Remember when...

prpr

prpr

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...August used to be called the "Silly Season", and journos had to invent the news (well, more than they usually do), before the back-to-school seriousness preceding the fun'n'games of the party conference season.
It's all go this week, and no fun in sight...
Train crash
Eclipse
Inferno
By-election
Suicide

Let's just hope this is the beginning of the end (or at least the end of the beginning) of box-ticking wokery.
 
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prpr said:
It's all go this week, and no fun in sight..
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Here in Notts:
-Several assaults/stabbings
-Bus company goes bust
-RMT strike
-Our local wildfires with major incident declared.

Another two weeks and the pre-Christmas season will begin.:dance:
 
EEPhil said:
Here in Notts:
-Several assaults/stabbings
-Bus company goes bust
-RMT strike
-Our local wildfires with major incident declared.

Another two weeks and the pre-Christmas season will begin.:dance:
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Plenty of Halloween dross already appearing on the shelves, I wonder if we might finally get a ban on selling fireworks to the general public this year as some "experts" are saying the drought might last into the Autumn.
 
prpr said:
...August used to be called the "Silly Season", and journos had to invent the news (well, more than they usually do), before the back-to-school seriousness preceding the fun'n'games of the party conference season.
It's all go this week, and no fun in sight...
Train crash
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Well, two of them, the second one hasn't made the same news as it didn't tip on its side and injure people, so its less of a news item.
 
EEPhil said:
Morrison's are selling mince pies and other Christmas goodies. They are also selling hot cross buns! What the.., what's the date, where am I? (Nurse! I'm out if bed again!)
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They keep on selling Christmas / Easter stuff earlier and earlier... eventually will be all year.
Happy Christmas! (/ Easter / Halloween / etc.)
 
Black Hole said:
Perhaps they had a lot of remnant stock?
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I've always had the suspicion, probably unjustified, that shops freeze mince pies in January and thaw them out in August/September without telling you. Perhaps they have similar behaviour with hot cross buns.

On a related theme - am I the only one who ignores the message on the packaging of some foodstuff: "not suitable for home freezing"? I'm thinking of items (eg. sausages and other processed meat products) that will be cooked before eating. I've never had any problems with them.
 
EEPhil said:
On a related theme - am I the only one who ignores the message on the packaging of some foodstuff: "not suitable for home freezing"? I'm thinking of items (eg. sausages and other processed meat products) that will be cooked before eating. I've never had any problems with them.
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The basic rule is not to re-freeze something which has been defrosted, unless you've cooked it in between. Wet fish, for example, should only be frozen if it has not been frozen before (and 'factory' trawlers freeze their catch on-board), and that will have the "not suitable for home freezing" label. Yes, OK, you're going to kill pathogens when you ultimately cook it, but the cooking does not destroy toxins that pathogens might previously have left behind. Also, the freeze-defrost-freeze-defrost cycle will impair the texture.

Ultimately, you can do what you like with your own food and probably you'll get away with it, but don't risk serving it to anyone else.
 
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