Posts by Stephen Judd
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Blood Oranges are available in Christchurch - my flatmate received 3 as a gift last week.
What, has she time-travelled to 1947 England?
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It's not so terrible once you get used to it.
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can I hit them with a stick until they harden up?
And what will you do once they've hardened up? I should think they'd need a jolly good rubbing down.
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Ben: Moore Wilson has them sometimes, but I've been very disappointed in them. I think they're Australian. Anyway, the ones I bought were dried out and horrible and nothing like the blood oranges I've eaten overseas. A big disappointment.
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Actually, I'm not convinced that Laws actually believes anything he writes or says. He's a Coulteresque performer whose main goal is arousing the passions. I wouldn't be at all surprised, for example, if it turned out that his children had never slept in the parental bed because it was too dangerous for his own sproggen.
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ScottY: it won't matter a jot to Laws whether he reads it or not. In the Laws-o-verse, studying a matter deeply automatically invalidates your opinion on it, for Common Sense provides all we need to know.
See, in the Laws-o-verse, if you study something, and you confirm the common wisdom on it, then you have wasted the taxpayer's money because Laws could have told you that for free. And if what you learn contradicts the common wisdom, it's also a waste, because a well-honed anecdote from Laws which demonstrates Common Sense is proof that you're merely an ivory-tower academic who's out of touch/greedy for research money/feminist/marxist (strike out that which does not apply).
If necessary, you can use one prejudice to buttress another -- eg, defend bed-sharing by pointing out that only intoxicated Maoris smother their infants. Well-bred Pakeha, who may have a drink or two but can handle their liquor and in any case are never at fault, would never do such a thing. Because that's Common Sense.
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Apropos butchers: I would like to put in a good word for the halal butcher in Newtown. Very reasonable prices and the meat is well-trimmed so you don't pay $$$ for fat (cf the supermarkets who seem to hide wodges of fat tucked into the plastic tray where you can't see it). No pork, of course.
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Carol: if there is one thing PA System is crying out for, it's reader recipes. Go to it, I say.
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What are the points of similarity/difference between a cheese puff and a cheese drop scone?
I am sadly not yet familiar with the cheese drop scone. But I am willing to become so.
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Small independents of Wellington that I rate for the quality of their repartee as well as their product:
- Rumbles (wine)
- Wine Seeker (wine)
- Mandatory (clothes)
- Duncan & Prudence (clothes)
- Unity (books)
- Willis St Lunch Cafe, home of the Cheese Puff.Sadly, it is only the last two I can afford to patronise on a regular basis.
Apropos local food, the Waitangi Park market on a Sunday has ever more stalls from small producers of smallgoods, baked goods, preserves, and what-have-you. It's nice to get stuff directly from the producer.