Only if you put them in a potato gun.
Anya: It's lovely! I wish it was mine! Oh like you weren't all thinking the same thing. Giles: I'm fairly certain I wasn't.
'The Killer In Me'
Natter 42, the Universe, and Everything
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, flaming otters, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
Betsy HP - Jan 19, 2006 12:17:45 pm PST #1443 of 10002
If I only had a brain...
Vortex - Jan 19, 2006 12:19:48 pm PST #1444 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Only if you put them in a potato gun.
actually, we made one of those and shot potatoes in the lake at New Years. I use "we" lightly, because the making/owning of such is a felony and I was having no part of it.
Jessica - Jan 19, 2006 12:21:06 pm PST #1445 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
New Scientist says there's no such thing as a wine and cheese pairing. Quelle domage!
Bernice Madrigal-Galan and Hildegarde Heymann of the University of California, Davis, presented trained wine tasters with cheap and expensive versions of four different varieties of wine. The tasters evaluated the strength of various flavours and aromas in each wine both alone and when preceded by eight different cheeses.
They found that cheese suppressed just about everything, including berry and oak flavours, sourness and astringency. Only butter aroma was enhanced by cheese, and that is probably because cheese itself contains the molecule responsible for a buttery wine aroma, Heymann says. Strong cheeses suppressed flavours more than milder cheeses, but flavours of all wines were suppressed. In other words, there are no magical wine and cheese pairings.
Dana - Jan 19, 2006 12:23:19 pm PST #1446 of 10002
I'm terrifically busy with my ennui.
Now I get to talk to the IRS. Clearly, today is some sort of karmic payback.
Edit: Maybe I shot a potato gun at someone in a past life.
ChiKat - Jan 19, 2006 12:26:33 pm PST #1447 of 10002
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Oh, Dana, I'm sorry. Yay for knowing, but boo!
ita, I love that bag. And, yay for the shopping trip!
Somehow I managed not to turn twelve until after he walked out of the office carrying a G4.
Hee.
lori - Jan 19, 2006 12:27:49 pm PST #1448 of 10002
You could ask these Boy Scouts about potato cannons.
Vortex - Jan 19, 2006 12:28:16 pm PST #1449 of 10002
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
The tasters evaluated the strength of various flavours and aromas in each wine both alone and when preceded by eight different cheeses.
but what about eating the cheese before the wine?
Jessica - Jan 19, 2006 12:29:22 pm PST #1450 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
and when preceded by eight different cheeses.
but what about eating the cheese before the wine?
That's what they did.
sumi - Jan 19, 2006 12:30:50 pm PST #1451 of 10002
Art Crawl!!!
Hmmm, have they tested wine and chocolate?
Jessica - Jan 19, 2006 12:31:47 pm PST #1452 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Knife block shaped like human head. Almost as nifty as that Italian one.