Off the menu

[John Gill]

Yesterday I watched an interview with a young chef on Talk Radio about her experiences while filming a cookery programme. Her culinary expertise is to prepare and cook dishes using mainly offal ingredients. We’re all familiar with some of those dishes, haggis, black pudding some vague sounding dish called, I think. Cullen skink. During filming she was preparing a well known English dish, faggots &peas, when the producer called a halt and declared that the word’faggots’ could not be used to describe the dish as it may be demeaning to certain levels of the community and suggested another description of the food be used. The chef had no option, so substituted the offending title to Savoury Balls.
Where will this wokism go next? I shudder to think what they might do with Spotted Dick, one of our cherished desserts, and I doubt we’ll see fruit pies on offer in case it causes offence. Perhaps one or two members aboard here might offer some more culinary insights relevant to the above.
Gilly

[j.sabourn]

Tripe and onions maybe a bit too close for these woke culinary experts , with emphasis on the tripe and may be referring to the codswallop that they seem to conjure out of thin air. And may assume correctly that it refers to them. Maybe codswallop may also be bent to their knowledge of the English language and assume automatically it also refers to their lack of knowledge. Maybe toad in the hole maybe seeing the end of its life to the feminists among them. Cheers JS
PS God help the seamen who are bad at spelling discussing a toe (tow) job if there are any
Woke persons sitting in . JS

[John Gill]

#2 maybe’toad in the hole’ might be deemed too heterosexual for the wokist brigade

[Tony Taylor]

Yesterday I watched an interview with a young chef on Talk Radio about her experiences while filming a cookery programme. Her culinary expertise is to prepare and cook dishes using mainly offal ingredients. We’re all familiar with some of those dishes, haggis, black pudding some vague sounding dish called, I think. Cullen skink. During filming she was preparing a well known English dish, faggots &peas, when the producer called a halt and declared that the word’faggots’ could not be used to describe the dish as it may be demeaning to certain levels of the community and suggested another description of the food be used. The chef had no option, so substituted the offending title to Savoury Balls.
Where will this wokism go next? I shudder to think what they might do with Spotted Dick, one of our cherished desserts, and I doubt we’ll see fruit pies on offer in case it causes offence. Perhaps one or two members aboard here might offer some more culinary insights relevant to the above.
Gilly

Cullen skink is absolutely delicious

[Graham Shaw]

...Yes,Speckled Richard would sound far too mild a moniker for that beloved steamed pudding.

Coq au vin,pardon my French, does rather conjure up a vision ,perhaps for those of us with smutty minds,(most of us ) of a bit of hanky panky for a lady of the night in a kerb-crawlers Ford Transit .
Sticking with that,cock-a leekie may have to be renamed dribbling penis.

Any more ? Well,whilst we are ' doing the French 'bit, a Rum Baba,does sound like a cheeky infant or perhaps an intoxicated little blighter.
Oh and I kid you not,last year whilst contemplating buying a fancy at the cream cakes shelves in Tesco's ,I overhead two women ,possibly mother and daughter,discussing the merits of their particular intended choices. Being a Lancashire lady 'mum' said Aw no,our Linda,I don't like them there eclairs they've got choux pastry round 'em.
French must have passed them by I suppose for she pronounced it 'chowks' !
I really was sorely tempted to say something,but thought better of it. Very hard for me to refrain though.Best stick to proof-reading.I'm getting a bit old for confrontations....

[Tony Taylor]

...Yes,Speckled Richard would sound far too mild a moniker for that beloved steamed pudding.

Coq au vin,pardon my French, does rather conjure up a vision ,perhaps for those of us with smutty minds,(most of us ) of a bit of hanky panky for a lady of the night in a kerb-crawlers Ford Transit .
Sticking with that,cock-a leakie may have to be renamed dribbling penis.

Any more ? Well,whilst we are ' doing the French 'bit, a Rhum Baba,does sound like a cheeky infant or perhaps an intoxicated little blighter.
Oh and I kid you not,last year whilst contemplating buying a fancy at the cream cakes shelves in Tesco's ,I overhead two women .possibly mother and daughter,discussing the merits of their particular intended choices. Being a Lancashire lady 'mum' said Aw no,our Linda,I don't like them there eclairs they've got choux pastry round 'em.
French must have passed them by I suppose for she pronounced it 'chowks' !
I really was sorely tempted to say something,but thought better of it. Very hard for me to refrain though.Best stick to proof-reading.I'm getting a bit old for confrontations....

reminds me of the guy who spots some lovely strawberry gateaux in a shop display so he asks, can I have one of those gatuxs please, the assistant says, it is pronounced gato, guy says whatever and buys it. Leaving thro the door it slips out of the box and lands on the floor, oh bollo he said.

[j.sabourn]

Similar to the bloke in the restaurant asks for 2 pissoles , waiter says sorry sir that p is an r.
Ok ok says the bloke give me 2 r- soles . JS