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Odakyu-sen

Scott,

Wasabi flavoured icecream?

Yes, I’ve tried it in the mountains in Nagano Prefecture at some of the places where they grow wasabi. There’s often a little wasabi icecream machine booth in the souvenir shop at these wasabi farms. It’s actually quite good.

I wonder if anyone will make miso chocolate. That could work….
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May 8, 2015 5:33pm
Odakyu-sen

Auckland Ratepayers Alliance…

…go you good thing!
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May 8, 2015 5:34pm
Maggy Wassilieff

@ Odakyu-sen 5:33pm

I wonder if anyone will make miso chocolate.

did you miss my 8:55am posting, especially for you?
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May 8, 2015 5:37pm
wellygirl

Just on the weird flavoured food (in light of posts on wasabi ice cream and vegemite chocolate), here in china they have cucumber flavoured potato chips – and yes they really do taste like cucumber! There are some other weird flavoured potato chips too, but that is the only one I have actually tried.
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May 8, 2015 5:54pm
Odakyu-sen

Maggy,

Sorry, I missed that. Great link.

Sometimes I feel that Vegemite is like weapons-grade miso.
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May 8, 2015 6:01pm
Odakyu-sen

This is for you guys: http://www.boredpanda.com/unusual-potato-chips-flavors/

#11 Mint flavored chips (Indian style). I gotta try these.
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May 8, 2015 6:03pm
Shawn Herles

Good news in the UK. The Conservative Party is on track to achieve what nobody thought possible, win an outright majority. Labour has lost Scotland to the SNP, and failed to win enough in England. There is already talk of Miliband resigning.

UKIP have not had the result they wanted, or that their supporters claimed they would. At best they may take two seats, but Farrage has lost his. After all the rhetoric from their followers, they turned out to be, well, a little on the limp side. 😉

Best news of the day though is that odious Islamic terrorist supporter, Jew hater and anti-American nutjob George Galloway has lost his seat and is under police investigation for tweeting the exit poll results before the booths had closed.

All in all, bloody good news! 🙂
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May 8, 2015 6:11pm
Shawn Herles

“Wasabi flavoured icecream?”

Hmmmmm. Maybe my taste buds are just weird, but that actually sounds good!
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May 8, 2015 6:12pm
nasska

Sucks to be Labour. 🙂
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May 8, 2015 6:13pm
Griff

UKIP
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4uivPpzCGo
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May 8, 2015 6:16pm
wellygirl

Odakyu-sen @ 6:03 pm – there was a scarily high number of those that I have seen in my local supermarket….
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May 8, 2015 6:17pm
Odakyu-sen

Shawn,

The best wasabi icecream is to be had at source in Nagano.

Accept no substitutes. Check out 5:52 in the link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XTncCmFabM
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May 8, 2015 6:22pm
Shawn Herles

Thanks Odakyu-sen. I can’t see myself getting to Japan in the next two years, but it’s on my bucket list. I’ve always been fascinated by the country.
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May 8, 2015 6:24pm
Maggy Wassilieff

And who can forget (Vicar of Dibley) Letitia Cropley’s marmite Cake?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E15aDjWyN5I
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May 8, 2015 6:31pm
Shawn Herles

The official results so far:

Tories – 262 seats – 40% of the vote.

Labour – 214 seats – 33% of the vote.

SNP – 56 seats – 9% of the vote.

Lib Dems – 8 seats – 1% of the vote.

UKIP – who?
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May 8, 2015 6:36pm
Odakyu-sen

Shawn,

Most people put Japan in the “too hard” basket, but really, it’s not. With the $NZ so strong against the yen, it’s the best and most under-rated place to go. Just 10 and a half hours from Auckland to Tokyo.

It is a foodies’ heaven. Far safer than NZ. Cheaper than Auckland.

There’s so much information on the Internet, like blogs and YouTube videos.

