Best cup of tea is in Polly's Tea Rooms in Marlborough High Street. I make the tea in our house as for all her loveliness and many highly talented skills the very lovely Mrs Godders just cannot brew a decent pot of tea.
I've already had three cups of tea. Tesco own round bags, they are fine if you brew them long enough! As for the taking drinks into the ground issue: everytime I get a free ticket to see West Ham we smuggle a can of beer in in our trousers. You need to be pissed to watch them. I ring be trying it at St Marys week Sunday though.
Can just imagine Saints fans with trousers adapted for drinks carrying...just like the Great Escape. Insulated belts for burger-bearing as an added extra.
I'm with you there Fran, york has a exceptional tea making experience. But i'm glad im not alone on this subject, In my opinion, tea is one of our traditions in this country and if we can't even manage to brew a cuppa correctly (health and safety permitted), how the hell are we expected to produce a decent National team correctly, another tradition.... ...The future is bleek my fellow Saints, im off to put the kettle on.
I wonder if the water in Yorkshire is the reason for their great tea...like Scottish water for whisky making. Personally though, I think we started going downhill when proper puddings got replaced by tiramisu. Feed our back four with treacle pudding and jam rolypoly....stand back Lambert..not you!
ok you've lost me on that pudding bit, not a desert fan Fran. Back to the OP though, I, unfortunately cannot go to many games as I manage a pub in a well known Pub chain that most of you probably venture into before/after the games, but when i can go i like to make it a proper day out. Thus said, it costs a bomb these days. But if it's the price you have to pay to watch OUR team then so be it!
about that....I now live/work on the mainland, but my Old Dear lives on the island, and it's always nice to return home for a "proper" meal isn't it! #cantcookwontcook
Actually, he's not wrong either. What's just as important is that the countries that produce the staples of diet have had bad harvests, due to extreme weather conditions, so prices will go up. To put it into perspective though, it's not as if there will be an actual shortage - as far as the western world is concerned**. More the case of there being enough, but not too much more. Still, perhaps it'll give people the opportunity to use their noodles [sorry] and buy food intelligently, rather than just slinging the crisps and chocolate in the trolley. **there has always been a shortage for the poorer countries. As usual, it's they who will suffer most. BTW Lamb, I saw that article yesterday, probably two hours before you posted it, and thought about creating a thread. But then I knew you'd create one, so I left it to you.
Personally the price is tough for me and one of the reasons I don't get to nearly as many games as I'd like, definitely have to be on a budget when I do go. Would kill for a season ticket (Seriously... Watch out any holders on here... I'm watching you.), but don't see being able to get one any time soon, especially with the prices only likely to rise despite any campaigns or whatever to lower them, since we'll obviously be charging up the league and revolutionising modern football! Don't really mind though, football is an expensive game these days, most major forms of entertainment is, and for me the thrill of attending a game is up there as the greatest entertainment possible, and I count some games I've been to at both The Dell and St. Mary's as some of the greatest experiences of my life. For that reason despite the fact that the price excludes me a tad, I count myself lucky when I do get to go, to pay and support the club and enjoy watching the team I love play the sport I love.
Ah, suet-based puddings. I've only made one in my life, and that came out only OK'ish. My Mum used to make cracking Jam Roly Poly, and the savoury Bacon one aswell. She's now 97, and I've asked her in recent years how she used to get recipes like that just right. I don't know, is the answer I get. I fear it's all locked away. One day I'll crack it. It's all about method, and there's some Atora in the cupboard.
