If anyone needs "souse chef" he'll be in the corner "making soup from scratch" ifyunowhamsayin!

It's a bit weird, innit?

Nobody makes chicken soup, are you having a bubble? I was on board the "buying the tricker pastries" train, but this seems a step too far.

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What's main thing that makes pho really special? The long-simmered broth. What's the one thing this recipe doesn't contain? See above.

Heavens forfend they consult some actual scientists. Baby steps, I guess…

It has a wonderful umami flavour that enriches any number of dishes involving meat and decent cooking times, but also something simple like an onion gravy.

Rum, tequila, whiskey, gin, and vodka? Fuck me am I ever glad someone made this list. I thought the basic line up was brennivin, chicha, burukutu, pruno, and Mekong River Eel wine. No wonder I had trouble getting people to attend more than one soirée.

That's a much better joke. I resign.

And yet the game remains complete and utter shit.

Could I please hire you to resolve all my internet differences? Bravo!

Most certainly. "The most fun of the offerings on this list" in this context is like "least painful kick in the groin". Whether a nauseating clanger into the yarbles or a swift glancer off the glans, at the end of the day, you still got kicked in the nuts.

I do so love the writings of the great philosophers.

Which makes it the most fun of the offerings on this list - not that I've seen them all, that would be ridiculous.

I have tried both of those and I like them well enough, but again, mainly for their simplicity. That massive corn component is just too big a flavour for me to work around when compared to the variety of flavours the malted barley imparts.

Rye for Old Fashioneds all day long. Rittenhouse Rye is great for that very purpose.

He did direct it and I have seen it. You obviously have as well, so if you haven't done so already read his "The Wah-Wah Diaries" on the making of that film. An absolutely cracking read. ("With Nails" is also fab, though I haven't read his novel.)

You're barmy, mate. Jack/coke, couple a pills, and some naughty salt to take the edge off. Laaaaaaaarvly!

Aye, he did, but that's still a cameo. REG is a very fine actor and apart from the girls was arguably the lead. Just an odd omission and stinks of the AV Club's very clear and obvious agenda against people born in Swaziland.

I'm actually saying the exact opposite. Whether bourbon is a whiskey or not is irrelevant since if you walked into a bar in Glasgow, or London for that matter, and asked for a whisky you definitely wouldn't get bourbon. So it's likely just linguistic laziness on my part, but when I say whisky I mean the Scottish one.