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LucasP wrote:

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Kwyjibo. wrote:



"Old Mother Ashby" wrote in message






So what do you think of the local product?




Their wogs seem better at making it than our wogs.





Wogs? Which brands are we talking about?

Christine





LOL!!
For all residents across the pond this will help you with us
irreverant
'Colonials'!!

http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html





Oh ha, ha, very droll! I'm serious - you make olive oil production
sound
like some sort of ethnic cottage industry, which is no more the case
than it is with wine. I think the local stuff, which varies
considerably
in taste between brands, is very good. I wouldn't go out of my way to
buy foreign EVO - I have most of a bottle of Colavita which Derrick
bought by mistake, and it's too bitter for me. I'm gradually getting
rid
of it cooking dishes where it will be buried in other flavours, would
never use it in a dressing.

I take it that you are of a different opinion and actually prefer
imported EVOs.



Actually, yes. Something about an "ethnic" group that has spent 100's of
years making a product....

Granted, some of the aussie stuff is getting up there in flavour, but at
almost twice the cost, why bother?

But, as I've stated quite recently, I have been using Olivado Avocado EV
Cold Pressed Oil of late.

But that's from NZ. Do you class that as 'local'?

www.olivado.com

Seems there *was* a factory set up here in Brisbane (Cleveland??) but it
was not economically viable.



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

Old Mother Ashby wrote in news:44596bcc$0$16974
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LucasP wrote:

Steve Wertz wrote in news:1chym14x5sqw6
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On Thu, 4 May 2006 01:17:27 +0000 (UTC), LucasP wrote:



Steve Wertz wrote in
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On Wed, 3 May 2006 14:16:26 +0000 (UTC), LucasP wrote:



Did you even click on the link and read the story???

SHEESH!!


I didn't. I don't open unsolicited links unless someone provides
some description of the story beforehand.


So you don't open *any* links in *any* newsgroups, hey?


Not normally, no. I did the same thing Ray did. Clicked the
link, left the room, and when I got back, I closed down the
browser without reading the story.

Perhaps it's a "Texass" thing.




Looks like it is. Maybe the WWW is too damn *big* for your Texass
ISP's
to handle?? :-)




Or maybe we just don't really
care.




I remember a rather good quote from a Drill SGT in the movie 'Full
Metal
Jacket' (also used in 'An Officer and a gentleman')

"Texas? Only two things come out of Texas, boy - steers and queers.
Which one are you? I don't see no horns, boy, so you MUST be a queer!"

:-)

I betcha you Texans *hate* those movies, hey? :-)




Oh mate, this is shaping up as a real dead-set donnybrook. I bags a
seat
in the front row as soon as the tickets are on sale! ;-D



LOL!!

Hey, the Texans have always bragged how *everything* is bigger in
Texass!!


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

"Michael" wrote in
u:

I dunno, have you tried Joseph EVOO:
http://www.primoestate.com.au/Oils/Default.htm?

It's not cheap at 40 bucks a 750,


Much the same reason I buy *good* Balsamic but don't buy the stuff
that's $300 odd for a 30ml bottle!!


but there's a reason Ponytail Perry
and a lot of the top Aussie chefs use it.

To justify $40 mains dishes?


You could try napping it
over a very special bowl of 2 minute noodles.


Then add some beefy tasting jelly fish and give it to a mate :-)



"Kwyjibo." wrote in message
...
"Old Mother Ashby" wrote in message


So what do you think of the local product?

Their wogs seem better at making it than our wogs.






--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

Olive oil (pricey stuff) Tanks in New Jersey have long
been involved in money launder schemes by New Jersey
families.


"one man gathers what another man spills"

S.

ost says...

You guys must have a lot of fun Down Under if your national
newspaper finds stories of found goldfish worthy of print:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...-13762,00.html
-------
Farmer Ab Oskam, 66, was walking his dog when he recognised the
fish as one of three belonging to his neighbours Craig and Julie
Struthers.

They had been swept from their pond by a flash flood in the South
Island town of Mosgiel five days earlier.

What kind of backwoods, backwards people would recognize a
neighbors goldfish and call the national newspaper?? The same
people who eat witchety grubs, that who.

Typical clueless wannabe-know-it-all. Bet you're a Yank.

The cute "human interest" report is about an event in New Zealand.
Witchety grub eating is an Australian Aboriginal custom.

Different counties. Buy yourself an atlas.

LucasP wrote:
Hey, the Texans have always bragged how *everything* is bigger in
Texass!!

Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia


In the Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, researchers note that
national obesity statistics typically rely on self-reported weight and
height, which are often wrong.
Those inaccuracies often make people sound lighter or taller than they
actually are, write Majid Ezzati, Ph.D., and colleagues. Ezzati works
at the Harvard School of Public Health.
Self-reported weight and height don't always match reality, so U.S.
obesity statistics are too low, Ezzati's team argues.
The researchers recalculated America's obesity statistics, adjusting
for those errors. The result: The nation's obesity estimates went up.

Corrected Obesity Statistics
Ezzati's team based their corrections on data from two large national
surveys of U.S. adults:
Behavioral Risk Factor Surveillance System (BRFSS): Given by telephone
National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES): Given in
person, with some participants measured and weighed afterwards
Ezzati and colleagues compared BRFSS and NHANES data for similar years.
They found that people tended to report their height and weight more
accurately in person than over the phone, but that all self-reports
generally missed the mark.

Where Obesity Lives
Ezzati and colleagues identified the states (and Washington, D.C.)
where obesity was most common in 2000, based on the new calculations.
Here are those findings, along with the percentage of obese men or
women in those areas.


Highest prevalence of obese men:

Texas (31 percent)



SOURCES: Ezzati, M. Journal of the Royal Society of Medicine, May 2006;
Vol. 99: pp. 250-257. News release, Harvard School of Public Health.
CDC: "Overweight and Obesity: Frequently Asked Questions (FAQs)."
By Miranda Hitti, probably from CBSNews, or if not, NYTimes
Reviewed by Louise Chang, M.D.

LucasP wrote:

Old Mother Ashby wrote in news:44596b01$0$16961
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LucasP wrote:



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Kwyjibo. wrote:





"Old Mother Ashby" wrote in message








So what do you think of the local product?






Their wogs seem better at making it than our wogs.







Wogs? Which brands are we talking about?

Christine





LOL!!
For all residents across the pond this will help you with us


irreverant


'Colonials'!!

http://www.koalanet.com.au/australian-slang.html







Oh ha, ha, very droll! I'm serious - you make olive oil production


sound


like some sort of ethnic cottage industry, which is no more the case
than it is with wine. I think the local stuff, which varies


considerably


in taste between brands, is very good. I wouldn't go out of my way to
buy foreign EVO - I have most of a bottle of Colavita which Derrick
bought by mistake, and it's too bitter for me. I'm gradually getting


rid


of it cooking dishes where it will be buried in other flavours, would
never use it in a dressing.

I take it that you are of a different opinion and actually prefer
imported EVOs.





Actually, yes. Something about an "ethnic" group that has spent 100's of
years making a product....

Granted, some of the aussie stuff is getting up there in flavour, but at
almost twice the cost, why bother?

But, as I've stated quite recently, I have been using Olivado Avocado EV
Cold Pressed Oil of late.

But that's from NZ. Do you class that as 'local'?


No.

And I don't class it as olive oil, even if the lovely Jamie classes it
as the next "it" food ingredient. Sheesh!

Christine

Geoff Muldoon wrote:

says...



You guys must have a lot of fun Down Under if your national
newspaper finds stories of found goldfish worthy of print:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...-13762,00.html
-------
Farmer Ab Oskam, 66, was walking his dog when he recognised the
fish as one of three belonging to his neighbours Craig and Julie
Struthers.

They had been swept from their pond by a flash flood in the South
Island town of Mosgiel five days earlier.





What kind of backwoods, backwards people would recognize a
neighbors goldfish and call the national newspaper?? The same
people who eat witchety grubs, that who.



Typical clueless wannabe-know-it-all. Bet you're a Yank.

The cute "human interest" report is about an event in New Zealand.
Witchety grub eating is an Australian Aboriginal custom.

Different counties. Buy yourself an atlas.


Game, set and match! Of course he's American, the variety that couldn't
find Canada on a map, not that he'd see any reason to try, he's too
cosily ensconced in his own backwoods...

This thread is getting more entertaining by the minute.

Keep it up fellas!

Christine

Steve Wertz wrote:

On Thu, 4 May 2006 14:26:47 +1000, Geoff Muldoon wrote:



Typical clueless wannabe-know-it-all. Bet you're a Yank.



Apparently you're not following the thread. I'm a Texan. At
least for the last few years I am.



The cute "human interest" report is about an event in New Zealand.
Witchety grub eating is an Australian Aboriginal custom.



Same place as far as us dumb Texans are concerned.



