Complicated

For some reason, we cannot find any Ricicles. Admittedly, we've only looked in Waitrose, but they tend to have a good stock of breakfast cereals, so we were pulled up short when we could not only not find any, but it was clear that they were not temporarily out of stock. Waitrose - in Whetstone at least - does not do Ricicles. This got us pondering as to when we'd last seen any, since we are not exactly in the habit of studying breakfast cereal availability. Neither Furtle nor I can remember the last time we happened upon not only Ricicles, but even local variants of the same (other than Coco-Pops). We thought that maybe they'd been quietly withdrawn from the market in these sugar-reduced days, though the continued existence of Frosties suggested sugar might not be the reason.

Anyway, I have looked on line and all is well. It is simply a local aberration: Ricicles do exist still; they are simply not available in Whetstone.

We have to formalise our forks-rating system.

Last night we had chicken with leek and Wensleydale sauce and breadcrumbs for dinner. We (largely Furtle) made our own version of potatoes dauphinoise and I think we got the mix exactly right. I think we both decided that they should be awarded the maximum number of forks in our toothsome-comestible-rating system, but realised that we have never quite defined what the maximum should be. I thought that four was maximum, but Furtle was apt to try and award five forks. I have no objection in principle, but I do think we need to formalise the system, or there will be confusion. We have not decided either, whether only full forks should be awarded, or whether a tine or two should be available for some foodstuff that falls between two full forks. This has complications of its own, though, since the majority of forks have four tines, but there are fancy ones out there with three and pickle forks with two.

And should you award a fork rating to soup?

Complicated

For some reason, we cannot find any Ricicles. Admittedly, we've only looked in Waitrose, but they tend to have a good stock of breakfast cereals, so we were pulled up short when we could not only not find any, but it was clear that they were not temporarily out of stock. Waitrose - in Whetstone at least - does not do Ricicles. This got us pondering as to when we'd last seen any, since we are not exactly in the habit of studying breakfast cereal availability. Neither Furtle nor I can remember the last time we happened upon not only Ricicles, but even local variants of the same (other than Coco-Pops). We thought that maybe they'd been quietly withdrawn from the market in these sugar-reduced days, though the continued existence of Frosties suggested sugar might not be the reason.

Anyway, I have looked on line and all is well. It is simply a local aberration: Ricicles do exist still; they are simply not available in Whetstone.

We have to formalise our forks-rating system.

Last night we had chicken with leek and Wensleydale sauce and breadcrumbs for dinner. We (largely Furtle) made our own version of potatoes dauphinoise and I think we got the mix exactly right. I think we both decided that they should be awarded the maximum number of forks in our toothsome-comestible-rating system, but realised that we have never quite defined what the maximum should be. I thought that four was maximum, but Furtle was apt to try and award five forks. I have no objection in principle, but I do think we need to formalise the system, or there will be confusion. We have not decided either, whether only full forks should be awarded, or whether a tine or two should be available for some foodstuff that falls between two full forks. This has complications of its own, though, since the majority of forks have four tines, but there are fancy ones out there with three and pickle forks with two.

And should you award a fork rating to soup?

Comic Geekery

I have just read Ultimates 3: Who Killed the Scarlet Witch?

It was an unwelcome step down in quality from Ultimates 2. The "Ultimate Universe" has become largely indistinguishable from the regular Marvel Universe, so there's not a lot of point to it anymore. I am having déjà vu all over again. Jim Shooter's New Universe, anyone?

Comic Geekery

I have just read Ultimates 3: Who Killed the Scarlet Witch?

It was an unwelcome step down in quality from Ultimates 2. The "Ultimate Universe" has become largely indistinguishable from the regular Marvel Universe, so there's not a lot of point to it anymore. I am having déjà vu all over again. Jim Shooter's New Universe, anyone?