Question and Answer

[mrissa]

yhlee and pegkerr and several other people, I forget who, have been answering the "five fictional characters you had a crush on as a kid" question. I was reading along with interest and having a hard time coming up with any besides Egon from "Ghostbusters," because my interest in geeks apparently started somewhere around or before my fifth birthday. "Ghostbusters" came out in 1984, the year I turned six, and there was already no question in my mind which Ghostbuster was the appropriate one.

But then it hit me: the Westmark trilogy. Like, half the male cast of the Westmark trilogy. Florian, Justin, Stock, Theo. Keller. I totally sympathized with Sparrow on the point of Keller.

Is this a disturbing answer? I think it might be.

So anyway, I was answering a question redredshoes had asked about chocolate, and it got me wondering: what food products have you bought that disappointed you? They don't have to be disgusting things, just things that weren't nearly as good as they sounded. Mine (in the comments to the last entry) was Haute Fudge's Grand Marnier fudge. (The kind of fudge you heat and pour over ice cream, not the kind you slice and eat.) It's fine, but...who wants Grand Marnier fudge to be fine? So it lurks in the corner of the fridge, getting finished slowly, because...meh. And we can do better than "meh" for desserts around here.

How about you? What did you think was going to be wonderful that wasn't?

Comments

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

Too much of a pain to cut.

Let me sit here and ponder that for a moment.

Okay, I'm drawing a blank: how? Why? What kind of cheese could possibly be too much of a pain to cut?

I didn't crush on it that I recall, but I loved the idea of Head of the Class, because the smart kids weren't all the same. They were all supposed to be smart kids, but some of them were into art and some into science and so on and so on.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Cheese that is firm enough that it really, truly needs a cutting board and sharp knife to be cut, because the knife goes "thwack" once it goes all the way through. I only eat so much cheese at one time, and having to wash a cutting board and sharp knife each time I do...often not worth it to me, even though I think it will be when I see the cheese in the store.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I love pungent hard cheese like that, so it's always worth it to me to add another cutting board to the dishwasher. Or, more often, to use the one I was cutting tomatoes on etc.

[mkille.livejournal.com]

With the old dishwasher, there was only room for one cutting board or large pan or such. It was poorly configured, rackwise. When we had no dishwasher, well, every food prep choice for me was weighed with that in mind. Now we have our new dishwasher, yay! So perhaps I will be more reckless.

[minnehaha.livejournal.com]

Various cheese knives make cutting cheese easier than doing so with a sharp knife. Also, large and heavy knives are much better suited to hard cheeses than a more versatile blade. You could cut a couple of days cheese at a time, too. Hard cheeses won't mold in just a day or two.

As for Haute Fudge, Mris, is that the one with corn syrup as principal sweetener? All the hot fudge products that are sweetened with corn syrup are sucktacular, the more so when you spend upwards of $10 a jar for them. Lunds has a really really really good one that's only sweetened with sugar, but it's wildly expensive. Cheaper to make your own.

K.

[mrissa.livejournal.com]

I went down to check, and it isn't, it's sweetened with white and brown sugar. I've had corn syrup sweetened chocolate sauces before, and they are indeed craptastic. This is just...meh. Wrong balance of chocolate and Grand Marnier for me, I think, so I'll just have to make my own.

Which will leave us with a partial bottle of Grand Marnier. Oh woe, oh alack; will no one help us with our horrid plight etc.

We have a good sturdy cheese wire for all but the hardest cheeses, but I like having to get out the big knife and go whack. Probably means I'm going to like the cheese.

It's 10 in the morning. There is no reason for me to go eat cheese and chocolate right now. In another hour, though....

[mkille.livejournal.com]

Logically, you're right about the cheese. Illogically, it is just Too Much for me to have a Multi-Day Cheese Plan.