Admit your ignorance - things you've only just realised/learned

[ebikeerwidnes]

Oh sure chocolate does melt but there's something in the way they produce the Flake.

Don't try it with a ripple or wispa.

Ok - I'll do what you say
just to be on the safe side I'll eat any I come across so I'm not tempted!

 

[Joey Shabadoo]

I've just realised that "this little piggy went to market" doesn't mean it went shopping.


I'm 57.

 

[Gwylan]

I've just realised that "this little piggy went to market" doesn't mean it went shopping.


I'm 57.

Sausages don't grow on trees.

 

[Dogtrousers]

I've just realised that "this little piggy went to market" doesn't mean it went shopping.


I'm 57.

I've just worked out what else it could mean. And now I'm very distressed. And it's your fault.

 

[ColinJ]

I've just worked out what else it could mean. And now I'm very distressed. And it's your fault.

I remember my sister asking where meat came from when we were kids. Our mum told her and she then refused to eat meat for over 10 years! The only reason that she started eating it again was because she was anaemic when pregnant and her doctor advised her to.

 

[Andy in Germany]

Apparently Hartlepool has a nuclear power station.

According to Wikipedia they started building it a couple of years after I left.

 

[Chris S]

I remember my sister asking where meat came from when we were kids. Our mum told her and she then refused to eat meat for over 10 years! The only reason that she started eating it again was because she was anaemic when pregnant and her doctor advised her to.

Imagine my reaction when I found out where eggs came from.

 

[Chris S]

The PSNI won't prosecute you for driving a vehicle with an expired MOT, providing it's booked in for one.
https://www.nidirect.gov.uk/articles/guide-booking-your-mot-vehicle-test
The current waiting time for MOT tests in Northern Ireland is 71 days.

 

[mistyoptic]

Analogue cheese is nothing to do with your music or Wi-Fi. Apparently the term means that a bland cheese has been adulterated with flavour chemicals to imitate a more flavoursome genuine variety

 

[ebikeerwidnes]

Analogue cheese is nothing to do with your music or Wi-Fi. Apparently the term means that a bland cheese has been adulterated with flavour chemicals to imitate a more flavoursome genuine variety

Sounds disgusting

but then to me all cheese is disgusting so I am probably not the best judge

 

[Dogtrousers]

Analogue cheese is nothing to do with your music or Wi-Fi. Apparently the term means that a bland cheese has been adulterated with flavour chemicals to imitate a more flavoursome genuine variety

I thought analogue cheese was cheese-like non-dairy cheese substitute. Like "vegan cheese". So basically not cheese at all.

But I could be wrong.

 

[mistyoptic]

I thought analogue cheese was cheese-like non-dairy cheese substitute. Like "vegan cheese". So basically not cheese at all.

But I could be wrong.

I stand corrected. You have the right of it. I took it from this portion of Tim Spector’s book

“Frozen pizza is designed to last for years in a $150 billion world market propped up by analogue cheese, a term for any pseudo cheese that contains ingredients that mimic or blend with the original at lower cost.

This is generally made from partly hydrogenated vegetable oil, casein, vegetable protein, binder, stabiliser, emulsifier, emulsifying salt, acidulant, salt, colourings, flavourings, preservatives and water without using starter culture or rennet.

Good-quality cheese can be melted without major changes to nutrients, whereas boiled and frozen cheese analogues have less calcium and produce strange fat combinations. Countries vary on how analogue cheese is labelled, but a 2016 survey of British pizza takeaways found one in four were selling analogue cheese as real mozzarella on pizzas.-“


and muddled it with a comment on the previous page. Sounds disgusting either way…

 

[matticus]

Good-quality cheese can be melted without major changes to nutrients, whereas boiled and frozen cheese analogues have less calcium and produce strange fat combinations. Countries vary on how analogue cheese is labelled, but a 2016 survey of British pizza takeaways found one in four were selling analogue cheese as real mozzarella on pizzas.-“

I think the confusion here is entirely down to mixing ANALOGUE* (the noun) with ANALOGUE (the adjective). They have very different meanings.
Thus the meaning of "cheese analogues" is easily guessed. But "analogue cheese" sounds like wibble - and in my opinion IS wibble!

*I think the "ue" ending makes no difference.
https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/analog

 

[Dogtrousers]

Here's a video about the manufacture of "American Cheese". This example actually does contain some actual cheese.

View: https://youtu.be/0aGNAxN5Z-o?si=RP8Ti69qNeqKu0nI

 

[Yellow Fang]

Xanadu is in Yorkshire, not as I had previously thought, in Samuel Taylor Coleridge's opium-induced visions.

I thought it was a song by Olivia Newton John.