So, I Thought I'd Take Advantage of My Senior Status

[Joe Guy]

Sounds like the voice of experience...

Not me... I read it somewhere.....

[BoSoxGal]

Plop, plop is very healthy poop - healthy poop sinks like a depth charge.

[Joe Guy]

It's interesting how just about any topic will do when we're all sheltered in place.

[liberty]

From one MGM to another, thanks for the thought.

Amazon (believe it or not) offerings are not all shippable to SA; elements may be in that category. They do ship books by a courier service and no longer use the unreliable (unless losing/stealing things predictably is classified as reliable) SA Postal Service. Margaretta tried to order text books yesterday only to discover that ALL shipments to SA are suspended during the CV19 shutdown. Oh well.

Ebay - yes, well if I'm in the USA, no problem. Otherwise see note on SA postal swindle above.

I made a stove-top macaroni cheese today. Awful. I cooked the mac separately before tossing in the other ingredients, overlooking that the "other ingredients" included 3 cups of water and 4 cups of milk. Now if the macaroni had been COOKED in such a large amount of liquid, it would have been absorbed/boiled off. As it was, we had macaroni soup. The cheese dissipated in the flood and was untasteable. Not a word apparently.

Also being older, Medicare keeps sending me emails about avoiding stress during the shutdown. Obviously they are unaware I'm in SA and the only stress is that I'm a case and a half of wine short of making it to May 1

It was that way in the Philippines; if one mailed a letter it had a fifty percent chance making it to the It was that way in the Philippines; if one mailed a letter it had a fifty percent chance making it to the recipient. I never heard of anyone trying to mail a package. I got mail in and out of the Philippines, but I used the APO system.

[Gob]

Why do Brits like warm beer? Because they have Lucas refrigerators.

Myth, busted.

While it's true that British beer drinkers don't really like ice cold, chilled beer, they don't like it warm either. Beer in pubs is kept at cellar temperature which is much cooler than normal room temperature. That's the best temperature at which to enjoy the subtleties of flavor and the brewer's art. Lagers are served colder but if you really want ice cold beer, order a bottled lager which will be refrigerated.

In truth cask beer isn’t warm, it’s not even supposed to be tepid; it should be cool, refreshing and thirst quenching. Its recommended serving temperature of between 10-13°C (stouts around 14-15°C) allows the richness and complexity of the beer to come to the fore. This is not room temperature, as some believe, but rather cellar temperature, which is where beer is traditionally kept and where it is able to stay cool without needing to be chilled.

This isn’t to say that cask beer is always served cool. When Casque Marque, a group that monitors cask ale temperature and freshness in the UK, undertook a survey of beer served across the country in 2005, they found that 44% of 2,000 pints exceeded the optimum drinking temperature. Nevertheless, although not pleasant, it’s still unlikely that any of these could actually be classed as “warm” – well, apart from one beer that was served at 35°C.

Few would argue that the serving of beer at too high a temperature is not a subject of considerable concern, but then serving beer extra cold similarly undermines the drinking experience, and that is the norm in the USA, Australia and other parts of the world.

[ex-khobar Andy]

True, myth is just that. British beer tends to have some taste left in it which isn't just hop-ade like some American IPAs. So you don't want it ice-cold.

But Lucas isn't called the Prince of Darkness for nothing. Well, come to think of it, it is called Prince of Darkness for nothing.