You’d think the police would have something better to do… (how often have I heard that!).
Full story at: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/scotland/4361079.stm
What is a terrine? I gather it is a food made out of dead swan, but what is it?
Kind of like pate (or maybe meatloaf on your side of the pond?). A terrine is also the name of the dish or pot it’s cooked in (earthenware, like a crockpot).
Like this one:
The recipe for which is here:
http://www.sofeminine.co.uk/w/recipe/r88/foie-gras-terrine.html
Apparently tis possible also to make vegetable terrines too.
Aha. Vegetable terrines, like this one:
http://www.recipelink.com/ch/2002/december/vegetablebible1.html
British food is so nasty-looking. I pity poor Beth, I do. 
Actually it’s French.
http://www.foodreference.com/html/art-pates-terrines-galantines.html
The title of that page is “PATES, TERRINES AND GALANTINES”. Before today I had never even heard one of those words.
YES! Thank the good lord for McDonald’s! 
I haven’t eaten at McDonald’s in years. Possibly even a decade. I can’t remember. But I have drank pop and orange juice from there.
Funny you should mention that. Several years ago I played host to a young colleague from Uppsala who came to the USA for the first time. I figured I’d take him to a nice place to eat but when I asked him about it all he wanted was to eat at McDonalds. So we did. Man could he pack that stuff away. He ate enough for a family of four.
Hehe, yes I can imagine. Some people here eats lots of American-style crappfood. We didn’t invent it however, we’re just under influence. 
Please note that Cranberry properly referred to it as “pop”. Not soda.
Soda is another word for lye and you don’t drink lye.
Heehee. 
That vegetable one Gary posted reminded me of handmade soaps.
Fear not; while most of my dinners currently come from freezer packs, I am starting to embark on learning to cook. Fortunately a friend of mine likes to cook, so sometimes I invite her over and have her do it instead.
Always time for a good shepherd’s pie down at the pub, though!
Speaking of McDonald’s, Fly, remember that small cafe we saw near Embankment Station, that did Fish & Chips, but we’d already eaten curds & whey? Jsst before you had a tizzy, sat on a wall and refused to walk another step unless I carried you?
Beth and I had F&C there a couple of weeks ago (well, I had scampi actually) and it was gorgeous.
Speaking of Food…get some of these down the back of your neck - as we say in Dublin
More details here,
http://www.rte.ie/tv/therestaurant/enright/enright_main1.html
Slan,
D.
I thought it was a bench.
I finally got my F&C. Very good too.
Yes, it was quite good, and far too many chips, which is never a true problem. But that place, and this country, really need to learn that a “milkshake” is not simply milk with flavour in it, stirred till it froths. :roll: They’re not even that cold!
Traditionally in England, banana milkshakes are made by feeding bananas to a cow, then chasing her round the field a few times before milking. That’s why they take ages to arrive when you order one.
:roll: I suppose you put ICING on a cake too, do you?
No ‘g’, but yeah.