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Pastimes : Don't Ask Rambi -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Rambi who wrote (65006)	3/23/2004 1:27:23 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 71178

I remember you telling us about Poutine before, and it sounded just as disgusting. Yes, I kind of remember writing about Poutine before. Personally, I think it's very gross -- a total waste of good potatoes! Being a vegetarian, it's the gravy that grosses me out the most. I can't see how people can eat things like hot meat sandwiches with gravy poured all over the bread. YUCK!!! I believe Poutines must have grown out of the same nucleus or something... like, someone got the brilliant idea of melting cheese over a gravy-soaked side order on the same plate used to serve a hot roast beef sandwich. (this is definitely how you make a vegetarian gag in one easy step) As for cheese curds, I don't like the word "curd" either. It's just the sound of it, I suppose. Or perhaps the mental association with curdled milk which is pretty yucky, but a necessary step in the making of any cheese. I do, however, have pleasant associations with cheese curd. When I was a kid, we lived in an area where there were a couple of nearby cheddar cheese factories. We used to drop by once a week to pick up some aged cheddar, but also to get a little brown paper bag of cheese curds, still warm from the big vats just after they were salted, but before they were loaded into the cheese-cloth-lined metal molds to go into the press. Fresh, warm cheese curds make a unique "SQUEEK" when your teeth bite into them. We still have a few factories around our area, and most people consider it quite a treat to be able to get a bag of fresh cheddar curds. If someone offers you some curds, they'll probably say something like, "These are squeaky fresh!!!" So, tell me, did that little bit of Canadian trivia endear cheese curds to you? Uhmm...yes... SCRUM is a nasty sounding word, and definitely not a place where you want to be. Don't worry, if you come to visit, I won't make you sit in the scrum while eating your poutine. (o: