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Post by Tuffers on Dec 17, 2021 20:47:47 GMT
My local Chinese takeaway has dishes with 'OK sauce'. For example, 'Beef with OK sauce' or 'King Prawns with OK sauce'. I've never tried it and had to Google what it was. Apparently it's English made/origin and actually sounds nice. We're having Chinese takeaway tomorrow so maybe I'll try it. I won't. Anyone tried it?
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Post by Destry on Dec 17, 2021 21:12:20 GMT
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Post by Destry on Dec 17, 2021 21:16:01 GMT
Custos veritatis shirley? |
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 17, 2021 21:33:03 GMT
Custos veritatis shirley? Is custard really a sauce though? |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Dec 17, 2021 21:33:42 GMT
Custos veritatis shirley? custos means guardian custodes means guardians so 'guardian or guardians' of the truth is subjective to usage. my face is subjective isn't it, oh well.. |
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Post by MrTiddles on Dec 17, 2021 21:34:58 GMT
Custos veritatis shirley? Quite right Destry. I think Truth Custards were outlawed by the Geneva Convention. |
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Post by stxdpr on Dec 17, 2021 21:55:46 GMT
Cerberus est canis, canons est in via. Canis est in via dormit.
Sod trying to remember any Ancient Greek. One year of grammar school Latin/classics was enough.
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 17, 2021 22:02:03 GMT
This is wonderful A rocket launch viewed from the ISS, as it leaves earth’s atmosphere |
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Post by Destry on Dec 17, 2021 22:06:34 GMT
Custos veritatis shirley? Quite right Destry . I think Truth Custards were outlawed by the Geneva Convention. I think you mean the Genoise Convention. |
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Post by Ozymandias Kane on Dec 17, 2021 22:21:54 GMT
Cerberus est canis, canons est in via. Canis est in via dormit. Sod trying to remember any Ancient Greek. One year of grammar school Latin/classics was enough. Cerberus is a dog, a canon is on the way. The dog sleeps on the road. The man with the umbrella is waiting by the fountain on Thursday.  It is wet. |
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Post by Chumbles on Dec 17, 2021 22:23:41 GMT
This guy's youngest has got it right ... |
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Post by Tuffers on Dec 17, 2021 22:37:07 GMT
Dear Whisky fans (Sheep2 basically)
As I've said before, I'm a very occasional single malt drinker, usually a Highland Park. Anyway, the PM picked up a 70cl bottle of 10yr old Glenmorangie today for £25! She'd gone to get it as a gift for a family member, but at that price we got one too. Reduced from £37,which sounds a tad high/dubious, but £25! It's like a licence to print free money!
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Post by Tuffers on Dec 17, 2021 22:37:59 GMT
Dear Whisky fans (Sheep2 basically) As I've said before, I'm a very occasional single malt drinker, usually a Highland Park. Anyway, the PM picked up a 70cl bottle of 10yr old Glenmorangie today for £25! She'd gone to get it as a gift for a family member, but at that price we got one too. Reduced from £37,which sounds a tad high/dubious, but £25! It's like a licence to print free money! Probably should mention it's from Sainsburys Tuffers, you dunce. |
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 17, 2021 22:55:09 GMT
Glenmorangie is how I learned to drink single malt. That and Glenfiddich.
Not had any for decades.
It is nice. It's a light whisky, and I think a tiny bit dull. But as I recall it was one of those bottles with a hole in. Like Glenlivet. I can't keep it in as people break in hit me over the head and steal it all within a week or two. Every time.
Actually I did try the 3 specials, the Quinta Ruban, Nectar D'Or and the other one (Oloroso?) Nectar D'Or was brilliant. But then they raised its price massively.
I'm using old bottles of Tobermory as my go to sipper as the local Co-Op has them and i'm the only buyer. Literally. They had 6 bottles about 5 years ago. I've bought 3 and there are 3 left. It's not on sale anywhere else I know of so it would be rude not to.
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 17, 2021 23:19:07 GMT
The other brilliant whisky Waitrose sell is Nikka From The Barrel.
It is delicious. The most Scottish of Japanese whiskies.
Literally
It actually turned out to be 95%+ Scotch with only a token amount of Japanese whisky in it.
I'm not certain, but I think it is a blend of Highland Park and Bowmore. Possibly there is a reasonable amount of Jura in it.
Anyway despite the scandal it remains delicious. Do I think less of it for what they did? Well no, not really. In the end it has to be about the taste. If it tastes good, and it does and it isn't 90% antifreeze* then it is good. It isn't overpriced, merely isn't quite what it claims to be.
I have a suspicion some single malts aren't always properly single malts anyway. The odd barrel of Bowmore or Caol Ila added to a dozen barrels of a dull highland whisky can work miracles. Not that it ever does i'm sure. But in an industry built on blending it must be tempting to add body sometimes.
* Talisker is 95% antifreeze. It's supposed to taste like that. It's s medicinal. Honest.
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Post by RollingEscargot on Dec 17, 2021 23:29:24 GMT
I didn't know that about the Japanese whisky. I hope we retaliated by deep frying the fuck out of some sushi or something.
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Post by tenthenemy on Dec 17, 2021 23:59:38 GMT
Never tried the Japanese whisky but heard good things about it.
Sainsbury's usually has great whisky bargains at this time of the year.
Ocado has the medicinal Talisker on offer for £24 instead of £39, but you need to fight for delivery slots. Review by one Mr or Ms Sloggs: "Not worthy of the drain" (1 upvote, 10 downvotes. Do the kids still say 'ratio' these days?).
Glenfiddich is the only single malt I can't get myself to care about.
Making whisky is a craft. I mean, have you ever tried putting an oak cask into the toaster? That requires skill.
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Post by lazybones on Dec 18, 2021 0:30:54 GMT
I’m drinking some whiskey now.
Wild Turkey 101. With a smoooooth taste. And a loooooong finish.
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Post by lazybones on Dec 18, 2021 0:35:32 GMT
I ask for it my name.
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Post by lazybones on Dec 18, 2021 1:09:54 GMT
I think I like Islay malts. I tell myself I do. But the last bottle I bought seemed to have this deep malevolence to it. I could imagine my mood darkening, as if I was on my way to rocking about in the chair and hissing. I don’t touch that muck now.
Maybe a little. Just a taste.
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 18, 2021 1:41:36 GMT
I am a big fan of Laphroaig and Ardbeg.
A man once sold me a bottle of Laphroaig by hitting me on the nose.
At the Whisky Exchange shop in Vinopolis. He was describing how the 43% old style was less sweet and more in your face than the 40% bottle. And this special bottle they had was even more in your face.
First he stoped 2 inches away, then an inch away for the 43% then the 46% required being gently smacked on nose.
I was impressed enough to buy it. It was fantastic. I went back 2 weeks later for more, but he had sold it all. Obviously hitting people on the nose is a good sales technique for whisky.
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 18, 2021 1:46:27 GMT
When I open my whisky shop I will sell all Islay whisky and Talisker through the smack on the nose technique.
In fact I might only sell whisky you can sell to someone by describing it by hitting them.
So no Glenmorangie.
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 18, 2021 1:54:15 GMT
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Post by Sheep2 on Dec 18, 2021 1:57:01 GMT
For clarification I mean embarrassing for the Japanese whisky industry. It's a tribute to the Scotch whisky industry.
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