On the side of my dinner tonight (on the box it came in, rather), at the beginning of the little paragraph about Refunds If You Are Not Satisfied and Your Rights As A Customer, was:
It's great that you've chosen this Toad in the Hole...
Emphasis mine.
Whut?
It is not remotely great that I have "chosen this Toad in the Hole" (and for the sake of fluffy ferrets, I hardly hand-selected that particular one lovingly out of all the inferior ones nestled in the Iceland freezer cabinet). It is lazy that I have chosen this Toad in the Hole. It is cheap. It is displaying a quite disturbing insouciance towards the nutritional value of my daily food intake and, by extension, my overall health, if you want to push it, because Lord knows, I'm not exactly expecting a gorgeously balanced and delicious meal out of a suspiciously greyish-coloured slab of frozen food that cost me all of a quid!
Great. Pffft.
Ahem.
I'm not entirely certain why that got to me so much. How ridiculous. But I found being confronted by such alarmingly jocular and buoyant enthusiasm to be fairly out of left field, yes.
It wasn't a bad dinner, actually. ;)
[And no, I am not procrastinating whilst hacking through typing up the Black Peter discussion, at all; why do you ask? ;) ]
It's great that you've chosen this Toad in the Hole...
Emphasis mine.
Whut?
It is not remotely great that I have "chosen this Toad in the Hole" (and for the sake of fluffy ferrets, I hardly hand-selected that particular one lovingly out of all the inferior ones nestled in the Iceland freezer cabinet). It is lazy that I have chosen this Toad in the Hole. It is cheap. It is displaying a quite disturbing insouciance towards the nutritional value of my daily food intake and, by extension, my overall health, if you want to push it, because Lord knows, I'm not exactly expecting a gorgeously balanced and delicious meal out of a suspiciously greyish-coloured slab of frozen food that cost me all of a quid!
Great. Pffft.
Ahem.
I'm not entirely certain why that got to me so much. How ridiculous. But I found being confronted by such alarmingly jocular and buoyant enthusiasm to be fairly out of left field, yes.
It wasn't a bad dinner, actually. ;)
[And no, I am not procrastinating whilst hacking through typing up the Black Peter discussion, at all; why do you ask? ;) ]
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Ah, but this is a great toad! It says so right there on the packet!
It is a
mostlyentirely benign British concoction, I swear. Sausages in Yorkshire pudding. Quite nice. Far superior when home-made, mind.no subject
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Definitely try a Toad when you're over in London!
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Andrew
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And that's prety cool - you'll be visiting it to sample, I take it!
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I think part of me just died. I'm getting very Mrs Hudson like urges to swoop in and take over your diet, and make you lots of nice homemade dinners. And I HATE cooking.
:.-(
Eat properly or you'll break!
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No, actually, I eat it off a plate. :P (Well, okay, it was still in the plastic tray whilst on the plate, but the plate was in the vicinity. So there. I'm so civilised, I am.)
And can I just say: *cough* hotel *cough* Coventry *cough* My Mad Tinned/Packet Food + Camp-Stove Skillz...? ;)
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That 200 mile walk I did? We cooked real food every night. :P
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You know that kerfuffle a few years ago, when Delia Smith reissued all her Basic Cooking books, and critics claimed she was "patronising her audience" by including instructions on how to boil on egg? I felt like sending her a thank-you card
because it meant I didn;t have to keep ringing my dad and asking him how long to leave it on the cooker for.Speaking of which, vaguely appropriate icon as it sort of resembles an egg-timer. XD
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I had that Delia book dammit, and I still do my eggs her way! I wasn't one of the ones saying it was patronising, trust me!
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Sounds disgusting...
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For pity's sake!
It's just this!
I suppose we're asking for it, calling it that... ;)
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Go to the store and get yourself some double Devon cream and put on it...OMG...coronary, but I bet its good.
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Cream? Cream on Yorkie pud? How delightfully decadent. I really must try that! :D
Edited because I have an oven; not an iven.
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Initially I wanted to comment that I so know what you mean, but now, after reading all the comments (and just having eaten five rather biggish taters with tzatziki) I feel thoroughly sick, thank you very much.
Fuck, I used to LIKE Yorkshire pudding. It's great.
*stares*
Oh noes. XD
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Though in fairness, I did just have to look up 'tzatziki' just then. Sounds rather tasty.
I'll admit that putting jam on YP is just wrongwrongWRONG on so many levels, but the cream idea sounds tasty. :)