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Let us not forget the last MEA foray in large constructs, an engine shed required at Pulrose, a "Pompidou Centre" delivered with a mountain of debt, still being serviced, Would I give them a second opportunity to bollox up? Nein Danke. I'd sooner contract in the South Koreans

Just for clarity, are Romani /Romany and Romanian the same thing? Are people who are in need, who beg and people not in need but beg as an earning method the same thing? It seems the topic bounces between different groupings with common titles. IMHO we have opportunist professional people, working folks emotional feelings with the aim of earning money, Nationality or "criminal gang roots" are distractions from the root problem, The IOM has been identified as an untapped resouce and the scouts are investigating to see how lucrative "Begging" would be. May I refer to "The man with the twisted lip" a Sherlock Holmes story of a professional beggar , nowt new out there peeps. 🙄

Bonnag, day 1 ---eat as cake, day 2 --eat as toast, day 3--- fry for breakfart.

My spelling a wee bit off, ---https://www.quora.com/Is-the-Scottish-term-Help-ma-Boab-really-from-the-comic-strip-Oor-Wullie-or-is-it-far-older An expression much loved by Gregor Fisher. --

Dis yer heid zip up the back? ma mammy came doon the clyde an a water biscuit 🤪

Jings, Crivens, help ma bowb.

My old Mam when faced with brawn for the first time asked how to cook it, Fry it said my old fella, what a pantomime 😁 Loved Clagues brawn, melting over chips, yum I made a batch of 24 potato cakes [farls] last night, using me Granny's original skillet, freeze them down in 4's brilliant as a side with a curry.😋

To me, an Ulster fry can be a mix of all items mentioned , as long as it was all cooked in the same skillet

Michael in the market made a very nice vegetable roll, i would freeze some and take it out to N Irish friends in Turkey, they swore it was better that home.😋

This i will look for 👍

By the by, BRAINS [a company] do acceptable frozen faggots[settle down at the back], spotted recently in Tesco. This is the bible for pork and offal cookery, mother of Sophie Grigson. Charcuterie and French Pork Cookery Hardcover – Illustrated, 31 Oct. 2001 by Jane Grigson (Author)

I'm a bit, " if you want to enjoy your food, dont look in the stock pot" I dont know for sure, I would guess liver, kidneys, minced scrag end , some rusk and traditional seasoning.

Should anyone be interested, Willaston Butchers are knocking out "Savoury Ducks" an offal mix wrapped in caul fat, Yumee 😋

Twas the Tynwald tripe shop i meant 😇

It was Clagues, Craines was in Strand street, before that it was Grays, There was/ is a tripe shop, corner of Finch road and Prospect hill 😉

Make it a D.O.I Sheeps head butcher, take the brains out.😬

Prepping them, skinning and slicing can be discomforting for a Gent, i would normally have crossed legs and sucked in cheeks, slices then dusted in seasoned flour and fried, in lard or beef dripping if available. Always a breakfast meal for us.

During the war, offal was off ration, so it was a go to product if available,the taste carried for many years after, fading away as new generations found more/ better choice, out went the rissole, in came the crispbake. Another off ration special was the carrot cake, still going strong today.

I think Sweetbreads are the thymus gland from the Lambs neck, last had them in Madrid, V nice indeed. Brawn was traditionally made with the pigs head and trotters, not to sure if the brain went in, most likely did, interestly, brawn in some countries is called "Head cheese (Dutch: hoofdkaas) " Potted Heid in Scotland.--Yum.

Just tried the new Takeaway in Annacur, along the Heron, The Yummy Place by name 🙄 Crap name but great food, I will re use. It was the Great Wall before, also good tucker. 😋

But pre Man, the population level was a natural order, they would rarely venture inland, going back to those levels would suit me fine, I have never been harrased at my gate by a Gannet, Cormorant, Shag or Puffin, never see a Gulimot over Somerset Road and Shearwaters neither, all these species get along without the need to intimidate folk in town. I noticed some 2 "Dears" having a gossip in the lane at Somerset Square recently, they had to take shelter under the Telecom overhead wires due to gull attacks, not right IMHO 😒

From their habit of trailing the herring fleet to scavange ?, often mixed up with the Common or black backed Gull, they are not a diving/ fishing seabird, they are omnivorous scavengers. The food taken by gulls includes fish and marine and freshwater invertebrates, both alive and already dead; terrestrial arthropods and invertebrates such as insects and earthworms; rodents, eggs, carrion, offal, reptiles, amphibians, seeds, fruit, human refuse, and even other birds.

Gulls dont fish, they scavenge, they are sea going carrion birds, a cormorant or gannet dives and catches fish, a gull feeds off of floating sewage and dead things. Folk try to big the gulls up as noble birds up with the Perigrine, fact is, they are winged longtails with an uncanny ability to hit cars with shite. IMHO we are overpopulated with gulls they have increased in number as the food source became available, that source is now dimishing so they should fall back in number to their original population. That is natures way. Gulls are problematic http://douglas.gov.im/index.php/news/council-news/item/2408-feeding-of-animals-and-birds-council-clarifies-amended-byelaw-proposal

When the Herring get to the IOM in their migration they are in great nick, fat with oil and full of melts, as they rise at night to feed near the surface, the oil they exude [no swim bladders] to rise, flattens the water, in moonlight a sign of good fishing. Some of the old herring boats used a weighted rod pushed down into the water, seems you could feel the herring bumping into it. Now that's a kipper for your breakfast.

The gulls like to nest near the food souce if possible, around the tips and farms there were few if any cliff like nest sites, they were places to forage and return to the cliffs, Towns though, have good cliff like sites so they nest and scavenge, Strand street is like shopping in a gull colony these days.