Surf's up

[zero_gravity]

Okay, so today I was looking at Grammar Stuff.  But then I became distracted by the word Hinterlands - not the Gibson short story, alas - but the Hinterlands Who's Who that was a part of my childhood.  My American friends all got the cool stuff - SchoolHouse Rock and all i got was Moose and Loon.

soon though I was distracted by talk of bacon.  Not

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[tailchaser]

ya i didn't realize coffeemate had so much sugar. the first time i used it...i added sugar as usual ...and actually spat it out when i took a sip.
and i like sweet coffee.

[cinnabari]

And if it's not sugar, it's sucralose. Blech.

I won't touch Fake Moo. It's real cream or milk or...gasp...I go without the coffee.

[tailchaser]

but.....do you put bacon in your grilled cheese?

and ya i find alot of bread that is big in the u.s to be very sweet.
especially that wonderbread crap. ugh

[zero_gravity]

I've been known... :D
bacon can go into almost anything. I know: bad for me. I think of my arteries clogging up with accumulations of bacon fat... but damn.

Wonderbread is the strangest stuff in the world. I remember my brother was friends with these 2 brothers from Newfoundland. They used to buy a loaf of Wonderbread EVERY DAY - get up in the morning - Fry slabs of bologna - and then do the strangest thing: they'd take 1/2 the loaf and squissssssh it - condense it down to about the size of 1 thick slice. Then they'd do the same with the other side of the loaf. Basically reforming the entire loaf into 2 slices! Stick the SLAB of fried bologna inside and eat it.

it was amazing, and horrifying at the same time!

grilled cheese!!

[cinnabari]

Brie on sourdough... hell with the cheddar. :D A little butter in the frying pan, and you're good. Or, for variety--muenster and sourdough (and note, this is the Good Bread, the expensive bread, the bread that isn't full of nasty-ass sugar and 57 preservatives, no, this is the bread whose ingredients say 'flour, water, yeast, salt' and other things I can identify, butter the bread and sprinkle with herbs, and maybe lay a pickle slice or three on the cheese...mmmm.

Re: grilled cheese!!

[zero_gravity]

oh yeah well sure, if you want to get fancy and all. ;-P
gourmand! What are you trying to do? Lead me into one of the seven deadly sins?
:D

I used to do the grilled cheese sammiches with Brie. I would go down to the market place near work and often make toasted Brie and Something Open-faced Sandwiches. Since there was about 50 kinds of cheese and 20 breads... it got to be quite the exotic adventure.

[nous_athanatos]

Cheddar is good, but sometimes too firm to melt to the proper consistency. It depends on the moisture content. Sharp cheddar is great for flavor but does not always melt as well as the cheddars that are less aged.

I really like some of the softer cheeses like fontina or muenster or (ooh la la) smoked mozzarella for melting. I also like a little grated parmesan or gruyere added to the butter on the outside of the sandwich for flavor.

Breadwise, you have to work to get good bread in the US. As Cin says, sourdough is usually pretty good. I also like a nice dense loaf of shepherd's bread if you can find it.

And in the realm of "why bother with bread at all?" -- grilled halloumi!

Opa!

opa!

[zero_gravity]

hmmm. dense bread. Now i want to eat a loaf of something still-warm and breadly.

The cheddar we use seems perfect for grilled cheese. It must have *just* the right amount of moisture because it comes out soft, gooey, and hot on the inside. The bread just toasts up to that dark-golden brown - just enough crunch too.

okay. it is 10am.
looks like I need to go find some bread for lunch. and a slab of cheese.

[mattshortforbob]

America = land of sugar in everything for no apparent reason.

It's not just you.

Having not lived in various locales, I have limited experience, but mass-produced, nationwide, brandname foodstuffs are generally bad, but local (OK, at least in Boulder) independent food createries are good. There exists good bread in and around Boulder. But there also exists a breadmaker in my apartment. So. Problem solved.

[mattshortforbob]

Oh, and forgot to mention: awsummest ramble. If you'd got something in there about learning the guitar, I'd have been superimpressed.

[zero_gravity]

heh. alas, I've never mastered the guitar. BUT the boys at work are all into Guitar Hero and beer. Evidently, with enough beer (of a good quality) there comes the ability to play guitar. Luckily there are zillions of good beers around town - many of which come from Quebec - like Maudite. 8%. You know that will help with the guitar playing.