Friday, 30 June 2017

What are your thoughts on custard?


I am having a bit of difficulty getting my iPhone and my iMac to trust each other at the moment, which is why my posts have been a little thin on photos.

I wanted to show you a picture I took of some colourful tourists I took today, but unless I get the devices to talk to each other before I finish writing, you might not see what appallingly bad taste in clothing they have. I am betting that they are from the former DDR.

20 minutes later...

 Right. I have finally got them to talk to each other so now you can see the tourists. I don't know how long the two devices are going to cooperate though, the little bastards.

I was wondering how many young people eat custard these days. Probably more than pour it over jam roly-poly, I bet.
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34 comments:

  1. crafty cat corner30 June 2017 at 04:01

    I like it pouring, my husband likes it so that a spoon can stand up in it, and so we don't have it often. lol
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    1. Tom Stephenson30 June 2017 at 05:52

      I would go one step further than your husband and admit to liking the thick skin on cold custard.

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    2. 50 and counting1 July 2017 at 16:21

      Custard skin is the foul. Liking and eating it?

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  2. Cro Magnon30 June 2017 at 05:10

    I suspect that a section of society imagines that 'highly coloured' equates with 'trendy'. Usually it's the opposite.

    Did you mean Crème Anglaise?

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 June 2017 at 05:54

      No. Crème Anglaise is the pale, thin, watery stuff which Frenchmen think is custard.

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    2. Tom Stephenson30 June 2017 at 06:01

      I think it is the DDR version of holiday clothing.

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    3. Bea1 July 2017 at 10:36

      Ba-da-boom!

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  3. Joanne Noragon30 June 2017 at 05:23

    Black to white, and everything between. Are you the fashion police, requiring matching outfits before a group leaves home. Just wondering.

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 June 2017 at 05:57

      I would say that they do match, in an odd sort of way. If you think I am opinionated, you should hear H.I.'s opinions on the use of colour in clothing.

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  4. Jacqueline @ HOME30 June 2017 at 05:28

    They look like members of the ' fleece ' club !!!
    I really like custard but never have it ...... I don't like skin though !! XXXX

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 June 2017 at 05:58

      I thought you meant the colour custard for a minute, like 'mustard'. You can read my opinion on skin above. I occasionally buy the Ambrosia tinned version, but that sadly doesn't form a skin.

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  5. Rachel Phillips30 June 2017 at 05:43

    Quasimodo in trainers in there somewhere.

    Young people eating don't feature in my life.

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 June 2017 at 05:59

      You don't frequent MacDonald's then.

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    2. Rachel Phillips30 June 2017 at 07:05

      No.

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    3. Rachel Phillips30 June 2017 at 07:16

      What's that got to do with custard?

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    4. Rachel Phillips30 June 2017 at 09:45

      Oh alright. I love custard and buy it in a green Devon carton from Waitrose. I no longer make it myself. For my birthday Peter gave me a large tin of Birds custard powder this year; I got angry and told him to take it away. So now you know.

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    5. Tom Stephenson30 June 2017 at 11:41

      Too much information, as usual.

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    6. Rachel Phillips30 June 2017 at 13:37

      I'm sorry. I'll keep quiet in future.

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    7. Rachel Phillips1 July 2017 at 11:18

      The sting in the tale.

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    8. Rachel Phillips1 July 2017 at 11:20

      or tail.

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  6. Minigranny30 June 2017 at 07:07

    Custard is one of the great pleasures in life.

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  7. Anonymous30 June 2017 at 07:44

    Home made or out of a tin? Thank you for the bee info, I didn't know about them either.

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  8. A Heron's View30 June 2017 at 07:59

    Í think your are correct for the first four women on the outside when counting from the rear are in step.
    Which speaks of a teutonic mindset !
    My preferred custard was always a baked one with a lash of clotted cream, alas both are now off the menu.

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 June 2017 at 11:40

      That will teach you for abusing your heart in the past. One of life's little pleasures ending in death, like most of life's little pleasures.

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  9. Shawn30 June 2017 at 08:27

    Custard has always been one of the things I hold against England. Along with parsley sauce, I don't know why it was ever allowed to leave the nursery.

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    1. Tom Stephenson30 June 2017 at 11:38

      Both escaped from a Victorian nursery, and both found their way into the House of Lords canteen. Can't think how or why.

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  10. The Weaver of Grass30 June 2017 at 13:47

    Is there some sort of connection I haven['t got between badly dressed tourists and custard?

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  11. Iris30 June 2017 at 17:03

    Gosh, they do look German, don't they? This is not a moment of national pride for me. No thoughts on custard, I'm afraid.

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    1. Tom Stephenson1 July 2017 at 03:50

      My German friend thinks they could be Eastern European, like Bulgarian. I said that Eastern Europeans usually come here to work, not holiday. I warned him that we would probably not have anyone to pick hops after Brexit, so the UK will run out of beer.

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  12. libby30 June 2017 at 23:40

    Custard is really wonderful if it is thick and creamy and home made.....and then I eat great big bowls of it.

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