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In message <[email hidden]>, davek
<[email hidden]> writes

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Anyway, I did discover the most wonderful bakery in Chatham
High Street where I bought meself a caramel doughnut and a
blueberry muffin, both of which were absolutely divine.

Mmm cake thread :-)

One of my favourite bakeries is Bondgate Bakery in Otley
(near Chevin Cycles as it happens), I always swing past
there if I'm in Otley.

They do great bread and some yummy cakes (the bread pudding
is just what you need to boost yourself up the Chevin)
--
Chris French, Leeds

davek said:

Did a 60 mile round trip to Chatham and back - had been
trying to stick to rural routes, but if you're in northern
Kent and want to get across the Medway, you have to go
right through the middle of the Medway towns conurbation.

I'm wanting to organise a ride to the Chatham Naval Dockyard
sometime. That's a great place to visit.

Can you post the route you took, and the name of the
bakery please!

wholemeal bread honey butties! no butter...make them in
plenty of time so the honey soaks into the bread....yummmmm.

"davek" <[email hidden]> wrote in message news:c7fgk8

Quoted message said:

Anyway, I did discover the most wonderful bakery in
Chatham High Street where I bought meself a caramel
doughnut and a blueberry muffin, both of which were
absolutely divine. So, if you ever find yourself in
Chatham and longing for cake, go straight to Liddelows In
Town Bakery - it almost

makes

Quoted message said:

up for being in Chatham.

Funnily enough I can't stand cake or biscuits - I have
weaned myself off sugary things and find most of them
unbearably sweet now. A nice hot Cornish pasty with brown
sauce, now you're talking!

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John Hearns said:

and the name of the bakery please!

Liddelows in Town Bakery. Sorry - my bad.

chris French <[email hidden]> wrote: (
One of my favourite bakeries is Bondgate Bakery in Otley
(near Chevin ) Cycles as it happens), I always swing past
there if I'm in Otley. ( ) They do great bread and some
yummy cakes (the bread pudding is just what ( you need to
boost yourself up the Chevin)

It used to be that the only redeeming feature of the NEC
complex was that the buffet in Birmingham International did
the most amazing bread pudding. I diverted a cycle ride
through there recently and was disconsolate to find none, so
this is more of a warning than a recommendation.

mae <[email hidden]> wedi ysgrifennu:

Quoted message said:

wholemeal bread honey butties! no butter...make them in
plenty of time so the honey soaks into the
bread....yummmmm.

When my dad's in one of his nostalgic moods and doesn't
feel like telling one of his dreadful National Service
tales (Suez - [not] funny how we never learn any lessons at
all) he enjoys going misty-eyed over memories of cold
mornings on his plumbing apprenticeship when he used to
toast Golden Syrup sandwiches by holding them on a fork
next to the brazier.

--
Rob

Please keep conversations in the newsgroup so that all may
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Simon Mason said:

Funnily enough I can't stand cake or biscuits - I have
weaned myself off sugary things and find most of them
unbearably sweet now. A nice hot Cornish pasty with brown
sauce, now you're talking!

If you're ever in Glastonbury, Burns the Bread on the
High Street does the best (and cheapest) pasties I've
ever tasted (assuming it's still there, I haven't been
there for a couple of years). Better than anything I've
found in Cornwall.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my
reply address)
<url:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/> "He who
dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

and the name of the bakery please!

Liddelows in Town Bakery. Sorry - my bad.

No, *my* bad - I just checked on the map and realise I made
a bit of a mistake - it wasn't Chatham High Street at all
but Gillingham High Street. It's all very confusing. I had
been up to the war memorial and came down on what I thought
was the Chatham side but obviously it was the Gillingham
side. The bakery is at the Brompton Road end of the high
street, opposite a giant noodle restaurant. Still, I reckon
it's worth seeking out wherever it
is.

And it's quite close to the road that leads down to Chatham
Docks. The War Memorial is worth a visit too if you fancy a
short, not-too-sharp climb, and if you can find the right
road, which I didn't - I ended up taking the rotten shared
foot/cyclepath, which has some enormous potholes to
negotiate.

My route to Chatham was from Whitstable, where I live, along
the back roads that run roughly parallel to the A2. The
stretch between Sittingbourne and Gillingham via Lower
Halstow, Iwade and Upchurch is particularly pleasant. It's
quite an undulating route but there are no hills to speak
of, just a few sharp-ish 'bumps'. It was quite a
straightforward route though it gets a bit tricky in places
- when you get to Gillingham, you have the choice of
following the dual carriageway or negotiating the mean
suburban streets of Gillingham itself... and then getting
hopelessly lost, like I did. Still, it all turned out OK in
the end and made for a nice day out. With the bonus of some
first class cake, of course.

If I'd had the time, my plan would have been to go all the
way to Gravesend before turning back - and on another
occasion I plan to take the ferry from Gravesend and
continue on to Cambridge. Another day...

j.

Danny Colyer said:

If you're ever in Glastonbury, Burns the Bread on the High
Street does the best (and cheapest) pasties I've ever
tasted (assuming it's still there, I haven't been there
for a couple of years). Better than anything I've found in
Cornwall.

My grandmother makes the best Cornish pasties I've ever
tasted (she hails from Liskeard).

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Simon Mason said:

Funnily enough I can't stand cake or biscuits - I have
weaned

myself off

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

sugary things and find most of them unbearably sweet
now. A

nice hot Cornish

Quoted message said:

Quoted message said:

pasty with brown sauce, now you're talking!

