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Cras wrote:
Yeah, pretty much. And that one snowballed primarily because it's so hilariously apt. The comparison was first made by Dickens, apparently.


Nicholas Nickleby, indeed.

" "‘The meaning of that term — gammon,’ said Mr Gregsbury, ‘is unknown to me. If it means that I grow a little too fervid, or perhaps even hyperbolical, in extolling my native land, I admit the full justice of the remark. I AM proud of this free and happy country. My form dilates, my eye glistens, my breast heaves, my heart swells, my bosom burns, when I call to mind her greatness and her glory.’”
Wow, I had no idea of the history.
I'm not sure whether it's drawn from that, or whether it's appeared on its own and it just so happens that the current users weren't the first to draw the comparison.

I suspect the latter.
Curiosity wrote:
DavPaz wrote:
Trooper wrote:
You guys and your fancy foreign place names.

On the way to Scarborough last week, we went past a place called Askham Bryan.


I am always amused when in Norfolk we go past ‘Horsey Windpump’


I took a detour past that just to get a photo.
Cras wrote:
I'm not sure whether it's drawn from that, or whether it's appeared on its own and it just so happens that the current users weren't the first to draw the comparison.

I suspect the latter.

So do I. Especially as the modern usage is, I think, slightly more inspired by the red-faced complections of resting old white guys on Question Time. So not quite the same thing.
When I drive colleagues to the pub on Fridays, I managed to be grown up a couple of times but now find myself unable to avoid going the other way - down Cockshot Road. I shout "Cockshot!" as I do so, obviously.

A distance in the other direction is Bell End.
I'd like to think that as you do so, you punch one of your colleagues in the dick.
I'd like to think that he punches his colleague in the dick, while only thinking "cockshot".
Warhead wrote:
Cras wrote:
Warhead wrote:
Cras wrote:
You committed war crimes in the sauce thread, Warhead.


Oh dear, did I? Link?


https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... 50#p845250


That's not the sauce thread.

Kris wrote:


FFS, I know where the sauce thread is, i was hoping for a link to the crime i committed, but I didn't post anything in it, UIM.
Yeah, I had the wrong thread. I mean, they were both about sauce, tbh
GO TO YOUR ROOM.
I dated a girl once and the only reason I dropped her off home was so that I could drive past the street near her house that was called Bellend.
Ah, right by Mincing Lane.
I just checked and it's not. I'm thinking of the Bellend in Stourbridge.
TheVision wrote:
I just checked and it's not. I'm thinking of the Bellend in Stourbridge.


He said he lived in Saltaire.
Cockshot to Bell End.

ZOMG Spoiler! Click here to view!
39 min (27 mi)
37 min in current traffic


1. Head north-west on Cockshot Rd
2. Turn left to stay on Cockshot Rd
3. Turn right onto Moorlands Rd
4. Slight left onto Cockshot Rd
5. Turn right onto Worcester Rd/A449
6. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit and stay on Worcester Rd/A449
7. Exit the roundabout onto Worcester Rd/A449
8. At the roundabout, take the 4th exit onto Temeside Way/A4440
9. Exit the roundabout onto Temeside Way/A4440
10. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Broomhall Way/A4440
11. Exit the roundabout onto Broomhall Way/A4440
12. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Crookbarrow Way/A4440
13. Exit the roundabout onto Crookbarrow Way/A4440
14. At the roundabout, take the 3rd exit onto Whittington Rd
15. Exit the roundabout onto Whittington Rd
16. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto the M5 slip road to Birmingham
17. Merge onto M5
18. Keep right to stay on M5
19. Keep right at the fork to stay on M5
20. At junction 4, take the A38/A491 exit to B'ham (SW)/Stourbridge
21. At the roundabout, take the 1st exit onto Sandy Ln/A491
22. At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto Stourbridge Rd/A491
23. Exit the roundabout onto Stourbridge Rd/A491
24. Turn right onto Heath End Rd

25. Arrive at location: Bell End

For the best route in current traffic visit https://goo.gl/maps/a8t8BB18xUK2
Trooper wrote:
TheVision wrote:
I just checked and it's not. I'm thinking of the Bellend in Stourbridge.


