Odd foodstuffs

[pepper]

Things which ought not to be confused:

Leskol - "Leskol Half Fat looks, tastes, slices and cooks the same as any Mature Cheddar - but it's packed full of all the good things, and has much less of the bad..."

Leksol - "Leksol is a high-performance precision cleaning solvent used in vapour degreasing, ultrasonic cleaning and cold cleaning with high solvency power..."

(No, before you ask, I've not been drinking cleaning solvent. The cheese substitute was listed as an ingredient in a sandwich I bought today, and I wondered what the heck it was, so Googled it, and got the name slightly wrong. Also, the bit about tasting the same as any Mature Cheddar is a liiiiiiiiiiiiie.)

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I have recently tried Marmite with added champagne (something they did as a Valentine's promotion this year, and we've only just got around to opening due to the plethora of Marmite we already had in the cupboard). Didn't taste any different, to be honest - Marmite is way more overpowering a flavour. I've also tried Guinness Marmite - ditto. Guinness is kind of the alcoholic equivalent of Marmite, come to think of it. If you like that, I think there's a good chance you could come to like Marmite. Even if it's culturally not your thing.

Also, it's good added to vegetarian French onion soup, to give it the body it lacks without beef stock.

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I'm eating a lot of apples, lately. My favourite types are always the tiny ones that appear around this time of year - Russets, Cox's Orange Pippin (of which we had a tree, when I was a kid), all those. Mmm. They're very literary apples - they remind me of Lord of the Rings, and Little Women. Jo and her bag of apples, in the attic.

My local supermarket once tried to sell giant, mutant Russets, the same size as normal apples. I get the impression that they weren't successful - I didn't buy them, and next year they were back to the proper, tiny ones. Hah. Consumer power ftw.

Comments

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

It's always a lie when they claim to taste the same. Even Diet Dr. Pepper isn't quite right, and it's very close. *g*

Is Marmite as normal to you as peanut butter is to me? The philosophical questions, they burn!

We don't have lots of tiny apples, but we get all the good ones this time of year, too--beautifully crunchy, sweet, tart, and crisp. Love them. Need to go shopping.

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

I'm a firm non-believer in diet equivalents. *g*

Yeah, I'd say Marmite is about equivalent to peanut butter... Or, actually, I was thinking recently that it's kind of the cultural equivalent of peanut butter and jelly - peanut butter is pretty much standard here, but that combination sounds weird and icky to me. :)

Mmm, tiny crunchy apples... And I don't feel bad about eating tons of them!

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

Peanut butter and jelly is very sweet, but very good. Raspberry jam is the best. :-)

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Also, brains are delicious.

:D

[holdouttrout.livejournal.com]

*lols*

[la-tante.livejournal.com]

mmmm delicious cleaning solvent!

but for apples, i love the honey crisp and the braeburn. tart, sweet, and really crunchy. oh fall!

[pepper-field.livejournal.com]

Ooh, honey crisp - I've never seen that one. It sounds gorgeous. And yeah, I adore Braeburn. Yum.

Mmm, solvent... *g*

[naelany.livejournal.com]

lol I'm very glad to hear that it was the Leskol, not the Leksol ^_~

Ewwww marmite! And yes, I've had it... *shudder*

Heh

[shinysilvergrl.livejournal.com]

For a long time every time I tried to look up "Livejournal" I ended up at "liverjournal".

Yes, there appears to be a liverjournal, lol.

(cute bunny icon because you said you like it *g*)