General Chat

yeah,recall how I loved it, but daren't go near it now!!

many things I liked as a younger person, mainly I suppose because someone else made it............Mum had two sisters, so there was always something different to eat at theirs............

they are all gone now


I cant be bothered/ don't have the inclination, etc these days.........

Fred's mate absolutely loathed semolina because he had had such a terrible experience with it at school.

He loves it now when I make it properly without lumps.

OOH! coconut ice!

I'm surprised I've got any of my own teeth.


Please don't mention Tapioca again - it brings back nightmare memories of school dinners.

Is that a disappointment to you Bob?

Another I came unstuck on was Oreo Biscuit ice-creams. They looked really yummy AND were on offer at the wholesalers so we bought a case. They were just too much, very rich and far too big and we had two dozen of them!

coconut ice

a multicoloured brick with bits broken of with a massive pair of tongs!!

Was that like ground rice?

Who remembers Rice Cremola?

Fred's mate and M ate the other two lollies and said they were alright.

Looking up the production of Sago/Tapioca - it seems such a faff for something most children didn't really like at school. :-(

I agree, life is full of disappointments - I've never tasted a better lemon meringue pie than the one my mum made, and will never taste one of hers again.

But, I'd like to taste again a 'tattie' (hard sweet 'thing' covered in cinnamon) only available in Scotland - no doubt without the easily chokeable-on plastic 'toy' hidden in the middle - just to see if it is as foul as I remember - but I kept buying them.

confession: I'd pay for the 'Tattie', but not the 'Jamboree bag' shoved up my jumper! ;-)

But we could develop that idea to encompass mental illness, degenerative diseases, war and all sorts of deadly serious things that we all would like to see eradicated.

That is just one we have to live with but, while life is full of disappointments we can do nothing about dwelling on the negative will achieve nothing at all and we need to keep ourselves happy by regretting frivolous things.

No doubt the islanders whose livelihoods depended upon sago production have some cause to regret it lack of availability too.

...well I suppose there are different levels of 'selling your soul' :-D :-D

My biggest disappointment is that there are no preventive vaccines that can prevent all cancers from developing.

I wouldn't sell my soul for a vaccine..........i would happily just give it.

H'mmm.......sell your soul for a tin of Ambrosia Sago ???

How very facetious!

:-S :-( :-S :-S

I haven't had tapioca/sago for decades!

I can't tell the difference, because every school I attended, it was known as frogspawn, and had a dollop of disgusting jam in the middle.

I was the 'heroine' who ate everyone else's, so they could leave the dining hall/gym and go out to play :-D

Edit: I never liked Dime bars :-(

I can tell you why that is too because I have been on the quest for sago for ages.

Almost all of the world's sago production was based on a particular Indonesian island. The tsunami destroyed most of the sago palms and left the soil too saline to grow any more.

I have to make do with tapioca.

My big disappointment is
Ambrosia no longer do tinned Sago


I would sell my soul for a tin :-D :-D :-D

I did an Iceland shop last week when I realised the freezer in the garage was just supporting a couple of packs of partly cooked rolls

Bought a packet Daim bars that looked like the cheaper version magnum bars

Not impressed with them ,too sweet and nothing like dime bars that I loved

Not on my repeat shopping list

Are Dime bars stil sold cos havent seen them

But there are there are three more in the freezer for me to enjoy.

Look on the positive side Sharron.

At least you are still here to say "Yuk" to the Dime/Daim bar.

;-)

You can get Daim Bar cake in the freezer section at Sainsbury so probably in the other supermarkets too.

Funny how tastes change.

Like you, I used to love them. The snap and the chocolatey, buttery taste. The last one I ate a few years ago was so sweet and found the weak spots in my teeth. Ouch.