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ian

With ice cream on the side, generally as an accompaniment to dessert pies.
Oh - well that is the french meaning, sort of, so I can accept that.

I bet if you order a steak a la mode in the USA you'll get a steak with icecream.

They put burgers in doughnuts with maple syrup and peanut butter, so probably not a surprise if they add ice cream to balance it out.

The cheese and apple pie thing mostly seems to be a New England phenomenon. I have never tried to get cheese and ice cream, but I'm sure someone has.

I hadn't realised the USAnian a la mode, either.

But now my mind is caught in a nasty north american feedback loop, with a picture of poutine a la mode. Sometimes, imagination is a curse. I am absolutely NOT going to google to see if it exists.

I have never tried to get cheese and ice cream, but I'm sure someone has.
Correct, they have! Parmesan ice cream was a thing in the eighteenth century.
And it is sweet.
I keep meaning to try it, but the occasion has yet to present itself.

https://savoringthepast.net/2016/10/07/parmesan-ice-cream/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7fywQ-vUE
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I hadn't realised the USAnian a la mode, either.

But now my mind is caught in a nasty north american feedback loop, with a picture of poutine a la mode. Sometimes, imagination is a curse. I am absolutely NOT going to google to see if it exists.

Surely not even the Québécois are that bonkers?  But:

Poutine not Putin: classic Quebec dish off the menu in France and Canada.

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“People, please stop confusing Putin and poutine,” tweeted one user. “One is a dangerous and unwholesome mix of greasy, lumpy and congealed ingredients, the other is a delicious food.”
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As it happens I was listening to the news in French and thinking "whoops"

ian

I have never tried to get cheese and ice cream, but I'm sure someone has.
Correct, they have! Parmesan ice cream was a thing in the eighteenth century.
And it is sweet.
I keep meaning to try it, but the occasion has yet to present itself.

https://savoringthepast.net/2016/10/07/parmesan-ice-cream/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7fywQ-vUE

Well, cheesecake exists and you can eat that with ice cream. Though my mother refuses to believe that cheesecake contains cheese, but then she's not eaten since 1976 and god knows what cheesecake was made with back then. Probably bakelite.

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I have never tried to get cheese and ice cream, but I'm sure someone has.
Correct, they have! Parmesan ice cream was a thing in the eighteenth century.
And it is sweet.
I keep meaning to try it, but the occasion has yet to present itself.

https://savoringthepast.net/2016/10/07/parmesan-ice-cream/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BR7fywQ-vUE

Well, cheesecake exists and you can eat that with ice cream. Though my mother refuses to believe that cheesecake contains cheese, but then she's not eaten since 1976 and god knows what cheesecake was made with back then. Probably bakelite.

Mrs Larrington (decd.) used to make cheesecakes back then, using Philadelphia cheez-flavored food product.  They were, as the poet sang, very delicious cheesecakes.
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Cake for the boson.
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ian

Quark by some other name.
Cake for the boson.

Sadly, quarks are (components) of fermions, not bosons.

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Quark by some other name.
Cake for the boson.

Sadly, quarks are (components) of fermions, not bosons.

Teh pion is the fundamental particle of pastry. Trufax.


https://www.theguardian.com/food/2022/mar/27/jay-rayner-restaurant-review-queens-wine-bar-liverpool-a-very-nice-time-indeed


Jay has been to Liverpool again.  This probably means I won't be able to get a reservation for months.   It's a nice place & they have a wine shop in the same arcade.


Toilets are down a treacherously steep flight of stairs though.


https://queensliverpool.co.uk/#section_1      and     https://randhfinewines.co.uk


https://www.tripadvisor.co.uk/Restaurant_Review-g186337-d17724776-Reviews-Queens_Wine_Bar_and_Bistro-Liverpool_Merseyside_England.html
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Next to us is a gentleman of a certain age in a chalk-striped suit, eating alone. He asks for a glass of the “best claret you have”, as if channelling Withnail. The waiter gives him the quiet reassurance reserved for regulars.
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This is what pizza looks like after you've forgotten that you'd put it in the oven and gone to bed.
 
It was toasty in my kitchen this morning. ::-)

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Good effort  :thumbsup:

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Found in Pompeii...
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Still better than a Dominos pizza
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ian

To be fair, the only thing worse than a Dominos pizza is a Pizza Hut pizza.

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The only time I've had a Domino’s pizza was from their outlet attached to a petril station in Tonopah NV.  They completely buggered up the first attempt and had to start again, producing something that even they admitted was borderline inedible.  I still ate it, because nowhere else was open, I was starving and they gave it to me for free.  Compared with that, Pizza Hut gets a Michelin star.
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ian

Actually, some years ago, we did the crap pizza challenge and Pizza Hut didn't come too bad. I think Dominos was bottom, just below Papa Johns and the local no-brand affairs. The most challenging aspect is the jam used as topping and the strange vulcanization process they subject the cheese to. There's an interesting game of guess-the-species any meat products come from – almost a good reason to buy a Mini-Ion sequencer.

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Dirty pizza from Pizza Hut is one of my secret vices when I visit Leftpondia.  Though I did come across one franchise in western Canuckistan whose pizzas are even dirtier :thumbsup:  Exactly what’s required on a freezing wet evening in Whitehorse YT after a 10 hour drive.
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Christmas gathering of family - one evening we would eat out. Could we find anywhere to eat?  Hours (well, probably only 1.5 hrs) of phoning, trying online booking; nope, everywhere full.

Except Pizza hut.

So, to Pizza hut we drive. Ordering is via App, menu is on the App. I'm paying, so it all has to be done via my phone. Phone gets handed around everyone has to learn to use app. Takes absolutely ages. Nearly an hour, honestly.

App rejects my credit card. Says payment not gone through. Find manager, explain. He checks; they have the order.

Pizzas start to arrive.

We have people with various allergies and some pizzas don't look right "Are you sure this is the XYZ with vegan cheese" "yes" (looks nothing like it)
2 min later - runs out of kitchen. No, it isn't, it is normal cheese.

This goes on. and on. They bring out a pizza, say it is one thing when it plainly has different toppings. My pizza is underdone (parts of it are still cold and utterly uncooked).

Pretty much the worst meal I've ever had out.

If there was a zombie apocalypse and Pizza hut was the only shelter, I'd hesitate.
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If there was a zombie apocalypse and Pizza hut was the only shelter, I'd hesitate.
Pizza Hut is the reason zombies eat brains.
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