Well I do hope that the final consignment of Good Brie makes it through before the razor wire goes up at Dover.
No worries, Somerset Brie is just as good.
I had Somerset Brie for the first time this week. It's the most tasteless cheese I have ever eaten outside Norway. No objection to Cheddar from Somerset however...
Again, I refer you to Baron Bigod. Made by Brits. In Britain. And probably the best Brie in the world. Yes, they borrowed French cows, but they eat British grass. And they ain't going anywhere
Bloody hell, I'm a super duper Remainer (Rejoiner?), but I didn't realise that Well at least I can console myself that English Beer is better than the French stuff
Well I do hope that the final consignment of Good Brie makes it through before the razor wire goes up at Dover.
No worries, Somerset Brie is just as good.
I had Somerset Brie for the first time this week. It's the most tasteless cheese I have ever eaten outside Norway. No objection to Cheddar from Somerset however...
I have terrible taste buds, so I'll have to take your word on that.
Unfortunately I have a feeling it still wont be "a fantastic year for Britain" although hopefully by this time next year we will be over the worst of Covid
Again, I refer you to Baron Bigod. Made by Brits. In Britain. And probably the best Brie in the world. Yes, they borrowed French cows, but they eat British grass. And they ain't going anywhere
Still at least as they will have to join the euro we will not have to argue about them using the pound
Weird the SNP didn't put up that light show in 2014? Oh, wait, that's because a YES vote in 2014 meant automatic expulsion from the EU and Scexit. Funny that Nicola never mentions that.
Still at least as they will have to join the euro we will not have to argue about them using the pound
To say they'll be "back soon" is the same lies the leave camp utilised. Like they'll waltz in or something
One thing they do a lot is imply the whole process will be very easy. Of course, we know that approach works. The honest ones will at least acknowledge it will likely be bitter as hell and involve some tough choices, but that it will be worth it.
Again, I refer you to Baron Bigod. Made by Brits. In Britain. And probably the best Brie in the world. Yes, they borrowed French cows, but they eat British grass. And they ain't going anywhere
Well I do hope that the final consignment of Good Brie makes it through before the razor wire goes up at Dover.
No worries, Somerset Brie is just as good.
No, it really isn't. Aside from Stilton, no British cheese can hold its own against the French.
Continentals can't make a decent cheddar.
It's complete crap. Cheese is like wine. Great cheese is now being made all over the world. Like wine. Anyone who says Burgundy or Bordeaux wine is THE best in the world is just showing cringing age and/or ignorance.
It is ridic. It's as bad as Boris basically saying our test and trace system will be world-beating "just because we are British".
Embarrassing.
Great cheeses are made worldwide, these days, From goat milk cheese in Oz (try Holy Goat) to Italian style cheese in Argentina
Britain (and Ireland) is at the forefront of this lactic revolution. Small artisanal producers in the UK are now making some of the best cheeses on the planet. And I speak as a good friend of a senior Judge at the World Cheese awards. No kidding.
Is it a certainty that the SNP win a majority? One of the best tips I've seen on here was from Alastair Meeks in 2016 tipping "no majority" @ 10-1. There wasn't much difference in the SNP votes compared with 2011, but they just fell in a less efficient way. Presumably SNP are expected to clean up in the constituency part, but doesn't that hurt them in the regional vote?
Well I do hope that the final consignment of Good Brie makes it through before the razor wire goes up at Dover.
No worries, Somerset Brie is just as good.
No, it really isn't. Aside from Stilton, no British cheese can hold its own against the French.
Continentals can't make a decent cheddar.
It's complete crap. Cheese is like wine. Great cheese is now being made all over the world. Like wine. Anyone who says Burgundy or Bordeaux wine is THE best in the world is just showing cringing age and/or ignorance.
It is ridic. It's as bad as Boris basically saying our test and trace system will be world-beating "just because we are British".
Embarrassing.
Great cheeses are made worldwide, these days, From goat milk cheese in Oz (try Holy Goat) to Italian style cheese in Argentina
Britain (and Ireland) is at the forefront of this lactic revolution. Small artisanal producers in the UK are now making some of the best cheeses on the planet. And I speak as a good friend of a senior Judge at the World Cheese awards. No kidding.
The cheese shop along Ticklemore in Totnes is quite superb - all from Cornwall to Somerset.
