What did you eat today?

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

I much prefer baked beans without added sugar. But they do need salt.

Not just because they are healthier. Mainly because they taste much better.

Same with tomato ketchup (we call it tomato sauce in Straya). Much better without added sugar.

[Walkie]

I much prefer baked beans without added sugar. But they do need salt.

Not just because they are healthier. Mainly because they taste much better.

Same with tomato ketchup (we call it tomato sauce in Straya). Much better without added sugar.

I like a bit of sugar in my ketchup. but agave does the trick. I avoid "sugar-free" like the plague, normally, cos that's just code for "full of weird , sweet-tasting chemicals, mostly derived from corn, and guaranteed to screw with your metabolism"   I also like salt, but am perfectly fine with salt being left out.  I have a great big grinder full of sea salt, afrer all. and a couple of spare salt grinders  in case i mislay the main one ( i have a couple of spares of  absolutely everything that's small enough to store a couple of spares for...see notes on poor visual memory in the other thread  )

Actually ready-ground  table salt is yet another  of those things that contains hidden corn. They throw in some constarch to make it flow more freely, would you believe? same with many varieties of sugar  It's clearly part of a conspiracy to get shot of all we sensitive types, by means  slow, insidious, inescapable toxins. 

Oh! and same withready-ground spices. That probably accounts for most of my esrtwhile reactions to spices. I'm cautiously reintroducing them little by little, but, as someone who's exceedingly nervous  of electrical grinders (and has no room in my present-day tiny kitchen for addirional equipment anyway)  , that's  quite a...umm... grind.

[Phoenix]

I feel like I could eat all day and I have no idea why the sudden increase in appetite. For breakfast I had my usual bagel and hot chocolate. Then 2 hours later I had a few slices of turkey bacon. Then an hour after that a bowl of cereal. Meanwhile I down 1500ml of water. For lunch I had leftovers. Chicken, potatoes and green beans in a homemade honey mustard sauce. So good. Tonight will be a simple breakfast for dinner. Eggs, potatoes and bacon.

[Dirty Big Yoke]

Beef curry with jasmine rice.

[Queen Victoria]

My usual b'fast of oatmeal packet (maple brown sugar or apple cinnamon) with dried cranberries or raisins, peanut butter.

[FourAceDeal]

Gressingham Duck.

[odeon]

The veggie option. Yes, it happens.

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

It's mid morning and I've had 2 tiny bags of chips. Like about 20 grams each.

In US terminology "french fries" is the same as the British "chips". In US terminology "chips" is the same as the British "crisps".

In Straya we have found a way around all the confusion. We call both of them "chips". If we really need to differentiate we might call french fries "hot chips".

And to make it more confusing, McDonalds retains the US terminology and sells "french fries" but KFC calls them "chips". Life would be much easier if we just called all food "chips".

The ones I had this morning were what Brits would call "crisps".

[Gopher Gary]

It's mid morning and I've had 2 tiny bags of chips. Like about 20 grams each.

In US terminology "french fries" is the same as the British "chips". In US terminology "chips" is the same as the British "crisps".

In Straya we have found a way around all the confusion. We call both of them "chips". If we really need to differentiate we might call french fries "hot chips".

And to make it more confusing, McDonalds retains the US terminology and sells "french fries" but KFC calls them "chips". Life would be much easier if we just called all food "chips".

The ones I had this morning were what Brits would call "crisps".

I think I once wrote a poem about this. 

Fries are chips and chips are crisps. Cookies are biscuits, and even though scones sound really great, they're just biscuits too. 

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

Scones are still scones here. We have them with jam and cream usually. Not with fried chicken.

Biscuits are often referred to as cookies, too much American TV. But old people still usually refer to them as biscuits. The two words are mostly interchangeable.

[Gopher Gary]

Scones are still scones here. We have them with jam and cream usually. Not with fried chicken.

People eat them with jelly here too.    Your KFC doesn't sell biscuits? 

[Minister Of Silly Walks]

Scones are still scones here. We have them with jam and cream usually. Not with fried chicken.

People eat them with jelly here too.    Your KFC doesn't sell biscuits? 

No. They do sell little bread rolls, but it isn't the same.

I remember in Indonesia that Popeye's Chicken and Biscuits didn't sell biscuits. Even though it was literally in the name. They sold fried chicken and steamed white rice.

When I lived in Slovenia I had an American sheila from New York, we went to England for a long weekend together and we were in the KFC drive thru. While we were ordering she asked for biscuits and I had to turn to her and whisper "they don't have biscuits at KFC in England". So she said "What the fuck? Okay, I'll just have potato and gravy". Me: "they don't have potato and gravy either". Her: "Seriously? What the fuck do they have then?". Me: "Baked beans".

At least in Straya we have potato and gravy.

[odeon]

Damn. I want crisps now.

[FourAceDeal]

It's Freezer Surprise for lunch.  (Payday is tomorrow)

[renaeden]

Cereal for breakfast and hotdog for lunch. We order online and somehow Kayleigh ordered one hotdog sausage instead of multiple. So I claimed it.