| * zxmpi microwaves a few mince pies and leaves them on a plate for the channel | 15:52 | |
| daftykins | ooh i haven't even picked any up so far this year, i could definitely murder a mince pie | 15:53 |
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| zxmpi | it's the little things you forget... the 16kg tin of quality street | 15:54 |
| daftykins | :D | 15:54 |
| zxmpi | the secret prize at the bottom of the tin is diabetes | 15:56 |
| daftykins | and there can be many winners! | 15:58 |
| davef | QUALITY STREET .. god damn it.. I knew I was missing something | 17:03 |
| davef | (yes, one of the things I can get in Canuckistan) | 17:03 |
| daftykins | mission pop-into-co-op for a mince pie failed! none! | 17:23 |
| zxmpi | still 1 thing to get pre crimbo https://jacobs.ie/product/elite-chocolate-mikado/ | 17:26 |
| daftykins | oh wow i don't think i've ever seen that | 17:28 |
| zxmpi | when they were first released in ireland a few years back 2006ish? they had to ration them to 1 tin per customer they sold out so fast | 17:30 |
| zxmpi | nicer than a jaffa cake but you wouldn't have them as often as they are 1)expensive and 2)too rich | 17:31 |
| penguin42 | oh I've heard of the Mikado's but never found one | 18:13 |
| penguin42 | zxmpi: When you say 'expensive' - do you mean relative to the same mass of jaffa cake, or to the entire case of jaffa cakes one normally eats in a sitting? | 18:14 |
| zxmpi | yes | 18:16 |
| zxmpi | E16 per kilo of jaffa cakes. E16.23 per kilo of elite mikado | 18:21 |
| zxmpi | E15 per kilo of jaffa cakes. E16.23 per kilo of elite mikado | 18:21 |
| zxmpi | grrr | 18:21 |
| zxmpi | and that's with mikado now on clearance | 18:22 |
| zxmpi | much more expensive in october/november | 18:22 |
| penguin42 | why? | 18:24 |
| davef | Jaffa Cakes > Mikado .. sorry | 18:25 |
| penguin42 | perhaps this requires a deep scientific experiment? | 18:28 |
| zxmpi | i'll write up the facilities request for the hadron collider | 18:31 |
| penguin42 | oh dear, cleaning the orange jamions off the inside will take some time | 18:32 |
| zxmpi | you can't do proper science without mashing jaffa cakes. well known fact that | 18:33 |
| penguin42 | but, tbh I was thinking of more of the scientific experiment where we all get 1kg of each and eat them in random orders and decide afterwards which was the best | 18:34 |
| zxmpi | well that is part of the experimentation process but it also includes a multi player session of doom in cern and how handy the jaffa cakes/mikado are for snacking during it | 18:36 |
| penguin42 | perhaps we need to build an equivalent ring between the Jacobs and McVities factories? | 18:45 |
| zxmpi | an advanced site testing biscuits are up to spec and haven't been optimised for the benchmark tests | 18:52 |
| daftykins | i could definitely lend some hours to such a worthy cause | 18:55 |
| penguin42 | zxmpi: Bah! Optimising your biscuit for the ISO standard dunking machine! | 18:56 |
| daftykins | :D | 18:57 |
| daftykins | commence 'soak test' | 18:57 |
| zxmpi | of course the iso committee meetings on which tea to use in the tests will take years to come to a standard | 18:59 |
| zxmpi | might need to find a working leo to get a fair answer to that | 19:22 |
| daftykins | picked up a box of these after being disappointed by no mince pies - https://www.tesco.com/groceries/en-GB/products/265342258 | 19:58 |
| penguin42 | a grim substitute | 21:32 |
| daftykins | haha, i got lots more to console myself | 21:34 |
| zxmpi | a tesco with no mince pies... before crimbo... ::shakes head sadly:: | 23:34 |
| daftykins | well that was just an example, we don't have them here - just local co-op was where i went | 23:37 |
| zxmpi | still, a supermarket without mince pies a few days before crimbo. should be a wall of them they're worried won't shift | 23:38 |
| daftykins | :D | 23:39 |
| zxmpi | you walk into any supermarket day 27th and it's 'MUST CLEAR' items everywhere you get for a steal | 23:41 |
| zxmpi | that's when you replenish your choccie orange stash :-D | 23:41 |
| daftykins | i'm still recovering from last time :( | 23:42 |
| penguin42 | I was wondering about walking in just before closing on 24th | 23:51 |
| zxmpi | they'll be jammers with so many people coughing up a lung with latest variant | 23:52 |
| daftykins | i did get some jaffa cakes as well of course | 23:53 |
| penguin42 | I had to break my 2.5 year supermarket-abstinence in the last week or so, and yeh hmm | 23:53 |
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