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The Trenchermen

The 'Trenchermen' is a selected group of aged Trotters who with the passage of time have decided that there are pleasures in life other than the constant grind of maintaining fitness (and working for a living/pasttime).

The activity involves monthly research visits to selected restaurants, along the same lines as the Japanese Whaling Industry reserach program. In true Trotter style there are few rules of membership.

A 'trencherman' -

  • 'a person who is devoted to drinking and eating (to excess)'.
  • 'glutton, gourmand, eater, feeder, devourer'.

    The Trenchermen of the Turramurra Trotters, being modest beasts, have no issues with these definitions.

    The TTTs are qualified by their scores of years of dedicated TT service. There is a general bonhomie and level of abuse consistent with the TT Saturday morning atmosphere. You need a thick skin, a sense of humour and about $60 a month to survive these menstrual meetings.

    Thus, it is an incestuous, self-indulgent group, verging on a secret society - handshakes like corkscrews, passwords like "Penfolds 389", "Craigmoor Shiraz" and "Newcastle Brown Ale".

    Members bring along their favoured wines and ales to the lunar events - quality is the call - none of your cheap $30 wines or $2 cans here please ! No crappy "stickies" or cheapoh ports either !

    Exclusions include

    • any wine from Wales
    • Rosemount Chardonnay
    • anything with a "Tescos" label
    • cans of "VB" and large bottles of "Resch's Dinner Ale"
    • Peter Welch's Champagne Cellar
    • any wines bearing the label of the Australian Wine Society
    • Sas Douglas' courageous selection from the vineyards of Orange
    • Carlsberg, Budweiser or any English beer from the south of Watford Junction
    • Kamahl's Annual Christmas Special
    • booze from Nick Heath's bottle shop
    • anything on special brought by Chris Curran
    • Kaiser Stuhl Rose
    • hooch from the grapes grown on the North Island of New Zealand
    • magical mystery "skins" from Ian Holmes' garage
    • courageous wines from Charles Sturt University

    However, a nice casque of "Chateau Hornsby" from Alice Springs (yes, a great drop), Speight's Beer from NZ, any Penfold's wine, Cabernet Merlot from Chateau Tahbilk, Piper's Brook or "Seldom Seen" in Mudgee (after whom the TT Goat is named), is always well received.

    By invitation only.

     

     

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