Did I ever tell you about the time I just happened to see the front of the Algonquin Hotel in New York? Well we had just come in to Grand Central Station on the train from Connecticut and we were walking crosstown I don't know, 44th Street or 43rd Street maybe, and there it was? And there was a doorman in a cute uniform helping some people get a yellow cab and everyone was so friendly, and everfything was so nice and everything, then we went into a diner before our off-Broadway show and had some eggs easy-over and bacon with cawfee.
And I said to my charming New Yorker companion, if only Spendy could be here, then eveything would be perfect. Then we went to the show and it was great. I didn't buy a souvenir bag in the theatre although I wanted to. Then on the way back we walked throught he diamond district and that wes fascinating, and we talker to a couple of Frenchmen who had just run the NYC Marathon and were still wearing their medals and we spoke to them in French which delighted them although I could only say Brigitte Bardot and General de Gaulle and then we bought some fruit in the mall at Grand Central and met two other people who were catching the same train and so four of us had a nice conversation travelling back to Connecticut on the train including another guy who was very eccentric but nice and joined in the converstion uninvited. He had been buying electrical goods and he had them on a trolley. His name was Wheeler, Brewer, Seaman, Carter or something.
You must have been fair thrumming with excitement Mac at such sophistication and you being right there and an integral part of it and all. Do liveried menials impress you then? And I thought you were something of a socialist.
smorgsie-
I made no attempt to moderate your literary expression. I merely passed a general comment based on my experience.
But it is a mark of the esteem in which you hold greengrocers that you excercise discretion in their case.
Can't get Eccles cakes in my part of England.
GROCERS - spends!
GREENGROCERS - is where I buy my courgettes (en fleur)
Don't you know anything? No point in all that book-learnin' if you don't know you can't get Eccles Cakes in the GREENgrocers, ours just sells spuds and stuff... are you too posh to shop? Is it true you are rich?
If so, don't forget about my birthday!
x
AND, when I go in the greengrocers, I usually say "give us 5lb of effing King Edwards, my good man".
x
Clary wrote:Can't get Eccles cakes in my part of England.
But you can get Tunnock's Caramel Wafers in this part, and that's a Glasgow delicacy.
By the way I bought a haggis yesterday and we may have that tomorrow.
Today I bought a handrail and some fixing brackets.
Why does a haggis need a handrail and fixing bracket, McT?
No, not for the haggis, silly, for the steps.
But I can't fix them up until the Clerk of Works signs off on the project.
Ah! I was confused, I'll admit, as I always thought that a haggis only needed a small cage, until it was time to kill it.
Isn't haggis the French word for dog food?
tomorrow I shall purchase and install several lengths of spouting to replace rusty leaking spouting we have. I will do this tomorrow just in case it ever rains again.
do not come to Oz this week, the flys are driving me NUTS!!
dadpad wrote:... the flys are driving me NUTS!!
Why are you allowing flies to drive yr nuts??? Btw, nuts with a steering wheel, now that is a first.....
Green Witch wrote:Isn't haggis the French word for dog food?
No, GW, the French word for haggis is merde, I believe.
(Only joking, McT - even though it does taste rather like oxo flavoured sawdust)
McTag wrote:By the way I bought a haggis yesterday ....
Sheep or Pig?
I've eaten many things, but I'll admit I was not brave enough to try that when I visited Scotland.
Is this a Burns Supper tradition?
Lord Ellpus wrote:Green Witch wrote:Isn't haggis the French word for dog food?
No, GW, the French word for haggis is merde, I believe.
(Only joking, McT - even though it does taste rather like oxo flavoured sawdust)
Yeah right McT, Lord E. and I we're just teasing. I have great respect for the cuisine of Scotland, just this morning I had nice bowl of microwaved oatmeal.
Pig in haggis?
I got a really "full" Scottish haggis, with a pipe major of the Queen's Own Regiment playing ... (he owned that guesthouse - or his wife did - and was the father of the fiance of a friend).
I really liked the music and the ceremony.
I really love haggis, with tatty's and neeps...
Yummy!
They say it's an aphrodisiac...
x
There's nothing like the scurrrrrrl of the pipes, and a wee plateful of 'neeps and tatties.
I did, in actual fact, enjoy the haggis I ate, but had to have a TON of gravy poured over it.
Quite spicy, actually.
Happy Burn's night Muckty!
I think you would like it, Tico.
I wouldn't try it for years, but when I did, it was really nice.
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