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I've got a corned beef brisket in the crockpot as we speak..going to have a belated St. Patrick's Day dinner tomorrow! :cheers: :cheers: :up: :up: 8)
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kater23 wrote:I've got a corned beef brisket in the crockpot as we speak..going to have a belated St. Patrick's Day dinner tomorrow! :cheers: :cheers: :up: :up: 8)
Do you mean the posh corned beef? It's different from the cheap stuff in tins.


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The American meaning of corned beef is different to the British one. Their corned beef is more like pastrami. What we call corned beef, they don't really have.
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Yep, posh corned beef...and it was delicious!

I didn't like pastrami as a kid-too spicy for my young palate-and I think I've mentioned before I have always been an adventurous eater-but I love it now.
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People have long known French fries aren’t great for your health-but now a study has linked eating fried potatoes at least twice a week with an increased risk of death.

The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, looked at potato consumption in 4,400 older people between ages 45 and 79 over the course of eight years. By the end of the study, 236 people had died.

After adjusting for several factors, eating potatoes overall (even a lot of them) did not increase a person’s risk for death. But when researchers looked more closely at the types of potatoes people were eating, they found that eating fried potatoes-including French fries, fried potatoes and hash browns-at least two times per week was linked to a more than doubled risk of death. Eating unfried potatoes, such as potato salad and boiled, baked and mashed potatoes, was not linked to an increased risk of death.
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bjmdds wrote:People have long known French fries aren’t great for your health-but now a study has linked eating fried potatoes at least twice a week with an increased risk of death.

The study, published in the American Journal of Clinical Nutrition, looked at potato consumption in 4,400 older people between ages 45 and 79 over the course of eight years. By the end of the study, 236 people had died.

After adjusting for several factors, eating potatoes overall (even a lot of them) did not increase a person’s risk for death. But when researchers looked more closely at the types of potatoes people were eating, they found that eating fried potatoes-including French fries, fried potatoes and hash browns-at least two times per week was linked to a more than doubled risk of death. Eating unfried potatoes, such as potato salad and boiled, baked and mashed potatoes, was not linked to an increased risk of death.
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I gave up potatoes for Lent and I actually think that was a good thing as I would order an order of fruit salad and I got to where I liked that better than the potatoes-even after Lent was over!The other thing that I've been doing is ordering corn tortillas instead of toast.
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Made a ravioli lasagna for dinner tonight..does what it says on the tin:raviolis layered with spaghetti sauce and cheese.(and in case you're wondering my parents are coming over for dinner.No way would I eat all of that myself!)
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Been buying ingredients for easy meals at Dollar Tree. Yes,. I won't but eggs, milk, etc. there but I will buy other ingredients(canned food especially) there.And I check the expiration dates.
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I read that people in the US do not eat blackcurrants as they were/are banned. I like them - they are very easy to grow. Just stick a branch in a pot of soil.

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I didn't know they were/are illegal-I could have sworn that I've seen dried blackcurrants in stores here-and British grocery stores here sell Vimto(is it good? )
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kater23 wrote:I didn't know they were/are illegal-I could have sworn that I've seen dried blackcurrants in stores here-and British grocery stores here sell Vimto(is it good? )

Vimto is a very nice dink. It is available as a soda or as a non-fizzy drink - you buy the concentrate to mix with water.
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I don't think it's illegal, I think blackcurrants are heavily regulated. I don't really remember why, but I did read an article on it. That's why grape is "the purple flavor" in American candy etc. I could find Ribena in international stores when I lived over there, but it was very expensive, something like $8 for a 1-litre bottle, and this was 10 years ago.

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I have been watching people eat army ration packs/MRE on YouTube (there are lots of them). Someone had a Thanksgiving dinner made up of ration pack items:

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I was in a very nice Chinese restaurant last night. Someone at the next table was eating this :!: :shock: What the hell is that? What does it resemble? Image
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You photographed what the person on the next table was eating?

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Update:I was at a Stater Brothers(U.S. grocery store chain)and in their imported foods section they had blackcurrant jam!
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kater23 wrote:Update:I was at a Stater Brothers(U.S. grocery store chain)and in their imported foods section they had blackcurrant jam!
You should buy it even if it is expensive. Thst reminds me of the but in the Albert Brooks film Mother where a mother has lots of bizarre cheap food and his son makes him buy some expensive jam.
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