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Re: I can't believe it's not. . .

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BoSoxGal wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:54 am
Am I too young to get the joke? :shrug
Apparently you are; either that or you never watched the original "Star Wars" trilogy.  That's Billy Dee Williams, who played a character named Lando Calrissian in the second film, "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back".  Note also how the person who Photoshopped the butter package pushed the 'O' in "Land O Lakes" over to the left, making it read 'LandO'.
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Gob - I have never seen a Welsh rarebit recipe with egg yolks. Seems odd to me, but you’re the Welshman.
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Re: I can't believe it's not. . .

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Bicycle Bill wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:34 am
BoSoxGal wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 1:54 am
Am I too young to get the joke? :shrug
Apparently you are; either that or you never watched the original "Star Wars" trilogy.  That's Billy Dee Williams, who played a character named Lando Calrissian in the second film, "Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back".  Note also how the person who Photoshopped the butter package pushed the 'O' in "Land O Lakes" over to the left, making it read 'LandO'.
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Oh okay, thanks - I’ve seen all the Star Wars movies multiple times but that detail has long since escaped the ‘important stuff to remember’ section of my noggin.
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Re: I can't believe it's not. . .

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Guinevere wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:38 am
Gob - I have never seen a Welsh rarebit recipe with egg yolks. Seems odd to me, but you’re the Welshman.

They are optional, but make for a more rich and unctuous experience.
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Re: I can't believe it's not. . .

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Let's agree. It's Welsh Rabbit. Named by the English to indicate that the Taffies couldn't even catch the cheapest (free) meat available and could only heap beer and cheese on burned bread

Doesn't get a good name such as.... Ploughman's lunch*, innit?

*these days, "deconstructed Welsh Rabbit"
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Deconstructed Welsh rarebit?

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Re: I can't believe it's not. . .

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MajGenl.Meade wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:19 am
Let's agree. It's Welsh Rabbit. Named by the English to indicate that the Taffies couldn't even catch the cheapest (free) meat available and could only heap beer and cheese on burned bread

Doesn't get a good name such as.... Ploughman's lunch*, innit?

*these days, "deconstructed Welsh Rabbit"
Wiki has a really good entry on rabbit/rarebit. Thought you might appreciate this:
Rarebit Edit
The word rarebit is a corruption of rabbit, "Welsh rabbit" being first recorded in 1725 and the variant "Welsh rarebit" being first recorded in 1785 by Francis Grose. According to the Oxford English Dictionary, 'Welsh rarebit' is an "etymologizing alteration. There is no evidence of the independent use of rarebit". The word rarebit has no other use than in Welsh rabbit.[4][20]

"Eighteenth-century English cookbooks reveal that it was then considered to be a luscious supper or tavern dish, based on the fine cheddar-type cheeses and the wheat bread [...] . Surprisingly, it seems there was not only a Welsh Rabbit, but also an English Rabbit, an Irish and a Scotch Rabbit, but nary a rarebit."[21]

The entry in Merriam-Webster's Dictionary of English Usage is "Welsh rabbit, Welsh rarebit" and states: "When Francis Grose defined Welsh rabbit in A Classical Dictionary of the Vulgar Tongue in 1785, he mistakenly indicated that rabbit was a corruption of rarebit. It is not certain that this erroneous idea originated with Grose...."[22]

In his 1926 edition of the Dictionary of Modern English Usage (Fowler's style guide) grammarian H. W. Fowler opines: "Welsh Rabbit is amusing and right. Welsh Rarebit is stupid and wrong."[23]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit
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Re: I can't believe it's not. . .

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Gob wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 7:00 am
Guinevere wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 2:38 am
Gob - I have never seen a Welsh rarebit recipe with egg yolks. Seems odd to me, but you’re the Welshman.

They are optional, but make for a more rich and unctuous experience.
And may possibly be the original form. Also from the wiki link I posted above:
Origin

The first recorded reference to the dish was "Welsh rabbit" in 1725, but the origin of the term is unknown.[4]

There is some suggestion that it derives from a South Wales Valleys staple, in which a generous lump of cheese is placed into a mixture of beaten eggs and milk, seasoned with salt and pepper, and baked in the oven until the egg mixture has firmed and the cheese has melted. Onion may be added and the mixture would be eaten with bread and butter and occasionally with the vinegar from pickled beetroot.[16][17]
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Re: I can't believe it's not. . .

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Guinevere wrote:
Tue Apr 21, 2020 9:53 am
Thought you might appreciate this:
"Welsh Rabbit is amusing and right. Welsh Rarebit is stupid and wrong."[/b][23]
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_rarebit
I did indeed! Thanks! :)
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I can't believe it's not. . .

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Re: I can't believe it's not. . .

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BoSoxGal wrote:
Sat Apr 18, 2020 4:58 am
I think it’s just lovely:

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I never knew they were a farmers’ cooperative, that’s pretty cool!


I appreciate them not putting a happy cow picture on the packaging too, because there’s a whole lot of cruelty in dairy farming, even done as humanely as possible.
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Funny yet not funny yet funny. This is dark humor, no?
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Re: I can't believe it's not. . .

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Yep.
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