Random Daily Banter

[icowden]

The best vanilla will be excellent. Not some supermarket value tub.

Nope sorry. It's all the same with varying levels of creaminess.

My favourite crisps are good quality ready salted. If the basic ingredients are good, why ruin it with other flavour

I think we have identified the root cause here...

 

[Pblakeney]

I think we have identified the root cause here...

Some people want things to taste of something other than their actual flavour?

 

[Pross]

Some people want things to taste of something other than their actual flavour?

They’ll be putting flavoured syrup in coffee next

 

[Pross]

Looks like today is going to be a blast on French roads for those going on holiday... where to go? 🤔

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I’m confused by this, not helped by my lack of French. Why would there be a difference in how difficult a journey is leaving compared to returning? Surely that depends on your start and finish point? I’m guessing it’s me be unable to work out the meaning of the note in the legend box.

 

[Pblakeney]

I’m confused by this, not helped by my lack of French. Why would there be a difference in how difficult a journey is leaving compared to returning? Surely that depends on your start and finish point? I’m guessing it’s me be unable to work out the meaning of the note in the legend box.

Traffic is busier leaving Paris to go to the SW than it is going to Paris?
Guesswork based on the location of the dot in each map.

 

[briantrumpet]

Traffic is busier leaving Paris to go to the SW than it is going to Paris?
Guesswork based on the location of the dot in each map.

Correct. So basically today all the autoroutes heading away from Paris will be car parks.

 

[Pross]

Couldn’t see the dot until it was mentioned so couldn’t work out where they leaving from / returning to and thought it was covering all journeys in France. Makes sense now.

 

[Rusty Nails]

In South Wales we have Joe's ice cream. It's a Swansea based Italian family ice cream maker with just a couple of shops. I am not sure what flavour it is as it is nothing like any other ice cream I have tasted. Its ingredients are a family secret but it is absolutely wonderful.

As a kid in the valleys we had a lot of immigrant Italian coffee and ice cream shops all selling their own recipe ice creams in our town. I can remember the names Ferrari, Carini, Fulgoni, Speroni, all sadly gone now.

 

[Pross]

In South Wales we have Joe's ice cream. It's a Swansea based Italian family ice cream maker with just a couple of shops. I am not sure what flavour it is as it is nothing like any other ice cream I have tasted. Its ingredients are a family secret but it is absolutely wonderful.

As a kid in the valleys we had a lot of immigrant Italian coffee and ice cream shops all selling their own recipe ice creams in our town. I can remember the names Ferrari, Carini, Fulgoni, Speroni, all sadly gone now.

They’ve been selling it in my local Spar this summer. Their mint chocolate chip was the high quality on I mentioned previously.

 

[tarric]

Vanilla is by far the best when made properly, not your mass market substitutes. Although I have to say I had a Hazelnut Gelato again a proper gelato not your mass market stuff and it made a nice change but would never replace Vanilla.

 

[briantrumpet]

I wonder how that did in the charts in the 60s...

 

[secretsqirrel]

I wonder how that did in the charts in the 60s...

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Can’t be real



can it?

 

[Beebo]

Can’t be real



can it?

The hair looks very suspicious

 

[briantrumpet]

The hair looks very suspicious

It's in this thread, where there's another one... but a quick Google didn't bring up any more info.

https://bsky.app/profile/mrsbettybowers.bsky.social/post/3ms6ucro6qk2k

https://en.everybodywiki.com/The_Faith_Tones - quite funny even if not real.

 

[secretsqirrel]

The hair looks very suspicious

And her name.