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Just brilliant
« on: May 01, 2017, 08:51:26 AM »
'Pin the knob on the Cerne giant.'

That one slipped out during editing (sorry). I hope they don't change it.

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-dorset-39743151
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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #1 on: May 01, 2017, 09:19:44 AM »
I am DISGUSTED that food is being wasted in this way when many people in this world are starving! >:(

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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #2 on: May 01, 2017, 09:30:00 AM »
They won't be edible, Floo. The knobs will be too hard.

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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #3 on: May 01, 2017, 09:40:05 AM »
But then those knobs were created just to be hard and tossed off over a field

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« Reply #4 on: May 01, 2017, 09:45:11 AM »
4,000 of them apparently.

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« Reply #5 on: May 01, 2017, 09:47:40 AM »
4,000 of them apparently.

That's a lot of knobs: perhaps they congregate, such as at Tory party conferences.

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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #6 on: May 01, 2017, 10:08:57 AM »
At least if someone was hit by a flying knob they'd wouldn't be able to sue - it'd never stand up in court.

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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #7 on: May 01, 2017, 10:33:36 AM »
They won't be edible, Floo. The knobs will be too hard.

But they are using flour etc to make them one presumes?

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« Reply #8 on: May 01, 2017, 10:37:27 AM »
But they are using flour etc to make them one presumes?
Self raising flour? 
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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #9 on: May 01, 2017, 10:47:55 AM »
This is the thing with knobs - you get nothing for ages then 4,000 come at once.

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« Reply #10 on: May 01, 2017, 10:57:17 AM »
Self raising flour?

Plain would be disappointing.

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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #11 on: May 01, 2017, 11:05:11 AM »
I think it should be illegal to use food products in this way.

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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #12 on: May 01, 2017, 11:40:49 AM »
But they are using flour etc to make them one presumes?

Yes -
'Originally they were made from leftover bread dough with added butter and sugar, hand-rolled into buns and left to dry in the dying heat of the oven
It is thought their name comes from the hand-sewn Dorset knob buttons that were also made locally
They can be eaten with Blue Vinny cheese, dipped in tea or cider, or taken with honey and cream - known locally as thunder and lightning'

Sound nice but I s'pose the ones being thrown are a day or more old so they're hard.

Floo regrettable as it may be there is lot of excess food thrown away in this country & more than a few old rolls. Meat & veg, deli stuff. Supermarket skips are filled up with good food every day. 'nuff to make you become a Freegan!
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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #13 on: May 01, 2017, 12:09:28 PM »
Floo, are you related to Wee Izzy fae East Kilbride? (second name Braidwood.)

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« Reply #14 on: May 01, 2017, 12:23:16 PM »
Floo, are you related to Wee Izzy fae East Kilbride? (second name Braidwood.)

I'm a member of a facebook page about East Kilbride and no matter the topic, we are subjected to replies like yours.

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« Reply #15 on: May 01, 2017, 01:29:49 PM »
Yes -
'Originally they were made from leftover bread dough with added butter and sugar, hand-rolled into buns and left to dry in the dying heat of the oven
It is thought their name comes from the hand-sewn Dorset knob buttons that were also made locally
They can be eaten with Blue Vinny cheese, dipped in tea or cider, or taken with honey and cream - known locally as thunder and lightning'

Sound nice but I s'pose the ones being thrown are a day or more old so they're hard.

Floo regrettable as it may be there is lot of excess food thrown away in this country & more than a few old rolls. Meat & veg, deli stuff. Supermarket skips are filled up with good food every day. 'nuff to make you become a Freegan!

The rolls should be donated to the food banks before they become unusable.

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« Reply #16 on: May 01, 2017, 01:35:11 PM »
Do food banks take bread type stuff? Maybe packaged,longlife bread like Scher. Doubt they take unpackaged rolls.
They could be donated to a homeless drop in centre.
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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #17 on: May 01, 2017, 02:54:20 PM »
It's Bank Holiday Monday and this is a thread about knob jokes. Be off with your serious food bank discussion.

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« Reply #18 on: May 01, 2017, 02:58:44 PM »
Rhi,

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It's Bank Holiday Monday and this is a thread about knob jokes. Be off with your serious food bank discussion.

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« Reply #19 on: May 01, 2017, 03:47:15 PM »
I was kicked off Ready, Steady, Cook.I misinterpreted the instruction "a knob of butter".

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« Reply #20 on: May 01, 2017, 04:40:49 PM »
Nerves of Steel.

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« Reply #21 on: May 01, 2017, 07:01:41 PM »
4,000 of them apparently.
4000 knobs being tossed off in a field. Who could ask for a more splendid sight.
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Re: Just brilliant
« Reply #22 on: May 01, 2017, 07:02:17 PM »
But they are using flour etc to make them one presumes?
Read TFA. They're made of left over bread dough.
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« Reply #23 on: May 02, 2017, 11:22:00 AM »
Read TFA. They're made of left over bread dough.

It is still wasted FOOD and therefore WRONG, imo!

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« Reply #24 on: May 02, 2017, 11:25:29 AM »
Birds rodents and foxes will eat it.
Those who only come out at night will gather up the rolls, take them back to their caves & toast over an open fire to dip in their communal soup cauldron.
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