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Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 09 Sep 2012, 16:11
by Ming
Thanks for the messages, everyone! :D

I think I'll have to go with Katharine on this one - tongue sounds disgusting, but I suppose if I didn't know what it was, I wouldn't have trouble eating it. I am rather squeamish too.

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 09 Sep 2012, 16:33
by 7upromana01
tongue looks like this:
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Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 09 Sep 2012, 16:49
by Fiona1986
Or this Image... That's more like the cold meat slices I get from the supermarket.

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 09 Sep 2012, 18:24
by BookWorm19
I have always wanted a 'warm gooey chocolate macaroon' which the found outers always have, and I have tried macaroons, but they were like 2 mini pink cakes with a filling, sort of like a mini sandwich, nothing like how they are described in the books! To me the ones in the books make me imagine like a profiterole type of cake with hot gooey chocolate inside!

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 10 Sep 2012, 10:48
by Anita Bensoussane
I don't think the macaroons the Find-Outers had were chocolate. They were more likely almond macaroons, which are gooey in the centre:

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Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 19 Sep 2012, 13:39
by Dinah Cunningham
tongue doesn't look bad but I don't think I could eat it, if I know what it is...

Nice to have a teacher talking about the Famous Five. I never had one as far as I can remember.

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 20 Sep 2012, 11:50
by Bectun67
I don't like tongue either, horrible stuff - mind you part of my problem with some food is textures, eg. I love toast with jam/other spread on, but I cannot stand sweet eg. jam/treacle sandwiches, or crisp sandwiches.

One thing I noticed, particularly as I have read the books in adulthood, is that the only time they generally had a cooked meal was at breakfast - for their other meals it was generally sandwiches or salad although tomato soup occasionally appeared, and scones and buns, so they did get quite a good diet on the whole. I have always been amused (as you can see in my sig) by Dick and his pickled onion craving in Wonderful Time, although I didn't really think it a wonderful idea as such when I first read it, because I thought everybody did it :D

But the daddy of them all has to be the breakfast they have in "Hike" when they all meet up again the next morning after they split up - like Keith Robinson says "Where IS this place? I want to go there" :lol:

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 20 Sep 2012, 16:52
by Poppy
favourite F5 Foods/ drinks

Cherry Cake.
Ginger Cake.
Cheese+Tomato Sandwiches.
Ginger beer.
Chocolate.
Macaroons.

Those foods just made my mouth water whenever I read them in a book. Those are just foods I've tasted out of the books and loved. I would love to taste the raspberry syrup and others! :D

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 22 Sep 2012, 18:05
by BookWorm19
I was on my dinner break in school once, and we were allowed to leave school to go to the shops down the road, and one day i seen ginger beer in the shop, and i had never seen it before, but id read about it in the books, and i bought it, all excited to be drinking a famous five drink, and i was very disappointed :shock: it was awful!

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 24 Sep 2012, 16:36
by Poppy
Awful?

What do you mean it's absolutely delicious! :D

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 24 Sep 2012, 16:59
by Francis
It all depends on the ginger beer - the best is homemade from the ginger plant.
If not, Old Jamaica is the most acceptable. Some of the other makes are awful!

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 24 Sep 2012, 18:49
by yarvelling
Home made ginger beer is wonderful!
But very volatile! My Grandad used to make it (when he was still with us :cry: ), back in the late 1960's, and I'll never forget a bottle almost exploding when he popped the cork from it - ginger beer ALL up the chimney breast, flooding the hearth; it nearly put the fire out!!! :lol: Gran was not amused....

I notice though that Enid Blyton nearly always referred to it as 'ginger pop', and rarely 'beer'..!

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 26 Sep 2012, 20:33
by bookmaniac
Bectun, I have to agree that the "daddy of them all" was the breakfast in "Hike." I'm sure that's the one where there is a Soper illustration of Anne, saying, "It's like magic." I haven't read that book for years, but I never forgot that!
We ate tongue a lot during the 1950's. I used to like it, but don't think that I could stomach it now. (I do try to be a vegetarian!) Please note, I did say "try."
Yes, all Enid's food are simple old-fashioned stuff, but delicious. The books were written before the days of fast food and fancy choc bars. Earl Butts has much to answer to, I'm sure that American members will know what I'm talking about.

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 26 Sep 2012, 22:01
by Fiona1986
Ah yes, the Hike breakfast.

Porridge, eggs, bacon, button mushrooms, toast, jam, honey, butter, coffee... have I missed anything?

Re: Famous Five Food

Posted: 26 Sep 2012, 22:04
by Pippa-Stef
Is it breakfast time yet?! :shock: