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msmemory_archive ([personal profile] msmemory_archive) wrote2007-07-02 07:51 am

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Pool noodles?

[identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:06 pm (UTC)(link)
Argh: I didn't take away your leaves.

If you put them in an obvious place, I can come get them today or tomorrow.

You can keep the Marmite. Or not. ;)

[identity profile] msmemory.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)
No matter - we hadn't got them transferred into bags. (If you want to take the barrels and return them empty later, spiff; otherwise, it'll be a day or two - tomorrow evening at best - before we get them bundled up.) The barrels are in the carport.

[identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:16 pm (UTC)(link)
Probably best in bags, then I won't need to return the barrel things. Drop me a note when you're ready for them to go.

[identity profile] msmemory.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:36 pm (UTC)(link)
Paper or plastic? If you're just going to empty the bags into the compost heap, then plastic would probably do. If you're going to drop 'em bodily, then paper so it will decompose properly.

[identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:45 pm (UTC)(link)
I'll be shaking them out over the forest floor, so plastic garbage/leaf/contractor bags are fine. Just as long as they're not much over 40 pounds stuffed.

Marmite

[identity profile] msmemory.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:12 pm (UTC)(link)
You never know what J will like. He has been known to eat anchovy paste, spread thin on a cracker.

Re: Marmite

[identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I don't have a problem with anchovy paste... does he eat "Ducal cheese" (Vis's term for that whey cheese, dark brown, from Oslo and the like. He claims the only people he knows who eat it willingly are Dukes -- him and Cariadoc.)

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[identity profile] rufinia.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:27 pm (UTC)(link)
What, Gjetost? Silly man. I inhale it when I can get it, whihc is christmas, when I'm home, and at Buttery New Year, because Marian keeps a good cheeseboard.

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[identity profile] rufinia.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 01:53 pm (UTC)(link)
Dukes and Scandinavians. It's my favorite cheese.

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[identity profile] metahacker.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 02:14 pm (UTC)(link)
Clearly you need to win crown a few times.

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[identity profile] rufinia.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 02:15 pm (UTC)(link)
I guess so.

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[identity profile] dagonell.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 03:09 pm (UTC)(link)
That's a good enough recommendation for me. Where can I get this stuff?
-- Dagonell

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[identity profile] rufinia.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 03:13 pm (UTC)(link)
If you have any Scandinavian import stores around that include food, you should be able to get it there. Otherwise, you can order it from here:

http://www.ingebretsens.com/details.php?prodID=1135

(Or plenty of other places around the web, but this is the place Mom goes to get swedish meatball mix, gjetost, and silte for Christmas)

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[identity profile] dryfoo.livejournal.com 2007-07-03 07:54 am (UTC)(link)
Gjetost, also known to Butterers and former-Butterers as "The Last Cheese Standing".

Tell us, they asked, of the nature of the Block of Gjetost. And he answered them, saying, "Way back in the Dawn of Time (when men conversed with fishes and the Giant Turtle still sang Doo-Wah-Diddy) when the Buttery New Year's celebration began at Xmas and lasted until Twelfth Night (or what you will), even then, upon the Cheese Board, could be found the Block of Gjetost. And yea, upon the Morning of the Omelets, when all things cheese were shredded and consumed, yet did the Block of Gjetost live on and was not taken. And yea again, even after the vast host of guests had departed, with such leftovers as might be forced upon them, yet did the Block of Gjetost continue within the fridge. And for many weeks after, though it did dwindle, yet it was not consumed utterly, but lingered unto the last. And of all the Cheeses of the Fridge was it the utmost. Year in and year out, unto all the Generations of the Buttery, the Block of Gjetost was found the Final Leftover, the Ancient of Days, the Remnant of Remnants. Now let us sing, What A Friend We Have in Cheeses." And they did.

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[identity profile] gyzki.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 03:04 pm (UTC)(link)
He claims the only people he knows who eat it willingly are Dukes -- him and Cariadoc.

The trick is to stop collecting data as soon as you've proved your point, and before you sample any Scandinavians. Loves my gjetost, I do, I do.

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[identity profile] cvirtue.livejournal.com 2007-07-02 03:33 pm (UTC)(link)
It's possible that his theory was "Dukes and Scandinavians" but if so, I don't remember that part of it!

I found it to be "interesting" but not something I'd seek out. I had it every morning during the week I was in Oslo, thinking maybe it would grow on me, but no. Ate many other strange and interesting foods that week, though.