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Eighthours wrote:

KK wrote:Olive oil is supposedly the healthiest substance to cook with; coconut oil being the worst.

'Healthiest' in terms of your overall glow, but certainly not best for your weight loss! There is a ridiculous amount of fat content in olive oil, it's incredibly bad for you.

But roast potatoes cooked in a fair helping of olive oil = strawberry floating YES.

Knoyleo wrote:

Eighthours wrote:

KK wrote:Olive oil is supposedly the healthiest substance to cook with; coconut oil being the worst.

'Healthiest' in terms of your overall glow, but certainly not best for your weight loss! There is a ridiculous amount of fat content in olive oil, it's incredibly bad for you.

But roast potatoes cooked in a fair helping of olive oil = strawberry floating YES.

Roast potatoes need to be in a mix of mostly butter, with some olive oil to prevent the butter burning, for optimum flavour.

Eighthours wrote:

KK wrote:Olive oil is supposedly the healthiest substance to cook with; coconut oil being the worst.

'Healthiest' in terms of your overall glow, but certainly not best for your weight loss! There is a ridiculous amount of fat content in olive oil, it's incredibly bad for you.

But roast potatoes cooked in a fair helping of olive oil = strawberry floating YES.

Eighthours wrote:

Knoyleo wrote:

Eighthours wrote:

KK wrote:Olive oil is supposedly the healthiest substance to cook with; coconut oil being the worst.

'Healthiest' in terms of your overall glow, but certainly not best for your weight loss! There is a ridiculous amount of fat content in olive oil, it's incredibly bad for you.

But roast potatoes cooked in a fair helping of olive oil = strawberry floating YES.

Roast potatoes need to be in a mix of mostly butter, with some olive oil to prevent the butter burning, for optimum flavour.

Although: GOOSE FAT.

Rex Kramer wrote:I always thought olive oil wasn't particularly suited to high temperature cooking?

Moggy wrote:The worst thing about Brexit appears to be a dull as strawberry float conversation about cooking oils.

Squinty wrote:

Moggy wrote:The worst thing about Brexit appears to be a dull as strawberry float conversation about cooking oils.

The worst thing about Brexit is the BBC comment section.

It's also the best thing about Brexit.

KK wrote:Olive oil is supposedly the healthiest substance to cook with; coconut oil being the worst.

twitter.com/davidallengreen/status/884711271479824384

(1/20): 1. Just a few thoughts about the comment of the ministerial "source" in this tweet, and the Euratom issue generally. https://t.co/AOt3vruwqQ
(2/20): 2. Read the quote carefully. You will see it is based on two. assumptions.
(3/20): 3. The first assumption is that it is open to the UK to not leave Euratom, because of 'not having the numbers' or otherwise.
(4/20): 4. The complacent arrogance that it is still for UK to decide these things, by itself. But, since A50 notification, this is not down to UK.
(5/20): 5. The A50 notification changed everything. The UK is no longer in control of the Brexit process, whether the "numbers" are there or not.
(6/20): 6. Furthermore: May explicitly included Euratom in the A50 letter - see third paragraph: https://t.co/GLzxxFyn8m
(7/20): 7. The language on Euratom is legalistic, not by a politician. The mention is not by accident. It was deliberate. Legal advice was obtained.
(8/20): 8. Some say that leaving the Euratom treaty was implicit in A50 - but if so, that does not matter, as the letter spelled it out anyway.
(9/20): 9. All this means that for UK to reverse on Euratom requires (imo) the Article 50 letter itself to be revoked or amended.
(10/20): 10. I cannot see how the issue can be fudged. A formal notice on quitting Euratom can only be rescinded with equal formality.
(11/20): 11. It is not open to May to say "whoops, I meant to insert a "not" in the sentence about leaving Euratom."
(12/20): 12. And so, if that is the case, the question becomes whether that can be done unilaterally by UK, or only by agreement with EU27.
(13/20): 13. And, in turn, that opens the questions as to whether the A50 letter in respect of leaving EU as a whole is revocable and, if so, how.
(14/20): 14. One can be certain that a minister saying there are not the "numbers" any more will not be enough to stop a formal notice in its tracks.
(15/20): 15. The cat, genie and horse are all out of their respective containers on that.
(16/20): 16. It will not be for ministers or parliament to simply reverse Euratom on a whim. No doubt that notice will have to be revoked or amended.
(17/20): 17. The second assumption is that the EU will go along with only those parts of Brexit for which there are "numbers" in UK parliament.
(18/20): 18. The EU do not care which parts of Brexit have numbers in Commons. It will make no difference. The EU has already set out its position.
(19/20): 19. Cross-bench alliances can vote for all sorts of concessions and compromises on Brexit, but no reason why EU will notice still less care.
(20/20): 20. Parliament, and UK ministers, are no longer in control of Brexit, whatever the "numbers".

/ends

When asked in the Commons whether Brussels should be told to "go whistle" if it wants more money from Britain, the Foreign Secretary said: "I think that the sums that I have seen ... seem to me to be extortionate and I think go whistle is an entirely appropriate expression."

Mr Johnson also said the Government has not made any plans for a "no deal" Brexit because the UK will get a "great deal" in the negotiations.

Lagamorph wrote:Boris Johnson: EU's exit bill demand 'extortionate'

When asked in the Commons whether Brussels should be told to "go whistle" if it wants more money from Britain, the Foreign Secretary said: "I think that the sums that I have seen ... seem to me to be extortionate and I think go whistle is an entirely appropriate expression."

Mr Johnson also said the Government has not made any plans for a "no deal" Brexit because the UK will get a "great deal" in the negotiations.

KK wrote:We're not going to pay it, and I think the EU know we're not going to pay it.

Though I do laugh 'we have no back-up plan because it's not going to happen'. Sounds familiar.

Squinty wrote:

KK wrote:We're not going to pay it, and I think the EU know we're not going to pay it.

Though I do laugh 'we have no back-up plan because it's not going to happen'. Sounds familiar.

It's like they have learned nothing. What a shambles this is.

Rex Kramer wrote:Now the woodpile woman has had the whip withdrawn, that majority is getting slimmer. Couple of unfortunate by-election results and it could be gone. £1.5 billion well spent.

Rex Kramer wrote:Now the woodpile woman has had the whip withdrawn, that majority is getting slimmer. Couple of unfortunate by-election results and it could be gone. £1.5 billion well spent.