[bunnyb]

D'oh forgot about UK website! Still haven't made mind up...

Had the Oh my Apple Pie recently and the apple pieces delicious but pie crusts bit salty. Piece of Cake gooood. I'm more inclined to go for something fruity or caramel based as chocolate icrecream can be a bit sickening - oh yes, I said it! I love chocolate but chocolate ice cream is not my first choice, I always need something on side to cut the taste ... like raspberries. Phish food is lovely but too much and I feel like Hurly in Lost (oooh Cherry Garcia) I agree: this thread is so bad for our waistlines:blink: .

[roseviolet]

After visiting the B&J UK website, I'm leaning towards Piece of Cake or Oh My Apple Pie. Another nice thing about that site is that it shows which major retailers carry which flavors! So if your local off-license doesn't have what you need, you'll know where to go. Handy!

G&B ice cream sounds marvelous, too. I used to have all things G&B - ice cream, cocoa powder, etc. In the USA, I can only find the bars, but a local gourmet shop has eeeeevery flavor chocolate bar they make! It may be more than 4 bucks a bar, but I don't care. I adore the G&B dark. And I'm hooked on the espresso. And they make the only white chocolate I'll eat. [drooling]

You people are not very good for my waistline!

ETA: Glastonberry! It's a limited edition B&J ice cream! Sounds nummy. Oh, if only they had it state-side!

[bunnyb]

Mmmm, maybe I should go buy Green&Black's ice cream... Ok Peckhams (the deli) it is cos they do all the big ice creams and should have better selection (and lovely food like sundried tomatoes and dime bar cake...)

I love the Oatmeal Cookie one, I love cinnamon. I have to be selective cos the boy won't eat nuts in ice cream or desserta at all .

Was it tallgirl's m-i-l who ate her ben&jerry's? All the m-i-l horror stories I recall I think are from tallgirl!

I love those little branston and chedder snack boxes, and the Philadelphia ones. Hmmm, Philapdelphia frosted cheesecake...

I am a gril with one though - FOOD (in case you didn't notice).

So, I'm thinking I'll rach the 500 mark today!

[mornington]

*takes notes* oddly enough, I'm not a fan of pickles in that sense (I have had them, but the label was in romanian so I have no clue). Hmm.

I now have the "bring out the branston" advert theme in my head. These days, you can get cheddar cheese sticks (proper lumps of cheddar too) with a branston dip. Mmm... I think I need to find somewhere that does ploughman's lunches now. I have such a problem .

bunny, I suggest fossil fuel, but it might be a bit sickly-sweet for the wine... luckily there is a little grocery place just down the road from where I am that sells lots of ben&jerry flavours - and green&blacks too!

ninja-edited mmm, scotch eggs. I love the little mini ones.

[roseviolet]

Wikipedia has an article on Branston Pickle. I've never had it. But my darling hubby kows what it is, of course. He also likes pickled onions. And Scotch eggs. And all kinds of curious foods from the UK.

Pardon me, but I'll stick with my toast and lemon curd!

[Shakes fist at internet dingos] Back in 2001 & 2002, I could easy make 15 or 20 posts a day. I may not post as much any more, but still! Lord only knows what my true tally is.

Bunny, I can't say that I'm good at pairing things, but I feel compelled to suggest the Oatmeal Cookie Chunk. It's cinnamon ice cream (which is fab on its own) with bits of oatmeal cookie & chocolate chunks. I had it for the first time while in England in '03, so I'm hoping you can find it. My first fight with Sheff occured when he polished off my carton of this yummy stuff without asking me, so that's plenty of proof for its tastiness! I also rather like the Full Vermonty: maple ice cream with pecans & caramel. Nummy!

[bunnyb]

yes, eaten IRL and in novels. Not so much with the sardines, though, but maybe that's just me (I'm thinking of Enid Blyton and all the foof the Famouas Five eat).

Oh, btw, got hold of the first two volumes of the pc fairy tales!

[vesicapisces]

Turbo, the best thing I can compare flavor-wise to Branston's is A-1 steak sauce, only not quite so bitey. Cheese & pickle sandwiches, a la Branston's, are a bit of an odd taste for us Amurricans (IMO), but I was so excited to finally learn what cheese & pickle sandwiches *were* (it seemed someone in various British novels was always eating one)!

