AACW, baby, AACW

[JudgeDredd]

...like Ravinhood will prefer a good mix between Strategy and tactical battles and will buy FoF

Incorrect...ravinhood, as stated previously, will not buy FoF...or AACW or any other game outside of the bargain bin.

Just pointing out the slight inaccuracy in your post

[Terminus]

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

You know, I'm sort of sympathetic to Ravinhood -- I've never eaten either goulash or gefilte fish, but I know I hate the beastly stuff.

How?

[Gil R.]

Gibbon, like too many other people in the wonderful world of the internet, you've interpreted someone else's words to have the worst possible meaning, instead of the most obvious one. It's absurd to think that I was insulting AACW. As is a common practice on the Matrix forum, I was making a joke, in this case comparing Ravinhood's pickiness about games to my pickiness about foods.

Think about it: if I wanted to say something negative about AACW so as to hurt their sales, wouldn't I have written something slightly more substantial than that their game is like goulash?!?

And anyway, AACW clearly resembles ratatouille much more than goulash. Sheesh.

[Hertston]

Hmmm... I think I consider dissing goulash without actually trying it an even more heinous crime than dissing AACW without playing it... [;)]

I LOVE goulash. Unless you are a veggie how can you NOT love goulash?!

[JudgeDredd]

ORIGINAL: Hertston
...how can you NOT love goulash?!

Because it has mushrooms in it!

[JudgeDredd]

ORIGINAL: Gil R.

Gibbon, like too many other people in the wonderful world of the internet, you've interpreted someone else's words to have the worst possible meaning, instead of the most obvious one. It's absurd to think that I was insulting AACW. As is a common practice on the Matrix forum, I was making a joke, in this case comparing Ravinhood's pickiness about games to my pickiness about foods.

Think about it: if I wanted to say something negative about AACW so as to hurt their sales, wouldn't I have written something slightly more substantial than that their game is like goulash?!?

And anyway, AACW clearly resembles ratatouille much more than goulash. Sheesh.

I was just about to point out how touchy he appeared...u beat me to it.

[Erik Rutins]

Seriously, Gibbon, no one is attacking AACW. In fact, I'm playing it. Chill.

Regards,

- Erik

[Gibbon]

Well Gil. R, no disrespect but I like your humour just as much as I like ratatoulle: Would not recognize it if I had it right in front of me. [:(]

Didn't get that Ravindhood disliked as much FoF as AACW. Well, I guess he doesn't like wargames then.... Must be pretty boring for him overhere!

NB: I don't like cabbage

[JudgeDredd]

Love cabbage...makes me fart though! [:'(]

[Gibbon]

ORIGINAL: JudgeDredd
Love cabbage...makes me fart though! [:'(]

Reading how ridiculous my first message sounds now, may be what I need is to eat more cabbage then! [;)]

[ericbabe]

Gil's already planning to come to Ann Arbor to spend this weekend as our houseguest.  I'll cook up a fine goulash -- butter and peanut oil in equal ratios, stew beef not hamburger, salt pork not bacon, red onion and red bell pepper for the sofritto, sweet Hungarian paprika [1/2 cup!], sliced garlic and roasted garlic, thyme, bay, roasted tomatoes (quartered, tossed in olive oil, baked till the skin turns black and the juices run yellow, skinned, then gently crushed, adjusted with lemon juice or honey as necessary), creme fraiche stirred in at the last minute, fresh egg noodles; served with an appetizer of mussels, a side of artichokes with a wedge of lemon and a cup of butter, and a bottle of Alsatian Riesling -- with a bottle of Tokaji Aszu for dessert after the cheese course.  I've never heard of mushrooms in goulash, but I like mushrooms all the same; I *have* heard of people who put bits of sweet gherkin pickles in goulash, but I've never tried that.  Gil can write up a goulash AAR.

[Terminus]

Damn, that sounds good...

[TheHellPatrol]

Sweet pickles in goulash are the bomb! Never heard of Mushrooms in Goulash either and my family is European.

[Fredk]

ericbabe where do you purchase creme fraiche? I've looked all over for this since living in germany and can't find it anywhere.

edit: oh, I see you from Michigan.

[TheHellPatrol]

All we need is some Zultze and Shabbefliesche (spelling?) with a side of herringsalade.

[Gil R.]

ORIGINAL: ericbabe

Gil's already planning to come to Ann Arbor to spend this weekend as our houseguest. I'll cook up a fine goulash -- butter and peanut oil in equal ratios, stew beef not hamburger, salt pork not bacon, red onion and red bell pepper for the sofritto, sweet Hungarian paprika [1/2 cup!], sliced garlic and roasted garlic, thyme, bay, roasted tomatoes (quartered, tossed in olive oil, baked till the skin turns black and the juices run yellow, skinned, then gently crushed, adjusted with lemon juice or honey as necessary), creme fraiche stirred in at the last minute, fresh egg noodles; served with an appetizer of mussels, a side of artichokes with a wedge of lemon and a cup of butter, and a bottle of Alsatian Riesling -- with a bottle of Tokaji Aszu for dessert after the cheese course. I've never heard of mushrooms in goulash, but I like mushrooms all the same; I *have* heard of people who put bits of sweet gherkin pickles in goulash, but I've never tried that. Gil can write up a goulash AAR.

Now the secret of why the FOF patch has taken several months to be completed has been revealed: Eric's predilection for preparing gourmet meals instead of ordering pizza like a normal programmer.

[Erik Rutins]

Hey Eric,

Do you have room for one more? [;)]

Regards,

- Erik

[ericbabe]

FredK: Oh, you've got to make creme fraiche, the store-bought stuff is nasty and costs way out of proportion to what it actually is, though I reckon I can't speak for creme fraiche in Germany.  Pint of heavy whipping cream, couple or three tbsps of buttermilk, seal in a glass jar at 70F, leave overnight or 'til it thickens, stir, refrigerate, use within a week or so.  Supposedly the temperature needs to remain fairly constant; I usually just put it in the oven with only the oven-light on.  One can make homemade buttermilk -- it's just like milk and vinegar or cream of tartar -- but I've never done it.

TheHellPatrol: When I'm not too, uhm, alcohol-fatigued on New Year's day, we usually have herringsalade as our New Year's Day breakfast.  Delicious!    Maybe I'll try the pickles.

Erik: the coming weekend is our "Twilight Imperium Marathon Weekend" and we still need an eigth player!  you'll have to share the guest room with Gil.  It's our annual experiment to see if the human body can withstand four full games of Twilight Imperium in one weekend.

[pasternakski]

Now, how the heck is it you make a division? And what's a "container?"

[cdbeck]

ORIGINAL: ericbabe
...the coming weekend is our "Twilight Imperium Marathon Weekend" and we still need an eigth player!

Excellent sounding food... and TWILIGHT IMPERIUM!!!!1!! Your house has, officially, been declared Heaven. Expect Saint Peter to show up to guard the door at any moment.

SoM