Thanks: I’ve never known what that style was called. (Nor have I heard the term ‘render’). I’m not an architectural purist in the sense of limiting a style to its original time and place and calling everything else fake, but I suspect the heyday of good-looking pebble dash was the 40s through the 70s, where there was still enough pollution that it could get between the pebbles and accentuate its natural highlights.
It certainly was a popular finish on council houses from about the 1930s. I’m not sure to what extent it was decorative in its own right, or whether it was just some utilitarian thing, or maybe it was good for concealing shoddy brickwork.
American-style, with glop.
Looks awful. It’s totally against my grain as I have been a vegetarian for almost 30 years, but I have a little local pride left. So if you ever have the opportunity to get Metten’s “Dicke Sauerländer”, taste them. It’s the best Vienna sausage you’ll ever find. It’s from my home town of Finnentrop. I don’t know if they export to the US or anywhere else, though.
So help me, that looks like the exterior cladding panels (?) used on early 80s McDonald’s restaurants. I think I remember, possibly imagined, scraping against some and feeling its toothy bite.
I just love the idea of sausage tourism.
I don’t remember it from McDonaldses myself, but the ones with a lot of tan that aren’t softened by years of grime remind me of the outside of some outdoor trash cans, specifically at rest stops.
Yes! I think the refuse cans are cast like that but similar stuff. Jagged and pokey. The toothy bite earlier is a lasting wary memory.
Yeah, we have both sour cream and onion and sour cream and chive here; they are, as you say, somewhat ranch adjacent, but for me what makes it ranch is a strong garlic component, a good kick of black pepper, and a variety of herbs (chives, parsley, dill.) And based on buttermilk, but sour cream works similarly.
Some of us old timers can remember when you had to make ranch dressing yourself, using the little bags of herbs and spices Hidden Valley Ranch sold at selected stores. Back before Kraft bought them out and bastardized the recipe for mass production.
Oh, also, miracle whip. Not a thing here.
We do have salad cream, which is an equivalently cheap-to-make mayonnaise substitute with a similar recipe to miracle whip, but whereas miracle whip is (I understand) sweeter than mayo, salad cream is significantly more sour than mayo.
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Miracle Whip has a noticeable sour component. That sounds pretty close.
Miracle Whip isn’t a thing you make, it’s a particular brand. Its like Hellman’s or Heinz.
Isn’t the brand Kraft and Miracle Whip the product name?
Yes, but…
Miracle Whip is still made by Kraft (well, Kraft Heinz these days), but it appears that they have, in recent years, been minimizing the Kraft name on the product. If you look at their website, and their current package labels, the Kraft name/logo isn’t obvious, if it’s there at all.
I suspect that they are focusing the Kraft brand name on their cheese products these days, and, in this case, letting non-cheese brands like Miracle Whip stand alone as their own brands.
Neither is salad cream. I mean ‘recipe’ as in ingredients and method of manufacture.
Oh. Please explain what “salad cream” is. Is it the same as salad dressing?
Nvm.
It’s somewhat similar to mayonnaise, and ubiquitous in the UK.
They say it’s almost identical to Miracle Whip in the US. I’ve never [knowingly] had Miracle Whip.
To my taste salad cream is less rich and more sour than mayonnaise, though both have so much variation, it’s hard to be sure.
And thanks to a failure of motivation on my part, I got to do all the grade 13 maths* and sciences twice.
And in Canada we generally say “grade x” instead of “xth grade”.
*unlike in the UK, in Canada (and I presume the US) we study “math” not “maths”, though I said “maths” above because in grade 13 there were three math courses.