173: There Is No Love Sincerer Than the Love of Food

[thefourthvine]

So. Hi. Earlier, I, um, made myself sick by eating an entire jar of pickles. It wasn't a small jar, either. I have no idea what I was thinking, and in fact I'm fairly well convinced I wasn't thinking. Just - there was a jar of pickles. About an hour later, the jar was there, but it contained only a small amount of brine and some random floating

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[astolat]

Hey -- just checking, have you gotten my couple of emails? Just want to make sure they haven't been spam-filter-eaten somewhere! One went to gmail and one to livejournal addresses. :)

[thefourthvine]

*facepalm*

Yup, I got them, and I should totally have emailed you to let you know. Sorry! But I have a draft to you sitting in Gmail, and when coherence takes me for more than ten minutes running, I will get it out to you. (In other words, I'm about to crash right now, but tomorrow morning, whether I can type complete sentences or not.)

[astolat]

Yay, no worries, don't want to rush you at all!

[hannahrorlove]

That restaurant sounds pretty cool, actually - it doesn't seem like they're mixing sweet and savory all that much, which is pretty much my only food squick. The lack of vegetarian dishes, that's another matter.

Japan's made wasabi ice cream. Not quite dill pickle sorbet, but close enough.

[thefourthvine]

Well, see, it's all kind of abstract to me, since I've been a vegetarian for so long. (And the really foodie places do their level best never to have a vegetarian option. Vegetarians are anathema to 99% of the world's great chefs.) But something deep within me says that bacon and ice cream never, ever belong together: bacon is just not a dessert product. And, also, I've never had a sardine - when I ate meat, I was extremely dubious of those things and how they smelled - but I'm pretty sure that they are not enhanced by being put in a sorbet. Although probably if you liked sardines, you'd like the sorbet, too.

Japan's made wasabi ice cream. Not quite dill pickle sorbet, but close enough.

...You know, wasabi ice cream actually sounds kind of good. Hmmm. Insanity is clearly overtaking me. Possibly now is when I should start to worry?

[hannahrorlove]

I'm not vegetarian, but I usually say I am because it's easier to avoid all meat rather than explain which ones I can eat and which ones I avoid. It can get complicated, especially if fish is brought up. It's not technically a meat for me, but it is an animal, so it's in the same in-between area as eggs. I don't know how well the texture of sorbet would work with a fish, especially one that small, given all the tiny bones and scales. The flavor might translate, but the product itself might not.

I agree that bacon doesn't belong in ice cream. Of course, if I had my way, bacon wouldn't be anywhere. Though bacon chocolate - something neither of us can eat - does exist.

Here's a short list of weird ice creams. There's a longer one somewhere, but I can't find it.

[bitter_crimson]

A Torchwood rec and an SGA rec in the same post! Glee! *flounces off to read*

[bitter_crimson]

Also, £ = ALT+0163 (on the numpad)

[thefourthvine]

Thank you!

[thefourthvine]

*beams*

Apparently, I have rec'd precisely the right amount of stories set in sexually flexible science fiction universes!

[kassrachel]

Oh, man, I am so pleased that you like that old Sentinel story! :-) I can see how it would skirt close to triggering an embarrassment squick, but I'm glad it manages to not quite push you over that edge.

Blair really does have a hell of a mediation technique here, doesn't he? *g* Jim's so repressed, but Blair's so persuasive. Man, I miss those two sometimes.

[thefourthvine]

That story is totally one of my TS happy places. <3!

I can see how it would skirt close to triggering an embarrassment squick, but I'm glad it manages to not quite push you over that edge.

I still have that moment of embarrassment aura, but fortunately I can remind myself that the embarrassment isn't coming and keep on reading.

Man, I miss those two sometimes.

*wistful sigh*

Oh, me too. I mean, I can always go back and re-read the stories, and there are new ones still coming out, but - it was my first TV fandom! My first non-canon fandom! Whenever I think of Jim and Blair, I get all nostalgic.

[angevin2]

Zesty dill pickle sorbet

Okay, those are four words I never really needed to read in that order...

[thefourthvine]

Yeah. I completely sympathize. After I wrote them, I had to back away from the computer and fix my mind on pure, clean thoughts. (Challenging, but possible.)