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[suzysunshine7]

IPA? ... ImPending Alcoholic? ;o>

[Craig White]

jeez, do try to keep up, serial, it's been around for 2 and a half years. ain't tried it, don't fancy the ipa element, but i'm a big fan of the signature whiskey - i count 3 bottles in storage.
but here's some facts about jameson's (i particularly like the one which informs that john jameson was a scotsman!)

maxim.com/entertainment/20-jameson-wh...

[Serial]

2 and 1/2 years!

I only saw it on a Supermarket leaflet that came in the post. There was a Coffee one too.

[Brass Neck]

It's relatively common to finish beers in whiskey barrels but that's a new one. Presumably, like the beers, it gains a fair degree of heft in the price?

[Serial]

Brass Neck wrote: "It's relatively common to finish beers in whiskey barrels but that's a new one. Presumably, like the beers, it gains a fair degree of heft in the price?"

Not cheap. Current Irish offer.

https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/wi...

[Brass Neck]

I experience mild despair at the trend to make long-established drinks taste like something else entirely. I reserve particular ire for canned (usually tiny 330ml ones selling for a fiver a pop) 'craft' hipster beers that taste like grapefruit crush.

[Serial]

Also there's 'Jameson Cold Brew'

Coffee Whiskey

https://shop.supervalu.ie/shopping/wi...

[Derek]

On a similar subject, why the current fad for taking perfectly good cheese and mixing fruit or whatever into it. I want my cheese to taste of cheese not bloody fruit.

[Brass Neck]

Derek wrote: "On a similar subject, why the current fad for taking perfectly good cheese and mixing fruit or whatever into it. I want my cheese to taste of cheese not bloody fruit."

Guess it's horses for courses, I love a bit of stilton with cranberry or 'Mexicana' cheese with jalapenos.

[Lez]

I'm with Derek. I want my cheese to be cheese.

[SussexWelsh]

Me too

[Craig White]

YEAH! DON'T **** WITH THE DAIRYLEA!!!!!!!

[Tim]

Derek wrote: "On a similar subject, why the current fad for taking perfectly good cheese and mixing fruit or whatever into it. I want my cheese to taste of cheese not bloody fruit."

Couldn't agree more. Those irritating companies who insist on coating other perfectly good foods with chocolate get on my tits too. I like a bit of chocolate, but not on everything.

[Serial]

Cranberry Cheese, and that Apricot Cheese, tried em and hated em.

Yuck

[Brass Neck]

That's the wonder of capitalism, endless choice so yer buys what yer want and if enough folk don't buy the new fangled stuff it gets dumped by the manufacturer.

[suzysunshine7]

I don't like any kind of Blue Cheeses or the soft and runny sorts of Cheeses like Brie and Camembert - but I will occasionally enjoy some White Stilton with Fruit in it if I'm ever offered it.

I can't stand Goat Cheese - but I do love several Cheeses that are made with Sheep's Milk such as an aged Spanish Manchego.

I absolutely love Cheese that is just plain and pure and simple and fabulous Cheese - but I also really love Smoked Cheese, Dairylea, Philadelphia, Bourskin, and a lot of the kinds of Cheese you find in Specialist Delis and Foodie Markets with added extras ... like Wild Garlic, Fruit, Herbs, Sundried Peppers, Chili, Sundried Tomatoes, etc ... YummY! ;o>

[Serial]

suzysunshine7 wrote: "I don't like any kind of Blue Cheeses or the soft and runny sorts of Cheeses like Brie and Camembert - but I will occasionally enjoy some White Stilton with Fruit in it if I'm ever offered it.

I ..."

I do like Goats cheese, but it don't half smell Goaty!

There's Goats up the road from us, a whole wild herd of them, you'd see them sometimes, and they stink! Even if you walk through an area where they've been. And that smell is just the same as the cheese!

But i still eat it.

[suzysunshine7]

Yep! - I adore Goats and can tolerate their quite distinctive smell when I get up close to them but I definitely don't want to put anything in my Mouth that smells or tastes of Goat!

[Val]

Can't hack goat's (goats'?) cheese under any circumstances. And I don't like smoked cheese either. Or indeed smoked chicken, etc. Smoked salmon is fine but that's about it.

