The Grumble Thread - No energy for a full on rant.

[T42]

I must retract an earlier statement. I had a look at the wrapper on a block of Comté last night and it said store at 4°-10°C.  15/16°C still applies to soft-crust cheeses, though, and you have to let any cheese warm up to room temperature before eating it.  One of the best bits of cheese I ever tasted was a Cantal that had lived in a pocket of my rucksack for several days in September when the temperatures were in the high 20s.

The ready sliced processed muck sold by Kraft and others is not cheese.  $DEITY alone knows what it is but it sure as hell isn't cheese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahMQ5T4058

Applies to US but I doubt if it's much different in the UK.

As for slavish adherence to "best before/use by" dates? Hah!  If it's not moving of its own volition it's safe to eat.

Dunno. Once the outside of a Camembert has turned deep orange I don't much care for it. As a friend once observed on setting one such out her cheese board, "on dirait un sexe négligé".  OTOH we buy Camembert as close to its best-before date as possible, since that way it's reasonably mature.

[TheLurker]

And that's another thing. When I am World Dictator* they won't be called cheese "triangles" cos they are patently _not_ triangles they're _sectors_.  So start practicing subjects^wpeople.  After me, say, "Cheese Sectors" 



*If an orang-utan with yellow nylon candy-floss for hair can do it why not me?

[Polar Bear]

Segments ...     

[TheLurker]

Segments ...     

Alas no.  Sector - think portion of pie chart.  Segment - think of orange segment in profile.  Although were you daft enough to think Edam worth eating - waits for furious reponses - then you could have a segment of vaguely cheese like product, but that would, in my opinion, be carrying masochism to an heretofore unheard of extreme.

[ElyDave]

I must retract an earlier statement. I had a look at the wrapper on a block of Comté last night and it said store at 4°-10°C.  15/16°C still applies to soft-crust cheeses, though, and you have to let any cheese warm up to room temperature before eating it.  One of the best bits of cheese I ever tasted was a Cantal that had lived in a pocket of my rucksack for several days in September when the temperatures were in the high 20s.

The ready sliced processed muck sold by Kraft and others is not cheese.  $DEITY alone knows what it is but it sure as hell isn't cheese.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JahMQ5T4058

Applies to US but I doubt if it's much different in the UK.

As for slavish adherence to "best before/use by" dates? Hah!  If it's not moving of its own volition it's safe to eat.

Dunno. Once the outside of a Camembert has turned deep orange I don't much care for it. As a friend once observed on setting one such out her cheese board, "on dirait un sexe négligé".  OTOH we buy Camembert as close to its best-before date as possible, since that way it's reasonably mature.

+1

We had some Friends visit us in North East Lincs from London, on a hot summers day, bringing cheese they'd brought from France, V hot day, traffic jams, four hours in the footwell. It could have walked into the house unaided, stank the place out but was absolutely superb

[hellymedic]

Segments ...     

Alas no.  Sector - think portion of pie chart.  Segment - think of orange segment in profile.  Although were you daft enough to think Edam worth eating - waits for furious reponses - then you could have a segment of vaguely cheese like product, but that would, in my opinion, be carrying masochism to an heretofore unheard of extreme.

The pedant in me agrees with the Lurker but won't suggest this part of the thread migrates to Food and Drink....
...yet!

[Basil]

I've just got in from a 330 mile round trip delivering #1 son's cat back to Bournville.  Mrs B, with the best of intentions, won't stop offering me stuff.  Coffee?   Dinner?  Aperetif?  Please stop trying to make me think.
I'm frazzled.  Yes I would like a coffee, but I want to make it myself.

I'll be fine in 20 minutes.

[robgul]

We had some Friends visit us in North East Lincs from London, on a hot summers day, bringing cheese they'd brought from France, V hot day, traffic jams, four hours in the footwell. It could have walked into the house unaided, stank the place out but was absolutely superb

Reminds me of some cheese we bought in Le Touquet - unbelievable aroma, although it tasted excellent - we had a Discovery at the time and ended up putting the cheese in a carrier bag inside the spare wheel on the outside of the back door for the journey home (getting out of the car in le Shuttle train and you could smell it)

Rob

[PaulF]

Wife and son are watching "Britain's not Got Talent" or some such drivel. Normally I'd go to the pub but I'm doing a dry January.

