The Chateau Diaries #318 Two buck chuck and pork belly under a dingy 80-year-old tent. Sounds elegant.

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M&MsMom said:
We call that spray cheese where I'm from.....I had a hankering for it during the first month of the pandemic, when everything was shut down. A trip to the grocery store and shelves were sparse, but there were oodles of cans of it on the shelves! My husband, who looked at it disgustingly, said "Even in end of times, no one wants that tit!". I happily had the whole can to myself, with some Sociable crackers and swore I would NEVER EVER eat it again!

And, yes, I **might** have turned the can upside down and sprayed it into my mouth. I thought we were all dying, so what the hell?
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I’m with your husband on this one that is tit.
 
MRShavershamsdress said:
Are you sure that’s mayo? I thought it was Easy Cheese?!?

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Someone has put a lot of time, thought, and money into making something fancy. In certain circles I've discussed here before, cheese is fancy and I imagine spray cheese is kind of futuristic and glamorous, per my lengthy disquisition on American cooks of a certain age and class and their fixed idea that cheese is for Company.
Just because it's tacky doesn't mean someone didn't put a lot of love and work into it.
The difference between this and what Marie cooks is this is generous and ambitious and full of love, from the heart.
The other book all Americans should read is Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking -- a careful transcription of the nearly half a millennium of culture and foodways of the Florida cracker, with a lot of loving and hilarious gay man humor. One of the top ten best cookbooks of all time. No pearls clutched, baked possum recipe respectfully taken in. I think the book was his MFA thesis.
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The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

To some, the author of the “White Trash Cookbook” was a curiosity. Others called him a brilliant folklorist. But his greatest achievement was the model he left for how any Southerner can claim their roots.
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LittleMore Cottage said:
I had a lovely gay friend who called canned or easy cheese. Nylon cheese... He said it smelled like old lady nylons (stockings)..... We would joke "how old you know???" Cant look at it without thinking its nylon cheese.
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It is disgusting. I don't even want to think about how much sodium is in it....it literally didn't taste like cheese, but like salt. Nothing but salt.
But at the time, it was glorious, I thought the world was ending, what can I say?
 
billybudd said:
Someone has put a lot of time, thought, and money into making something fancy. In certain circles I've discussed here before, cheese is fancy and I imagine spray cheese is kind of futuristic and glamorous, per my lengthy disquisition on American cooks of a certain age and class and their fixed idea that cheese is for Company.
Just because it's tacky doesn't mean someone didn't put a lot of love and work into it.
The difference between this and what Marie cooks is this is generous and ambitious and full of love, from the heart.
The other book all Americans should read is Ernest Matthew Mickler's White Trash Cooking -- a careful transcription of the nearly half a millennium of culture and foodways of the Florida cracker, with a lot of loving and hilarious gay man humor. One of the top ten best cookbooks of all time. No pearls clutched, baked possum recipe respectfully taken in. I think the book was his MFA thesis.
bittersoutherner.com

The Short and Brilliant Life of Ernest Matthew Mickler — THE BITTER SOUTHERNER

To some, the author of the “White Trash Cookbook” was a curiosity. Others called him a brilliant folklorist. But his greatest achievement was the model he left for how any Southerner can claim their roots.
bittersoutherner.com bittersoutherner.com
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For the highly aspirational and indeed home ec/hygienic aesthetic origin of the great American Jello salad -- "scientific cooking" -- foodies might wish to read this feminist classic on Perfection Salad. People who make this old-fashioned dish are participating in a culture. Check out Southern Living's collection of congealed salads. My favorite is the lime Jello, cottage cheese, pineapple and horseradish. We have it for breakfast at the fish shack on 110 degree days, days we're not having Co'Cola and cigarettes for breakfast.
 
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sheilajohnson3668
17 hours ago
I have noticed in several of the videos peeling wallpaper and scruffy floors.

isabellejarvis7805
11 hours ago
Only in the non lived in quarters
 
Lochness Monster said:
His relationship had just broken down.
No doubt he knew his folk were heading to France , his workshop was on their land so I doubt he paid rent.
He is like Fanny in that his parents have coddled him find and he is not prepared for the real world.
I did not like the way he was talking I guess about Ian in that patron ‘ talk’.
Thank you Tuffiti BTW for the patron vlog.


