January Journal: Day 19

[unikorento]

19. Favourite snackfood / corvidology

Cheese! Cheese cubes (Gouda or Edam or Port Salut) and plum- or cherry tomatoes. You pop them in your mouth in turns. Eventually, the tomatoes will make your mouth sting, and you'll have to stop eating them, but until then it is pure bliss.

I'm also not averse to bell pepper or cucumber slices wrapped in cheese, but that requires slicing things which is not at all what I'm looking for when considering snack foods. I eat a lot of yoghurt as well. Too much? Probably. I probably eat too much yoghurt. Too much dairy, overall. I've switched to oat milk for most things, but oat yoghurt only works for me in smoothies. It's a work in progress.

I'm not big on crisps or popcorn or the like. For movie-watching munchies, I prefer the above-mentioned cheese combos, or something sweet.



Yeah, baby! Frank's back! And he's still dangerous and miserable, and I just know this show is going to be problematic, but I am so on board. The first episode was cool. His connection to the bartender was somehow very genuine, and adorably awkward. As a viewer, I was torn between very much wanting this to lead somewhere (Routines! Normalcy! This could be so good for him!) and wanting Frank to get the hell out of dodge before he ruins this nice lady's life by being his own unstable, violent self.

Sure enough, trouble ensues. The original comics are awful when it comes to female characters (or anyone who isn't Frank Castle, tbh), so I'm going to hold off judgment on this new mystery girl for now. Season 1 did justice to Karen Paige and Agent Madani, so I'm not too worried.

Oh, and speaking of season one. Billy Russo! YES. But please, his face? How bad is it? I really am very attached to his face.

Comments

[corvidology]

Cheese!

I've always said that if a doctor told me to stop eating something or die I'd do it... unless it was cheese and then I'd just ask "how long have I got, doc?"

[unikorento]

Amen!

[yesgalaxies]

I'm not really a fan of cheese :p I like it on my pizza and that's pretty much it xD

I really need to catch up on The Punisher. I still have 2 or 3 episodes of the first season to watch!

[unikorento]

I'm half-way through s2e4, and I can only recommend it. There's just so much good writing. The Netflix Marvel shows can be a little hit-or-miss for me, but I feel like the Punisher knows what it's about at its core. And John Bernthal is just killing it! (No pun intended!) He's the perfect Frank Castle!

I'm not really a fan of cheese

Well, I'm sure that's not your fault! ;) I lived in Quebec for a while there, and I found that the selection was a little on the slim side. A few good ones, for sure, but it seemed like things were rather mozzarella-heavy. (Which is not bad as such. Melted mozzarella on top of most things is good, but it's much more about consistency than taste.)

[yesgalaxies]

I really liked what I've seen so far of season 1. My favourite out of the Netflix Marvel show has to be Jessica Jones. Especially the first season. I'm excited to get to the season season of the Punisher though because Florianna Lima is in it ♥

I'm sure that's not your fault!

Oh yes, it's totally my fault. I hate the taste, I hate the texture xD There are some really good cheese here, if you know where to look. Or so I've been told. I don't really care for it :p

[unikorento]

Jessica Jones was awesome! I lean towards season 1 over season 2 as well! I mean, there were good moments there, but some stuff felt like it came out of left field. I hear they're about to cancel the show soon, along with all the other Marvel Netflix shows, which just feels like a giant waste. Jessica Jones is gold, damnit!

[yesgalaxies]

Yeah, I think it'll be cancelled after season 3 because Disney owns Marvel and they are launching their own streaming platform soon? It's pretty lame.

[thewayne]

I'm a huge sharp cheddar fan, love me a cheese that bites back! Give me that, a good cracker, and some sliced apple. Alternating with cherry tomatoes does sound nice, I was cutting and coring plum tomatoes for tacos for New Year's Eve at the observatory and realized how damaged the skin was on my hands when my right hand started burning!

I wish we had a good selection of cheese here, I have to drive two hours for a good cheese monger.

[unikorento]

As I understand it, the lack of cheeses has something to do with the fact that certain cheeses can only be produced in certain places in Europe, and that means that importing them is a costly business.

[thewayne]

True. A friend of mine from the USA just moved to the UK to teach maths, and was kind of dumbfounded to find that movie theaters don't salt their popcorn, they apply sweet toppings.  He had a tough time finding popcorn salt in the shops there. I can find a good sharp chedd here, but anything exotic: forget it.  That requires a good cheese shop, and that's 100+ miles away.

[motodraconis]

If I never had to eat chocolate ever again in my life, it would not be a big deal, but no cheese... I'd go berserk.

[unikorento]

Right?! It is a god among foods.

[leiacat]

One of my common cheese methodologies is caprese salads: cherry or grape tomatoes with fresh mozarella in Ciliegini form factor, which makes it about the same size as a cherry tomato (dressed to taste). Each forkful stabs a single cheese and a tomato.

Cheese is a food group, and nobody can tell me otherwise.