There’s a brand of havarti cheese that has green wax on the slice. When you cut it, the wax gets on the cheese, giving it green spots, something you don’t want to see on cheese.
Proper cheese wax is red for many good reasons, this being one of them.
Yellow for Gouda though, which isn’t much of a problem either.
Although, you’re not likely to see a green mold-spot in the middle of a fresh cut.
I think you sold me that clunker! 
Back around 1980 or so, as a broke student, I bought a used Renault Le Car for $200—they should have paid me to haul away that piece of junk.
Only one headlight worked at a time. I never knew which one it would be, but they never lit in unison. Sometimes neither lit, so I’d have to whack the hood to get one to light. If I whacked it again it would go out and the other would light. Sometimes they switched while I was driving, or both would go out.
The exhaust was a series of Campbell soup cans duck taped together and suspended by a wire coat-hanger. The muffler had more holes than Blackburn Lancashire. Often the coat hanger loosened and I’d be sparking along with the muffler dragging.
The floorboards were completely rusted through. If I looked down while driving I could see the road zipping past. If I put my feet down, I could have driven the car Fred Flintstone style—and probably gone faster than the engine took me.
I lived in a suburb on the East side of Cleveland at the time and my then-girlfriend lived in a suburb on the west side of Cleveland. Taking the highway from my place to hers in that Le Car built intestinal fortitude.
Man…I miss that car.
Gouda should have red wax too. All cheese wax should be red. This is my hill, here I will make my stand!!!
Roquefort mold is bluish green and Gorgonzola mold is pretty much entirely green. Stilton mold is green. Delish!
True. But green mold is not supposed to be found on other cheeses.
But your aim is getting better?
I recently bought a new hand mixer. The cord is so stiff that as I’m using the mixer the movement will pull the plug out of the outlet. I hope it will become more supple with time, but I have a slow cooker that is at least 10 years old with a stiff cord that has not become more supple. Irritating.
I’ve seen newer inflight entertainment systems that use touchscreens instead of the controls on the armrests. So you get the person behind you poking at the back of your seat instead.
But on that topic, some airlines have decided that since the vast majority of passengers bring either a tablet or smartphone with them, they don’t need to provide seatback screens anymore, at least on domestic flights. Instead, they provide content that can be streamed over the inflight wifi. I’d prefer a seatback screen, but I guess it’s better than nothing.
On United’s older 777s, they provide a universal mount on the back of the seat where you can mount your phone or tablet at eye level. Good idea… in concept. One of the things I hate about having to watch movies on my phone is having to look down at the tray table. Except when I mount my phone in it, the clamp that holds it in place presses on the volume down button, so the phone keeps going on mute. If I rotate it 180 degrees, it presses on the power button, so the phone keeps trying to power off. I had to fashion a makeshift shim out of a folded up piece of paper to keep it from pressing any buttons. I love the idea of being able to mount my phone to the back of the seat, but their implementation was terrible.
Are you (@EinsteinsHund) talking about controls on the top surface of a shared armrest, or on the side surface of a shared armrest facing towards the set they control? The latter is commonplace, if becoming old fashioned as @WildaBeast just said. Controls on the top where either persons’ arm or elbow could activate them while lying on the armrest seems pretty unfamiliar to me. But there are a lot of different airline interiors in this world, and your experience is predominantly in a part of the world I don’t get to see.
The former ones, with the controls on the top surface. But you’re right, I’ve almost only flown on inter-European flights, with one exception of a trip from Germany to Tunisia and back. All the planes I flew on were rather small planes, mostly Airbus (don’t ask me about the models, I’m not very knowledgeable about modern passenger planes) , maybe one or two times a Boeing 737 model.
ETA: and I haven’t flown in almost 4 years, last time was to Rhodes in 2019 shortly before the pandemic, so maybe I missed a change in passenger entertainment control design.
Add into that: an over-the-stove microwave. I have to turn on the light from the microwave, and bend at a very awkward angle, to be able to see the knobs on the stove at the condo we’re in the process of selling. Argh.
Forgot to mention: the whole “knobs in the back” thing. You have to reach over the pot of boiling whatever to adjust the temperature.
I think (but am not sure) that our previous cooktop had the knobs in front. Our current cooktop is a snazzy induction cooktop - and the controls are IMPOSSIBLE TO SEE without turning on the lights overhead. I deeply regret getting talked into the least expensive, black-on-black version of the thing by thrifty housemates.
And our current cook
I’m not sure if there’s any hard and fast rule, but it seems like every electric stove I’ve ever used has had the knobs at the back (not counting built-in cooktops), and every gas stove I’ve ever used had the knobs on the front.
I guess having the knobs at the back makes it virtually impossible for a small child to reach them, but then why do gas stoves put them on the front, where a toddler could easily reach them and turn on the gas when the adults aren’t looking?
My aunt’s ancient electric stove has buttons—large, physical buttons that can be (and have been) turned on by a cat jumping onto the counter. There’s a reason they changed to knobs.
I’ve always been told that knobs are on the front of gas stoves so if someone wearing loose sleeves reaches over the burners, the sleeves don’t catch on fire, which isn’t an issue with electric stoves.
Moe: Heh heh. I got it used from the Navy. You could flash-fry a buffalo in 40 seconds. (while looking at an extremely large deep fryer on a flatbed truck labeled “USS Missouri C Deck Mess”)
Homer (dejected): 40 seconds? But I want it now.
Bring a bag of potato chips up a mile to 11,200 feet. When they blow, it sounds like someone just shot at you.
Electrical tape is your friend. That’s how I disable the stupid kill switch on chainsaws.