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  • 4 weeks later...

Cato Corner carries around this time full vertical versions of many of their cheeses. You can get, for example,

Vivace Bambino, Vivace, & Vivace Molto

Womanchego, Mrs. Robinson, & Wise Womanchego

as I did (in addition to Gossamer, and suchlike). This year's Hooligan is about to be released they say.

But tragedy has struck. I bought these vertical tastings to take to a big family reunion in Leeds (complicated reasons) over Christmas, but that fucking Indian colony, the UK, does not permit dairy products being brought in. I looked at the list of what is and is not allowed, and there's a pattern: mangoes, guavas allowed, apples no. Protectionism anyone?

I'll have to drown my sorrow in Yorkshire Blue. Anything else?

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On 11/22/2024 at 8:00 PM, Wilfrid said:

Scissors or very sharp knives, yes. Do these brands do panel tests to see if their shit packages will open as intended?

I've resigned myself to having entered my second childhood.    What else explains that 90% of shelf goods now come in "childproof" packaging.   

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Fans of Hooligan -- not everybody is -- can say hurray! It's now in season. I've just had 1/2 wheels of the normal, the extra-, and the drunken- shipped, but haven't tried any yet.

I'd referred above to the Vivace vertical, and the stupid laws that blocked me from taking them to the UK. As it turned out I could have done so in good conscience -- had I simply bothered NOT to read the regulations. Flying to Leeds from Boston via Dublin does not involve passing any obvious customs checkpoint. You show your passport in Dublin and are legally out of the USA. But your bags are checked through, so no customs check. At Leeds you pick up your bags at carousel-whatever along with domestic travelers and simply walk out. Yes, there's a green line painted on the floor, but people seem to view that more as decoration.

But the cheeses were great on later tasting and, more importantly, life savers. Ten days after our return my wife had to go to a professional meeting at a resort (to name names, the Gaylord National Harbor in Maryland). I tagged along. The food there was both hideous and hideously expensive ($46 for a tough, chewy pork chop at one of their in-resort restaurants, $18 for a Boars Head turkey wrap at their market). But we took the three ages of Vivace with us, a wheel of Gossamer, some boiled eggs (plus a ziplock of coarse salt and coarsely cracked pepper), and some good crackers. We were able to at least breakfast well and snack well.

 

 

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3 hours ago, relbbaddoof said:

Fans of Hooligan

(raises hand)

I was at USQ today and tasted Cato Corner's Drunken Monk, which may be even more pungent that Hooligan. I elected to take home a milder cheese, 'cause the mister's tolerance for stink is essentially zero. I get my Hooligan fix when he's out of the house.

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1 hour ago, small h said:

the mister's tolerance for stink is essentially zero

So is that of whose Mr. I am. But -- I've a vague memory of having said this before -- we got ourselves a daughter who loved Hooligan from 8. That has pitted maternal instincts against stink. All I have had to do is break out the popcorn and watch the Hooligan-in-the-house "discussion". Our daughter is no longer with us. (No, no, she's just in New Hampshire.) But I can still play that card when the Hooligan arrives -- it's for fooddabbler-junior I say, and watch my wife wilt.

How does that help you? Dunno, but I'm not here to be helpful.

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Hey, an eighteen dollar Boar's Head wrap ain't worth the paper $18 is printed on if it doesn't involve an eighteen-hundred dollar trip to the ER. Having said that I have to say I ate one and am alive to tell the tale. I was a bit queasy the day after but it's hard to tell if it was contamination or conscience.

The rest of the time we were purish (good cheese, etc., as listed above) -- but we did have that pricey, dry pork chop, a couple of indifferent burgers at the resort (also $18 -- that seemed to be their base price for everything), and a "Southern dinner" at a nearby branch of Succotash. 

I gotta say that Gaylord is barely a motel, let alone a hotel. It's certainly not a resort in any sense of the word. We're not resort people, but we occasionally succumb. We stayed at one in Puerto Vallarta a few years ago where, for prices similar to Gaylord, we were offered massages on arrival, champagne in our room, and a sauna on our large, private deck. And don't get me started on the one in Agra, with a  close view of the Taj from the room, and golf carts to schlep us there (an awkward experience for me, who like other men-of-the-people likes the subway).

The American Astronomical Society -- naming names again -- has a lot to answer for.

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I've been to more than conference at the Gaylord in Denver, which is certainly large and has the Rockies in the background. But I always stayed in an airport hotel nearby and at restaurants outside the resort.

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