You’ll get so much more if you educate yourself before you go to Japan. A little learning really does go a long way.
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May 8, 2015 6:38pm
Griff

The oddest yummy I have ever tried.
crystallized tamarind
indescribable taste sensation.
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May 8, 2015 6:42pm
Pete George

If you want to see how badly some on the Labour left take being proven wrong and losing take a look at this post and Te Reo Putake’s meltdown and banning spree:

http://thestandard.org.nz/milifandom-labour-are-going-to-win-the-uk-election-fact/

Collated version: Losing badly on New Zealand’s Labour left
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May 8, 2015 7:00pm
nasska

https://www.dropbox.com/s/rpjhav6i7v6wlmy/Gun%20Control.jpg?dl=0
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May 8, 2015 7:01pm
RF

Have been slumming over on the sub standard. It’s blood and guts over there for anyone that even suggests the Conservatives have won the UK election. Many have been banned. What a bunch of self opinionated tossers who need to get a life.

Somehow John Key will be blamed for this. I feel great and will have another drink. Up yours Iprent.
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May 8, 2015 7:04pm
nasska

From PG’s second link:

…”I’m off for good. That’ll no doubt make some of you happy. To the reasonable people here, sorry but I’ve got better uses for my time than walking on eggshells every time TRP or SR posts something. I’ve also heard enough from Lprent on his greatness for 3 lifetimes.”….

That would tend to ruffle the world’s greatest sysop a little. 🙂
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May 8, 2015 7:08pm
Reid

Exit polls were:

Conservatives 316, just short of a majority (326).
Labour 239.
Lib Dems 10.
Scottish Nationalist 58.
Plaid Cymru 4
UKIP 2
Greens 2

Lots of interesting things about that mix if it happens.
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May 8, 2015 7:09pm
OneTrack

“UKIP – who?”

So the EU and the immigration will continue. What could go wrong? Well, they have made their choice, good luck to them.
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May 8, 2015 7:15pm
Sir Leslie Bottocks

NZ Music Month.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_UzuXY4ZeY
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May 8, 2015 7:19pm
Shawn Herles

That was an interesting summation of the comedy over at the Stranded Pete. Why people bother with a blog run by bullies with egos the size of Manhattan is beyond me.

You did get one thing wrong though: “Sad to see this degree of self destruction at The Standard.”

No, it’s really, really not! More popcorn please! 🙂
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May 8, 2015 7:22pm
nasska

The bannings at The Standard will continue until morale improves Shawn. 🙂
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May 8, 2015 7:28pm
Reid

Why people bother with a blog run by bullies with egos the size of Manhattan is beyond me.

You don’t do irony very well, do you Shawn.
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May 8, 2015 7:38pm
Shawn Herles

Not a single word about the UK election over at another badly stranded blog. I think it”s called TruePink, or something like that.

Gee, I wonder why? 🙂

Instead there is a post supporting armed paramilitary vigilante groups. Ugh.
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May 8, 2015 7:40pm
big bruv

Ed Balls has gone as well. This is a hammering for the pinko’s.
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May 8, 2015 7:45pm
Shawn Herles

Latest:

• David Cameron is back in No 10, expects 329 seats
• Ed Balls loses his seat in final blow for Labour
• Labour on course for worst result since 1987, Kinnock defeat
• Forecast: Tory +22, Labour – 25, SNP +50, LD -49
• Pound in biggest jump in six years on euro

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/general-election-2015/11591281/conservative-government-live.html
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May 8, 2015 7:52pm
Shawn Herles

Election 2015: Labour heads for humiliating defeat after SNP surge devastates Ed Miliband’s party in Scotland

“Despite opinion polls putting Ed Miliband neck and neck with David Cameron right up until yesterday, a virtual wipeout in Scotland – on an unprecedented scale – suggested Labour would fall far short of the Conservatives when all votes were finally in.

All indications are that David Cameron is on track to gain seats and retain office at Number 10 – although is likely to need support from at least one other party.

Labour were on course to lose all but one, or possibly all, of their 41 Scottish seats.

