Guardians of The Lambsfoot!

[Jack Black]

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Great to see your Blood Lamb Pete

I think it was r8shell that mentioned Waffle House a few days ago. Got sidetracked and didn't answer but that place is on my drunk Mount Rushmore of places to eat late at night. I spent many of nights devouring the delicous food there as Private and Private First Class Paul. Like btb01 said....It has to be experienced.

What?! Waffle House is a REAL place???!!!!!!

 

[Rufus1949]

Great to see your Blood Lamb Pete

What?! Waffle House is a REAL place???!!!!!!

Don't believe everything you read Jack.

 

[Angry Waiter]

Great to see your Blood Lamb Pete

Thanks Jack! I went out to prune some, then saw my dry brown grass and went back inside.

 

[Angry Waiter]

I think it was r8shell that mentioned Waffle House a few days ago. Got sidetracked and didn't answer but that place is on my drunk Mount Rushmore of places to eat late at night. I spent many of nights devouring the delicous food there as Private and Private First Class Paul. Like btb01 said....It has to be experienced.

We had Waffle House a couple weeks ago and it does deliver for a greasy spoon. Delicious

 

[Prester John]

Great to see your Blood Lamb Pete

What?! Waffle House is a REAL place???!!!!!!

Note the "Texas Melts." Everyone in the US loves Texas, Jack!

 

[Campbellclanman]

No sooner had I met up with Nobber Al, when he was asking to borrow my pocket knife, as he had 'missed a bit' shaving. I suggested a better venue might be our first first watering hole, rather than the top deck of the bus!

Our first stop was a pub called 'Arcadia'

We drank off our pints, and headed off to The Head of Steam, where I ended up having a prolonged discussion about knife sharpening with the barman

Our next port of call was going to be The Headingley Taps, but we decided to give it a miss due to their lacklustre ale selection.

Headingley is an interesting old suburb, with some interesting architecture. We were both struck by this former church...

While admiring another building, further along the road, we got chatting to some security guards who were looking after a television shoot.

Jack you have some hard case mates! I love the names!! Nobber Al seems a hard case! Great photos as well my friend!

 

[Campbellclanman]

Good afternoon and happy Saturday !

Baxter Lamb today


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Gorgeous, I agree with jack, I love the Bone on this wonderful Lamsfoot Steve

 

[Campbellclanman]

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Note the "Texas Melts." Everyone in the US loves Texas, Jack!

I have to be Honest, I simply would not go in there!

 

[Angry Waiter]

I have to be Honest, I simply would not go in there!

I double-dog dare you!

 

[Campbellclanman]

I double-dog dare you!

lol, now don't get me wrong, I can eat whatever you put in front of me, If I am Hungry- and there's a Dead Horse in the field...well it's game on

In New Zealand here, and I don't think it's too much different in Europe from what we saw ( mainly) there is a nice choice of foods, If you go into a Cafe in New Zealand there is usually a nice range of tasty and healthy food- lots of green mixed in with nice Sandwiches / buns, Roast Vegetable Frittata's, Nice Muffins - a lot of tasty Healthy Sandwiches, and then you have a big choice of sweets as well, then you can order the toasted Sandwiches, fries, Omelets the usual Farmers Breakfast, the ever popular Eggs Benedict etc...
We also have our Takeaway shops too where all they do is Burgers and Chips., Sue and I have a Chip and Burger or Fish once a few weeks, and the thought beforehand is yummy! but afterwards the greasy stodgy feeling is bloody horrible.

When Sue and I were travelling through America and up around the Rocky Mountains, it was extremely difficult to get away from Deep fried Food and Syrup Stations- Please don't let me offend anyone - please, I am not out to do this, we just found there was not a lot of alternatives other than Deep Fried food - Unless we went to a Restaurant - even then depending if it was a Franchise - it was hard to get a nice fresh fairly healthy or a refreshing meal.

I am making it sound that Sue and I are fussy eaters- No...we really aren't, but there is only so much continual deep fried / take-away foods you can have.
There was a couple of days that we were looking almost desperately to find something in a "ordinary" sandwich or something like that when on the road, we saw a Starbucks- and thought- Oh wow... lets try there and we were so happy to see a Sandwich that had egg, a bit of Lettuce and whatever else - stored in a Cardboard and Plastic container - that was honestly the healthiest thing we saw when on the road and we snatched it up - that was THE healthiest or non fried thing that we could find.

The choices of food these days simply reflects on society's demand for takeaway foods - I remember when I was a child- if you saw a grossly overweight person- it was - Wow... look at that- it was a rarity, now... the higher percentage of the Human beings in Western society - well next time you go down the road- have a look around.

I remember listening to a podcast about the Armed forces and how they pick candidates, these days the pickings are so very low it's unbelievable because the younger generation percentages of people to pass as a relatively healthy person not too overweight has plummeted hugely to where it is a concern.

 

[r8shell]

I think it was r8shell that mentioned Waffle House a few days ago. Got sidetracked and didn't answer but that place is on my drunk Mount Rushmore of places to eat late at night. I spent many of nights devouring the delicous food there as Private and Private First Class Paul. Like btb01 said....It has to be experienced.

What?! Waffle House is a REAL place???!!!!!!

