Marriage, said JB Priestley, is a long dull meal with pudding as the first course.
Some kind of dessert followed every meal, tapioca pudding ("fish eyes and glue") or Jell-O chilled into molds with tasty canned fruit.
Some things are really cheap; the main meal with pudding and drink only comes to £1.60 but things like a panini are, I think, £2.05.
The median value of GER with the basic test meal (rice pudding) was estimated at 63 %, (range 47 to 84%%), (the first quartile = 61 %, the third quartile = 69%%).
The median value of GER with the basic test meal (rice pudding) was estimated at 63 %, (range 47 to 84%%), (q1 = 61 %, q3 = 69%%).
Finishing off the two-and-a-half-hour meal was rice pudding with caramelized pears ($12).His verdict on dessert?
My hiking companion and I ate a large, leisurely lunch of salad, bread, vegetable soup, gofio (corn meal) and sweet pudding dessert; the bill came to $7 a head with no drinks.
BRUSSELS — The largest beneficiaries of European Union farm subsidies include an Italian bank in Milan, a French chicken giant and an Irish producer of Weight Watchers meals and Yorkshire pudding, according to previously undisclosed data for 2008.
BRUSSELS -- The first glimpse of previously undisclosed data on European Union farm subsidies shows that the recipients of the largest beneficiaries -- worth tens of millions of euros -- include an Italian bank in Milan, a French chicken giant and an Irish producer of Weight Watchers meals and Yorkshire pudding.
But after a carb-heavy meal, even the rice pudding, light and delicate as it was, seemed too much.
