Ad noted when flitting around The Onion (but is a real, actual serious ad). The majority of Budwiser drinkers think that Miller Genuine Draft has more flavour. Ditto Miller Lite has more flavour than Bud Lite. What do these statistics tell us?
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Small joy
 
one of the upsides of this job is that, late at night, when the last customers have left grumbling about taxis, and all the staff have gone home, I have a catering standard kitchen to play with, so tomight I fried off some duck with […]

What I have learned from roasting three chickens this week:
1: Spreading a little bit of mayonnaise — enough to make it glossy, wiping away any excess that shows up as white — on the skin of the chicken, instead of butter, crisps the skin[…]

Frogspawn for the new millennium
So anyway, there I was yesterday afternoon, having got home from work and aimlessed around for a bit. I then recalled the intriguing pack of semolina pearls that I’d picked up from my favourite supermarket in C[…]

Small pleasures
I suppose I should introduce myself as a contributor rather than assuming everyone knows me from ILX:
I like cooking and eating but am no Heston Blumenthal. I am very easily bored and thus a novelty junkie, but always return to old f[…]

Crunchy Pig Goodness
Pete’s post reminded me that I ate some great porky bits last night. They were proper Pig Back, not crunchy corn snack with pig flavour sprayed on them. Nice and crunchy, with good fatty greasy bits. No gnarled bits that I[…]

What fre(nc)sh madness is this. I was in my local the other night The Haringey Arms, and I heard someone asking for a pint of BombARDeeAY. The bar monkey was as confused as I was. He question the order. The fella repeated his order BombARDeeAY, and p[…]

There is a new ad campaign for Smirnoff Black Ice currently bedecking London Buses. The concept is that the formular of the flatter of the two Ice’s has changed. It is now less sweet, and has more “bite”.
How have Smirnoff decided t[…]

Further to Matt’s tale of wine temperature
I found this on the usually excellent egullet, it seems that the ideal room temperature is a little chillier than the average UK or US house (which is about 22C iirc).[…]

Trig Brother Gets Evil.
The 31st July, London’s trendy and no longer sleezy Soho, plays host to TRIG BROTHER 4. Is it a pub crawl. Is it a game show. Is it a blatent popularity contest (no – if you see whose won it in the past). One thing[…]