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CSI: Twix Fino
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Int: THE LAB.
LITTLE GREG: [pokes at a finger of squared off chocolate that looks like it’s been squished by a Big Hand] We found this at the grime scene. It appears to be a new type of Twix product. But not a limited edition flavour that hangs[…]

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Gour Noir & Andeerer Bergkäse (cheesy lovers #94 & #95)
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Gour Noir
A raw goat’s milk cheese from France, bought from Mons.
This is a little leaf-shaped nugget of cheese, covered in a pretty wrinkled geotrichium rind. It’s been dusted with ash, top and bottom, and is a lovely charcoal-grey colou[…]

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Sex Bob-Omb: The Scott Pilgrim Musical!!!
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Scott Pilgrim vs The World is a musical. It is a therefore somewhat of a pity that much of the music in it is pretty anonymous, there are no showstoppers here. It is exactly of a sort, though, the sort that you might imagine no mark Toronto indie ban[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #7 PLANET OF EVIL
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or “i’ve got a very unpleasant theory!”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community and from now on also crossposted at FT.
After dramaticall[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #6 CITY OF DEATH
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or “most important punch in HISTORY!”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community and from now on also crossposted at FT.
taking us back to the […]

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Colston Bassett Stilton (cheesy lover #93)
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A soft-ish blue cheese from Nottinghamshire, bought from Neals Yard Dairy
Coming south from hence we pass’d Stilton, a town famous for cheese, whch is call’d our English Parmesan, and is brought to table with the mites, or maggots round it, so th[…]

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Fun with acid!
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This is what happens when you dip a cheeseburger in hydrochloric acid. I want to try this at home![…]

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“If John Grisham had written Jurassic Park, he couldn’t do better than Tyrannosaur Canyon”
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(Stephen Coonts, apparently)
I like to browse charity shops in search of amazing books. As I’m a bookseller if not by trade anymore then by something possibly stronger than genetics or space-time, this is not necessarily just a case of being pl[…]

Time Reconsidered as a Helix of Semi-Precious Who Eps: #5 THE TWO DOCTORS
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or “fruit-soft flesh peeling from white BONES”
… being a show-by-show TARDIS-esque (ie in effect random) exploration of Doctor Who Soup to Nuts, begun at LJ’s diggerdydum community and from now on also crossposted at FT.
So to follow a b[…]

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Terschelling Schapenkaas, Oude Remeker (cheesy lovers #91 & #92)
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Terschelling Schapenkaas
A hard, pasturised sheep’s cheese from Terschelling, in the Netherlands, bought from Boerenkaas.
We have a wedge of this hard sheep’s cheese. Its interior is an opaque pale creamy white, smooth-looking, and dotted[…]

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