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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[gi_jules]

It's been fun finding things we can actually eat on our diet because of the Stealth Sugar. We went to the local enormous health food store and it wasn't much different there, which blows.

And now I really, really need a grilled cheese sandwich. With bacon.

[zero_gravity]

damn yes. Grilled cheese with bacon.
I want in on that diet!

[livia_llewellyn]

Dude, your post broke my brain!

Yes, there's more sugar in processed, mass factory produced breads. But I was a baker (a Master Baker!) for two years, and we used very little sugar in a number of our breads. Although, dark breads like pumpernickel or rye can often use a lot of brown sugar or molasses in them. Mmmm, molasses.... ::insert Homer Simpson gurgle here::

Master Baker - colour me shocked

[zero_gravity]

I know that here in the Great White North that sugar in bread usually is there for the yeast. There's not much in it - but I swear I can taste it in the breads in the US.

what part broke your brain? the bacon or the grilled cheese or the grammar? Grammar always fucks with my head, but it takes the perfect combination of fried fat and salt to really do the trick.

Re: Master Baker - colour me shocked

[livia_llewellyn]

It was the mention of bacon that set me off. OMG I HEART BACON SO MUCH!!1! But I can't have it - too fatty and salty. And turkey bacon or "fak-on" just doesn't taste the same. ::sob::

There's sugar in pretty much everything packaged in the US. That's why I've been cutting down on even organic packaged foods. I'm slowly becoming the Casserole Queen, and Empress of the Slow Cooker!

Re: Master Baker - colour me shocked

[zero_gravity]

no...
no.
no bacon?

oh my poor poor friend. I SOBS for you.
I'll eat the fat-reduced turkey bacon. Not quite the same though. Oh for my youth when my body could process all the fat and salt without protest. Now if I have too much fat my pancreas goes into spasms. Painful as hell.

Addressing Your Points

[rackle]

I liked Hinterlands Who's Who (and 'Canada Vignettes', not to mention, as I'm sure I have before, the Log Driver's Waltz cartoon) *and* grilled cheese sandwiches when I was a kid (with a dill pickle and loots of ketchup for dipping). I remember also watching School House Rock with Saturday morning cartoons. I have the 30th anniversary collection on VHS.

I make good grilled cheese sandwiches, myself, would love to try yours and, in spite of otherwise agreeing with you as to cheese choice orthodoxy, Shanghai Cowgirl makes a delightful grilled cheese sandwich with jalapeno havarti and avocado.

I have never liked bacon, have always, in fact, rather detested it, even way back when I ate meat.

I remember being annoyed that I couldn't find pasta sauce without sugar in it when I lived in NYC. Drove me nuts. Fercryinoutloud, it's savoury! It don't need no steenking sugar! But when I do want something sweet, I like my sugar as 'real' as possible.

Which leads me to the fact that it's way past my bedtime.

(Another Led Zeppelin reference?)