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[poikka] 28/4/2020 08:52

Thanks for the reminder, guys: "That's why I'm so rich, healthy, good-looking and modest".

I do not recommend Sainsbury's chicken slice, nor their steak slice - and I doubt that Greggs is any different these days, nor any other supermarket; although I don't know.

Now, our butcher in Alresford has very good steak pies :).

Agree that skirt has to be treated carefully, but is a very good-value constituent for pies.

Have a nice day all.

[pierre oreilly] 28/4/2020 08:29

xxx this is the lloy thread so none of your sensible redwood stuff. Neow, back to meat pies.We don't eat many meat pies, but a couple of years ago tried, a pukka pie, in some place abroad. Full of gristle and absolutely disgusting. When the Mrs makes Cornish pasties (well the Surrey version), the meat we used after being told about it, is skirt. Extremely strong meaty flavour, no fat no gristle, just slightly tough. Can just try it as a stake, excellent if you don't mind the toughness. Next time I'll give it a good beating ( the meat not the wife) to try to tenderise it a bit first.

[bargainbob] 28/4/2020 07:40

K38 , 38p just as likely lad

[geckotheglorious] 28/4/2020 07:07

Talking about sloppy science DrBiotech

"Bad science or something worse? May well be costing lives"

[xxxxxy] 28/4/2020 06:29

Dear ConstituentBy JOHNREDWOOD | Published: APRIL 28, 2020There is some good news to pass on. It looks as if the virus spread has peaked in our area. Hospital admissions are down, and the Royal Berks Hospital  has plenty of capacity in both normal beds and Intensive Care beds should there be any relapse in progress. The first aim of policy to ensure the NHS can cope is so far working.This also means the NHS has capacity for the other killers and serious conditions that people contract. Patients should not be deterred by the priority to the virus. There are additional hospital facilities in the private sector that the local NHS is using for cancer and other conditions. The NHS wishes to provide a good service to anyone who is seriously ill.I have continued to pass on contacts who can supply protective clothing to our public services, where there are shortages. West Berkshire and the Royal Berks Hospital report no problems, and Wokingham Social services is managing with help from national and regional stocks. The government is well aware of the need for more and is working with  the national and overseas suppliers on schedules and deliveries.More testing is becoming available. There are local test centres at Whiteknights in Reading and at the Community Hospital in Thatcham for NHS and care staff. The aim nationally is to extend the range of people eligible for tests as the supply increases.I am urging a managed return to work for more people. Working practices will need to be adapted, but business shows every willingness to do so. There will be social distancing, more home working,  more use of remote technology, more screens, more protective clothing and more automation. I am  very conscious of the economic damage being done, and keen to promote more safer working as the obvious way to improve things.I spoke in the debate on the economy yesterday using the video link from home as MPs were encouraged to do. It demonstrates there are ways to adapt and to do our jobs in these difficult times. 

[stonedyou] 28/4/2020 06:21

A vaccine from Oxford?

by Tyler Cowen April 27, 2020 at 5:37 pm in Medicine,
Science



In the worldwide race for a vaccine to stop the coronavirus, the laboratory sprinting fastest is at Oxford University.




Most other teams have had to start with small clinical trials of a few hundred

participants to demonstrate safety. But scientists at the university’s Jenner

Institute had a head start on a vaccine, having proved in previous trials that

similar inoculations — including one last year against an earlier coronavirus —

were harmless to humans. That has enabled them to leap ahead and schedule tests of

their new coronavirus vaccine involving more than 6,000 people by the end of next

month, hoping to show not only that it is safe, but also that it works.


The Oxford scientists now say that with an emergency approval from regulators, the

first few million doses of their vaccine could be available by September — at

least several months ahead of any of the other announced efforts — if it proves to

be effective.

[k38] 27/4/2020 23:25

So, are you ready for another go forwards to 34p

[m4rtinu] 27/4/2020 21:22

Aljm - are you D Trump?

