Back in the US now and on holiday. Spent a fairly great Sunday morning with:
- Cold, sliced, rare roast beef and roquefort cheese. An untouchable combination. When I was a kid, blue cheese used to be the vile stuff that my Gramps would pollute the fridge with, but now I fucking love it.
- Cawfee
- New music: Elbow, live Camille, Fleetwood Mac, Neon Plastix
- Indie games. There’s a post on this needed, it’s a fascinating scene. For a quick amuse bouche, spend five minutes playing You Have To Burn The Rope. You need to hear the sound. Don’t turn it off until you see ‘Game Over’.
Will try and write up the travels in the next few days.
07-Apr-08 at 12:27 pm | Permalink
An untouchable combination > Funny how your tastes change as you get older, based upon losing initial prejudice/repugnance at foods which aren’t immediately perceptably yummy. I love shellfish now, most cheeses and if you offer me turnip on the end of a wee spoon, I will eat it. There are however some real exceptions to the rule and blue cheese is one of them. Unless perhaps hella-diluted by a nice steaky burger…. Hmm. But for the most part it goes in room 101 along with Brussels, Hazelnuts, Squid and Fishermans Friends.
07-Apr-08 at 12:30 pm | Permalink
Ps. My untouchable combo is Fresh basil, sliced tomatoes and bocconcini mozzarella. The yummiest thing you evar ett.
07-Apr-08 at 4:48 pm | Permalink
> blue cheese
And the roquefort stuff, turns out they make it by sucking the white juice out of a female sheep, and slinging the milky slurry into a dirty fungus-ridden cave for a few months until it goes nice and mouldy.
> room 101
And who doesn’t love the taste of a Fisherman’s Friend? Especially those of us from Arbroath.
Those of us still in one piece, obviously.
08-Apr-08 at 10:17 am | Permalink
>Especially those of us from Arbroath.
I think you’ll find that should have been:
Especially those of us frae Arbroath.
You’re welcome!
(I really just wanted a way of testing my new gravatar – hope things are going well in the good ol’ U.S. of Stateside)
11-Apr-08 at 12:07 am | Permalink
Somebody mentioned Fisherman’s Friend(s). That was a nickname of a girl at my school. Yes, not nice. Re: strong cheese. Fuck Roquefort (actually, there’s an idea) – has anyone tried caramel cheese? It’s not strong as such, but you don’t forget it. Now then, Aaron old fruit, how’s the last oompah-pah-pah of the holiday going? Any gas left in the tank?