I happened into a specialty market today and found some British things. While you CAN eat these crackers plain, TLK and I decided that they taste like really thick paper alone. We went home and put butter or cheese on them, and then it all made sense. 🙂 Refrigerating the beer ..err… stout.. to the recommended 55 degrees (did they mean F or C?) hehe and then I’ll taste, but mostly, I’m dumping it into a bread mix that requires it. I’m not much of a beer ..err… stout….drinker… of course, I’ve only tested this theory using American beer ummm…. 🙂
We’ll not discuss the buffalo jerky I bought. It was yucky. It’s just this place has no idea what to do with buffalo.
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Urgh. It’s Stout, not beer (as in Ale). The only place to drink Stout is in Dublin. Get him to take you over there to try some, while you’re close by. 🙂
I stand corrected 🙂
I agree with you about the crackers. You have to bite into them very slowly, or they end up in a million pieces all over the table and floor. So you must eat them with something which will hold them together, like butter, or a spreading cheese….or if you don’t like them, they make very good frisbees!
And the beer/stout/ale you mention is a speciality drink, and should be savoured like a good whisky, and discussed at great length and a sense of gravitas, with like-minded friends….not just used to wash down the very-dry crackers!
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Actually she is going to be using the stout in the cooking. 🙂
They don’t only make good stout in Dublin – I buy this one quite regularly: http://www.thedrinkshop.com/products/nlpdetail.php?prodid=4404 and it’s made by the infamous Red Stripe. It’s an excellent stout.
Oh, and Lisa? They have a competition over here to see how many dry crackers you can eat one after another. Most can’t do more than 3 (it’s also quite dangerous because you can choke on them) – only a loony would try to eat them dry!
Crackers, butter and marmite. Mmm yum.
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Punctuation beat me to it with describing the cream cracker game. It’s a horrible experience. It’s like chewing down 3 huge mouthfuls of flour.
Also, we have the phrase “cream crackered” meaning “knackered” ie. very tired. Originally Cockney rhyming slang, I think.
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IP – or… peanut butter. 🙂
Ok, now I know why they call it “stout”… because it IS stout-tasting. Good Gosh! It IS black! 🙂 (I AM a lightweight.. pass the wine, please!)
I think I’ll skip right over the “eating the cracker plain” contest. Hehe… I’ve eaten your crackers plain. Enough is enough.
Brown sludge… I mean “Marmite” hehe. I’ll probably love it. 🙂
I’m about to bake my “beer bread” with “stout”. 🙂 Pictures later.
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I like the occasional Bass ale, especially with oysters on the half shell. (I’m guessing that was not the original intent of Wm. Bass)
I don’t mind a Guiness stout or a black and tan now and again.
All are, in fact, designed to be taken in a friendly pub with a large table of good friends.
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Oysters on the half-shell are good, especially with hot sauce. Difficult to get good ones so far from the sea.
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