Food Thread:The Frogs Are The GOAT...At Least When It Comes To Goat Cheese

How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

-- Charles de Gaulle

Actually, de Gaulle underestimated the number, with most assuming that France has more than 1,000 different cheeses. He wasn't wrong about the "ungovernable" part, but that is a discussion for a different forum.

The variety of cheese is astounding. There are three excellent cheese stores within a five-minute walk of my apartment, and that's not counting the supermarket, which has a mass-market selection that is nevertheless pretty good.

That cheese in the photo is called La Tour Du Montot, made in eastern France by midget monks who live in a tower, and milk the goats only at night under a full moon, overseen by angels.

Well, maybe not, but it is the best goat cheese I have ever tasted, and I have tasted a lot of goat cheese! Of course the other cheese on the table was an absolutely marvelous sheep's-milk cheese from...somewhere. How the hell am I supposed to keep track?

I love America, and I am very pleased that I will be moving back, but damn! Great cheese and great bread is a wonderful thing, and the Frogs do them well...maybe the best in the world.

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Freedom is an unalloyed good thing, even if it bites you in the ass because you did something stupid or even just unwise, or even something that has manageable but significant risk.

Like drinking raw milk.

Florida Department of Health Provides Update on Raw Milk

Due to continued recent severe cases of Campylobacter and Shiga toxin-producing E. coli (STEC) infections linked to Keely Farms Dairy, located in New Smyrna Beach, FL (Volusia County), the Florida Department of Health is providing information to assist Floridians in making informed decisions about their health. Sanitation practices in this farm are of concern due to the number of cases. There have been 21 cases since January 24, 2025, including six children under the age of 10, and seven hospitalizations linked to consumption of raw milk from this farm. Severe complications have been reported in at least two cases.
The Florida Department of Health will continue working with Keely Farms Dairy to ensure that effective sanitation practices are implemented consistently across every batch.
STEC bacteria in its most severe form can result in hemolytic uremic syndrome (HUS) which is characterized by hemolysis and kidney failure, which is of particular concern for children. Groups at higher risk for severe illness include infants and young children, pregnant women, elderly individuals, and those with weakened immune systems.
Floridians are encouraged to use this information to make informed decisions about their health and sources of raw milk should they choose to consume it.

The state of Florida is managing this very well. Raw milk is legal in the state, and all they are doing is making sure that people are aware of the risks. They are treating Floridians like adults, which is a far cry from the nanny-state behavior in blue states and, sadly, in more than a few red states.

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[The Spruce / Leah Maroney]

Yup...that looks great! And as your snobbish Food Thread proprietor I should be telling you to modify the recipe for Breakfast Pie With a Hash Brown Crust to homemade hash browns instead of the packaged ones.

But that would be stupid. It's a pretty easy dish to make, and it looks delicious. Why complicate it? Maybe if you have some leftover homemade hash browns you can be all snooty and flaunt your gourmet cooking, but I'm going to make this with store bought!

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Remember that Croque Monsieur I waxed poetic about at the end of June? Yeah...we went back to the café to have another, and it was a decidedly inferior sandwich. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't special. Not crisp enough, not enough ham, and even the fries that were so delicious the first time were merely good.

Maybe Thomas Wolfe is correct; "You can't go home again!"

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He is amusing, but not 10,000,000 followers amusing. Although he is taking some well-aimed potshots at an absolute dipshit Woke celebrity chef, so I'll cut him a bit of slack.

[Hat Tip: nurse ratched]

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[Hat Tip: Misanthropic Humanitarian]

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I thought France would have good garlic, but the Frogs seem to have the same problem we have in the U.S. At least they don't import filthy garlic from China. Pork is great here, but no game, so send all of your extra antelope to: cbd dot aoshq at gmail dot com.

~~Who are those poor deluded souls~~ We know who shakes their Manhattans! These are the same people who drink fine bourbon with coke, and probably shake red wine with ice too.

$1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality, but nothing mind-blowing. More than that and I think you are paying for hype and rarity, which may look good in your liquor cabinet, but doesn't translate to more quality in the bottle.

The problem...or the solution...is to buy lots of bourbon, take tasting notes, and eventually arrive at your favorites! It should take forty or fifty years, but it is worth it!

Posted by: CBD at 04:00 PM

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1 Food fight

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:00 PM (+qU29)

2 Grilling hamburgers today, and a scotch later as no work tonight finally

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:01 PM (+qU29)

3 Will nood

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 04:01 PM (RE0lB)

4 Been thete done that

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 04:04 PM (+qU29)

5 Early thread greetings!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:05 PM (ZVgZ4)

6 If you have hash brown patties, just put them into the air fryer as is, salt after finish and serve. There is no improving it.

Oh yes, I might have had my monthly Trader Joe's trip, and might be serving those this very night with burgers, TJ's peanut noodle salad, and a dragonfruit blueberry salad.

You just can't beat the goodness (and the price)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:05 PM (tOcjL)

7 I missed it, sorry- why don't you live in America anymore?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 04:06 PM (i49OE)

8 Cheese, bread, wine, France. OK

Posted by: 80's music fan at August 10, 2025 04:06 PM (YlWIZ)

9 When's dinner?

Just kidding - just finishing lunch out here in the worker's paradise.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:06 PM (QGaXH)

10 The French make eating well a bigger thing than, say, Americans. Even New Orleanians are more gourmand than gourmet.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:07 PM (ZVgZ4)

11 Woe be to he who knows the pain of being let down by a Croque Monsieur.

Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (muwun)

12 >>I missed it, sorry- why don't you live in America anymore?

He was less than enthusiastic about Trump so Trump deported him.

Sad, but he deserved it.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (viF8m)

13 My newest find at Trader Joe's is their Rhubarb- Strawberry Soda. It honestly tastes like a strawberry rhubarb pie in a can. I'm trying to figure out how to make a nice cocktail of it.

Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 04:11 PM (lJ0H4)

14 Freedom is an unalloyed good thing, even if it bites you in the ass because you did something stupid or even just unwise, or even something that has manageable but significant risk.

There have been 21 cases since January 24, 2025, including six children under the age of 10,

Raw milk is legal in the state, and all they are doing is making sure that people are aware of the risks. They are treating Floridians like adults

So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?

Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

15 12 >>I missed it, sorry- why don't you live in America anymore?

He was less than enthusiastic about Trump so Trump deported him.

Sad, but he deserved it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (viF8m)

I thought it was a long term job assignment? But I'm just an occasional visitor to this planet.....PLACE, I mean this place, honest....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:13 PM (QGaXH)

16 There is no such thing as too much cheese.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:13 PM (ULPxl)

17 Love that the Maple juice hater is recommending a recipe with Maple syrup!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:13 PM (nVXpg)

18 If I were a good French baker, I'd move to the states and open a bakery. People will pay absolutely insane prices for something that's really good, or even not that good, but has cachet.

Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:14 PM (Riz8t)

19 Oops.

Posted by: Archimedes = Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:15 PM (Riz8t)

20 So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre

Children are not buying the milk...

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:16 PM (nVXpg)

21 Has anyone noticed the recipe calls for:
2 tablespoons maple syrup
??

Furthermore, the recipe goes on calling for reserving the rest for, and I quote,

"... and then smother the pancakes with the remaining maple syrup, arranging them on a twin to queen sized mattress, and make sweet sweet love to your partner while enjoying the divine gift of delicious maple syrup and pancakes.

- serves 2
- total calories net, (zero)
"

Oh my!

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 04:16 PM (cduTK)

22 This morning I canned another 8 pints of apple sauce, and yesterday's batch of apple chips are still in the fruit dryer. Can you tell it is apple season here?

I finally got the last parts I need for the juice press, and today, when it is cooler, I will be finishing the re-building and a thorough clean.
I do like having apple juice, it is always a good gift, and tasty in the winter.

They saying goes, "Apple juice is tasty, but it is terribly cruel to the worms"

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (rbvCR)

23 So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre

Children are not buying the milk...

Okay, but if their parents buy it and say "drink it, it's safe", they lack the agency to say no.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

24 13 My newest find at Trader Joe's is their Rhubarb- Strawberry Soda. It honestly tastes like a strawberry rhubarb pie in a can. I'm trying to figure out how to make a nice cocktail of it.

Posted by: Tuna at August 10, 2025 04:11 PM (lJ0H4)

Spouse has gotten into granola, so I picked up their protein peanut granola. He's excited to give it a go, especially at the price point (under $4/bag). I've been continuing my 30 minute bake roasted chopped fruits with 2-3 TB sugar and 1 TB cornstarch dishes that get the 5 minute "granola topping" adds. Kids are demolishing them, and it's another way to remember to use up forgotten fridge fruits. Did it with less than perfect peaches and some blueberries yesterday and topping with a no-sugar or fake sugar blueberry vanilla granola...probably will try the peanut one soon in a PBJ type bake...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (tOcjL)

25 Are you keeping a cheese diary, CBD?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (kpS4V)

26
So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?

Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

It is why they have parents.

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:18 PM (tOcjL)

27 >>> I missed it, sorry- why don't you live in America anymore?
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He was less than enthusiastic about Trump so Trump deported him.

