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[rosamicula]

I must have signed up for a thing (probably, knowing me, some sort of prize draw) with one of the pubs in Richmond. They emailed me recently with this:

Ladies Ale Night

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[_pyromancer_]

YOU WILL ENJOY YOURSELF. NON-COMPLIANCE WITH THIS ORDER WILL BE PUNISHED AT SCALE FACTOR THREE. RESISTANCE IS FUTILE!

:-)

[steer]

You said that beer tasted like socks. Why are you tasting your socks?

[rosamicula]

Her socks probably taste alright. Perhaps it was yours she was referring to. You do emit a beery fug, generally.

[steer]

I don't give a beery fug you beary fag. :-P

[lblanchard]

My local Philly pub (owned by my next door neighbor) features a double-chocolate stout brownie sundae (brownie with ice cream) that I think rather well of.

[rosamicula]

I'm generally a big fan of adding booze to any and all cooking, really.

I don't much like chocolate cakes of any kind, really, which odd because I love making them for other people.

[green_badger]

I like some beers, but I've never come across one that would be drinkable with chocolate cake.

Perhaps you could go along and be urged and totally refuse, drink some gin/wine/similar, and go home with... well, if it's a ladies ale night and you don't want ale, one would assume with some ladies? xxx

[sarah_mum]

I'm reading that as a cake made with chocolate stout, which is still not an appealing prospect.

[green_badger]

I suppose it might go better with beer though, if you liked beer. Every chocolate stout I've tried has been quite unpleasant.

[matgb]

That was how I was reading it too. It'd be interesting if it doesn't actually have any chocolate at all in it.

Annoyingly, miss_s_b is a Proper Real Ale barmaid (as in she's quit jobs where the beer wasn't being kept properly, etc) and really likes chocolate stouts. Unfortunately, she also has a very severe chocolate allergy (discovered when a pack on Maltesers nearly killed her), and sometimes breweries put actual chocolate in with their chocolate malt.

Hence the cake would be approached with care.

[steer]

Listening to you on the subject of beer is like listening to a football manager talking about the poetry of Auden.

it doesn't mean I'm going to be lured in by the promise of an effing chocolate cake.

Self-knowledge is a precious gift. You absolutely WOULD be lured by a chocolate cake. You think you wouldn't but if one was on a fishing line in front of you in the street you'd be following it like a demented mackerel.

[rosamicula]

I don't like chocolate cake. Nando's carrot cake is a different matter.

And coming from the man who was so desperate for chocolate cookies he continued to eat the ones I generously gave him after he had established they were actually dog biscuits and who chewed for some time on the slender bar of guest soap I'd told him was Milky Bar - until he was foaming at the mouth in fact - you are in no position to comment.

[steer]

Were they chocolate? Isn't chocolate kryptonite for dogs?

[rosamicula]

I dunno. i only kick puppies, I don't feed them.