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Source: (consider it) Thread: I don't want to go to your wedding
Golden Key
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Re scent of cheese:

Saw one of Rick Steves' travel shows, where he went to France. He talked to a French woman about cheese, and she said a particular one "smells like the feet of angels". (Rather dramatically.)

I'm not sure how one would know that. Is that a particularly French way of speaking, or just hers? Or did she wash angels' socks?

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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by simontoad:
oh no. There's a time and a place for chocolate. It's just that you can only do so much with it [Big Grin]

There’s your problem. Most of us just eat it.


Not gonna ask what you do...

Well, there are non-dessert and non-beverage uses, like Latin America mole' sauce.

And then there are...interesting...non-food uses (Time).

Best of all, the original TV MacGyver put it to an interesting use. (Pilot episode, 4th paragraph.) I don't know if that MacGyverism would work as is. In the original series, they left something out of any potentially dangerous MacGyverism, so that it wouldn't work.

[Big Grin]

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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
I'm reasonably certain that there's no such thing as "too much cheese".

There's a quality bar. The late and much missed ken wrote a diatribe against "mild cheddar" illustrating this.
Doc Tor was talking about cheese.

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quote:
Originally posted by Doc Tor:
It's a marathon, not a sprint.

True. If you sprint it, then stage 2 can result in a particularly unpleasant illustration of how cottage cheese is made.

[ 26. October 2017, 10:25: Message edited by: Karl: Liberal Backslider ]

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cliffdweller:
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People have been shot for less than this.
Now, now. I know this is Hell, but let's be charitable here. Simontoad has clearly *never* tasted the Best Chocolate.

I find it difficult to choose between chocolate and cheese... but then, I don't have to!

[ 26. October 2017, 11:11: Message edited by: Jane R ]

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But there is a special place in hell reserved for the inventer of "American Cheese" [Projectile]

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Jane R
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That is not cheese, that is extruded plastic.
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quote:
Originally posted by Jane R:
That is not cheese, that is extruded plastic.

No, no, no, no. Plastic is useful. And probably contains more actual cheese.

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quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by simontoad:
oh no. There's a time and a place for chocolate. It's just that you can only do so much with it [Big Grin]

There’s your problem. Most of us just eat it.


Not gonna ask what you do...

Well, there are non-dessert and non-beverage uses, like Latin America mole' sauce.
Still food and not all mole recipes include chocolate.

quote:

And then there are...interesting...non-food uses (Time).

Save for the Slip ‘n’ Slide and hamster bait, What isn't edible?
quote:

Best of all, the original TV MacGyver put it to an interesting use. (Pilot episode, 4th paragraph.) I don't know if that MacGyverism would work as is. In the original series, they left something out of any potentially dangerous MacGyverism, so that it wouldn't work.

[Big Grin]

Waste of chocolate. He had enough hair to absorb any quantity of acid.

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quote:
Originally posted by Golden Key:
cliffdweller--

But simontoad's disdain for chocolate means there's more left for *us*!
[Yipee]

Oooh! Good point! Like when we tell our 2 year olds that cake is really nasty, we love you so we won't make you try it...

So, oh, yeah, we were wrong, don't bother with chocolate it's horrid, not worth the effort-- here's a bit of cheddar for you cuz I love you so much...
[Two face]

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quote:
Originally posted by Bishops Finger:
[Killing me]

Most seemly and edifying.....not!!

IJ

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quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
But there is a special place in hell reserved for the inventer of "American Cheese" [Projectile]

It is a blight upon our nation. Pity us.

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quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
But there is a special place in hell reserved for the inventer of "American Cheese" [Projectile]

At least some of it is named "Cheesefood" which implies that it isn't cheese.

I'm not sure it's food either.

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Dorothy L Sayers wrote of "that impassive pale substance known to the English as 'cheese' unqualified". Presumably a relation?
Whose Body - in case anyone wants to look it up.

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quote:
Originally posted by Sioni Sais:
quote:
Originally posted by L'organist:
But there is a special place in hell reserved for the inventer of "American Cheese" [Projectile]

At least some of it is named "Cheesefood" which implies that it isn't cheese.

I'm not sure it's food either.

”American Processed Cheesefood Product,” to be precise. And they happily advertise that it’s made with “real milk.”

No. Just no.

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quote:
Originally posted by Jane R:
cliffdweller:
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People have been shot for less than this.
Now, now. I know this is Hell, but let's be charitable here. Simontoad has clearly *never* tasted the Best Chocolate.

I find it difficult to choose between chocolate and cheese... but then, I don't have to!

I once purchased chocolate from the best chocolate shop in Brugge. We knew it was the best because it didn't have chocolate shaped like penises and breasts in the window. Seriously, there were these wonderful-looking shops all over the place, but they had this fetish for genitalia.

