Shopping today - had to buy some Nutella (Hazelnut Spread).
Noticed a couple of cheaper imitations. One was Foodland or Black and Gold brand. The other, well, was:
Nutkao new Cream.
Guess which one I didn’t buy.
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Wed 1st Nov 2006
The problem with stupid employees
Posted in the evening, filed under Food , Rants and Raves.I’ve worked in fast food. Granted, it was a long time ago, and I was only a delivery driver, but it vexes me how often orders are mucked up by these (generally) young people. What hope does our society have when the youth can’t listen properly and remember for thirty seconds what food I want.
We went to KFC at Mitcham tonight, on the way home from a Training & Development session. Jaq was driving, so she ordered, and it went a little like this:
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I ran out of Espresso Grind coffee last week, and, not having enough money to buy anymore, went without until the cashflow had fined up a bit. Rather than drink the posh that passes for instant coffee, I went without. And it was horrific. I didn’t really realize how badly I need a coffee in the mornings until I actually had my first coffee in some time this morning. And immediately I felt better.
So, it seems I am totally addicted to bass, um, coffee. Caffeine is something that is quite unusual in my body: I can have a coffee right before bed and yet drop right off immediately, but if I go without in the mornings, I am my normal, grumpy self. It’s not until I have the drop of Java that I become a shadow of a respectable person.
Anyway, whilst the cashflow is still looking shaky, it turned out I had enough on my Hudson’s card to grab a bag of freshly ground good stuff. And I’m sure my students will thank me.
I was a bit peckish waiting for the train on Friday, so I bought a packet of chips. Smiths have a new flavour range out, including Australian Sausage Sizzle.
They actually weren’t too bad. They did taste a bit like a sausage.
I remember the good old days of the Roast Beef and Mustard chips. Derek and I used to have a packet of them every Sunday for lunch. And it was just like having a Roast Sunday Dinner. But easier to prepare.
rentzsch.com: I don’t understand Coffee Physics
Fresh hot coffee: yum.
Day old coffee: yuck.Cold coffee (day-old coffee that’s been stuck in the fridge): yum.
I’ve noticed this too: but even more so, if I brew some fresh coffee, it’s great. If I brew it, pour it over ice and put fresh cold milk in there, it’s great.
If I put it in a thermos flask, and drink it two hours later, it’s still nice and hot, but no longer nice.
For Christmas, we bought a DeLonghi Metropolis Espresso machine. I’m pretty happy with the quality of coffee it makes, however it seems to have developed a pretty major fault, since I last used it.
The machine has two thermostats, one for heating the plate to the right temperature for brewing coffee, the other for heating to the right temperature for frothing milk. The coffee thermostat seems to be broken, so the machine will not heat up when it’s just in ‘coffee’ mode. I can get the machine to heat up by flicking the switch ‘frothing’ mode, but then I need to be there to turn it off as it gets to the right temperature.
I’ll have to get this fixed. The machine is only three months old, and I’ve been taking very good care of it!
I’ve sent off an email to DeLonghi customer service. It will be interesting to see how they respond to email.
In the latest issue of The Monthly, Gideon Haigh explains how having access to so much information, and in particular access in the way Google presents it, is making us less smart.
There’s still lots to like about this magazine: it provides a new voice in Australian culture, having extended articles on interesting topics. I see it as similar in some ways to the Independent Weekly, a newspaper that’s new to Adelaide, but easier to handle in a couple of ways - firstly being a smaller format. It’s much easier to take with you, and therefore take your time reading it. The articles are a bit more national - although there are several international articles in the various editions I’ve read.
So, does Google make you dumber?
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Fri 27th Jan 2006
Boing Boing: Drunken gluttons order and eat 100-patty hamburger
Posted late evening, filed under Food , Humour.Boing Boing: Drunken gluttons order and eat 100-patty hamburger
Man, Boing-Boing gets the best news.
Damn. There goes my Summer plan for a Coffee Shop at Robe…