Tinned Mexican trash

Advantages: Quick, easy, cheap and it's tinned
Disadvantages: Nasty smell, nasty tase, not spicy............all round bad

...store the ingredients, how to prepare the ingredients and the chore it was going to be to actually make the chilli caused me to break out in a cold sweat but my other half had other plans as she slipped a tin of canned chilli con carne in to the basket. I should have stuck to my guns and dug my heels in. After all I had refused to eat any chilli other than my own for years and here I was contemplating eating a processed version out of a tin can, but since we were on holiday I thought ?what the hey, when in Rome? and all that, and we proceeded to the checkout. The Tyne Brand The chilli my other half picked up was the Tyne brand, which was originally manufactured in Newcastle Upon Tyne, hence the name. The company hit financial difficulties and was bought out by Westler Foods Limited, who re-launched the brand a few years ago...

yackers1 03.07.2009 · Read review
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Review of Tyne Canned Chilli Con Carne

Time To Take Out The Trash

Advantages: Unsubtle as hell
Disadvantages: Unsubtle as hell

...Sub-genres. You gotta love ?em. Yeah! Come on! They?re the bottom of the barrel, the indefinable, and the ones that throw away the rulebook and make their own universes to play with. The western in space. Horror-comedy. These are both laughable attempts to revive flagging genres. What we have here is a true example of a genre unto itself. THE MELT MOVIE. Now, a melt movie has two basic rules ? introduce a substance/alien that causes people to melt when they come into contact with it. And provide lots of meltees! They had their brief moment in the sun during the 1980?s spell of ?video nasties?. So what better time to rediscover them than in this, the new decade of liberal video laws? You may want to seek out Brain Damage or The Stuff, but fast on their heels will always be the grubby day-glo gory glory hallelujah of STREET TRASH...

peppersinclaire 07.09.2002 · Read review
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Review of Street Trash (DVD)

A watering can for me

Advantages: good for watering my plants
Disadvantages: none

...Water all plants need water, so if you are a gardener a watering can is tool that will be an essential. I have a Haws 660 Practican Water Can one I inherited from my dad , he can?t have had it very long looks quite new . I have looked on line and found you can buy this Haws watering can for £13.45 at http://www.twowests.co.uk or £13.99 at http://www.greenfingers.com. There are several sizes of Haws watering cans this one is 6 litres it is a green colour. There is a red 6 litre capacity watering can that is designed for weed killing this has different spray head/rose. Design~~ This is a plastic blow moulded can. There is the small golden Haws logo printed on the front top of the can it has a curved handle and a spout brace. There is a moulded plastic parking point where you can pop the rose for storage. This can has...

mumsymary 24.06.2009 · Read review
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I 'can, can' live without this one!

Advantages: Good illustrations
Disadvantages: The rhyme doesn't flow very easily

...This book is written by Julia Jarman and tells the story of a young Kangaroo who goes to France. During his stay he watches a sow where all of the dancers a doing the can can. On his return to Australia he misses the dancing so much that he decides to open a café where the can can is danced. He sets about holding auditions and whilst lots of the animals try out for the part, he just can?t seem to find an animal that does it well. The story is written in one big rhyme from start to finish but Ididn?t feel that it flowed as easily as some children?s book that I have read. I found that just as I was getting into a rythum, it would change and I?d be a little lost again however by the time I had read it over a few times, it came naturally and I knew where to go. The illustrations which were drawn by Lynne Chapman, were really good...

claribella 14.10.2009 · Read review
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Review of Kangaroo's CanCan Cafe - Julia Jarman

Can Can It Do As Well

Advantages: Girly, not hugely expensive, nice if you like sweet scents
Disadvantages: Not the most exciting bottle, horrible if you hate sweet scents

...'Can Can' by Paris Hilton is the heiress' forth perfume entry. She based it upon a Moulin Rouge theme and the idea of cabaret; the bottle is of great elegance. The fragrance includes: Clementine flower, cassis, nectarine, wild orchid, orange blossom, musk, amber and woods. To me, the initial scent is very sweet but has a woodsy undertone, however, once it settles it is considerably less sweet and you can smell hints of the oriental edge she has tried to add as well as the citrus fruit. After an hour or so, the smell changes once again and I'd say it was more musky to which it stays until you change. Paris Hilton herself didn't create the perfume; it was developed by perfumer Jean-Claude Delville but based upon her ideas. Compared to her previous bottles, this perfume's bottle is quite bland with it being plain with just a pink edge to...