Well I do hope that the final consignment of Good Brie makes it through before the razor wire goes up at Dover.
No worries, Somerset Brie is just as good.
No, it really isn't. Aside from Stilton, no British cheese can hold its own against the French.
Not even Wensleydale?
Actually, you might have a point there
My taste is unapologetically a good aged Red Leicester. I rate one I had from the Sainsbury's counter (RIP) 10 years or so ago not just as the best cheese, but as the best foodstuff I've ever eaten. Then the usual thing happened and it wasn't a patch the next year, despite being same supplier. I bow to no one, even if you point out the PDO application had artificial colouring as an essential element.
Just today had the Snowdonia Cheese Company version which is the best since. I was an origin snob here, and didn't believe anything else could taste quite like a Belvoir cheese. (aiui, the good Red Leicesters are often the main sideline in a Stilton creamery).
Who’d have thunk seant mark XXIII would have been a boorish, triumphalist, nationalist needle dick?
I am confused. Someone seems to have offended you. I know tiny-penised Scotsmen, like yourself, are prone to grievance, but I do not see this odious person to whom you are referring. Perhaps you can elucidate.
Who’d have thunk seant mark XXIII would have been a boorish, triumphalist, nationalist needle dick?
I am confused. Someone seems to have offended you. I know tiny-penised Scotsmen, like yourself, are prone to grievance, but I do not see this odious person to whom you are referring. Perhaps you can elucidate.
First fish of 2021. A bit scrawny and etiolated, but good to get a early one in.
Weirdly, 2020 also contained some of the happiest moments of my life - true and tranquil contentment, during sunny Lockdown 1 - but they are heavily outweighed by the woes. And the debts, deaths, divorces and depressions I have witnessed at close hand, and further afield.
Fuck off, 2020. Hello, 2021. Please just be mediocre. That will do us fine
To think, the majority of the generations in human history will have encountered a plague year at some point and went about it in many of the same ways, and yet so little real practical awareness or expectation passed to us. For sure, I will tell the grandkids one time.
2021: I am more optimistic than many about the near term of COVID, it will be bad for hospitals in places, but term has ended, Christmas has been unnaturally quiet for most, the tide is turning in the SE, and I think will stay turned.
On the other hand I think Brexit deal optimism has over-vompensated and it will be, near term, more of a ballache than many think.
SO would PBers consider Wisconsin as one of the great cheese regions of the world?
Note that Wisconsinites glory in the moniker "Cheesehead" and are frequently spotted at athletic events wearing faux wedges of (Wisconsin) Swiss cheese.
Who’d have thunk seant mark XXIII would have been a boorish, triumphalist, nationalist needle dick?
I am confused. Someone seems to have offended you. I know tiny-penised Scotsmen, like yourself, are prone to grievance, but I do not see this odious person to whom you are referring. Perhaps you can elucidate.
First fish of 2021. A bit scrawny and etiolated, but good to get a early one in.
Your first post of the new year is entirely incomprehensible. You can only improve!
Who’d have thunk seant mark XXIII would have been a boorish, triumphalist, nationalist needle dick?
I am confused. Someone seems to have offended you. I know tiny-penised Scotsmen, like yourself, are prone to grievance, but I do not see this odious person to whom you are referring. Perhaps you can elucidate.
First fish of 2021. A bit scrawny and etiolated, but good to get a early one in.
Your first post of the new year is entirely incomprehensible. You can only improve!
SO would PBers consider Wisconsin as one of the great cheese regions of the world?
Note that Wisconsinites glory in the moniker "Cheesehead" and are frequently spotted at athletic events wearing faux wedges of (Wisconsin) Swiss cheese.
First question: No
Explanation: because you cannot find it. In 2019 I did a big trip around the Deep South and it was almost impossible to find even average cheese, let alone great cheese.
I remember walking into a Walmart in Mississippi - an absolutely enormous store, where you had an entire aisle devoted to different calibre rifles - and there was about an acre devoted to cheese.
OK, I thought, most of it will be cheap industrial crap, I expect that, but, given the size of the dairy aisles, there will be a speciality zone with some nice stuff. Handcrafted American roquefort from Oregon, etc
It was ALL Jack cheese. Monterey Jack Cheese. Spiralled Jack Cheese. American Cheddar jack cheese made into letters. About half of one aisle was American jack cheese themed on Disney movies.
SO would PBers consider Wisconsin as one of the great cheese regions of the world?
Note that Wisconsinites glory in the moniker "Cheesehead" and are frequently spotted at athletic events wearing faux wedges of (Wisconsin) Swiss cheese.
First question: No
Explanation: because you cannot find it. In 2019 I did a big trip around the Deep South and it was almost impossible to find even average cheese, let alone great cheese.
I remember walking into a Walmart in Mississippi - an absolutely enormous store, where you had an entire aisle devoted to different calibre rifles - and there was about an acre devoted to cheese.
OK, I thought, most of it will be cheap industrial crap, I expect that, but, given the size of the dairy aisles, there will be a speciality zone with some nice stuff. Handcrafted American roquefort from Oregon, etc
It was ALL Jack cheese. Monterey Jack Cheese. Spiralled Jack Cheese. American Cheddar jack cheese made into letters. About half of one aisle was American jack cheese themed on Disney movies.
Jesus Christ. Sort out your cheese.
"A Traveler's Guide to America's Dairyland" by Wisconsin Milk Marketing Board, Inc (2015); lists 169 creameries and other outlets for Wisconsin cheese.
From Alp and Dell Cheese Store in Monroe ("offers a wide selection of locally produced cheese and sausages as well as ice cream, candy, wines from around the world, locally brewed beers and cheese-related gifts"; to Zimmerman Cheese,Inc in South Wayne ("Four generations of cheese-making experience at work. Try our award-winning baby swiss,muenster and fresh muenster curds. Store carries a wide variety of cheeses." Gives addresses, phone numbers AND websites
Happy New Year everyone. Am I the only one who thinks 2020 hasn't been all bad? And the one who doesn't like cheese either?
Got to admit I had a fantastic 2020 on a personal level. I got to work from home for the whole year instead of having to live in hotels all round the world on contracts. I do truly hate hotels. And still did more work and got more achieved for clients than I normally would - mostly because we got rid of the interminable meetings. This meant that I was able to spend far more time with my family and real quality time as well.
I also loved the first lockdown when there was no traffic on the roads, the air was clearer, the stars brighter at night and there was an all pervasive natural silence that made you realise what we have lost in the modern world with its constant background hum of noise. As a result I followed the inspiration of MarqueeMark of this parish and got a moth trap. So now I am addicted to a whole new hobby.
My son thrived not having to be at school and came on in leaps and bounds. So much so that we got congratulations from the school about how much he had both matured and improved educationally. And no we didn't spend all our time helping him. We just let him get on with stuff at his own pace and explained stuff to him when he had stuff he didn't understand. I was actually feeling guilty about how little we felt we had helped until we realised how much his education had improved.
But.. and there has to be a big but. We lost 2 people I knew pretty well - one the brother of my business partner and one a friend of my Mum's - to the dreaded virus. And I would genuinely give up every minute of the wonderful year I have had to have them back again.
Edit: and just to add I hope every one of you has a good a 2021 as I had 2020 - without the dreaded Covid of course.
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On this side of the Atlantic (and Pacific) still mired in the foul swamp we call 2020 . . .
Rather fitting...
https://www.thecheesesociety.co.uk/product/baron-bigod-cheese/
And by then we will all be cyborgs eating meat-lichen made in Chinese labs on Venus, so hey ho
LabourLeave all her life...Scotland will continue to follow UK law on international matters for the next 200 years as it has for the last 200.
Is there anything stills standing from 2012 politics?
I think Michael Gove is the only one still in government (...although shout out to Ed Davey, who is, at least, still at the top of LD politics).
Other than that, blimey, is Gove the survivor? What's his secret I wonder.
May, IDS, Mitchell, Paterson, Miller, Villiers, Clark - peripheral
Stay safe, PBers.
--AS
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2020/12/31/still-fighting-devilish-virus-new-year-really-year-change-hope/
It is ridic. It's as bad as Boris basically saying our test and trace system will be world-beating "just because we are British".
Embarrassing.
