Will I ever put this out on the due date ever again? Who knows? This week’s whimsy is brought to you by a kippered herring.
Kippered Herrings for brekkie - yum
Why is is so hard to find one in an Australian supermarket these days? It’s easy to find various shrink-wrapped fish labelled ‘smoked herring’ but proper kippers they are not. They obviously use a different smoking process. What happened to the crispy kippers we used to have before the war? Where’s a blogger with a British-expat spouse to find a decent kipper in Oz these days?
What other foodstuffs imbued with nostalgic yearnings are disappearing from your average grocery shelf?
Please share any bits and pieces you have come across recently that have surprised, delighted, intrigued or otherwise positively engaged you.
Spotty bananas. Haven’t seen smoked cod in a while either.
I regularly buy Scottish produced frozen kippers from Woolies; they keep them in the open freezer near the pet food (?)
Never mind TT, we’ll always have rollmops…unfortunately.
never had kippers. But our family has “herrings in on” for breakfast reasonably regularly. In Tomato Sauce (the tinned contents, not dead ‘orse) On toast. With wooster (worcestershire if you prefer) Woolworths used to have multiple lines but it is now an irregular supplier of John West only. This is no good – there’s a german brand that’s much better.
My contribution to the whimsy is a classic moment of Japan cute. It’s called otenki girls (honourable weather girls) and is brought to you by a shoe company in a tie up with my favourite magazine, Tokyo Graffiti. Just click on a day in the calendar to see it in action…
Every day, a girl tells you what she wants the weather to be tomorrow, and why, then kicks off one shoe. How it lands determines her prediction: upright is sunshine, sideways is cloud, and upside down is rain. The prediction accuracy to date is on the website.
Kippered herrings! Did they swim to you straight from the Straits of Bering?
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A video from Armstrong & Miller which gave me a few chuckles this morning.
When anthe Littlemore and her guitar get together you’ve really got a great thing going.
THat should be “Xanthe”, not “anthe”.
http://www.wimp.com/animalvoiceovers
Alan, Alan, Alan, Alan, Alan,Alan, Alan, Alan, Alan, Al….
Better Book Titles
Bleah, now I’ve read more than two of the entries that is mostly pretty unfunny (apart from The Handmaid’s Tale as Sarah Palin’s America.) The comment thread from whence I got it has funnier examples.
High Tide heels via @feebsquared on Twitter
Helen @ 12, indeed.
Just when you thought it was safe…