ItalianFran92 15.06.2008 · Read review
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Review of Paris Hilton Can Can

Can-do attitude

Advantages: A boon for the lazy or disabled
Disadvantages: Needs batteries, adds paper to your diet

...With the advancing years, I?ve noticed a growing need for electrical assistance with basic everyday activities. First there was the electric toothbrush. That?s here to stay, as my wrists are now too weak to manipulate the manual version. Then last year the electric shaver arrived - see my previous review (rated 23 per cent exceptional ? equal to an A* at GCSE, I?m told). By the time I hit 60, I?ll have one of those electric toilets beloved of the Japanese so that I can blow-dry my cobblers. The latest step in this decline into robotised senility is a battery-operated device to aid the irksome chore that is opening a can of beans. In mitigation, I?ll stress that I didn?t buy this myself. When my mother asked what I?d like for Christmas, I suggested a posh can opener as the Morrison?s 99p traditional ?butterfly? version which had done...

Silverback 05.04.2009 · Read review
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Review of Culinare One Touch Can Opener

Can You Keep A Secret ?

Advantages: funny , Romantic , Good storyline , Good characters
Disadvantages: Too short!

...The other day I was in my local PDSA (vets for pets) shop searching for a bargain when I came across the books , which were all stacked neatly on a couple of dust-free shelves. As I quickly skimmed through the titles , my eyes were snatched by a lilac cover with a picture of a girl standing in a snow globe , standing with her back to the reader and crossing her fingers behind her back, surrounded by silver stars in the globe. The title read "Can You Keep A Secret ? ". "Ooh, wonder what this is about ?" I say to my friend who is also a keen reader. Curiously I wonder what type of secret is the book about ? I'm desperate to know. So without hesitation I pick the book up and take it to the till. After all it was only 99p - hardly going to break the bank was it ? and it would keep me entertained for a few hours! (well I was hoping it was...

xdonzx 20.03.2008 · Read review
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Review of Can You Keep a Secret? - Sophie Kinsella

Can You Keep A Secret?

Advantages: Good story, believeable characters, easy to read
Disadvantages: Probably not going to teach you anything new

...For some reason, lately, I am quite enjoying girlie books. I normally borrow my books from my Dad but obviously my Dad doesn't read girlie books so my most recent read was borrowed from my friend. She has a while collection of books written by Sophie Kinsella and said that this one was her favourite and told me to have a read. About Sophie Kinsella Sophie Kinsella's real name is Madeline Wickham and she was born on 12th December 1969. She has written a series of books which are based around a shopaholic. These books include: The Secret Dreamworld of a Shopaholic, Shopaholic Abroad, Shopaholic Ties the Knot, Shopaholic and Sister and lastly Shopaholic and Baby. Can You Keep A Secret Firstly, the cover of the book looks very girly. It is a lilac colour with the name of the author and the title of the book written across the front...

daylehall 27.12.2008 · Read review
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Cant buy himself love or can he?

Advantages: wonderful film excellent storyline
Disadvantages: soundtrack

...and before he even decided if hes buying it the over eager money grabbing assistant looks worried that he will lose his sale and even shouts il wrap it up for you Ronald long before Ronald has even confirmed hes buying it. Ronald races off surprisingly not leaving skid marks behind him to the shop across from him that she is in and while hes over there the annoying shop assistant is staring over and watches through the telescope as his expected sale goes up in smoke when he watches Ronald wrap the window and wave the money at her. He is trying to convince the cheerleader to allow him to pay for a new one of the outfit she needs in return for her pretending to like him so that he can become popular. He is met by a very funny response and a look that says your out of your mind when he tells her he wants to rent her. She is hesitant and even...

danielleg1989 21.09.2009 (22.09.2009) · Read review
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Review of Can't Buy Me Love (DVD)

Trash

Advantages: I'm saving you time
Disadvantages: A Clarinet must be blown.

...I recently looked through a list of category's in the ciao café and discovered there was not a movies to avoid or not watch section. Having realised this I quickly recommended this addition so I can help you guys to avoid 10 movies that make me cringe. 1 The Brown Bunny Everyone's favourite weirdo Vincent Gallo received a lot of attention over this dreadful little movie. Some people praise it as a work of art; others treat it for what it is, and it is CRAP! Brown Bunny is simply an excuse for Gallo to have his ego massaged. The movie lasts for 90 minutes and is split "carefully" into two sections the first being about vehicles, which is an opportunity for Gallo to show he has an interest in cars and bikes; the second section is about an all too infamous blowjob. Neither part is well executed and also goes to prove that Gallo is...

sghawken 03.08.2006 · Read review
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