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This is the first Archived Forum which was active between 17th April 2007 and
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Latest post 12-20-2010 5:07 PM by Nickyg63. 24 replies.
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12-01-2010 1:24 PM
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9 LEE
- Joined on 02-14-2007
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Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
This Christmas, we're going to try and have as much fun as possible - and what better way than having a few competitions!
Here we have a little present from BeoWorld to YOU if you win... Please read on!
It's a very collectible book called 'A Blanc Christmas' featuring festive recipes from the world famous chef 'Raymond Blanc' in association with Bang & Olufsen. Already a collectors item, we managed to hunt one down during the summer when nobody was looking!!
We're also throwing in a BeoWorld Mousemat and Coaster Set too, so you can go online whilst someone else does the cooking..
Here are the rules...
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We'd like to know your funniest moment involving food, cooking, eating out in a restaurant, shopping for ingredients, ordering what you thought was soup in a strange language and getting a live frog on a bed of lettuce.. you name it. If it's food related, and funny - we want you to make us laugh with your tales of culinary woe !
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Over to you... competition closes at midnight Sunday.
Lee
BeoWorld - Everything Bang & Olufsen
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9 LEE
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
and here's the nice bit where it's get's 'B&O' approval..
BeoWorld - Everything Bang & Olufsen
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burantek
- Joined on 05-04-2007
- SE USA
- Posts 6,214
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
1.) My freshly married wife decided to make me a sweet potato to
accompany a nice steak dinner. She knew how I liked them... lots of
butter and brown sugar/cinnamon. And that is exactly what was delivered.
A "sweetened" regular potato. Horrific.
2.) Same wife... vegetable lasagna... w/ garbanzo beans!
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Self inflicted... Belly full of whisky -dove into the fridge to see what the house lady had
prepared for late night drunken binging. She was a fantastic cook! Oh
yes! Her amazing chicken salad! A monsterous dagwood all prepped...
downstairs I went... got comfy... and took my first bite -into a potato
salad sandwich. Yes, I ate it.
EDIT...
Honorable mention: (yep, same wife)... ever had a Neapolitan meatloaf? She didn't mix the beef/pork/veal -rather layering it.
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Puncher
- Joined on 03-27-2007
- Nr. Durham, NE England.
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
Nickyg63:
Asking my mrs to help me one night when we had only been together a short while, (I am a chef so I do all the cooking at home) I asked her to wash and prepare the salad I had to take over when she used hot water and washing up liquid!!
Game over - give the man a prize!
Generally speaking, you aren't learning much if your lips are moving.
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9 LEE
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
LOL @ Nickyg63 - that's a classic!!
BeoWorld - Everything Bang & Olufsen
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tournedos
- Joined on 12-08-2007
- Finland
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Years ago my then GF was abroad and I was staying in her much more convenient flat. I was cooking something and needed tomato purée (tomato paste in some overseas colonies, I believe).
I noticed the tin was a bit bulged but I didn't think much of it. The second my can opener pierced the lid, a stream of purée shot out, at a force that would've put any Silly String to shame. I was too amazed to do anything about it until it died out.
Cleaning the plastered white roof was fun.
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beocool
- Joined on 10-17-2007
- the Netherlands
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
tournedos:
Cleaning the plastered white roof was fun.
I can imagine!
Beoworld's twenty-eighth ninth prize winner and fifty-first second prize winner. Best £30 I've ever spent!
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beocool
- Joined on 10-17-2007
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A long time ago I was in a bar where a girl ordered a rather expensive cocktail. The guy behind the bar must have suspected that she wasn't the brightest of creatures. He asked her: "on the rocks or with ice cubes?" She looked puzzled and asked the difference between the two? Anyone who witnessed this couldn't stop laughing.... Poor girl...
Beoworld's twenty-eighth ninth prize winner and fifty-first second prize winner. Best £30 I've ever spent!
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beocool
- Joined on 10-17-2007
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
Nickyg63:
Asking my mrs to help me one night when we had only been together a short while, (I am a chef so I do all the cooking at home) I asked her to wash and prepare the salad I had to take over when she used hot water and washing up liquid!!
