Peeved about stuff
Aug. 25th, 2003 11:15 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
redfiona99Okay first a little cookery rant. In my not so humble opinion, the greatest dish on the Earth is a pleasant little dish called Wiener Schnitzel. Now it is incredibly simple. Take pork (or veal, but we don't use veal at home). Bash with mallet/meat hammer until tender. Take bashed pieces of pork and cover with flour. Then egg, and then bread crumbs. Fry. Eat.
See simple.
So when Nan and Mum go shopping they buy some ready prepared ones because we've never got the time to make them. They buy them from Aldi or Lidl both of which are decent shops. So we're eating and they taste wrong.
Do you want to know what the idiot company has done. It had added mixed herbs. Mixed herbs I tell you. The only herb that should even be within a yard of a decent schnitzel is parsely. And then only sparingly.
Anyway they were yucky so we won't be buying any more. But added to that, the outside was so crispy that it tore the roof of my mouth a little so now eating, drinking and brushing teeth has become a delicate exercise. It's no fun brushing your teeth and finding your mouth turning blood red.
Other little peeves include - Mark Henry's return with the 'World's Strongest Man' gimmick. Once again I rant about him not being the world's strongest man. It offends me greatly.
- Nan, Mum and Unlce Ste being randomly bitchy.
- Being stuck alone on a bank holiday
- That the NHS is unable to afford dressings for wounds hence the local dressing clinic running out, hence me getting a non-waterproof one, hence it being waterlogged. But that should be sorted by this time tomorrow.
- The Italian Job remake. From the sounds of it they've made it serious. Which is bad because if you've ever seen the original (which was on BBC 2 today for the 'Live Forever' Britpop night) it's the world's least serious film. Plus they'd never get away with Camp Freddie or the Professor nowadays.
And quite how an American film is going to get across the poshness of the getaway drivers is beyond me, unless they use Bostonians or something. Bah at remakes.
Other than that I'm all happy happy joy joy because I've been watching the athletics of which there will be a round-up when it's finished. But at this point I'd just like to say Christian Olsson is yummy.
See simple.
So when Nan and Mum go shopping they buy some ready prepared ones because we've never got the time to make them. They buy them from Aldi or Lidl both of which are decent shops. So we're eating and they taste wrong.
Do you want to know what the idiot company has done. It had added mixed herbs. Mixed herbs I tell you. The only herb that should even be within a yard of a decent schnitzel is parsely. And then only sparingly.
Anyway they were yucky so we won't be buying any more. But added to that, the outside was so crispy that it tore the roof of my mouth a little so now eating, drinking and brushing teeth has become a delicate exercise. It's no fun brushing your teeth and finding your mouth turning blood red.
Other little peeves include - Mark Henry's return with the 'World's Strongest Man' gimmick. Once again I rant about him not being the world's strongest man. It offends me greatly.
- Nan, Mum and Unlce Ste being randomly bitchy.
- Being stuck alone on a bank holiday
- That the NHS is unable to afford dressings for wounds hence the local dressing clinic running out, hence me getting a non-waterproof one, hence it being waterlogged. But that should be sorted by this time tomorrow.
- The Italian Job remake. From the sounds of it they've made it serious. Which is bad because if you've ever seen the original (which was on BBC 2 today for the 'Live Forever' Britpop night) it's the world's least serious film. Plus they'd never get away with Camp Freddie or the Professor nowadays.
And quite how an American film is going to get across the poshness of the getaway drivers is beyond me, unless they use Bostonians or something. Bah at remakes.
Other than that I'm all happy happy joy joy because I've been watching the athletics of which there will be a round-up when it's finished. But at this point I'd just like to say Christian Olsson is yummy.
The Italian Job
Date: 2003-08-26 07:34 am (UTC)Have you seen the Ocean's 11 remake? Except for the awful stereotyping of Don Cheadle's character (which TIJ thankfully avoids doing something similar to) it has that kind of a sense of humour and coolness to it.
Oh, and there is a Brit in it. His name's Jason Stratham and I'm in love. Seriously so.