Niggles

[brumbob]

What ever happened to the cracklings that one could get from the Fish and Chip shop?   

Do you mean the bags of tiny bits of batter that you used to be able to get
we used to call them scratchings in brum

[Yorkie]

Yes the're the things.  What do mean by bags?  When I was a kid we got everything served in newspaper.  That's how we got to know what was happening in the World.   

[brumbob]

Weren't they served in little pocket type grease proof bags and then in newspaper?

[Yorkie]

Not in my day, some actually made a cone as in the photograph out of a sheet of newspaper.  It was much later when all this 'elf 'n safety started that they had to start using clean paper before the newspaper.  Now there is no newspaper at all which why my Intelligence quotient has gone down.     L0L

[brumbob]

If you order a Chinese take-away for tomorrow at 6.20pm
you don't expect to receive it tonight at 11pm grrrrr

Waiting with baited breathe and a rumbling tum to see if they deliver tonight

[brumbob]

If you order a Chinese take-away for tomorrow at 6.20pm
you don't expect to receive it tonight at 11pm grrrrr

Waiting with baited breathe and a rumbling tum to see if they deliver tonight

WOW, I'm absolutely stuffed (and half cut)
why do they give you so much?
more than enough for another banquet tomorrow 

[Yorkie]

Two meals for the price of one can't be bad!   D)

[Fester]

They give you so much to avoid you complaining about them NOT giving you enough!   

When I get that full (which I do regularly) I hate myself, and vow to go on an immediate diet.

Then the next morning I'm starving!

[brumbob]

Stuffed again and ended up freezing some for another meal 

[Yorkie]

Personally, I wouldn't freeze unused Chinese food from a takeaway.    ££$

[brumbob]

done it loads of time
and your reasoning?

[Yorkie]

Just have to be very careful with freezing food that may have previously been frozen e.g.prior to heating in the takeaway.  A lot of these meals are now produced centrally and frozen or chilled before being "cooked".   Re-freezing rice in particular is regarded as being quite dangerous from a health point of view.

Not just my opinion.

[Trojan]

What ever happened to the cracklings that one could get from the Fish and Chip shop?   

Do you mean the bags of tiny bits of batter that you used to be able to get
we used to call them scratchings in brum

We called them Batter Bits (surprisingly)

[Ian]

Not just my opinion.

The rice thing is one of the biggest causes of food poisoning, apparently.  The dual risks of freezing then re-heating a Chinese takeaway are that toxins are formed and spores - which normally don't hurt you - can be 'heat shocked' to become vegetative bacterial cells which can cause nasty illnesses.

[Merddin Emrys]

I'm probably the only person who's never ate any of this Chinese, indian stuff, I've just never fancied it at all.