Look, chocolate is pretty great. It's just that you can only go so far with it. You play with the elements and you can achieve wonderful results. But people do so much more with cheese, in terms of variety of flavor and style. Its just no contest. The cheese platter in a silver service restaurant will net you a much richer food experience than anything else on the desert menu.

I was talking with a friend about this issue, and they reminded me of Chinese Chocolate. That trumps American cheese I reckon, even of the spray-on variety.

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I just went and put this argument to my wife in the loungeroom. First, she just yelled "chocolate", then as I developed the argument she flipped me the bird. Then when I said the thing about silver service restaurants she returned to her book and said "Don't be absurd."

My wife is a pretty inactive member of the ship, but she won't let me disclose her user handle, as she doesn't want her reputation tarnished.

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cliffdweller
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I should probably confess that I am in love with your wife.

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I'm in love with simontoad.

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quote:
Originally posted by simontoad:

Look, chocolate is pretty great. It's just that you can only go so far with it.

Honestly, with all preferences aside, you know not of what you speak. The best chocolate will not be found in the gold standard establishments of yesteryear, not in the famous places. At best, those are merely good. The best, the innovations, take happen in the small places that push the boundaries. Not for the sake of pushing boundaries, but the sake of finding what is on the other side.
Those that do not merely shove a "flavour" inside the bon bon, but those who match the type chocolate with the essence of fruit and spice. Those who do not blend for homogeneity, but who exalt the single bean.
The masterpieces will be found in a small, seaside California village, a side street in a British city, in a French market, far away from the tourist crowds.
In fillings that make the tongue dance, in pastry creations that bring the senses to life.
And in savoury dishes like a Oaxacan mole sauce, a rich Texas chilli or a spice rub for a slow-roasted pork.
The reality of Chocolate is far more than your tiny imagination can conjure.

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Sioni Sais
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quote:
Originally posted by lilBuddha:
quote:
Originally posted by simontoad:

Look, chocolate is pretty great. It's just that you can only go so far with it.

Honestly, with all preferences aside, you know not of what you speak. The best chocolate will not be found in the gold standard establishments of yesteryear, not in the famous places. At best, those are merely good. The best, the innovations, take happen in the small places that push the boundaries. Not for the sake of pushing boundaries, but the sake of finding what is on the other side.
Those that do not merely shove a "flavour" inside the bon bon, but those who match the type chocolate with the essence of fruit and spice. Those who do not blend for homogeneity, but who exalt the single bean.
The masterpieces will be found in a small, seaside California village, a side street in a British city, in a French market, far away from the tourist crowds.
In fillings that make the tongue dance, in pastry creations that bring the senses to life.
And in savoury dishes like a Oaxacan mole sauce, a rich Texas chilli or a spice rub for a slow-roasted pork.
The reality of Chocolate is far more than your tiny imagination can conjure.

True. There is (or at any rate was) such a shop in Tours on the Rue Colbert. It's not far from the Musee de Gemmail a must-see for glass enthusiasts.
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Oh! Innovation is much overrated lil Buddha [Smile]

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lilBuddha
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quote:
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Oh! Innovation is much overrated lil Buddha [Smile]

[Confused] “do so much more” = innovation, so why do you praise it in one post and deride it in this one?
Oh, I’m so sorry, my fault for using large words. Small words for small minds, lilB, and they might better comprehend. Doh! Understand. Argh!
Must make Small word, so him know what me say.

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lil Buddha has much knowledge. I will sit at your feet and learn from the master.

In particular... the name of the small seaside California establishment...?

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Oh lilB. I'm only arguing the subject semi-seriously, as my sequential posts indicate. After all, there's no accounting for taste: vis. Dr Pepper and Cherry Cola.

What are you doing?

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Defending the honour of Chocolate!

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But you're doing it wrong. Let the poor deluded fool continue to believe that the best chocolate is to be found in tourist shops in Belgium. That leaves more of the good stuff for us true chocolate aficionados.
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If any of you idiots try to bribe me with cheese, I'll ban the fucking lot of you.

Chocolate, motherfuckers.

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Originally posted by RooK:
If any of you idiots try to bribe me with cheese, I'll ban the fucking lot of you.

Chocolate, motherfuckers.

Just for you RooK [Angel]

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quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
quote:
Originally posted by RooK:
If any of you idiots try to bribe me with cheese, I'll ban the fucking lot of you.

Chocolate, motherfuckers.

Just for you RooK [Angel]
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*stands in corner and thinks*

This for you Karl [Big Grin]

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Well, Hell is the right place for those last two abominations.

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I think someone ought to be writing out "I must not mix cheese and chocolate" a thousand times before she goes home.

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quote:
Originally posted by Boogie:
My DIL had a £30 dress off eBay - she looked amazing, as did her bridesmaids with dresses of the same price.

