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I've had parsnip cake before at a cafe stop, apparently they add a similar flavour & sweetness as carrots do, but I wasnt convinced.

I've had a courgette and chocolate cake before. Very nice and not at all what I was expecting - luckily I couldn't taste the courgettes.

kinderje wrote:

I've had a courgette and chocolate cake before. Very nice and not at all what I was expecting - luckily I couldn't taste the courgettes.

I got chocolate and chili cake once (Think it's a Wagamama thing). Couldn't taste the chilis thankfully.

Awavey wrote:

I've had parsnip cake before at a cafe stop, apparently they add a similar flavour & sweetness as carrots do, but I wasnt convinced.

I've seen some cake recipes that use parsnip and carrot together, but at some point surely you'd be better off having them with a bit of gravy and maybe some peas

hawkinspeter wrote:

Awavey wrote:

I've had parsnip cake before at a cafe stop, apparently they add a similar flavour & sweetness as carrots do, but I wasnt convinced.

I've seen some cake recipes that use parsnip and carrot together, but at some point surely you'd be better off having them with a bit of gravy and maybe some peas

You can ruin any dish with parsnips. Some people find the parsnip edible. Myself, I find this claim incredible.

TheBillder wrote:

You can ruin any dish with parsnips. Some people find the parsnip edible. Myself, I find this claim incredible.

I love a good roast parsnip or what I sometimes do is parsnip mash with a bit of nutmeg.

Meanwhile, I've found the good old traditional Lancashire recipe of celery and mayonnaise cake: https://lancashire-food.blogspot.com/2011/11/celery-cake.html

You can ruin any dish with parsnips. Some people find the parsnip edible. Myself, I find this claim incredible

I wonder if it's one of these genetic things where people taste things very differently. I don't like parsnips, but I really enjoy sprouts- which many people seem to hate (reportedly)

Rachel tried that with a trifle once

Https://YouTu.be/G08pqAaJi5k

Awavey wrote:

Rachel tried that with a trifle once Https://YouTu.be/G08pqAaJi5k

I wasn't a big fan of Friends, but for some reason the beef trifle episode stuck in my head

EddyBerckx wrote:

Surely at some point we are going to have to severly restrict social media or hold it's owners to account, its a total horrorshow and there seems to be few actual benefits.

I like the model that Hacker News uses - strict and active moderation so that problematic posters are flagged and then banned if they continue to ignore the guidelines: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

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Garage at Large wrote:

Blimey, if they applied those rules here I'd be just about the only one left!

Extract from rules wrote:

Don't feed egregious comments by replying

Dammit, you're right!

Garage at Large wrote:

Blimey, if they applied those rules here I'd be just about the only one left!

Yes, because you're the only one that keeps coming back with new accounts each time an old one is banned. 

Think they have done that only once.
There is a stupid feature which allows users to change their username though.

I was having a bad day but you've rescued me.  

In the first rule - "please don't sneer" .... 

*falls off chair* 

Safe cycling thru jambo town

I still have nightmares of negotiating Easter Road and the streets round Leith. 

"What is Leith? Begbie, don't hurt me"

Maybe he's been reading the tabloids?

RE: Ill-judged and ill-informed. Agree he doesn't quite seem up to speed on this and maybe hasn't digested the news.  Maybe he read about it in the Mail?  However if you read all he said I think you can understand where he's coming from. That is a better vision than will be illustrated in pictures in the Highway Code:

Andy Burnham wrote:

...number of issues about road safety that have not have been handled properly ... The answer is to build segregated infrastructure for people. ... That's a better way rather than expecting cyclists to go into the middle of the road.

Can't really disagree with that - not when you realise they're actually doing this to a decent standard. They're tackling junctions. They appear to genuinely have a unified active travel programme with "mass cycling" for "8 - 80" as a goal.  They're looking critically at car parking, creating cycling and walking networks.

I'll forgive his slightly odd take on the HC changes if they're really on that path. I can imagine someone from The Netherlands responding in a similar way to advice to "claim the lane" after experiencing a day out on the UK's roads.

I'm not in Manchester though so if someone's aware they've ditched all the stuff they got started with Chris Boardman do let us know!

Hardly his fault if he is ill-informed with the lack of information. I have just seen a clip from ITV showing what they showed as a graphic from the DfT. It shows the space "that has to be given to cyclists" and they interpreted is as being the linear distance rather than lateral (ie. nothing to do with overtaking) and suggested that at up to 30mph cars can travel 1.5m behind us.

ooldbaker wrote:

Hardly his fault if he is ill-informed with the lack of information. I have just seen a clip from ITV showing what they showed as a graphic from the DfT. It shows the space "that has to be given to cyclists" and they interpreted is as being the linear distance rather than lateral (ie. nothing to do with overtaking) and suggested that at up to 30mph cars can travel 1.5m behind us.

If he's taken that graphic created by ITV as gospel without bothering to check any of the very clear advice that the DfT has actually put out then it really is his fault.

chrisonatrike wrote:

RE: Ill-judged and ill-informed. Agree he doesn't quite seem up to speed on this and maybe hasn't digested the news.  Maybe he read about it in the Mail? 

Enjoying the image of Andy Burnham smuggling his copy of the daily mail into the Labour Party conference