Heh - they don’t ‘filter wine through fish bladders’ you loon! They do use various products made from animal proteins to help clarify wine (including one made from fish air bladders)
Careful on the plant and flowers suggestion. I know this will sound hypersensitive but check to make sure she doesn't have cats. Loads of flowers and plants are toxic to cats. I know everyone knows about lilies but daffodils, any of the lily pot plants and tulips etc are all death to kitty if nibbled or licked.
You should take a leaf out of the book of that madwoman who was seeing blue horseshoe, and gift her a nice fresh fish.
Wasn't it Minkie who said that?!
Was in another country last year and unexpectedly invited to our lawyer's home for a party. Desperate for gift ideas I was going to bring him a nice fish but was overruled. I'm *sure* we would have got away with it on account of being forrin.
Trout or salmon probably. Gutted but with the head still on. I don't think you need to go too much off piste when you're presenting your host with a fish because you are, after all, giving them a fish.
Those fish are as english as it gets. Surely if you are playing the forrin card you should give them, I don't know, a kingfish or a nice fresh catfish or a fat carp?
I thought it was foxhunter's gf who came up with the fish (as something she had done in the past).
To OP: don't bring a fish. What will you be doing? If you're there for dinner or lunch, can you offer to bring/bake something as a desert? I'm a fan of really good chocolate as a gift. Also like fancy tea but don't know if she's a bag or leaves lady. F&M teatime gift box?
0
1
She is a vegan is that makes a difference
6
1
ah damn i was gonna say pigs head
1
0
Could do the head of one of those pigs they use to make vegan bacon?
2
1
Well, how about some noise-cancelling earphones - just in case you two get, er, too carried away in the next door bedroom?
1
0
Flowers and/or wine
Not a packet of ham
0
0
A nice orchid or something, but Mr Phoebes should be advising you on this.
2
1
Chocolate dildo.
Perfect gift for any occasion.
0
0
Bake or make something - brownies, cakes, a cake, or similar. It shows you’re thoughtful.
0
1
You should take a leaf out of the book of that madwoman who was seeing blue horseshoe, and gift her a nice fresh fish.
0
1
For a vegan? Surly you'd bring a dildo-shaped carrot.
6
1
Or ‘a carrot’ as they are otherwise known
0
1
4 pack of Strongbow Dark Fruit and a Monster energy Ultra Blue
1
1
A plant. Handwritten thank you note for the hospitality post visit. Quids in.
1
0
Booja truffles
0
0
A bottle of Malibu and the smallest tub of Ferrero rochet.
1
1
Just get a bunch of flowers.
1
1
A chinchilla and some haribo.
0
1
I too am going to go with pot-plant. But it will need info from your partner about what she's already got - will he know, do you think?
0
1
Not flowers (unless bf is sure she likes them). I would not be at all surprised if she doesn't like cut flowers if she is vegan.
Pot plant I guess, but fvck me how dull is that. If you know she drinks then (vegan approved) wine I guess.
Possibly a book? Ask your other half who her favourite author is and get a nice edition of a something by them.
2
0
a shirt - made out of hair - I can guarantee she’ll love it.
5
1
A grandchild?
0
1
just wine if she drinks and a box of the chocolates ob recommended
0
0
if wine, you'll need to check if it's vegan. Quite a lot of wine isn't vegan because it uses egg as part of the preservation process...
I'd go for a pot plant in a cute pot. :)
0
1
What DDS said re a book.
Also, next weekend is Mothers' Day so check with your bf what he is getting her. Maybe both take her out for lunch?
0
1
also they filter it through fish bladders
learnt this during #veganuary and wished i hadn’t
0
1
Heh - they don’t ‘filter wine through fish bladders’ you loon! They do use various products made from animal proteins to help clarify wine (including one made from fish air bladders)
0
0
chill proving again that his grasp on reality is tenuous at best!
0
0
tell her you're pregnant to add to the challenge.
0
1
make sure the flowers are vegan...
0
1
Hotnow,
she is never getting that off me hence the need for a good gift
0
0
Medicinal Garden Seed Kit Link
useful to science/reality hating vegans and also to people afraid of societal collapse/zombie uprising (there's a weird venn diagram)
1
0
Good call on the Booja Booja truffles which are amazing.
Also "cheese" from La Fauxmagerie which is actually excellent as vegan cheese goes.
La Fauxmagerie - UK’s first Plant-based cheesemonger. | La Fauxmagerie
Careful on the plant and flowers suggestion. I know this will sound hypersensitive but check to make sure she doesn't have cats. Loads of flowers and plants are toxic to cats. I know everyone knows about lilies but daffodils, any of the lily pot plants and tulips etc are all death to kitty if nibbled or licked.
0
1
Wasn't it Minkie who said that?!
Was in another country last year and unexpectedly invited to our lawyer's home for a party. Desperate for gift ideas I was going to bring him a nice fish but was overruled. I'm *sure* we would have got away with it on account of being forrin.
0
0
Hahahahaha.
What would your fish of choice have been, and what did you think it said about you?
Minkie may also have caught the fish-giving bug but I feel sure it was Blue Horseshoe's paramour that I read.
0
1
No gift but politely enquire whether vegans are allowed to play the pork piccolo
0
1
Trout or salmon probably. Gutted but with the head still on. I don't think you need to go too much off piste when you're presenting your host with a fish because you are, after all, giving them a fish.
0
1
Those fish are as english as it gets. Surely if you are playing the forrin card you should give them, I don't know, a kingfish or a nice fresh catfish or a fat carp?
0
1
It was deffo Foxhunters dog Walker/Lover who recommended taking a fresh fish.
if she wasn’t a vegan that would have been my first choice
1
1
When I was young, a guest brought a whole salmon as a present for my mother.
Gutted, head on.
He was French.
0
1
Foxhunter's missus was the one asking for the present recommendations! Only minkie can settle this. Minkie...!
0
1
I thought it was foxhunter's gf who came up with the fish (as something she had done in the past).
To OP: don't bring a fish. What will you be doing? If you're there for dinner or lunch, can you offer to bring/bake something as a desert? I'm a fan of really good chocolate as a gift. Also like fancy tea but don't know if she's a bag or leaves lady. F&M teatime gift box?
Join the discussion