I do think Amaury hates the hoarding and here he makes it clear his ex for the skips arrival. If and when it comes.

He must be lonely he has no friends and just Natti as company. His OCD and short man syndrome along with having to be subordinate to Snorts must be a big challenge.
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Poseur and his plates.

I don’t believe we have seen Mummy 🦇 handwriting before . I know she must need to write reports at the Uk hospital. I did find it very odd that she wrote in English in her diary rather than in French and not at all in the style of French handwriting that I am familiar with!.
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The diary entry is a bit clinical... 7am mother died this morning.
 
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sheilajohnson3668
17 hours ago
I have noticed in several of the videos peeling wallpaper and scruffy floors.

isabellejarvis7805
11 hours ago
Only in the non lived in quarters
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I believe Fanny has not replaced the wallpaper because she will purchase expensive antique wood paneling ( which she will miraculously find “cheap” in an auction ) and will panel her room and quarters.She also uses the intentionally maintained poor state of her bedroom and quarters
( tattered curtains/ peeling wallpaper/ maintaining the suite as a perpetual construction zone/ peeling, rotton windows/ bad electrical outlets and wiring/ peeling ceilings/ the “ wrong” chandeliers, etc. to use as a setting for emotional manipulation/ smoke and mirrors to bolster her fake “ broke, downtrodden 50 year old little orphan princess” narrative and as a distraction from the hundreds of thousands of euros/ dollars she has spent purchasing crap for herself and the Dump as well as the thousand + gifts she received in the past 5 years ( most never to be seen again, likely sold by Snorts, thrown away, bartered with other chateau owners for other items, gifted in transactional relationships, or crammed into an attic room or outer building at the Dump.)
 
billybudd said:
For the highly aspirational and indeed home ec/hygienic aesthetic origin of the great American Jello salad -- "scientific cooking" -- foodies might wish to read this feminist classic on Perfection Salad. People who make this old-fashioned dish are participating in a culture. Check out Southern Living's collection of congealed salads. My favorite is the lime Jello, cottage cheese, pineapple and horseradish. We have it for breakfast at the fish shack on 110 degree days, days we're not having Co'Cola and cigarettes for breakfast.
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As a child my favorite hors d’oeuvres was cheddar Easy Cheese on a Chicken in a Biscuit cracker topped with a canned smoked oyster. On rare occasions these days I still crave it and off to the store I go. I grew up in a house where you took a few sips out of your glass bottle co-cola and then filled it up with roasted salted peanuts. It’s a cultural touchstone in the south.
 
Cleo's Asp said:
I think he maybe has got psychological issues. I think it's been said that he suffers from OCD which probably means that he's slow in getting things done because of being a perfectionist. Maybe, because of that, his business was not so successful as, however good he is, people won't wait for ever. He had also had a break up with a girlfriend and I guess Ma and Pa encouraged him to go to France and work for Fanny. In the end, that was the worst thing they could have done. Fanny and Snorty's shenanigans have had an effect on both his mental and physical health and have left him frustrated and saddened. He's also taken comfort in meeting a woman desperate to find a partner. She is probably not the best person for him but she has him in her clutches and she knows his family is well off. I know he seems weak but I feel sympathy for him.
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Stephanie calculatingly set him up with Ñutty before he arrived at the Dump and had them emailing, texting, and talking before he arrived at the Dump, to help lure him to the Dump in the middle of no where. She thought Ñutty would be a short term Dump side piece for Amaury ( Ñutty marked her territory with Amaury by bedding him the first night she met him in person, as Amaury charmingly recounted in a discussion with Dan in a cd video since removed from the YouTube channel). What Steph didn’t count on was domineering Ñutty microchipping Amaury’s weak ass, and becoming glued to his side 24/7 from the first day he arrived at the Dump, playing the long game, and eventually locking him down in marriage.I think Ñutty was attracted to the wealth of Amaury’s family. Nutty has had to work hard to pretend to be nice, demure, and sickeningly sweet on camera. It appears that the Steph, Mummy, and Chantelle ( behind the scenes) call all the shots and love weak men who will do their bidding. Amaury was raised in that environment where women dominated the men. He needs to man up or will be in for a rough life once Ñutty gets him tied down officially.

