What does a cheese say when they look in the mirror in the morning?
𝙃𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙪𝙢𝙞.
Adding 'comedian' to the CV 💅🏻
Anyywayy - coming at ya today with a Restaurant recommendation - I've been at The Jug & Bottle many times and I mostly order a good old Carvery (honestly so so good) but this time opted for 'Panko crumbed Halloumi fries with lettuce, mayo and sweet chilli sauce in a flour tortilla'
Located - LOUTH ROAD, HOLTON LE CLAY, GRIMSBY, LINCOLNSHIRE, DN36 5YN.
Some extra information - whatever you fancy, they've got alsorts of cuisines:
• Freshly-baked pizzas
• Traditional carvery roasts with all the trimmings
• Fully loaded breakfasts
• Juicy burgers
• Fish & Chips
• Wraps and salads
Desserts like:
• Warm Cookie Dough
• Apple Pie
• Strawberry Shortbread Sundae
• Profiterolo Sundae
• Home Baked Sticky Toffee Pudding
• Meringue Granules
• Baked Vanilla Cheesecake
And more!
For the Little Ones - they have a Kids’ Meal Deal means you can still treat them to all their faves like chicken nuggets, fish fingers and pasta (with Desserts like bottomless icecream!)
From Monday to Saturday, you can get a main and dessert for £5.99 for over 5s and £4.99 for under 5s. Want to give them a Sunday treat? Buy a main and dessert for £6.49 for over 5s and £5.49 for under
Plus there is also vegetarian and vegan options available.
Would you want to travel sometime in the future? Not just the US, but the world in general? Europe for instance.
yes!! i actually have a trip to italy set up for next year :)) idk about much more than that, grad school will be a massive time commitment but… i will get to do some traveling due to the nature of the program, sooo 🥳
i’d love to visit germany, too!! so many cool fossils, i very much want to see the solnhofen limestone and the associated museums—where the first beautifully preserved archaeopteryx was found!!!
also, as a personal goal. i wanna go to mongolia…… i am a huge fan of wide open space and i want to eat horse in their native habitat
so i'm writing an 8th year fic and h&d are taking a muggle studies class together in which they read one of shakespeare's plays, and i'm trying to write a final project (for which they are partners) but like. hogwarts academics don't seem all that uhhhhh rigorous to me (like we see the students complaining about having to write a foot of parchment which is essentially ONE PAGE HANDWRITTEN) and i'm a little worried that my assignment is too rigorous.
it involves a lot of like. thinking analytically and using your imagination wrt the motivations of people unlike yourself, and that's not rlly something they do much at hogwarts as far as i can see. BUT it is muggle studies, and like. they could definitely all use some practice at those skills, following the recent implosion of their society.
King Charles' coronation will be happening on May 6th and the people of Australia, Ireland, and other places still under the commonwealth are expected to stand in front of the screen with their hands over their hearts and by homage by swearing their loyalty to the new King.
It'll be on May 6th at 5pm whatever timezone UK is in. I'll be sure to eat some Taco Bell to ensure that I'm on the toilet for the coronation. And the Celts already summarized how I feel.
I hope all parts of the Commonwealth will join me in taking a shit. Here's the list of countries.
As of 2023, there are 15 Commonwealth realms: Antigua and Barbuda, Australia, The Bahamas, Belize, Canada, Grenada, Jamaica, New Zealand, Papua New Guinea, Saint Kitts and Nevis, Saint Lucia, Saint Vincent and the Grenadines, Solomon Islands, Tuvalu, and the United Kingdom.
And I mean that with all of the disrespect that a family that colonized most of the world and destroyed many indigenous people irreparably deserves.
“Eww!” Simon lets out a small sigh as you look away and try to hold back your laughter, only turning around a few seconds later, teary-eyed from the strain.
“Told you.” Your daughter looks down at the plate in front of her with nothing but pure disgust, her little features scrunched up as she tries to push the plate away, only for Simon to hold it in place.
“Just try it out, yeah? 'S not that bad.” The look of disbelief she shoots him makes a small smile appear on his lips, seeing so much of a younger version of himself in her.
“Mommy likes it too.” Simon knows fully well your daughter is attached to your hip, always copying your actions and words with pure admiration. The thought of protesting crosses your mind when she looks up at you with a questioning look, but you decide otherwise just for her to eat what Simon made for her.
“Mhm. Tastiest meal in the UK, I promise.” A little white lie won't hurt, you reassure yourself as your finger intertwines with hers, sealing the pinky promise. She finally accepts Simon's meal, giving the beans on toast a last look of disgust before she allows him to feed it to her, taking small bites.
Her scrunched up face relaxes with time, taking in the flavor of what she was previously so grossed out by. Simon's fist connects with yours in a small fist bump, silently celebrating his daughter seems to now enjoy his comfort food as much as he does.
YD: Ahh, so adorable. I recorded some stuff, like them trying yukke. [Reading chat] Right? I was flabbergasted when I heard his age! I didn’t know that he was… 20 years old??? He was also shocked when I told him my age. I don’t really ask their ages when I’m talking to foreigners, we’re just friends, ‘cause they don’t have distinct honorific and informal languages like we do. And he guessed I was like, 23? [Laughs] I laughed my ass off.
