What did you miss most when living overseas?

[Ex-Ascot]

Absolutely t15. I do keep it in the fridge (freezer in Bots) but I do like just one lump of ice in a blend. Wouldn't in a malt. Scotch off the menu from two days ago for the foreseeable future. Not banned but it is very painful to the throat.

[limeygal]

Pubs, decent chips, and bacon-it's all streaky here. My main bugbear is having to ask for a knife (unless it's a decent restaurant). I have for 40 years tried to get Hubs used to using a knife. I put one out at every meal and it lays there ignored. I point out that we are not savages, but it falls on deaf ears. He will use a knife for steak. When he does, he cuts it all up before he starts eating. It's like dining with a toddler.

[Ex-Ascot]

So LG do you think he used his knife?

[bob2s]

The best drink I had in the couple of years spent in Kuching, was the beer shandy served in a plastic pint jug after a run with the HHH (Hash House Harriers) each week, the Anchor/Lemonade shandy was like the nectar of the Gods after the run of chasing the hare, it was only one drink
before it was ON ON to a local towkays place for a couple of hours of beer and singing bawdy songs from the Hash Hymnbook. Lots of good memories there.

[Hydromet]

Bob, did you ever run with the Hash in Sale? I ran with Arawa, then Adelaide. Shortly after we moved to Traralgon, I was invited by a friend to join a new one starting at Sale, with quite a few RAAF people, plus a couple from Bougainville and some others. Happy days.

On on!

[Rwy in Sight]

Whisky and coca cola was a standard drink in the early days of my youth. Actually it was the very first alcoholic drink I had at a night out with a family friend - former barman- who tried to teach me how to behave in a bar.

[bob2s]

Hydro, I never had time as I started my own business and also there were no hash runs close to where I was living, I must admit that the partaking
of a cool beer at the end of the day was still practised.

[Smeagol]

Ran the odd Hash in the Sumatran jungle and even a couple in Kuwait but not much fun as no beer available there!

[Ex-Ascot]

Not much point in doing it if you can't drink buckets of beer at the end. Invited to many around the world but our schedule never allowed me to do one. Did a relay marathon in the sandpit somewhere. . There were Ethiopians in one team we didn't stand a chance. Plus our chain smoking cabin supervisor wanted to impress one of the stewardess. We had a walk around oxygen bottle for him at the finishing line. He stopped for a fag half away around. Two of the Ethiopians went around in the time it took him. Amazing enough we came 3d out of about 8 teams.

[Dushan]

At age 16 and off at university I went to a fraternity rush party where the alcohol was flowing.
Being so young and innocent, yeah I know, the only drink that I had ever had was rum and Coke, a staple at college football games. So I confidently ordered one only to find out that that was what most everyone else seemed to have been drinking. As a result, they were out of rum. Not to be deterred, young Phlyer confidently ordered a Scotch and Coke. The bartender asked "are you sure you want that?". I said "Of course".
Swigged it down and to this day, even after years of bartending, I cannot abide the smell of Scotch and it has never crossed my lips to this day.
I know Ex-A and others will express their horror so I feel that almost 55 years later I should give it another try, maybe this time without the Coke.

PP

Scotch & Coke was regularly drunk in Kinshasa in late 60s and early 70s. Probably to this day...
I preferred gin and tonic, but after one memorable party I cannot stand the smell of it. You don't want to know...

[Hydromet]

At a party in my younger days, a young lady asked if I wanted whisky and sofa or gin and platonic.

[llondel]

Pubs, decent chips, and bacon-it's all streaky here. My main bugbear is having to ask for a knife (unless it's a decent restaurant). I have for 40 years tried to get Hubs used to using a knife. I put one out at every meal and it lays there ignored. I point out that we are not savages, but it falls on deaf ears. He will use a knife for steak. When he does, he cuts it all up before he starts eating. It's like dining with a toddler.

I got fed up with what the US calls bacon too. Proper back bacon is pretty much non-existent over here. They don't know how to cook it, anyway. Properly-cooked bacon should bend, not shatter.

As for knives, I remember being at a wedding between a Brit and Yank (not mine, this was a bit later) and observing that you could tell who was from where by how they ate. The Brits would hold fork in left hand, knife in right, and maintain that through the whole process. The others would hold fork in left, knife in right, cut something, then put the knife down, transfer the fork to the right hand and use that to transfer food to mouth.