A good snack

[french frank]

Don't mind a glass of wine, but so much of it is SO strong these days,and dehydrating too !!

The Coop has a Lirac at 15%. Don't think I'ver ever come across an ordinary table wine that strong before. I bet one 125ml glass would be the recommended daily limit


Reviewed here: What should we drink on Christmas Day?

[Lateralthinking1]

This is a good one:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L3V-8...eature=related

For a serious meal, the ambience here is terrific:

http://www.therainforestcafe.co.uk/

This, which is all new to me, is seriously wild:

http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/pacificnw/2003/0601/cover.html

And, from 2010, at 76 - The Trombone Year:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9cekyjXmNmE

[teamsaint]

Cheese and brown sauce ( HP preferably) sandwich.

Saturday lunchtime ideally.

Yum.

edit: just realised that since my last post on this thread, I have more or less switched to wine. Ot thT I don’t like a beer still. 6 years.......

[Serial_Apologist]

Single chopped raw celery stem with walnut pieces in equal proportions, garnished with sunflower seeds, grated Cheddar cheese, grated eating apple if you like as an optional extra, and salad cream, for a digestible supper.

[french frank]

Should I be worried? I have no memory of starting this thread in 2012, nor of the 'musical venue' which introduced me to the snack (think it must have been King's Place, and therefore cost £25 - plus £10 for a small glass of wine.

Following Serial's: a stick of celery, a chunk of stilton and a ripe pear - but I probably suggested that back in 2013 I'd also want two or three water biscuits to go with that. No butter.

[gradus]

Should I be worried? I have no memory of starting this thread in 2012, nor of the 'musical venue' which introduced me to the snack (think it must have been King's Place, and therefore cost £25 - plus £10 for a small glass of wine.

Following Serial's: a stick of celery, a chunk of stilton and a ripe pear - but I probably suggested that back in 2013 I'd also want two or three water biscuits to go with that. No butter.

Very nearly the same chez nous last night. Concord pears this year seem especially good.

[Barbirollians]

Waitrose sell a very good NZ Sauvignon called the Doctor's which is only 9.5 degrees alcohol but dry . I understand some winemakers are using reverse osmosis to reduce alcohol levels in their wines.

It seems that climate change and the tastes of one very influential American critic( fortunately now retired ) have both played a big part in increasing alcohol levels.

[teamsaint]

Very nearly the same chez nous last night. Concord pears this year seem especially good.

All pears seem to be good this year.

Sounds like FFs snack venue reall was a King’s Place, at those prices.

[Serial_Apologist]

All pears seem to be good this year.

Sounds like FFs snack venue reall was a King’s Place, at those prices.

And it's a piddling little self-service canteen-type place - you queue up, load your tray with the nondescript grub on show, and wait, and wait, and wait for the people in front. Appalling.

[Joseph K]

My favourite sandwich - Bavarian smoked cheese with jalapeno relish and chopped olives and chillis; seeded wholemeal bread.

[ardcarp]

Anyone tried fresh figs, sliced, with a piece of cheddar cheese? Oh, and a glass of chilled Muscadet. No bread or crackers to spoil it!

[Barbirollians]

Jarlsberg cheese, spring onion , crisp lettuce and homemade mayonnaise.

[Serial_Apologist]

Much further downmarket for those without the readies, thin-sliced cheddar cheese atop plain digestive biscuits: yes, you'd be surprised, it really works!

[vinteuil]

Much further downmarket for those without the readies, thin-sliced cheddar cheese atop plain digestive biscuits: yes, you'd be surprised, it really works!

... I like your consistency, Serial : six years ago [ #3 above ] -

Another unexpected "plain delicacy" is cold sliced cheddar cheese on buttered digestive biscuits.

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[Serial_Apologist]

... I like your consistency, Serial : six years ago [ #3 above ] -

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Both your memory and your capacity for disinterring vital evidence from the far distant past must be unsurpassed, vints!