Greetings one and all!

An international, "Jeux Sans Frontieres" style Food Count this week from 4000 feet up in the High Desert of New Mexico.
Desperate times require desperate measures and with 3 points desperately needed, I have selected for your counting delight 3 comestibles plucked from shelves of my local Latino supermarket.

They are :
La Chona Pickled Pork Skins in brine (14oz/396.9g)
Jaime's Premium Wheat Flour Cracklings (4 oz/113.4g)
Dried Hibiscus Petals for Hibiscus aka Jamaica tea (4oz/113.4g)

5 pts for guessing the slices and 5 pts for the liquid mls on the pickles (pieces larger than 1 cm)
5 pts for the wheat cracklings (whole or mostly whole)
5 pts for the hibiscus (leaves or pieces larger than 1 cm)
additional 2 bonus pts for an exact guess on any of the above

Count closes at 2pm on Saturday that’s 7am my time ughhh

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Christ! You are making us work hard this week!

Pickles / Juice = 160 / 130ml(g)
Cracklings = 88
Hibiscus Leaves = 120

Ta for the count. Let us know how they are!

Porcine pieces 175 slices?
145 mls Porcine Pee
Wheatflour Crackling 75 bits?
Hibiscus Petals 130 lumps

Extremely difficult to picture amounts on this one Cheers Charlie

tarkys_ears wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:53 pm

Ta for the count. Let us know how they are!

Those pork things are going to the dog and if he won't eat them i'm sending them to you!

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 6:55 pm

Extremely difficult to picture amounts on this one Cheers Charlie

tired of Chickpeas Boss!

CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:05 pm

tired of Chickpeas Boss!

Know what you mean .

CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑

Wed Apr 10, 2024 7:04 pm

Those pork things are going to the dog and if he won't eat them i'm sending them to you!

I'll look forward to em!

My word…

La Chona Pickled Pork Skins ~ 206
Brine ~ 145ml
Jaime's Wheat Flour Cracklings ~ 98
Dried Hibiscus Petals ~ 188

Thank you!

My oh my….what a conundrum for us this week!

17O Pork Skin pieces
130 ml Brine
93 Wheat Crackling whatsits
145 Dried Hibiscus Petals

Thanks for interesting the count Charlie. UTC

Tough one, very tough.
Pickled Pork Skins 187
Brine 130ml
Wheat Flour Cracklings 73
Hibiscus Petals 166
UTC

Bumpity bump

A most unusual and intriguing choice, Charlie. I sez

181 cueritoz in 54 ml pickerling joooooooose
99 of jaimez cracklings
67 hibiscuz leavez

Thanks for doing the count CharlieinNewMexico it will surely inspire the mighty clarets to a resounding victory against the pesky seagulls.

Wow this is certainly different

No idea, can I just guess the bag weights instead?

La Chona Pickled Pork Skins : 168
Brine : 125ml
Jaime's Wheat Flour Cracklings: 71
Dried Hibiscus Petals : 163

Thanks for the count. Not sure that I would eat or drink any of these.

La Chona Pickled Pork Skins : 155
Brine : 169ml
Jaime's Wheat Flour Cracklings: 130
Dried Hibiscus Petals : 110

Pork Skins 146
Brine 140ml
Cracklings 85
Hibiscus Petals 89

Thanks Charlie

Pickled pork 134
Brine 122 ml
Wheat Flour Crackings 38
Hibiscus petals 95

Am totally lost on these figures but thanks for the challenge.

If you can read my chicken scratch this is what I have so far:

Pickles (found World Cup in ‘66 ) = 53
Juice = 105ml
Cracklings = 48
Hibiscus Leaves = 42

thanks for doing the count ClaretinNewMexico!

UTC

Pickles 121
Juice 154ml
Cracklings 68
Hibiscus Petals 136

Ok times up!
No more guesses


Off to count now

CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:01 pm

Ok times up!
No more guesses


Off to count now

Results about 4pm

Bosscat wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2024 2:07 pm

Results about 4pm

Lololol

Ok. Those pickled slices were nasty to touch!

Result :
Pork Slices 128
Brine 409 mls
Hibiscus Petals 92
Wheat Things 42

Points winners after the match

Todays Points:

Pork Slices Big F 134 = 5pts
Brine Dawlish Claret 169 = 5pts
Wheat Cracklings Claret Blue 48 = 5pts
Hibiscus Petals Green Parrot and Big F both off by 3 so 5pts each.

Big F gets 10, Dawlish 5, Claret Blue 5, Green Parrot 5

Sorry it was so hard!

Excellent count Charlie and hopefully dispels the malicious rumours I work in a supermarket

CharlieinNewMexico wrote: ↑

Sat Apr 13, 2024 4:04 pm

Todays Points:

Pork Slices Big F 134 = 5pts
Brine Dawlish Claret 169 = 5pts
Wheat Cracklings Claret Blue 48 = 5pts
Hibiscus Petals Green Parrot and Big F both off by 3 so 5pts each.

Big F gets 10, Dawlish 5, Claret Blue 5, Green Parrot 5

Sorry it was so hard!

Congrats to our points scorers. I’ll update the points totals tomorrow. Thanks again to CharlieinNewMexico for an excellent count.

Updated points table

1st
Bosscat 95 points

2nd
Claretmisterg 71 points

3rd
Eloise Laws 69 points

4th
addisclaret 68 points

5th
BigF 57 points

6th
green_parrot 56 points

Joint 7th
Croydon Claret 54 points
Dawlishclaret 54 points

8th
claretblue 51 points

9th
Rick_Muller 49 points

10th
Charlieinnewmexico 46 points

11th
bfcjg 45 points

12th
tarkys_ears 40 points

13th
tally 35 points

14th
ClaretGeorgina 33 points

15th
canalsideClaret 32 points

16th
StayingDown4Ever 30 points

17th
jdrobbo 26 points

18th
what_no_pies 21 points

19th
Jjjack 19 points

20th
Cabbage 17 points

21st
footballdiedin92 15 points

22nd
Zooniverser 13 points

23rd
Cubanforever 11 points

24th
leelad 10 points

25th
Foshiznik 5 points

Joint 26th
Brucefanclaret 3 points
claretburns 3 points
CunBuntru 3 points
giveusaB 3

A big 10 points moves BigF from 8th to 5th now on 57 points. 5 points puts green_parrot up to 6th place on 56 points, Dawlishclaret up to joint 7th on 54 points and claretblue up to 8th on 51 points. 3 points for counting puts CharlieinNewMexico up to 10th on 46 points. So plenty of movement in the top 10 places but Bosscat still looking unassailable in top spot. Congratulations again to all our points scorers and thanks again to CharlieinNewMexici for an engaging Mexican themed count.

Up the Mighty Clarets, come what may.