He said he lived in Saltaire.


《Narrows eyes》
Warhead wrote:
Warhead wrote:
Cras wrote:
Warhead wrote:
Cras wrote:
You committed war crimes in the sauce thread, Warhead.


Oh dear, did I? Link?


https://www.beexcellenttoeachother.com/ ... 50#p845250


That's not the sauce thread.

Kris wrote:


FFS, I know where the sauce thread is, i was hoping for a link to the crime i committed, but I didn't post anything in it, UIM.


I think the real crime is that so many of you think that salad cream is a viable alternative to mayo.
I agree, salad cream is magnitudes better. Pop pop.
Trooper wrote:
I agree, salad cream is magnitudes better. Pop pop.


Giphy ">:(":
https://media1.giphy.com/media/z8iVwIhACAlvG/giphy-loop.mp4
Well shit, giphy failed me.
Trooper wrote:
I agree, salad cream is magnitudes better. Pop pop.

The only thing mayo is good for is tuna mayo. Otherwise salad cream wins out every time.
Hardly, that was a pretty apt coincidence.
Kris wrote:
Well shit, giphy failed me.


You are Davpaz and I claim my five pounds.
Shit, you caught me
Lonewolves wrote:
Trooper wrote:
I agree, salad cream is magnitudes better. Pop pop.

The only thing mayo is good for is tuna mayo. Otherwise salad cream wins out every time.


You disgust me.
Cras wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Trooper wrote:
I agree, salad cream is magnitudes better. Pop pop.

The only thing mayo is good for is tuna mayo. Otherwise salad cream wins out every time.


You disgust me.


I agree with Cras
I haven't had salad creme since I were a lad. It's like mayo for beginners, isn't it?
It's like mayo, but actually tastes of something.
I like to take a slice of bread, squirt Salad Cream all over it, fold it in half, and eat it.
Findus Fop wrote:
I like to take a slice of bread, squirt Salad Cream all over it, fold it in half, and eat it.

Me too! When I was 10 :)
DavPaz wrote:
Findus Fop wrote:
I like to take a slice of bread, squirt Salad Cream all over it, fold it in half, and eat it.

Me too! When I was 10 :)


Trooper wrote:
It's like mayo, but actually tastes of something.


Vinegar?
MaliA wrote:
Cras wrote:
Lonewolves wrote:
Trooper wrote:
I agree, salad cream is magnitudes better. Pop pop.

The only thing mayo is good for is tuna mayo. Otherwise salad cream wins out every time.


You disgust me.


I agree with Cras


I also agree on this.
Trooper wrote:
It's like mayo, but actually tastes of something.


Death and regret.
DavPaz wrote:
I haven't had salad creme since I were a lad. It's like mayo for beginners, isn't it?



Another thing, its cream man, cream.
Salad Cream is way better than mayo.

Trufax.
Schism Incoming
Salad cream and mayo are complementary, not either/or. They have different uses.
Doctor Glyndwr wrote:
Salad cream and mayo are complementary, not either/or. They have different uses.


Agreed.

Mayo for eating.

Salad cream for putting in the bin.
I'm sure I saw something the other day about them re-branding salad cream as sandwich cream or something. And someone (I presume on twitter) dug out some promotional shots from the early 2000s with some very saucy (fnar) photos with Graham Norton and Denise Van Outen.

Ah found it:

https://twitter.com/bilge1979/status/10 ... 6339566592


MaliA wrote:


His duchy, his rules.
MaliA wrote:
Schism Incoming


If only there was a way we could hold a salad cream referendum.
Trooper wrote:
MaliA wrote:
Schism Incoming


If only there was a way we could hold a salad cream referendum.


You appear to have misspelled pogrom
Thousand Island Dressing for the win!
Lonewolves wrote:
Trooper wrote:
I agree, salad cream is magnitudes better. Pop pop.

The only thing mayo is good for is tuna mayo. Otherwise salad cream wins out every time.

Tuna with salad cream is pretty nice.
I wish I still had my GBA SP and Advance Wars.
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