Why don't you have something else if you're bored with the same thing?

you've never been to Switzeland have you?... it's the law..

croissants and coffee or they take you away.. lock you up.. and make you eat Muesli

Gawds Honest truth.

:rolleyes:

I don't believe you. :)

have I ever lied to you before?

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Time will tell. :)

That's as I suspected. But can you see why it doesn't make sense?
A sandwich is two slices of bread and a filling.
So the "round" unnecessary.
A slice of toast is a slice of toast. See above.

Not criticising your late mother of course Ali.

It just seems wrong to me.
I think it comes from the fact sandwiches and toast are often cut up. So you think you are eating more. Hence a round could be shared. Not by me of course - I will scratch and bite you.

Interesting idea re rounded bread, but baking loaves in tins has been around for a long time. Surely longer than sandwiches? Feel free to correct me - I can't be arsed to look into it. It might make my ranting feel irrelevant.

I couldn't be bothered either, hence the 'I don't know but I reckon'. ;)

I assume we both skipped the "Rounds; Toast and Sandwiches" class at finishing school. And just went down the pub to experience "Rounds; Drinking in and Paying For".

Apparently, if this person is right, rounded loaves were the norm until around 60 years ago, and the oblong tins we use were once called sandwich tins.

Apparently one meaning of 'round' is a circular slice.

So, the meaning of 'round' for sharing has stuck with sandwiches, whilst the meaning of 'round' as a circular slice has stuck with toast.

http://uk.answers.yahoo.com/question...9061310AAhw4Ld

a round of cookies.

a round of apples.

a round of beans.

Let me know.

I'll be around.

[mumble]I was wrong[/mumble]
It's still RUBBISH!

I'll have a circle of bread and a triangle's worth of jam spread across it.

I had breakfast early Sunday evening at Cracked Barrel because we went too far up 81 before looking for a restaurant. I ordered breakfast because their dinner food sucks, unfortunately it turns out their breakfast sucks as well. Who can't make decent hash browns and sausage? Worst chain in America. I put that food in a stomach which had cleared itself most effectively in two directions the night before, bad idea.

this morning's fast breaking coffee was accompanied by spinach and eggs. I've noticed that my love of spinach has increased. Maybe to the point that I can justify buying it in large quantities, like restaurant scale bags. I've done that once so far and I ate it all, needed to throw out none. But I had help in the course of consuming that bag. This last bag was a grocery store sized bag, 9 ounces, and lasted only two meals.

Today I treated myself to a Skinny Egg White sandwich from Bruegger's. It was surprisingly good! I would definitely buy it again.

This one is my favorite.

Maybe the idea is like a round of ammunition. The whole requires two or more components to actually do its job: shot ain't much without powder, and vice versa. Bread plus peanut butter plus jelly.

And after all, if you are making a sandwich with peanut butter, you deserve to be shot.

Today I had a Celebrity Slim shake for breakfast.
Mum & I are on their programme for the month.
It was on sale in our local pharmacy - £5 a box (a week's worth) down from £29.99 because they are rebranding.
I figured it was cheaper than buying food, so why not?
And I really could do with shifting some lbs. I mean REALLY need to (as usual).

However I am also drinking. Which won't help. Never does. Oops.
I have seriously cut back, and hope to be teetotal again by the time school starts.

mrs and I decided to give up drinking... in fact we had a couple of Gin n Tonics last night just to celebrate.


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Goat milk yogurt, tortilla with egg ham and cheese, and coffee. All milk products were produced here along with the egg.

I swear I'm burping up powder :(

Griff, your brekkus sounds the most inviting of all I've seen so far.
Can I come round tomorrow?

Sure, pop by, I'll put on an extra plate.

Two-bite brand blueberry scones.

A bit too sweet if you ask me.

And scalding hot coffee.

Egg salad with turkey sausage on an english muffin. Oh. and milk to go with it.

Bakery On Main gluten-free granola, and almond milk. Almost forgot to eat it.

I can see why.

Bacon is gluten-free, too.

