villa4europe Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 sunday my wife met up with her mate who has a connection to her local bakery and takes everything off theirs hands at closing time and then distributes it to older people in her community, i ended up with a couple of danish and bread rolls today in the office a lady who has a connection to her local bakery and takes everything off their hands at closing time has brought it all in to the office, im 1 danish down, got a cheese roll for later and will see what else there is come 2pm, she's brought in loads, could feed 20 - 30 people...or 1 gannet im developing a mild rosinenschneke (literally raisin snail) / raisin whirl addiction 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post mjmooney Posted August 17, 2021 VT Supporter Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2021 7 minutes ago, villa4europe said: sunday my wife met up with her mate who has a connection to her local bakery and takes everything off 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 13 minutes ago, mjmooney said: shes a fairly good looking twin so that would cheer me up... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Seat68 Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 Just reading @villa4europes post is making me ill for the day. I loved baked goods but if I ate that many I would be spending a day on the khazi. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
villa4europe Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 18 years ago i worked in a design kitchen at a cookie factory, **** me i ate some bakery products! main business was tesco cookies, i had to do the batch testing, take 1 sample out of each batch, bake it, weight it, measure it etc, the factory at its peak was 24 hours and did around 180 batches a day, so i had a tray of 180 cookies at the end of my desk every day...then we got in to donuts and i was designing donut flavour and colour combinations, we owned a donut factory in france that at the time was the only one in the world that could inject ring donuts, i was having monthly presentations to tesco's buyer to look at raspberry jam ring donuts with pink icing and white lines or white icing with pink lines...then we got in to bagels, then shortbread, all the while we were trying to flog them brownies, then we bought a muffin factory sown south that had a production line that could do hand finished muffins and sell them to the london crowd at £3 a pop (in 2003), we tried to get pizzas in there and paninis, i had a box of each panini flavour, over 100 in each box, tesco took one look at them said not a **** chance so like the 500+ paninis were mine and i ate the lot ive told the jelly bean story before - bascially they dont work in cookies because the sugar coating doesnt bake, so i ate around 7 kilos worth of jelly beans not sure if i've told the krispy creme story before - i got sent a box of frozen donuts from the states in around 2002, id never heard of them, they werent on sale in the UK, they'd killed the brand name in the states because they'd launched a frozen "thaw and serve" range for american homes and the quality was terrible, so they were in talks with tesco to try and relaunch themselves here, me and two others ate the box, around 64 donuts variety of flavours, wrote a big report on them all, basically told tescos dont do it they're shit! they were really poor, they obviously came back a few years later with the fresh donuts and a better all round product 1 3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 On 13/08/2021 at 17:48, Xela said: Where is Pet Sounds? I see a pink Himalayan salt lamp! Fist question, it's there somewhere (two versions, one is green/yellow vinyl) Salt lamps - yes we have three but haven't the room to put them all out now Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post BOF Posted August 17, 2021 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2021 44 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Fist question 1 5 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 17, 2021 55 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Fist question, it's there somewhere (two versions, one is green/yellow vinyl). Come on. You're not telling me you've only got two copies of Pet Sounds? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 17, 2021 57 minutes ago, rjw63 said: Salt lamps - yes we have three but haven't the room to put them all out now Spooky. I had never even heard of salt lamps until about an hour ago, when our daughter mentioned that her young 'un had dropped one on her foot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 3 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Come on. You're not telling me you've only got two copies of Pet Sounds? Yep. It's far from my favourite. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 1 minute ago, mjmooney said: Spooky. I had never even heard of salt lamps until about an hour ago, when our daughter mentioned that her young 'un had dropped one on her foot. Wow I'm surprised it's not a hospital job, they're **** heavy Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rjw63 Posted August 17, 2021 Author Share Posted August 17, 2021 37 minutes ago, mjmooney said: Come on. You're not telling me you've only got two copies of Pet Sounds? Correction on previous comment of only having two. Just remembered it came out in USA only in 1972 as a double album with "Carl & The Passions - So Tough". I have a promotional copy of that, so it's three copies of PS. <anorakoff> 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mjmooney Posted August 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 17, 2021 1 hour ago, rjw63 said: Wow I'm surprised it's not a hospital job, they're **** heavy Apparently it fell from quite a height, too. Lucky. 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post blandy Posted August 17, 2021 Moderator Popular Post Share Posted August 17, 2021 1 hour ago, mjmooney said: Apparently it fell from quite a height, too. Lucky. It was always going to be OK - it was a light weight. 1 2 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 9 hours ago, Seat68 said: Just reading @villa4europes post is making me ill for the day. I loved baked goods but if I ate that many I would be spending a day on the khazi. I'd be spending a day on the khazi... while eating them! 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Xela Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 4 hours ago, mjmooney said: Apparently it fell from quite a height, too. Lucky. Surprised it didn't go through the floor! Mine is, (KW at ready) a definite two hander to pick up! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
blandy Posted August 17, 2021 Moderator Share Posted August 17, 2021 On 13/08/2021 at 17:48, Xela said: I see a pink Himalayan salt lamp! I assume it emits a sodium light, chemistry fans? 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rds1983 Posted August 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 17, 2021 This whole transfer and especially the comments section of this tweet. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Davkaus Posted August 17, 2021 Share Posted August 17, 2021 What's with the big red circle, have they just signed his hair? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sidcow Posted August 17, 2021 VT Supporter Share Posted August 17, 2021 11 hours ago, villa4europe said: Then we bought a muffin factory sown south that had a production line that could do hand finished muffins and sell them to the london crowd at £3 a pop (in 2003), we tried to get pizzas in there and paninis, i had a box of each panini flavour, over 100 in each box, tesco took one look at them said not a **** chance so like the 500+ paninis were mine and i ate the lot 1 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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