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Should the UK remain a part of the EU or leave?

  • Stay in

    Votes: 56 47.9%

  • Get out

    Votes: 61 52.1%
  • Total voters
    117
  • Poll closed .
ELLERS said:
I think the food in France is overrated. I was told that the best beef in France was locally to where my house is. I was also told a certain restaurant (locally) was the best around for beef. After eating there twice I think a Scottish steak is far better. Deserts in France are good but much of the food is over-hyped. They live on old reputations.
saying all this they still have the best wine.
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Sell up Ellers
You look deeper old kiddy and you will find it
Each to their own of course
Of course you can eat dreadfully in France but there still runs a deep passion about food in general that I don’t expect any of us will understand. I agree re the meat by the way although I don’t eat lamb on my own principles.
 
Lawrence Jacoby said:
Sell up Ellers
You look deeper old kiddy and you will find it
Each to their own of course
Of course you can eat dreadfully in France but there still runs a deep passion about food in general that I don’t expect any of us will understand. I agree re the meat by the way although I don’t eat lamb on my own principles.
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Nothing worse than eating lamb off your own principles!
 
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ELLERS said:
The Tories went on the information that was given to them and the country by Blair. Sorry Yorkshire he lied and it has been proven he lied. You can't blame the Tories for supporting what they thought was the truth.
I know people like/dislike the Tories but in the case of the Gulf war they were conned like many others.
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It has indeed been so proven. When did I defend him about that? We're discussing Jeremy Corbyn aren't we?
 
Goldhawk-Road said:
It has a lot to do with the EU. It's a cruel practice that should be stopped, and the UK government and Opposition want to ban it. Until we leave, this ban would breach EU laws and we'd face punitive sanctions.
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Come now. We're leaving. Fact. You are not seriously telling me that the fate of the poor geese whose livers went into the making of the stuff are why you wanted us to leave? Or that the EU invented it?
 
YorkshireHoopster said:
It has indeed been so proven. When did I defend him about that? We're discussing Jeremy Corbyn aren't we?
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I was responding to your comment of "Blair was a warmonger who was backed to the hilt by the Tories".
As for Corbyn? Is he any better than the worst Tories? Don't get me wrong I normally vote Tory but I also think they have some real planks in the party.
 
Lawrence Jacoby said:
But you can’t ban anything nor can I
Seen this up close in France plus all sort of things including descaling live fish

Worked in abattoirs in the U.K. as a young man. My family kept pigs and had a very large dairy herd.

Seen chicken farms recently in the UK that are far worse than they were 30 years ago

I live with a veggie but even now knows that it’s food production having visited what is left of our farm. Each to their own I say

Farmers know animals better than anyone imo They certainly know nature than any of those useless organisations

Too many people watch Countyfile on the BBC imo. They wouldn’t last 5 minutes in my life with me

Worse things in life that pate production

The great thing is people can become outraged but they can’t do anything about it and people who eat at a high end will continue to eat fois gras in restaurants in the U.K.

If you want to have a pop then target Veal or fish farming both of which I know a great deal about.

I believe no one in the U.K. shop has any idea about what goes on. As long as they can get it in pretty packets for next to nothing all they can do is moan

We had to kill feral cats every week from our barns because if we didn’t they got out of control as it was they were eating themselves. Respect to what anyone chooses to eat but you have to live in it to fully understand the life imo . I say respect but **** the vegans as recently had fisty cuffs with someone you was slagging off what I was eating

Fois Gras is a traditional product from France nothing to do with us. Don’t buy it and don’t eat it that’s fine but to try and ban it

Good luck with that
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Get off my land.
 
ELLERS said:
I was responding to your comment of "Blair was a warmonger who was backed to the hilt by the Tories".
As for Corbyn? Is he any better than the worst Tories? Don't get me wrong I normally vote Tory but I also think they have some real planks in the party.
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All politicians are planks. Some are just thicker than others.
 
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ELLERS said:
I think the food in France is overrated. I was told that the best beef in France was locally to where my house is. I was also told a certain restaurant (locally) was the best around for beef. After eating there twice I think a Scottish steak is far better. Deserts in France are good but much of the food is over-hyped. They live on old reputations.
saying all this they still have the best wine.
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Their wine is great but I tend to like other countries as well. If it's a special occasion I will always go with a French white but prefer the Italian reds. I love the way they take their wine so seriously though - bit like the west country and cider!
 
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Wherever said:
I prefer Italian reds particularly from Puglia
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Drinking some right now. Lovely.
Primitivo, Negroamaro, Nero Di Troia. Yummy.

Great thing about wine, beer and food I don’t care where it comes from if it’s good, and there is so much to try. But if I was forced to eat one country’s food and drink their drink for the rest of my life it would be Italy.

We are drifting into review thread territory.
 
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sb_73 said:
Drinking some right now. Lovely.
Primitivo, Negroamaro, Nero Di Troia. Yummy.

Great thing about wine, beer and food I don’t care where it comes from if it’s good, and there is so much to try. But if I was forced to eat one country’s food and drink their drink for the rest of my life it would be Italy.
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I would pick the U.K. as addicted to Cornish Cruncher. Oxo’s and Roast Beef

Still my favourite meal is mash and gravy and maybe 5 pork sausages and some fresh peas .... loads of white pepper. I lick the plate clean sometimes but I have also been known to get so excited with this meal I have to smear it all over my front bottom
 
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Lawrence Jacoby said:
I would pick the U.K. as addicted to Cornish Cruncher. Oxo’s and Roast Beef

Still my favourite meal is mash and gravy and maybe 5 pork sausages and some fresh peas .... loads of white pepper. I lick the plate clean sometimes but I have also been known to get so excited with this meal I have to smear it all over my front bottom
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You’re such a turn-on, Paulie. :)
 
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