The reason why Europe should be suicide bombed

[Guest]

http://www.guardian.co.uk/italy/story/0,12576,1225388,00.html

The above article does not contain "Abu-ga-rayp", "Abu Garon", or "Abu Garah".

 

[oggbashan]

The Italians have an enviable reputation for getting around such regulations anyway.

Their wine quality standards were questioned a few years ago because some 'Italian' quality wine was thought not to be Italian nor quality. The paperwork was perfect. The wine?

Attitude to such regulations differs throughout the EU. French bistros have had smoking banned. You might glimpse the sign through the haze of Gauloise smoke.

The newest regulation being discussed in the UK is 'Working at height'. Unless altered it will insist that Mountain Guides erect scaffolding (to approved standards by a qualified scaffolder) before climbing the mountain via the scaffolding.

Locally we still have laws that require bathers to wear the so-called 'University swimming costume' with three inch arms and legs - for men. Women's costumes must have the arms and legs and a skirt covering the legs of the costume.

Do we obey? No.

Og

 

[ABSTRUSE]

Okay, that is just bizarre.

 

[Guest]

Pork pie

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Can’t they leave those poor buffalos in peace?

First they amputate and deep fry their wings, now they want to milk them, as well!

Where is PETA through all this, that’s what I want to know?

 

[Guest]

PETA

Is this a new organisation for the parents of terrorists?

 

[snooper]

Trademarking Neapolitan pizzas?
Will it be French bread and Vienna rolls next?
SHould the manufacturers of Mars bars worry?

 

[Guest]

Should the manufacturers of Mars bars worry?

LOL

 

[Black Tulip]

... Will it be French bread and Vienna rolls next? ...

No, the French cheeses. They are already wrapped up in plastic. The EC forbids them to show their lovely juicy dripping insides.

Sssst, don't tell anybody, they think there might be bacteria in there. Jeez, in blue cheese? Of course not.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

No, the French cheeses. They are already wrapped up in plastic. The EC forbids them to show their lovely juicy dripping insides. ...

Limburger is also wrapped, so we won't notice how good it looks.

 

[oggbashan]

No, the French cheeses. They are already wrapped up in plastic. The EC forbids them to show their lovely juicy dripping insides.

Sssst, don't tell anybody, they think there might be bacteria in there. Jeez, in blue cheese? Of course not.

Not in the farmers' markets. Bought some cheese labelled 'puyant'.

I didn't quite understand 'puyant' until I got back in the car after the ferry crossing. The smell knocked me backward and other drivers were looking to see who had dropped a stink bomb.

I had to have the car valeted to get rid of the smell.

The cheese was great when eaten in the open air during a gale.
(After a litre or two of cheap red wine called "Donkey's Kick".)

Og

PS: 'Cheap' means less than a dollar a litre.

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

... 'Cheap' means less than a dollar a litre.

Yes, it certainly does, and vice versa.



A friend brought in a package of cheese he found in an import store. He said it was the same kind of cheese that he had eaten on vacation in the south of Germany.

He hadn’t know the name before, because the group he was travelling with had always called it feet cheese, because it tasted just the way feet smell.

He gave me a sample, but I could not verify his description, as I had only tasted clean feet before.

 

[Black Tulip]

Ogg,

Are you sure it wasn't Limburger? That really is a smell that can kill you. That is Dutch cheese by the way. Limburg is our most southern province.

 

[dr_mabeuse]

I saw a show on TV showing Iron Chef Morimoto's new Japanese restaurant in Philadelphia. He made a sushi pizza that was slices of raw fish on a tortilla in anchovy sauce.

Maybe there should be laws.

---dr.M.

 

[Guest]

Fuck laws, you slaves.

My threads are the funniest!

 

[snooper]

Fuck laws, you slaves. ...

That way madness lies.

... My threads are the funniest!

See? He actually believes that. I said madness lay along that route.

He probably also believes in Santa Claus, God, and tax refunds.

 

[neonlyte]

Will it be French bread and Vienna rolls next?

Snooper
French bread is trade marked, has been for a decade or more.

Successive French governments in the 1970's and 80's, every mindfull of a small problem that sowed the seeds of the French Revolution, controlled the price of bread (and croissants). The 1970's were an inflationary time across the world and bread prices failed to keep pace with inflation. Bakers across France reduced the quality of their products to maintain profitability and suffered customer criticism. An enterprising French company, later to be renamed Delifrance, pioneered the concept of part baked bread, traditional bread mass produced and frozen delivered to shops who finished the baking. Mass production reduced the price to enable bakers to sell profitably.

