many thanks as ever for stopping by. although i don't profit or make money off of this - often it in fact costs me to do it all, look you see - to know that a fair few people pop past to see what nonsense i have come up with now generally does my heart good.
perhaps to dismiss what i do as simply nonsense is a bit harsh. well, now that i think, actually a fair bit of it is, but fun and "good" nonsense, at the least. such as when i get an idea in my head along the lines of how stuff other than the standard - wine in particular - can have a particular vintage.
yes, that is a bottle of milk (not proper milk, but still milk in name) with a best before or use by date of 18 February. which, i think you might find, is tomorrow. this, despite the lack of proper in its nature, makes it, to me, a most splendid vintage of milk. or manufacture date, if not vintage then. no, i don't think there are many who have cellars of milk like some have wine.
why is it not proper milk? because it is "semi skimmed". i have no actual idea how they make it, but to me it feels and tastes as though all they have done is water down proper, no nonsense full cream milk. semi-skimmed is a relatively new term; once it was called "2% fat" milk. now, i do not know this as fact, but a mate of mine once told me that they had to ditch that for being misleading. according to my mate it was rather the case that such milk had 2% less fat than proper, full cream milk, rather than being 2% of the fat of full cream, as it suggested.
for most, i suppose, milk is very much milk. this is to say that so long as it is in date then it probably just tastes as it should no matter when you purchase and consume it. consume or do whatever you will with it, true. i disagree. the finest of milk what i have experienced invariably comes in the early stages of any given year, with a "best before" given as the 18th of February being the finest of the best.
that's some New Zealand milk, probably also this semi-skimmed or ultra watered down business. indeed, my sister took the picture and sent it on. although she may not agree with me on the details of milk being finer at certain times of the year, at the least she appreciates that i consider such as important.
what makes it so special? to know this would be to engage and defeat one of those many great mysteries of life. and to do that would be foolish, for life would be hollow without such grounds for speculation. it just is, then, because i said so.
no, of course this phenomenon is not limited to milk alone. pictured above are some croissants, which are also advised to be best before 18 February. best i get them eaten before that date.
i know what many of you are thinking, and yes, quite. croissants really do go to prove that no nation, or "culture", or nation with a lack of culture or variation thereof, is a complete and total write off. but, yes, indeed, usually you are better off / safer purchasing and eating croissants from places other than the country what reckons they invented them. must have done it between surrenders and mouthing off threats that everyone knows they cannot back up, presumably.
just what is the difference between a "best before" and a "use by" date? pretty much as it reads. a "best before" means that the product will be fine to use after the date, but quality cannot be assured. in fact, quality and experience are likely to diminish with each passing day after the one indicated. when it comes to "use by", that's them pretty much saying do not contemplate touching the item after that date. bad things are likely to happen if you do.
is it true that if, look you see, you are Welsh and you take a selfie it is called taking a "Welshie"? sort of, yes. i mean, you can, to be sure, call it that if you want under such circumstances and not cause offence or upset, but there is no law or moral pressure which compels you to do so.
right, then, i believe that's us all done with this post. i am, at the least, and thus so are you, for there is nothing else here to read.
be excellent to each other!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
No comments:
Post a Comment