Fun Monday #29
This weeks Fun Monday is being hosted by Mariposa's Tales and here is her assignment.....
- Please share to us how the NAME of your BLOG was made? I can't wait to hear interesting funny stories!
- Please share to us (in words or photo, though a combination of both will be a bonus!) your favorite/ most common dish!
How my blog was named? Nothing interesting and certainly not funny. But it was totally by accident. I mean I wanted to call it A Spot of T....but it was supposed to read 'Tea' not 'T'. I believe it was on msn (I think, I can't remember) where I first started a little journal type blog thing and when it asked me what I wanted my name to be, quick finger Mcgraw here quickly typed in 'A Spot of T'....but before I could finish putting the 'ea' in Tea....I pushed the send button and there it was. It had given strict instructions to make sure the name you wanted was correct before pushing the button because any mistakes could not be undone. Ya. So I couldn't erase it, I couldn't change it. There it was. A Spot of T. Not A Spot of Tea how I had originally wanted it.
At first I thought "Aww jeez Joy, what a goof." But then I looked at it and it just made sense. Kill two birds with one stone sort of thing. See, my last name begins with the letter T. Add in that I drink tea on a daily basis and absolutely almost love every kind of tea out there.....well it just fit. So when I started what I call a real blog, I kept the name because I liked it a lot.
#1 was easy. #2 I thought was going to be just as easy but then I got confused. Oh be quiet, it happens. Now I knew, unlike some smart alecs out there, Mariposa didn't want to see our favorite dishes/china, but do we pick the favorite dish we ourselves cook, or just our favorite food? I mean as a mom, I cook all the time. All. The. Time. And my kids love my cooking. But when it comes to me? I love going to a nice restaurant or just getting out someplace other then here once in awhile. Probably because I cook...all....the....time...at home here so it's a huge exciting thing in my life when someone else cooks for me. So I decided to go with something that my family probably doesn't even know I really like but I could eat all the time.....
Fish and Chips. Really good crispy well made fish and chips. What's amazing is I'm not a big seafood lover. I like crab, don't mind lobster, but that's about it. But when it comes to fish and chips? I love them and can't get enough of them. I know I probably don't eat them like most humans do because there's none of that tartar crap sauce for me. Nope. Give me lots of lemon to squeeze over my chips, lots of vinegar to put over both fish and chips, some ketchup to dip my vinegar laden chips in and...well....it's just a little bit of heaven right there on earth.
Mmm fish and chips could go that right now, i love how your blog name came around interesting. Oh and i love all types of tea to except for at the moment when i can only stomach the plain boring stuff
Posted by: Laura McIntyre | February 25, 2008 at 03:16 AM
I love this story...I think you were meant to push the send button when you did, it's a great name and the best things always happen by accident!
When you get to my post you will see why I am having a quiet chuckle about your fish'n'chips. Oh and I nearly added a picture of a 'dish' just for fun but then decided against it!
Posted by: chrisb | February 25, 2008 at 03:26 AM
Oh, that send button has a mind of it's own sometimes! ;)
I love Fish and Chips too!
Happy Fun Monday!
Posted by: Mariposa | February 25, 2008 at 03:49 AM
We had fish & chips for a change on Friday night - I haven't had them for ages and ages! It was lovely but the batter wasn't crisp enough which was a bit disappointing.
Posted by: Aoj & The Lurchers | February 25, 2008 at 05:00 AM
We are T for Two (my name as well!) The fish and chips looked so yummy (glad you incleded pics - my sstomach growled). Have a happy week - Jen
Posted by: jennifer | February 25, 2008 at 05:50 AM
We are T for Two (my name as well!) The fish and chips looked so yummy (glad you incleded pics - my stomach growled). Have a happy week - Jen
Posted by: jennifer | February 25, 2008 at 05:51 AM
Well, I love your blog name and it looks so beautiful as a logo. I thought that it probably had to do with your last name and also tea. My son is a tea lover who buys from the Republic of Tea and China Mist so he can get all the good flavors you find at restaurants. I do like an Irish breakfast tea. I'm very partial to Lipton tea because that's what I grew up with and I like Luzianne too. I try all teas though. Fish and chips. I agree with you about the tartar sauce. I don't touch it. A squeeze of lemon is so much better and ketchup on the chips, yes! Now I'm hungry for some.
