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Old Mar 30th 2008, 10:32 am
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Originally Posted by Border Reiver
Stotties! Didn't eat them much back in the UK but funny how I miss them.
with ham and pease pudding
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Old Mar 30th 2008, 10:33 am
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Originally Posted by Spugsy
girls going out dressed in very little
You obviously haven't gone out clubbing much here...some of the girls wear bugger-all up top and nothing underneath. What I miss every once in a while is a soothing gargle with TCP...or do they have it here?
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Old Mar 30th 2008, 10:36 am
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the chippy on SZR closed down. The best two places for british grub were the Country Club and Nad Al Sheba. HH very kindly closed them both down. Try Emirates Golf club for a good english brekkie, I have heard it's good.
I need to find some in AD. The places i have been all use beef bacon or veal cr@p. Taste nothing like proper stuff!
Thankgod for Spinneys
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Old Mar 30th 2008, 10:37 am
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Originally Posted by lionheart
You obviously haven't gone out clubbing much here...some of the girls wear bugger-all up top and nothing underneath. What I miss every once in a while is a soothing gargle with TCP...or do they have it here?
You've obviously been in some of the dodgy bars I've been in
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Originally Posted by Blue Cat
the chippy on SZR closed down. The best two places for british grub were the Country Club and Nad Al Sheba. HH very kindly closed them both down. Try Emirates Golf club for a good english brekkie, I have heard it's good.
I got taken to the Red Lion one Sat afternoon and there all-dayer was excellent........
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Old Mar 30th 2008, 10:43 am
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Originally Posted by Blue Cat
with ham and pease pudding
yuk I used to go to school next to a pease pudding factory, the smell of it now makes me gag.
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Old Mar 30th 2008, 10:44 am
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Originally Posted by lionheart
You obviously haven't gone out clubbing much here...some of the girls wear bugger-all up top and nothing underneath. What I miss every once in a while is a soothing gargle with TCP...or do they have it here?
I haven't clubbing at all, althoguh the moscow hotel where I stayed on my first week had a club and some crazy looking russian girls late at night,

althoguh they were most likely hookers.
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Originally Posted by Spugsy
yuk I used to go to school next to a pease pudding factory, the smell of it now makes me gag.
I actually made some the other day
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Old Mar 30th 2008, 10:57 am
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I hardly miss anything, apart from a proper postal service and being able to say to people that my address is no X, Street X and knowing that they can find it.
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Originally Posted by ScotsExpat
I got taken to the Red Lion one Sat afternoon and there all-dayer was excellent........
absolute dump though.
let me guess you finished off the day day heading accross to the Rattlesnake for a takeaway
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Old Mar 30th 2008, 11:02 am
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Originally Posted by Blue Cat
I actually made some the other day
my dad is from south shields and whenever we'd go to see any of his brothers, who are scattered all over the Uk we'd have to take pease pudding and sasparilla pop.
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Originally Posted by Spugsy
my dad is from south shields and whenever we'd go to see any of his brothers, who are scattered all over the Uk we'd have to take pease pudding and sasparilla pop.
wtf is pease pudding? I thought it was a spelling mistake at first!
Sasparalla pop used to be ace!
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Originally Posted by Inselaffen
absolute dump though.
let me guess you finished off the day day heading accross to the Rattlesnake for a takeaway
Nope, the only thing all-dayer about it was the brekkie!!!!!! Shit, as far as the RattleSnake goes, once is enough...........
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Old Mar 30th 2008, 11:10 am
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wtf is pease pudding? I thought it was a spelling mistake at first!
Sasparalla pop used to be ace!
hmmm, its this funny stuff, I guess slightyl like humous, made from chick peas. People our way have it on big ham sandwiches, or even better saveloy dips.
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Originally Posted by Spugsy
hmmm, its this funny stuff, I guess slightyl like humous, made from chick peas. People our way have it on big ham sandwiches, or even better saveloy dips.
Yuck! I'll give it a miss. I don't like chickpeas.

I had one of my favourites for dinner - Butter Pie Bet not many of you have heard of that???
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