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[pepper]

Apparently Barry Norman is making and selling pickled onions.

What next? Is Leonard Maltin going to sell his own-recipe jam? Will Rotten Tomatoes start up a crafts page? Will Harry Knowles open up a lemonade stall?

I don't often feel the urge to research these random things*, but I had to discover if Barry Norman had a history of pickled onion selling. Apparently this is a new thing for him. Not the most obvious career path...

1) Film critic
2) Retirement
3) ???
4) Pickled onions and PROFIT!!!

I bet his pickled onions aren't as good as my family's, though. Ours ought to carry one of those warning labels with the hand and the droplet and the flesh being eaten away. Ours need to be sliced finely and eaten with large lumps of cheese, so that the lining of your throat doesn't corrode. I bet Barry Norman's pickled onions don't need precautionary measures.

My dad likes to tell the tale of the time he bought a jar of pickled onions. "They were labelled 'Extra Strong', but they tasted like they'd been pickled in water!" (I didn't say it was an interesting tale.) And either our recipe has got stronger over the years, or my tastebuds have weakened, because he also likes to tell of the time that me, my brother, and our two friends ate our way through an entire jar of the things. I bet we were popular in school the next day.

Oh, and legomymalfoy has won the LJ Advisory Board election. But rest assured, I won't bring a jar of pickled onions to the bunker.



*Lies, lies...

Comments

[supplyship.livejournal.com]

OMG, you are cracking me up with your not-research about random things! :D

Just out of curiosity, are pickled onions a British thing? I don't think I've ever had them. Though I typically like pickled foods. Like pickles. OK, that's a fun word to say. Pickles, pickles, pickles!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Hee. I had this post fermenting on my long, long journey home, because I saw a poster advertising Barry Norman's pickled onions, and it was utterly bizarre to see.

I... guess they must be a British thing. I dunno - I'm just used to them being around, since forever. Small onions, pickled in vinegar and spices. Usually seen with fish & chips, or a Ploughman's Lunch.

(ETA: Huh. Removed a Wiki link, 'cause LJ duz not like it to have an apostrophe, and it won't link to it without...)

[supplyship.livejournal.com]

Oh yum. The Ploughman's Lunch looks delish!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

It's looooovely. It's not a recipe, as such, but it's an experience when you have it in the right sort of place, i.e. an old countryside pub, where they've got the veg from the local farmer's market, and the bread from the local bakery that morning... *drools*

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Pickles are vile, and onions are not high on my list, either. I can't imagine they're that good together.

However, I think that just means there are more for you. So...yay!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

But it is not pickles and onions, it's pickled onions - onions preserved in vinegar, basically. Which, I grant you, is not going to be to everyone's taste... *g*

More for me, yay! Except no one's going to want to sit near me...

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Right. I meant to say that. *whistles innocently* But cucumbers are okay. It's just when they're pickled I don't like 'em.

... It all makes sense in my head, really.

[secretrebel.livejournal.com]

I thought Barry Norman was dead.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Me too! Which made it all the weirder, really.