I'm too old school to consider any of those new fangled additives to my Rinkha poke. A 99 is as adventurous as I get there. But I'm sure they need to change with the times and the new stuff would be very good.
Hard to describe really BR since I'd never been before but roughly speaking, 3 bridges worth. The whole thing including getting down to it is about a mile so not a huge length, still, it takes about two & a half to three hours as the guide talks a fair bit & I talk a lot as did a lady from Dublin. We even managed to squeeze in a mention of Nelson McCausland when the guide was trying to pass off obvious lies that the rocks were 50/60 million years old when you and I know they are only 6000.
On the ice cream, each to their own & usually I'd agree on the pleasures of a simple 99, but I do love fudge occasionally, indeed I hanker for the old days and the rum & raisin fudge that the Ormo Bakery used to make, on this occasion both fudge & ice cream were exceptional.
I started work in 1973 in Larne, moving slightly closer to civilisation in 1975 in Carrick before departing for Darry in 1978 and have rarely found any good reason to visit East Antrim in the interim, but I'd do a wee jaunt up there again just for the ice cream.
I'm sure there are exceptions but can't recall a town with more ugly weemin than Carrickfergus, I wasn't all that gay at the time so can't recall if the males were gremlins also, but that and passing my driving test are my abiding memories of Carrick along with the Central Bar and Dobbins Inn Hotel.
I was in the Central a couple of weeks ago for the 1st time in decades. It's a spoons now. But as a nice nod to past, in the gents they have perfectly recreated the smell of the nearby subway under the Marine Highway, before (and quite possibly after) it was barricaded up in the mid 70s.
I'm too old school to consider any of those new fangled additives to my Rinkha poke. A 99 is as adventurous as I get there. But I'm sure they need to change with the times and the new stuff would be very good.
Hard to describe really BR since I'd never been before but roughly speaking, 3 bridges worth. The whole thing including getting down to it is about a mile so not a huge length, still, it takes about two & a half to three hours as the guide talks a fair bit & I talk a lot as did a lady from Dublin. We even managed to squeeze in a mention of Nelson McCausland when the guide was trying to pass off obvious lies that the rocks were 50/60 million years old when you and I know they are only 6000.
On the ice cream, each to their own & usually I'd agree on the pleasures of a simple 99, but I do love fudge occasionally, indeed I hanker for the old days and the rum & raisin fudge that the Ormo Bakery used to make, on this occasion both fudge & ice cream were exceptional.
I started work in 1973 in Larne, moving slightly closer to civilisation in 1975 in Carrick before departing for Darry in 1978 and have rarely found any good reason to visit East Antrim in the interim, but I'd do a wee jaunt up there again just for the ice cream.
I'm sure there are exceptions but can't recall a town with more ugly weemin than Carrickfergus, I wasn't all that gay at the time so can't recall if the males were gremlins also, but that and passing my driving test are my abiding memories of Carrick along with the Central Bar and Dobbins Inn Hotel.
I was in the Central a couple of weeks ago for the 1st time in decades. It's a spoons now. But as a nice nod to past, in the gents they have perfectly recreated the smell of the nearby subway under the Marine Highway, before (and quite possibly after) it was barricaded up in the mid 70s.
Women don't seem to have improved much either.
Sounds spot on.
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Would that be The Rinkha's ice cream, or Maud's which is produced in the industrial estate up Sloefield way?
Ballystrudder's finest, has always made me happy and comes with many fond childhood memories. I keep a mini fridge in my car solely for the transportation of Rinkha's finest from East Antrim to East Belfast. Their £6.75 tub fits perfectly in said fridge and keeps me in credit with my the Angel I married.
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Tender wrote:Would that be The Rinkha's ice cream, or Maud's which is produced in the industrial estate up Sloefield way?
Ballystrudder's finest, has always made me happy and comes with many fond childhood memories. I keep a mini fridge in my car solely for the transportation of Rinkha's finest from East Antrim to East Belfast. Their £6.75 tub fits perfectly in said fridge and keeps me in credit with my the Angel I married.
Rinkha and Maud's are totally different beasts. (Technically Rinkha is 'verticle', iirc). Maud's (and I mean back in the Glenoe days) was all about innovation in flavours, additions, etc. That's what I mean when I say i'm old school when it comes to choosing my Rinkha ice-cream.
When I leave this pimple on the ar$ehole of Europe and settle elsewhere, the Rinkha's ice cream, Hannon's beef, good Guinness and Tayto cheese'n'onion will be top of the list of things I know I'll miss.
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When I was a lad I used to visit a great uncle in Donaghadee. There was a wee shap that sold fantastic homemade icecream. Any suggestions as to the name? Is it still there? This is about 45 years ago.
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big mervyn wrote:When I was a lad I used to visit a great uncle in Donaghadee. There was a wee shap that sold fantastic homemade icecream. Any suggestions as to the name? Is it still there? This is about 45 years ago.
The Cabin ? Was there a couple years ago
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big mervyn wrote:When I was a lad I used to visit a great uncle in Donaghadee. There was a wee shap that sold fantastic homemade icecream. Any suggestions as to the name? Is it still there? This is about 45 years ago.
The Cabin ? Was there a couple years ago
That looks like the place. The oul boy lived in one of the big terraced houses overlooking the commons. Used to walk along the shore into the town and get ice cream.
Volunteer at an animal sanctuary; it will fill you with joy , despair, but most of all love, unconditional love of the animals.
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He's gone and given some random wee fella a bollocking for no reason
Then another wee fella
Then his agent has told him to go and lie down so he's bollocked him