Meanwhile the Liberal Democrats were watching seats tumble across the board while Ukip failed to make the inroads they had hoped for.”

http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/news/election-2015-labour-heads-humiliating-9210792
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May 8, 2015 8:01pm
Reid

http://blogs.ft.com/westminster/liveblogs/2015-05-06/
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May 8, 2015 8:29pm
PhilP

UK Labour Party getting a good old fashioned hiding (they are in tatters) in their election today. Like Jim Bolger said, “bugger the pollsters”. It seems the polls leading up to today were not the true feelings of the electorate going by the exit polls and the actual count. I think many of those polled told the pollsters “porkies” and didn’t want them to know they were going to vote Conservative.
Most Western democracies are governed by centre-right governments with the exceptions of USA, France & Greece (basket case anyway so it’s no wonder they changed).
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May 8, 2015 8:36pm
Andrei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gqYTaKfMlbU
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May 8, 2015 8:42pm
Colville

The Greens. A million votes. One MP. It’s fundamentally wrong.

UKIP. Four million votes. Two MP’s. Still wrong, but feels right somehow. Saloon bar racism should not be rewarded. Nigel Farage is probably wondering what he has to do to get elected or if he should even bother trying.

TRP over at the Strandard. Hypocritical cu*t? wot? Him?
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May 8, 2015 8:45pm
Reid

Liarbore’s route is almost 100% due to the SNP (Scottish Nationalist Party). Take one, win one.

That’s what the graph is showing.

And then you have the Conservatives taking the bulk of the lost Lib Dem seats but they also leak some to both Liarbore and the SNP.

So it’s the Scots announcing they’re the new swinging dicks in town and the UKIP is no more.

Cameron has said he wanted to settle the UK-in-EU question once and for all and I think this is what the political class will now do, take this as that answer and formalise it via referenda. That’s their plan. It’s not correct or right to do it like that, but that’s what they’ll do, and as in NZ, the sheeple will bleat and baa and the question will pass into history.

And the SNP is signalling it’s back on the table, because that referenda was rigged to hell, and they needed a steam valve. So let’s just get them into the Westminster Cauldron and boil it all down and let the sheeple hallucinate they have a say, even when they don’t.

It seems the polls leading up to today were not the true feelings of the electorate going by the exit polls and the actual count.

Or alternatively yes they were but that didn’t suit the agenda so the results were changed to what they should have been had the people possessed any sense at all.
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May 8, 2015 8:46pm
SPC

Another poll.

http://www.nzherald.co.nz/lifestyle/news/article.cfm?c_id=6&objectid=11445427
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May 8, 2015 8:46pm
Colville

A question.

If Scotland left the UK, would Labour ever get back in?
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May 8, 2015 8:47pm
wiseowl

Bizzare politics.
So the Tories look like they will win.Fine. I would not want to see Millibandit as leader.

Once again we have a situation where people have voted for safety. They don’t want the other lot. Labour here and there have had their day.They don’t represent anyone anymore.

Only trouble is the people are going to get more of the same.No one is going to tackle the problems that need to be tackled and listening to Cameron just now is a major concern as he is carried away with the moment and appears more interested in ruling rather than leading.
Maybe I am wrong.
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May 8, 2015 9:00pm
Reid

Lib Dems lost 23 so far to Conservative. Question is: why. Cameron’s hopeless. He is. He doesn’t match LD profiles at all. I’m not a fan of Clegg but what the hell did the Conservatives do to leech 23 seats off them?
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May 8, 2015 9:02pm
Reid

Cameron just now is a major concern as he is carried away with the moment and appears more interested in ruling rather than leading

Doris has always been like that wiseowl.

I don’t hope for anything good to come from this.
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May 8, 2015 9:25pm
Shawn Herles

I do. Stable, moderate, center-right government and an assertive pro-Western foreign policy.

Looks like UKIP will only have one seat.

