{"id":995,"date":"2007-09-13T23:09:26","date_gmt":"2007-09-14T03:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/whether-you-believe-it-or-not-you-should-be-jealous\/"},"modified":"2008-04-01T16:48:13","modified_gmt":"2008-04-01T20:48:13","slug":"whether-you-believe-it-or-not-you-should-be-jealous","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/whether-you-believe-it-or-not-you-should-be-jealous\/","title":{"rendered":"Whether you believe it or not, you should be jealous"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Why? Why should you be jealous?<\/p>\n<p>Not because I just spent 9PM-midnight on the phone in conference calls with Australia for work. I am jealous of you all because you didn&#8217;t have to do that, and don&#8217;t have to do it every Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>No, you should be jealous of me because I have just finished these calls, and now I am drinking an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.northcoastbrewing.com\/beer-rasputin.htm\">Old Rasputin<\/a>, and eating the one of the strangest cheeses known to man: <a href=\"http:\/\/cheesefrombritainmariawalley.blogspot.com\/2007\/06\/sticky-toffee-cheese.html\">Sticky Toffee Cheese<\/a>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/09\/Sticky%2BToffee.JPG\" rel=\"lightbox\" title=\"Sticky Toffee Cheese\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-content\/images\/2007\/09\/_Sticky%2BToffee.JPG\" title=\"Sticky Toffee Cheese\" alt=\"Sticky Toffee Cheese\" width=\"300\" height=\"190\" class=\"aligncenter\"\/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The manufacturer describes this as &#8220;cheddar cheese with toffee, dates and raisins&#8221; and as &#8220;a sweet dessert cheese inspired by the classic English &#8216;pudding&#8217; Sticky Toffee&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>While I&#8217;m sure I wouldn&#8217;t want to eat this everyday, a small nibble with a nice pint is really helping me get over meeting trauma.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently eating this cheese in Britain is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=KWeq1MsSaIU\">a cause for hilarity<\/a>, or at least it is among kids at uni. I just saw it at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.petesfrootique.com\/\">Pete<\/a>&#8216;s this week and figured it was worth a try. Sadly I didn&#8217;t get to my poker game this week, so I couldn&#8217;t get the group&#8217;s opinions&#8211;there are one or two cheesemeisters in that group who might have been entertaining on the subject. Also, the piece I bought from Pete was a lot smaller than the half-wheel above, so I suspect he&#8217;s buying bulk and cutting it up for retail to the curious. Like me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p class=\"excerpt\">Why? Why should you be jealous? Not because I just spent 9PM-midnight on the phone in conference calls with Australia for work. I am jealous of you all because you didn&#8217;t have to do that, and don&#8217;t have to do it every Thursday. No, you should be jealous of me because I have just finished these calls, and now I&hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/2007\/09\/13\/whether-you-believe-it-or-not-you-should-be-jealous\/\">Read more &rarr;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[6],"tags":[186,246],"class_list":["post-995","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food-and-drink","tag-dining","tag-drinking","xfolkentry"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5UQvw-g3","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=995"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/995\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=995"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=995"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.chrismclaren.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=995"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}