Sad, but he deserved it.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (viF8m)

America was too close to the source of maple syrup.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 04:19 PM (cduTK)

28 Anybody try that Kewpie brand Japanese mayonnaise? Is it that much better?

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:19 PM (kpS4V)

29 So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

I understand your question, but this is a single dairy that has issues and is being monitored . You might just as well ask how you handle the situation where Peter Pan Peanut Butter has salmonella, and you gave it to kids who can't gauge the risk? Or bagged lettuce, or Boar's Head Meats, any of the myriad of other foods that have been recalled for salmonella or listeria?

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:20 PM (h7ZuX)

30 >>> 23
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Okay, but if their parents buy it and say "drink it, it's safe", they lack the agency to say no.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

1) I *knew* you weren't Brett Favre!!!
2) True, but how is this different that any other parenting issue? It's starting to look like "CPS" is a bigger problem than what it was (supposedly) intended to solve.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:20 PM (ULPxl)

31 >>> Anybody try that Kewpie brand Japanese mayonnaise? Is it that much better?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:19 PM (kpS4V)

Lots of cooks swear by it for cooking. I think it is sweeter.

Posted by: banana Dread Pirate Summer Long Balls Dream at August 10, 2025 04:21 PM (cduTK)

32 I 'm having Ray's Hot Links and brie for first supper.

Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 04:21 PM (LHPAg)

33 So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

Fascism and totalitarianism backed by harsh sentences is the only answer. As Randi Weingarten says "CHILDREN ARE NOT YOURS, THEIR WELLBEING IS THE FULL AND TOTAL RESPONSIBILITY OF THE STATE AND VARIOUS CHILDLESS KARENS ON THE INTERNET"

I feel that is a sufficient explanation.

Oh, look, a child is riding a bicycle without a helmet, I must contact the city cops, they care. K'bye, Thanx!

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (rbvCR)

34 You don't have to go to France, or as the French call it France, to get great cheese. My current obsession is Prairie Breeze cheddar which I am currently munching on.

If you like cheddar seek out Prairie Breeze. It will change you.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)

35 Also with the price of beef, got the kids to finally love a flipped chili - little beef, lots of beans. Did 1 lb of 90% beef that I didn't drain, and added 4 different beans (1lb can each) - black beans, great northern beans, cannelini beans, and refried beans. It was a huge hit, so that's on my "feed a crowd" list now b/c it does drop the price of the pot by $10 or more (since usually, I used the reverse)...

Why these beans - they are my favorite four, separate from chickpeas and lentils (both of which don't belong in chili - yes, I know lentils "replace" beef, but I hate replace...I want to know a bean is a bean and a lentil is a lentil...and I like lentils as is)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (tOcjL)

36 Lunch is a Bronc beer, and a can of Aylmer's Chicom Nodule soup.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:23 PM (zPc+3)

37 >>> 36 Lunch is a Bronc beer, and a can of Aylmer's Chicom Nodule soup.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:23 PM (zPc+3)

That... doesn't sound very appetizing. In fact I don't think I'd like 'Murican Nodules either.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:24 PM (ULPxl)

38 Woe be to he who knows the pain of being let down by a Croque Monsieur.
Posted by: Cicero (@cicero) at August 10, 2025 04:08 PM (muwun)

Avoid the Croquet Masseuses. They pummel you with wooden mallets.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:24 PM (zPc+3)

39 34 You don't have to go to France, or as the French call it France, to get great cheese. My current obsession is Prairie Breeze cheddar which I am currently munching on.

If you like cheddar seek out Prairie Breeze. It will change you.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)

Funny CBD mentioned cheese and milk - I have noticed that dairy products have been the cheapest proteins (sans tofu and beans) around per lb lately...if I could eat it, we'd be eating baked zitis and lasagnas and cheese quesadillas by the pound...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:25 PM (tOcjL)

40 Hello Food Lovers,

What's cooking?

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 04:25 PM (iGZ9n)

41 I lived 3 years in Germany care of Uncle Sam's Air Force at the end of the 1970s. I went back for about a year total 2 months at a time on rotation as a C-130 pilot for the next few years. I had an apartment about 12 miles from the base when I lived there and shopped some on the economy.

Europeans in general like a larger variety and better quality food than we Americans. Back then, we used to spend on average around 12% of our budget on food while the Euro's spent 25%. We have changed some since then as witnessed at a lot of our grocery stores. And in our bigger cities you can find more variety but then I wouldn't want to live in those Blue "Oases". Over there you find the variety in even the smaller towns. To some degree, I do still miss having butcher shops, bakeries, cheese shops and fruit-vegetable shops.

Posted by: BillB at August 10, 2025 04:26 PM (TQxb9)

42

Did Charles de Gaulle inspire the Monty Python cheese shoppe sketch?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 04:26 PM (63Dwl)

43 So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

The responsibility lies with the parents.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:26 PM (zPc+3)

44 So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

Thats why they have parents.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 04:27 PM (iGZ9n)

45 CBD, I'm guessing you went to the French countryside for the goat cheese, no?

Posted by: dantesed at August 10, 2025 04:27 PM (Oy/m2)

46 kay, but if their parents buy it and say "drink it, it's safe", they lack the agency to say no.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:17 PM (Riz8t)

1) I *knew* you weren't Brett Favre!!!
2) True, but how is this different that any other parenting issue? It's starting to look like "CPS" is a bigger problem than what it was (supposedly) intended to solve.

It isn't necessarily different, but it's the food thread, and the extracts I clipped from the post raise a question. I think it's a reasonable question.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:28 PM (Riz8t)

47 How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
-- Charles de Gaulle

hahahaha

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:29 PM (aURVT)

48 42

Did Charles de Gaulle inspire the Monty Python cheese shoppe sketch?
Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 04:26 PM (63Dwl)
No, the Ministry Of Silly Walks.

Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 04:30 PM (LHPAg)

49 How can you govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?
-- Charles de Gaulle

hahahaha
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:29 PM (aURVT)

Balance it with 246 varieties of graft?

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:30 PM (zPc+3)

50 Tonight is grilled chicken shishkabob. Then we observe National S'mores Day.

Well, they do. I don't. Gross.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 04:30 PM (JvZF+)

51 It is why they have parents.
The responsibility lies with the parents.
Thats why they have parents.

Yes, I get that, but these responses don't really answer the question of where to draw a line if the parents are irresponsible. I don't have a good answer, but Joseph and Magda Goebbels were parents, and I doubt most people would approve of their approach. Anyway, I don't want to sidetrack the thread away from food so I'll just leave it there.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

52 It isn't necessarily different, but it's the food thread, and the extracts I clipped from the post raise a question. I think it's a reasonable question.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:28 PM (Riz8t)

It is. If parents knowingly provide contaminated food, that's wrong, in my opinion. But they wouldn't have known until people fell ill and it was traced to the dairy. It is at that point, I presume, that the health department stepped in and started monitoring the dairy to make sure they are following safe practices, at which point the milk should be safe for consumption again.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:31 PM (h7ZuX)

53 My newest find at Trader Joe's is their Rhubarb- Strawberry Soda. ... I'm trying to figure out how to make a nice cocktail of it.

Open can. Pour half into a glass. Add vodka. Add ice. Add little paper umbrella.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 04:31 PM (TnGg2)

54 36 Lunch is a Bronc beer, and a can of Aylmer's Chicom Nodule soup.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:23 PM (zPc+3)

Well deserved after the yard work you described on the previous thread.

Meanwhile it's approaching 'Sunday Afternoon Nap Time'. A revered tradition here in The OC.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:32 PM (QGaXH)

55 Never buy goat 'cheese' in the Asian market.

Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 04:32 PM (LHPAg)

56 French Cheese is awesome. Of course it goes better with French wine. And bread.

But mostly wine. Speaking of which..........

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 04:32 PM (iGZ9n)

57 At my church men's group meeting this week, we had an amazing jalapeno-popper casserole topped with bacon.

And an equally amazing peach cobbler for dessert.

Just mmmm, so tasty!

Posted by: "Perfessor" Squirrel at August 10, 2025 04:32 PM (IBQGV)

58
What's cooking?
Posted by: Pete Bog

Hey Pete!

Tri- tip in a while. Bought a 20lb bag($ouch!) 7 tri=-tips. Life is good!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:33 PM (nVXpg)

59 Yes, I get that, but these responses don't really answer the question of where to draw a line if the parents are irresponsible. I don't have a good answer, but Joseph and Magda Goebbels were parents, and I doubt most people would approve of their approach. Anyway, I don't want to sidetrack the thread away from food so I'll just leave it there.
Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:31 PM (Riz8t)

Oh, I agree completely. Any parent who gives their children raw milk is ABSOLUTLY committing the same atrocity that the upper echelon of the Nazi party committed on Jews, Russians, Gypsies and Communists.

You sound concerned. Are you also missing the mask mandates and the one way stickers in Walmart?

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 04:34 PM (rbvCR)

60 A couple of months ago, I made a 16 lb brisket for a party, and froze several 1 lb chunks for later use. There is nothing better on God's green earth than pulling a piece of smoked brisket out of the freezer and enjoying it at your leisure.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:34 PM (Riz8t)

61 Tri- tip in a while. Bought a 20lb bag($ouch!) 7 tri=-tips. Life is good!
Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:33 PM (nVXpg)

How is your recovery proceeding? I am planning to go to Corsicana by way of AJ, so I can bring along some artifacts.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:35 PM (zPc+3)

62 50 Tonight is grilled chicken shishkabob. Then we observe National S'mores Day.

