Re: Dinner Time

Posted by Jock on February 19, 2008 at 14:27:15 from 87.105.81.146 user Jock.

In Reply to: Re: Dinner Time posted by Prue eckett on February 19, 2008 at 05:12:56:

The first time I ever had supper was when I stayed at boyfriend's place
and his English parents produced hot drinks and nibbles at around 8pm

Prue this is my missing meal! Only when I had it, it was served after 10pm
and was not called "supper".

Are we drifting into shoal waters when we discuss what we had for
breakfast (I had buttered eggs!) on TarBoard? Are subjects like pigs
trotters in aspic or the vexed question "When is Lunch 'dinner'?" not
sufficiently 'on topic'. Are we being irresponsible in the use of
precious processor cycles on a University of Lancaster's computer?

In moments of self doubt such as these I return to AR. Picking a page
from the Autobiography I read:

'Come along,' she said, 'perhaps he has some potatoes. Potatoes are the
only thing we want. Come along.'
We set of through the deserted Foreign Office. After long wanderings we
were pulled up by the smell of cooking, or rather the smell of food burning.
'Quick, quick,' she said and knocked on a door, but without waiting for
an answer we burst into a room where an old man was reading, while on
a small table in the corner a primus roared under a coffee-pot; the room was
full of a horrid smell. She seized the coffee-pot and tipped three potatoes
out of it onto a sheet of official Foreign Office paper.
'Thank goodness! They've only just begun to brown. They're still edible,'
said she. 'You must try not to let the water boil right out or there will
soon be a hole burned through the bottom of your pot.'