{"id":12629,"date":"2013-04-11T12:24:53","date_gmt":"2013-04-11T17:24:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/?p=12629"},"modified":"2016-05-30T06:19:57","modified_gmt":"2016-05-30T11:19:57","slug":"the-continental-palate-of-brian-j","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/04\/11\/the-continental-palate-of-brian-j\/","title":{"rendered":"The Continental Palate of Brian J."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After my recent experience with <a href=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/2013\/03\/26\/one-swedish-history-book-and-i-am-a-changed-man\/\" target=\"_blank\">lingonberries<\/a>, suddenly I&#8217;m trolling the international section of the local Price Cutter looking for interesting sounding things to consume.  I mean, someone has to.  No, if you&#8217;re wondering, they have not yet restocked the lingonberries after I bought one of the two jars on the shelf.  The hole is still there, like a missing-toothed smile, and it will remain so until the next boat from Sweden docks in Springfield.<\/p>\n<p>What did I get this time?<\/p>\n<p>A German bread <em>made from sunflower seeds.<\/em><!--more--><\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/sunflowerseedbread.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"German sunflower seed bread.\"><\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s high fiber and good for cholesterol-sensitive diets.<\/p>\n<p>It comes in long slices horizontally, so I decided to cut each slice in half and make two sandwiches from two slices.  What did I put on them?  What do you think?<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/bsgfx\/sesameseedbreadwithlingonberries.jpg\" width=\"425\" alt=\"German sunflower seed bread and lingonberries.\"><\/p>\n<p><em>Lingonberries<\/em>, of course.  I mean, had the Thirty Years War or some other conflicts ended just a little differently and the greater Swedeprussian Empire existed, this might have been the national mascot snack, like vegemite sandwiches are for Australia.<\/p>\n<p>How was it?<\/p>\n<p>Dude, that was <em>nasty<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>Some things I eat, like kielbasa, I think are good until I hit a certain point at which point they change to <em>Ew, this is nasty.<\/em>  This was more &#8220;I can finish this&#8221; until it hit that point where it was intolerable to eat another bite.<\/p>\n<p>We then tried to convince the children to eat it.  We don&#8217;t have dogs, you see, and so we try to sucker our children into liking the things we don&#8217;t want to eat ourselves.  And they were having none of it.<\/p>\n<p>So I dumped half a loaf of it in the garbage.  It came so far and crossed an ocean for such an unceremonious end.<\/p>\n<p>And if I have too many experiences like this with semi-random international food pick-ups, I shall lose my courage to try something else new.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After my recent experience with lingonberries, suddenly I&#8217;m trolling the international section of the local Price Cutter looking for interesting sounding things to consume. I mean, someone has to. No, if you&#8217;re wondering, they have not yet restocked the lingonberries after I bought one of the two jars on the shelf. The hole is still [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3334,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[84,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12629","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-brian-j-tastes","category-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3334"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=12629"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12634,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12629\/revisions\/12634"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=12629"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=12629"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/brianjnoggle.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=12629"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}