Bah!

[Basil]

You don't have to drink alcohol in the pub.  Apparently.   

[PaulF]

Are you sure about that Basil? It's a pretty bold statement to make unless you can back it up

[Mr Larrington]

Basil lecturing the former world's scariest barman on pub etiquette?

This could end badly

[Basil]

 

[spesh]

We had some Friends visit us in North East Lincs from London, on a hot summers day, bringing cheese they'd brought from France, V hot day, traffic jams, four hours in the footwell. It could have walked into the house unaided, stank the place out but was absolutely superb

Reminds me of some cheese we bought in Le Touquet - unbelievable aroma, although it tasted excellent - we had a Discovery at the time and ended up putting the cheese in a carrier bag inside the spare wheel on the outside of the back door for the journey home (getting out of the car in le Shuttle train and you could smell it)

Rob

Obviously not a Corsican one, otherwise you'd have sparked a major security alert. 

https://yacf.co.uk/forum/index.php?topic=90159.msg1954172#msg1954172

[Polar Bear]

Segments ...     

Alas no.  Sector - think portion of pie chart.  Segment - think of orange segment in profile.  Although were you daft enough to think Edam worth eating - waits for furious reponses - then you could have a segment of vaguely cheese like product, but that would, in my opinion, be carrying masochism to an heretofore unheard of extreme.

I see them as segments just as I see segments of an orange or a Warwickshire Truckle. .  Iirc, pie charts can be defined in terms of segments or sectors.

[Kim]

My (somewhat rusty) understanding is that a sector is a bit of a circle where the dividing line(s) are perpendicular to the edge and pass through the centre point.  A segment is just any bit of circle cut off by a single line.  Cut the circle in half and it qualifies as both.

Bonus points for cylinders, heads, tracks, blocks and so on...

[T42]

We had some Friends visit us in North East Lincs from London, on a hot summers day, bringing cheese they'd brought from France, V hot day, traffic jams, four hours in the footwell. It could have walked into the house unaided, stank the place out but was absolutely superb

Reminds me of some cheese we bought in Le Touquet - unbelievable aroma, although it tasted excellent - we had a Discovery at the time and ended up putting the cheese in a carrier bag inside the spare wheel on the outside of the back door for the journey home (getting out of the car in le Shuttle train and you could smell it)

Rob

A German colleague of mine once bought a Livarot in Evreux and went home to Kiel with it in his briefcase.  He told me later that the folk on the train in Germany kept looking at him in disgust - they thought it was him.

Our local stinker is Munster, from the valley at the foot of Col de la Schlucht. Down there they say that the storks fly in circles because they have one wing over their nostrils.  It's great with cumin or big sweet gherkins, or melted on a tarte flambée, although everyone in the restaurant knows when you've ordered one.

[ElyDave]

went out on the bike today. M5 recumbent in long distance format with dyno hub etc and luggage.

Didn't enjoy it. Cold, legs hurt, lost route, slow.  Harumph!

[fuzzy]

So, for more years than I care to remember, I have been interested in photography. I even got paid for it as a copper. There were times when I had more 35mm film pots than I had £'s in the bank.

Now, when I need one to modify for telescope collimation, can I find one?

Can I bollox I even asked at the photographers next door to the bike shop.....

Digital 

[LittleWheelsandBig]

The water has just stopped in the site office and the temperature is expected to stay below zero here for a couple more days. No prizes for guessing the likely cause.

[Tim Hall]

So, for more years than I care to remember, I have been interested in photography. I even got paid for it as a copper. There were times when I had more 35mm film pots than I had £'s in the bank.

Now, when I need one to modify for telescope collimation, can I find one?

Can I bollox I even asked at the photographers next door to the bike shop.....

Digital 

Last time I  needed some (alka seltzer fuelled rocket manufacture) I asked at Boots.

[fuzzy]

There's a plan

[hellymedic]

There are loads of film canisters on ebay for a little cash.

[ElyDave]

what about soemthing like a nuun or high5 electrolyte tabs tub? They make very useful little odds and sods holders for on the bike as well.

[CAMRAMan]

Self: Before cashing in Tossco Clubard vouchers for the London Eye, make sure it's actually running the day you travel. Annual feckin' maintenance, innit?!