manc1

Eeeee shear luuuuxxxuuurry.

Nu-Shooz

Bacon here tastes weird, just like the chocolate...but like everything else, you get used to it.

geeandtee

I've gotten used to some of the US bacon. We managed to get some Danish back bacon the other week and I couldn't get over how salty it was. I guess, after 6 years, my taste buds have adjusted.

Ruby Murray

I just wish we could get sausages here even "slightly" similar to those from back home

All we get here are smokies, breakfast sausage or fatty, gristly sausages. I miss the Richmonds thick links the most, the last sausages I bought here were from Costco and I ended up chucking them away with all the gristle ewwwww

Fleaflyfloflum

I'm with you Ruby. Do love a good sausage

I like the Irish ones too. But i also used to like the cooked hot cumberland sausage tesco sold at their deli counter, but when i went back last year i tried one and it didnt taste the same!! So when i finally get back i shall be on the hunt for a good curly sausage

Ruby Murray

The best sausage I ever tasted was at an independent butchers in a little village called Abbots Langley in Herts...and I had one of their pork & leeks - no fatty gristle, just awesome flavour and texture! I would like to try cumberland and lincolnshire, but they always "look" fatty in their cold form......are they good?

geeandtee

Oh, I feel your pain!!! The sausages here are dreadful...either fatty, greasy tasting Bratwurst or over peppery breakfast sausage. We rely on occasional gifts of irish or english sausages from my parents who visit the english tea room in Tucson once a month. Sadly, the last time they were there, there were no sausages I miss Cumberland sausages and Newmarket ones.

Ali in jaen

I miss all those things, but what about crumpets drooling in butter on a Sunday afternoon?

Saturdays - shopping, a curry or a lager in a DECENT pub!

Sundays - church, car boot and going for walks

ohnojo

The only nightclubs I went to were in Bristol, one was called Roxy's and the other was called The Granary. Granary was for your Led Zep, Black Sabbath custom bike riding types (like my sister and her friends), Roxy's was more for your sportbikes and Van Halen types (like me). Both lots tolerated each other though in both clubs. T'was tres cool [/QUOTE]

Blimme - that's bought back some memories ! The Granary is closed now isn't it ?
Oh to be young again

brits1

Oh no it has to be H.P for the boys and for me "fruity HP"!!! Oh and my oldest son just say Gammon and the smell of it cooking.......oh cannot wait to be back

Triboy

Blimme - that's bought back some memories ! The Granary is closed now isn't it ?
Oh to be young again [/QUOTE]

The Granary is still there, and still called The Granary. Looks like its been turned into luxury flats now. If you know those clubs, did you also drink at 'The Mardyke' in Hotwells? (wine bar now )


Know what you mean about being young again.

jojosan

Wasn't The Mardyke the biker's pub, opposite where the ferries let you off? I went there on a booze cruise years ago, and there were people looking like ZZ Top in there staring at us (cos us girlies clearly did not belong there!)

I spent a happy evening last August at the Llandoger Trow - now that MUST have been a 'haunt' of yours then? Speaking of which, they did a 'Most Haunted' prog from there too; Yvette Fielding p**ing her pants in the cellar!! V. funny.

Triboy

Bloody hell, the Llandoger Trow, now there's a name I haven't heard in a looong time I did a lot of 'drinking' (I didn't drink back then) in Bristol, as my sister lived there, and we shared the same mates basically. But I never left Wells (Somt) until I came here.

Yep, the Mardyke was (near enough) opposite the SS Great Britain. Lovely on a summers evening, sat on the pavement outside. Other pubs in Bristol we used to go to were the Admiral Bembo, The Crown (near the covered markets) , The Bear at Melksham. And another nightclub was Hobbits Hole at Weston-Super-Mare.

Ah, yoof. It were grand

tillysmum

Slightly off topic but manc1 did you ever go to Slatterys in prestwich they do a mean mocha coffee with belgian choc disc on top mmmmmmmmmmmmmm

Londonuck

sorry too many jokes.