So Who's Had Pancakes For Tea!! NM

[hlb]

So Who\'s Had Pancakes For Tea!! NM

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[tr7v8]

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Of course! Only the odd dozen though cos I'am watching my weight!

Jim
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[paulineb]

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did you toss them yourself?

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[tr7v8]

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Nah that's wot I got married for, I do the eating Becky does the cooking, although to be fair she did have 1 or 2!

Jim
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[hlb]

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Bet Paulines good at tossing!

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[paulineb]

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I'm useless in the kitchen - Mr B does all the cooking

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[duncan]

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yes and sadly, or otherwise, I was just thinking how easy it would be to bottle some batter and put the skillet over a barbie on the beach........another good way to consume rum! /forums/images/icons/cool.gif

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[montezuma]

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Where did this one come from - ignoring the obvious pun - surely we're 3 weeks past this? Perhaps there's some strange stinkie celebration around 4 March for which you need a funny handshake?

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[paulineb]

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It's pancake day today

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[montezuma]

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Oops, sorry - had affairs of the heart in mind

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[BarryH]

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Just munching thru mine now. Who thought of this pancake thing anyway. I know I should know, but I don't!

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[paulineb]

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It's the last day before the start of lent. 40 days and nights in the wilderness. you have to fast during lent or at least give something up. pancake day or Shrove Tuesday is when you use up all the food in the larder

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[BarryH]

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Yeah I know all about that, but why specifically Pancakes. I'mean if your going to use up all the food in the larder, surely a nice club sarnie, or even spag bog. They use way more stuff up. All pnacakes use is flour, egg or two and a bit of milk. What about them beans that have been in the back of the cupboard for eons cos they went out of date 6 years ago. Or the tin of lentil soup thats gon rusty!

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[Col]

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So what have you given up for lent?


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[BrendanS]

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Because in days of yore, spag bog wasn't an option (wasn't known in UK then), and no can's 'cos these weren't invented for ages.

It was meant to use up all the rich foods in the larder that you weren't allowed to eat during Lent ...eggs, sugar and butter wern't allowed so they were used to make pancakes

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[paulineb]

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because they only ate unleaven bread and maize and corn and flour and milk and stuff which, together with eggs, either means toad in the hole with no toad or pancakes

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[BrendanS]

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KIM! Can we please have all the raggies barred from our nice stinkie forum. They're alway causing trouble

Got another nautical terminology question for you, oh wise and experienced raggie. Why are all the raggies on Classic Boats always attaching things to their chain plates? If they need to wear armour, don't they realise that chain mail, and armour plate, suits of armour were separate. Why do they wear them together, and don't they realise their life jackets won't hold up that weight if they fall overboard? Why are they always attaching things to their armour? Hope you can help? Thanks.

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[BrendanS]

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I think I'm getting the hang of all this nautical lingo, now that several of your comments are starting to hang together.

1) Americas Cup
We've looted all the Stately homes, run out of armour, and modern boat designers have resorted to less appropriate materials. This is why things on modern racing boats break or snap, and the boat loses the race

2) Swinging the lead.
Leaden pancakes chucked overboard didn't show the depth too well, as the skipper lost sight of it after a few feet, and it wasn't until tacks (see below), that someone thought of adding a piece of string to measure the depth accurately. However the act of swinging the inedible leaden pancake overboard became a sport to see who could chuck it furthest, and so the Olypic Sailing sport of discus throwing came into being

3) Tack
As the leaden pancake was not a useful depth measuring device, and no satisfactory alternative has ever been developed, measured empirically by the number of raggies that go aground and have to be pulled off by stinkies...it didn't stop the raggies trying to develop alternatives.

One US raggie, racing at Xmas time, needed to know the depth in a hurry, and pulled down the xmas decorations on board, and threw overboard a tack (known as a drawing pin in the UK) attached to the string it was holding up. Good idea for a yank, but unfortunately all the other tacks on the string, were strewn on deck. The crew, stepping on the tacks, ran up the boat, and sat on the rail with their feet safely out over the water. This made the boat turn and sail faster.

So, the cry arose of "Port tacks" whereupon the crew would run around in panic, stepping on imaginary tacks on port deck, then dive for the starboard side, and sit with their feet hanging over the side. Their combined weight turned the boat, and there they would sit, until the skipper yell "Starboard tacks"

It's quite easy this nautical lingo, don't know what I was worried about.