The Old Farmer returns to pick up his post. The new lady friend is still not sold on the idea of a six thousand kilometre trip to the farthest reaches of Europe and back.
Mares Tails in the sky overhead. A sign of a warm front moving through ? As near perfect a morning as you could hope for. Bright and warm but with the hint of a breeze. The PONs are off down the hill towards the stream as fast as their legs will carry them. The mountains and the Spanish frontier just visible on the far horizon.
We head off to the hyper market at Toulouse airport. The Airbus A-380 assembly hall is the third largest building in the world. Next to it the new exhibition centre that's being built has had its glass cladding put on. It must be the better part of a kilometre long.
At the supermarket some rather garish cakes ..
..... yet more jars of Fluff on the exotic food counter ( presumably American for aerospace engineers and their families ) ...
... and Brooklyn brewed Pomegranate Ginger Ale.
Canned steak and kidney pie Britain's contribution to the exotic food menagerie. What would the French do if they came face to face with a tinned steak and kidney pudding ?
100 years ago : https://twitter.com/ArcDeTriomphe/status/1159043206325178369
9 comments:
The supermarket is clearly stuck in a 1970s time warp. Fray Bentos tinned steak and kidney pie was a great favourite when I was a teenager. I just googled the product and learned that they are now made up the road from Aberdeen, at Baxters in Fochabers!
Hari Om
Third largest... by what measure? those 'cakes' are aiming for first place at the floristry show, are they not? YAMxx
OTT definitely, but nothing lack-lustre about those cakes ! The chef has obviously heard all about five fruits a day, if the ones of the left are anything to go by !
Volume.
Someone thinks there must be a large market for them in southern France. Rolls Royce engineers ?
They're certainly eye catching !
Tinned steak and kidney pudding, Dr. Pepper, pomegranate ginger ale, peanut butter and marshmallow fluff - Each could be part of an "exoctic" recipe for indigestion. I can say that with all certainty because I had a few bites of leftover cheesecake for breakfast.
Have had that steak and kidney pudding...….verdict....suitable to be used after a nuclear war, when there is nothing else.
...got it!.. Ta. Yxx
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