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Nothing to do with food: Save 6Music

March 2nd, 2010 · 1 Comment

Blogger-D’s comment on Guardian Online
I’m guessing that the amount of publicity given to 6Music these past few days must have done quite a bit to their listenership, I hope it has. Thompson and his fellow idiots should check out the figures and listen to their audience of proper music lovers. Does the BBC not exist [...]

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Fanny and Johnnie Cradock Cookery Programme

February 27th, 2010 · No Comments

‘From concept to the last sprig of garnish by Fanny and Johnnie Cradock’
No3, published by Purnell in 1970, every Thursday, price 4′6. The issue which brought you Fanny’s infamous ‘Banana Candles’

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Double Yolker

February 4th, 2010 · No Comments

Following on from this week’s earth shattering news of a woman who found six double yolkers* in a single box of eggs, imagine our surprise and delight when we cracked open an egg this morning and found not just a double yolk, but a double yolk bearing the dual fizzogs of cheeky TV light entertainers [...]

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Some Cakes from Libya

February 1st, 2010 · No Comments

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McTory Burger Launch

January 28th, 2010 · No Comments

Ever willing to jump on any faddish bandwagon which happens to be passing his £1.5 million North Kensington home, and eager to emulate the grubby and cynical dealings of Silvio Berlusconi, David Cameron today announced the launch of the McTory burger.
Included in the range is the McBullingdon (Two over-privileged 1/2lb brandy fuelled patties made from [...]

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British Children’s Packed Lunch Shock

January 12th, 2010 · 1 Comment

I was shocked to read that British children’s packed lunches are not meeting the nutritional standards that have been set for their classmates on school meals. A typical school child’s packed lunch consists of sugary snacks, knives,  skunk, happy slapping, chlamydia, foul language and Monster Munch it was revealed in today’s Daily Mail. This nutritional [...]

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Christmas Yumie Magazine now available

January 7th, 2010 · 4 Comments

Hi guys. Hot off the mustard* the new issue of Yumie Magazine is chock-a-block full of exciting colourful Christmas ideas to make your humble monochrome existence less shabby, bleak, and let’s be honest, pointless. Look on with slack-jawed envy as we honour you with a glimpse into the kaleidoscopic sumptuous magnificence that is a Christmas [...]

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Mr Dave Launches Nationwide Poster Campaign

January 6th, 2010 · No Comments

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Happy New Year

January 3rd, 2010 · No Comments

Happy New Year from all of us here at Yumblog.

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Salty Salty lick Lick

December 13th, 2009 · No Comments

Hi Guys, is Jamie Oliver’s Spicy Olive Garlic & Tomato Pasta Sauce not salty enough for you? Why not try the Yumblog strawberry flavoured salt lick – It’s guaranteed to get your blood boiling! Only £12.99 from all good branches of Cost Cutter.

Great sprinkled on chips!

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The Rise of the Idiots

December 12th, 2009 · No Comments

Fwd: Underground food and drink festival, E8
Hi R
(a) It costs £40
(b) It involves booze
(c) It is pitching itself as so intolerably cool I can almost feel the moustaches
Obviously we won’t be able to call ourselves cutting edge any more, never mind.
D xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx

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Cleanse & Tone

December 11th, 2009 · No Comments

I don’t know about you, but I think all this talk of Gordon Ramsay having a facelift is utter nonsense… his lovely new complexion is just down to sympathetic lighting and a good daily skin care regime.

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Yumie Magazine – issue 5

December 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Hi guys. The new issue of Yumie Magazine trudges wearily over the well-trod ground of the US of A! We’ve asked around the office, spent the morning on Google and flicked through a 20 year old edition of ‘Floyd’s American Pie’ to cobble together this lazy cliché-ridden feast of Americana. Some of these recipes have [...]

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MasterChef

December 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Rejoice, MasterChef is back! This time around it’s a mixed bag of ‘Professionals’ who have to cook for Gregg and friends and thankfully the format is little changed. Despite being an irregular at my local gym, Gregg “That’s a twist of a lemon and a chop of a chilli away from perfection, my friend” Wallace [...]

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Chingford Skinhead

November 16th, 2009 · No Comments

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Chuck Palahniuk’s Chicken Face

October 29th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Hope you all noticed another bit of cheeky photoshop work in the latest Observer Food Monthly – Chuck Palahniuk’s face in a piece of KFC chicken.

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Yumie Magazine – Issue 4

October 20th, 2009 · No Comments

Hi Guys, exciting news, Yumie magazine is now being sold in all good branches of CostCutters across the UK** as well as the usual Timothy Whites. So now there is no excuse not to read this supremely glossy example of vanity publishing. Pick up issue 4 and see how we have belatedly jumped on the [...]

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Desert Island Discs

October 9th, 2009 · No Comments

Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall was the guest on Desert Island Discs this week. Although I never actually listened to the programme subsequent research showed him to have the reasonable (albeit mainstream) musical tastes of a man of a certain age.
The Specials – Gangsters. The Who – Love Reign O’er Me. Beethoven – Symphony No.9 in D Minor, [...]

