Reasons for deleting threads

form a queue for the buffet in an orderly manner per-lease
And yes Geraldine always looks svelte despite the cake fetish in that office.

Not in Lil's Bar, Ella - as you know very well!

No good for here then Bags, we only do dignified scrambles

Posh translation: undignified scramble.

Our chickens used to have 'bun fights' over bacon scraps or meal worms.

I think it's more likely to be necessary for Mumsnet threads. Bit lazy using it on here too.

I've used the expression 'bun fight' for something that may be a little disorganised and may involve food.

Oh!! I love cream buns with synthetic cream! Don't see them so much these days.

Gregg's used (may well still do)to sell a very large bun filled with synthetic cream and synthetic jam and dusted with icing sugar. I still remember my brother and his then wife walking through town stuffing their faces with these giant missiles.

No point at all unless the buns were covered in sticky cream to maximise the mess

Oh, Elegran that sort of thing would never happen at a GN getogether...or would it? I can well imagine Twinkle Toes throwing a bun and diving under the table...and in comes Bags bearing a batch of home-made bread rolls...and isn't that Gally skulking behind the door well-armed with fairy cakes...and as for Baubles...don't ask...

I would use it to describe any sort of social occasion where the food is subsidiary to the main business, the numbers are not known accurately in advance and at least a few of the guests are possibly just there for the food. I suppose that is where the fight part comes in.

I always thought it implied some sort of rowdiness....

Gracesmum, my family refer to the "party" after a funeral as "the bun fight" Not very reverent but I have used that phrase for longer than I care to remember.

And I bet they're all slim in spite of all the cake

yea - can you just imagine that GN lot throwing cake around instead of eating it

Re bunfights.

About 25 years ago shortly before DD2's confirmation I heard her on the phone to one of her friends asking her if she would be able to come,She announced solemnly that "Mummy says there's to be cake-throwing afterwards in the Church Hall"

I had suggested there would be the "usual bunfight", indeed in the Church Hall We can't be the only people to use the expression for tea and cakes?

It is on some, but not the one in the OP, which was apparently deleted shortly after it appeared! That's why the 'reason' for deletion is so....^inappropriate^!

I never seem to see these threads that then get deleted. I miss out on all the speculations. Mutter mutter.
I expect the banter that followed is probably funnier than the thread.

If it was deleted Jess won't be able to give a link - unless she saved it...

Do tell and give link

JessM do elaborate! Was there really a thread about that?????

galen

This post deleted because we know you weren't joking.