[sixelacat]

Mornington, sweet pickles are cucumbers cured with sugar syrup and vinegar, as opposed to "sour" pickles, cured with vinegar and dill and/or garlic. Gherkins are actually a particular species of cucumber, but is also commonly used to refer to small pickles. /pickle class

*sets out on quest for branston pickle*

*runs back to add: oooh, bunnyb, my vote would be for Pistachio Pistachio!*

[bunnyb]

Sorry for the double-post but I need to wax lyrical about Ben and Jerry (if I had more time I would write them a sonnet): I fucking love ice cream (and cheese but I'm having a sweet day so ice cream it is) and I love B&J. I've just remembered that I bought the boy their dessert book, I'm going to have a look to see if there's anything peachy as I really fancy something with peaches...

It depresses me greatly that the UK does not stock all B&J flavours although the petrol station along the road from the boy and a deli close by have the best selection rather than the staple 3-4 you can find in supermarket.

I keep thinking of the film City Slickers where Ira and Barry are a piss take of Ben and Jerry and can match the perfect flavour of ice cream to finish off a meal. So, simple one: what flavour of ice cream (preferably Ben and Jerry's) woulld go with medium cooked sirloin steak, gastro chunky chips and aoili with bottle of rioja (red) on side?

[bunnyb]

So so well with cheddar... but difficult to explain... Lovely stuff, try to get a hold of it turbojenn. I don't know, maybe a deli would stock it? I find that some of our fanicer delis stock US brands (the ones that haven't made it as universal).

I should hit the 500 post mark quite soon - so excited!!! *things about what I can change title to*

Goes to eat some chocolate chip mini weetabix.

pepper, things like that completely freak me out but think it's purely coincidental. There are so many bunny derivatives registered and I don't like it - I AM bunny (suffers identity crisis).

[mornington]

I can't explain branston pickle... it's a condiment and a pickle. sort of like piccalilli, except brown. It goes well with cheddar. You will have to hunt it down.

what are sweet pickles? Are they like gherkins?

[pepper]

son of a fuckerage!!!

someone registered as butterfingers on mar 17 06

why would anyone do that, it's just weird.

[pixiedust]

Wow! Onions make a big difference in the taste! Still haven't made it downstairs for the picked garlic. Mr. Pixie bought me off with twizzlers instead.


Ok...so I was playing around with teh top 10 overall posters section. iIam humbly number 11, but there are only 38 people over the 500 mark and able to edit their member titles. Damn the Dingos! 7,000+ members. I would be interested in knowing how many active accounts we have. i would be willing to guess that like 5,000 are old dingoed accounts that haven't been used in years!

I know no one ASKED for this useless bit of info, and most probably don't care...but it's late and no one is on and I am talking to myself.

[sixelacat]

Repeating the "ewwww", pixie, because bread and butter pickles are sweet pickles, flavoured with onion. Sweet + pickle = noooooooo! I'd rather eat freshly slaughtered liver! I do wonder how they got their name, though. I'm picturing Laura Ingalls eating bread and butter sandwiches with sweet pickle slices, or something. And then I'm throwing up a little. In my mouth.

[pixiedust]

no six, don't do sweet pickles, but I could sit down and eat an entire jar of bread and butter pickles....anyone have any idea why they are named that? And now I am craving pickled garlic. I think I have some, but it's downstairs. Maybe if I poke Mr. Pixie, he'll get up and go get me some!

[turbojenn]

ap - your hardboiled eggs sound yummo....figgers...yet another delight to which I am allergic. feh.

Ok, someone is going to have to explain branston pickle to me before I head off to Ireland and the UK this fall...

[auralpoison]

Well, you know how it is, Sixel. Feasting upon the souls of innocents is better than botox any day...

It's weird. I soak my hardboiled eggs in soy sauce & strong black tea until they're spiced & marbled. Dip 'em in black sesame seeds & sea salt. Tasty!

[sixelacat]

and the odd pickled egg....

And there's nothing odder than a pickled egg! Seriously, next thing you guys will be telling me you eat sweet pickles! Ewwww......

Although I do love spicy pickled cauliflower. So never mind.

eta: AP looks lovely for her age, doesn't she?

[pepper]

ooh, can i actually get a shirt that says "i'm a pepper"? that would just be so terrif. *off to e-bay* (love how that's become a verb eh?)

[auralpoison]

Oh, holy shit! I'm over five hundred now! Cool!