Pimp That Snack

Garibaldi brings back bad memory ...

51 posts · started by Scarlet Pimpernell · Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:39 pm

  1. Scarlet Pimpernell Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:39 pm #1
    I have to share this with you ... hope you don't mind.

    When I was six (24yrs ago aaaarrrgghhh!!), it was school sports day and I was in the obligatory running race with all the lovely parents watching.

    We'd had garibaldi's at lunchtime (looking back that now seems a bit strange). As I was running I could feel a raisan in my teeth, assumed it was from the lunchtime snack and chewed as I was running. When I got to the end the raisan was unchewable and I took it out ... low and behold I had been furiously chewing on a fly and I was immediately sick in front of all the Mums & Dads.

    Totally overtook my second place glory. The shame.

    *feeling better for sharing* [Wink]
  2. pimpdaddy Wed Aug 23, 2006 8:44 pm #2
    ewwwwwwwwwwww.
  3. blueeyes Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:18 pm #3
    ewwwwww indeed!

    Was walking the other day and a wee fly flew up my nose.

    The worst part is that about ten minutes later it came out of my mouth. Can't have been fun for it! [Confused]
  4. Scarlet Pimpernell Wed Aug 23, 2006 9:19 pm #4
    Sorry ... was that too gross for posting? It was the fly references in the narrative that made me think about it. [Embarassed]

    By the way, liked the pimp ... there seems to be a flurry of biscuit/chocolatey pimps at the moment. My submission isn't biscuity or chocolatey.
  5. chocolate 800 Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:07 pm #5
    I was having my break in work one morning, and had been enjoying my lovely cup of tea. Was about to swallow the last mouthful when something caught my eye

    A WASP!! [Shocked]

    It must have been in the mug already cuz my boss had made the tea for me - either that or she put it in the mug [Evil or Very Mad]
    Either way I was so sick, and panicked cuz I could have been stung from the inside out [Crying or Very sad] [Evil or Very Mad]
  6. pimpdaddy Thu Aug 24, 2006 12:28 pm #6
    I was stung by a wasp only once when I was about 8 or 9. I unknowningly put my hand on top of one and the little bugger stung me. Wasn't very nice but my teachers at school were extremely unsympathetic.
  7. big wiganer Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:27 pm #7
    I know this string's flown off on a tangent, but I was one of those kids that got stung a bunch of times every summer; it got so I didn't actually look forward to summer. My mum said it was silly to have a phobia of wasps, but I felt it was completely rational.
    One summer I was moseying through the garden and, as was my wont, I lazily grasped a bunch of leaves off a small oak stump that had somehow continued to branch, and Imagine my surprise - I disturbed a couple of wasps doing the nasty on the underneath!
    They proceeded to do far more nasty things to the palm of my hand, and henceforth, have now assumed leaves into my collection of stupid neuroses.

    Excellent Great-baldi though - top marks for dunkabilty [Smile]
  8. Scarlet Pimpernell Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:35 pm #8
    A couple of wasp things ...

    1) I was at a park with my children on Tuesday and there was a blood curldsing scream from a little girl. Turned out that she had been eating an ice-cream and had been stung twice on the lip by a wasp ... really nasty.

    2) I used to work on a cider and mead farm. One of my jobs on sunny days was to stand outside and give away little tasters of fruit wines in little glasses. The wasps were in their hundreds .. I used to catch them in the little glasses, having a competetion with the chap on the cider sample stand to see who caught the most ... that was until a punter called the RSPCA about it. Suppose he did have a point.
  9. pimpdaddy Thu Aug 24, 2006 2:55 pm #9
    Wasps always struck me as evil malicious little buggers. You don't seem to have to do much before one of them flies right at you before stinging you to death. This is why I feel little guilt if I have to pummel a wasp to death if I can't easily push it outside.

    Bees on the other hand seem like friendly chaps - they're just all about the flowers and pollen and sting you as a last resort.

