Ferfect Fried Chicken, Forest Hill

[Tim Lund]

Twas brillick, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:

[Tim Lund]

But who gave him the right to take such liberties with the English language anyway?

[Nigel]

From the depressing news about campylobacter infections from most supermarkets , god only knows the risks people run in these establishments.

I sometimes think these places were put on this earth ( as well as to ensure there will always be jobs for street cleaners who shovel up the detritus ) to remind us to stop being stupid , buy a chicken in Billings , take it home and enjoy it with friends and family .

My current favourite is a kind of basque recipe - chorizo, garlic, dried tomato and chicken slowly cooked in a bed of saffron coloured rice . Slight tendency to think it should have it's own country but utterly delicious .

A very good morning
Nigel

[Tim Lund]

But who gave him the right to take such liberties with the English language anyway?

Lewis Carroll's wordplays and personifications were in the greater tradition of entertaining children.

Maybe are, but in this case not were. In this case, it was to amuse his family - he didn't have children, so they are ruled out as the original audience. Rather it was to satirise the then enthusiasm for Anglo-Saxon poetry, which was thought of as especially manly. Think of it as pre-satirising JRR Tolkein.

Source here

So the only Great Tradition here is of those with a maths / science background - such as Lewis Carroll - having fun taking the piss out of people of a literary turn of mind. Think Alan Sokal more recently. Of course, what happens thereafter is that those satirised claim they understood all along, and treat it all as part of some post modernist joke. Still, Alan Sokal's approach was probably better advised than CP Snow, who made the mistake of taking the literary types of his era seriously. Precious little thanks he got for it.

Meanwhile ordinary people, doing things with words in the way any user of our language is entitled to do, is looked down upon and scorned. Does is matter that someone in Forest Hill is looking to make a profit from playing with language? "No man but a blockhead ever wrote except for money" - but that's a literary man talking.

Are we now going to condemn 21st century capitalism? Did Lewis Carroll give away all the money he made from publishing the Jaberwock to some charity - maybe a rest home for the feeble minded with only a literary education?

[14BradfordRoad]

Ferfect Fried Chicken?
Oh follock and what deep joy this may bring to deciplogs of Unwinese. Let us all Spreakit The Wordage:

[youtubes]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2nI_3VBEtA[/youtubes]

Folly and deep joy!

[Nigel]

Tim
Not or the first time I have to point out a basic technical error in your debating method - the plumbing equivalent of not putting on an olive before tightening a compression joint .
The fact that Carrol did not have children does in no way disprove the idea that he wrote to amuse children . That is to say children that were not his own , he having none .
I'm not sure how many of your very teetering stack of arguments thereafter fall down as a result .

A very good afternoon
Nigel

[Nigel]

Rod
You are right - knife and fork , little bit of hands where called for but yes , plates , wine and maybe a bit a Paco Peña or Julian Bream .

Apart from paying a bit for some decent chicken that was reared decently , it's quite a reasonable meal ( although the wine pushes costs northwards as is often the case ).
A very good evening
Nigel

[sparticus]

Ferfect roast chicken would probably feature on my "last meal" menu, but I wouldn't mess around with chorizo or saffron rice or any other poncy additions. The best chicken I can afford, Simon Hopkinson's recipe for roast chicken with the addition of a generous splash of Noilly Prat in the final reduction, served with a crisp green salad with a simple vinaigrette, a bottle of decent burgundy and apple crumble for afters. Bliss.