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[TopCat]

That's loads cheaper than in Spain. Eat for Brexit.

In other news the Jersey fishermen now barred from selling their catches in France are not news anymore. Their purpose was served on Thursday getting enraged brexiteers out to vote Tory because the French were revolting.

I went to Deptford market to get something to go with the shellfish. They are getting better Cornish lobster than before and cheaper too.

Let the French go without. They have plenty of
Andouillette.

 

[TopCat]

Benefit of Brexit.

 

[brogdale]

Benefit of Brexit. View attachment 267457

That's so French to be taking lunch at midday!

 

[editor]

Benefit of Brexit. View attachment 267457

Looks fucking revolting. Like a big boiled cockroach.

 

[BobDavis]

Tbf it looks much better when it is frozen scampi.

aka Dublin bay prawn which Rick Stein reckons is best in the world.

 

[kabbes]

Looks fucking revolting. Like a big boiled cockroach.

I wouldn’t know because I’ve never eaten boiled cockroach. If they tasted as good as those langoustines look, though, I’d definitely give them a go

 

[andysays]

I wouldn’t know because I’ve never eaten boiled cockroach. If they tasted as good as those langoustines look, though, I’d definitely give them a go

Just you wait until the effects of Brexit really kick in and boiled cockroach is the only protein anyone can get...

 

[Storm Fox]

So the Immigration Service is sending EU Citizens to Detention Centres such as Yarl's Wood for people daring to come here for job interviews

Europeans with job interviews are among those being denied entry and locked up. They have spoken of being subjected to the traumatic and humiliating experience of expulsion, despite Home Office rules that explicitly allow non-visa holders to attend interviews.

When the Guardian first spoke to María on Friday she was at Yarl’s Wood and scared that she had been exposed to Covid. Later that day she was released and ordered to quarantine at her sister’s home in Bexleyheath, near London, until 17 February. Border Force officials kept her passport.

“So much time is being wasted,” she said. “The worst thing was that no one at Yarl’s Wood could tell me what was going to happen. My freedom had been taken away and I couldn’t get legal advice.”

They are being denied consular access or contact and there is a COVID issue at Yarl's Wood which is being denied by officials .

See EU citizens arriving in UK being locked up and expelled for details. This makes me feel ashamed to be British.

 

[Yossarian]

Looks fucking revolting. Like a big boiled cockroach.

They're far more closely related to woodlice, though I'm not if woodlice taste the same.

 

[Pickman's model]

Looks fucking revolting. Like a big boiled cockroach.

Looks nothing like a boiled cockroach

 

[editor]

Looks nothing like a boiled cockroach

It does to me but thanks for your opinion.

 

[Pickman's model]

It does to me but thanks for your opinion.

No, boiled cockroaches are a deep brown. And that's before you look at the physiological differences.

 

[teuchter]

No, boiled cockroaches are a deep brown. And that's before you look at the physiological differences.

No surpise that you are a keen student of the results of boiling cockroaches.

 

[ska invita]

It does to me but thanks for your opinion.

yeah it was being stoned on skunk and examining an egg-laden shrimp that made me realise wtf is this insect shit im not eating that and turned me veggie there and then

 

[killer b]

Well Sainsbury’s are now selling frozen raw Scottish languestine. Big ones, 10 for approximately seven quid. Never seen them before uncooked in a supermarket. Result!

Sainsbury's have been selling these in their taste the difference range for at least a year if the reviews on their website are anything to go by.

 

[Spymaster]

They're far more closely related to woodlice, though I'm not if woodlice taste the same.

Woodlice taste like parsley. Someone told me they taste like prawns so I tried a couple. Not unpleasant. If you like parsley.

 

[brogdale]

Sainsbury's have been selling these in their taste the difference range for at least a year if the reviews on their website are anything to go by.

Just when the Champagne Lexiteers thought they'd found a win.

 

[killer b]

how do you cook your langoustines TopCat? reading through the reviews lots of people who bought them from sainbury's seemed to struggle - I was thinking of picking some up this weekend and don't want to fuck it up

 

[TopCat]

how do you cook your langoustines TopCat? reading through the reviews lots of people who bought them from sainbury's seemed to struggle - I was thinking of picking some up this weekend and don't want to fuck it up

They are not like a big prawn, more like a little lobster with heavier armour.

I blanched mine and cooled them in cold water. Then heated some garlic in a lot of butter and removed it with a slotted spoon before it coloured.

Then take a cleaver and chop them critters in half lengthways.

Heat the butter up fast. Add the languestine and a big handful of chopped parsley, after a minute add some Chablis. Cook on high for two minutes.

Enjoy!

 

[two sheds]

You have to kill them by dropping them in boiling water first. A lot of people forget that.

 

[stdP]

You have to kill them by dropping them in boiling water first. A lot of people forget that.

I think you need to specify whether you're talking about leavers, remainers, tories or langoustines with that remark.

 

[TopCat]

Frost hopes EU will not ‘react’ if UK suspends Northern Ireland protocol

Brexit minister tells Commons’ select committee that Britain could act unilaterally over border checks

www.theguardian.com

 

[brogdale]

Frost hopes EU will not ‘react’ if UK suspends Northern Ireland protocol

Brexit minister tells Commons’ select committee that Britain could act unilaterally over border checks

www.theguardian.com

Maybe, with Poots’ election, Frost could add “pray” as well as hope?

 

[TopCat]

Maybe, with Poots’ election, Frost could add “pray” as well as hope?

I’m waiting for Poots to make biblical references regarding the EU anytime soon.

 

[philosophical]

Perplexed.
Those who voted leave knew what they were voting for.
How come those voters have not sorted out what leave means on the land border between the whole of the UK and the EU by now?
I suspect it’s because those voters are cunts.

 

[brogdale]

Blaming voters?

 

[TopCat]

Blaming voters?

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A united ireland is closer since brexit. Hoey won’t be happy but hey.

 

[editor]

A united ireland is closer since brexit. Hoey won’t be happy but hey.

I doubt if the people getting caught up in the Brexit-spawned violence are very happy either.

Brexit has threatened peace in Northern Ireland – DW – 04/10/2021

Molotov cocktails and barricades have returned to Northern Ireland. The conflict there is 4 centuries old. But Brexit is the new reason why the situation has reached the boiling point in what had been an era of peace.

www.dw.com

Analysis: What is Brexit doing to Northern Ireland?

Anger over post-Brexit trading rules is a factor in the violence that has erupted, writes Adam Fleming.

www.bbc.co.uk

 

[gosub]

A Brexit Post-Mortem for the City | by Howard Davies - Project Syndicate

Howard Davies explains why, despite dire forecasts, London has continued to thrive as a global financial center.

www.project-syndicate.org

 

[TopCat]

A Brexit Post-Mortem for the City | by Howard Davies - Project Syndicate

Howard Davies explains why, despite dire forecasts, London has continued to thrive as a global financial center.

www.project-syndicate.org

Good riddance.