Re: What are the odds, Ken?

On 27/4/08 23:35, "Lorrill Buyens" wrote:
> On Sat, 26 Apr 2008 19:42:21 -0400, Tem****al Voyager Ken Butler
> <ken@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
>, in a desperate attempt to change the
> alt.fan.british-accent timestream, said:
> 
>> I don't think "posh" counts. (When I lived in Canterbury, I had a
non-posh
>> fish-and-chip place literally two minutes from my front door). The one
>> here, if you go on Friday night, is usually full of Bramptonites of
British
>> ancestry, even though it's owned by a Greek guy. You can even get mushy
>> peas.
> 
> I've never understood the attraction of vegetables cooked to the
falling-apart
> stage, myself.

Mushy peas are in a separate food group all its very own.  I use the
word 'food' here guardedly.  As far as I'm concerned, mushy peas is a
method of producing vomit without all the intervening messy stomach
business.

> My "new" (for the last two years or so) favorite pizza combo is spinach,
> artichoke and giardiniera [sp] peppers, with or without anchovies.
> Although I decided I was tired of picking out the teensy little bones
> and wanted something different one delivery ago.  Shrimp is now in my
> "never again" category of pizza toppings.

I would have thought it would have been in the "never for a first time"
category.  Especially once you realise the shrimp are closely related
to woodlice. Yuk.

Stuart