Son-of-a-Weizen

You forgot these 'special' edition EHC Muenchen Oktoberfest uniforms. Not pleasant to look at.

Article on AoL. One guy ** -- a former cheese shop employee whose follow-up comment is posted below -- scoffs at the one inch 'rule.' Is he right? .....or is he a cheesehead? __________________________________________________ Is Moldy Cheese Safe to Eat? by Carrie Coolidge According to the Mayo Clinic, some moldy cheeses are safe to eat after the mold has been sliced off, while others are toxic. The answer depends on the type of cheese, says Mayo Clinic nutritionist, Katherine Zeratsky, R.D., L.D. "Molds are microscopic organisms that have thread-like roots that burrow into the foods they grow on," she says. There are good molds and there are bad molds. Most molds are harmless and safe to eat (unless you are allergic to mold, of course). These molds are even used to make some kinds of cheese, including brie, roquefort, gorgonzola, and camembert. Some bad molds produce mycotoxins, which can make you sick. With hard and semisoft cheese, such as parmesan, Swiss, romano and cheddar, you can cut away the moldy part and eat the rest of the cheese, says Zeratsky. "Keep the knife out of the mold itself so that it doesn't cross-contaminate other parts of the cheese," she warns. "Cut off at least one inch around and below the moldy spot." With soft cheeses, such as brie, chevre, blue cheese and ricotta, however, the mold that grows cannot be safely removed so these cheeses should be discarded. The same goes for any cheese that has been shredded, crumbled or sliced. ** Lotte Oct 29th 2009 4:21AM I'm sorry, but I am sick and tired of the "experts" (and that includes "scientists") telling us eat this, don't eat that, this will make you sick, that won't. My first job in high school (waaaay long time ago) was in a "cheese house". We carried over 70 different types of imported and domestic cheeses and smoked meats. It wasn't/isn't at all uncommon for cheeses to get mold - we would slice it off, sometimes a customer WANTED it on there (and I don't mean those meant to have mold i.e. the 'famous' bleu and roquefort - ewww). We were always taught that as long as all of the mold was removed it was fine. And not an INCH in all directions either!!! None of this 'some has long roots and this and that and on and on ad nauseam! Well, guess what? Over forty years later, after all our friends and family have eaten the cheeses after removing mold, NO ONE EVER GOT SICK!!! The absolute only cheeses we were told to never use even after removing mold were the "processed" cheeses, such as american. And this information came directly from the doctors and other experts back then! Just more scare tactics - we're all sanitizing, anti-bacterializing and scaring ourselves to death! Give it a bloody rest already!

F-Troop re-runs aren't mindless!!

The most despised guy in DC is really pushing it now. What a dink. http://voices.washingtonpost.com/dcsportsb...edex_field.html

I wanna know what's behind curtain #3? ....and #2. If there's a Shorter 'Speak No Evil' TOCJ or one of those new Mormon 'Muffin' pin-up calendars they've been talking about, I'll take 'em!!!!

Yeah, that too! Hehehe

Anchors Away!!!! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RMbY-3C30_U...feature=related

Tough for the Vikes to get hosed like that immediately after the outstanding Peterson run where he dropped Gay to the turf like a little puppet.

...the human plow?

I get to have a virtual colonoscopy in the a.m.

Don't say Red!!!!

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...need a DC branch with all of our 'favorite' pol faces -- past & present -- on the seatcovers!

The pernicious Prioress punished Agnes by chaining her in a dungeon.

You obviously paid waaaay too much! http://www.yourstoreonline.net/(S(hamqyzed...+MASTERS+VOL.+2

Get that stupid cat to one-up Hoffman and start meowing "legendary" or we don't stand a chance of getting him back!! http://www.stevehoffman.tv/forums/showthread.php?t=197059

Just goes to show......a Löwe ain't a Zebra.

Great! ......need a new Bib?

Sounds like a good suggestion. Now, now...let's not .....

Thanks for checking w/him, MG! Ahh, interesting....did not realize that. Have only perused 'Empire' and 'War of the World.' Will have to check out the Schroeder critique as well. This blurb from an older Washington Post review: "Through a careful marshalling of economic and social evidence, along with charts, graphs and various forms of statistical aids, Ferguson attempts to show that because Germany (rightly) feared French and Russian militarism, it understandably made a preemptive strike against France in August 1914. (This idea is contrary to every considered opinion about the origin of World War I, which holds that it was German militarism that started the war.)" http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style...ofwar990704.htm ....my assumption is that Schroeder also takes issue with Ferguson on this score? (Note: not sure if Patsilelis is 100% accurate here as -- if I remember correctly -- in either 'The Decline of Bismarck's European Order' (Princeton) or 'The Fateful Alliance' (Princeton), George Kennan pretty much advanced the same line of thinking?

Did this book ever appear in hardcover? Can't find it.

I just want the box to house 40 something columb/prestige mini-lps. Anyone wants to sell theirs......I'm buying!!

Ventura/Philips ...disc 4

Strange things are happening. About 1 minutes ago we decided to watch Transsiberian via instant Netflix. We just watched that last night. Just checked it out last night as well. Did you enjoy it? I took the Transsiberian back in '83....and this film is terrific in terms of capturing the flavor of the journey. Didn't matter that it was filmed almost entirely in Lithuania. Sign of a good film as well when you're provoked and wind up totally pissed off at the person cast as a sympathetic character. That 'Jessie' steadily inched her way up my 'wake the %$#@! up, dunce!!' scale.