If you're ever in Glastonbury, Burns the Bread on the High

Street does

Quoted message said:

the best (and cheapest) pasties I've ever tasted
(assuming it's

still

Quoted message said:

there, I haven't been there for a couple of years). Better
than anything I've found in Cornwall.

Sorry Danny, I've read that three times and I still can't
see what's disgusting about it or where to put the TMI
comment. Please explain?

:-)
--
Mark South Citizen of the World, Denizen of the Net <<Tiens!
Ce poulet a une grenade!

On Fri, 07 May 2004 19:59:16 +0100, Danny Colyer
<[email hidden]> wrote in message
<[email hidden]>:

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Burns the Bread on the High Street

Not Pudding Lane?

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Simonb:

Quoted message said:

My grandmother makes the best Cornish pasties I've ever
tasted (she hails from Liskeard).

I was taught how to make Cornish pasties by someone from
Penzance. I can't claim to make them quite as well as she
does but I think they're good enough. Hers are a true
gourmet delight, though. I did once buy a pasty in Cornwall
that was almost as good - from a stall in Polperro - but the
ones you buy generally tend to be pretty disappointing, to
put it mildly. Ginsters excuse for pasties are just
disgusting.

I have mixed feelings about cake - bad cake is bad cake, but
when you just want filling up with calorific stodge then
good cake is *wonderful*. But there are certain other things
that cyclists are supposed to eat that I just can't stomach
- rice pudding being one, bread and butter pudding being
another. Just the thought of them makes me queasy. Eugh!

d.

Mark South said:

Sorry Danny, I've read that three times and I still can't
see what's disgusting about it or where to put the TMI
comment. Please explain?

:-)

To change the subject and drag the thread into the gutter
(just for you, you understand), I'll mention the site that I
found last night after looking at the mountain bike forum
that Ambrose posted a link to.

I only looked at this site briefly, but I couldn't stop
giggling for 15 minutes afterwards. This is truly
disgusting: <url:http://www.ratemypoo.com/>

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my
reply address)
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dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

davek said:

Simonb:

Quoted message said:

My grandmother makes the best Cornish pasties I've ever
tasted (she hails from Liskeard).

I was taught how to make Cornish pasties by someone from
Penzance. I can't claim to make them quite as well as she
does but I think they're good enough. Hers are a true
gourmet delight, though. I did once buy a pasty in
Cornwall that was almost as good - from a stall in
Polperro - but the ones you buy generally tend to be
pretty disappointing, to put it mildly. Ginsters excuse
for pasties are just disgusting.

I have mixed feelings about cake - bad cake is bad cake,
but when you just want filling up with calorific stodge
then good cake is *wonderful*. But there are certain
other things that cyclists are supposed to eat that I
just can't stomach - rice pudding being one, bread and
butter pudding being another. Just the thought of them
makes me queasy. Eugh!

Of course the original Cornish pasties had fruit or jam in
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Tony

davek said:

there are certain other things that cyclists are supposed
to eat that I just can't stomach - rice pudding being one,
bread and butter pudding being another. Just the thought of
them makes me queasy. Eugh!

Thank you for this. I'm happy to know I'm not alone in my
"Eugh!" reaction to those dishes 🙂 I do like fruit crumble.

Roos

davek said:

there are certain other things that cyclists are supposed
to eat that I just can't stomach - rice pudding being one,
bread and butter pudding being another. Just the thought
of them makes me queasy. Eugh!

I really wish I could eat bananas, but the taste, the smell
and the texture make me want to throw up. I tried once to
build up a tolerance to them over a couple of weeks. I
eventually managed to eat half a banana in one sitting (an
intensely unpleasant experience), then I gave up.

--
Danny Colyer (the UK company has been laughed out of my
reply address)
<url:http://www.speedy5.freeserve.co.uk/danny/> "He who
dares not offend cannot be honest." - Thomas Paine

In message <[email hidden]>, Simon Mason
<[email hidden]> writes

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"davek" <[email hidden]> wrote in
message news:c7fgk8

Quoted message said:

Anyway, I did discover the most wonderful bakery in
Chatham High Street where I bought meself a caramel
doughnut and a blueberry muffin, both of which were
absolutely divine. So, if you ever find yourself in
Chatham and longing for cake, go straight to Liddelows In
Town Bakery - it almost

makes

Quoted message said:

up for being in Chatham.

Funnily enough I can't stand cake or biscuits - I have
weaned myself off sugary things and find most of them
unbearably sweet now. A nice hot Cornish pasty with brown
sauce, now you're talking!

I find I easily avoid most restaurant desserts - too
cloying, and can ignore an open packet of sweets or
chocolates for months, but have difficulty resisting muffins
from most coffee shops, or the individual lemon cheesecakes
from Eat (cafe chain in London).

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In message <[email hidden]>, Roos
Eisma <[email hidden]> writes

Quoted message said:

davek said:

there are certain other things that cyclists are supposed
to eat that I just can't stomach - rice pudding being one,
bread and butter pudding being another. Just the thought
of them makes me queasy. Eugh!

Thank you for this. I'm happy to know I'm not alone
in my "Eugh!" reaction to those dishes 🙂 I do like
fruit crumble.

Rice pudding is one of my favourite desserts, but only if I
make it myself.

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