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Old Oct 11th 2007, 1:57 pm
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Originally Posted by flashman
How come nobody's missing tripe and trotters ?

Or maybe they've adjusted to a diet of roadkill !
Oh, you can get trotters. I had them inflicted on me at a New Year's dinner in QC a couple of years back. Fortunately I was pissed.
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Old Oct 11th 2007, 2:45 pm
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Originally Posted by Souvenir
Oh, you can get trotters. I had them inflicted on me at a New Year's dinner in QC a couple of years back. Fortunately I was pissed.
Pissed as in:

1. 'merican meaning - angry?
2. British meaning - drunk as a Lord?

or

3. Both (including urinating on yourself)?

Enquiring minds want to know.
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Old Oct 11th 2007, 3:13 pm
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Pissed as in:

1. 'merican meaning - angry?
2. British meaning - drunk as a Lord?

or

3. Both (including urinating on yourself)?

Enquiring minds want to know.
Shit-faced. I hadn't intended to drink at all but the six-fingered inbreds comprising the entirety of the party apart from me had other ideas.
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Originally Posted by G77
These - http://www.taquitos.net/snacks.php?snack_code=233

It's a soft piece of artificial cheese wrapped in a hard pretzel coating - so wrong, but yet so right



I will look today and report back!
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Old Oct 11th 2007, 5:09 pm
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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
http://www.nohomers.net/images/avatars/HomerDrool.gif

I will look today and report back!
They're available pretty much everywhere in the US - small shops, large shops, everywhere pretty much, so I'd be surprised if they've not made it over the border....

Just don't check the calorie count
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Originally Posted by G77
They're available pretty much everywhere in the US - small shops, large shops, everywhere pretty much, so I'd be surprised if they've not made it over the border....

Just don't check the calorie count

I went to my local Thrifties and didn't see any Pretzel Combos. I will keep looking. I have to keep looking, damn you!

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Old Oct 12th 2007, 8:12 am
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Originally Posted by hot wasabi peas
I went to my local Thrifties and didn't see any Pretzel Combos. I will keep looking. I have to keep looking, damn you!


I'm surprised.....

If you can't find them, sounds like you need an incursion across the border
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Pretzel Combos

I've had them from 7-11.
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Baked beans and orange squash.
I always have a suitcase full when I head back to Victoria!
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Old Oct 12th 2007, 7:08 pm
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Originally Posted by djk_99
Baked beans and orange squash.
I always have a suitcase full when I head back to Victoria!
Our local Brit shop sell Robinsons juice 'under the counter'. I always feel like some sort of drug dealer when I go to get some
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I was never realy a great squash drinker.

Whats Squash got that either kool-aid or those frozen punch drinks doesnt?
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I was never realy a great squash drinker.

Whats Squash got that either kool-aid or those frozen punch drinks doesnt?
Personally I find it much more tasty, and it doesn't have the 10 cups of sugar that kool aid has! It's nice because it's a lot cheaper than juice as well. Just my taste!
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Originally Posted by djk_99
Personally I find it much more tasty, and it doesn't have the 10 cups of sugar that kool aid has! It's nice because it's a lot cheaper than juice as well. Just my taste!
Not that I drink Koolaid (more of a kids drink) but it comes as a powder you put the sugar in so it doesn't have to be 10 cups.

As for taste I can't say I care for it.
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Originally Posted by djk_99
Personally I find it much more tasty, and it doesn't have the 10 cups of sugar that kool aid has! It's nice because it's a lot cheaper than juice as well. Just my taste!
Kool aid only has as much sugar as I choose to add to it...that a great advantage as a parent.


I find orange juice made fresh from frozen concentrate has much more orange flavour than any squash. At $1.50 a jug its hardly breaking the bank either.

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Old Oct 12th 2007, 9:01 pm
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Originally Posted by iaink
I was never realy a great squash drinker.

Whats Squash got that either kool-aid or those frozen punch drinks doesnt?
I didn't drink much of it either, and Jr certainly didn't... but the obvious advantage is the fact that it's done on a glass by glass basis, can be weak for one, stronger for the next. And of course the availability of sugar-free stuff.

My kid does get the odd glass of sugar-free Crystal Light (shops own sugar-free brand I mean!) here, but it's a pain making up the whole 2quarts just for 1 cup, the remainder gets forgotten about and then thrown out. And I'm far too mean to buy the "singles" to solve that one
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