I am shocked that you of all people would be so judgy about food.
Tongue is quite firmly in cheek. Alex and I go back quite a ways.
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I haven’t figured out how to insert my sarcasm font just yet. You will just have to assume it’s usually there.
These are not the best, but also not as bad as they sound if you like seafood or smoked fish.
This is simply the best damn pie ever and I will die on that hill. Even better is steak and kidney pudding which is like a pie but with a suet dumpling top instead of pastry. OMG it is so good.
Another amazing desert. A lot of people make this with more like a sponge cake mix these days rather than the traditional suet way. But it is better than you think.
I feel like a lot of older traditional UK foods are a mix of very cheap ingredients that they can make go a long way. This comes from poor food availability during and years of rationing following both world wars.
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Thanks, yea definitely had a 5th, but my form was starting to feel a little off and didn’t feel the need to grind out bad reps, but it’s encouraging to know there’s more there, hopefully it’ll translate to top end strength. Honestly things felt pretty heavy on the warm up so wasn’t sure what to expect, wasn’t a peak performance kind of day, so pleased with the result.
Thanks Konsu, appreciate it, nice to see your returning to form as well!
Haha what a honour…
Awesome, any ideas on where you’re thinking to visit? If you end up anywhere nearby you are more than welcome to come lift and eat some jellied eels!
Haha yup, haggis is on there, that’s probably a worse sounding food than jellied eels but is actually decent. I haven’t tried jellied eels but honestly I’m not a fan of sea food (ironic given my proximity to the sea and fishing ports). The rest of that list I’d happily eat (except black pudding).
Nothing that would evoke significant disgust in most people, yea chicken waffle is a bit weird, but sounds good to me. Biscuits and gravy does sound exceptionally odd to Brits, but like you note that’s a translation issue.
There’s nothing obviously intestinal or organ containing on your list.
Yup, real and about as tasty as you’d expect a cake (biscuit/cookie in reality) made of oats and no sugar to be.
Indeed, well picked up, absolutely love them, pretty much my exclusive listening over the past few months.
Thanks!
Always taken as such, I’d guess you’d actually be up for trying most of the more adventurous items on that list anyway!
Don’t forget that we also can’t eat real food on account of our terrible dentistry 
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This entire conversation made me laugh. @BethB, I had the same thought, and read you as giving a playful ribbing to someone we all love and respect, and whose food choices are undeniably working for him. I also further thought that of all the posters to clutch their pearls over steak and kidney pie, @T3hPwnisher was the one to squirm?? I’d have honestly thought that would be right up his ally! "Yes, let’s make a pie with steak in it - just steak! - and then, let’s see, maybe add some more protein, like maybe a good hunk of organ meat, would that be fantastic or what! (And we’ll top it with eggs! lol)
I’d expect someone more like me to balk at the list. I will say of British food that I ate well in London, in large part because my son and I (maybe 16 at the time, it was just the two of us) discovered Indian food there, which we then ate every single day until we left - twice one of the days. But we didn’t suffer during the non-Indian meals, either. Ireland was a step down from England for us, but that was probably reflective of our move from a major city to my cousin’s more rural setting.
In looking at the US list with a critical eye, I can say that my beloved clam chowder would probably make me a little green if I hadn’t grown up with it. One also mustn’t think too deeply about what a hot dog is before digging in. When I worked with kids I liked to ask what the weirdest, objectively grossest thing their families ate was. I shared about pickled herring and the cheese grits that showed up at the holidays in Texas.
This made me actually laugh aloud.
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Lol. Yes. This was my point as well.
@EmilyQ and @BethB for me, it’s the pie portion I find objectionable (why ruin good meat with that), but you also must keep in mind I’m viewing this from the lens of traveling with my family, hence the horror of how an American would view British cuisine.
@simo74 The roly-poly with spongecake definitely sounds a bit more palatable. But I drew a similar conclusion regarding the food: it resembles a lot of what we call in the US “Soul Food”, which was the food plantation slaves would create from the scraps given to them by the owners. Definitely an instance of taking what was available and turning it into something divine. And actually, in that regard, the American Midwest also has a similar “casserole culture”, which boiled down to cheap ingredients stretched out with canned soups made to feed an army. And I think THERE is where, if an outsider were to google “chitlins” or “American goulash”, they’d give it a hearty “wft?”