YD: These kids are polite. They seem very polite, don’t they? Especially after hearing how old I am. It feels like they’re saying, “Yes ma’am, it’s very delightful.” So cute, and they seemed like they really enjoyed their meal.
YD talked about meeting up with Tubbo while he was in Korea and shares two videos of them eating food at a Korean BBQ place!
MASSIVE thank you to @Forgetmelotz on Twitter, who translated and subtitled this video and gave me permission to share it on Tumblr! Please make sure to give the original video a like.
[Full Video and Subtitle Transcript ↓ ]
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YD: So I was planning to have a dinner with Kei [a Kpop Idol / Singer], but unexpectedly, there's a foreigner friend I met on QSMP named Tubbo, he's from the UK, and apparently he's visiting Korea. And he posted an Instagram story about it. I saw it and was like "Wait, are you coming to Korea?" and it [Tubbo's post] even says Korea blah blah within the date two days after my birthday. So I sent him a DM and he responded with "Haven't you seen my Twitter DM?"
YD: I recently distanced myself a little from Instagram and Twitter for a while, yeah I didn't check my phone that often, and it turns out he messaged me about 3 - 4 days ago saying "YD, I'm flying to Korea! Blah blah–" so I was like "Oh, oh... I'm sorry I didn't see that!" and I checked the DM the day before he arrived here... I told him that I am so sorry and asked if I can meet him in person.
* [Translation note: this can also mean the other way around, ie: he may have asked her if they could meet in person]
YD: So we ended up seeing [each other] on the 21st. I was supposed to have dinner with Kei, so I told her "but my friend from abroad... is in Korea now... what should I do..." and we rescheduled the dinner to inviting her to come over next week. So um, the, right– Tubbo, Tubbo's friend [Eryn], Seoneng [one of YD's crew members] and Kang-si [YD's husband] the 5 of us had dinner together.
YD: We went to a Korean BBQ place. I was searching through restaurants thinking “Uh… which Korean restaurant should I take these foreigners to so that they would be super impressed?” [YD thanks a dono] Yeah, I was searching hard and so I asked Ryeori. You know the Kwak tori & Ryeori couple? Ryeori the hair designer, I asked him, “Reyori, I’m trying to buy a dinner for my foreigner friend, do you have any recommendations for where I should bring him?” and he started listing up like Michelin star-rated pork gukbap restaurants and stuff. Then he also tells me that it’s really difficult to find an actual Korean restaurant in Hongdae, like it’s difficult to find a decent place. There are mostly fusion Korean food [places]. But then he goes, “Oh, hey, this place looks fine” and recommends me this Korean BBQ restaurant. I decided to bring them there and fed them.
YD: The reason I liked that place was that they sell doenjang-jjigabe, galbi-tang, jeyuk bokkeum, and other dishes as well as their main menu, the beef KBBQ. The banchans [side dishes] were also served neatly, they even had japchae, they sold yukke. Obviously there are better Korean restaurants outside of Hongdae, but their hotel was located there. It wasn’t like he had a car here, so I was trying to meet them somewhere they can just walk to. So Hongdae it was. On top of that, YD 4-cuts is also located in Hongdae.** So I thought it would be the best to just eat out here. And while we were eating, I’ve recorded some videos.
** [Note: This is a photo booth event with custom YD frames, as show in the background of this video]
YD: [Scrolls through to find the videos and laughs] Ahh, so adorable. I recorded some stuff, like them trying yukke. [Reading chat] Right? I was flabbergasted when I heard his age! I didn’t know that he was… 20 years old??? He was also shocked when I told him my age. I don’t really ask their ages when I’m talking to foreigners, we’re just friends, ‘cause they don’t have distinct honorific and informal languages like we do. [She thanks another dono] And he guessed I was like, 23? [Laughs] I laughed my ass off.
[YD plays a video she took of Tubbo and Eryn at the restaurant]
Tubbo: Oh, ok.
[?]: You should tell them how to eat it together.
Tubbo: You’re overestimating my chopstick skill.
[?]: Here. [Passes Tubbo some of the meat]
Tubbo: Oh, thank you.
[?]: And here, together.
Tubbo: Ok. [Takes a bite]
Waitress: With this vegetable.
Tubbo: Mm, it’s really sweet!
[?]: Foreigners quite like it.
Eryn: [Reaches over and tries some food too, struggling a bit with his chopsticks]
[?]: Unexpected, right?
[?]: Oh, they like yukke?
[?]: They just need to get used to it.
Waitress: I will grill and hand it over to you, so please help yourselves.
[?]: Ok, thank you.
Eryn: [Tries more food and gives it a thumbs-up]
[?]: Hm, good?!
Tubbo and Eryn: Yeah!
Tubbo: So far 10/10.