Posted by: Junebug | February 25, 2008 at 06:57 AM
I like the vinegar on my chips, too. (but I'll eat tartar when there is nothing else)
your name fits you to a ... T!
Posted by: Pamela | February 25, 2008 at 08:50 AM
So it is for double reason then. I have always liked your name. :) And I'm liking hearing or um, reading, how the names came about. :)
Posted by: Lisa's Chaos | February 25, 2008 at 08:50 AM
You know I couldn't think of anything creative when I had to come up with a name...now everyone thinks I'm a barn.
I have already told you how much I like the look of your blog..very creative! and of course I am jealous as hell.
Posted by: aims | February 25, 2008 at 09:43 AM
Fish and chips sounds like a great idea. Too bad we're 200 miles away from my favourite place - Libbaro's in Dublin
Posted by: Ann | February 25, 2008 at 10:12 AM
mmm..fish and chips...or fish and fries here in the states...I'm not big on seafood either (food intolerance to shellfish now too) but I love fried fish!
Posted by: cpa mom | February 25, 2008 at 10:42 AM
I've always loved your clever name and thought what a cute thing you came up with. And now I find out it was all an accident. A happy accident!
Can I have some of your chips without the fish?
Posted by: Sauntering Soul | February 25, 2008 at 11:12 AM
Found you through Fun Monday - have joined in for the first time.
I love fish and chips - but have a question for you - Does yours come with some skin on the fish? Here in N Ireland there is no skin under the batter, but when we lived in England they had skin on it - ugh!
Posted by: JanMary, N Ireland | February 25, 2008 at 11:59 AM
Fish and Chips sounds sooo good right now! It's fun to see that your bloggy name was such a Happy Accident!
Posted by: JennV. | February 25, 2008 at 11:59 AM
This is the 3rd Fish and Chip meal I've seen so far(and would have been the 103rd plate had you gone that route). I think the name is inspired, specially when I got your gift and saw that your name was a T name. (btw, Spannersaurus Text says to say hello, I call him text becasue he holds a pen)
Posted by: Willowtree | February 25, 2008 at 01:30 PM
Great slip of the finger--love your blog name. A spot of T hints at something nice to drink, relaxing with something you enjoy doing. Isn't that what blogging is all about?
Wish we could get fish and chips that look as delicious as your photo--now!
Posted by: Faye | February 25, 2008 at 01:47 PM
Everything happens for a reason! Great name. Those Fish & Chips from Fish & Chips brought back all kinds of childhood memories. We don't have one here in NC. Too bad for me.
Posted by: Carrie | February 25, 2008 at 02:24 PM
Ohhhhhhhhhhhh, a traditional title for Britain..."A Spot of T[ea]"...and then, you share fish and chips. The REAL kind. MMMMMmmmmm!!!
Posted by: Hootin' Anni | February 25, 2008 at 02:36 PM
That's a fun story to go with your blog name. And that there photo of fish n chips is the way fish n chips ought to be. I am so craving some now. I too love it with lots of vinegar and lemon. Now I want to go to England to get the proper kind...
Posted by: ellen b | February 25, 2008 at 04:27 PM
I adore fish and chips with lots of vinegar and tartar sauce.
I like the story of a Spot of T.
blogjem stands for blog just expressing myself
originally mine was blog coffeebarchick - My daughter named me coffeebarchick when we got our first computer at home :)
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Posted by: Frances | February 25, 2008 at 04:30 PM
Those fish and chips look good enough to eat! I have always loved your name and your header - it must have been meant to be.
Posted by: Sandy | February 25, 2008 at 05:14 PM
The best things happen when our fingers don't exactly match up with the brain. Well, that doesn't sound too intelligent, but many times have I been "quick on the draw" too. Excellent results on your blog name, I'd say. In my pre-Celiac disease days (I'm not allowed to have wheat) I loved LJSilvers fish and chips. And I'm not a fish lover, but those I did like.
Posted by: Nekked Lizard Lady | February 25, 2008 at 07:06 PM
That was a fortunate "accident". I like the name of your blog. Fish and Chips, yumm.
Posted by: Jan | February 25, 2008 at 07:44 PM
A Spot of T and fish and chips, could we be a wee bit of an Anglophile. It was fun reading you post and the T says so much more than tea ever could.
Posted by: IamwhoIam | February 25, 2008 at 08:21 PM