Well, they do. I don't. Gross.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 04:30 PM (JvZF+)

Bonfire roasted marshmallows are great...they really don't need anything extra. That's always the problem with smores. Dark chocolate is great, graham crackers are good, but they seem to drag done and make a mess of that perfect marshmallow vs improving it...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:35 PM (tOcjL)

63 Kindltot at August 10, 2025 04:34 PM (rbvCR)

Lighten up, Francis.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:35 PM (Riz8t)

64 And so it begins....

I bought a half bushel of Roma tomatoes and gave my friends 10.

The rest are mine to eat.

Canning...nope.
Making chilis or stews...nope
Freezing any...nope.

Just eating them. I'm going all Robert Gibbon Johnson on them.

Oh, inspired by the food thread, I did pick up new non-stick cookware yesterday. Nice set. I don't cook much...yet, but this is a start.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 04:36 PM (jvJvP)

65 Lately, I have been having some yuuge mushrooms pop up in the yard here. Some are puffballs, which I recognize, and believe to be edible, others, not sure at all.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (zPc+3)

66 Some goat cheese is goo, but I had someone who grew up drinking goat milk and milking goats tell me that goat cheese stinks like goats and she will not eat it. She also said that fresh, warm goat milk on your Cheerios in the morning was very bad.

Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (98kQX)

67 how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre

Their children, not for us to say.
None of our fucking business. Pretty simple really.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (RE0lB)

68 Lately, I have been having some yuuge mushrooms pop up in the yard here. Some are puffballs, which I recognize, and believe to be edible, others, not sure at all.

If your comments drop to zero we'll know.

Posted by: Archimedes at August 10, 2025 04:38 PM (Riz8t)

69 While I don't have any fancy-shmancy frog cheese shops nearby, I do have a local source of cheese, a bread bakery, a farmstand, three different meat markets and a pie place within 45 minutes of my home.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:38 PM (ULPxl)

70 Snacking on Jamaican jerk spice cheddar cheese. It's damn good.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:38 PM (kpS4V)

71 7 I missed it, sorry- why don't you live in America anymore?
Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 04:06 PM (i49OE)

He'd tell you, but he'd have to kill you.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:39 PM (aURVT)

72
How is your recovery proceeding? I am planning to go to Corsicana by way of AJ, so I can bring along some artifacts.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

Left side works but not well.
Let me know when you'll be comin into town, the pizza oven can be fired up!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 04:39 PM (nVXpg)

73 Lately, I have been having some yuuge mushrooms pop up in the yard here. Some are puffballs, which I recognize, and believe to be edible, others, not sure at all.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (zPc+3)

Sounds like the making of an excellent Food/Drug Thread! Eat them all and report back pronto!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 04:39 PM (i49OE)

74 Keely Dairy states that it was not notified before the FL Dep't of Health issued its bulletin and it also has not been contacted about any investigations or actions. The dairy owner note that the dairy passed a health inspection the month before.

https://tinyurl.com/3ca5xzpw (local paper article on subject)

Posted by: wcgreen at August 10, 2025 04:39 PM (u5BVN)

75 66...oat cheese stinks like goats and she will not eat it. She also said that fresh, warm goat milk on your Cheerios in the morning was very bad.

Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (98kQX)

100% agree on this. I can stomach neither goat nor sheep cheese. I just smell goats and sheep.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:40 PM (h7ZuX)

76 If I were a good French baker, I'd move to the states and open a bakery. People will pay absolutely insane prices for something that's really good, or even not that good, but has cachet.
Posted by: Brett Favre

I think they’d go out of business. You have to buy and eat it the same day. We don’t have that culture here. French bakers thrive in France because “Il faut” - one must! - have bread to go with your meal. It must be baked that day and eaten the same day. We just don’t have that culture. Contrast that with imported cheeses. Cheese is meant to last, even to be aged. It does well here in the USA because it can be imported. You can’t import a baguette, or at least you shouldn’t. Although you’d swear it was hard as a rock, you really can’t drive nails with a two day old bâtard loaf!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:40 PM (ZVgZ4)

77 Aldi sells cheese curds. Why doesn't every grocery store?

Posted by: Quarter Twenty at August 10, 2025 04:41 PM (XQo4F)

78 All this talk of frogs on this thread and the last and not a single g**d*** frog to be seen.....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:41 PM (QGaXH)

79 Try casu martzu … if you dare ….

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 04:41 PM (e58hu)

80 My wife wanted to "try something different." My initial thought is that I'll be scrounging for a frozen pizza around 9PM.

Moroccan Chickpea Stew. No clue. Other than chickpeas, which I don't hate. What in the world would go with this? Besides something like nan. Which she's serving too.

I'll be over there ----> with the Martinis.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 04:42 PM (Q4IgG)

81 the Rockies are losing

Posted by: gKWVE at August 10, 2025 04:43 PM (gKWVE)

82 The wife has developed a taste for 'goat pearls'... goat cheese in small (marble sized) balls filled with honey or figs. On the other hand, a really good Gouda or Bleu with honey crisp apples slices goes well accompanied by a Topo Chico out on the patio while the pork steaks are grilling.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 04:44 PM (3Ope8)

83 100% agree on this. I can stomach neither goat nor sheep cheese. I just smell goats and sheep.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:40 PM (h7ZuX)

The rodeo I went to last evening had "mutton bustin'". Little kids riding on sheep, trying not to get bucked off. It was fun to watch. No kids or sheep were harmed in the production.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:44 PM (zPc+3)

84 Martini Farmer, that sounds delicious! You might be pleasantly surprised.

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:45 PM (kpS4V)

85 "The wife has developed a taste for 'goat pearls..."

You should try our "Goat Pearl Necklace"!

Posted by: ZZ Top at August 10, 2025 04:46 PM (i49OE)

86 >>> 75 66...oat cheese stinks like goats and she will not eat it. She also said that fresh, warm goat milk on your Cheerios in the morning was very bad.

Posted by: huerfano at August 10, 2025 04:37 PM (98kQX)

100% agree on this. I can stomach neither goat nor sheep cheese. I just smell goats and sheep.
Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:40 PM (h7ZuX)

No critters should stink unless they're crammed into a small area with insufficient bedding and/or the cleanout isn't happening often enough.

... OK goat *bucks* stink, because they pee all over themselves to attract the hot goat does. I've never had goat milk but I assume if the does are kept with the bucks year round, or they get into plants that affect the flavor of the milk, that can cause problems. And I've read that you have to get any critter's milk chilled ASAP to avoid picking up weird taste. Warm milk of any type on cereal does not appeal to me.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:48 PM (ULPxl)

87 You can’t import casu martzu to the States, and I do believe it was once outlawed in Italy and the EU! Newer refinements in production are meant to make it safer to eat, but YMMV!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Casu_martzu

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:49 PM (ZVgZ4)

88 >>I think they’d go out of business. You have to buy and eat it the same day. We don’t have that culture here. French bakers thrive in France because “Il faut” - one must! - have bread to go with your meal. It must be baked that day and eaten the same day.

We have not one but 2 bakeries in my small town. They are always busy.

There's just no comparison between fresh baked and grocery store. I think a lot of people would agree if they had the option.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:49 PM (viF8m)

89 79 Try casu martzu … if you dare ….
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 04:41 PM (e58hu)

Not just no, but hell no. I would have to be very, very, hungry, like death-bed hungry, and already have gagged my way through the last of the goat cheese, before I would even consider eating that.

Posted by: Dash my lace wigs! at August 10, 2025 04:50 PM (h7ZuX)

90 govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

You could force a surrender by waving a grilled wonderbread American cheese sandwich and the cheap brand tomato soup around.

Posted by: DaveA at August 10, 2025 04:50 PM (FhXTo)

91 >>.. OK goat *bucks* stink, because they pee all over themselves to attract the hot goat does.

Same. Maybe I should layoff the asparagus.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:51 PM (viF8m)

92 What about breast milk cheese? I’m joking. But NYC — Brooklyn of course — has a new ice cream that supposedly tastes like breast milk. Yeck. This is BK hipster douchebag creepozoid faggotry.

https://tinyurl.com/yjb467pm

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 04:51 PM (e58hu)

93 Wife and I took her cousin out for her birthday to a place called California Grill in Whittier near Whittier College. I had a Country Club sandwich and they both had French Dip sandwiches. Food was pretty good. A fun evening g overall now that our parenting responsibilities are behind us.

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:52 PM (QGaXH)

94 36 Nodule soup.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:23 PM (zPc+3)

ewwwww

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:53 PM (aURVT)

95 There's just no comparison between fresh baked and grocery store. I think a lot of people would agree if they had the option.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:49 PM (viF8m)

Some of the better grocery stores have in-store bakeries. Heck, even Walmarts have in-store bakeries, but if you are in Halifax, be sure to Sikh one out that has uncontaminated ovens.

/self

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:53 PM (zPc+3)

96 I like a good chèvre just fine, but I rarely buy it. It costs too much, and I’m usually more interested in a good cheddar or emmentaler. The Amish make good Swiss style cheese (they should, that’s where they’re from)!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:53 PM (ZVgZ4)

97 Which cheese has the same strain of bacteria as penicillin?
I feel like I should know this in case I ever get hurled back in time

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 04:55 PM (6Tzur)

98 Which cheese has the same strain of bacteria as penicillin?
I feel like I should know this in case I ever get hurled back in time
Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 04:55 PM (6Tzur)

It's a mold, not a bacterium.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (zPc+3)

99 I do like fresh bakery bread, but you do have to eat it promptly, which is a problem living on my own.

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (ZVgZ4)

100 80 My wife wanted to "try something different." My initial thought is that I'll be scrounging for a frozen pizza around 9PM.