@alex_uk We’ll be in London, Liverpool, and we’ll port in Scotland and Ireland as well, but sadly, these are going to be flying stops as part of a Disney Cruise. But, the Valkyrie and I have already made peace that this opens up the floodgates to come back. We’re going to get a taste of the country (pun completely unintended) and then know what to come back for. Also, good to know to stay away from the black pudding, haha.
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They do them from Melbourne too - Just saying
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03/12/25 - 202.5
LWIWWIW
Axle press:
30, 40, 50kg x 5,
60, 70kg x 3,
75kg x 2,
55kg x 13, 9
DB curls: 5kg x 50
Dips: bw x 10 x 5 sets
S/s
Seated cable rows: 100kg x 10 x 5 sets
Done.
Crap night sleep. Woke up with some minor conjunctivitis, a tooth/gum infection and then sneezed and had some back spasm. My body seems to be hinting that I’m heading towards 40. The tooth/gum is deeply unpleasant, taken pain killers, which is rare for me, tempted by codeine, but didn’t because there’s no way I’m moving out of the chair once I’ve taken that stuff, but now I’ve got this is I’ll probably take some.
Pleased with the axle pressing today, I thought 3 might have been there by the first rep of 75kg, the second rep told me otherwise, maybe on a day where I don’t feel like 10lb of turds in a 5lb sack. Lights nearly went out on 55kg x 13.
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Oh no! I have to admit to a tiny shocked laugh at the sneeze and back spasm on top of the eye infection and tooth infection, but really, poor baby!
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Aaahhhh … Welcome. Is your eyesight going to shit yet? That’s a fun one. Sorry that you feel like poo.
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Yup that ship sailed, needed glasses for driving about 5 years ago!
Honestly it’s only the tooth that’s bothering me, it gnaws constantly and cannot be ignored and makes eating nigh on impossible.
But yes poor baby!
Well that’s good news, open ended offer from me!
I’m not a fan of city’s but if you are then I think you’ll find Liverpool and London good, where are you docking in Scotland and Ireland?
Ironic timing from me on that comment!
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I reckon you just about have 60 for 10 in that OHP, no? That’s one of the milestone lifts.
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Without scrolling back through my log, I’m 99% sure I’ve already done that on normal BB. I will one day reach 100kg over head… At which point I will be completely unimpressed and immediately want more.
Nice thing is the axle press on my strongman comp is 80kg (well two choices 60 or 80, but it’s for max reps with weight trumping reps) so strict pressing pretty much that now is a solid start. Will have to start practicing floor to overhead thought as that’s the event, need to work on push press as well.
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Yeah, I got to thinking afterwards that I was fairly sure you already had.
05/12/25 - 204
LWIWWIW
Bench:
60, 80kg x 5
90, 100kg x 3
110, 120, 130, 140kg x 1
Life time PR and mega grind - Maybe even am RPS 9!
Managed to keep the form from last week’s epiphany technique up to 130kg, the 140kg just went survival mode and reverted to form, mega back cramp at the end of the rep, that is one of the pre-40 goals ticked off.
100kg x 15 just for @Cyrrex
CGBP: 80kg x 10, 9, 7
S/s
Lat Pulldown: 80kg x 15, 15, 13
Done in 45 mins - motivated by my mocking of the fat knackers (and the imminent school run).
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Way to go!!!
I was watching your video and my coworker started singing along with your music. She is a huge Sleep Token fan.
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Apparently I’m an emo Christian and a big fan of sleep token (given that I only discovered them half way through the year they still topped my listening!). Also fun thought that random strangers in America get to subjugated into listening to me grunt my way through PRs (obviously you do it because you want to, but your poor co-workers).
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I hate to break it to you, but she informed me yesterday that she is in the 1% for Sleep Token. You are somewhat slacking. Lol. And she was more than excited to listen. Apparently Carmel is one of their best songs ever.
She is trying desperately to get me to be a mega fan. She even went so far as to buy my son a CD hoping that he would listen to it enough that I would get super into it too.
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Very nice job on both this and the 140, but tagging me like that isn’t going to lead either of us to a good place
And that’s before we get to you calling me a fat knacker, although it’s possible it is meant as a compliment in your strange tongue.
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