No wonder the far Right has been very quiet tonight on KB.
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May 8, 2015 10:00pm
Reid

I do. Stable, moderate, center-right government and an assertive pro-Western foreign policy.

But it’s not that.

Razor-thin majority including Lib Dems or alternatively a large majority with SNP but which comes with the baggage of a single agenda. That’s the choice.

It’s a tail wag dog coalition no matter which way its sliced and diced.

So why do you think that’s a good idea Shawn?

It’s almost as if you’re completely fixated on a single enemy target and nothing else matters. How extraordinary.
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May 8, 2015 10:15pm
lofty

My favourite at the recent Texas draw Mohammad cartoon competition, were the two chalk outlines on the pavement outside.
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May 8, 2015 10:15pm
SPC

Reid, the Tories already have 323 seats with 12 still to final and are forecast to win an absolute majority. They do not need outside support for confidence and supply.

Their options on legislation before the House, in the event of a backbench revolt, include LD and DUF.
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May 8, 2015 10:19pm
kowtow

If turning Syria and Libya into failed states is Shorn Hurls definition of assertive foreign policy then Shorn’s madder than I thought he was and Cameron is sill a war criminal for his role in the mayhem he helped create there…….

……maybe that’s why these nutters keep pointing at Putin ,it’s a distraction from the criminal conduct of western leaders in the destabalisation of those areas.
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May 8, 2015 10:24pm
SPC

kowtow, put it this way, who is responsible for the inhumanity of Moslems to fellow Moslems?
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May 8, 2015 10:31pm
Andrei

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dFJ0fdvKlQQ
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May 8, 2015 10:34pm
SPC

And Putin supplied arms to a government that first shoots unarmed protestors in the streets of the capital and then bombs its civilians.
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May 8, 2015 10:41pm
SPC

Oh wonderful some here have common cause with those who think that Moslems are not responsible for what they do when they fight each other, but foreigners must be to blame.

Moslem apologists, or does another agenda blind them to reason?
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May 8, 2015 10:46pm
SPC

I guess no one will actually argue the point because taking the line, that Moslems have no responsibility for being willing to kill each other, is not just an un-defendable position it is also inconsistent with arguments you use at other times.
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May 8, 2015 10:52pm
Reid

an un-defendable position

You mean indefensible?

Sorry.

How did Moslems come into the UK election results?
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May 8, 2015 11:04pm
publicwatchdog

So – when there is a growing call for a ‘Rates Revolt’ by increasingly angry Auckland citizens and ratepayers – where will YOU stand Kiwibloggers – who have been so scathing of my stand (personal rates revolt) against Mayor Len Brown’s corporate controlled Auckland Council?

I’m sure Mayor Len Brown will be REALLY scared of a petition that tells him to keep to his promises on rates increases, and immediately change his profligate ways ….

NOT.

Penny Bright

http://www.pennybright4mayor.org.nz
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May 8, 2015 11:06pm
SPC

Reid, did Moslems come into the UK election results?
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May 8, 2015 11:10pm
Reid

You tell me SPC, you bought em, you explain it.

Or can’t you remember what you just said only a few moments ago?
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May 8, 2015 11:12pm
srylands

How can the Auckland Council be “corporate controlled”? It is a communist cesspit heading for bankruptcy. I don’t think you know what “corporate” means.

“Corporate” one of the top words thrown around by The Standard commentators to refer to anyone who is nasty and mean, or a rich prick.
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May 8, 2015 11:14pm
SPC

Reid, please elaborate what you are hallucinating about.
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May 8, 2015 11:15pm
publicwatchdog

How much are the contracts YOU’RE involved with worth Srylands?

Penny Bright

http://www.pennybright4mayor.org.nz
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May 8, 2015 11:24pm
Dennis Horne

“an un-defendable position… You mean indefensible?”

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/undefendable
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May 9, 2015 1:03am
SPC

I had it spelt undefendable and then changed it to include the hyphen because spell check said I had it wrong.
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May 9, 2015 1:36am

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