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How do you feel about the coronation?

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  • B3B3 Posts: 27,505
    edited May 2023
    I never said the first bit. I haven't got a wife. I subscribe to the view that every married woman could could do with a wife, though.
    In London. Keen but lazy.
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Interested enough to watch It on TV
    Nobody asked us!  My son will love it, daughter not so much , she’s too busy.
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Excited. Can't wait
    B3 said:
    if the old codgers on the forum  (apologies to the youthful members. this does not concern you)  can't summon up much enthusiasm, who can?
    Not sure whether being 58 counts as an old codger.
    Does to me ..... 58 some days feels like 98 !
    When there's always biscuits in the tin, where's the fun in biscuits ?
  • LynLyn Posts: 23,190
    Interested enough to watch It on TV
    I will be watching the coronation on my iPad, can’t stand Huw Edwards all day doing the commentary.  
    I will watch on Sky news,  they were very good showing the queens funeral. 
    Gardening on the wild, windy west side of Dartmoor. 

  • Waste of money . Shrug shoulders
    when comes to you brits my favorite day is sept 13.
    that day in 1814 was the battle of Fort McHenry. 
    that day the british fleet failed cower the the soldiers
     who died keeping the flag aloft. that battle gave the 
    USA our national anthem. 

     Though I hear do to cost of living there will not be many roast oxen a common coronation tradition.  

    here is good dish for coronation better than that embarrassing
     quiche.
    the 1815 version chicken a la maryland. 
    the abomination usually served in UK. 
    and my version 
        



  • BenCottoBenCotto Posts: 4,718
    How do you propose to cook and serve Chicken à la Maryland at picnics and street parties? It’s a daft idea.
    Rutland, England
  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2023
    Interested enough to watch It on TV
    Indeed @BenCotto … IME Chicken Maryland is something that should only be in the menu for a large number of people by a professional style set up … particularly when there are likely to be a lot of children about. 

    I’m also interested how Chicken Maryland could be considered appropriate for a primarily UK and British Commonwealth celebration given that Maryland declared independence from Britain in 1776 😵‍💫?  Maybe there’s a secret longing in some quarters for ‘the old days’ 😉 

    @wargarden I’m interested to know where in the UK you were served that ‘abomination’?  I and many Brits had many meals of Chicken Maryland when Bentwaters was an active USAF base back in the 70/80s and many of the service folk from the base lived amongst us in Suffolk villages. We were invited to many private parties as well as big celebrations on the base itself.  Many of us were taught to cook Chicken Maryland by our American friends … I suspect that the England of your imagination is a very different place to the reality. 

    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





  • war  garden 572war garden 572 Posts: 664
    edited May 2023
    Waste of money . Shrug shoulders

    BenCotto people in uk don't have potable gas burners
    or gas grills?
    https://www.amazon.co.uk/Portable-Gas-Burner/s?k=Portable+Gas+Burner
    or you can cook chicken maryland on
    an emergency stove/ oven
    https://wellcomecollection.org/works/b3dcazqu

    all need is portable gas burner to cook chicken maryland 
    if you can make funnel cake at street fairs you could make chicken maryland.
    opps maybe you don't have funnel cake. 

     as for being appropriate if it was not 
    for
    chicken a la maryland.  King Edward VIII. might I never
    have abdicated. it was maryland cooking by wallace simpson
    that got him to marry her.  
    cookery that charmed a king. 
    https://trove.nla.gov.au/newspaper/page/4615337#

    as for chicken maryland in Uk the real thing has never been
    served because because you brits serve it with fried banana 
    and you forget the cream gravy. also 
    real chicken maryland is never battered; it is dredged in 
    seasoned flour.. 



  • DovefromaboveDovefromabove Posts: 88,147
    edited May 2023
    Interested enough to watch It on TV
    I can assure you it wasn’t Wallis (please note correct spelling) Simpson’s cooking that seduced Edward VIII … the answer to that lies in Shanghai not Maryland … but that is not a subject for a family forum 🤪 

    And as for gas burners and grills … every garden centre in the UK is full of them … but there are  huge safety and insurance issues around non-professionals using gas cylinders in a public place … particularly where crowds of children may be. 

    A street party is a very relaxed affair with lots of neighbouring families all joining in and contributing. 

     you really have some  strange ideas about the UK @war garden 572 … when was it you said you were last over here?

    😊 





    Gardening in Central Norfolk on improved gritty moraine over chalk ... free-draining.





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