Forums are slowly dying

[Larhal]

I hope that everyone can see how this thread turned into a great sharing of our cultures. I will dig up some of my favourite pictures of Ireland, the Emerald Isle.. In the mean time this has been an uplifting thread, Thank you all.

[Slammers]

As for the beer, Cornwall & West Scotland are the best places in the U.K. for stunning scenery (Scotland doesn't have decent pasties though.. 😉), but if you're ever down this way.. they're on me!!!... 👍

You take that back about our pastry baked goods! Our pies are legendary!

I can vouch for your pasties being the best though, I am one of those people that invade during the summer! Such a beautiful part of the UK and the people are so nice. Love a cream tea as well.

The roads are another level though. Straight off the A30 onto a single track road with hedgerows 10M tall on either side, blind corners then you meet a 40ft Articulated Lorry trying to reverse into the smallest farm entrance ever.

Good times!

[ThisPete]

A little Cornish humour for you tsbservice:
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😄

[slimslob]

To be honest no, it's first time I hear it.
I can do quick research googling it but rather would like to learn it from you.

Actually there are a few different opinions. One common belief has to do with the tally boards used by British pubs to keep track of Pints and Quarts sold. I'd seen that on Jeopardy the other day.
Another refers to early days of type setting.
Other refer to 18th century clothing. Pea referring to pea coats while and queue referred to one wig.
Here is where I found the clothing references. https://www.phrases.org.uk/meanings/...ps-and-qs.html

[tsbservice]

ThisPete Brilliant post!
Being in forums for sooo long I have developed a hawk eye so when I see someone posted repeatedly in proper language grammatical and punctuational wise and facts and so on... I made a lot of REAL friends this way and looking back never regretted!

[ThisPete]

ThisPete Man I was hoping my humble foreigner research doesn't insult natives.

I'm very happy with guys like you and kingarthur and Larhal you guys proved me thinking any pint of beer I wish to buy for you is well worth and vice versa 😀

Cheers

You're welcome Sir, it was a very good link!!.. 😎

Just for some more 'local' Cornish (slightly tongue in cheek) knowledge for you: The (proper) Cornish are fiercely defensive of their land and consider it as 'separate' to the rest of the U.K.

Many centuries ago the ambassador (or some such) of Spain made a visit to this island and allegedly reported back to the King that Cornwall was generally considered by those in the East a different land.

Some 'interesting' reading here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Cornwall#

In Cornwall we have a population of about 500,000.. it triples during the school holidays in the summer!!! No, really triples and we really don't have the infrastructure for it.. 😮

We have the largest road network by county size in the country, and the largest by far when you consider it on a per head of residents.

But we have no 'motorway'(Three lane each way road)only some sections of two lanes each way.

We are the only U.K. county with only one border county.

We have the most southerly and also western land on this island. 😎

Western tip (Lands end) sunset looking across to 'merica:
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We also have the legend of King Arthur.

Finally, we make cream tea scones the proper way, jam first!! 😉
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Hopefully kingarthur will come along with some more interesting bits of information for you.. even though he's now emigrated.... 😂


As for the beer, Cornwall & West Scotland are the best places in the U.K. for stunning scenery (Scotland doesn't have decent pasties though.. 😉), but if you're ever down this way.. they're on me!!!... 👍

[tsbservice]

By the do you know the origins of the phrase mind your Ps & Qs?

To be honest no, it's first time I hear it.
I can do quick research googling it but rather would like to learn it from you.

[slimslob]

ThisPete Man I was hoping my humble foreigner research doesn't insult natives.

I'm very happy with guys like you and kingarthur and Larhal you guys proved me thinking any pint of beer I wish to buy for you is well worth and vice versa 😀

Cheers

By the do you know the origins of the phrase mind your Ps & Qs?

[tsbservice]

Cracking link tsbservice with a nice bit of accurate history and the bit about what it takes to be a proper 'Cornish' pasty.. 👍

The first and third recipes (the middle one may work, but he's an idiot) found here should work well also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/search?q=cornish+pasty not sure how the link will work worldwide but it's a link to the 'food' part of the BBC's U.K. website, in the U.K. I can't access bbc.com without an automatic redirect...

ThisPete Man I was hoping my humble foreigner research doesn't insult natives.

I'm very happy with guys like you and kingarthur and Larhal you guys proved me thinking any pint of beer I wish to buy for you is well worth and vice versa 😀

Cheers

[ThisPete]

Good luck femaster, and do please let us know how it goes.. 👍 Although you'll obviously have to call it 'A Cornish style pasty'.... 😉


Maybe tsbservice, you could/should rename this thread to: 'Forums are slowly dying - apart from pasty talk '.... 😁

[allan]

I went through a transition in position recently moving toward a better position sometimes takes sacrifice. So I am around as much as I can be. I totally agree that the political stuff in RREE showing up on new post covers 70% of the page that can be solved by banning a couple of member from creating RREE threads. This site must stay primarily industry related to be relevant. New users are probably put off by all the crap on the new topics page.

Thanks for all of the years of support and comradery! Here for some time to come.

[femaster]

Well I learnt interesting facts

https://www.daringgourmet.com/authentic-cornish-pasty-recipe/

Another on my wishlist for my next life is to be chef, rally driver and...copier tech

Thank you sir! I'll have to give that a go!

[ThisPete]

Well I learnt interesting facts

https://www.daringgourmet.com/authentic-cornish-pasty-recipe/

Another on my wishlist for my next life is to be chef, rally driver and...copier tech

Cracking link tsbservice with a nice bit of accurate history and the bit about what it takes to be a proper 'Cornish' pasty.. 👍

The first and third recipes (the middle one may work, but he's an idiot) found here should work well also: https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/search?q=cornish+pasty not sure how the link will work worldwide but it's a link to the 'food' part of the BBC's U.K. website, in the U.K. I can't access bbc.com without an automatic redirect...

[tsbservice]

Well I learnt interesting facts

https://www.daringgourmet.com/authentic-cornish-pasty-recipe/

Another on my wishlist for my next life is to be chef, rally driver and...copier tech

[Larhal]

I imitated the pasties from the Suomalainen, our local Finnish Bakery in Hancock MI. I haven't lived there in decades, but the recipe has survived.

I've had some really terrible pasties in the past. Ones that used ground beef, frozen hash brown potatoes, frozen carrots & peas ... it makes me ill to think of it! And these places claimed to be authentic Finnish pasties. What a joke!

I use thin cut skirt steak, potatoes, a little rutabaga for taste, onions, a tab of butter to keep it moist, salt and pepper. The shell is just my wife's pie crust.
Now I have to make a batch.

When Is dinner, Ill bring the Guinness