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Studiously ignoring Sweetpeas indignation at "unPC" words which only she has pointed out and as she says she is taking a vacation(holiday to us poor folk in GB) she wont be here to answer back anyway.. :P

Has anyone a good gluten free pastry recipe please?

You can buy it ready to mix


http://www.wheatanddairyfree.com/fresh-gluten-free-pastry.htm

Are spuds gluten free then?

Ingredients: to make ½ lb pastry

3 oz / 75g rice flour
½ tsp / 1g salt
6 oz / 150g cooked mashed potato
2 oz / 50g cornflour
4 oz / 100g butter or margarine
Do not add extra water.

These have gluten in as far as I can make out...Wheat,barley,oats and Rye.

But mashed spud in pastry???.....Sp*t

Bet that ready mix costs a fortune just like shop gluten free bread..£3.00 a tiny loaf here!

Did I mean a holiday? Being an atheist, might I have? Is there a holiday coming up that I don't know about? Victoria Day, indeed, is approaching.


Semantics ... "PC" ... no, sorry, the situation has nothing to do with any of those.

It is as demeaning to refer in those ways to someone's objection to demeaning terms as it is to use the demeaning terms in the first place.

Holiday/vacation are variations used in different cultures/places to refer to the same thing (not in all cases; I don't know how some people differentiate between a public holiday and an individual's vacation, but that's how we do it).

Demeaning terms for people who have historically suffered stereotyping and discrimination just aren't the same thing. And calling objections to those terms "PC" just joins in.

The question is: why do any of it?

Beats me.

Here are some terms that may help:

Strike out "half caste" and replace with "by-racial".
(edit because I actually can spell "bi-racial")

Strike out "coloured" and replace with black or, where appropriate, as in the case in question, African-American.

Strike out "PC" and replace with "sensitive" or "inclusive" or "polite".

Here is a word for you to look up Janey

Bigot

And my god daughter says her children are mixed race...never heard the Bi Racial before.....But when the first one was born 16 years ago she did say halfe caste then.....Times change

Off to ask my very PC God daughter and MY ex Jamaican hubby and his son about these matters.....

Behave you two....if this thread is deleted I'll come gunning for yer!

We dont say bi racial Janey we say mixed race

My black friends like to be called 'Black'....me Im white and so is JB but hes not the same white....he's olive white and I am god damn Irish white

My mixed race mates like to be called black.....I dont mind so long as they are happy with it

Well my exs father told me I needed putting back in the oven as I was too white and I didnt take offence as it was said in a nice way....

As always its not WHAT you say,its the WAY you say it.....

Ha ha ha...Fanny, you just brought back memories.....

My best mate used to say exactly the same thing to me!

FBG,

Noticed your post re Gluten free products. The Coeliac Society publishes a handy booklet regarding recipes.

www.coeliac.org.uk

Thank you Mr Jones ,I will investigate that later...

Oh and to add that exs mother just cried when she met me...Cos I was a bleep bleep Honky woman and trust HIM to bring one home.. :D

I doubt it was thecolour of your skin Fans that worried her :D


>>>>>>>>>Cyns

Ginny.................^..........yours

~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~V

But I doubt it too really....... ;-)

I imagine most people cry when they meet Fans to be honest!

Course they do Cyns...With happiness at having met such a wonderful person at last.....!

Reminds me of a sign I've got in my office:

"Everyone fetches joy to this office, some when they enter - and some when they leave"

MC.......very good!

I am sick sick of......

Compair the bloomin market and Go Compair adverts......I will never go...

I could shove the connection right up their A'''