Great cheeses are made worldwide, these days, From goat milk cheese in Oz (try Holy Goat) to Italian style cheese in Argentina
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/18/dining/provoleta-argentina-bubbling-cheese.html
Britain (and Ireland) is at the forefront of this lactic revolution. Small artisanal producers in the UK are now making some of the best cheeses on the planet. And I speak as a good friend of a senior Judge at the World Cheese awards. No kidding.
I am off to bed.
(& thanks to Philip for the header.)
Leavers now have to deliver sunlit uplands rather than a crock of shit. I won't hold my breath.
https://youtu.be/FG1NrQYXjLU
Blue Stilton I think.
Not made in Stilton
Just today had the Snowdonia Cheese Company version which is the best since. I was an origin snob here, and didn't believe anything else could taste quite like a Belvoir cheese. (aiui, the good Red Leicesters are often the main sideline in a Stilton creamery).
Good riddance to the old one.
Weirdly, 2020 also contained some of the happiest moments of my life - true and tranquil contentment, during sunny Lockdown 1 - but they are heavily outweighed by the woes. And the debts, deaths, divorces and depressions I have witnessed at close hand, and further afield.
Fuck off, 2020. Hello, 2021. Please just be mediocre. That will do us fine
Thoughts to all those breathing hard right now.
2021: I am more optimistic than many about the near term of COVID, it will be bad for hospitals in places, but term has ended, Christmas has been unnaturally quiet for most, the tide is turning in the SE, and I think will stay turned.
On the other hand I think Brexit deal optimism has over-vompensated and it will be, near term, more of a ballache than many think.
Anyhow, Happy New Year and stay safe all.
Am I the only one who thinks 2020 hasn't been all bad?
And the one who doesn't like cheese either?
Note that Wisconsinites glory in the moniker "Cheesehead" and are frequently spotted at athletic events wearing faux wedges of (Wisconsin) Swiss cheese.
Happy New Year, TUD. xx
First question: No
Explanation: because you cannot find it. In 2019 I did a big trip around the Deep South and it was almost impossible to find even average cheese, let alone great cheese.
I remember walking into a Walmart in Mississippi - an absolutely enormous store, where you had an entire aisle devoted to different calibre rifles - and there was about an acre devoted to cheese.
OK, I thought, most of it will be cheap industrial crap, I expect that, but, given the size of the dairy aisles, there will be a speciality zone with some nice stuff. Handcrafted American roquefort from Oregon, etc
It was ALL Jack cheese. Monterey Jack Cheese. Spiralled Jack Cheese. American Cheddar jack cheese made into letters. About half of one aisle was American jack cheese themed on Disney movies.
Jesus Christ. Sort out your cheese.
Melt some Monterey Jack on him at the same time....
At midnight it was like World War 1.
https://twitter.com/naebd/status/1344803743368409093?s=21
Cheese i can take or leave.
They all laughed when I said I wanted to be a comedian. Well, they’re not laughing now.
From Alp and Dell Cheese Store in Monroe ("offers a wide selection of locally produced cheese and sausages as
well as ice cream, candy, wines from around the world, locally brewed beers and cheese-related
gifts"; to Zimmerman Cheese,Inc in South Wayne ("Four generations of cheese-making experience at work. Try our award-winning baby swiss,muenster and fresh muenster curds. Store carries a wide variety of cheeses." Gives addresses, phone numbers AND websites
http://www.milwaukeeindependent.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/WisconsinCheeseMap.pdf
I also loved the first lockdown when there was no traffic on the roads, the air was clearer, the stars brighter at night and there was an all pervasive natural silence that made you realise what we have lost in the modern world with its constant background hum of noise. As a result I followed the inspiration of MarqueeMark of this parish and got a moth trap. So now I am addicted to a whole new hobby.
My son thrived not having to be at school and came on in leaps and bounds. So much so that we got congratulations from the school about how much he had both matured and improved educationally. And no we didn't spend all our time helping him. We just let him get on with stuff at his own pace and explained stuff to him when he had stuff he didn't understand. I was actually feeling guilty about how little we felt we had helped until we realised how much his education had improved.
But.. and there has to be a big but. We lost 2 people I knew pretty well - one the brother of my business partner and one a friend of my Mum's - to the dreaded virus. And I would genuinely give up every minute of the wonderful year I have had to have them back again.
Edit: and just to add I hope every one of you has a good a 2021 as I had 2020 - without the dreaded Covid of course.