Knob Throwing

[Gob]

The 10th Dorset Knob Throwing
Festival
Sunday 30th April 2017
@
Kingston Maurward College
DT2 8PY

Moores, creators of the famous Dorset Knob, along with Dorset Tea and Dorset Food & Drink partnership all assist us in supporting the unique Dorset event.


The Festival runs from 10am until 4.00pm. Admission Prices £5 per adult under 12’s free.

Beside Knob Throwing there will be additional fun knob attractions including Knob Eating, Knob Painting, a Knob & Spoon Race, Guess the weight of the Big Knob, Knob Darts and a Knob Pyramid. and other more traditional entertainment will be laid on to make this a really enjoyable day out with a difference.


The Frome Valley Food Fest will run along side the Knob Throwing. There will be a the opportunity to sample, taste and purchase a fine range of foods including breads, cheeses, ciders, meats game & poultry, pies, preserves, and puddings in addition to chocolate, coffee and wine supplied by well respected local businesses.

The aim of the festival is to raise much needed funds for Cattistock Cricket Club, Maiden Newton & Cattistock Football Club, Savill Hall and the Community PLayspace and other local organisations and services.

We look forward to welcoming you in 2017


http://www.dorsetknobthrowing.com/

[oldr_n_wsr]

how does one eat a doorknob?

[Burning Petard]

From Wikipedia: "A Dorset knob is a hard dry savoury biscuit which is now produced by only a single producer, for a limited time of the year
Dorset knobs are made from bread dough which contains extra sugar and butter. They are rolled and shaped by hand. They are baked three times. Once cooked, they are very crumbly and rather like very dry stale bread or rusks in consistency. "

Perhaps throwing is their best use.

snailgate

[Econoline]

Thanks for that, SG.


I was afraid to ask....

[Gob]

As they are so hard, they are also eaten by first soaking them in sweet tea.

With marmite on. Nommy!!

[rubato]

So how does this work? Distance? Accuracy? Number of knobs disposed of per minute? Height? Velocity? Do local nibs or actual nobs ever take part so it could be a nob-knobbing. Or you could say his nibs is knob-lobbing. If someone tried to interfere they would be hobbling his nibs's knob lobbing. A bad shot would be a bobbled knob lobbing. Competitors who get hungry before their starting time might be disqualified for knob-gobbling. Trophies would be knob-baubles. Bad officiating would result in knob-lob-squabbles.

Now all you have to do is work cheese and dogs into it and you'll really have something.

yrs,
rubato

[MajGenl.Meade]

Gob, is it good or bad form to dunk one's knob in coffee or tea?

Thank you

[oldr_n_wsr]

No that's a loaded question.

[Gob]

Gob, is it good or bad form to dunk one's knob in coffee or tea?

Thank you

Good form to dunk in tea, it's always bad form to drink coffee.

[Bicycle Bill]

Good form to dunk in tea, it's always bad form to drink coffee.

Here's what one of your fellow countrymen had to say about tea:

“No,” Arthur said, “look, it’s very, very simple….  All I want.…  is a cup of tea.  You are going to make one for me.  Now keep quiet and listen.”

And he sat.  He told the Nutri-Matic about India, he told it about China, he told it about Ceylon.  He told it about broad leaves drying in the sun.  He told it about silver teapots.  He told it about summer afternoons on the lawn.  He told it about putting the milk in before the tea so it wouldn’t get scalded.  He even told it (briefly) about the East India Trading Company.

“So that’s it, is it?” said the Nutri-Matic when he had finished.

“Yes,” said Arthur.  “That is what I want.”

“You want the taste of dried leaves boiled in water?”

“Er, yes.  With milk.”

“Squirted out of a cow?”

“Well in a manner of speaking, I suppose.…”

“I’m going to need some help with this one.”

-"BB"-

[Lord Jim]

it's always bad form to drink coffee.

You really need to "get with it" before you move back:

We drink twice as much coffee as tea: the nation's favourite drink is under threat as tea consumption falls 19 per cent since 2010

Tea is under serious threat as the nation’s favourite hot drink.

Outside the home, Britons are now drinking almost two and a half cups of coffee for every one of tea – 2.1billion versus 874million annually.

The expansion of chains such as Starbucks and Costa is testament to the rise of caffeine. Tea consumption, meanwhile, has fallen 19 per cent since 2010.

Speciality coffees – such as Americanos and cappuccinos – dominate the market, with brewed or filtered versions comprising only 23 per cent of sales.

Cappuccinos, which cost as much as £3, are the clear number one. Some 486million were sold last year, a rise of 12 per cent on 2012.

