Madchester
A long long time ago in a city far far away (manchester) I was visiting my sister who was at uni there. Me and my mum are staying in this B&B .

Shoddy little place, your typical crappy floral wall paper, flaking gold paint, badly fitted radiators for the obligatory extension to cram the most possible rooms into the space between the fork in the road etc. But then it's a B&B in Manchester, what do you expect?

What really took the biscuit was at breakfast. We get there and are asked what we want, eggs, bacon, sausage etc. My mum asks for a poached egg. The landlords face goes completly blank. Err alright then, scrambled egg. Blank. Apparently he'd never heard of the words 'scrambled' and 'egg' together in the same sentance.

At this point my mum, bless her cotton socks, proceeds to explain to him how to make scrambled egg, and to his credit he listens and takes notes.

So now some other customers walk in so he goes over and asks for their orders.

"Would you like some eggs? We can do fried or scrambled..."
(Jezziah, Tue 22 Jan 2008, 13:18, 3 replies)

Scrambled?
Why would your mum be explaining how to make scrambled eggs when she asked for poached?...
(antigen is running away from something, Wed 23 Jan 2008, 3:33, closed)

Scrambled eggs
She asked for scrambled after she was told they didn't do poached.
Doesn't poached need a special pan-type-thing as well- so telling him how to make scrambled eggs means they stand a better chance of getting them rather than saying "Well, go buy new equipment. Then make us food. And lord help you if the yolk's wrong on your first attempt!"

Clicked because of use of "bless her cotton socks" and because he listened.

Did you get your scrambled eggs?
( uberdeity Wondered why Owen Lars knew of the term "hell" on, Wed 23 Jan 2008, 13:12, closed)

I must enter a subject
yeah got the scrambled eggs, they were awful, as you'd expect. Glad I got some replies as it's my first post. Yay for n00bs
(Jezziah, Wed 23 Jan 2008, 13:31, closed)