Here she is.

Eager to see the pics, Boogie, but denied entrance to the site.
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Chocolate, no. But then again, this [Overused]

(probably considered an abomination by my compatriots, never lasted long enough when brought back from the UK to find out)

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fruit and cheese, the stuff of life.

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quote:
Originally posted by simontoad:
fruit and cheese, the stuff of life.

But not together. Is evil.

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There are some amazing mixtures of fruit and cheese: apples with decent cheddar and/or Wensleydale, grapes with brie, figs and feta, pears and Stilton, ...

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Doesn't work for me. Just spoils the cheese. Don't hold with mixing sweet and savoury; the result always jars my taste buds.

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It occurs to me that we've inadvertently wandered into rich metaphorical territory describing marriage. Well done, freaks.
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quote:
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But there is a special place in hell reserved for the inventer of "American Cheese" [Projectile]

If you want to experience something really hellish, you should try St. Louis-style pizza, topped with an abominable substance called "provel" that makes Velveeta look like the stuff of cheesy dreams. It sticks to the teeth and to the hard palate; it annoys the natives when I ask them whether provel is a member of the wax family or the plastic family.

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There's a chain mexican fast food place that puts Parmesan or something approaching that on its shells. Truly awful.

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There was a full bottle of Johnny Walker Red on each table at the start of the night.

I can't get over this. To someone like my husband who can't resist anything free, such a set-up could prove deadly.
At the Chinese wedding I most recently attended in Toronto, the table had full bottles of Chivas, Canadian Club, and Hennessy cognac-- I stuck to the Moet et Chandon, and had that bottle to myself. There were several businessmen from China at the table (I was at least seated with the bride's cousin, a very pleasant nephrologist from Nanaimo, so I could at least converse, my Cantonese being as bad as my mandarin) consuming the bottles' contents uncut in tumblers. There were no fights, but the volume level rose considerably. The bride's father, having paid for it all (300 guests), gave me an ecological tote bag with five bottles as I left.

I won't even mention the Palestinian wedding I attended in North York two years ago, where each table was provided with a bottle of arak, as well as one of Lebanese brandy, so that we could toast each other during the long speeches. As with the Chinese wedding, no fights, but the dancing was most animated, the grannies kicking up their heels with the rest of them. For some reason, my table featured the two lesbian lawyers with whom the bride had maintained a running relationship for a few years. The arak, I should mention, was powerful stuff and loosened tongues remarkably.

Protestant weddings in the Ottawa valley are dry, of course, and one has to go out behind the church hall where cousin Garnet and the others are pouring rye from mickeys (small bottles of a size which can fit in a jacket pocket) into their cups of coffee-- it's not that bad with egg salad sandwiches. Anglican weddings, where wine can be found on the table, are deemed as godless and decadent, and the bride clearly no better than she ought to be.

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brilliant, the whole lot of it. [Smile]

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Augustine, it reminds me of the joke about a recently deceased who goes to heaven, and St Peter is showing him around (I won't go through the entire joke), and in each room a group is doing something that had been forbidden them in this life. The Jews are having a fantastic pig roast, in another room the Baptists are dancing up a storm, etc. Then St Peter shows him another room where there are a group of people sitting in a circle in silence, doing nothing. "Who are they?" "Them? Oh, they're the Anglicans."
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We were at a dinner concert put on by some Anglicans a year or two ago, and one of them at our table conceded, "We'd all be Presbyterian if it wasn't for the music".

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quote:

Originally posted by simontoad:
There was a full bottle of Johnny Walker Red on each table at the start of the night.

I went to an Armenian wedding long ago (in Los Angeles), and for about every 8 people, there was (good) white wine, red wine, good whiskey & good gin. As soon as a bottle was empty, it was replaced.
The bride's mother had spent the previous day making the meal - the lamb tasted like filet mignon.

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quote:
Originally posted by Meconopsis:
quote:

Originally posted by simontoad:
There was a full bottle of Johnny Walker Red on each table at the start of the night.

I went to an Armenian wedding long ago (in Los Angeles), and for about every 8 people, there was (good) white wine, red wine, good whiskey & good gin. As soon as a bottle was empty, it was replaced.
The bride's mother had spent the previous day making the meal - the lamb tasted like filet mignon.

With all that hooch, boiled cardboard would have tasted good.

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quote:
Originally posted by Meconopsis:
... the lamb tasted like filet mignon.

I'd prefer it tasting like lamb! [Big Grin]

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Lamb is the food of the gods. Along with olives and red wine. I didn't really appreciate lamb till I lived in Germany, where you need to go to an American steak house or Middle Eastern restaurant to get it. In Yorkshire, where I grew up, we had it so often that I hardly noticed it. Sad.

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