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Many's the long night I dreamed of cheese--toasted mostly.
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With thanks to R.L.S. for a great quote.
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John , the two most important words /phrases to Americans are "free" , and "all you can eat " !
Quality isn't an issue ,for the mostpart it's yet to be discovered !
The food website looks excellent !
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I'm not sure I could eat Cabot cheese without laughing.
Cabot use to be our major suppliers of Carbon Black when I worked in the rubber industry.
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John, I agree with you, bread in North America is poor too , can't get anything like the nice thinly slided slightly moist white bread that's available in the UK, ( M&S sanwiches type bread ) , most loaves are tastless and are sliced thick ,even when it says thin sliced on the cover) ,most bread is cut very thick (taxas syle they call it) like everything in North America , it has to be big , (and tastless ).
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Pepperidge Farms do a think sliced bread which I dont mind, but nothing here taste like bread from home. Most of it I can compare to the cheap English bread. We do get some nice English Toasting bread from our local restaurant.
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Hard to believe, today I actually found a loaf which is like the UK bread of old, slightly moist and crispy crust , freshly baked at a small bakery owned by Italians ,nearbye !
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Did you know that the saying " On the breadline " originates from America ! It dates back to around 1870. A celebrated bakery run by the Fleischman family in New York was famous for their quality and freshness of bread which was baked every morning and any left over at the end of the day was given away free to the poor and needy rather than throw it away ! As you know a queue in America is called a line and so at the end of each days trading a "breadline" would form outside the premises made up of the poor and needy who were starving !
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Phil, Fleischman's bread is as bad as all the rest. Just how bread can have a use by date of 2 weeks I don't know, just what do they put in it.
Beer is the same, bars never clean the lines out, too much formaldehyde in it to be a problem. Stick with bottles. The law states that preservatives need to be declared on the label if they exceed 0.5% for any one. Guess what, they put in as many chemicals as they want to, but keep each below 0.5%. Even imports must be pasturised, I stick with Boddies or Stella.
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