http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807 The NewsBiscuit Community en-US Wed, 19 Jun 2013 17:20:26 +0000 http://bbpress.org/?v=1.0.2 q http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/search.php http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-101485 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 16:12:04 +0000 Oxbridge 101485@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>The third one, spot on. Though the other two sound more interesting... </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-101413 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:32:37 +0000 simonjmr 101413@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Oxbridge - would it have anyting to do with Sambuca, absinthe production and Pig Flu drug production? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-101412 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 11:22:11 +0000 Oxbridge 101412@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>For a Brucie bonus, who can tell me why there was a global shortage of star anise several times in the past decade?</p> <p>Top story BTW. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-101403 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:38:46 +0000 Des Custard 101403@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Top stuff. It really is bad in Kent; my kids are already on star anise. I did use bay leaves once but I didn't really like it. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-101395 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:06:12 +0000 Username 101395@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Cheers. Thrilled. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-101394 Fri, 16 Dec 2011 10:03:58 +0000 dvo4fun 101394@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>FP: Good job Username </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-100952 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:31:07 +0000 Vertically Challenged Giant 100952@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good work, missed this yesterday. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-100944 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 12:13:19 +0000 writinginbsl 100944@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>like it</p> <p>late stars </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-100900 Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:15:29 +0000 tedweasel 100900@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Most amusing </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-100865 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 23:07:27 +0000 Username 100865@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Yes, was wondering whether 'wally' made any sense to anoyone other than my Cockney mother-in-law (and maybe Dick van Dyke). It's a pickled gherkin</p> <p>Story sort of collapses in the last paragraph though, but wayland seems to have found a way through. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-100861 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:58:02 +0000 dvo4fun 100861@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Good show old man!</p> <p>'large wally'? </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-100858 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 22:55:12 +0000 waylandsmithy 100858@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Bloody foreigners coming over here with their anti-pasties. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-100713 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 12:53:45 +0000 bonjonelson 100713@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Reminds me, in a good way, of one of my all time favourite newsbiscuit stories:</p> <p><a href="http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/03/09/police-smash-internet-francophile-ring/" rel="nofollow">http://www.newsbiscuit.com/2011/03/09/police-smash-internet-francophile-ring/</a> </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-100695 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 11:22:56 +0000 kimllfixit 100695@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>I like this. Smiley face. </p> http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/topic.php?id=35807#post-100604 Tue, 13 Dec 2011 00:54:27 +0000 Username 100604@http://newsbiscuit.com/forum/ <p>Kent Police were this afternoon formally congratulated on the outstanding success of Operation Ploughmans.</p> <p>Speaking from outside Downing St, Prime Minister David Cameron praised the two month operation as 'a significant contribution' to Britain's home economic security.</p> <p>From their operations base at Dover, police officers intercepted several tankers of Spanish olive oil, along with sizable quantities of Macedonian pine nuts.</p> <p>Maps in the trucks confirmed police suspicions that the raw materials were destined for industrial warehouses in the so-called 'Kitchen Garden' of Surrey.</p> <p>Here they would be mixed with locally grown basil and parmesan cheese which was to be flown over from Italy this weekend.</p> <p>Police admit to being overwhelmed by the scale of what they had uncovered, and the disciplined approach of those involved. In the words of one senior officer, 'It was like they were following a recipe or something'</p> <p>Police have long been aware of small scale pesto use among students and the 'hippie' community, but tended to take a lenient approach if it was 'for personal use'. </p> <p>'People often give 'mortar and pestle 'sets as housewarming presents. It's a laugh at the time, but sometimes these things actually get taken out of their packaging and used. Often with tragic consequences', he continued. </p> <p>'Pesto has long been recognised as a gateway ingredient. And it's not long before people move on to more dangerous territory - like baba ganoush, and, in some cases taramasalata.</p> <p>And while television cooks like Jamie Oliver, have done much to glamorize a garlic-fuelled lifestyle, at the same time travel shows often warn of how European Tapas bars can lead to a sense of paranoia and confusion among bewildered English tourists, as they try to find a familiar midday dish of flavourless cheese and crusty scrapings of Branston pickle on overpriced slices of yesterday's bread.</p> <p>'Make no mistake. Pesto destroys families', the PM told an awestruck media . 'We don't need it here. We have our own traditions, and that is what I can promise to give you. Right here. Right now. Ploughmans and a large wally.' </p>