[dr biotech] 27/4/2020 20:20

Aljm

I noticed that you cut and paste the article from an MMS website. Did you also notice that as part of their justification he gave a link to say chlorine dioxide was effective against Coronavirus? And if you click on the link what do you get? A paper that says it’s effective in killing the virus in wastewater. Bleach. If you can post evidence that it would selectively kill the virus in the body whilst doing no damage to other organs I’d be impressed.

It says it can be used against Anthrax - true, but as a fumigant.

Why you believe a poorly written article with multiple misleading statements is obviously your choice.

[utrickytrees] 27/4/2020 19:33

Lol JL5, when last in Scotland I saw a missus pull her Celtic shurt over her head like Henrik Larrson because she found a bit of carrot in her gravey. She'd nipped into Gregg's on her way to the opera.

[jl5006] 27/4/2020 19:21

338
You would be less likely to be alive today without vaccines.
Antibiotics are another sphere of treatments - but these are not vaccines.
Use your common you need to be made to fight the disease - via your immune system.
Vaccines are a means to immunisation.
Antibiotics are the reason so many die early -immune system inability to cope.
I am not a doctor - your comment is not appropriate.
Are u sure all your family has the requisite protections? If not YOU are the greatest risk to society

[jl5006] 27/4/2020 19:08

tricky
the older I get the more informed i become from the comments on BBS - not all of them of course.
As to the steak slice - i had 4 from morrisons a short while back - I asked the missus if she had any sign of steak in hers - cos i only found gravy and a trace of meat.
Shant repeat.

[cwossingthewubicon] 27/4/2020 19:03

The death toll from coronavirus may be almost 60 per cent higher than reported in official counts, according to an FT analysis of overall fatalities during the pandemic in 14 countries.

Mortality statistics show 122,000 deaths in excess of normal levels across these locations, considerably higher than the 77,000 official Covid-19 deaths reported for the same places and time periods. If the same level of underreporting observed in these countries was happening worldwide, the global Covid-19 death toll would rise from the current official total of 201,000 to as high as 318,000.

[cwossingthewubicon] 27/4/2020 19:02

"Coronacide"

As a general rule, the earlier you recognize someone is trying to kill you, the better off you’ll be.

[cwossingthewubicon] 27/4/2020 19:01

According to the South China Morning Post, some of the mutant strains exhibited a much more dangerous capacity to invade human cells, implying that certain strains might be much more lethal than others. What's more, these strains were found to be "genetically similar" to samples isolated in New York and places like Italy in Europe.

[utrickytrees] 27/4/2020 18:51

Jl5 were you aware that members of the guild of green grocers in Scotland were beneficiaries of a very generous arrangement for Gregg's to have the veg retailers leases reassigned to the bakers? It's one of the reasons for their meteoric expansion.
Veg has never been that popular Narth ut border but now its virtually impossible to purchase a punnet of cauliflower anywhere in the auld country...sad really.

[geckotheglorious] 27/4/2020 18:48

And don't forget "modest!"

[geckotheglorious] 27/4/2020 18:48

@Poikka

Who knows what "meat" was in that meat pie!! :)

[excell1] 27/4/2020 18:43

And don't also forget 'Good Looking'

[poikka] 27/4/2020 17:55

Tried a Greggs steak slice once - was far too hot (shop issue) and had minimal meat content.

The next time I was out shopping in town with the missus, and was hungry, I popped into the local Sainsburys and bought a 75p steak pie, not slice. Ok, it was cold, but had more meat content and was very tasty.

That's why I'm so rich and healthy.

[k38] 27/4/2020 17:45

Coronavirus Dowing street briefing .. As usual, very poor performance from Sky BBC reporters. Time wasters.

[dr biotech] 27/4/2020 17:44

Small pox, TB, Polio, Measles. If you think they are ineffective just ask yourself why we don’t see those diseases. Otherwise please filter me.

[aljm] 27/4/2020 17:38

wow, not a fan of drugs, but ok with vaccines, words fail me, i was treating you with some level of intelligence, but now all gone.....

Do me a favour, do some digging on how they make these 'vaccines' and where they get the materials, and come back on here and tell me you are ok with how they develop them.....