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dreams · 07-10-2010, 05:02 AM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

The salt and vinegar crisp (a staple of British snacking)<snip>

Yes! I love those! Some of the kids got me started on tasting them, and after a while I starting craving them. I'm not a big potato chip lover, but those are the exception.

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

And the crisp butty, which is magnificent!!!

<snip>

As a kid, I use to put chips in my sandwiches.

That looks like it is buttered bread with potato chips inside, yes?

Thanks for explaining, Moejoe. I may have to try that one.

Moejoe · 07-10-2010, 05:04 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dreams

Yes! I love those! Some of the kids got me started on tasting them, and after a while I starting craving them. I'm not a big potato chip lover, but those are the exception.

As a kid, I use to put chips in my sandwiches.

That looks like it is buttered bread with potato chips inside, yes?

Thanks for explaining, Moejoe. I may have to try that one.

That's the ticket! Bingo!

These ones are my favourite crisps (chips) which are shaped like chips (fries) and are wince-inducingly salty:

GeoffC · 07-10-2010, 05:08 AM

what !

no rost beuf ?

black pudding !?

dreams · 07-10-2010, 05:09 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Moejoe

That's the ticket! Bingo!

These ones are my favourite crisps (chips) which are shaped like chips (fries) and are wince-inducingly salty:

Even better! The salt and vinegar fries here end up soggy and you never know if you are going to get a mouthful of vinegar or salt.

I wonder if we have those over here. I'll have to check. I think I would like them in that shape.

**they are crispy right?**

Moejoe · 07-10-2010, 05:12 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by dreams

Even better! The salt and vinegar fries here end up soggy and you never know if you are going to get a mouthful of vinegar or salt.

I wonder if we have those over here. I'll have to check. I think I would like them in that shape.

**they are crispy right?**

Crispy AND crunchy

dreams · 07-10-2010, 05:24 AM

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Originally Posted by Moejoe

Crispy AND crunchy

BOTH! OMG! Watch... I just know that they won't be available over here, just because I have to have them.

GeoffC · 07-10-2010, 05:26 AM

Crispy and crunchy - an outside layer and air on the inside .....

montsnmags · 07-10-2010, 05:26 AM

For what it's worth, the chip butty is a delicacy that has travelled to this particular colony (both in "crisp" and chip - as in fish-and-chip - form).

Cheers,
Marc

GeoffC · 07-10-2010, 05:43 AM

I never would have thought to see that in the same sentence, chip butty and delicacy !

You missed out the tomato sauce ....

matthewcplourde · 09-22-2010, 10:41 AM

Mmmmm... peanut butter w/chips inside. I think I know what I'm having for lunch!

morriss003 · 09-24-2010, 02:44 AM

Aloha,
Still working on Amy's Hero. Messed up the timeline and spent months staring helplessly at the screen, trying to decide whether to abandon it or try to fix it. Finally buckled down and fixed it. Up to 25K words now. Rewrote parts of Surviving the Fog. Found a major screw up. Fixed that. Added lines to make the actions of one of the girls more sensible.

Here is some of Amy's Hero.
"Amy ventured out of the apartment that day. She walked along the upper landing several times. Then she went back into the apartment.

There were people on the street. Most were getting into their cars, or getting out of their cars. A pregnant mother with two small children was sitting in her tiny yard across the street. She was reading while keeping an eye on the two noisy children. An older man was watering the yard in the apartment complex next to Amy's. All of them ignored Amy. In the late afternoon, before Joe arrived home, Amy crept down the stairs and stood on the sidewalk in front of the apartment complex. She stood there for almost half an hour before giving up and hurrying back to the apartment.

Joe came in a few minutes later feeling dusty and tired. His muscles, unused to the effort that they had been put through, were aching and complaining. Amy saw immediately how he was feeling.

"You could take a hot shower," she suggested. "Then we'll have dinner."

"That sounds like a plan," responded Joe gratefully.

Amy was cooking spaghetti. It wasn't too hard she realized, except that she kept checking every thirty seconds to make sure that the spaghetti had not gotten too mushy. Joe had forgotten to shut the bedroom door, and Amy heard the water running as she drained the spaghetti into a plastic colander.
The meatballs were simmering in a pot next to the spaghetti. Any did not hear the water running any longer, so she turned off the stove and went to tell Joe that dinner was about ready.

