more "American" cheese

Not a subject where John Larkin is a reliable witness.

John Larkin's idea of what might constitute modern civilisation are about as reliable as his ideas - which is to say other people's bad ideas which he has uncritically adopted - about climate change.

In the UK perhaps. In the US money talks, or in this case, buys a lot of silence.

But young. The US has an obesity epidemic. Late year US life expectancy fell - again - even though Covid-19 isn't killing anything like as many people. It's an unique achievement for an advanced industrial country; Russia did pull the same trick after the USSR imploded, but it doesn't really rate as advanced, even if it is more or less industrialised. Look at Putin.

Nobody wanted to eat food that was identified as Yankee. Changing the name obviously solved the problem.

When I moved to England I bought a copy of the Good Food Guide, and bought the new one every year.

There is good cooking in the UK and you don't have to work hard to find it.

The English have always known about good food, but few of them insist on it. You don't have to look hard to find it, but Americans can't be expected to know where to look.

Some of them always have,

Probably because of the effect it has on the cardiovascular system. Creme filled donuts are the quick way to diabetes and heart attack.

"Good" in Ameri-speak means more food that two normal healthy people can possibly eat at one sitting served to each person.

There are plenty of good restaurants and bistros in the UK - not as many as in Belgium, France or Japan though. There was a time when UK catering was often a bit rubbish but those days are now long gone.

You just have to avoid the likes of KFC, McD, Wimpey and Wetherspoons and/or ask locals for recommendations for where to eat.

Cheese?

Sheesh.

RL

A donut a week will probably extend your life span, from the pleasure effect.

Whatever you do, never eat eggs.

It's interesting how so many people fabricate nonsense about America so they can deplore it. Their actual concern is that the USA might be as good as they fear. It is.

Sometimes we get big portions, so Mo and I split an entree, or we get to-go boxes. We don't eat a lot so one entree might become two or three meals. I hear that some cultures disdain taking leftovers to-go.

The food in Hamamatsu was fabulous. Our hosts loved to take us out because "we can't afford that ourselves." Imagine unagi steaks the size of hamburgers.

We had an occasional VIP visitor from Hamamatsu Photonics, and when he came to San Francisco he always wanted to go out for sushi at lunch. "It's so fresh, and we couldn't afford this at home."

We drove around Ireland for a couple of weeks, mostly staying in small towns and a few farm houses. The food was not very good, but we did have some dynamite seafood on the SW coast.

We missed out on some pub food because the smoke inside was unbearable. I think they may have fixed that now.

What's your BMI? And you wife's?

You don't like cheese, Rob?

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

(Who's from Vancouver, and doesn't like fish.) ;)

Mine is 23. My wife long since banned me from saying anything personal about her here - it as public forum and even some of the people who post under their real names could be somewhat psychopathic. Jim Thompson comes to mind.

My BMI was higher back when I played field hockey on a regular basis and was a more muscular, but I was told that my joints couldn't take much more of that, so I stopped when I turned 69. The fact that I moved back to Australia at that point did come into it.

Haven't run across too many electronic applications, so far.

Mixed with macaroni, you can carve it into small votive objects, dresser door knobs etc.

RL

You should maybe try some of those nice toasted MOSFETs of John's.

Cheers

Phil Hobbs

Good with a nice silicone oil dipping sauce.

The ripening of a cheese is intrinsically a preservation technique. The 'rancid yak butter' of Tibet is one branch of the creamery's art, and the blue mold of Gorgonzola is another. Neither is considered 'off' because of that. Unfermented beer isn't very tasty, either. Warm, for serving, chilled for holding its ripeness... and sometimes I want a store-bought Camembert to have a few extra days on the counter to develop flavor.

We had a thread drift up above that got into cheese, and someone slagged the USA for having only orange slimy goo.

USA bashing is popular here, even though the USA invented most electronic stuff. Tubes, transistors, ICs, IR LEDs, uPs, ethernet, internet, email, stuff like that.

I have never gone in for USA bashing, but I think some of those claims are debatable. First vacuum tube: Fleming, UK, 1904

First computer: Depending on how you define a computer, UK is well placed

First packet switched computer network, which led to ARPAnet and then the internet: NPL, UK around 1970.

I guess it was only Kraft dinner and pizza pops on this side of the border, with the insulin as a side dish.

USA didn't invent those things - it was bodies done it. but the debt 'cieling' used to be a hole.

Those were the days . . . tra la la. RL

Edison effect, but no gain.

Sure, the brits sometimes invent things. Not so often these days.

ARM was cool, but they sold it off, and RISC-V will probably take over.

My kid made the mistake of buying a Range Rover. That's another sad story.

You should import the good stuff.

While the idea of fiber optics was invented in many places, it was Corning that made it practical by figuring out how to manufacture optical fiber for communications, with losses a few db per kilometer, versus many db per meter.

Joe Gwinn