Comments | ninebelow: "Both are in the style book: feel free, etc etc."

ninebelow

"Both are in the style book: feel free, etc etc."

Nov 28, 2008 15:27

Poor Simon Heffer has been wound up by the prose of his mnokeys minions:The style book also reminds us that our readers tend to eat Christmas lunch, not Christmas dinner; this is not the Daily Star. Unless we are referring to a repast that is specifically to be held in the evening, be careful to refer to Christmas lunch in all those mouth-watering ( Read more... )

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celestialweasel November 28 2008, 15:30:17 UTC

In the wise words of a colleague 'I weep when I see a stew, because to me a stew is a naked pie'.

andrewducker November 28 2008, 15:32:43 UTC

Our canteen had a habit for while of serving stew with a bit of puff pastry dropped on top as "pie". Thankfully we now get proper pie, with short pastry both under and over it.

pmcray November 28 2008, 15:44:23 UTC

Wise words indeed, but pie filling is generally different surely from stew in being less runny and often having fewer vegetables on the grounds that as a pie it will typically come with potatoes and two veg.

andrewducker November 28 2008, 15:33:30 UTC

I'll read the Telegraph if it's about. It seems to be aimed at smart people who have different opinions to me. Unlike The Times, which seems to be aimed at people living on a different planet to me.

And I agree with a large selection of his comments - while he's over-picky in a few places, he's generally perfectly right.

espresso_addict November 28 2008, 15:37:56 UTC

It seems to be aimed at smart people who have different opinions to me.

Unless your definition of smart is very different from mine, I doubt you've ever read it from cover to cover! My parents take it, so we use it for fire lighting.

andrewducker November 28 2008, 15:42:41 UTC

Well, smart compared to most papers. On a similar level to Independent readers.

liadnan November 28 2008, 15:45:10 UTC

Indy has gone v downhill recently: I gave it a try for a while because it seemed the least irritating of them all, but no...

FT for the win these days. All the rest are drivel.

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drasecretcampus November 28 2008, 16:02:14 UTC

I'd probably call it a pie if the pastry was just on top, for want of another term* - pastry underneath but not on top is a tart (save for when it's a quiche (flans being sponge bottoms, of course)). Strips of pastry on top of a tart make it a lattice tart, I suspect, rather than a lattice pie, although how wide those strips can get befor it is a pie is unclear to me.

* Upside down tart?

frogworth November 29 2008, 06:52:44 UTC

How about "I am an atheist Jew and don't do Christmas"?
Usually these days I go to my girlfriend's parents' place and we get roast pork :) Because none of us particularly like ham, which is the traditional Christmas meat around these parts...

Turkey is yucky though.

SNOWFLAKE! giantbedsprings November 29 2008, 09:52:22 UTC

I don't like chicken, turkey or goose for christmas dinner. Chicken's too ordinary, I don't like the taste of turkey and goose is too fatty for my taste.

I usually have a duck or some other game bird (like pheasant), or a really nice piece of roast beef.

Re: SNOWFLAKE! ninebelow November 29 2008, 10:35:13 UTC

I meant to put pheasant on there but I deliberately left of duck because I thought it was too small for Christmas dinner. There is no reason which this should be the case though.

And isn't duck as fatty as goose?

Re: SNOWFLAKE! giantbedsprings November 29 2008, 11:24:08 UTC

I think it depends. The duck I've had has been cooked very well and wasn't very fatty (just reallllly moist - apart from the skin). Also a duck is enough to feed 4 for a christmas dinner.

Goose I've had in the past has been decidedly greasy, but that might be because it hasn't been cooked well.