On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 9:51:35 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> "dsi1" wrote in message
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> On Saturday, July 1, 2017 at 8:15:06 AM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> > "dsi1" wrote in message
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> > On Friday, June 30, 2017 at 8:54:01 PM UTC-10, Ophelia wrote:
> > > "dsi1" wrote in message
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> > > > But that isn't the only thing you cook!!!!
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> > > > http://www.helpforheroes.org.uk
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> > > I'm making horchata and roast pork at the moment. The pork belly was
> > > slashed
> > > and a dry rub of salt, sugar, and 5 spice, was massaged in. I'll roast
> > > it
> > > in
> > > a hot oven for around 20 minutes and finish it off in a slow one. The
> > > skin
> > > will be finished off under the broiler if it looks like it needs to.
> > >
> > > I had a meat pie a short while ago. It tasted funny. I guess that's what
> > > happens when you leave a meat pie out for a few days. Hopefully I won't
> > > die
> > > from food poisoning. Also, it needed a bit more salt. :Q
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> > > I rest my case! As for that pie, if it had been out for a few days ...
> > > I
> > > wouldn't touch it with a bargepole!
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> > I suppose that adding a bit more salt may have kept it from going bad.
> > It's
> > interesting how foods transforms when left out. That pie was kind of slimy
> > but tasteless. Not being able to taste when food turns is a danger of
> > losing
> > your sense of taste - or is being able to eat anything a super power?
> >
> > I don't know a thing about barges or bargepoles but I'm guessing a
> > bargepole
> > is pretty long. That's funny!
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> > Very long <g>
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> > http://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/w...arge-pole.html
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> I won't use the American idiom which uses a "10 foot pole" because it's such
> a cliche. "Barge pole" however is funny and charming - kinda like me.
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> You have my full permission to use it whenever the mood takes you, and if
> you wish to be addressed as 'Barge Pole' just let me know ... ;-)
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A lot of the Brit idioms are charming and funny to Americans. I'm afraid that barge poles and 10-foot poles are not so although I would probably laugh if I ever saw an actual barge pole.