love* in the time of plague (and by love* i mean brexit* and other dreary matters of uk politics)

itt bashing the bishop

I got me a chunk of port wine derby this week and it looks freaking horrible, hope it tastes better than it looks!

Yeah I guess if you cool it down too much it loses the edge

If cheese looks repulsive that's usually a good sign

I love mixing a few different cheeses for sauces cos it seems any combination seems to work fine, never had a disaster yet. Stilton gives a lovely texture to sauces and you can't go wrong with a bit of blue brie in there as well.

A nice cheese sauce is going to make post Brexit long pig that much more palatable

hmm rolls of human thigh pancetta, don't front like it won't be delish!

I can just imagine the lolz Japanese trade minister is having with his colleagues after a meeting with Liz Truss.

"Brexit: UK-Japan trade deal ‘consensus’ crumbles over Stilton"

i didn't realise NickB was a copy editor at the indie

Lol the graun one said “Stilton drives a wedge between” &c, NickB moonlighting!

Can't believe nobody is taking this listeriously

absolutely shocking british cheese situation in the US. just shocking. nothing but cheddar, and what they call "sharp cheddar" is so mild i would not give it to an infant with a weak stomach, and what they call mild is essentially milk in a solid form. you couldn't kick a ball in the street.

Best Sellers in American Cheeses
#1. ...
Kraft Singles American Cheese Slices (12 oz Pack, 16 Slices) ...
Kraft American Easy Cheese 8 Ounce - 3 Pack. ...
Shullsburg Creamery - 120 Slice American Cheese - 5 Pound Loaf. ...
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Dietz & Watson Sliced White American Cheese, 0.5 lbs.

"American Cheese" and also apparently they have a variety called "Brick Cheese"!

fundEmmentally bad cheese list

https://i.imgur.com/29dfUdy.gif

I will still eat that stuff, cheese is a broad church

cheese in Canada is fucking shit - and expensive - and dear old Blighty seems like cheestopia in comparison

itt some verY Fenni cheese humour

hey, what cheese is aduog backwards?

no wait, that's not it

Pleased to see only cheese knives being brandished itt today.

Posting caerphilly, me

port wine derby

Not entirely British, this (tho to be fair UK imperialism did really get the trade going, can't fault ye for that).

epoisses is gods own cheese

Apologies for that bit of ignorant assumption of me there Daniel. Cultural imperialism is a hell of a drug!

I don't generally bother with celeb nonsense but was pleased to notice Christopher Eccleston has referred to the Queen as "parasite in chief in her idiot hat" on social media.

haha no worries calz, I was being a pedant tbh; I mean there's Glennmorangie gets aged in port wine casks too and I don't think I could claim it for that

I wouldn’t be finding this as funny as I do if I wasn’t a bit heat-deranged, but I am and I do.

Couldn’t resist checking out @demarionunn’s theory... and he’ s right. Why i spent ten minutes of my life looking through stock photos of men with there thumbs up isnother matter! https://t.co/fTmmFAbSnI pic.twitter.com/NbGK7yO4uj

— Kristian Purcell (@kristianpurcell) August 12, 2020

cheese in Canada is fucking shit

Some of the Québécois stuff is pretty good, but it usually pales next to its French inspirations.

Rishi has unblemished petite smooth hands that have never done hard labour, not that there is anything wrong with that but I could imagine him wearing silk gloves to do light gardening. Whereas that hand looks like the hand of a hgv driver or a plumber, they probably looked at that pic where he is giving a thumbs up to a toaster and decided not only does he look like a total dick but he's got very small hands as well (which I'm intending to shame here, just shaming the game!)

*not* intending to shame

Needed a more trustworthy thumb, a People's thumb, is what I'm hearing

_cheese in Canada is fucking shit_


Some of the Québécois stuff is pretty good,.

To which statement?

This show has always been extremely bad not good but fuck this

As the UK goes into recession for the first time in 11 years, many express shock that five months of Rishi Sunak paying for everything has had a negative impact on the economy.

— Have I Got News For You (@haveigotnews) August 12, 2020

Nice to see the Beeb continuing to subsidise that Geoff Tory bloke's career

Oh yeah, shiny Geoff who’s persecuted for being s Tory except he earns more off the BBC than Laura K

the truth is Geoff is more like the mainstream of BBC comedy than he seems to appreciate, the only difference is that he's come out as a conservative reactionary and in quite tedious style and made that his shtick. Other than on the brexit issue the melt "PC snowflake" comedians he has set himself up as the antidote to have much more in common with him than any lefty comedians, of which you could probably count on one hand in bbc comedyland.

makes me realise even though I'm not a fan of bbc comedy, it became much worse when jeremy hardy died.

Julie Burchill’s next book is called Welcome To The Woke Trials

another unfunny conservative reactionary comedian who will no doubt get lots of opportunities to plug her book on the bbc

I thought time had cancelled Julie B

the only memorable bit of writing of Burchill writing for me was when she was quite angrily ridiculing her old pal Toby Young for being an ugly hypocrite, and a shallow and vacuous creep who worshipped celebs and went kerb crawling on a regular basis. I can't remember where I read it but it was p good and stuck in my memory.

xp what is already cancelled can never be cancelled

I have a guilty soft spot for her tbh

I mean she makes me laugh sometimes, not a crush

She has always been bad afaict but as with hignfy it’s not like I’ve bothered investigating the stuff from when I was like two years old

full disclosure: I used to regularly read her Culture section of the Times movie reviews in the 90's !

Burchill literally advocated shooting "prostitutes" for their "terrible betrayal of all women" back in the 80s. she was never good

I don't think anyone is making any arguments for her rehabilitation as an acceptable member of the commentariat, it's more like nervously approaching the confession booth because telling the truth can be cleansing!

There’s been a rash of new You Can’t Say That sites eg. Uncancelled where mediocre journalists TERF out for free. Spiked doesn’t pay its contributors either.

Nick Cave: 'cancel culture is bad religion run amuck' https://t.co/Y0X6PavdMg

— The Guardian (@guardian) August 12, 2020

I can't believe a public school doctor's son who has had a way too fucking long + overrated career as a turgid goth balladeer would turn out to be such an enemy of the people!

does he unbutton his shirt and ruffle it up in the same manner boris makes his hair look dishevelled whenever doing a photo/tv op? What a fucking jerkoff.

I have never liked Nick Cave, and if my impeccable source is correct, he isn’t worthy of anyone’s appreciation for ‘if someone tells you who they are, believe them’ reasons.

he's a pretentious, laughably overrated ageing goth arsehole, would love to give him a good shoeing - but no blades!