[suzysunshine7]

Oooh? ... I absolutely lurrrrrrrrrrve Smoked Foods! ;o>

[Craig White]

"I definitely don't want to put anything in my Mouth that smells or tastes of Goat!"

please, don't! just please, don't go there! 🐐

[Craig White]

'smoked applewood' cheese is particularly toothsome!

[Serial]

Tech XXIII wrote: ""I definitely don't want to put anything in my Mouth that smells or tastes of Goat!"

please, don't! just please, don't go there! 🐐"

I think you just did

[Sera69]

This nanny state has gone too far!

[Serial]

Delivery central here today.

One is yet more Demijohns, to get some Parsnip Wine brewing :0

[Serial]

Sera69 wrote: "This nanny state has gone too far!"

Mehhhhh..........

[Derek]

Still waiting for my new passport......

[suzysunshine7]

Tech XXIII wrote: ""I definitely don't want to put anything in my Mouth that smells or tastes of Goat!"

please, don't! just please, don't go there! 🐐"

! ... ;oO ... ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Tech XXIII wrote: "'smoked applewood' cheese is particularly toothsome!"

I get it on offer from Iceland - 2 x 200g for £3 ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Derek wrote: "Still waiting for my new passport......"

Is it becoming urgent that you get it soon, Derek? Are you hoping to spend Christmas time in France or the UK this year?

[Derek]

I'm in France at the moment Suzie and won't be coming back to the UK until January (assuming 'no deal' Brexit hasn't shut down the country).

I need the new passport for the next stage of achieving residency in France. We've organised access to the French medical system and re-registering the car as French and are just waiting for the bureaucracy to finish on those bits.

I can't go any further now until the new passport gets here.

[Tim]

Derek wrote: "I'm in France at the moment Suzie and won't be coming back to the UK until January (assuming 'no deal' Brexit hasn't shut down the country).

I need the new passport for the next stage of achieving..."

word on the street is that Brits won't be allowed to travel to EU countries from 1st January except for very important reasons due to "covid restrictions" (or Macron's revenge, select according to taste), so think twice before popping over to the UK in case they won't let you back.

[Derek]

Tim wrote: "Derek wrote: "I'm in France at the moment Suzie and won't be coming back to the UK until January (assuming 'no deal' Brexit hasn't shut down the country).

I need the new passport for the next stag..."

Provided we get far enough through the Residency process that shouldn't be an issue, we probably won't be coming back until February anyway.

When we came out here three weeks ago, we were stopped at Dover by the UK police and had to show proof of our address in France before they let us out! We found out later that a number of people had been fined and sent home that day for breaking lockdown.

[Serial]

Will be interesting to see what happens on the high seas, come January.

Will the British Navy be repelling Johnny foreigners fishing boats.?

Nigel Farage manning the Howitzer, scanning the horizon for suspicious looking inflatables.

[Tim]

Serial wrote: "Will be interesting to see what happens on the high seas, come January.

Will the British Navy be repelling Johnny foreigners fishing boats.?

Nigel Farage manning the Howitzer, scanning the horizo..."

It will be richly ironic if French fishermen lose all rights of access to UK waters following a no deal, largely down to Macron's insistence that he is 'protecting' their rights (for which read angling for their votes come the election). Will they give him a good kicking?

[Serial]

France does seem to have its share of problems.

And serious ghettos of Muslims, that basically hate France.

[Derek]

You've been there and asked them all?

[Serial]

Derek wrote: "You've been there and asked them all?"

Have a read of this comprehensively researched article.

France has a huge problem with radicalised Muslims.
This is not something I've made up.

https://nypost.com/2016/03/22/muslim-...

[Derek]

I won't deny that it's issue, however France has a Muslim population of about 3.7 million so even if only 20% hated France things should be a heck of lot worse.

As far as the article goes it doesn't look that well researched to me. It looks more like somebody in New York made a few phone calls, then got some nice inflammatory quotes from a far right Muslim hating think tank as the Gatestone Institute is known to be.

That's my lot, this conversation is now ended as far as I'm concerned.

