I know, what gives with that stuff? Who needs hazelnut mixed in with their chocolate spread? What about that nifty Cadbury spread they sell in the UK -- pure chocolate and no fucking about...
on the Balkinization of fandom, and please God, let me have spelled that correctly
It's actually "Balkanization" with an "a" like you spelled it further below, and what's wrong with Nutella? I'll grant you that there are better brands of chocolate-hazelnut-spreads, but the underlying taste combination is sound. What I think will end civilization is jelly-flavored peanut butter. That is an atrocity only spray-can cheese matches... (okay so I got never quite over my culture shock of seeing an US supermarket from the inside *g*)
Yeah, there's more than one kind. I think there are about as many brand of hazelnut-chocolate spreads here than there are peanut butter brands in the US. There are also variants using almonds or peanuts instead of hazelnuts, some that add coconut sprinkles, others with white chocolate... My favorite kind is an organic brand that only uses cocoa butter instead of cheap vegetable oil and more hazelnuts. OTOH peanut butter can be kind of hard to find here (though it's gotten easier in recent years, I mean, I hadn't even seen peanut butter before I was in my teens, and I still think of peanut butter as something to be used in Asian cooking and not as something to be put on bread).
Well there's always own brands...secretrebelNovember 11 2003, 15:33:21 UTC
If you're scared of Nutella tho' - steer clear of Italy. I've heard that some Italians rate how much their mother's loved them on the basis of how much Nutella they were given as children. Plus, last visit to Bologna, I saw a Nutellaria... Nutella Pizza, Nutella Milkshake, Nutella, well, basically you name it, it was there.
God, I remember that initial Balkanization...I've seen something worse since (worse because I was *way* more invovled, even though I was still on the outside edges of it all) but mostly because it centered around personal issues, friendships and backstabbing than of the purely fannish variety.
Anyway, hell yes, there needs to be an anti-Nutella bandwagon. I don't care if it does have umlauts (it does, right? it's been so long since I could actually look at a jar), the jar's roughly the same shape as a can of SPAM, and that never bodes well for any food product.
And as for this pick-and-choose thing with LJ, I'm right there with you. I think it's one reason why I regard my post-SV experiences so well in comparitive terms. I'm able to pick and choose associations, even more than I did while in SV, so for the most part EW, HP, popslash and lotrips are these shiny, happy lands. With lots and lots of squees and gay porn -- but hey, that's how life should be, right? *g*
the jar's roughly the same shape as a can of SPAM, and that never bodes well for any food product.
That is total definitive proof of its evil. Total.
And as for this pick-and-choose thing with LJ, I'm right there with you. I think it's one reason why I regard my post-SV experiences so well in comparitive terms. I'm able to pick and choose associations, even more than I did while in SV, so for the most part EW, HP, popslash and lotrips are these shiny, happy lands. With lots and lots of squees and gay porn -- but hey, that's how life should be, right? *g*
If fans were sane, yes. Which we mostly are, I think. Except when we're totally not.
Lotrips hooked me about a year ago. I don't think I ever looked back. Then came the wonderful evilness that is popslash. Inbetween I got hooked on nascar -- but thankfully, and even though maveness has come up with a Index of Slashability for the drivers, I haven't seen a fandom for it yet. Thank god, I need at least one thing in my life to remain pure. *g*
Okay, you're all freaks. I mean, if you were talking about Marmite, then, yeah, I could almost agree, but Vegemite? Is the sandwich filling of legends!
*fills with pride for Aussie spread*
Man, now I want a vegemite sandwich. Or vegemite on toast...
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*hugs you!*
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*looks suspiciously at nutella lovers*
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It's actually "Balkanization" with an "a" like you spelled it further below, and what's wrong with Nutella? I'll grant you that there are better brands of chocolate-hazelnut-spreads, but the underlying taste combination is sound. What I think will end civilization is jelly-flavored peanut butter. That is an atrocity only spray-can cheese matches... (okay so I got never quite over my culture shock of seeing an US supermarket from the inside *g*)
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There's--more than one kind? Of--of that?
With you on the jelly flavored peanut butter. THE STREAMS SHOULD NOT CROSS. Until they join together in a sandwich.
*worried* Are we going to have cans of peanut butter sandwich flavors soon?
I'm ambivalent on spray cheese. The concept worries me.
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Anyway, hell yes, there needs to be an anti-Nutella bandwagon. I don't care if it does have umlauts (it does, right? it's been so long since I could actually look at a jar), the jar's roughly the same shape as a can of SPAM, and that never bodes well for any food product.
And as for this pick-and-choose thing with LJ, I'm right there with you. I think it's one reason why I regard my post-SV experiences so well in comparitive terms. I'm able to pick and choose associations, even more than I did while in SV, so for the most part EW, HP, popslash and lotrips are these shiny, happy lands. With lots and lots of squees and gay porn -- but hey, that's how life should be, right? *g*
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That is total definitive proof of its evil. Total.
And as for this pick-and-choose thing with LJ, I'm right there with you. I think it's one reason why I regard my post-SV experiences so well in comparitive terms. I'm able to pick and choose associations, even more than I did while in SV, so for the most part EW, HP, popslash and lotrips are these shiny, happy lands. With lots and lots of squees and gay porn -- but hey, that's how life should be, right? *g*
If fans were sane, yes. Which we mostly are, I think. Except when we're totally not.
*grins*
LoTRips sucked you in, huh?
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I'm quite happy to be two separate nations, but I want them to know they're stupid.
I hate Nutella too. And vegemite.
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I'm quite happy to be two separate nations, but I want them to know they're stupid.
*giggles* Emotional health requires honesty in how you feel, *I* think.
I hate Nutella too. And vegemite.
Vegemite just scares me. Badly.
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Vegemite just scares me. Badly.
Okay, you're all freaks. I mean, if you were talking about Marmite, then, yeah, I could almost agree, but Vegemite? Is the sandwich filling of legends!
*fills with pride for Aussie spread*
Man, now I want a vegemite sandwich. Or vegemite on toast...
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I'd prefer to move to Poland than eat Vegemite.
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