flakes of nuisance » food http://mcneillfamily.com paying attention to distractions since 1958 Sat, 19 May 2012 17:09:20 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 The Kelham Island Tavern cathttp://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/01/the-kelham-island-tavern-cat/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/01/the-kelham-island-tavern-cat/#comments Tue, 01 May 2012 19:19:19 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/01/the-kelham-island-tavern-cat/

]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2012/05/01/the-kelham-island-tavern-cat/feed/ 0 How to Like Food that you ‘hate’http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/25/how-to-like-food-that-you-hate/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/25/how-to-like-food-that-you-hate/#comments Fri, 25 Mar 2011 16:14:03 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6571 Is there a certain food you find disgusting but wish you didn’t? Oysters? Martinis? Coffee? Something other people enjoy but that looks and tastes repulsive to you? Well, you, too, can enjoy it by following these eight simple steps. Or, if this doesn’t work, oh well, you had a few mouthfuls of food you didn’t like.

Quick backstory: I used to like nothing. I ate only cereal, pasta, and ice cream, and when I ordered a sandwich I ordered it with white bread, turkey, and mayonnaise — mustard, lettuce, and tomatoes being too freaky and exotic. Then I did [

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]]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/03/25/how-to-like-food-that-you-hate/feed/ 0 ‘Lager drinkers are brainwashed morons.’http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/18/lager-drinkers-are-brainwashed-morons/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2011/02/18/lager-drinkers-are-brainwashed-morons/#comments Fri, 18 Feb 2011 07:21:35 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6536 How CAMRA volunteers greeted guests at the Great British Beer festival a few years ago.

There was a welcome but just a teensy bit patronising piece in the FT on Saturday about how the sandals-and-black-socks twattish image of real ale – and CAMRA – is no longer accurate, particularly given that the latter has doubled in size over the last decade. The number of – shall we call them 'characters' – in society has not doubled, meaning that while some of us may still have issues with the organisation in some areas, it is succeeding in reaching out to [

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/12/14/anniversary/feed/ 0 Grief and vinegar with your chips?http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/05/grief-and-vinegar-with-your-chips/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/05/grief-and-vinegar-with-your-chips/#comments Fri, 05 Nov 2010 12:49:39 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6188 Real world is just beyond the gift shop.

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]]> http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/11/05/grief-and-vinegar-with-your-chips/feed/ 0 Big beer producers caught on the hophttp://mcneillfamily.com/2010/10/13/big-beer-producers-caught-on-the-hop/ http://mcneillfamily.com/2010/10/13/big-beer-producers-caught-on-the-hop/#comments Wed, 13 Oct 2010 16:33:17 +0000 admin http://mcneillfamily.com/?p=6109 Offered a choice between the products of the grape and the hop, Peter Swann admits that he would go for wine every time. But in his capacity as professor of industrial economics at Nottingham University, he has become fascinated by the workings of the brewing industry, and the phenomenal spread of microbreweries in particular, helped in no small measure by tax breaks from Gordon Brown when he was chancellor. The result is a new paper called The Fall and Rise of the Local Brew – a heartening tale, he believes, with implications for other sectors of the economy.

“The [

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As some of you now know, I’m leaving Thornbridge in search of the greener hops of my New Zealand homeland. There’ll be a few little changes at Thornbridge and this will include our social media side. I’ve managed to convince the rest of the brewing team to join in on the fun and frivolity that Twitter, Facebook and blogging can provide, so you’ll be hopefully be hearing regularly from them.

I'll now just get angry with hops in New Zealand

Just in case you aren’t aware… our Facebook page is called The Thornbridge Brewers, so you can join up [

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“Our city’s addiction to Big Macs and other high-fat fast food is literally breaking our hearts,” says Susan Levin, M.S., R.D., PCRM’s nutrition education director. “It’s time to tackle the district’s heart disease problem head-on. A moratorium on new fast-food restaurants could be a critically important step toward fighting this epidemic.”

A PCRM survey shows that Washington has more McDonald’s, Burger King, and KFC outlets per square mile than eight other cities with similar population sizes. Offerings at these restaurants include high-fat, high-sodium products such as McDonald’s Double Quarter Pounder with Cheese Extra Value Meal, which has 61 [

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The cholesterol hypothesis can be likened to a cathedral built on a bog. Rather than admit they made a horrible mistake and let it sink, the builders decided to try and keep the cathedral afloat at all costs. Each time a crack appeared, a new buttress was built. Then further buttresses were built to support the original buttresses.

Although direct contradictions to the cholesterol hypothesis repeatedly appear, nobody dares to say ‘okay, this isn’t working, time to build again from scratch’. That decision has become just too painful, especially now [

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A pluot (pronounced /ˈpluː.ɒt/)[1] is a tradename for varieties of interspecific plum or Plumcot developed in the late 20th century by Floyd Zaiger.[2] In the United States, the fruit is known by most regulatory agencies as an interspecific plum or plumcot.[3] It is a complex crosshybrid of plum and apricot, exhibiting more plum-like traits. The pluot, like the aprium, is derived from plums, apricots and or hybrids called the plumcot.[4]

The fruit’s exterior with smooth skin closely resembles a [

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