Thread: Lunch ... the second course

^^ I was trying to change the mood from Mendip blowing his nose, but I have to admit that his post will go down in TD folklore.

On the lunch thread too.





Anyone wanna hire the sick fucker as an after dinner speaker, or imagine him as your best man. Yeah, maybe not

Originally Posted by Edmond

We were at some kid's birthday party a while back and they had pizza company or pizza hut laid out, not sure which pizzas they were but they had salad sauce instead of normal pizza sauce. And sliced hotdogs. Christ what an abomination.

It took me a while to figure out what you meant by standard pizza sauce, I kept thinking of olive oil, but I guess you mean the tomato based sauce used on the base. I have no idea what a 'salad sauce' would be like in this context, any photos?

^ it's thousand island sauce instead of tomato.

I'm not sure if I'm currently retching due to the memories of the thousand island 'pizza' sauce, or Mendip's tale.



Edmond H. Christ.

Originally Posted by strigils

Do you think those evening sessions with the dogs drinking some dodgy concoction the gardener has knocked up is naturalising you to Isaan.

Strigils, I do sometimes wonder if I'm holding it together.

I think that when you're living quite an isolated lifestyle it can be easy to lose some self awareness and maybe drift off at times. Six months work in the west was no problem... I held it together with professional people and even had some meaningful conversations but here in Korat my time is spent with six dogs and a nine year-old. And don't forget my gardener who just has a standard 'yes, boss' answer to anything I say... and then continues fukking something up as though I don't exist.

None of them really pick me up on my bad habits, although the daughter is fast becoming quite critical. And when I say 'isolated lifestyle', there's loads of people around of course but my Thai/Isaan is limited and the few conversations I get the gist of don't really interest me. I like my dogs.

But anyway, apologies if the lunch thread wasn't the ideal place for my nose blowing story but I don't think there's a thread that's a perfect fit.

And... the purpose of this post... the 'hairy beef'... this is a new one on me but what else to call it?

It was quite nice by the way, especially dipped in the chilli sauce... but then my nose started to run...

And Mendip pops my Ignore List's cherry.

I'm actually going to regale that story to a GF tonight, just to gauge the reaction.

'This bloke online called Dillinger was eating spicy food right, but there were no tissues around....'

Originally Posted by Edmond

And Mendip pops my Ignore List's cherry.

Who gives a toss?

Originally Posted by Bogon

^ it's thousand island sauce instead of tomato.

Sliced hot dog swimming in thousand island sauce? Interesting, I'm sure I used to make similar, as bait, when fishing for carp....

Originally Posted by cyrille

Who gives a toss?

I was trying to goad Dill into making another sexual innuendo about children and a certain poster. Reckon another 2 or 3 and Nev will have to lock him up again.

Originally Posted by Troy

Sliced hot dog swimming in thousand island sauce? Interesting, I'm sure I used to make similar, as bait, when fishing for carp....

Not even carp would eat the pizza company pizzas. 'Interesting' wasn't the word that came to my mind.

Originally Posted by Edmond

making another sexual innuendo

What's sexual about Eddie's special sauce?

Originally Posted by Mendip

the 'hairy beef'... this is a new one on me but what else to call it?

Bearded beef.
Does he do pulled pork?
Or is that just you in the potting shed?

Aaaa-hay!!

Originally Posted by Mendip

There was in fact a strange story associated with this lunch.

I'm not so good with chilli and it wasn't long before my nose started to run uncontrollably. I had a look around and the only thing within easy reach was a small pile of my daughter's discarded clothes on the floor from when she'd changed into her swimming costume earlier. Under the circumstances I did what I think anyone would do... and blew my nose into my daughter's dirty knickers. After I'd finished lunch I dropped her pile of clothes into the dirty linen basket and thought no more about it.

Little did I know that my wife soaks underwear in a bowl of detergent before sticking it in the wash, and on finding my daughter's knickers containing a strange gooey liquid became worried and started questioning her about it. This was when I became aware of what had happened and was faced with that classic dilemma... do you admit to using your daughter's dirty underwear as a handkerchief of just keep schtum. I decided to do the honourable thing and say nothing... these things usually go away... until that was the wife started talking about seeing a doctor. I had to come clean and admitted the whole thing... and you would not believe the look of simultaneous disgust and disbelief I received from my wife and daughter. It made me quite uncomfortable.

Poor ole mendip. Cant get away with anything out there in the bowels of issan, cant even have a wank without the gardener catching him and now this.

Originally Posted by TheRealKW

Life, stranger than fiction.

Today's (Sunday) local elections and resultant 24 hour alcohol ban brought our Sunday lunch with a couple of friends a day early on Saturday. Tried a new place for us, 'Rustic and Blue By The Sea', on the outskirts of Rawai. I believe that they have another restaurant with the same theme in Chiang Mai.

Anyway, good location, quiet with excellent views over the sea at Rawai and some of the adjacent islands. Service was very good, as was the food. Surprisingly quite busy which is reassuring for its longevity. They opened in Phuket in March last year, just in time for the lockdowns and decimation of visitors.

Don't often see this in Phuket restaurants.



They specialise in craft fruit drinks, smoothies, and coffees.



A tuna tartar kept M'Sahib happy.



My buddy's wife went for a vegan burger.



My buddy tried a half rack of ribs.



With me going for what was a light version of a Sunday roast with beef.



Some necessary lubricant.



Ladies dessert selections.





We shared a cheese plate which came with some warm muesli bread.



Couple of shots of the view.

That looks very decent.

^^ Fark. That looks great.

Desserts and Cheese a bit underwhelming.

That redcurrant thing looks like its been sitting there for a few days.

Mains look good.

As does the location.

^Tough crowd. I would happily stab someone in the eye with a fork to have a go at that.

Originally Posted by nidhogg

^Tough crowd. I would happily stab someone in the eye with a fork to have a go at that.

As would I....

No words needed really...

^ Umm ... Err ... Blokes Cookery Thread!