Moroccan Chickpea Stew. No clue. Other than chickpeas, which I don't hate. What in the world would go with this? Besides something like nan. Which she's serving too.

I'll be over there ----> with the Martinis.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 04:42 PM (Q4IgG)

Fresh figs...Trader Joe's had them for a great price, and would totally work here...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (tOcjL)

101 The state of Florida is managing this very well. Raw milk is legal in the state, and all they are doing is making sure that people are aware of the risks. They are treating Floridians like adults, which is a far cry from the nanny-state behavior in blue states and, sadly, in more than a few red states.
Posted by: CBD

Keely Dairy states that it was not notified before the FL Dep't of Health issued its bulletin and it also has not been contacted about any investigations or actions. The dairy owner note that the dairy passed a health inspection the month before.
https://tinyurl.com/3ca5xzpw (local paper article on subject)
Posted by: wcgreen

Apparently, while "raw milk" is legal in Florida, it's not legal to sell it as food for humans.

From wcgreen's article:
"Raw milk is sold in Florida 'not for human consumption.' It is clearly stated on our labels as required by law. Due to legal requirements, in spite of the quality of the equipment used for processing and cleanliness of the facility, this milk is sold only as pet or livestock food."

So the people getting sick, and getting their kids sick, from raw milk are eating pet food.

Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 04:57 PM (DgGvY)

102 90 govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

You could force a surrender by waving a grilled wonderbread American cheese sandwich and the cheap brand tomato soup around.
Posted by: DaveA at August 10, 2025 04:50 PM (FhXTo)

I've had a similar conjecture about a hypothetical North Korean invasion of the south. Just set up some big bar-b-que grills and fans to blow the smoke toward the invaders and watch hilarity ensue....

Posted by: Anonymous Rogue in Kalifornistan (ARiK) at August 10, 2025 04:57 PM (QGaXH)

103 64 I did pick up new non-stick cookware yesterday. Nice set. I don't cook much...yet, but this is a start.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 04:36 PM (jvJvP)

That's great news!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 04:58 PM (aURVT)

104 I do like fresh bakery bread, but you do have to eat it promptly, which is a problem living on my own.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (ZVgZ4)

I am 29 enough to remember both a milkman, and a bread man, who would come around daily in their Divco trucks, and drop off fresh milk and bread. And door-to-door vegetable peddlers in season, too.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (zPc+3)

105 OK goat *bucks* stink, because they pee all over themselves to attract the hot goat does.

Same. Maybe I should layoff the asparagus.
Posted by: JackStraw

Do I want to know why you're trying to attract she-goats?

Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (DgGvY)

106 >>Some of the better grocery stores have in-store bakeries. Heck, even Walmarts have in-store bakeries, but if you are in Halifax, be sure to Sikh one out that has uncontaminated ovens.

There's a small grocery store chain in RI, shut up, called Dave's. It's exactly how a grocery store should be run.

Not just an in-house bakery but every single department is excellent, from produce to meats to seafood. I don't even like shopping but going to Dave's is pretty fun.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)

107 SanFranpsycho, is just minutes away from one of the best cheese shops in California.
I order from them when the weather cools off enough.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:01 PM (HFcKg)

108 "mutton bustin'".

I love my wife but oh ewe kid!

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 05:02 PM (VOrn4)

109 It's a mold, not a bacterium.
Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon

I'n clearly doomed as a time traveler

Posted by: vmom deport deport deport at August 10, 2025 05:02 PM (6Tzur)

110 90 govern a country which has 246 varieties of cheese?

You could force a surrender by waving a grilled wonderbread American cheese sandwich and the cheap brand tomato soup around.
Posted by: DaveA at August 10, 2025 04:50 PM (FhXTo)

hahahahaha

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:02 PM (aURVT)

111 It’s a blue bread mold called “Penicillium Deuteromycotina”!

Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 05:02 PM (ZVgZ4)

112 There are three excellent cheese stores within a five-minute walk of my apartment.

Ok, fine. But remember your audience. Where are the descriptions of the Mademoiselles Fromagère?

#BeBetter, CBD, #BeBetter.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 05:03 PM (0sNs1)

113 >>Do I want to know why you're trying to attract she-goats?

Enthusiasms.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:03 PM (viF8m)

114 99 I do like fresh bakery bread, but you do have to eat it promptly, which is a problem living on my own.
Posted by: NemoMeImpuneLacessit at August 10, 2025 04:56 PM (ZVgZ4)

You can freeze it.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:03 PM (aURVT)

115 Do I want to know why you're trying to attract she-goats?
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM

To be fair, who doesn't?

Posted by: Abdully al-McAbdulface at August 10, 2025 05:04 PM (0sNs1)

116 Not just an in-house bakery but every single department is excellent, from produce to meats to seafood. I don't even like shopping but going to Dave's is pretty fun.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (viF8m)

There is a "chain" here in Alberta called Freson Brothers IGA. They appear to be affiliated with the IGA chain, which are mostly mediocre stores. Freson's are several cuts above. Good in-store bakeries, good meat departments, outstanding deli sections. When I was working in the oilpatch, I would stop at Fresons in Whitecourt or Grande Prairie to load up on groceries and goodies to stock my pantry at the rig. Closest one to me now is in Drumheller, an hour away. Fine store, just too far for me go solely for groceries.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 05:06 PM (zPc+3)

117 105 OK goat *bucks* stink, because they pee all over themselves to attract the hot goat does.

Same. Maybe I should layoff the asparagus.
Posted by: JackStraw

Do I want to know why you're trying to attract she-goats?
Posted by: mikeski at August 10, 2025 04:59 PM (DgGvY)

I want to know.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:07 PM (aURVT)

118 OK goat *bucks* stink, because they pee all over themselves to attract the hot goat does.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 04:48 PM (ULPxl)
——-

[Furiously taking notes]

— Akmed the Palestinian

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 05:08 PM (e58hu)

119 Fuckin' A, fellas... I'm in Chicago for a week on business, which is bad enough... but the fancy high rise hotel I'm in is PACKED with people in town for the DSA Annual Convention.

I think a cyanide tablet is on the menu for my dinner tonight.

BTW, these people STINK. I can't believe they're letting them use a nice hotel.

Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 10, 2025 05:08 PM (mBOKD)

120 It’s a blue bread mold called “Penicillium Deuteromycotina”!
Posted by:

Why I don't worry about finishing up moldy bread. Kill me or cure me.
As a single, freeze a lot of bread. Use half over two days, freeze half for some other two days.
I've also just sawed slices off a frozen Italian bread, micro ten seconds a side, and perfectly good for slopping up tomato gravy.

Posted by: From about That Time at August 10, 2025 05:09 PM (RE0lB)

121 >>I want to know.

You think you do but you don't.

It's better for both of us if we just move on from this topic.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)

122 Well, beer break is over. Back to the salt mines. I might have to re-light the burn barrel. Those tree limbs and caragana boughs burn right down, and leave very little ash at all.

Caragana is a fast-growing woody shrub that originated in Russia. Yellow flowers in Spring, that mature to brown seed pods that burst with an audible snap! and scatter the seeds. Makes good windbreaks. Stuff can spread and absolutely take over an old homestead.

Posted by: Alberta Oil Peon at August 10, 2025 05:12 PM (zPc+3)

123 DSA = Democratic Socialists of America

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:12 PM (aURVT)

124 >>> 119 Fuckin' A, fellas... I'm in Chicago for a week on business, which is bad enough... but the fancy high rise hotel I'm in is PACKED with people in town for the DSA Annual Convention.

I think a cyanide tablet is on the menu for my dinner tonight.

BTW, these people STINK. I can't believe they're letting them use a nice hotel.
Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 10, 2025 05:08 PM (mBOKD)

YD.

The tablets go on the *commies'* plates, not yours.

Posted by: Helena Handbasket at August 10, 2025 05:13 PM (ULPxl)

125 DSA = Democratic Socialists of America
Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:12 PM (aURVT)
——

Nah, bruh. Dick-Smoking Assfucks.

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 05:14 PM (e58hu)

126 Leiderkranz and limburger are cow milk cheeses that outstink any goat cheese.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:15 PM (HFcKg)

127 > Although he is taking some well-aimed potshots at an absolute dipshit Woke celebrity chef,

There's another video where he watches Gordon Ramsay also make egg fried rice, except that Ramsay gets it right.

https://tinyurl.com/mw4rzmu4

Uncle Roger approved.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 10, 2025 05:15 PM (qpyNK)

128 Rolling Stone

DEM SOCIALISTS CONVENE IN CHICAGO TO CHART FUTURE AFTER MAMDANI’S WIN
After an incredible — and incredibly messy — year, Democratic Socialists of America will meet in Chicago for their national convention

https://archive.is/Q0Puk

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:16 PM (aURVT)

129 If you like cheddar seek out Prairie Breeze. It will change you.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 04:22 PM (viF8m)

Get thee to Pullman Washington, and buy some of WSU's cheeses.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:16 PM (Fzkmo)

130 121 >>I want to know.

You think you do but you don't.

It's better for both of us if we just move on from this topic.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)

Now I'm scared.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (aURVT)

131 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 10, 2025 05:08 P

Good luck!

I had to look it up. DSA - Democratic Socialists of America

That's a tough break. On the pkus side, the chicks are probably giving it away. And you can impress them by telling them that France has well over 1000 types of cheese.

