Van Halen Lyrics on Cheese Packaging
I LOVE it! I've always wondered what take so long when I watch the guy with the label machine putting out the merchandise. Now I know. He's typing song lyrics in there.
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Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
There are various degrees of "sour" in sourdough breads. SF Sourdough is defined by a tartness that a French sourdough doesn't have. Starters that are rye based tend to be much more bitter than starters made with wheat. All too often in commercial bakeries all across the world, when a baker makes sourdough he/she is also using a flavour enhancer that is intended to up the "tang factor". As the proud caretaker of several home grown starters, I have a few that are very sour but I also have a few that make breads that have such a subtle tang that you would never know it was a sourdough based bread. It is all about the starter...
Reform Groups to FCC: Get Rid of 'Advertainment'
How did SE miss commenting the most product placed food show, this past season of Top Chef? I don't think there was one second of that show that didn't have a Glad package in the shot.
Original White Lily Flour Plant Closes: The Geography of Taste
This would be akin to moving Jiffy from Chelsea, Mi where they have been milling the wheat and corn used in their mixes for over 120 years. Ironically, I was thinking about the conglomerates destroying regional foods today and this article just made me sadder....
Yes, protection of regional brands needs to be addressed.
'Top Chef' Contestant Lisa Fernandes Hates Your Poor Blogger Ass
Well, I can pretty much say I can afford to eat her new digs, have eaten at her new digs, won't be eating again at her new digs while she is in residence unless I'm allowed back in the kitchen to stand sullenly staring at her with my chin tucked into my chest and a lemon sucking face.
Photo of the Day: A Rediscovered Sweets Shop
I love these types of discoveries. I truly hope the sign won't be covered up or worse destroyed.
I never knew ____ could be so complicated!
I'm with Wookie, good Southern Buttermilk Biscuits. You'd think someone who goes by Breadchick and writes a blog pretty much devoted to breads of all types could master these but something happens when I make them. No matter the recipe, how little or much I handle the dough, mine turn out to be hockey pucks...
Has anyone received the Cook's Illustrated test recipes yet?
I haven't received a recipe either and signed up the day the request was posted.
Are You Affected by Rising Food Prices?
My weekly budget for groceries has doubled in the last four months and it is an across the board increase. Thankfully, I haven't seen a huge increase in the cost of my bread flours, yet...
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Van Halen Lyrics on Cheese Packaging
I see I'm not the only one who shops at the Westside Market.
Van Halen Lyrics on Cheese Packaging
Heh. It's not that hard to do actually. The boys in the Butcher Block had "Stairway to Heaven" scrolling on the scales you see how much the meat weighs on for awhile. Instead of the "Thank you for shopping...blah blah blah."
Van Halen Lyrics on Cheese Packaging
love the sense of humor, hate that a grocer would have the nerve to charge 7.99/lb for assorted cheese ends.
also -- i think hagar-era van halen would have been a better fit for this particular product.
Van Halen Lyrics on Cheese Packaging
hahaha! I go to that grocery store every single day--literally. It's a block down from my work and I spend more time there than in my cubicle. I recognized the packaging and font in the photo before I read the blurb, and I'm not at all surprised that the guys who run that cheese department would have thrown down some Van Halen lyrics.
Van Halen Lyrics on Cheese Packaging
That is the best! You've got to love a grocery clerk with a sense of humor.
Van Halen Lyrics on Cheese Packaging
This is by far the most random thing I've ever seen and I'm so happy to have seen it!
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
i love sourdough... actually I didn't like it when I first tried it, too tangy for my kiddy tastebuds at the time. But, now that my pallate has evolved, the ones I've had recently are not even as tangy as I remember the original being... they just taste like regular white bread.
I don't know how this rates with Bay Area dwellers, but I liked the Boudin sandwiches I had the last time I was in SF.
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
I live in Darwin, Australia, and work in a bakery and I've got to say, sourdough is my favourite type of bread that we make there. Actually it is my favourite type of anything we make there. You know a bread is good when a seventeen year old girl chooses it over a brownie or a cream bun!
Sourdough Doesn't Always Mean 'Good'
SF sourdough isn't ideal for everything but just because you can get a passable (not great, but passable) loaf at every supermarket on the west coast doesn't mean that it has ruined every other kind of bread. I live in NYC and don't think that the lack of good bread in local markets and bakeries is because of all the rye bread baked in the area. I think his anger is really misplaced on this one. Of course, I also have no idea who he is or why I should care about his opinion so whatever.....
Reform Groups to FCC: Get Rid of 'Advertainment'
I used to like trying to identify disguised packaging on TV sitcoms. The family sitting around the table eating C p runch cereal or yer's Ice Cream. They don't fool anyone to begin with. Anyone here remember the "panel" game shows of the early 60s where name of the sponsors product was plastered over the desks, on the front of the desks and behind the host? I kind of liked that.
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