    In conclusion, Bees good, wasps bad.
  10. Scarlet Pimpernell Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:03 pm #10
    One of the stings can be treated with vinegar and yet the other not ... hold on I'll ask my friend Google for the answer ... yep, vinegar for wasp stings ... something to do with acid / alkaline etc etc

    I volunteered that information to the see-saw-girls mother and judging by the look she gave me I think she thought I was slightly mad ... [Shocked]
  11. pimpdaddy Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:16 pm #11
    Does one sting with acid (wasp?) and the other alkaline?

    The trick therefore is if you get stung by one, find the other and get stung in the same place in order to cancel it out.
  12. big wiganer Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:26 pm #12
    they're both acids. and vinegar wouldn't really neutralise it I've read.
    I suppose you could pour vinegar on all your garden flowers and get into the bees systems first?

    Pouring acid on a wasp will neutralise it.
  13. Scarlet Pimpernell Thu Aug 24, 2006 3:43 pm #13
    apologies for my mis-information ... apparently wasp stings are actually ph neutral and vinegar only works for jelly-fish stings http://www.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,8125-1750451,00.html

    no wonder the woman looked at me strange [Rolling Eyes]
  14. Mrs Coulter Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:21 pm #14
    I was watching TV / drinking a can of coka/ lying on the sofa late one night, think I was watching the General Election results come in actually. Anyway, I fell asleep, as you do, and when I woke up, like in the middle of the night, with a raging thirst, picked up my can, had a big swig and after a minute (don't forget I'd just woke up and was still more than half asleep) thought .. "hang on, coke isn't supposed to be crunchy" so I looked and ...... there was a trail of kamikaze ants that had drowned in my coke and I'd been chewing some of their fallen comrades. EW!!
  15. pimpdaddy Thu Aug 24, 2006 6:45 pm #15
    [Embarassed] [Embarassed] [Embarassed] [Embarassed] [Embarassed] [Toilet monster]
  16. big wiganer Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:54 am #16
    I remember having a penpal in france when I was about 12. I have no idea how it got started because I didn't know any french people, and I didn't actually like the person I was writing to. Still, it was nice getting a letter from abroad, made me feel really special.
    Now the only foreign penpal is an ex in Holland. My wife's really pleased about that.
  17. blueeyes Fri Sep 08, 2006 11:57 am #17
    I would have to agree that even I sometimes have to cut my text messages short. I'm currently spending a lot more money than I should be due to speaking properly via text and having to pay for two messages!

    However there's no excuse for using it outside of that.

    I find that letters often bring bad news! I do enjoy getting them but I love receiving e-mail as well. But that's probably because it was so very exciting when I was younger and it was from a friend in Ohio or from the lad I was head over heels for.

    Good times!

    I overuse exclamation marks. But that's how I speak, so I feel justified. I don't put more than one together, though.

    (Please note the restraint in that last paragraph)
  18. em'n'mz Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:12 pm #18
    I have to say none of my friends either write letters or e-mails.

    They all just use instent messaging or texts.
  19. blueeyes Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:25 pm #19
    Well, I have to side with the oldies here - that's a shame.
  20. big wiganer Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:57 pm #20
    that it is. Go on, we're talking though eh? And I have no idea who you are - I bet you're in Marbaya or summat glamorous. In't technology brilliant!

    My mates don't do letters or barely e-mails or texts. You'd think I'd get the message.
    I prefer to think I'm better than them for keeping in touch however tenuously.
  21. blueeyes Fri Sep 08, 2006 1:58 pm #21
    That's my angle!
  22. big wiganer Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:14 pm #22
    untouchable in righteousness..

