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First things first. Some cheese sucks. This includes most generic chedders, you know the type the horrible nasty orange stuff sold in giant slabs in the supermarket. This type of cheese makes me mad. Also included in this catagory is most varities of 'fun cheese' you know like Dairylee and Cheesestrings (what a god awful invention they are). So now we know that cheese is not infalible (i know i was shocked too).

If had to pick one cheese from earth to represent cheese at the cheese olympics in cheese city on the planet cheese in the cheesiest section of the cheese nebula I wouldn't be able to do it. Thats how much i like most cheeses. However, The Contenders would be:

1) Roquefort - First time i had this my taste buds nearly packed their bags and moved to Blandsville, Delaware. It's salty and creamy and riddled with a funky mould that just kicked my cheese boundaries into touch. Wonderful wonderful stuff.

2) Parmegano Reggiano - Smells like an old pair of shoes but tastes like a party in your mouth where all the guests brought something tasty and are looking kinda hot. Put it on pasta and put it in pasta. One of my favourite desserts ever is big slices of Parmesan on tasty crackers.

3) Beaufort - The lucky French cows who make this are taken from the lower pastures up into the high mountain glens for 5 months in the year. This whole time a farmer/cheesemaker lives a solitary existence milking them for their sweet sweet milky goodness and turning it into a stunning cheese. If i was a cow I'd want to be one of these cows.

4) Cotswold With Chives - To much of makes me feel queasy cause it's so damn rich but a big wedge of this with some nice bread and a hearty ale or lambic beer makes me want to say things like 'oo-arrr' and 'harvest'.

5) Feta - Feta was invented by Plato in 467bc when he picked up a ewe and shook it to give an example of his ground breaking but ultimately flawed 'ewes can fly when shaken' theory. It's creamier than licking an udder and goes well with big fat olives. Out of democracy and feta I think you know which gets my vote.

Thats the five front runners although a nice talaggio, comte or big gooey wedge of gorgonzola peck could replace any one of them.

Cheese is great.

mmm red leicester.

feta sucks hairy bollocks imho

I don't like cheese

1) Gorgonzola - Lovely creamy cheese with spicy streaks of mould. Oh yeah!!
2) Brie - The queen of Cheeses. Excellent!

i love cheese (not the dick variety)

A good Brie is indeed fantastic Foghorn.

Man cheese is good. Lets not forget Stilton either! A good stilton is like a good woman; strong, thick pronounced blue veins, comes in a small pot and you need a differant one for every port. Okay so it's not like a good woman at all, it's nicer spread on bread though.

Also partial to a good camembert...hmm, roast in oven then dip new potatoes in..oh yeah!

And I enjoy a Chevre, but i think that is goats cheese.

Hell yeah! mmmmmmmmmmm . I like it baked and the gooey goodness scooped onto fresh white crusty bread and then dunked in chili sauce. man i want some cheese.

Dunked in chilli sauce..thats a new one for me..must try it.

I like garlic, stick enough garlic in the cheese, I may like it

Oh Foggie you gotta try this then:

Brie
Rasberry Jelly
Crackers

Place Brie in a glass bowl, bake in oven on 150 until it starts melting, place Rasberry Jelly or Jam on top and place back in for 10 mins, take out of oven and eat with crackers.

I was gonna say, raspberry jelly on crackers, thats disgusting, you eat jelly with ice cream, speak english and call it jam

There is such a thing as Jelly and Jam.

Yes, Jelly in English is Gelotine, as it should be and Jam in English is Jam like the stuff you put on toast

You Americans speak funny language and call it English :)

Really, I could say the same about you beargod.

No I spell bad English, you actualy speak it :P

Over here in the states jam has preserves and jelly doesn't (or the other way around). And has anyone seen Eddie Izzard's bit on american vs. english. He's a funny man. oh and i love cheese :)

nothing beats a good canadian vintage cheddar. except paresan and mozarella with antipasto.

parmesan?

You taking over from Vic as the enlgish teacher position?

enlgish?

english

Like I can spell, I was wondering if cal meant parmesan or there was a cheese called paresan

LOL

isn't antipasto a sub-atomic particle?

could be a tire manufacturer

tyre?

probably

how can you spell Tyre incorrectly, but get manufacturer correct?

cos there are two different spellings meaning two different things of tyre, but there is only one spelling of manufacturer, I usually can spell, Its just when I hit the wrong key on the keyboard, miss a key on the keyboard or get two words that are spelt different but sound the same, and may mean different things

oh

"Tire" is how the Septics spell it, innit.

BG: Why not just take a bit more time when typing??

Cos I cannot be bothered to take time, and check over the whole thing again, thats boring

Your testers must fucking hate you!

tire means to get tired AP

dictionary.cambridge.org/define.asp?key=...

I just used the wrong spelling for the one I wanted

testers Sul?

that test your apps

BG: No shit, mate ;)

It is, however also the American spelling of "tyre" - FACT.

yes It is a spelling of tyre.

And Sul, I am the one that tests my apps :)

Is it AP? Oh, I get the Septic bit now....Septic Tank = Yank.

Shit, i really need to waken up today

wake ;)

you don't have any kind of test stratergy that doesn't involve yourself? that's a worrying way to work. you write your own regression tests then, i assume?

I don't write any tests, we have nothing set up. I am the only programmer here, which is worrying.

This software is not for sale and is only used within the company and if anyone gets any problems with it they just need to ask me, and I will see what is wrong and attemt to fix it

what sort of software do you write?

In house, stuff to input data at the mo. Its for marketing research

what technolog(y|ies) do you use?

Windows, dos, office and Visual studio is all we use, I program in VB.Net and it pisses me off that the whole VB language has had an overhaul

Back to cheese, I love it on bread with marmite - and cheese on toast - my Dad called it Welsh Rabbit, but I dont know why.

Yes, but what type of cheese? ;)

It's ok, Friday, loads of people call it that. (That, or "Welsh Rarebit". It's interchangeable)

I always read rabbit not rarebit, takes a long stare to read rarebit

I am confused..the cheese is called Welsh Rabbit, or that was the name fo Cheese on Toast?

Cheese on Toast.

oh..why?

cos that Is what it is called

It's Welsh Rarebit actually which is cheese on toast with Worcester sauce

I love cheese

Yes emma read the whole thread

So it's welsh rarebit and it needs worcester sauce and a welsh rabbit refers only to bunnie's living in Wales?

well yes, but worcester sauce is not needed

www.red4.co.uk/Recipes/welsh-rarebit.htm

hang on people it says beer is sometimes added

want a stella cakes welsh rarebit?

mmmmmmmmmmmmm... so are there different types of rarebit or is there a monopoly by the welsh. I'd love to go on a rarebit tour where I can stay home, but my mouth travels the world.

erm, dunno have only heard of the welsh variety

Thanks for the link BG, now I know what WR is. I thought it was just cheese on toast, coz thats how Dad made it.

It is basically, but with beer :)

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