"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

Well, here they are. The purple one had a different name and was said to be one size for all Security 9s. To me it looks a lot like the standard Security 9 handall beavertail grip. I will probably wind up with the compact grip, unless both the standard clips with their adaptors and the shorter compact clips drop out of the longer grip all right.
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It amazes me to see the elaborate slip on grips Hogue offers for semi-autos. Whodathunk…
 
I love Yorkshire pudding. My dad makes that in Xmas with a prime rib roast. Such a fine line between perfect and burnt! He has it down now though after he bought a new oven one year it was a bit like chewing charcoal lined hard tack biscuits. ;)
You have just reminded me that I really like Yorkshire Pudding for either a Roast or as a Dessert Carrier . I even like to make it because of the CHALLENGE .
I prefer to make it on an outside grill though .

Harry
 
It's great to see Yorkshire pudding discussion going on across two BF threads! :D I hope that means a few of you are going to be entering my Yorkshire Day giveaway next weekend ;) I made this post in the Guardians thread earlier, and thought some of you might find the video interesting :thumbsup:

Traditionally, Yorkshire pudding was made in big rectangular pans, I guess because that's what folks had. My mother sometimes used glass. I don't think I saw round pans like that before the late 60's Jer. In other parts of the country, small Yorkshire puddings were served as part of a Sunday roast, and that's generally how you see it today, but traditionally, it was served as a separate dish, with gravy, before the main meal. The old Yorkshire ranges got the oven nice and hot, and were great for making Yorkshire pudding :thumbsup:

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It's great to see Yorkshire pudding discussion going on across two BF threads! :D I hope that means a few of you are going to be entering my Yorkshire Day giveaway next weekend ;) I made this post in the Guardians thread earlier, and thought some of you might find the video interesting :thumbsup:
I love the rotisserie working by heat. When he opens the door on the right it stops right away. And the socks drying on the bar!!! 😂 I bet more than one child burned themselves on that setup once or twice.
 
I love the rotisserie working by heat. When he opens the door on the right it stops right away. And the socks drying on the bar!!! 😂 I bet more than one child burned themselves on that setup once or twice.
They were beautiful, as well as functional :) When I was a kid, a great many of the older houses still had them, but as those houses were demolished under the 'slum clearance programme', the ranges were left for the scrap-man to break up :( The last time I had Yorkshire pudding made on a Yorkshire range was in the house of a retired coal-miner in 1985. His missus made us a smashing Sunday dinner. Sadly, those old pit-houses are all gone now, along with the coal mine at the end of the street, the miner's social club, and the rest of the village :( :thumbsup:
 
They were beautiful, as well as functional :) When I was a kid, a great many of the older houses still had them, but as those houses were demolished under the 'slum clearance programme', the ranges were left for the scrap-man to break up :( The last time I had Yorkshire pudding made on a Yorkshire range was in the house of a retired coal-miner in 1985. His missus made us a smashing Sunday dinner. Sadly, those old pit-houses are all gone now, along with the coal mine at the end of the street, the miner's social club, and the rest of the village :( :thumbsup:
My dad used to tell me stories about listening to the radio for entertainment…and when they first got a television. I remember when he bought our first microwave back in 1983 or fourish. It was huge and had more chrome than an old 55 Chevy. He cooked a turkey in it. He was so fascinated by that funky oven. He still swears it came out great but I don’t remember and have a hard time believing it rivaled moms basting for six hours in the oven. She used to say making a turkey you have to “love it” and baste all day while I whiled away the hours watching the twilight zone marathon on thanksgiving. Now she uses a plastic bag and says it come out fine 😂
I like old stuff. I used to collect leather and vellum books from the 1800s. And still have a few real old firearms. And I cook on a griswold cast iron pan 😁 on my whiz bang stovetop!
 
My dad used to tell me stories about listening to the radio for entertainment…and when they first got a television. I remember when he bought our first microwave back in 1983 or fourish. It was huge and had more chrome than an old 55 Chevy. He cooked a turkey in it. He was so fascinated by that funky oven. He still swears it came out great but I don’t remember and have a hard time believing it rivaled moms basting for six hours in the oven. She used to say making a turkey you have to “love it” and baste all day while I whiled away the hours watching the twilight zone marathon on thanksgiving. Now she uses a plastic bag and says it come out fine 😂
I like old stuff. I used to collect leather and vellum books from the 1800s. And still have a few real old firearms. And I cook on a griswold cast iron pan 😁 on my whiz bang stovetop!
Great stuff :) When I was young we had a black & white rental TV, which took a coin in the back! :D Britain only had 2 channels, and they only broadcast for a few hours a day! :D We got our first refrigerator when I was five, and I remember racing home to see it. I had some younger fellers in stitches once telling them that, and I had to tell them half the street came to see it too! :D :thumbsup:
 
Great stuff :) When I was young we had a black & white rental TV, which took a coin in the back! :D Britain only had 2 channels, and they only broadcast for a few hours a day! :D We got our first refrigerator when I was five, and I remember racing home to see it. I had some younger fellers in stitches once telling them that, and I had to tell them half the street came to see it too! :D :thumbsup:
A coin in the back! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that’s one for the record books!
 
A coin in the back! 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 that’s one for the record books!
It was very common here in the 60's, in fact I knew a family who still had a coin-operated TV in the 80's! :D By then, inflation had increased the value of the coin 50 times though! :rolleyes: :thumbsup:

After the coin-operated TV, we had a British Relay rental TV, and eventually...colour! :D :thumbsup:

 
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I read years ago that Bonanza was designed specifically to sell color TV sets. In those days RCA owned NBC, and the story was that RCA ordered NBC to produce a show which would make everyone dissatisfied with their black and white sets. Westerns were very popular at the time and were all in black and white, so NBC came up with the first western broadcast in color, with lots of outdoor vistas with lots of color. Bonanza was a hit, and RCA sold a lot of color TV's.
 
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I read years ago that Bonanza was designed specifically to sell color TV sets. In those days RCA owned NBC, and the story was that RCA ordered NBC to produce a show which would make everyone dissatisfied with their black and white sets. Westerns were very popular at the time and were all in black and white, so NBC came up with the first western broadcast in color, with lots of outdoor vistas with lots of color. Bonanza was a hit, and RCA sold a lot of color TV's.
Unfortunately they were less smart when choosing the system's acronym... 😏
 
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From what I've read the Nottinghamshire Pudding that you mention predates the Yorkshire pudding by about 4000 years.....
The Lancashire Pudding ...which became known as Toad in The Hole circa ad1270 when toads became extinct in the British Isles due to over hunting and were replaced by sausages...
The relationship between the toad mass extinction and the construction of Stonehenge at the same time remains a mystery....although recent digging at the hedge has discovered ancient semi decomposed batter with toads giblets...prompting the hypothesis of Salisbury Pudding as the common ancestor of all British Puddings......and don't due to their similarity in shape to Stonehenge.....fascinating stuff.
 
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