked with a fella from Glasgow that had a stash of Lorne Sausage in his freezer that he only ate on special Scottish occasions to make it last, such as St Andrew's Day, Scotland footie matches and Burns night.

Now soda bread, veggie roll and brown sauce - there's your actual fine dining right there, Roux Jnr!

M.

[Roger Godpleton]

For God's sake. Brown sauce is disgusting. We are not discussing this any further.

[Hoagy]

This thread is crazy. 

[radiator]

....'Hilarious' novelty Christmas gifts.

Every bloody year my sister insists on buying everyone stupid 'comedy' presents, like awful celebrity biographes, tacky music CDs, novelty pants etc, and she continues to do so even though every year they're always met with bemused silence or extremely awkward forced laughter of the recipient. I'm a firm believer that Christmas is so indulgent that you might as well buy practical, useful things for people rather than things that will end up in the bin come Boxing day. Anything else is wasteful - both ecologically and financially - I'd rather she just instead give the money she spends on this tat to charity and save everyone's embarrassment.

[Richmond Clements]

Now soda bread, veggie roll and brown sauce - there's your actual fine dining right there, Roux Jnr!

Amen to that!

I shall have to load up on the veggie roll next time I'm over..!

[Mikey]

Radiator - your avatar and post came together in perfect harmony there! I've been guilty of the novelty gift in the past, but they've been well recieved (I think  )

But I don't get the appeal of The Apprentice. A bunch of generally unpleasant supplicant arse lickers willing to prostrate themselves before the money god for some reason. They had these types of tossers on 'The Hopefuls' on The Word didn't they?

M.

[Roger Godpleton]

Your mom has willingly received many of my novelty gifts.

[davethomson]

The only place in for brown sauce in a civilised society is as an ingredient for chippy sauce, and yes in my opinion the east of Scotland is a civilised society. Everywhere else seems to think that salt and vinegar is the correct dressing for your chippy. Ruddy savages, I say!

[Keef Monkey]

I once had a drunken conversation with someone outside a gig who had a massive bottle of HP sauce tattooed on his calf, complete with spurtage. He must have really seen the appeal of that sauce.

[SquashedFly]

Shame it wasn't their forearm, then they could of said its an elaborate metaphor for heroin use.

I'm not sure if I have ever had brown sauce actually...

[HdE]

I don't understand the appeal of buttering bread, sprinkling it with crushed crisps or a spoonful of sugar and than DARING to call it a sandwich.

One of my customers mentioend the age old, long forgotten 'sugar buttie' to me a while back, and I've been trying to get theidea out of my head ever since.

Jamie Oliver, where are you when we need you?

[I, Cosh]

The only place in for brown sauce in a civilised society is as an ingredient for chippy sauce, and yes in my opinion the east of Scotland is a civilised society. Everywhere else seems to think that salt and vinegar is the correct dressing for your chippy. Ruddy savages, I say!

I've lived in Glasgow for twenty years now and I still can't quite come to grips with this barbarism.

[Roger Godpleton]

You will have salt on your chips and maybe ketchup if it's not cheapo plasticky-tasting ketchup.

No Vinegar.

No brahn sauce.

Just salt.

And maybe ketchup.

[I, Cosh]

Mayo?

[Roger Godpleton]

Don't push your luck, sunshine.

And if any of you are thinking "Salad Cream" then you should just fucking kill yourselves right now to save me the bother.