Funny thing... most of it actually isn't.

Max is having oats with banana for breaky. So far I've had coffee. I think I might have some rockmelon soon.

Think I'm gonna use my $5 coupon for IHOP tomorrow. I'm really jonesing for good breakfast food.

Egg salad with turkey sausage on Ritz Crackers with Vitamin Water

I hear pico has an IHOP coupon. Maybe you can go out for a decent breakfast together ...

today I had... wait for it now...
pain au chocolate* and coffee



( * = fancy name for a croissant stuffed with chocolate )
:o

Someone posted a video of croissant making here a while back.
I found it really interesting.

So don't worry, we know all about Pain au chocolat.
And drinking coffee out of bowls (or is that just a French thing?)

Do you not have plates of meat and cheese and hardboiled eggs for breakfast then? Or is that just a German thing?

coffee out of bowls?... never seen that anywhere.. except perhaps on "Friends"

plates of meat, cheese... thats much more German in my experience, and of course in Greece with signs warning the Germans not to make lunch sandwiches from the breakfast buffet

Trust me, the French drink coffee and chocolate out of bowls.
I thought it was pretty cool when I was there :)
But they make terrible tea*. Which I had to drink because they'd bought it specially for me.

I honestly don't see what the mystery is about making tea - the cheapest greasy spoon cafe can do it? Then again the cheapest greasy spoon usually makes fantastic soft yolk fried eggs, a skill I've never mastered.

* Generalistation of course. Maybe it's only people living in the shadow of the Puy de Dome.

we have a "british market" about 15miles away from us... mrs. G makes regular trips over for a bit of PG tips and the occasional Bishops Finger

How funny - we have French markets here, and in Leicester we had a Bavarian market.
I never thought that other countries might have our markets too!

I loved the French market - despite my snarky comment about the French preferring you to speak English rather than bad French, their faces lit up when I offered something as simple as bonjour, combien or merci. I really admire the French, and how protective they are about their language, and how proud of their country. I get the jokes about being Surrender Monkeys, but many other European nations were occupied, and they don't get tarred with that brush.

The Netherlands for example. I went to the Resistance Musuem when I was in Amsterdam and it made me cry. They fought like buggery, and I'm sure the French did too.

And their bread, wine and olives are wonderful. They even make some good cheese. Nothing compares to British cheese of course, but pretty good. (I lie, some of my favourite cheeses are foreign. Just not French).

Sorry, that was a complete derailment.
I'm glad Mrs G can still get proper tea.
I can't drink it myself these days :(
I have to have de-caff. I've got used to it, but it is unnerving if I run out and sneak one of Dad's teabags. I forget what a wallop full-caff can have.

ok.. time for more derailment?...
shortly after moving over here I asked a French friend..
"whats with you guys, it's a complete scrum at the market, no one ever queues!!"
and was told it was because of the shortages during the war and the deprivation "we" suffered ( he stressed we )

I had to laugh and look at him.. "deprivation? you not even 30yrs old...even your mother was born after the war.
( as with some of my comments here it was not appreciated )



p.s.... loved touring the Anne Frank house.. well.. love is not the proper word... shocking, awakening, enlightening.

gotta keep the expats happy
http://www.jims-british-market.com/

http://www.americanmarket.ch/
( the American market is full of stuff I wouldnt buy back in the states.. but here.. ohhh.. poptarts.. gotta have poptarts , )

Monster is an ex-pat Brit (living in America).
She posts on a specific expat Brit website.
I think it's made up of Brits in all sorts of places, not just America. If you ask I'm sure she'll let you know. Unless Mrs G already has that covered?

Continental Europeans can't queue.
Not like we can.
Read Bill Bryson on the suject.

When I was in Cuba I got used to elbowing my way to the front at the buffet and passing things back to my more reticent partner. People would turn and smile and speak to me in German or Italian - they didn't see the behaviour as rude. No point skulking at the back and grumbling :)

But I got told off once in Pisa for not queueing properly!
I was SO shocked.
We were hardly pushing in - three of us joined three seperate lines at the station, and when T got to the counter first we joined him. Sorry, but it doesn't take any longer to issue three tickets to Siena than it does one! Luckily, none of us understood any of the chap's tirade and I looked at him mournfully and said sorry in Italian and he shrugged it off. I had a low cut top on.

