Reverse culture shock ~ getting reaquainted in a great british boozer

[somtamslap]

Drinking cherry coke and hanging out in a pub's toilet.....
Slap, are you catching for the other team now?

I thought the fact that I was diluting my meths with slim-line tonic was a dead give away.

Just call me Slapella and be done with it...

[DJ Pat]

A nice crumbly mound of stilton and succulent slices of beef inside fluffy doorstep slices - mmm - mmmmmmmmm.

Do you know what - I might round today's lunch off with a toffee crisp.

My lunch trumps your uni chicks hands down.

Sadly, you are probably right. My Uni chick days are long gone, and a good sandwich is for ever.

Mine isn't, almost anyway.
This one graduated 9 months ago
Her blouse and skirt still hang in her wardrobe

[baldrick]

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[Bogon]

My brother has told me stories of white chocolate Lion bars, at least 8 different flavours of Lucozade, a shower gel made by a firm called Original Source that produce a mint and tree tea gel that makes your balls tingle when used and that Stella now make a cider called CIDRE.

C'mon Slap, does the U.K really sell this stuff?

[DJ Pat]

A beer called Phuket is also sold in the UK

[somtamslap]

C'mon Slap, does the U.K really sell this stuff?

I can confirm that the aforementioned is all true, Bogie - and not only white chocolate lion bars either... Bogie, they've got peanut butter flavour - and they are just magnificent.

[Neverna]

Reese's bars are available in 7-11s in Thailand and are a great alternative to Lion bars (actually better, IMHO).

[hazz]

I bought a sandwich yesterday: the filling of which was beef topside and long clawson stilton. .

Bastard. I hate you.

He is only trying to talk himself into believing that he doesn't miss Thailand but we all know what the truth is.
Wait until September comes with rain and leaf slippery bicycle lanes.

yeah. I know. But sandwiches was kind of a low blow. They do make good sarnies in UK.

OK. We still got this:

I was at facebook today and not only do they do sarnies that put the best sarnies in the uk to shame.... but it looks like they have employed this lass and a few of her mates on the staff too.

[DJ Pat]

Foodland make half decent sandwiches at decent prices.

In the UK there seems to be a craze for eating chilled packaged sandwiches for lunch that were prepared by mostly east europeans working for less than the miniimum wage, it was on Ch4 last year.

Stupid thing is that these plebs eating such crap pay almost £4 a pack

Sandwiches should be made fresh, eaten fresh.
No sandwich should go near a fridge.

Come on UK sandwich companies, get yer house in order

[Baas Babelaas]

Enjoyable read. Bought your first e-book, waiting for the next.

[DrB0b]

Foodland make half decent sandwiches at decent prices.

In the UK there seems to be a craze for eating chilled packaged sandwiches for lunch that were prepared by mostly east europeans working for less than the miniimum wage, it was on Ch4 last year.

Stupid thing is that these plebs eating such crap pay almost £4 a pack

Sandwiches should be made fresh, eaten fresh.
No sandwich should go near a fridge.

Come on UK sandwich companies, get yer house in order

True enough, there does seem to be a plague of Prets, the Greggs for soft southerners. There are still plenty of proper sandwich shops around though.

[DrB0b]

Reese's bars are available in 7-11s in Thailand and are a great alternative to Lion bars (actually better, IMHO).

Though I notice you went to an Irish website for your pic
They're displayed beside the Lion Bars in UK newsagents now. How things have changed from the days when Hershies and Twinkies were unobtainable wonders advertised on the back cover of imported Spiderman comics

[JayZee]

When I wuz a young lad in Dorset, we used to visit some rellies in Somerset who ran the local pub in Zeals. 'Twas a highlight, those visits, as I would get this - a proper treat on a Saturday night ...



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[DJ Pat]

[charleyboy]

[charleyboy]

We also have pork pies and branston pickle,

See above. In Cha-Am!

[DJ Pat]

^Was that at Cha'am lodge & steakhouse?

[Dillinger]

Was that at Cha'am lodge & steakhouse?

Home made they are.......... and mighty fine too

Especially (although he will hate me for saying it) with added condiments

[charleyboy]

^Fookin' Philistine!

[Dillinger]

[kmart]

My brother has told me stories of white chocolate Lion bars, at least 8 different flavours of Lucozade, a shower gel made by a firm called Original Source that produce a mint and tree tea gel that makes your balls tingle when used and that Stella now make a cider called CIDRE.

C'mon Slap, does the U.K really sell this stuff?

This sounds like a distant and magical Shangri-La type of place that I can only dream of.. I am filled with wonder and longing at the mere mention of the words "white chocolate" and "Lion Bar".

[DJ Pat]

I broke a tooth on a Lion Bar in 1996.
It started a chain reaction of dental events that still bothers me today.

[somtamslap]

Peanut butter and white chocolate chunky kit kats also rate high on the confectionary list.

And you'd probably forgotten about caramac.

[DJ Pat]

A pack of 10p Chewits were the low class version for those who couldn't afford 18p for Opal Fruits

[TheDukeofNewcastle]

I need to know if the British pub regulars have solved important EU referendum questions like the Eurovision song contest and the Fench promise to fill in le tunnel if we leave.