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The Falklanders thought so.

Presumably the landowners failed to make money from the land somewhat later. Phytophthora infestans has a lot to answer for!

I didn't.

Yes you did.

It's understandable in the South they expect it all to look like Kraft individually wrapped American cheese slices. What would white trash cooking be without Velveeta and Marshmallow Fluff?

I grew up in upstate NY near the VT border and many of the smaller independent grocers has wheels of 'rat trap cheese' and would slice off what you wanted.

I lived near Scruton Pond in NH and Calef's was on the way home. That was about 50 years before they had an internet presence. At the time Scruton Pond was sort of a hippy enclave; looking at the real estate prices you'd have to be a damn rich hippy to live there now.

Or have been there all this time.

Cantal is the classic French hard cheese, and good cantal is pretty close to good cheddar.

Yuk.

Not absolutely always, but a whole lot of them do fit that descvription.

Most Americans are white, Anglo-Saxon and protestant, and ignorant enough to thing that there's a lot of variation in what passes for their culture.

As if America had real beer.

The French are very proud of their high technology. Cambridge Instruments bought a steaming heap of it once, and I spent a tedious year leading the electronics team that worked out that we'd have to dump the lot of it and replace with something that worked well enough to have a chance of satisfying our customers.

The extra work required meant that the project became impracticable - we just couldn't find enough engineers to do it, so we spent as much to buy ourselves out of the contract as it would have cost us to finish the job

The French are always happy to help people who are silly enough to take them seriously. European Semiconductor Specialists in Aix-en-Provence quite liked Bells Labs who sold them five shaped beam electron beam microfabricators until they realised that the machines ran ten times more slowly that than Bell Labs had claimed they would.

Not especially. I just noted that raw milk cheese is available, and I buy it sometimes.

The Falklands have never belonged to anyone else, but Britain, the Falkland islanders absolutely want to stay British, but Argentina, once one of the wealthiest countries in the world after ceasing to be part of Spain, has economic problems and its a convenient distraction for the government there to claim it 'ought' to be theirs, despite *never ever having been so*.

Largely because there may well be oil and gas reserves under it.

Why don't you shut your f****ng loudmouth and go an invade Cuba, where probably the majority of the citizens would welcome being American, having lost their love of Marxist austerity and Che Guevara?

Actually the Russians are demonstrating that they are less and less capable of blowing holes in anything, except their own cities.

Russia is totally cattled*, and it is only a matter of time before it collapses. Wait and see.

Dyed cheddar is considerably darker orange than American cheese, even in the Midwest. I've seen (and purchased) white American.

For your consideration:

Jello? Who said anything about Jello? Cheesecake is, as they say, easy as pie. Here's the recipe my husband uses. I think Mary Ellen St. John is a relative of his.

Mary Ellen St John's Cream Cheese Pie

Crust:

Mix crust ingredients, press into 12" glass pie plate. Blind bake at 350 F for 8 minutes.

Filling:

Mix filling ingredients with electric mixer until smooth. Pour into prepared pie crust. Bake at 350 F for 20 minutes. (Make sure center is firm.)

Topping:

Mix topping ingredients and pour over baked pie. Return to oven for 5-8 minutes at 350 F.

Chill pie before serving.

Note: 12" pie plates are pretty rare. This also works in a 9x10" glass pan.

Sadly, you haven't yet earned your Darwin Award.

Ask any right wing nitwit who'd prefer to pay less in taxes and doesn't give s*it about the quality of the society it lives in.

A classic example of the right-wing nitwit. Great at sounding patriotic, not all that enthusiastic about representing the whole country.

It depends on what the meaning of the word ‘polenta’ is. Authentic polenta is made from cornmeal.

Bollocks

"As it is known today, polenta derives from earlier forms of grain mush (known as puls or pulmentum in Latin) that were commonly eaten since Roman times. Before the introduction of corn (maize) from America in the

In Yemen, polenta is primarily prepared from either sorghum meal or barley-meal with an addition of animal fat and made into a thick paste, and is known locally as ʿaṣīd. It is often served in a bowl where soup broth is added as a viand, and eaten with one's fingers. "

Wiki

In short its a pretty generic term of a starchy sort of porridge. In (south) Africa its called 'mealie meal' and is now almost exclusively maize, but used to be millet.

Like most Americans, you think the world begins and ends in the USA

Could make people (i.e. the child readers) think that all similar disabilities are psychosomatic.

"Romantic" as in "common in romances" i.e. stories.

Yes, it's a common idea that, e.g. stoneagers didn't live past their twenties. I suppose it's due to a sentimental attachment to childhood. You might as well say that fish fry only live a few hours as most are gulped up as soon as they hatch.

Stupid typo. 9x13" glass pan.