And is a socialist paradise. And Canadian healthcare is the best.

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (jvJvP)

132 Hahaha! Not to laff at your misfortune, Mister Dice, but....

https://convention2025.dsausa.org/

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (kpS4V)

133 > but the fancy high rise hotel I'm in is PACKED with people in town for the DSA Annual Convention.

Wait.... aren't socialists supposed to be heroes of the proletariat? What the fuck are they doing in a fancy hotel?

They should stay in a flop house, or at least a Motel 6 or something, and give the rest of the money to the poor.

Why, it's almost like they're a bunch of dishonest hypocrites, isn't it?

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (qpyNK)

134 Cougar Gold !

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:18 PM (HFcKg)

135 Get thee to Pullman Washington, and buy some of WSU's cheeses.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:16 PM

For someone who likes robust cheeses, I'm surprised you'd recommend something that's not husky.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 05:18 PM (0sNs1)

136 I've been mighty lax on the cooking front recently, so I decided to remedy that tonight. I'm trying out the chicken pistachio korma from Camellia Panjabi's "50 Great Curries of India".

Boiling the pistachios and removing the skins was quite the pain in the ***, so this dish had better rock.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 10, 2025 05:19 PM (/HDaX)

137 > On the pkus side, the chicks are probably giving it away.

I'd recommend taking a very close look at those "chicks" before committing to anything.

Look for Adam's apples, five-o'clock-shadows, and suspicious bulges in recreational regions.

Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 10, 2025 05:19 PM (qpyNK)

138 Posted by: BillB at August 10, 2025 04:26 PM

By chance you wouldn't have given me a lifte England to Germany in 1979?

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:19 PM (+qU29)

139 131 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 10, 2025 05:08 P

I had to look it up. DSA - Democratic Socialists of America

That's a tough break. On the pkus side, the chicks are probably giving it away.
Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 05:17 PM (jvJvP)

Yeah, but "it" is accompanied by other ... things. Ewwwwww.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:20 PM (aURVT)

140 What’s a ‘Democratic Socialist’? It’s an oxymoron. I assume they mean “Fart-sucking hideous faggots and hairy armpit bull dykes licking each other’s slimy taints.”

Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 05:20 PM (e58hu)

141 > but the fancy high rise hotel I'm in is PACKED with people in town for the DSA Annual Convention.
----------
One would think they'd hit up the hostels, as would their ilk.

Posted by: Martini Farmer at August 10, 2025 05:20 PM (Q4IgG)

142 It's better for both of us if we just move on from this topic.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:11 PM (viF8m)

We'd take you seriously if weren't for those velcro gloves

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 05:21 PM (3Ope8)

143 Either way, craziest plane ride I ever had, and never had a bad flight anywhere

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:21 PM (+qU29)

144 That DSA convention website has a groovy Peter Max vibe, but you know it's going to be dreary as fuck.

Yudhishthira, you gotta get a few of them drunk in the lounge and make some converts. It'll be like Legionnaires Disease, but with sanity as the bug. 🦠

Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 05:22 PM (kpS4V)

145 From the instructions for the DSA "Solidarity Journal":

"Please note that Solidarity Journal messages advocating for or against any convention proposal, NPC candidate, slate, or DSA caucus will not be accepted."

And you thought NPCs weren't real.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 05:24 PM (0sNs1)

146 Maybe Mamdani will show up at the convention.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:26 PM (aURVT)

147 "Raw milk is legal in the state, and all they are doing is making sure that people are aware of the risks. They are treating Floridians like adults, which is a far cry from the nanny-state behavior in blue states and, sadly, in more than a few red states."

yeah, "WE" (USA) do have pretty safe food, but FDA failed us on the mRNA killer drug, and probably several other instances where "Safety" was used as a cudgel, not as "real science".

"Adults" probably don't generally have the capability to discover the (absolute?) safety of their foods. But "raw milk" and various cheeses produced is a fine line between FDA exerting its control, and safe foods for sale outside BigFood dominance.

The standards should be high, but not ridiculous, and certainly not based on punishing certain (conservative?) values, or protecting BigFood Industry.

Posted by: illiniwek at August 10, 2025 05:26 PM (vbXSk)

148 What’s a ‘Democratic Socialist’? It’s an oxymoron. I assume they mean “Fart-sucking hideous faggots and hairy armpit bull dykes licking each other’s slimy taints.”
Posted by: Elric the Bladiest Blade at August 10, 2025 05:20 PM

"The Democratic Socialists of America is the largest socialist organization in the United States, with over 90,000 members. We believe that working people should run both the economy and society democratically to meet human needs, not to make profits for a few."

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 05:26 PM (0sNs1)

149 and suspicious bulges in recreational regions.
Posted by: Rodrigo Borgia at August 10, 2025 05:19 PM

This is about me, isn't it?

Posted by: Michelle O. at August 10, 2025 05:27 PM (0sNs1)

150 >>Get thee to Pullman Washington, and buy some of WSU's cheeses.

I shall. Vermont has some great little cheese makers as well.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:27 PM (viF8m)

151 Posted by: Yudhishthira's Dice at August 10, 2025 05:08 PM (mBOKD)

You can report! Like the person who reports from the Democrat Underground!

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:28 PM (aURVT)

152 Grilled pork steaks, little potatoes boiled in Zatarain's and some grilled radicchio. That's what's for dinner. Dessert will be a couple of glasses of Madeira and an Art Fuente.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 05:29 PM (3Ope8)

153 Blessed are the cheese-makers.

Posted by: m at August 10, 2025 05:29 PM (aURVT)

154 That DSA convention website has a groovy Peter Max vibe, but you know it's going to be dreary as fuck.

Peter Max -- if he's still alive -- has dementia and his family was defrauding people by having other artists make copies or look-a-likes of his work and having him sign them. So, yeah, vibe checks out.

Posted by: Oddbob at August 10, 2025 05:31 PM (m3l72)

155 Some goat cheese is goo, but I had someone who grew up drinking goat milk and milking goats tell me that goat cheese stinks like goats and she will not eat it. She also said that fresh, warm goat milk on your Cheerios in the morning was very bad.

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I admit I must be woefully uncultured, and I've never had goat cheese. But I have had goat milk and goat milk kefir. They are some of the nastiest stuff I've ever had. There is what's called, I think, a "goaty" flavor to goat dairy. An undertaste of plastic or something else I can't quite put my finger on. It's totally gross. But I'd give a bit of goat cheese a chance if I had the opportunity. I just don't think I'd like it!

*ducks the plates being thrown by the cultured crowd*

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:32 PM (qBdHI)

156 Boxed wine and binge-watching Game of Thrones..... been a fun week, and only halfway through the series!!!!

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:33 PM (i49OE)

157 Stomach really hurts, though...

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (i49OE)

158 Any know a good non-invasive blood glucose monitor?

Posted by: Adriane the Lack of Vacuum Critic. . . at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (1d8Ep)

159 I actually went out and had poutine for the first time in years.

STEAK POUTINE!

It was really good. So filling. I ordered a large and it had to weigh 2 pounds.

I didn't know there were so many types of poutine. Here's the menu....

https://tinyurl.com/56596v2y

Posted by: Posted by: Stateless - VERY GRATEFUL, BLESSED, LOVED AND HAPPY! -- - New Life Creation - 17.9% at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (jvJvP)

160 As it is still just the kiddo and me, we are dragging out some of the veggie burgers made prior and frozen, ozery whole grain sandwich thins, and sweet potato fries.

Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (p4NUW)

161 I admit I must be woefully uncultured, and I've never had goat cheese. But I have had goat milk and goat milk kefir. They are some of the nastiest stuff I've ever had. There is what's called, I think, a "goaty" flavor to goat dairy. An undertaste of plastic or something else I can't quite put my finger on. It's totally gross. But I'd give a bit of goat cheese a chance if I had the opportunity. I just don't think I'd like it!

*ducks the plates being thrown by the cultured crowd*

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:32 PM (qBdHI)

If you've had feta cheese, you've had a sheep/goat milk cheese (usually in the US, it's a combo of both milks)...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (tOcjL)

162 If the does are kept with the buck year round, he doesn't pee on his beard. They do that to attract does when separated. There is a muskiness, but not bad.

Posted by: Notsothoreau at August 10, 2025 05:34 PM (kUxzU)

163 Hey, this is the food thread, any suggestions on how to stop this knife from stabbing me in the gut?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:35 PM (i49OE)

164 163 Hey, this is the food thread, any suggestions on how to stop this knife from stabbing me in the gut?

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:35 PM (i49OE)

Eat something...boxed wine and no food makes Jack a sad boy...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:36 PM (tOcjL)

165 Blessed are the cheese-cutters.

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 05:37 PM (a5NDH)

166 In Paraguay, the country government has been pushing development goals of cleaning up the small dairies. A small dairy is a farmer with maybe 4 cows. They were pushing several techniques, one was keeping the cows in the stalls or "loafing pens" during the wet weather - mud splashes everywhere and carries bacteria, and it has to be cleaned off every milking - the use of fixed shower units for the cows for cleaning them off, and improving the feed.
Most milkers who aren't grazed live on corn, which can be hard for the cows to eat without crushing or other processing, the development agency suggests building shallow pans and sprouting the corn in the rainy weather, and feeding the sprouted corn when the leaves are about 2-5" long.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 05:37 PM (rbvCR)

167 If you've had feta cheese, you've had a sheep/goat milk cheese (usually in the US, it's a combo of both milks)...

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Yeah, then that assures me I probably wouldn't like it. No likey feta.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:38 PM (qBdHI)

168 Another technique for raw milk sterilization is "pascalization" which is subjecting the milk to extreme pressures to kill any live bacteria. It does actually work, though now it is mostly used on seafood, which spoils otherwise.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 05:38 PM (rbvCR)

169 he doesn't pee on his beard

Like Newsom?

Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 05:38 PM (a5NDH)

170 Another technique for raw milk sterilization is "pascalization" which is subjecting the milk to extreme pressures to kill any live bacteria. It does actually work, though now it is mostly used on seafood, which spoils otherwise.

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Then it's probably also killing the "good" bacteria in raw milk too? I thought that was the whole point in drinking raw milk (which I personally drink on occasion and love)... is getting those good bacteria for gut health.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:42 PM (qBdHI)

171 Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:35 PM (i49OE)

Eat something...boxed wine and no food makes Jack a sad boy...
Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:36 PM (tOcjL)

I try, but any bread-like shit, most complex carbs, actually, make me throw it right up... I got yogurt, guess I gotta stick with that....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:43 PM (i49OE)

172 Something tells me that CBD might go this far to find great cheese.

https://tinyurl.com/ytw9dxvv

Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 10, 2025 05:43 PM (S/Y4j)

173
Now I'm scared.
Posted by: m

Just stop peeing on your legs!

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 05:43 PM (nVXpg)

174 I try, but any bread-like shit, most complex carbs, actually, make me throw it right up... I got yogurt, guess I gotta stick with that....

Posted by: SSBN 656 (G) at August 10, 2025 05:43 PM (i49OE)

Get a miso soup from a Japanese restaurant delivered...or buy a box of "bone broth" from Trader Joe's (or another grocery - I'm partial to their brand) - both will up protein and should be gentle on the stomach...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:45 PM (tOcjL)

175 In regard to your Croque Monsieur second experience...

I moved from L.A. to various cities in the Pacific/Mountain North (Also known as white people land) in 2018 after living my first 35 years in L.A. The quality of restaurant food is shockingly bad after coming from a metropolis like L.A. Fort the first time in my life I was presented with store bought "Old El Paso" style taco shells at a sit-down "high end" Mexican restaurant in Northern Idaho.

Here in Salt Lake City I live in an upscale neighborhood near a University called Sugar House. There is a lot of trendy restaurants and a particular Japanese Izakaya restaurant where I go for a decent Tempura every once in a while. First time it was great, crispy shrimp - great vegetables tender, but crispy. The next time the shrimp was limp and clearly past its sell by date. Don't get me started on good Chinese... it does not exist above the Nevada border.

It's so hit and miss when you don't live in a L.A., N.Y., Chicago kind of metropolis. I miss that the most. I will never move back to L.A., no matter how good the food is. But, I still lament.

Posted by: Croaker at August 10, 2025 05:46 PM (AUB4U)

176 That cheese in the photo is called La Tour Du Montot, made in eastern France by midget monks who live in a tower, and milk the goats only at night under a full moon, overseen by angels.

I don’t think that is what the little people monks are doing to the goats!

We are cooking seared pork Belly and diver sea scallops on a bed of arugula drizzled with a port wine reduction.

Posted by: Rancherbob at August 10, 2025 05:46 PM (f7d4G)

177
There is what's called, I think, a "goaty" flavor to goat dairy.

Goaty McGoat taste.

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 05:46 PM (63Dwl)

178 Milk pasteurization was first introduced in 1910. Forget about the hundreds of years where there was only raw milk.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:46 PM (HFcKg)

179 Hamburger was little red on inside, see if I die or not

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 05:47 PM (+qU29)

180
Yeah, then that assures me I probably wouldn't like it. No likey feta.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:38 PM (qBdHI)

Feta doesn’t have the muskiness that some goat cheese has. It’s salty, crumbly and really good. I have had all goats feta and it also doesn’t have that musky background flavor. There are some very nice goat cheeses (with figs, absolutely amazing) and there are some where it smells like you are about to eat a goat barn. I am not a fan of those.

Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 05:47 PM (pZEOD)

181 We have some fantastic local goat cheese makers here....

Posted by: It's me donna at August 10, 2025 05:47 PM (VE6XX)

182 Posted by: Hour of the Wolf at August 10, 2025 05:43 PM (S/Y4j)

Wallace & Gromit!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:47 PM (Fzkmo)

183 Who cut the cheese? No seriously, whoever cut the cheese gouda done a better job with a cheese cutter.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 10, 2025 05:48 PM (9bq/n)

184 Rancherbob, Bon Appétit. Which wine did you choose?

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:48 PM (HFcKg)

185 There's a university called Sugar House?

Posted by: Bertram Cabot, Jr. at August 10, 2025 05:49 PM (63Dwl)

186 except for some small improvements to make things more useable, my press is ready for making juice.

My set up is:
An old stainless sink fitted with a (purpose bought) garbage disposal, which dumps the mush into a five gallon bucket

The press is a platform with an arbor rigged to hold a #3,500 tongue jack, which presses onto a stack of "cheeses" made of old sheets filled with the apple mush, separated by UHMW cutting boards.

It all flows into a 2'x3' cookie sheet I got at restaurant store, and from there through a hole I punched in it, into a bowl.

I can press juice faster than ever.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 05:49 PM (rbvCR)

187 That's a great way to describe what I think of goat diary, Piper. I said plastic, but it's more musky.

Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:49 PM (qBdHI)

188 Bacon plaid.

Posted by: Smellslikevictory at August 10, 2025 05:50 PM (SOjx+)

189 Does y'all recognize me?

Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (LHPAg)

190 184 Rancherbob, Bon Appétit. Which wine did you choose?

We have opened a nice merlot ?someone? Left.

Posted by: Rancherbob at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (f7d4G)

191 CBD, do you live permanantly in France now? I thought you lived in NY state.

No big deal, I was just wondering.

Posted by: EFG at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (KlyIH)

192 If I were a good French baker, I'd move to the states and open a bakery. People will pay absolutely insane prices for something that's really good, or even not that good, but has cachet.

We are fortunate in my AO, some Vietnamese bakers trained in France opened croissanteries, and they are truly chef’s 💋

Posted by: kallisto at August 10, 2025 05:52 PM (sF9CX)

193 Rancherbob, damn I wish I hadn't had to.pass on the invitation.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:53 PM (HFcKg)

194 >>There's a university called Sugar House?

Judging by the sorority videos being posted by the girls of the SEC I'd say there's more than one.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:54 PM (viF8m)

195
Surpise Plate Licker!!!

Spicy Eggplant Frittata

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/spicy-eggplant-frittata

I didn't expect much from this because I made it-
1) because it looked stupidly easy
2) not a big eggplant fan. They're alright. Kind of the McDonald's Big Mac of vegetables
3) I only made it becuz I'd stuffed myself stupid with yummy Korean BBQ the night before and was still practically in a meat coma.

But, everyone loved it. I mean, LOOOOOOOOVED it.

Tips:
1) Don't skimp on the butter, people.
2) Use half and half instead of whole milk

WARNING!!!: Sorry. Those of you with inferior genetics will not be able to enjoy this becuz it contains a lot of cilantro.
Now, go eat your Cincinnati carrot chili!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 05:54 PM (iJfKG)

196 I like cheese.

Posted by: toby928 at August 10, 2025 05:54 PM (jc0TO)

197 192 If I were a good French baker, I'd move to the states and open a bakery. People will pay absolutely insane prices for something that's really good, or even not that good, but has cachet.

We are fortunate in my AO, some Vietnamese bakers trained in France opened croissanteries, and they are truly chef’s 💋
Posted by: kallisto at August 10, 2025 05:52 PM
We have Cambodian donut shops out the wazzoo. They mastered boudain and hot libnks PDQ,

Posted by: Eromero at August 10, 2025 05:55 PM (LHPAg)

198 surpise = surprise

Who knew?

Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 05:55 PM (iJfKG)

199 Posted by: EFG at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (KlyIH)

Live in the NYC metro area. In France for awhile, but not permanently.

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:56 PM (Fzkmo)

200 OK...since nurse is getting credit for the videos I introduced her to, I'll just leave this here:

https://youtu.be/A4yKZT0jyt4

How to Slav Your Sushi.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 05:57 PM (Wnv9h)

201

A day old crusty baguette makes a fine dildo, and if it gets stuck, it just dissolves!

Posted by: Peter Bootygig at August 10, 2025 05:57 PM (0hToV)

202 Never buy goat 'cheese' in the Asian market.
Posted by: Eromero

You can always pull it out of the asian.

Posted by: weft cut-loop at August 10, 2025 05:58 PM (mlg/3)

203 Blessed are the cheese-cutters.
Posted by: Commissar of plenty and festive little hats at August 10, 2025 05:37 PM

It's not meant to be taken literally. I assume it applies to all distributors of intestinal vapors.

Posted by: toby928 at August 10, 2025 05:58 PM (jc0TO)

204 Surpise Plate Licker!!!

Spicy Eggplant Frittata

https://www.bonappetit.com/recipe/spicy-eggplant-frittata

I didn't expect much from this because I made it-
1) because it looked stupidly easy
2) not a big eggplant fan. They're alright. Kind of the McDonald's Big Mac of vegetables
3) I only made it becuz I'd stuffed myself stupid with yummy Korean BBQ the night before and was still practically in a meat coma.