    If nothing else, a stubborn refusal to accept the obvious staring us in the face will see us right!
  23. em'n'mz Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:17 pm #23
    i actally feel bad that me and my friends only keep in touch like that when we aren't at school. But some of them do write notres to each other in books and just carry on replying so like one takes the book home on1 night then the other takes the book home the next. But now we wont have time to do things like this becasue we are starting our secound GCSE year. anyone go any tips on how to handle it?
  24. big wiganer Fri Sep 08, 2006 2:20 pm #24
    yeah, always be the busiest one. That way is valid that you keep touch less frequently. Then when you do you've more to talk about!
  25. big wiganer Sat Sep 09, 2006 1:03 am #25
    ha ha, that killed that off. I've got an excuse for having the time to write this much inanity, but not for long.
    Anyway......off the beaten track a little.

    Fig rolls, remember fig rolls? I used to call them granny cakes because my gran always offered me them, saying they were good for the bowels.
    Naturally I always declined, fearing I might instantaneously crap myseld on first bite.

    Has anyone pimped a fig roll? And then eaten it? I wonder if my gran was right...
  26. Scarlet Pimpernell Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:52 am #26
    I was always afraid of figs. I used to be a chalet maid in France and some of the guests would have a bowl of figs every morning lathered in natural yoghurt to "keep them regular" ... that scared the **** out of me, therefore no need for figs. [Wink]

    Fig rolls, always offered by my granny, and i to would always decline. I wonder if I'll start wanting them when I am over 60???

    Prunes??????? WHY??????
  27. big wiganer Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:09 pm #27
    I went to a marketing extravaganza laid on by the Californian Prune Board a few years ago in a former life - I'd get all the glamour jobs. They'd recruited chef Lesley Waters to do umpteen dishes to demonstrate the versatility of the much maligned dried fruit to generate excitement in the marketplace.

    It didn't work. Despite the wonderful efforts of the pixie chef to inject vitality in the prune, I came away unimpressed with the withered old thing. (still talking about the prunes)

    Prune Juice???? steady now...
  28. em'n'mz Sat Sep 09, 2006 12:37 pm #28
    Yuk prunes!!!!

    But no longer what they call a super food. Cherries are the new super food acording to radio 2 and cherries are very nice. They apprently have medicinal value.
  29. tedmus Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:13 pm #29
    Acai Palm Berries are the next big superfood set to sweep the world apparently (some bloke on telly this morning said so).
  30. tedmus Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:17 pm #30
    Scarlet Pimpernell wrote:My brother writes in text speak .. I can't stand it.

    But I also don't understand the abbreviations/anacronyms used in forums, such as "zomg" - what does that mean? It's like learning a whole new language for me and I can't stand it, it may save the writer time but it actually takes me far longer to read the blimmin' post. [Evil or Very Mad]

    I think the text speak began when you had such a limited number of characters in a single text mesage, therefore you used shortened words to save money ... understandable. But these days that isn't an issue ... therefore no excuse .. really quite lazy

    By the way, Tricky, your puzzles (x100) are the most addictive thing I have encounatered on the internet and I was so relieved when I finished. You should have severe health warnings on that website. Well done. [Wink]

    I used to use MSN many years ago, I stopped when my brother (two years older than me) got a PC and used to talk to me on it like a 12 year old [Rolling Eyes]
  31. em'n'mz Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:25 pm #31
    MSN rocks , well now i use skype and google talk i guess there all just the same. my sisters use skype and google talk and MSN and they are all in there late 20ies to there early 30ies.
  32. big wiganer Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:52 pm #32
    is it me or do acai palm berries sound like japanese love aids? [Embarassed]
  33. tedmus Sat Sep 09, 2006 9:55 pm #33
    that didn't half make me chuckle [Laughing]

    "you can cut out the pastry base for your acai palm berry tart using a Dr K.C. Wu ring....."
  34. big wiganer Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:14 pm #34
    The Acai palm berry is the latest must-have gadget for the man on the move.
    If you simply can't leave home without having access to the latest digital titillation in your pocket - the acai palm berry is just for you
  35. em'n'mz Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:23 pm #35
    what about woman on the move? you can't be sexest
  36. big wiganer Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:32 pm #36
    The acai palm berry can be fully integrated with all modern hardware and software. Dr. K.C. Wu's retails at £89.99 and comes with a free dingle - for the modern lady who insists on discretion with none of the compromise
  37. em'n'mz Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:40 pm #37
    what is this thing anyway?
  38. big wiganer Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:50 pm #38
    something I need to get a patent on quickly.
    From the depths of the murkiest minds come the simplest yet greatest inventions.

