Category: UK

Only Nutters forget their first Dime bar

The Daim bar (originally known as Dajm in the original Swedish, and Dime in the UK and Ireland) is a crunchy butter almond bar covered in milk chocolate that originated in Sweden in 1953, produced by the Swedish company Marabou.

Harry Enfield is the son of Edward Enfield who was a Local Government Officer and he was educated at the independent Worth School in West Sussex, Collyer’s Sixth Form College and the University of York. He worked for a while as a milkman before coming to public attention after appearing on Channel 4’s Saturday Live in a number of different personae created with Paul Whitehouse.

Roquefort Hacks Cheddar

International Business Machines Corporation is a multinational computer technology and consulting corporation headquartered in Armonk, New York, USA.

In a security context, a hacker is someone involved in computer security/insecurity, specializing in the discovery of exploits in systems, or in obtaining or preventing unauthorized access to systems through skills, tactics and detailed knowledge.

Cheddar cheese is a fairly hard, pale yellow to orange, sharp-tasting cheese originally (and still) made in the English village of Cheddar, in Somerset. Cheddar cheese is the most popular cheese in the United Kingdom, accounting for just over 50% of the country’s £1.9 billion annual cheese market.

Roquefort is a ewe’s-milk blue cheese from the south of France, and together with Bleu d’Auvergne, Stilton and Gorgonzola is one of the world’s greatest blue cheeses. Though similar cheeses are produced elsewhere, European law dictates that only those cheeses aged in the natural Combalou caves of Roquefort-sur-Soulzon may bear the name Roquefort, as it is a recognised geographical indication, or has a protected designation of origin.

If you wanted to sleep with Virgin Atlantic you would have married Virgin Atlantic

Virgin Atlantic Airways Ltd. (operating as Virgin Atlantic) is a British airline which is owned by Richard Branson’s Virgin Group (51%) and Singapore Airlines (49%). It operates long-haul routes between the United Kingdom and North America, the Caribbean, Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Australia from its main bases at London Heathrow and London Gatwick.

Same-sex marriage is a term for a governmentally, socially, or religiously recognized marriage in which two people of the same sex live together as a family. Other terms for this type of relationship include “gay marriage”, “gender-neutral marriage,” “equal marriage,” “lesbian marriage,” “same-sex civil marriage”, “marriage equality”, “homosexual marriage,” “single-sex marriage”, “same-gender marriage” or just simply “marriage”.

“How Deep Is Your Love” is a song recorded by the Bee Gees in 1977. Originally intended for Yvonne Elliman, it was ultimately used as part of the soundtrack to the film Saturday Night Fever. It was a number three hit in the UK. In the U.S., it topped the Billboard Hot 100 on December 24, 1977 and stayed in the Top-10 for a then-record 17 weeks.

Imaginations Run Riot With Mattesson’s Smoked Pork Sausage

The most basic sausage consists of meat cut into pieces or ground and filled into a casing such as an animal intestine. The meat may be from any animal, but traditionally is pork, beef or veal.

Phallic symbolism can be perceived in a wide range of fiction and other popular culture works.

Kerry Group, is a major quoted food company headquartered in the Republic of Ireland. It is quoted on the Dublin ISEQ and London stock exchanges. It evolved initially from a local dairy co-op in the Munster region of Ireland. However, after floating on the stock exchange in 1986, the group has grown substantially into the world’s leading food ingredients supplier and is also a leading consumer foods supplier in the UK and Irish markets. Key brands [include Mattessons].

Mr. Shifter Shifts PG Tips

PG Tips is a brand of tea in the United Kingdom; its manufacturers Unilever UK claims that Britons drink 35 million cups of PG Tips a day. Since 1956, in the longest running advertising campaign for any brand, PG Tips often advertised using chimpanzees dressed as humans and drinking tea: the “Tipps family”.

One of these adverts, called “Mr. Shifter” holds the world record, for the advert shown most times on British Television. A whole range of figurine chimps were made as collector’s editions for PG Tips, and some are very rare. All the chimps in the adverts were featured (including Kevin Tipps and Mr. Shifter).

Michael Robbins (November 14, 1930 – December 11, 1992) was a British actor known for his television work. Formerly a bank clerk, he became an actor after appearing in amateur dramatic performances in Hitchin in Hertfordshire, where he lived at the time. Primarily a comedy actor, he is best known for the role of Arthur Rudge (the persistently sarcastic husband of Olive, who was played by Anna Karen) in the popular sitcom On the Buses.

Christine still likes Heinz Baked Beanz

H. J. Heinz Company, commonly known as Heinz, famous for its “57 Varieties” slogan, is an American processed-food product company with its headquarters in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania.

In the United Kingdom, Heinz is the top selling brand of baked beans. There are substantial differences between the Heinz baked beans sold in the UK and the nearest equivalent U.S. product (Heinz Premium Vegetarian Beans).

Sex reassignment surgery, gender reassignment surgery, or sex-change operation is a term for the surgical procedures by which a person’s physical appearance and function of their existing sexual characteristics are altered to resemble that of the other sex. It is part of a treatment for gender identity disorder in transsexual and transgender people.