Haha! it's a surreal place.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waffle_House

A national restaurant chain started in the southeast USA (Georgia), they are open 24 hours and so have a reputation for serving an inebriated clientele in the wee hours of the morning. There are a bunch of youtube videos of customers starting fights and the cooks & waitstaff holding their own.

I went a few times when one opened in central Texas, and it was okay for greasy breakfast foods & the patty melt was on point, but it's not worth a special trip. Also, I blame Waffle House for bringing "sweet tea" to Texas. Traditional Texas iced tea was served unsweetened and one could add lemon or sugar if desired. The Georgia version comes pre-sweetened to a syrupy level and most places here now serve it that way as if it was ever a Texas tradition. Blech! I have to make sure to ordered "unsweetened tea" when I order now. As Campbellclanman observed, one has to work hard to avoid a calorie in America.

 

[echoscout]

You too David Great-looking Lambsfoot my friend

Thank you buddy!

Evening Guardians! 109° here today. Went to the tractor show earlier before it got real hot.

 

[RickHuf]

I put the Lambsfoot in the watch thread today to spare you from yet another photo of the same one... But I assure you it is well used and well guarded!

- it was hard to get a nice fresh fairly healthy or a refreshing meal.

This is not offensive at all, it's the truth. Good, healthy fresh food is hard to find and expensive. In many places fresh and healthy means an iceberg salad and that is just not enjoyable. It's usually drenched in dressing and you can even get meat and fries on it so you can say "oh i had a salad" and pretend it's healthy.

If you go into a Cafe in New Zealand there is usually a nice range of tasty and healthy food

Pies! Where are the pies at! That's what I'm hunting for. .

 

[SteveC]

Gorgeous, I agree with jack, I love the Bone on this wonderful Lamsfoot Steve

Thanks pal !

Thank you buddy!

Evening Guardians! 109° here today. Went to the tractor show earlier before it got real hot.

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Great pics buddy !

 

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[mitch13]

Jack you have some hard case mates! I love the names!! Nobber Al seems a hard case! Great photos as well my friend!

Probably Jack & the boys theme song back in the day Live wire

 

[btb01]

We headed up the hill to the next pub along, owned by one of England's big pub chains. The building was formerly a girls grammar school, and while the interior is impressive, it is not in fact much like how the building was inside. That's Al at the bar, in the green jacket, in the first photo below

Looks like another successful pub crawl, Jack. The grammar school pub in particular looks unique and interesting.

Hope everyone has had a good start to the weekend. Cleaning up my knife area and wanted to share the state of the lamb collection. I set out a year ago to have a good 7 day set of lambs. Well I like all knifeaholics could not stop at 7 and have 10 awesome lambs in the rotation. Some bought and some gifted. I am honored to have these wonderful knives. Now the hard part. Which one do I carry today? Feeling like a Charlie lamb kind of day.

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Good looking bunch o’ Lambs there, Paul!

I think it was r8shell that mentioned Waffle House a few days ago. Got sidetracked and didn't answer but that place is on my drunk Mount Rushmore of places to eat late at night. I spent many of nights devouring the delicous food there as Private and Private First Class Paul. Like btb01 said....It has to be experienced.

It’s been years since I’ve eaten at a Waffle
House, but setting aside all the flack it gets for late night brawls and all that, the food was pretty good for diner breakfast fare.

Traditional Texas iced tea was served unsweetened and one could add lemon or sugar if desired. The Georgia version comes pre-sweetened to a syrupy level and most places here now serve it that way as if it was ever a Texas tradition. Blech! I have to make sure to ordered "unsweetened tea" when I order now. As Campbellclanman observed, one has to work hard to avoid a calorie in America.

I didn’t know that about iced tea in Texas, Rachel. You always saw a pretty even split growing up in Arkansas, i.e. just about everywhere, from restaurants to church lunches, served both sweet and unsweet tea. I mentioned a while back, I think in this thread, that the sweetest tea I ever had was at a fast food fried chicken place in Texas (I couldn’t remember the name of the place at the time, but I believe it was Chicken Express). It was unbelievably sweet.

These days I’ll do half-sweet, half-unsweet tea, or, if I’m brewing it myself, use significantly less sugar than, say, my grandmother would have.

Tonight our neighbors invited us over tonight for an outdoor movie night. We watched Best in Show, which I hadn’t seen in a few years. I’d forgotten just how funny it is.

 

[Hoffmajo89]

Well, closed out another day and finally getting some cooler weather coming in after a string of days around and above 100. My poor grass is barely hanging on this year.

Bonus, here’s a few nice rides I saw in the parking lot when I took the kids to the park this afternoon.

 

[Campbellclanman]

Had my camera out- first time in a long time!
My cell Phone Camera is completely shattered - so its back to the good ol' 35mm ..

I have been carrying this beauty for some time now,...............

Please forgive the Tape gunk on the Blade, I love how this Lambsfoot Sharpens up these days so easily!!

 

[Rufus1949]

Had my camera out- first time in a long time!
My cell Phone Camera is completely shattered - so its back to the good ol' 35mm ..

I have been carrying this beauty for some time now,...............

Please forgive the Tape gunk on the Blade, I love how this Lambsfoot Sharpens up these days so easily!!

Very nice coat on your lamb.
I also find a quick strop brings the edge back to life.