    Who said that?
    me, just then. I'm going for a lie down. MOTD is starting
  39. tedmus Sat Sep 09, 2006 10:53 pm #39
    http://www.buzzle.com/editorials/8-8-2006-104881.asp

    I'll leave any present or future marital aids out if that's o.k [Laughing]
  40. big wiganer Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:51 pm #40
    Duly noted.
    These super foods sound very good you know. I must stock up on them. Perhaps if I eat enough I could go back in time?

    My gran ate tripe all the time and lived to 83. I still remember her sending me to the market every saturday and watching the butcher wrestling the quivering white mass into a bag with awe and a little disgust.
  41. em'n'mz Sat Sep 09, 2006 11:52 pm #41
    Well every friday or it might be every day that radio 2 have a top 3 super foods around 5:15.
  42. LadyV Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:43 pm #42
    Radio 2. How old are you? Isn't radio 2 for fogies and mums? (who are probably fogies)

    Anyway back the the berries. Do you know how these berries are pronounced? A reliable source tells me its ass-ah-eeeeee

    I get the feeling I need to be japanese to say it correctly though [Wink]
  43. em'n'mz Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:50 pm #43
    lol well my parents listen to it so when stuck in the car with them on the way home i listen to that instaed of listing them talk about work.
  44. big wiganer Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:51 pm #44
    I think you're right. And radio 2 is for fogies. Radio 4 is much better, seriously. Apart from the art historians who love themselves. oh, and women's hour. The archers is funny - can you believe there's a character in it addicted to crack? And they're having a pop at the dominance of supermarkets affecting small businesses? very contemporary
  45. em'n'mz Mon Sep 11, 2006 8:55 pm #45
    radio for what wave lenght is that on and yes radio 2 is for old fogies but my parents are 60 n 50 so i guess dey can listin to it and it just hapens 2 be more interesting than business talk.
  46. big wiganer Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:03 pm #46
    fair play to 'em, is ok really. better than radio1 - there I've said it. I'm a fogie too.
    depends whereaboots you are for the frqwuency doodah.
    Here, have a ganders

    http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/radio4.shtml

    if you like comedy, R7 is good - need DAB radio i think
  47. em'n'mz Mon Sep 11, 2006 9:09 pm #47
    thanks 94.8 will do me and saying that radio 2 is better than radio 1 does not mean your an old fogie. being a fogie means your a tog and tog is someone over the age of 50 in my opinion.
  48. caffeine Wed Sep 13, 2006 12:10 am #48
    The whole of the start of this post made me twitch and look around violently in the vague suspicion I heard buzzing. Thanks.

    Then the middle bit was a valid argument.. I'd secretly quite like to get rid of computers and mobile phones for a while to see how we cope without them. Writing letters would be fun! And postage would probably not be so expensive because the postal service would be used a lot more. And apart from that ... I'd still get shouted at for tying up the phone line I think. I do prefer the option and the way of meeting people though. If there was no internet I would drink more. Which would probably be a bad thing.

    As for this end of the conversation ...... you've completely lost me, so I don't know why I bothered posting really. *Feels confused*
  49. big wiganer Wed Sep 13, 2006 3:45 pm #49
    I think it got talked out earlier. My excuse is it was my first post conversation and got all excitable carried away, what with having far too much spare time! My bad [Embarassed]
  50. caffeine Wed Sep 13, 2006 7:02 pm #50
    lol I wasn't complaining just felt I should post since I actually bothered to read it all.
  51. beckly Thu Sep 21, 2006 2:40 pm #51
    Hmn ... yes, I thought the begining may have done that to you dear Caffein. [Very Happy]