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wellington womble

Joined: 08 Nov 2004
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 05 4:55 pm Post subject:

When is it? I like lemon and sugar best myself, although nutella (or peanut butter and chocolate) is always nice.

Himself refuses to eat them (although he'll generally eat anything if I hide it under cheese, so I might get away with cheese and tomato) and has never forgiven me for telling him that it's the same stuff as yorkshire pud. We used to make double on Sundays and have pancakes for mondays tea when i was small.

leebu

Joined: 23 Nov 2004
Posts: 418
Location: east yorkshire

Posted: Tue Feb 08, 05 9:13 pm Post subject:
I think we must truly be considered grown up now; tonight we ate pancakes and all but one of them were savoury! My wife had a bit of a brain wave and decided to cook a chana puri dish only using pancakes instead of the puri. It worked very well indeed, only problem was we didn't have any fresh coriander so had to use seeds. Top effort never the less and I can thoroughly recommend it.

wellington womble

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Location: East Midlands

Posted: Tue Feb 08, 05 10:16 pm Post subject:
Bugger - it was today. Pancakes for lunch tommorow then, with cheese and tomato. And lemon and sugar for pud! Serve me right for not going to work (and still having january up on my calender. Why doesn't outlook remind me of important stuff like that?!)

snowball
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Posted: Tue Feb 08, 05 11:24 pm Post subject:

Every year we say we will have more pancakes, not just on pancake day. After all we do not believe in the religous context of it any way, so why confine ourselves to the one day?
I personally will go for sugar and lemon every time.
By the way, I spent most of the day at work pointing out that we do indeed have pancake mix left on the shelves. I then pointed them to the flour,milk and eggs.

I was greeted with either bemusement or hostility and a rollicking from the manager for "winding the customers up"

Bugs

Joined: 28 Oct 2004
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 7:50 am Post subject:

Snowball's one-woman Swindon Supermarket Subversion!

They didn't really have a go at you for that?

I'd be really impressed if someone suggested that...then, I wouldn't be buying pancake mix

Really, they're missing a trick if they don't provide suggestions for making your own as well as buying the packet stuff, but I suppose they make more profit on a neatly sealed plastic bag with a three year shelf life than on a bag of flour and a lemon

snowball
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 8:36 am Post subject:
I also get into trouble for offering to sell the punters the recipe for ice cubes.

Behemoth

Joined: 01 Dec 2004
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Location: Leeds

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 9:55 am Post subject:
Well done Snowball - Keep it up! You never know by combining different ingredients into different recipes they may even spend more in the shop, but that's coroporate blinkers for you! I annoy my bosses by calling our customers 'consumers' as they don't really have a choice where they get their water from. Saying 'Morning comrade' every morning seems to wind them up as well.

snowball
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 10:14 am Post subject:

tahir

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Location: Essex

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 10:36 am Post subject:
Mum's secret pancake recipe: I can't believe it, I've known my mum for 39 years but yesterday was the first time she made me pakora pancakes, aparently something she learnt off her mum: Gram flour water salt finely chopped coriander finely chopped chillis make a batter similar in consistency to pancake batter, and cook in the same way, delish with some yoghurt and a bit of salad on the side.

sugarplumhalle

Joined: 07 Feb 2005
Posts: 50
Location: E. Yorkshire

Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 2:49 pm Post subject:

Snowball wrote:

I also get into trouble for offering to sell the punters the recipe for ice cubes.

alison
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 8:25 pm Post subject:
What are you like on the cheap eggs from the battery production.

jema
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 8:37 pm Post subject:

alison wrote:

What are you like on the cheap eggs from the battery production.

I can't answer for Snowball, but if you were to bitch about every bit of dodgy merchandise going through a check out, you would not last 5 seconds

jema

alison
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 9:43 pm Post subject:
Do you mean me personally or the checkout person in general

jema
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 9:48 pm Post subject:

alison wrote:

Do you mean me personally or the checkout person in general

yeh you could misread that

I mean the checkout operator. We can bitch all we like though

jema

alison
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Posted: Wed Feb 09, 05 11:02 pm Post subject:

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