Joe was standing in the bedroom facing away from her, and he was wearing only a towel. As she started to speak, Joe dropped the towel and reached for a pair of briefs that were lying on the bed. Amy stopped abruptly. She blinked once and then again. Then silently she backpedaled until she was in the kitchen again. The vision of Joe's backside remained with her."

WriterGurl1 · 09-30-2010, 12:41 AM

I'm actually reworking a mystery...It's exciting after living in the mind of a sex-starved college professor (my character, not me. Tee Hee) for the past year.

DaringNovelist · 09-30-2010, 01:39 AM

I'm currently finishing up the rough draft of "The Man Who Did Too Much" a cozy mystery suspense. I want to take my time on this one, so I probably won't release it until March, though.

Here's a practice blurb - (Long version because I can never get things down to the essence while I'm working on them):

George Starling is a compulsive hero who has taken leave from his job as a recovery agent at an international security firm to take care of the woman he rescued and fell in love with. At least he thinks he has. He can't stop being a hero and she - suffering from PTSD - can't stop being a damsel long enough for them to tell if they even have a relationship.

Now trapped in a dull little midwestern town, George is bored out of his skull, and he agrees to do a favor for his former employer: talk to a local woman who may have been seen with a kidnapped foreign prince.

Karla Marquette is a quirky middle-aged spinster and fanatical classic movie buff who was just doing a favor for a friend when she babysat that little boy. She knows her friend is in trouble, and there is no way she's going to help this strange guy in a trench coat and a funny accent who shows up at her door. This whole thing is looking more and more like the plot of the Prisoner of Zenda, or maybe the Third Man....

But to save her friend, Karla is going to need George's help. And George realizes from the moment he met her that this happy kook has the answer to the miseries of both he and his girlfriend.

Camille

bobavey · 09-30-2010, 12:55 PM

I'm working on Footprints of a Dancer, the 3rd book in the Detective Elliot series. It seems to take me about two years to write a book. Maybe if I was wealthy enough to retire from my day job, I'd have more time to write.

James_Wilde · 09-30-2010, 04:26 PM

Working on the first draft of "An Apple for Teacher", the second novel in my Sörmland series. In between I'm preparing "Prince on a Red Dragon" (the first novel) as an epub for impending publication. I've got a working on the cover, and a chinese friend working on the chinese characters I need in chapter 64.

And then there's remodelling the hen house to try and keep the badger out, and closing the kitchen garden down for the winter, and running the mustary for the local gardening club, and...

09-24-2010, 02:44 AM	#566
morriss003 Evangelist Posts: 438 Karma: 3409790 Join Date: Feb 2009 Location: Maui Device: kindle	Amy's Hero Aloha, Still working on Amy's Hero. Messed up the timeline and spent months staring helplessly at the screen, trying to decide whether to abandon it or try to fix it. Finally buckled down and fixed it. Up to 25K words now. Rewrote parts of Surviving the Fog. Found a major screw up. Fixed that. Added lines to make the actions of one of the girls more sensible. Here is some of Amy's Hero. "Amy ventured out of the apartment that day. She walked along the upper landing several times. Then she went back into the apartment. There were people on the street. Most were getting into their cars, or getting out of their cars. A pregnant mother with two small children was sitting in her tiny yard across the street. She was reading while keeping an eye on the two noisy children. An older man was watering the yard in the apartment complex next to Amy's. All of them ignored Amy. In the late afternoon, before Joe arrived home, Amy crept down the stairs and stood on the sidewalk in front of the apartment complex. She stood there for almost half an hour before giving up and hurrying back to the apartment. Joe came in a few minutes later feeling dusty and tired. His muscles, unused to the effort that they had been put through, were aching and complaining. Amy saw immediately how he was feeling. "You could take a hot shower," she suggested. "Then we'll have dinner." "That sounds like a plan," responded Joe gratefully. Amy was cooking spaghetti. It wasn't too hard she realized, except that she kept checking every thirty seconds to make sure that the spaghetti had not gotten too mushy. Joe had forgotten to shut the bedroom door, and Amy heard the water running as she drained the spaghetti into a plastic colander. The meatballs were simmering in a pot next to the spaghetti. Any did not hear the water running any longer, so she turned off the stove and went to tell Joe that dinner was about ready. Joe was standing in the bedroom facing away from her, and he was wearing only a towel. As she started to speak, Joe dropped the towel and reached for a pair of briefs that were lying on the bed. Amy stopped abruptly. She blinked once and then again. Then silently she backpedaled until she was in the kitchen again. The vision of Joe's backside remained with her."

