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Re: cheeses-- french and english... (4.00 / 2)

"I've never really understood Finnish cheese -..."

That's because you have never really listened to Finnish cheese. Isn't it!?

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by proximity1 on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 02:11:38 PM EST
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Re: cheeses-- french and english... (none / 1)

There's a particular type of Finnish farmhouse cheese which has the texture of a silicon pancake and squeaks as you chew it. Is that what you meant?

Finnish cheeses are designed to be grated into wide thin pieces. I like my cheese either chunky or able to move about under its own steam.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 02:22:49 PM EST
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On peut designer des fromages?!?!?

ça alors!

"In such an environment it is not surprising that the ills of technology should seem curable only through the application of more technology..." John W Aldridge

by proximity1 on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 02:42:17 PM EST
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Proxy (none / 0)

You're clearly going full out for this week's PN award, while Nomad is out in the field...

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by Sven Triloqvist on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 02:44:34 PM EST
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Triloq... (none / 1)

What's a "PN" award? (Don't tell me if it's something you wouldn't want to receive for yourself!)

"In such an environment it is not surprising that the ills of technology should seem curable only through the application of more technology..." John W Aldridge

by proximity1 on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 02:48:32 PM EST
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Re: Triloq... (4.00 / 2)

I suggest searching the archive for comments containing "pilkkunussija".

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by Carrie (migeru at eurotrib dot com) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 02:56:22 PM EST
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Re: Triloq... (none / 0)

I am the proud holder of the rank of (I think) Knight Commander of the Order of the PN. So there.

There are designer everythings, so I'm sure there must be designer cheeses. If not, this is perhaps the moment to jump in and make some money.

(Some years ago, a clever not-quite-crook in France succeeded in marketing "vintage" foie gras to silly snobbish rich people. The idea was that there were good years and less good, and years with this flavour or that, in other words a whole apparatus of connoisseur know-how akin to knowledge of wines. It was all the rage for some years, and I seem to recall that even Président Mitterand fell for it. In fact, the foie gras was bought on the wholesale market from Poland and had nothing special about it at all. The "designer" was caught and that put an end to it.)

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 03:49:22 PM EST
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Re: Triloq... (none / 1)

From a PN point of view, there is a difference between 'designer' and 'designed'. Designer as an adjective implies that some ponce has added a label and bumped up the price. Designed, on the other hand, means refined in some way in order to improve.

And indeed 'designing' as an adjective applied to a person implies selfish scheming. The Great Designer, of course, is god, who is more into shellfish scheming.

No doubt other PNers will be able to dissect these points ad nauseum which literally means totally sick of marketing.

BTW Afew is indeed a KC and entitled to be addressed as Me Duck, and to receive a large Melton Mowbray pork pie from the Crown each Easter under a statute from 1706.

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by Sven Triloqvist on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 04:24:58 PM EST
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As long as the pork pie doesn't date from 1706 (vintage?), and is accompanied by a nice piece of Stilton, His Duckship will graciously deign to accept the Crown's gift.

by afew (afew(a in a circle)eurotrib_dot_com) on Tue May 23rd, 2006 at 04:35:29 PM EST
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