Random stuff - the anything else thread
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#6169
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I bought a pack of crumpets today. In Giant Tiger of all places. I knew them as Pikelets as a child.
I went off them in my teens but just for old times' sake I got them.
They didn't have the smell nor the taste I remember. In fact they were amazingly bland and I had to put Marmite on, something I would never have considered way back then.
They were nice with the Marmite but so is toast and an entire loaf can be bought for the cost of the pikelets.
I went off them in my teens but just for old times' sake I got them.
They didn't have the smell nor the taste I remember. In fact they were amazingly bland and I had to put Marmite on, something I would never have considered way back then.
They were nice with the Marmite but so is toast and an entire loaf can be bought for the cost of the pikelets.
#6170
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
I bought a pack of crumpets today. In Giant Tiger of all places. I knew them as Pikelets as a child.
I went off them in my teens but just for old times' sake I got them.
They didn't have the smell nor the taste I remember. In fact they were amazingly bland and I had to put Marmite on, something I would never have considered way back then.
They were nice with the Marmite but so is toast and an entire loaf can be bought for the cost of the pikelets.
I went off them in my teens but just for old times' sake I got them.
They didn't have the smell nor the taste I remember. In fact they were amazingly bland and I had to put Marmite on, something I would never have considered way back then.
They were nice with the Marmite but so is toast and an entire loaf can be bought for the cost of the pikelets.
#6174
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
This comes up on wiki as crumpet but it was what I called pikelets, which was also on the wrapper back then.
This comes up for pikelet
but so does this
My memory is of holes top and bottom but the ones I got today were holes on the top and like the middle picture on the bottom.
The middle picture reminds me of something back in blighty...sort of raisin mini pancake things?
#6176
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
We had crumpets at home, slathered with butter.
I'd never had pikelets until I went into digs in Liverpool, landlady had lived in Scotland fro some years, and that is what she often made for Sunday afternoon snack.
She made the batter, then dropped it by spoonfuls onto a special metal plate that she had that fitted over the burners on the stove. She piled them on a plate and kept them warm in the oven until all the batter was used up. Then she served with jam or marmite.
I also came across pikelets in Yorkshire after that.
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Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
So we did have an earthquake early this morning, well south of Vancouver and north of Seattle somewhere, I thought we did, but I couldn't tell for sure, only a 4.6.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/4-6-magnitude-...uver-1.4505381
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/4-6-magnitude-...uver-1.4505381
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#6179
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
Look at Rover here sic on this bear!
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1727174
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/video?clipId=1727174
#6180
Re: Random stuff - the anything else thread
So we did have an earthquake early this morning, well south of Vancouver and north of Seattle somewhere, I thought we did, but I couldn't tell for sure, only a 4.6.
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/4-6-magnitude-...uver-1.4505381
https://bc.ctvnews.ca/4-6-magnitude-...uver-1.4505381