[The video ends]
YD: These kids are polite. They seem very polite, don’t they? Especially after hearing how old I am. It feels like they’re saying, “Yes ma’am, it’s very delightful.” So cute, and they seemed like they really enjoyed their meal. They were eating it up. They drank soju, they ate some noodles, and even doenjang-jjigae. I’ve heard foreigners don’t really like the taste of doenjang-jjigae, but they ate pretty much [all] of it. The restaurant also had pot rice, so I made them try that too. They ate that well too.
[YD plays the second video she recorded of them at the restaurant]
Tubbo: Go crazy ok, yeah! Alright.
YD: We ordered naengmyeon for a palate cleanser too. We ordered a lot.
Tubbo: [Struggles to cut the noodles with the scissors that were handed to him]
YD: He’s asking why we cut the noodles.
Tubbo: [Manages to cut the noodles]
Kang-si [?]: Ok, and- and– [does chopstick motion]
Tubbo: [Laughs] What am I gonna need?
Eryn: Chopsticks?
Kang-si [?]: Yeah.
YD [?]: Chopsticks, mm.
Eryn: [To Tubbo] You go first.
Tubbo: [Inaudible] Why is it cold?
YD [?]: Oh, because the noodle is cold.
YD: Yeah, he found it interesting that the noodle is cold.
Tubbo: [He struggles with his chopsticks] Oh no, oh no…
[Everyone laughs]
Kang-si [?]: Very difficult. Ok!
Tubbo: [Manages to fish some noodles out and holds his hand under them so they don’t splash everywhere as he transports them to his bowl]
Seoneng [?]: Oh, uh, oh! It might be difficult for them to eat that.
YD [?]: Hm?
Kang-si [?]: Do you want some, Seoneng? Gimme the chopsticks, I’ll share you some.
Eryn: [To Tubbo] Slippery. How did you get it?
Kang-si [?]: I’ll give you some, hand me the chopsticks.
Seoneng [?]: Can I hand you mine? Just a small amount, please.
YD: They mimicked how Kangseok [Kang-si, YD’s husband] handles the noodles. Like, picking up the noodles like this and moving it to your dish.
Tubbo: That’s why you’re better than me (?).
YD: That’s Seoneng.
Kang-si [?]: Here’s your chopsticks, Seoneng.
Eryn: I think this is enough.
YD [?]: Oh, he’s taking some to his dish.
Seoneng [?]: He learned.
Tubbo: Do you like, spin 'em?
Seoneng [?]: Scissors?
Kang-si [?]: Like– [He holds up his chopsticks and shows them how to do it. Ok. OK!
Eryn: [Picks up only a few noodles, which dangle]
Seoneng [?]: Good!
Tubbo: Maybe I did- I did a sht job of cutting, I'm sorry.
Eryn: That's ok. Doing good.
YD: It had a nice atmosphere.
Eryn: Bravo.
Tubbo: Oh, thank you.
YD [?]: The noodles might be a bit slippery for them to...
YD: They really struggled to pick the noodles up. They asked why we cut the noodles then proceeds to eat like that 'cuz it's too long.
YD [?]: Shall we cut it?
Kang-si [?]: Eryn? [He leans forward and cuts Eryn's noodles with scissors]
YD: –So we had to cut it for him like he's a baby.
[Everyone laughs]
Eryn: It kept on moving!
[The video ends]
YD: [Laughs] Ah, so cute. It was fun. So we tried various dishes together. And uh, UK– UK– both of them are from the UK, but they didn't know there is a viral series of British students trying Korean food,*** so I told them "Seeing how you react to unfamiliar foods, like... How do I put this? You were very polite trying these out, not making any weird disgusted noises (so you can go viral too)." They didn't refuse anything. Well, they also said that this was the best Korean food they had so far. They might've been just being polite, but still, you know, they were... Hmm, very neat? Yeah. I get why he's so popular.
*** [Note: YT: Korean Englishman]
YD: Anyways, it was a lot of fun. After the meal, I asked them if they wanted to go take a YD 4-cut with us, explaining this is a trending form of birthday event amongst fans of younger generations in Korea where they rent and run a photobooth for their YouTuber / CCs / Influencers. I asked "It's close from here, you wanna go?" and he said yes. That's how we ended up taking a group photo. It wasn't planned beforehand.
YD: We arrived there– [Laughs] I tried, I knew it closes at 10pm, so I tried to visit there around then (to avoid people). So we got there around 9:30? And my fans were sitting there waiting for me. As soon as they spot me they go, "Wooooooo!!! It's so good to see you in person!!!" ...then they started crying, which made Tubbo and Eryn panic a bit. They were like "Wow YD, u a superstar! Whoa." [Laughs]
YD: No, 'cuz I told them that there might be a few fans because it's my birthday event, and they were OK with it. Well, he's also a Youtuber, so he wouldn't be too unfamiliar with this kinda situation I figure. But even though I warned [him] about it, they seemed a bit surprised as people started SOBBING, so Kangseok evacuated them all. He told them, "Let's get out and try some salted butter rolls while she..." The boys leave and get bread, and I go have a short conversation with my fans, take photos, give autographs... [Laughs]
YD: It was a LOT of fun. It was a memorable day.
The original VOD can be found here (please note that the video is only available to VIP members of YD's channel).