The first marketing trials were mixed, customers liked the product but then rejected it when they discovered it was a 'frozen' product. Delifrance took to delivering the bread to bakers in the middle of the night in unmarked lorries. Invoices were sent out in unmarked envelopes so the village postman would not leak the bakers secret.

In the 1990's the upwelling demand for 'natural food' unmasked the 'frozen bread bakers'. The French government introduced laws stipulating that a baker could only label him/her self as a baker if they produced bread from scratch on their own premises, these bakers have a guild of 'artesan bakers' with a logo of a traditional bread oven. Shops selling 'part baked bread' all became patisseries. The quality of part baked bread has improved dramatically over the years, most would be hard pressed to tell the difference, only the price is the real indicator.

The very best French bread is regarded as being made by the bakery of the late Lionel Piolene, sourdough bread made in 2kg loaves, produced on a factory scale outside of Paris, each baker has two apprentices and a dedicated wood fired oven, each oven like each baker, has individual characteristics, Piolene's loaves are flown all over the world to specified customers.

A sourdough loaf takes 24 hours or so to mature and rise for baking, it contains no yeast and derives its rise from a naturally fremented 'leven' or starting culture from which a piece is taken each day to 'start' the bread and fresh flour and water added to the 'leven'; Piolene's 'leven' originates from his great grandfathers bakery over 100 years ago, in some small way, when you eat Piolene's bread, you are eating a little bit of history.

Sorry - way too much info here, I have a passion for bread.

NL

 

[SlickTony]

He made a sushi pizza that was slices of raw fish on a tortilla in anchovy sauce.

Even so, Dr M, it's too late. It's like separating the ingredients of a cake after they're already mixed.

Legend has it that when Aneas and his band were wandering through the world after the fall of Ilium, they met up with the Harpies, who cursed them, telling them that before they reached their final destination, they would be eating their tables.

Eventually, they found themselves with nothing but some pieces of flat bread onto which they placed various leftovers and things they had managed to kill. A kid named Iolus said, "Hey, look, we're eating our tables." They stopped where they were, and where they were eventually became Italy.

My SIL, who is Italian, once served us a pizza, and it was completely different from anything I'd come up believing constituted a pizza.

And then there are fruit pizzas, which I imagine would be quite nice if made the way I'd like to see them made. You like some pizzas better than others.

My favorite pizza comes from a place called East of Chicago. I tend to avoid Mexican pizzas, and I'd probably avoid the sushi one, too. Seems ethnically wrong, to me.

 

[cantdog]

I had a personal triumph with mozzarell' di bufalo.

I havce a rep for arcana, but I also have a bad habit of slinging bullshit if it makes esthetic sense to me.

Recently, Justin called me on one of my dicta. I said the real mozzarella was made frome the milk of hybrid buffalo, and he said, crap, dude, that can't be true, I gotta draw the line, you bullshit too much.

So I was able, within two months, to serve pizzas with genuine mozzalrell' di bufalo on them. Hot fresh bread with toppings is very nice, but crow is a lot of fun to watch being eaten.

cantdog

but I do bullshit too much

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

I have a rep for arcana ... but I do bullshit too much

You mean sort of like "Liar's Poker," only with facts?

 

[cantdog]

Yeah, pretty much exactly.

I won Trivial pursuit in one move once, and the firemen would never allow me to play again.

But I do love to push out beyond the actual facts... Who needs 'em, really? Facts? Nasty, lumpy, spiky things... get in the way of a good story quite a lot of the time.


cantdog

ps for instance, now... I have no idea what "Liar's Poker" might be.

c

 

[Virtual_Burlesque]

Yeah, pretty much exactly... I do love to push out beyond the actual facts... Who needs 'em, really? Facts? Nasty, lumpy, spiky things... get in the way of a good story quite a lot of the time...

Did you ever consider, that there's a bright future awaiting you in the ranks of the Bush Administration?

BTW: "Liar's Poker" is like regular bluffing in poker, except that in this case, it is pathological bluffing!.

 

[cantdog]

They don't want me to fly in a plane, though.

 

[amicus]

Eu one giant union? Having a low opinion of all things european, with Saabs and Volvo's at the top of the list, why did GB just decide not to give up the Pound for the Euro dollar?

Would be nice to read what any one might care to write about the European Union of Socialist Republics...(oops)

amicus

 

[Black Tulip]

Amicus.

You're not seriously thinking you can bait me twice, do you?




Cantdog,

I can almost hear you telling your kids or those of the neighbours that spaghetti is the inside of the macaroni.