Not being hung New Year's Day has advantages. A bagle, 30% butter fat cream cheese and artichoke heart salad for lunch, french restaurant dinnerware, damask linen. I've had two already. How many until I would kill myself through tangy goodness overload? Cream cheese is one of those things that we have to be forgiving with ourselves about. This 30% butter fat is care of the Baltic Deli - I've never seen a higher percentage. I think that's called butter.
Later: photo reduced due to outcry by the hungover. What the hung see.
Comments
Michael Demmons - January 1, 2004 2:21 PM
Sorry Alan,
That's the most disgusting shit I've ever seen on a plate.
Wayne - January 1, 2004 3:20 PM
Too many of those and you won't be able to tie your soccer (commonly confused with football)shoes. Happy New Year.
Alan - January 1, 2004 3:31 PM
Hee hee. Food usually looks like crap. I'll scale it down for the benefit of the hungover.
jean - January 1, 2004 6:21 PM
30%butterfat cream cheese...hmmm. Sounds like heart attack on a plate, but at the same time also sounds awesome. About one week ago, I had Christopher and another Brit over for dinner. They were discussing the fact that in Canada you cannot buy the 50% whipping cream they love so much. Christopher said that a trick he uses is that he takes the 36% cream and adds melted butter to bring it up to 50%! He assured us that it whips very well and tastes great. Now I ask you...is there no limit to what the Brits will do to clog their arteries?
Craig - January 1, 2004 7:58 PM
Can't keep that Christopher from talking about whips. I am getting worried.
jean - January 1, 2004 8:59 PM
My goodness, Alan, that second picture reminds me of something I was served at a restaurant in London. (England, that is.)
Alan - January 1, 2004 9:36 PM
How much did you drink last night?
Arthur - January 1, 2004 9:44 PM
That stuff there in the picture doesn't beat home made Oliebollen though. Happy New Year, Alan!
abuIskander Macdonald - January 1, 2004 9:47 PM
Poor Jean is finding the transition from Dream Whip to *real* double cream difficult and as last I heard she was lying with her legs in the air and muttering about fitting a gas bomb to her whipper. If this is how 2004 is beginning for her, we may all be in for an interesting year.
jean - January 1, 2004 10:04 PM
Apparently not near enough!
Alan - January 1, 2004 10:08 PM
Abu: I suppose half the Island would faint if a tub of mascarpone were to make its way across the bridge.
Arthur: what is Oliebollen? I recall the Dutch have an honourable relationship with high butter fat.
jean - January 1, 2004 10:09 PM
Okay, just so you all know. The legs in the air are because of a fall I took while taking down the Christmas decorations.Only way to reduce the swelling and stave off a possible blood clot. The cream whipper I have is operated by little gas bombs that does the whipping in the cannister. Only a Brit would get the two confused and report it on for the world to read about. Alan, I feel a law suit coming on...oops! better not, I need him to fix my computer this weekend. Maybe after that.
jean - January 1, 2004 10:14 PM
Actually, mascarpone is available here at the ASS. It is the price of it, rather than the fat content that makes the Islanders faint.
Alan - January 1, 2004 11:14 PM
"ASS" - that is great. I knew it as the "Jesu Cristi" or Jesus Christ Superstore.
Alan - January 2, 2004 9:00 AM
Arthur answered my question via his site.