With This Ring (Young Justice SI) (Thread Fourteen)

[FuzzyZergling]

I talk hold of it in an orange aura,

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take hold

((Also, as a Canadian, American cheese is fine. I don't like it on sandwiches, but for sauce it's great.))

 

[Ardy]

He also doesn't like tea.

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I may be moving to Portugal in the next decade, and if I do, I'm taking a trip to England solely so that I can find Zoat at home, knock on his door, and he'll be culturally required to invite me in for tea. As I love tea and he hates it, he'll also be culturally required to keep a stiff upper lip as he drinks it.

At last, I have conquered Vaermina's greatest foe

 

[Vaermina]

American 'cheese' is not cheese. It is plastic mush, vaguely flavored with cheese powder. Literal fucking petroleum jelly. Do not fucking eat it, or I will laugh at you for your melodramatic choice in suicide methods; an overpowered diuretic would be faster, less painful, and at least taste better going down, while bestowing an exit to this vale of tears that provides comparative dignity.

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From the sound of it the only American cheese you have ever had is those Kraft Cheese singles.

That's not really American cheese.

Then how do you cook a good burger?

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Melt the cheese on the burger patty, butter and grill the bun, add lettuce and a dab of mayo below the burger patty, tomato on top of the cheese, then add in your favorite condiments and grilled onions if you're into that.

 

[Mr Zoat]

I assume people can't better themselves because of trauma-induced disabilities/habitual indoctrination. Does that count?

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Yes, but at least you're trying to be generous.

Inconsistent plurality. Might be just informal dialogue rather than an error.
'take'
'liked'

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Thank you, corrected.

Yeah, cheesecake cheese is quite different. I also dislike cheese but have enjoyed a real cheesecake. Though it was the sort of sweet where I felt nauseated after eating maybe a third-half. And one of my family members nicked the rest of it when I left it in the fridge.

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I suspect that we're talking about different things. This wasn't a baked cheesecake. It was a mixture of mascarpone and chocolate on the biscuit base.

Are these like the McDonalds boxes? I hate those because when I pour salt and vinegar on them, they leak from the bottom. Usually it isn't a problem, fortunately, because McDonalds fries are bad anyway so I rarely eat them. Fries in general tend to be unimpressive really, I usually stick to proper chips.

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The places where I've gone recently have had an irritating habit of undercooking the chips. The last few times I've taken to sticking them in the oven for a few minutes when I get home.

I may be moving to Portugal in the next decade, and if I do, I'm taking a trip to England solely so that I can find Zoat at home, knock on his door, and he'll be culturally required to invite me in for tea. As I love tea and he hates it, he'll also be culturally required to keep a stiff upper lip as he drinks it.

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You're welcome to do that, of course, but I don't keep tea in the house.

 

[Darko]

You're welcome to do that, of course, but I don't keep tea in the house

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And yet you still call yourself British.

 

[ForeverShogo]

Most food snobbery is bullshit from people putting on airs, but some things are true.

If you like cheddar then you like American cheese. At least the real thing. Most of what's on the market isn't the real thing, because sub-standard crap is allowed to be sold as long as you don't call it the real thing. That's why stuff that can't legally be called cheese is instead called a "cheese food" or a "cheese product". Which, as mentioned, is what Kraft Singles and the like tend to be.

The same thing is done with ice cream. If you go to buy ice cream these days, most of what's on the shelves can't legally be called ice cream because it fails to meet the minimum standards so they instead call it "frozen dessert" on the packaging.

A lot of the weird things with American food, when it isn't greedy assholes exploiting the "we'll just call it something slightly different" loophole, is just inertia from how big America is. Like our shitty chocolate or our refrigerated eggs. They're the way they are because they keep longer without going bad, which made it easier to ship across the country. We don't have to do a lot of this anymore, but people are so used to it that most people don't really feel like changing it.