*laughing* low cut tops pay for many sins.. especially with Italians.

we have a bear of an Italian living in our village ( his sister passed away the other day... I referenced in another thread ) and he always gives mrs. G a huge bear hug when he see's her and then winks over at me.

Me at the wedding I was travelling to.
The trio of musicians paid more attention to me than the bride - although she is gorgeous (I chose a pic that flattered me more than her).

As I explained in my original post, I was actually startled at how the dress changed when I wore it with a WonderBra. In hindsight I would have packed a different bra. And not worn four inch mules to walk across cobbles and use a hole in the ground toilet in an Italian bar. No spills or accidents, just rather too much concentration needed.

I'm saving the coupon for a later date. This morning I had ricotta cheese mixed with raspberry jam on thin wasa crackers. And coffee.

Eggs again. :D This time I mixed in cheese.

Picked some peaches a few days ago.

For breakfast this morning, I had a big bowl of Wheaties with a cut up peach on top.

what bride?

I'm concerned about bbro's cholesterol levels.

I'm worried BigV might have gone blind.

Breakfast tomorrow: Almond milk and a banana 'cuz that is what is on my list of allowable foods. Not very filling, but I surprisingly love almond milk and actually switched to it a couple of years ago. I still get cow's milk every once in awhile.
Oh! and I found out you can use almond milk to make pudding. I wasn't sure you could in case it was some protein or something in the milk that made the pudding thick or that it wouldn't taste gross. But it works and tastes yummy! I have found that french toast made with almond milk tastes pretty nasty though, not sure why.

The trick that works for me is to get the griddle/pan REALLY hot before I put the egg in. I usually cook 'em in butter, not good for you, but oil pops too much and just doesn't taste right. I poke holes in the white stuff so it spreads out thin gets cooked all the with out the yolk having to cook any longer. Turning it is hard to describe, my mom can flip it with the pan, but I have to use a spatula, I'm not as daring. When I flip I just make sure to get the spatula mostly under the yolk (choosing the 'right' spatula is important" and then I barely lift the egg just enough to get the white part turned, then I pick up the pan and tilt it at an angle so that I can lay the yolk part down gently. Only let it cook a few more seconds, maybe poking the white part again, and then slide the egg gently onto a plate!
Maybe I should make you a video of it...

LOL - My cholesterol is just fine.....well except for my triglycerides, but that's for another thread.

I had a sandwich today.

MTP - like the pricking advice but not having anything to do with the flipping. Oh no.

Like circumcision, it's not often done over here.
Or is that pricking advice again?

When I fry eggs, I put a lid over the top of the pan. That way the steam lightly poaches the top of the eggs while the bottom is fried. The best thing is if you have a glass lid because then you can see when the eggs are just done, but the yoke is not cooked.

Exactly how I do it. AUSSIE SOLIDARITY!

Never thought of that.
Hmmmm. Will consider it, thanks.

Another lovely shake for brekkers this morning.
Gag.

I'm going to take my son (younger) out for waffles. While he is eating his waffles, I will be illuminating the many ways things will have to Change Around Here IF he continues to live here. Example - my water bill went from 150.00 to 60.00 after he moved out. I'm not asking him to pay the water bill - just to be aware of the water bill. And the fact that meals don't make themselves nor do dishes play in hot soapy water at night and magically appear in the cupboard the next morning!! He's 19, he's on scholarship, he works and maintains his own car, but come ON. Throw out your pizza box once in a while, would ya? Sheesh.

So. Waffles.

You've got a solid play right there, to be followed by Waffles the musical then the film adaptation. James Franco plays the unsuspecting son of a woman who is about to rewrite the rule book.

griff, that is awesome!

It's relevent, it's relatable, it's got James Franco --- I think we've got a hit!