The Americano saw the fastest growth, of 33 per cent, taking the total cups sold to 431million, perhaps because it tends to be cheaper.

The figures, published by researchers NPD, show sales of espresso are up 31 per cent to 99million a year.

By contrast, sales of traditional brewed coffee fell 20 per cent. Britain’s coffee consumption ranks third among the ‘Big Five’ European markets. Italy tops the table with 4.78billion cups a year ahead of France at 2.27billion. Germany gets through 1.93billion cups while Spain drinks 1.77billion.

Britain stands out because it is the only market where coffee consumption away from the home has grown in the past five years. Muriel Illig, of NPD, said tea’s status as the national drink was at risk. ‘As coffee climbs then tea is teetering – it really needs to fight back,’ she said.

‘The share of tea in a country famed for its love of this beverage has slipped significantly and the thirst for speciality coffees completely swamps demand for speciality teas.

There’s no quenching our thirst for the three most popular speciality coffees – cappuccino, latte and Americano – and those three account for around two thirds of all the coffee we buy away from home.’

Tea has been a feature of national life since the 1700s and subsequently through the 1800s when it arrived under sail from China on tea clippers like the Cutty Sark.

Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article ... z4curhh2ud

So when you move back to the UK, be sure to stop off for a refreshing Americano while you're out shopping for bargains on Black Friday...

[rubato]

Coffee is the drink of health!


http://www.alzheimers.net/2014-04-09/be ... of-coffee/

1. Coffee Can Delay the Onset of Alzheimer’s

Studies show that caffeine and coffee can delay the onset of Alzheimer’s, even in seniors who already have some form of mild dementia. Research shows that caffeine blocks inflammation in the brain, specifically adenosine receptors, which can start a chain reaction that begins the mind’s cognitive decline.

Coffee can have such a positive effect on inflammation in the brain, that adults over the age of 65 who had higher levels of caffeine in their blood, were found to avoid or delay the onset of Alzheimer’s.

Neuroscientist Chuanhai Cao, said of the study: “These intriguing results suggest that older adults with mild memory impairment who drink moderate levels of coffee – about three cups a day – will not convert to Alzheimer’s disease or at least will experience a substantial delay before converting to Alzheimer’s.”

yrs,
rubato

[Big RR]

For the life of me I cannot understand the popularity of café Americano, which is really just watered down espresso. To me, the attraction of espresso is that it is a bold and strong cup of coffee, rather than water it down, why not just drink regular brewed coffee?

[Econoline]

I was under the impression that in a lot of places "café Americano" really IS just regular brewed coffee, just given a different (slightly fancier?) name to distinguish it from espresso.

[Joe Guy]

For the life of me I cannot understand the popularity of café Americano, which is really just watered down espresso. To me, the attraction of espresso is that it is a bold and strong cup of coffee, rather than water it down, why not just drink regular brewed coffee?

I couldn't agree more, Big RR. The name "Cafe Americano" implies that Americans can't handle espresso. It reminds me of when I was young and my grandmother would offer me watered down wine.

"Here little Giuseppe, have-a some-a Vino Americano", she would say....

[Gob]

So when you move back to the UK, be sure to stop off for a refreshing Americano while you're out shopping for bargains on Black Friday...

I shall not be joining the plebs in those matters.

Some advice for you Jim;

http://www.traveller.com.au/how-to-surv ... ffee-2y9yx

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/won ... a0db268c9b

http://www.theage.com.au/news/in-depth/ ... 61269.html

[Lord Jim]

For the life of me I cannot understand the popularity of café Americano, which is really just watered down espresso.

Oh, you must be talking about that loser, low energy, pre-Donald Trump Americano...

The new Americano is going to be much stronger than that weak-ass Eye-tie espresso stuff...

President Trump is going to Make Americano Great Again...

He guarantees it, it's gonna be fantastic...

[rubato]

A demitasse of espresso is just the thing to finish off a nice lunch in France. Where lunch is so important that it is considered a national treasure.


yrs,
rubato

[Gob]

http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_ ... offee.html

https://www.broadsheet.com.au/melbourne ... bad-coffee

mind you...


https://www.nytimes.com/2014/03/30/maga ... .html?_r=0

Luckily rubato has never left his home state, so his fantasies can continue unchallenged.

[dales]

A demitasse of espresso jug of cheap wine is just the thing to finish off a nice lunch in France. Where lunch is so important that it is considered a national treasure.


yrs,
rubato

When I was in France around 1965-66, wine was actually cheaper than Coca-Cola.