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In Praise of… Gwydwr’s Turnips

September 29th, 2009 · No Comments

A lovely lady called Gwydwr came up to the big smoke and gave us some handsome home grown turnips and a pair of socks each. We ate them thinly sliced and raw in a salad. They were peppery and delicious. The turnips weren’t half bad either. Ha.

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L2B 2009

September 15th, 2009 · No Comments

Last weekend Team Yumblog shaved an hour off their personal best and finished the London to Brighton cycle ride in record time. There was to be extensive photographic documentation of this momentous event but the camera battery went flat the night before and the charger was the other side of the river.

The packing.

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L2B 2009

June 1st, 2009 · No Comments

Once again Team Yumblog will be slipping sexily into lycra cycling breeches and pedalling the 54 miles from the heart of London’s Clapham Common all the way down to Brighton. There is a specially designed team t-shirt available here which anyone is welcome to buy should the urge grab them. A full size version of [...]

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John Hurt’s Salami Face

May 27th, 2009 · 4 Comments

Is it me, or is that John Hurt’s lovely face in a piece of his own salami? It’s either a minor miracle, a vanity project, or the designer working on the ‘What’s in your basket?’ feature in this Sunday’s ‘Observer Food Monthly’ was a bit bored and decided to counterbalance Dr John Briffa’s usual pessimistic [...]

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Loss in Translition 2

May 16th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Fill the raw cannelloni, as they are in the box without boiling them. (The stuffing must be cold). On the bottom of the empty bakepan strew tomato sauce. The cannelloni, as they are settled in the bakepan on one layer, strew above fluid tomato sauce in order to counterbalance the interior expansion with the outer [...]

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Tags: Stuff · pasta

Salmon Rillettes

April 18th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This lovely dish is made only from locally sourced fresh ingredients and is very popular at our friendly and unpretentious ‘local bistro’ restaurant ‘Charlie Uniform November Tango’.

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Tags: Fish · Seafood · Stuff

Music to cook by

April 18th, 2009 · No Comments

Always on the lookout for the opportunity to appear on the fringes of yesterday’s zeitgeist we cooked up a plan to share with you – our faithful – an album choc full of infitessimally predictable and overexposed tunes that you couldn’t possibly have playlisted yourselves. We call it Cook-In – like the sauce you use [...]

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Happy Easter to all our readers

April 12th, 2009 · 5 Comments

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A Sunday Lunch in Clapham

March 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

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Tags: Stuff · Vegetarian

The second issue of Yumie Magazine is out now

February 28th, 2009 · 3 Comments

Your second helping of Yumie Magazine is now available from just the one outlet, making it reasonably difficult to get hold of but all the more exclusive for it, after all exclusivity is what Yumie is all about. It isn’t? Oh. Anyway this edition is full to the brim with meaty nourishment to keep your [...]

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Creationism

January 27th, 2009 · 1 Comment

“I’ve started to drift towards a belief in God, creationism and intelligent design. When I look at something as complete and intricate and detailed as Professor Dawkins I think, ‘Surely that can’t just have happened by chance’.”
A quote from the comedy genius Stewart Lee.

This and many more designs available from our shop

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Tags: Stuff · T Shirts · Uncategorized · Vegetarian

Yuckblog 8: Drei Deutsche Imbisse

January 11th, 2009 · 1 Comment

Like a dog returning to its vomit, here we are once again preparing three unappetising platefuls of instant pasta for this, our eighth yuckblog taste test. Thus far much of what we have tried has been of such a lamentable quality it can barely be described as ‘food’, so this time we have travelled further [...]

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Tags: Stuff · Vegetarian · yuckblog

Happy New Year

January 5th, 2009 · 1 Comment

This time last year we posted a recipe for ‘Minted Pea & Lettuce Soup‘ with the uplifting introduction “Happy New Year. It’s 2008 and it looks like the year ahead is going to be shit”. Predictions don’t come more accurate than that.
So what of 2009? Shitter. Much shitter. Shittier than Shitty Jack McShit after losing [...]

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Tags: Stuff · Vegetarian

RIP Woolworths – Farewell Pick’n'Mix

December 14th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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More Christmas gift ideas from Yumblog

December 13th, 2008 · 2 Comments

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A magical winter wonderland treat for all the family

December 8th, 2008 · No Comments

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Christmas gift ideas from Yumblog

December 8th, 2008 · 1 Comment

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Yumblog launches a unique new magazine

December 5th, 2008 · 3 Comments

Hi Guys, Yumie Magazine is the exciting new food and lifestyle title from Yumblog. Each issue will be packed with more than 100 rehashed and reheated recipes by us here at Yumie. You can look forward to massively overblown photography and ill-thought out writing from some of the least known ‘celebrities’ in the world today.
The [...]

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Community Payback

December 1st, 2008 · No Comments

Now your whole family can be the pride of the community. A perfect Christmas present exclusive to yumblog and just one click away.

Many more designs available from our shop

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Loss in Translition

November 23rd, 2008 · 2 Comments

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CaterPlate®

November 1st, 2008 · 1 Comment

Last weekend was spent eating and boozing in Oxford and no trip to The City of Dreaming Spires is complete without a visit to the quaint and slightly anachronistic department store Boswells. If you walk through the luggage section, past the Oxford tourist tat, turn left and go downstairs to the basement, you will happen [...]

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