Reminds me of my roommates when I was attending university. They always kept sugar in the freezer...
Beoworld's twenty-eighth ninth prize winner and fifty-first second prize winner. Best £30 I've ever spent!
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Nickyg63
- Joined on 08-28-2007
- Nottingham
- Posts 628
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
beocool:
Nickyg63:
Asking my mrs to help me one night when we had only been together a short while, (I am a chef so I do all the cooking at home) I asked her to wash and prepare the salad I had to take over when she used hot water and washing up liquid!!
Reminds me of my roommates when I was attending university. They always kept sugar in the freezer...
I bet that was so no-one could use it all!!
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vikinger
- Joined on 04-16-2008
- Vestri Kirkjubyr, UK
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Out for a meal with friends we had just finished a very enjoyable main course.
Suddenly my friend noticed something moving on his wife's plate. It was a caterpillar that must have come with the side salad. He called over the waitress. She went off to see the manager and then came back full of apologies and gave us all a free dessert and coffee, and my friend's wife got a bottle of expensive wine.
As a joke, when we came to leave my friend asked for the return of his caterpillar..........
Graham
I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure. [W C Fields]
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Toby
- Joined on 12-04-2010
- Worthing
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Hi,
The two
events I am going to tell you happened 3 years ago on the same day while trying
to impress my new girlfriend.
I wanted to
cook her a dinner that would convince her I was the right man for her, the meal
was to be, chestnut and champagne soup followed by venison in chocolate jus.
First off to
Sainsbury to get everything I needed. I managed to find most thing except for the
herb marjoram, given up looking I decided to ask the kid at the fruit and veg
section. He look was surprising to say the least and he said to wait there. He
wondered off and 5 minutes later he returns followed by a security guard, who
grabs me by the arm and drags me out the shop, telling me in aloud voice that
Sainsbury’s does not sell drugs and not to hassle the staff. I protest saying
that I was looking for Marjoram, which just seems to make the matter worse. (i was banned from Sainsbury’s for nearly six
months until that particular security guard left)
I managed to
get all the ingredients in another supermarket (apart from the marjoram) and pent the rest of the day preparing and
cooking the dinner. The scene was set, the open fire was going, champagne was poured
and we were having a great time. I put a few chestnuts on the fire to roast
while I went and finished off the soup. Bring the two bowls of soup out of the
kitchen into the dining room one of the chestnuts on the fire exploded and
hurtled towards me. Luckily not hitting me but the noise was enough to make me
jump out of my skin and throw the soup into the air, covering me in chestnut
and champagne soup.
The evening
can’t have been that bad as the girlfriend 2 years later married me (still not
made tried to make that soup again).
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9 LEE
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
Some brilliant stories here - thank you all !!
After extensive consultations, we have reached a decision...
The washing salad with hot water and washing up liquid pipped the other tales of woe to the post - so Nickyg63 is crowned winner of the competition this time!
A big THANK YOU to all those who entered.
If Nickyg63 can PM me his address, i'll get the book and mousemat off straight away!
Lee
BeoWorld - Everything Bang & Olufsen
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beocool
- Joined on 10-17-2007
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
Congrats, Nickyg63. Well done!
Beoworld's twenty-eighth ninth prize winner and fifty-first second prize winner. Best £30 I've ever spent!
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Nickyg63
- Joined on 08-28-2007
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
Thank you!
Really i think the prize will go to the mrs as she deserves it!
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vikinger
- Joined on 04-16-2008
- Vestri Kirkjubyr, UK
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
Nickyg63:
Thank you!
Really i think the prize will go to the mrs as she deserves it!
Well done!
I used to be indecisive, now I'm not so sure. [W C Fields]
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burantek
- Joined on 05-04-2007
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Re: Competition Time - For a PRIZE !!!
Congrats to Nicky... Soap and Salad -nice light meal!
...and a warm welcome to Toby w/ a very funny first post!
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