We were doing irrelevant things
I have to say too, that I get very upset when the Spanish people tells me that British don't know how to cook and that they only eat sausages and beans. The morons that visit only eat that, but British cooking is one of the most complicated I've ever seen (probably that's why you have gone for sandwiches and mash potatoe for every day). I'm unable to do a proper roast, leave apart a pie.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:20, 1 reply, 14 years ago)

Don't leave the pie apart.
It will ruin it.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:22, Reply)

?
Game of words there? I don't get it.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:23, Reply)

"apart" meaning "in separate pieces"
a pie left as separate parts wouldn't really be a very good pie.

Pies are dead easy to make. Try it. Just get a recipe from BBC good food.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:26, Reply)

It's the dought that worries me
I've seen Mark making it and I don't think I can.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:29, Reply)

don't.
buy it. Even I can rarely be arsed to make pastry and I make pretty much everything else from scratch. But I like puff pastry for pies and it's a monumental fanny to make.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:30, Reply)

Oh, ok
like that is easy. What I meant is cooking traditional English food is quite complicated and needs a lot of work and time. If we're going to start cheating with the dought we can just buy ready meals.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:34, Reply)

It's not the same. Pastry=cheat but if the rest is homemade=nom.
Your cooking is fucking ace anyway.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:36, Reply)

Spanish cooking
in general, for every day, is much easier than British. We can cook a very nice meal in a few minutes. I think that's what the British are missing. You went for full roasts that took a day to cook to just a sandwich. There's not much in the middle.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:40, Reply)

It would be a terrrible sandwich with nothing in the middle.
Hahahahahahaha!
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:57, Reply)

That's not cheating
If you follow that argument, not butchering your own meat is cheating. Or not brewing your own wine.

Pastry isn't difficult to make, it's just tedious and home-made (unless you are making sweet pastry) is rarely much better. So, I make my own dough for bread and for pizza, for example, but I'd almost never make my own pie pastry.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:40, Reply)

leave apart should be "never mind"
To leave apart is to disassemble.

DISASSEMBLE?

/film
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:26, Reply)

I'd suggest "let alone"

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:28, Reply)

I would reject your suggestion out of hand.
Despite it being perfectly correct.
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:29, Reply)

I would expect nothing less old boy.

( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:33, Reply)

Let alone
I think that's the one I was thinking of, but couldn't remember.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:30, Reply)

I wouldn't worry.
Your English better than our Spanish and all that.
( CQ Knows the truth, all of it., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:34, Reply)

Thank you
I'll try to remember.
(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:29, Reply)

There is no try, only do.
/film
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:30, Reply)

I can only try to do it

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:35, Reply)

Learn you will.
/film
(Set your faces to Stunned Bigly, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:36, Reply)

Only if I want.

(Aberracion Life's getting very complicated, but a lot of fun., Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:38, Reply)

the little known smørrepie.

( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Wed 7 Sep 2011, 15:24, Reply)