Different counties. Buy yourself an atlas.



I wasn't commenting on where the event happened, I was
criticizing the stories fit for print in the Australia media.

Heh. A rescued goldfish in New Zealand making the headlines in
Australia is an even more pathetic example of Australia's
priorities. Thank you for stressing that point though, you
dumbass Aussie.

-sw


Oh for crying out loud! Don't your newspapers (assuming you have them
where you live) have what is often referred to as an "odd spot"? They'll
run a little piece of the "man bites dog" sort that they've picked up
from AFP or somewhere reporting news from all over the world. It was one
of those, you great Texan lummox.

That goldfish story wasn't a headline - if you'd bothered to go to
news.com's home page you would have seen that the headline was the
trapped miners (a gripping drama which probably hasn't reached Texas).
How the story ever got reported in NZ in the first place is a mystery,
and certainly leads to speculation about what is newsworthy in NZ.

Christine

ost says...

Typical clueless wannabe-know-it-all. Bet you're a Yank.

Apparently you're not following the thread. I'm a Texan. At
least for the last few years I am.

Texan - Yank - Seppo

To me all Americans are the same.


I wasn't commenting on where the event happened, I was
criticizing the stories fit for print in the Australia media.

That's rich, coming from someone living in the country that hosts such
luminary publications as the National Enquirer, Weekly World News and the
Globe.



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Old Mother Ashby wrote:


...you great Texan lummox.


Christine

Haaa, I like that word; lummox. Go, Christine!

;-)

L.

Steve Wertz wrote in news:8k254pv96k87
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On Thu, 4 May 2006 01:53:12 +0000 (UTC), LucasP wrote:

I betcha you Texans *hate* those movies, hey? :-)

They're certainly better than those Crocodile Dundee movies.
Ugh.


You Yanks seem to love 'em!! Him and the Croc Hunter, Steve Irwin!!



You guys must have a lot of fun Down Under if your national
newspaper finds stories of found goldfish worthy of print:

http://www.news.com.au/story/0,10117...-13762,00.html


Ummmmm, look closely Tex...... it's a story from *New Zealand*, where
the men are men and the sheep are shit scared!!



What kind of backwoods, backwards people would recognize a
neighbors goldfish and call the national newspaper??


Yup, that describe Nu Zeelund to a "T" :-)


The same
people who eat witchety grubs, that who.

Don't knock it till you've tried it Tex.

But then again, you lot eat cows balls. There must be some sort of
Freudian thing going on there.


Boy, when compared to that, the Olive Oil story from 2,000 miles
away must be making the front page in Australia all week long.
Let us know how it turns out.

They found out it was Dumb&Dumber from Austin, Texass who pulled the
robbery. They thought when they got the oil shipment, it was *black*
gold, not green gold.


;-P


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

Old Mother Ashby wrote in news:44599f4c$0$16988
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Oh for crying out loud! Don't your newspapers (assuming you have them
where you live) have what is often referred to as an "odd spot"?
They'll
run a little piece of the "man bites dog" sort that they've picked up
from AFP or somewhere reporting news from all over the world. It was
one
of those, you great Texan lummox.


Awwwwwww, don't be too hard on him. The poor fella is obviously still
cut up about his fellow Yanks saying that nothing comes out of Texass
but steers and queers!!


--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

Linda H wrote in news:4459b3c3$0$3341$afc38c87
@news.optusnet.com.au:

Old Mother Ashby wrote:


...you great Texan lummox.


Christine

Haaa, I like that word; lummox. Go, Christine!



Somehow, it suits the inhabitants of Texass.

Reminds me of a big stoopid Brahman (that's a *steer* to you Yanks!!)

So put your tu-tu away Tex, and go chew some grass and chill :-)



--
Peter Lucas
Brisbane
Australia

At this spectacle even the most gentle must feel savage, and the most
savage must weep.

Turkish Officer
400 Plateau
24May1915

In article , LucasP wrote:
Linda H wrote in news:4459b3c3$0$3341$afc38c87
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Old Mother Ashby wrote:

...you great Texan lummox.

Christine

Haaa, I like that word; lummox. Go, Christine!

Somehow, it suits the inhabitants of Texass.

Reminds me of a big stoopid Brahman (that's a *steer* to you Yanks!!)

Not necessarily. "Braham" could cover cows and bulls of the breed
too. (But I take your point.

So put your tu-tu away Tex, and go chew some grass and chill :-)

Cheers, Phred.

--
LID