Food, glorious food

[delphipsmith]

In Philadelphia on a business trip. Went to Talula's Garden for dinner.

In the words of George Takei: "Oh, my."

Among other things they are famous for their cheese plates*, so I had the World Traveler:

Cana de Cabra (Goat, Spain)
Handmade Sheep’s Milk Feta (Sheep, Greece)
Clyde Weaver Vintage Quebec Cheddar (Cow, Canada)
Vintage Gouda (Cow, Holland)
Chimay (Cow, Belgium)
Délice de Bourgogne (Cow, France)
Scharfe Maxx (Cow, Switzerland)
Neal’s Yard Daily Aged Stilton (Cow, England)**

::dies of cheesy ecstasy::

Then there was potato-broccoli soup and baked bluefish with gnocchi. Plus it's one of those places where every so often they bring you little surprise presents from the kitchen -- amuse bouches I believe they're called -- so I'm slurping my soup, trying to stifle my moans of culinary ecstasy in case I disturb the people at the other table, and suddenly at my elbow appears a plate with two little tiny warm doughnut/cream-puff things with pumpkin-cinnamon butter. NOMZ!!!

I am as full as a tick...

* but I have to say, the word "cheesemonger" totally makes me larf
** No, there was no Venezuelan beaver cheese. I checked.

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[arcanetrivia]

** No, there was no Venezuelan beaver cheese. I checked.

O.o I had no idea that was a Monty Python thing. (It's been a while since I was around people who had the Cheese Shop memorized.) There's a puzzle in the 7th Leisure Suit Larry game where you have to make Venezuelan beaver cheese (which then winds up in a quiche). I thought they were just being bizarre. It would seem they had this sketch in mind.

[delphipsmith]

I am happy to have been able to enlighten you on that point :) I had no idea it got a mention in LSL, though; someone must have been a fan. One of my favorite hobbies is spotting Python references - they turn up in the most amazing places...