Which bottle did you just buy and why?

@OdysseusUnbound As an immigrant to the UK, my view is also clear: NO MILK in my tea, thank you very much. However, I do enjoy the ritualistic obsession among friends about the order - god forbid (!!!!) someone puts the milk in the TEA, as opposed to adding the TEA on the milk... or, was it the other way around??

@OdysseusUnbound, "Je me souvien."

@RianC - to this day, my dad dips saltine crackers in his coffee. Been doing it as long as I can remember (50+ years). Makes me gag just thinking about it. He also pours milk over leftover cornbread and eats it like a bowl of cereal. Two habits I plan not to inherit.

@RikS - tea first, milk second tschhhh!

Only Her Majesty pours tea onto the milk. Then again, she is reptilian so, again, allowances must be made.

@bwmccoy - Add some butter, raisins and sugar to that and you've got a (corn)bread and butter pudding!

@Victor I knew you were older than me be a couple of years but I am shocked that you remember the battle of the Plaines of Abraham.

""Je me Souviens_" is the Quebec license plate motto that reminds all of us that they have not forgotten the time that the British conquered the French colony, culminating in that final battle in which both sides' generals, Montcalm and Wolfe, were killed.

Wolfe did not live to see the victory. Montcalm did live long enough to see Quebec city fall to the English.

@RianC V!

@Nozinan and if Montcalm had not been such a pompous French ass, the whole result might have been different. His advisors, who were Canadiens (the name for French settlers born in New France) were urging him to wait behind Québec’s walls until reinforcements arrived from Fort Frontenac (aka Kingston) but Montcalm was too arrogant to take advice from anyone.

@Nozinan I am inclined to think that "Je me souviens" means less that les Quebecois remember the loss of Quebec City and New France, than that they can remember the happy times when they had control of their own nation, and New France prospered as New France before the British.

@OdysseusUnbound yes, most certainly, it is the extreme of folly for a force in a well-fortified city under a siege to leave the protection of the walls of the city and go out and fight on the open field. That is how the French lost New France, and how the Crusaders lost Jerusalem in 1187.

@Victor, ( @Nozinan, @OdysseusUnbound ) nothing has changed in three hundred years. The English are not in control of Quebec, the Church remains untrusted, and First Nations continue to fight for their survival. Quebec is a nation within a nation.

@cricklewood That's a beautiful haul!

@paddockjudge And as a French-Canadian Métis with roots in Québec, Scotland, and France, (and who has renounced Catholicism) I don’t really belong anywhere.

@OdysseusUnbound, I went for a walk in the Flour Mill last month, everyone belongs.... a very eclectic neighbourhood.

@paddockjudge My dad grew up on Percy Street, on the wrong side of the tracks. At least half of my roots are in the Flour Mill.

@RikS @RianC Regular Yorkshire was my go to for years. I just recently got all poncey and started buying the Gold. Pinkies up boys.

@bwmccoy Have you tried it? You might like it. Your dad might have been onto something.

@RianC Bread and butter pudding. Oh yeah, bring it on, and some Spotted Dick while you’re at it. Sounds like an STD, but tastes great.

@paddockjudge So is this historical circumstance a convincing support for for isolationism or so-called "anti-globalism"? I love the agendas that folks import to defend a vague and un-thought-out notion of sovereignty.

Today's purchases, with an eye toward mixed drinks:

Old Forester Ryes, though I will try it neat first. Bought this one because I saw some positive comments here.

Ardbeg An Oa for Blood and Sand. (blood orange bitters and the other ingredients)

Bloody Mary mix and some vodka for tomorrow.

Also , a fresh baguette for a cold dinner (prosciutto , some stinky but lovely Chèvre, a bit of older gorgon)

I did see a bottle of Whistlepig 18, which I would try before I buy! I am intrigued...

I was asked to contribute an article to an Italian journal on music and romanticism (small r), so I need sustenance! That's hard work (I kid-and now I duck).

@OdysseusUnbound Well, you have Canadian citizenship and a Canadian passport and all the advantages and benefits that that entails. I would hardly say you don’t belong anywhere. You are one of the chosen people my friend.

@RikS - That show used to scare the pants off me as a kid ha!

@RianC I wasn’t sure if anybody was going to get the reference, but hell yeah! It was the highlight of the week when I was a kid as well to be allowed to watch that super scary series. I still remember Diana…

@paddockjudge - My ex's family (French Mum, Irish Canadian Dad) who were far from separatist in mindset always gave me the impression that Quebec was like a separate state. That's kind of the vibe I got; definitely a different feel from Ottawa, say.

The Crusaders never lost their spiritual goal though, @Victor, we're still trying to build it!

Dust in the eye every time ...

Edit - I do hope that's taken the right way!

@RikS I watched an episode on YouTube recently and, man, did it not age well ha. Think they made a version more recent!y but haven't seen it. I also remember, as a kid, someone had spray painted a giant V on some abandoned brick work in my town - as a 6 year old I honestly believed they'd landed

Came here to drool over @cricklewood 's recent haul and relived the Plains of Abraham :)

@RikS The tea rituals are hilarious to me mostly because they are not really steeped in any particular scientific thought mostly habit.

Like the story about the leg of lamb, where the lady is explaining her family recipe for roasted leg of lamb over the radio. The host asks her why she cuts the end of the leg off before seasoning and putting it to roast, she replies "I don't know that's how my mum did it". They call the mom to find out why and she replies "Don't know that's how my mum dit it", so they call the Nan to get to the bottom of this very important tradition and she says "I used to cut the end of the leg of lamb off because our oven was small and it wouldn't fit inside otherwise"

That said milk after tea...how else are you going to figure out how much milk to put.

@Astroke Didn't know my modest haul was causing a fuss, I will gladly share when quarantine is over. there ain't much fun in drinking alone.

Here's something to lighten the mood on the plains of Abraham business.

@RikS Michael Ironsides was the real star behind V.

@bwmccoy the first time I made cornbread for my girlfriend, she promptly did that thing your father does and mashed it in a bowl and added milk, she said it reminded her of childhood treats. It's actually pretty decent especially a day or two after when the cornbread gets dry. That said there are habits of my father I wouldn't take like spooning jam over ice cream, or oatmeal.

@RianC @RikS My dudes! V was the show, that shit had me scared to no end as a kid, it tapped into all my "cold war" kid fears (end of world, post apocalyptic, invasions), man those costumes and that Diana...both scary and sexy ahaha. I never watched the new version but Diana's daughter was played by the very alluring Morena Baccarin.

@OdysseusUnbound we could talk at length about being on the outside.

@RianC Or, as it evolved...

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