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07-10-2010, 05:08 AM	#558
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	what ! no rost beuf ? black pudding !?

07-10-2010, 05:26 AM	#562
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	Crispy and crunchy - an outside layer and air on the inside .....

07-10-2010, 05:26 AM	#563
montsnmags Grand Sorcerer Posts: 10,155 Karma: 4632658 Join Date: Nov 2007 Device: none	For what it's worth, the chip butty is a delicacy that has travelled to this particular colony (both in "crisp" and chip - as in fish-and-chip - form). Cheers, Marc

07-10-2010, 05:43 AM	#564
GeoffC Chocolate Grasshopper ... Posts: 27,599 Karma: 20821184 Join Date: Mar 2008 Location: Scotland Device: Muse HD , Cybook Gen3 , Pocketbook 302 (Black) , Nexus 10: wife has PW	I never would have thought to see that in the same sentence, chip butty and delicacy ! You missed out the tomato sauce ....

09-22-2010, 10:41 AM	#565
matthewcplourde Enthusiast Posts: 32 Karma: 500532 Join Date: Sep 2010 Device: iPad	Mmmmm... peanut butter w/chips inside. I think I know what I'm having for lunch!

09-30-2010, 12:41 AM	#567
WriterGurl1 Heidi Posts: 6 Karma: 499710 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Arizona Device: Kindle	I'm actually reworking a mystery...It's exciting after living in the mind of a sex-starved college professor (my character, not me. Tee Hee) for the past year.

09-30-2010, 01:39 AM	#568
DaringNovelist Addict Posts: 197 Karma: 1010202 Join Date: Mar 2010 Device: iPod Touch	I'm currently finishing up the rough draft of "The Man Who Did Too Much" a cozy mystery suspense. I want to take my time on this one, so I probably won't release it until March, though. Here's a practice blurb - (Long version because I can never get things down to the essence while I'm working on them): George Starling is a compulsive hero who has taken leave from his job as a recovery agent at an international security firm to take care of the woman he rescued and fell in love with. At least he thinks he has. He can't stop being a hero and she - suffering from PTSD - can't stop being a damsel long enough for them to tell if they even have a relationship. Now trapped in a dull little midwestern town, George is bored out of his skull, and he agrees to do a favor for his former employer: talk to a local woman who may have been seen with a kidnapped foreign prince. Karla Marquette is a quirky middle-aged spinster and fanatical classic movie buff who was just doing a favor for a friend when she babysat that little boy. She knows her friend is in trouble, and there is no way she's going to help this strange guy in a trench coat and a funny accent who shows up at her door. This whole thing is looking more and more like the plot of the Prisoner of Zenda, or maybe the Third Man.... But to save her friend, Karla is going to need George's help. And George realizes from the moment he met her that this happy kook has the answer to the miseries of both he and his girlfriend. Camille

09-30-2010, 12:55 PM	#569
bobavey Bob Avey Posts: 117 Karma: 501082 Join Date: Sep 2010 Location: Broken Arrow, OK Device: none	I'm working on Footprints of a Dancer, the 3rd book in the Detective Elliot series. It seems to take me about two years to write a book. Maybe if I was wealthy enough to retire from my day job, I'd have more time to write.

09-30-2010, 04:26 PM	#570
James_Wilde Guru Posts: 802 Karma: 4727110 Join Date: Aug 2010 Location: Sweden Device: Iriver Story	Working on the first draft of "An Apple for Teacher", the second novel in my Sörmland series. In between I'm preparing "Prince on a Red Dragon" (the first novel) as an epub for impending publication. I've got a working on the cover, and a chinese friend working on the chinese characters I need in chapter 64. And then there's remodelling the hen house to try and keep the badger out, and closing the kitchen garden down for the winter, and running the mustary for the local gardening club, and...

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