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