cold; hyperpasteurization; ends in X

[fflo]

Kinda sounds like categories in Jeopardy!.

Yes, it's co-oh-old out there. Don't have the storm windows on yet, either, so the bottoms of the windows are decorated with arcs of frost---picturesque, sure, but I wish I'd gotten the storms in. Way too cold to try to do it today.

I've just been able to eat my knock-off rice Chex, embellished with Kroger crunchy-raisin-date-'n'-flakes, despite the fact that my milk, purchased in October, supposedly expired 10 days ago. It's Horizon organic hyperpasteurized. Some bloke in the Busch's pointed it out to me and H after overhearing our debate in the dairy section about how much milk we'd be likely to consume before it turned. For a tidge more moolah, a miracle: a half gallon to work through at a snail's pace, if need be. Plus it's organic.

And now, my first Prediction for the New Year: after the trouble with Celebrex on top of the trouble with Vioxx, drug companies will shy away from the catchy invented names that end in "-x".

Comments

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

How cold is cold? It's cold here, but probably nothing compared to your coldness.

That stuff sounds like space milk. How can it be? What's hyperpasteurisation? Does it affect the flavour?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

The high today is supposed to be 9 degrees Farenheit. I don't know if it made it up that far; it was 5 last time I checked. I'm pretty sure that's unseasonably cold for this part of Michigan, but I'm kind of a newbie here.

I don't even know what regular pasteurization is, to tell you the truth. The milk doesn't taste any different. I'd guess they do the process longer, or at a higher temperature. It's an option more than one dairy chain here uses, I'm told.

And now, a confession: I am charmed by your British spellings.

[anderyn.livejournal.com]

I've never heard of hyperpasteurization. Kind of weird sounding.

But yes, it's cooold. We went out to the grocery store and I was sure I was going to get frostbitten. Brrrrr.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Weather like this makes me wish I had a wood stove. (or is it "woodstove"?) I was just telling onstar that I like a sort of primal something about warming myself by a fire. Plus it makes sense, for one person (and a cat) alone in a house not necessarily to heat the whole bloody place, particulalry when it's like this out there.

Brrrrr, indeed!

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

That's cold! In fact that's the kind of cold that could kill you. Brrrrrrrrrrr.

Ta for milk info. I can see that I am about to become obsessed with this product.

And English spellings...ahh...let's see what I can rustle up: there's colour of course, and flavour, how about pavement, lift, flat (being a place where I live), standardised, mesmerised and hypersensitised - all with an s, motorway and, my favourite, trousers. Is that enough for now? I can give you another fix any old time.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

ooooh, "trousers"!

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

heh, and I took the tube train this morning too.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

oh---is there a Britishism for "escalator," as there is for "elevator"? The, uh, "moving stair" or something?

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

What be this escalatorial "moving stair" contraption of which ye speake?

Sorry, only joking. We have lifts instead of elevators and some people call travelators "moving pavements" but I haven't heard that for ages. Escalators are the same.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

I don't think we even have a common name for moving pavements. I know of few over here, though---at the National Gallery of Art and in an airport or two.

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

Funny. I went to the Tower of London the other week (long story, I'd never been) and they have a slow-moving travelator that goes past the cases which hold the crown jewels. I think that's the best one I've ever ridden on.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Strikes me funny, somehow! I think it's the idea that the throng of visitors are moved along mechanically as one might move other brainless, or not necessarily cooperative, things (like items on a factory conveyor belt) or beings (like cattle to slaughter). I'm sure many staffers think of tourists that way.

So, did you want to put a hyphen or an umlaut on "cooperative," by any chance?

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

It was exactly like that.

I can cope with cooperative, mainly because the first part of the word looks like my surname. There's a supermarket called the Co-op, which must be hyphenated though! Umlauts? You can keep that foreign muck to yourself (unless you're writing about Mötörhead).

[fflo.livejournal.com]

ha!

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hey, I just thought of the Britishism that sounds strangest to us at Math Reviews. It's the plural after "of" in constructions like

"this kind of results"

or

"a certain type of pigeons"

---that hits the American ear most oddly.

[charlottecooper.livejournal.com]

That's true. But Math Reviews should surely be Maths Review?

I always find constructions like apricot-strawberry-banana pie difficult to swallow. What happened to the "and" between them?

[fflo.livejournal.com]

good point!

[crankyasanoldma.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it IS butt-cold.

I like Busch's a lot. I know I can often do better on price at Kroger (because Kroger does more loss-leader type stuff) and Meijer is much more convenient...but I tink Busch's is aces on service and I like to reward that.

Hi, my name is Karen, and my life is so dull I consider a comment about grocery stores to be a meaningful addition to someone's LJ.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

Hi, my name is Lisa, and I often post the most mundane comments, so who am I to judge? 'Sides, I like comments. Even ones like "woot." or " :^}= ."

I just began to comment to paperkingdoms on how my somewhat unproductive day resembled hers, but then I caught myself about to post a good eight sentences of absolute dullness. Grocery store talk, though---not so dull!

I like to go to Busch's when I'm hungry, cuz they feed you samples, and you're less likely to buy every impulse bag o' crap you see in yer munchiness.

[paperkingdoms]

I even like boring comments. :^) And [jumping threads] I think we consider "wood stove" two words. My parents have one. It's lovely.

[fflo.livejournal.com]

:: blushing :: Thanks! Next time I'll just hit "Post."

Have a great holiday trip. I have no idea yet how often I'll check in from the road, but I get a real kick out of accessing ljworld from some host's place, or a cafe or library in another town. It's so beyond what I might have imagined years ago that it almost feels like secret agent work or something.