[TheFoe]

Derek wrote: "I won't deny that it's issue, however France has a Muslim population of about 3.7 million so even if only 20% hated France things should be a heck of lot worse.

As far as the article goes it doesn..."

Article was printed in the New York Post, America's equivalent of The Sun, enough said.

Edit - The article says, "So-called “no go” zones, he added, are not formal designations by law enforcement, but an informal understanding that they are areas that are crime-ridden, run by drug dealers and gangs not safe for non-Muslims — even police and firefighters." If that's the case, why not bring in the army or have they already done so?

[suzysunshine7]

I could be wrong on this but I've always been under the distinct impression that there are rather a lot places around the World, including America, that could also have exactly the same things said of them? ...

"So-called “no go” zones ... not formal designations by law enforcement, but an informal understanding that they are areas that are crime-ridden, run by drug dealers and gangs not safe for * ... even police and firefighters."

* I took 'non-Muslims' out of the Sentence because this equally applies to pretty much all folk of all Religions, Races, Cultures, Classes, and Politics, etc.

[Serial]

Some 'interesting' headlines for UK Saturday newspapers this week!

From Croissant shoving to Gun Boats seeing off French fishermen.
Not to mention dear old gangsters mol Babs.

https://news.sky.com/story/saturdays-...

You literally couldn't have made up 2020

[Isabella]

Tim said: "Those irritating companies who insist on coating other perfectly good foods with chocolate get on my tits too."

Trouble is, people who love chocolate can't imagine that there are people who don't like it as much as they do or even don't like it at all. It's very annoying.

(And I don't like goat's cheese either but it's a staple on the vegetarian section of many restaurant menus. Goat's cheese and beetroot tart, anyone? There's a marriage made in hell.)

Sorry to be so late with the comment but it's been one of those days. :o)

[Lez]

I once had a goats' cheese quiche in an Edinburgh café. It was lovely.
Something I really don't like is 'millionaires' shortbread. The chocolate completely ruins it.

[Isabella]

Lez wrote: "I once had a goats' cheese quiche in an Edinburgh café. It was lovely.
Something I really don't like is 'millionaires' shortbread. The chocolate completely ruins it."

I think, to be fair, that there's a big variation in goat's cheese - trouble is, there's no way to tell without actually eating the stuff!

I used, occasionally, to enjoy a meringue but not only are bought ones very much sweeter than I remember but now they dip them in chocolate as well. Whose brilliant idea was that? No more meringues. There isn't much point in making them for two, when one of us isn't that keen on them anyway. :o(

[Collette]

Continuing with my last big housework before Christmas. Got the spare bedroom, living room, hall and kitchen done, so that just leaves the bathroom and bedroom once I get back from Mum's later in the week. Rewarding myself with a big glass of wine tonight (aye, like I ned an excuse). 🎄🍷🎄

[suzysunshine7]

Lez wrote: "I once had a goats' cheese quiche in an Edinburgh café. It was lovely.
Something I really don't like is 'millionaires' shortbread. The chocolate completely ruins it."

If anyone on here is now suddenly fancying a big trayful of THE best ever huge extra-thick slabs of Millionaires Shortbread that I've ever come across before? ... then I can very highly recommend this absolutely excellent eBay Baker to them ;o> ...

https://www.ebay.co.uk/sch/m.html?ite...

I have to buy a box of her wonderful Bread Pudding for us all every couple of months and a Box of her Chocolate Brownies as well because my Mum has become so utterly addicted to them! I keep on putting them in the Freezer but they still don't ever get to last her long ;o>

[suzysunshine7]

Collette wrote: "Continuing with my last big housework before Christmas. Got the spare bedroom, living room, hall and kitchen done, so that just leaves the bathroom and bedroom once I get back from Mum's later in t..."

WoW?!! ... Collette, I can only wish that I still had your motivation and energy levels! ... Enjoy your Reward! - you've more than earned it ;o>

[Serial]

Hurrah the Library is open again.

Picked up a new Jo Nesbo book, and a few others I ordered in.

[Post Soviet]

It was nice sunny day today, so risked a little by breaking travel restrictions, leaving our county borders (not much though) and making trip to Cavan Burren Park. Stunning views & picnic, yay...