Fanny isn’t thrilled that Nutty will be a “ permanent” part of the family of her closest relatives and it has been hard for her to fake enthusiasm and warmth towards Ñutty. Nutty also knows where all the skeletons are hidden in the Jarvis crew and Dump crew members. I don’t know if they would be together if they meet under different circumstances.
 
A theory regarding the last few vlogs:
I feel like often people start to recluse and think about the past when something's off with their relationships. Steph has been doing a lot of cleaning, sorting out things on her own, and reminiscing about the past in the last few vlogs. Is it a sign that we can wave goodbye to Snorts soon? Or is this just wishful thinking? 😄
 
MRShavershamsdress said:
As a child my favorite hors d’oeuvres was cheddar Easy Cheese on a Chicken in a Biscuit cracker topped with a canned smoked oyster. On rare occasions these days I still crave it and off to the store I go. I grew up in a house where you took a few sips out of your glass bottle co-cola and then filled it up with roasted salted peanuts. It’s a cultural touchstone in the south.
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Do you know here in Maryland, I can't find Chicken in a Biscuit crackers, except at Christmas-time? Those are what I wanted for my own personal spray cheese moment at the beginning of the pandemic. Had to settle for Sociables instead.

Do the Chicken in a Biscuit still taste the same to you when you eat them? So much of that kind of stuff has changed taste for me, and I don't think it's because I've somehow "evolved" away from it. Rather, I think it's all the chemicals used back in the day that have either been banned or changed to something cheaper that makes the taste of certain things taste way different than I remember. Spray cheese is one of those things - in college, I lived off that stuff, sadly. And I don't remember it tasting as bad as I thought it tasted four years ago! Certainly, it was a touchstone for me, though, when I thought it was the end of the world!
 
There's something very strange watching a daughter filming herself reading out parts of the eulogy she wrote and read at her father's funeral. It doesn't seem genuine to me; it seems to be much more about her than about her father. She also wanted to appear "brave" when she managed to do it whereas Isabelle and Gerry were too upset to do it. It's very strange that she squeezes out fake tears when other people die but seemed without any real ones, reading parts of the eulogy out loud on a public forum to people she hardly knows, and many she has never met.
 
MRShavershamsdress said:
As a child my favorite hors d’oeuvres was cheddar Easy Cheese on a Chicken in a Biscuit cracker topped with a canned smoked oyster. On rare occasions these days I still crave it and off to the store I go. I grew up in a house where you took a few sips out of your glass bottle co-cola and then filled it up with roasted salted peanuts. It’s a cultural touchstone in the south.
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KitKat_theNewRat said:
A theory regarding the last few vlogs:
I feel like often people start to recluse and think about the past when something's off with their relationships. Steph has been doing a lot of cleaning, sorting out things on her own, and reminiscing about the past in the last few vlogs. Is it a sign that we can wave goodbye to Snorts soon? Or is this just wishful thinking? 😄
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Snorts will only leave the dump when forced, and will be hauled out kicking and screaming ( unless he has found a wealthy elderly sugar daddy with no children). He knows far too much about the Jarvis crew and his darling’s nefarious activities. He has also been her partner in crime for the past few years. Haven’t you noticed that he is much more in the spotlight, freely spending the grifted thousands of euros/dollars now shopping and Stephanie is spending huge sums of money on him, especially within the past year, e.g., spending up to $10,000 just on Ratso, the trip to retrieve the dog, the dog’s expensive wardrobe,$3,000 in totes/ carriers, etc., tens of thousands of dollars in new wardrobe purchases, auction purchases (many off camera and not revealed to the public), first class luxury vacations, purchasing him the Porsche suv, etc.?

If she gets rid of Snorts, he will want a huge layout of money, all the porcelain/ furniture he has purchased, and a couple of huge moving vans to haul away his crap. If she decided to get rid of Snorts, it would likely be in another year or so from now, on the eve of their fake wedding, because the greedy gruesome twosome want to monetize the wedding and get as many presents, money, trips, expensive rings, etc. over the next year or year and a half. Neither of the greedy couple would want to leave any potential money or gifts uncollected.
 
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