But, everyone loved it. I mean, LOOOOOOOOVED it.

Tips:
1) Don't skimp on the butter, people.
2) Use half and half instead of whole milk

WARNING!!!: Sorry. Those of you with inferior genetics will not be able to enjoy this becuz it contains a lot of cilantro.
Now, go eat your Cincinnati carrot chili!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 05:54 PM (iJfKG)

Saving this to try when I need a cheap meal (and funny enough, I bought a huge eggplant yesterday - yes, I know it's not Japanese, but sliced into the same size should work)...I was gonna say olive oil over butter...and then deciding what should sub for dairy milk...thinking rice "beverage", but you said fat is good, so maybe a different choice...

Posted by: Nova Local at August 10, 2025 05:58 PM (tOcjL)

205 One of the kiddos and their fiancé is visiting this weekend, so I whipped up a Big Kaiju-Sized Breakfast on the flat top grill this morning.

It was great with pancakes, bacon, sausage and perfect, I mean absolutely perfect over-easy eggs.

It was yummy!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 05:59 PM (iJfKG)

206 naturalfake, Happy to see how much you are enjoying your grill.purchase.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:01 PM (HFcKg)

207 There's a homeless old crusty baguette living out a shopping cart at the local TJs. I believe she speaks French.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 10, 2025 06:02 PM (9bq/n)

208 >Get thee to Pullman Washington, and buy some of WSU's cheeses.

I shall. Vermont has some great little cheese makers as well.
Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 05:27 PM (viF8m)

Cougar Gold and the other WSU cheeses are available online and they ship it to you in a metal container. it is really good.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:02 PM (iGZ9n)

209 Bag'ette I can identify with that.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (HFcKg)

210 Then it's probably also killing the "good" bacteria in raw milk too? I thought that was the whole point in drinking raw milk (which I personally drink on occasion and love)... is getting those good bacteria for gut health.
Posted by: Lady in Black at August 10, 2025 05:42 PM (qBdHI)

Probably, though the main benefit to a "cold process" is that it keeps the milk saleable longer, and it doesn't destroy the enzymes and such that are broken by pasteurization.
Some people prefer the taste and aren't worried about the good bacteria too, or worry about bacteria in general.

Posted by: Kindltot at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (rbvCR)

211 naturalfake, Happy to see how much you are enjoying your grill.purchase.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:01 PM (HFcKg)

Hey Ben Had,!

Yes, it's lots of fun and the food is great!

Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (iJfKG)

212 Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:02 PM (iGZ9n)

Don't make it easy on him!

Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (Fzkmo)

213 SanFranpsycho, is just minutes away from one of the best cheese shops in California.
I order from them when the weather cools off enough.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 05:01 PM (HFcKg)
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We go back to the cold and fog on Tuesday. Sadz.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 06:04 PM (JvZF+)

214 We have opened a nice merlot ?someone? Left.
Posted by: Rancherbob at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (f7d4G)

I need friends like that. Probably to thank you for being such a good host.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:06 PM (iGZ9n)

215 Vietnamese bakers trained in France opened croissanteries, and they are truly chef’s 💋
Posted by: kallisto

You sure they went to France? French ruled Indochina, they might easily have learned French technique in Vietnam.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 06:06 PM (nVXpg)

216 SanFranpsycho, ugh!

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:07 PM (HFcKg)

217 Fresh bread, a chunk of cheese, a stick of salami, and a bottle of wine. Mighty fine eatin'!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 06:07 PM (2WIwB)

218 Ho Chi Minh worked in the bakery of the Parker House Hotel in Boston. So did Malcom X.

Just fyi

Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:08 PM (4Iy7D)

219 199 Posted by: EFG at August 10, 2025 05:51 PM (KlyIH)

Live in the NYC metro area. In France for awhile, but not permanently.
Posted by: CharlieBrown'sDildo (with a beret and a Gauloises) at August 10, 2025 05:56 PM (Fzkmo)

******

Cool. Sounds like you are having fun in France.

Keep rockin' on.

Posted by: EFG at August 10, 2025 06:09 PM (KlyIH)

220 Diogenes , add some blackberries or grapes with that.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:09 PM (HFcKg)

221 >>Cougar Gold and the other WSU cheeses are available online and they ship it to you in a metal container. it is really good.

I've heard a lot of people say how good Cougar Gold is so I'll check it out.

By the way, thanks for the encouragement on the smoker. Having a ball with it. My regular grill is giving me side eye.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 06:11 PM (viF8m)

222 44 So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

Thats why they have parents.
Posted by: Pete Bog

The clientele who purchase raw milk is not uneducated. On the contrary, they are usually very fussy, very progressive and know EXACTLY what they are buying for their families. It’s a status thing. Statement milk.

Whatever.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (qrWl3)

223 the local 4H Kids had their annual auction last week. We went and purchased a couple of pigs and a sheep from some of the kids of friends. Had a fun trip to the local butcher to discuss how to really customize the butchery to avoid grinding good cuts or ending up with lots of roasts which are too big for just the two of us.

I am really looking forward to trying the meat in a couple of weeks. While expensive we don't mind funding those kids College funds. And the meat is usually delicious.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (iGZ9n)

224 208 >Get thee to Pullman Washington, and buy some of WSU's cheeses.

Used to walk into the retail shop and buy a ten for twenty dollars. Now, it's fifty dollars and half the quality. Fifty fucking dollars for a tin of cheese

2 restaurants here used to prominently feature them on the menu. Abandoned.

Fuck them in their woke squeek hole.

Posted by: Just Sayin... at August 10, 2025 06:13 PM (0hToV)

225 Ho Chi Minh worked in the bakery of the Parker House Hotel in Boston. So did Malcom X.

Just fyi
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:08 PM

Boston does that to a lot of people. But the Parker House did give us the eponymous dinner roll and the Boston Cream Pie, so they don't completely suck.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:14 PM (Wnv9h)

226
I am really looking forward to trying the meat in a couple of weeks. While expensive we don't mind funding those kids College funds. And the meat is usually delicious.
Posted by: Pete Bog

Congrats on the auction wins and helping those future farmers.

Posted by: AZ deplorable moron at August 10, 2025 06:14 PM (nVXpg)

227 The clientele who purchase raw milk is not uneducated. On the contrary, they are usually very fussy, very progressive and know EXACTLY what they are buying for their families. It’s a status thing. Statement milk.

Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (qrWl3)
====

When Girl F. was born our rich lib cousins gifted us an assortment of unpasteurized dairy products, which were all promptly discarded.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 06:15 PM (JvZF+)

228 So how do you handle the situation where there are children, who are not adults, and cannot decide for themselves whether it's a good idea, or even just an acceptable risk?
Posted by: Brett Favre at August 10, 2025 04:12 PM (Riz8t)

Thats why they have parents.
Posted by: Pete Bog

The clientele who purchase raw milk is not uneducated. On the contrary, they are usually very fussy, very progressive and know EXACTLY what they are buying for their families. It’s a status thing. Statement milk.

Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (qrWl3)

Do they never ask themselves why milk is usually pasteurized?

That was a big scientific/public health breakthrough that's is/was usually taught in school.

Maybe not anymore cuz Pasteur was an old white man who kept slaves in his Parisian apartment/ cheese plantation.

Posted by: naturalfake at August 10, 2025 06:16 PM (iJfKG)

229 Boston does that to a lot of people
====

Turn them into murderous revolutionaries?

Checks out.

Posted by: San Franpsycho at August 10, 2025 06:16 PM (JvZF+)

230
Pete Bog,

The wildfire my son was called out to the other night was very challenging.

Sixty campers with the only access road already on fire.

Son and his crew got them all out, which was a miracle. Also no cellphone service.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 10, 2025 06:17 PM (3ek7K)

231 Pete Bogand bet the animals were at least cared for

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:17 PM (+qU29)

232 I will take raw milk any time I can get it.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:18 PM (HFcKg)

233 Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 06:11 PM (viF8m)

When it gets cold up there, try smoking some cheese.

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 06:19 PM (3Ope8)

234 I mourn the generations lost to raw milk/

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:21 PM (HFcKg)

235
Boston does that to a lot of people. But the Parker House did give us the eponymous dinner roll and the Boston Cream Pie, so they don't completely suck.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:14 PM (Wnv9h)
----
We stayed there a lot when we were in town years back. Nice place!

Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:21 PM (cmI4M)

236 >>> It’s a status thing. Statement milk.

Whatever.

Posted by: nurse ratched

>If my 29 year old memory serves, raw milk is best when you don't pay for it and right after you dispense it into a pail from the teats with your own cold hands.

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 10, 2025 06:22 PM (9bq/n)

237 >>When it gets cold up there, try smoking some cheese.

I learned after getting this smoker that was thing. Definitely on the agenda for this Fall.

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 06:23 PM (viF8m)

238 232 I will take raw milk any time I can get it.
Posted by: Ben Had

And you know exactly what you are buying and then consuming and go out of your way to get it.

The arguement that people don’t know the pros/cons is ludicrous.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:23 PM (mT+6a)

239 232 I will take raw milk any time I can get it.
Posted by: Ben Had at August

And raw cheese is very good. I have raw cheddar in the fridge as well speak.

Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 06:23 PM (p4NUW)

240 Pretty sure never had raw milk, and seem to live this long without it guess I'm going to survive

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:24 PM (+qU29)

241 *as we speak

Posted by: Piper at August 10, 2025 06:24 PM (p4NUW)

242 Cougar Gold is a very good cheese and if you check out Washington State University and cheese you can see the different kinds they make. But yes, as mentioned above they've gotten pricey.
Still...Go Cougs!!!

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 06:25 PM (2WIwB)

243 The Breakfast Pie reminds me that when driving to GA on Route 81, was delighted to find a Perkins Restaurant in Bristol, VA for a Pancake Flip platter and Key Lime pie.

Perkins Restaurant, once so common but those days seemed to have passed, too, though they featured good food, good prices & service and some nice pastry offerings.

And if that's not bad enough, all but a very few old fashioned diners in my region have closed, and some of those formerly quite dependable are falling down. (Problems with maintenance, staffing, food price fluctuations - I don't know - but it's sad and the region is losing charm, history, and even camaraderie. There's a sameness of everything taking hold.)

Posted by: L - No nic, cell phone at August 10, 2025 06:26 PM (6AIUQ)

244 220 Diogenes , add some blackberries or grapes with that.
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:09 PM (HFcKg)

I've done this and it makes it even better.

Posted by: Diogenes at August 10, 2025 06:29 PM (2WIwB)

245 Spik most of your ancestors survived with it.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:30 PM (HFcKg)

246
$1,200 for a bottle of bourbon is just stupid, insulting, and a ghastly affront to most people's palates and wallets. I think the sweet spot is $40-$60 for excellent and interesting bottles, and bumping that to $100 gets you an incremental improvement in quality

Excuse me...

Posted by: Evan Williams at August 10, 2025 06:31 PM (SwnK/)

247 We stayed there a lot when we were in town years back. Nice place!
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:21 PM

It is a great place. Very old school. But they stopped serving dinner!!! WTF is that about?!

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:33 PM (Wnv9h)

248 Geeze, where did that come from? Sorry. SKIP.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:34 PM (HFcKg)

249 Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:33 PM (Wnv9h)
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That's weird. I wonder what the economics of that decision were all about,

Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:34 PM (cmI4M)

250 Chef James Makinson has a channel with 386K subscribers, and about half of what he does is reactions to Uncle Roger reaction videos.

YouTube is fuckin' MLM, maaan.

Posted by: Bombadil at August 10, 2025 06:36 PM (MX0bI)

251
My favorite place in France was Orange. Has a Roman theatre and Roman Arc. That was in 1994 so it may have changed.

Posted by: frankly at August 10, 2025 06:37 PM (0NFzq)

252 That's weird. I wonder what the economics of that decision were all about,
Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:34 PM

I'm curious about that, myself. Damned shame, though. They had a great menu.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:40 PM (Wnv9h)

253 There's a place here in Cowtown call the Paris Coffee Shop. They have pretty good 'diner' food but their pies are worth every mile and traffic jam you have to put up with to get there. My favorite is the Pecan but they make pretty bitchin coconut meringue, too

Posted by: CrotchetyOldJarhead at August 10, 2025 06:40 PM (3Ope8)

254 The clientele who purchase raw milk is not uneducated. On the contrary, they are usually very fussy, very progressive and know EXACTLY what they are buying for their families. It’s a status thing. Statement milk.

Whatever.
Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:12 PM (qrWl3)

One reason French cheese is so good is that it is made from unpasteurized milk, of all sorts. On my culinary to do list is learning to make cheese. For that I would love to source unpasteurized milk. Otherwise I hardly ever touch the stuff anymore.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:42 PM (iGZ9n)

255 Son and his crew got them all out, which was a miracle. Also no cellphone service.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 10, 2025 06:17 PM (3ek7K)

Four Seasons that is great news. Last year was our turn in the wildfire barrel. Hopefully you get some rain soon.

There is a Perkins in our little wide spot.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:45 PM (iGZ9n)

256 Pete Bog , buy a miniature jersey. I'm sure you can get the milking technique down in a flash.

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:45 PM (HFcKg)

257 Being almost 29, I remember back when grocery store cheese had the ability to develop mold spots.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 10, 2025 06:45 PM (FMtrg)

258 I'm curious about that, myself. Damned shame, though. They had a great menu.
Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:40 PM (Wnv9h)
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Bummer!

Posted by: Weasel at August 10, 2025 06:46 PM (cmI4M)

259 Oh, wanted to bring up a large Maxwell House coffee was around$16, Folger higher, Cock Full of Nuts lower but all between $14-18.

Posted by: Skip at August 10, 2025 06:47 PM (+qU29)

260 I made lemonade today from lemons and a sugar syrup. Cost twice as much as a store brand, which contains, by the way, only lemon juice, cane sugar and water .

Posted by: Accomack at August 10, 2025 06:47 PM (RBD82)

261 four seasons,
Thank you for raising your son who is out there literally saving lives.

We have a particularly nasty fire burning on the Olympic Peninsula. Fortunately it is not threatening people or structures at this time. It may burn until fall though. It was pretty smokey on my side last week.

Your son and DBCooper. They are my heroes.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:48 PM (mT+6a)

262 One reason French cheese is so good is that it is made from unpasteurized milk, of all sorts. On my culinary to do list is learning to make cheese. For that I would love to source unpasteurized milk. Otherwise I hardly ever touch the stuff anymore.
Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:42 PM

There was a Britcom around 1991 called "Chef!" One episode of Season 1 was about the titular character trying to source unpasteurized Stilton to impress Albert Roux. It's worth watching, and funnier if you know that Roux got into a bit of trouble years ago for bringing undeclared cheeses into the UK.

Posted by: RedMindBlueState at August 10, 2025 06:48 PM (Wnv9h)

263 Ben Had,

I want to make cheese not milk cows but I appreciate you attempting to help out.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 06:50 PM (iGZ9n)

264 The Rogue Creamery (named after the Rogue River in Oregon) is a local place which makes real cheese. A few years back they made a Bleu cheese which was awarded "best cheese" in a prestigious annual international competition with 400-something entrants.

The stuff was about $50/pound. I got a couple ounces, and, um...

um...

It was good. Like, better than cheese. Just a wee little nibble to send your taste buds on a trip. Rogue Creamery still makes world-class cheese, but that one year the sun moon and planets must have just lined up, because they haven't made quite that same cheese since.

Posted by: Bombadil at August 10, 2025 06:50 PM (MX0bI)

265 Pete Bog,
If ever Zod posts again, ask him about making cheese. He’s been doing it for years and really enjoys it.

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:51 PM (mT+6a)

266 Pete Bog, sissy!

Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:51 PM (HFcKg)

267
nurse,

Thank you. We are proud of the man we raised.

People who fight fires are heros.

We haven't been able to talk with him yet about how they got those people out.

Posted by: fourseasons at August 10, 2025 06:51 PM (3ek7K)

268 try smoking some cheese.

I hear it's hard to light, and unless it's Swiss, draws terribly.

Posted by: Michelle O. at August 10, 2025 06:53 PM (0sNs1)

269 >>It is a great place. Very old school. But they stopped serving dinner!!! WTF is that about?!

You guys were blocks from where I lived and worked for decades and you didn't call?

Posted by: JackStraw at August 10, 2025 06:54 PM (viF8m)

270 Wow! Mariners win seven in a row with consecutive series sweeps.

Woof. I hope they can keep this up!!!

Posted by: nurse ratched at August 10, 2025 06:56 PM (mT+6a)

271 After action report on the Pistachio Chicken Korma:

Worth the effort, would make again.

Posted by: Additional Blond Agent, STEM Guy at August 10, 2025 06:57 PM (/HDaX)

272

Quick!

Tune into PBS and you can watch fat melanotics teach you how to out on white pipples makeup!

Posted by: Just Sayin at August 10, 2025 06:58 PM (0hToV)

273 This summer I've been drinking free raw goat milk. The family that brings it to our church as a gift know what they are doing so it tastes like milk instead of like goat.

This is one of the many reasons I love my church.

Posted by: Emmie celebrates the Audacity of Trump! at August 10, 2025 06:59 PM (FMtrg)

274 Nood.

Posted by: Duncanthrax at August 10, 2025 07:02 PM (0sNs1)

275 Pete Bog, sissy!
Posted by: Ben Had at August 10, 2025 06:51 PM (HFcKg)

I have been called worse. By you.

Posted by: Pete Bog at August 10, 2025 07:05 PM (iGZ9n)

276 I see London, I see France, I see a cheese-eating monkey's underpants.
Are they blue? Are they pink? I don't know but they sure stink!
Teacher, teacher, I declare, I see CBD's underwear!

Posted by: Rev. Wishbone at August 10, 2025 07:05 PM (9bq/n)

277 Great finish to milking a cow, stripping her out and getting smacked with a shitty tail, or stepped on, or kicked because she's finished and wants to move.

Posted by: IRONGRAMPA at August 10, 2025 08:02 PM (hKoQL)

278 31 >>> Anybody try that Kewpie brand Japanese mayonnaise? Is it that much better?
Posted by: All Hail Eris, She-Wolf of the 'Ettes 'Ettes at August 10, 2025 04:19 PM (kpS4V)

I loooove Kewpie mayo! But, it's not the absolute mayo. It's richer and lends itself well to dipping sauces or for fries the way the Belgians eat them. For things like tuna or chicken salad, I go back to Hellman's/Best Foods. I recommend experimenting.

Posted by: Effie Perrine at August 10, 2025 11:15 PM (1auMZ)

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