Potterverse characters and tea.

[kempermentor]

> bboyminn:
> 
> Just a pointless side point, is Half-and-Half, half milk and 
> half cream, or is it cream with Half the fat removed. I always 
> assume half cream/half milk but never really knew.

Kemper now:
I think it's the former... Though I've 'made' my own by doing the
later: 1/2 heavy cream and 1/2 2%milk.  I'm pretty good at math except
for adding percent solutions, so I'm sure I'm using '1/2' loosely.

 
> > Carol:
> > (I've only heard "whipping cream," "heavy cream," etc. in 
> > the States.) Here's the link if you're interested:

> bboyminn:
> ...
> I went to the local grocery store, and as long as I was there
> I stopped to look at cream; the choices were Whipping Cream,
> Half-and-Half, and assorted artificial creamers. Nothing else.
> I couldn't even find just plain 'cream'.

Kemper now:
Well... there's also creme fraiche and sour cream.  Though I get what
you're saying.
I think 'cream' is used similarly to 'gun'.  Sour cream is a type of
cream much like gatling gun is a type of gun. 


> Steve:
> Just out of curiosity, have you ever tried Ice Cream in your
> coffee? 

Kemper now:
Yes! 


> Steve:
> As long as we are on the subject, there is a new book out that
> has been getting some air time on TV, called 'Eat This, not That'.
> It points out that many of our assumptions about food are wrong.
> For example, a tuna sandwich at Subway, has many more calories
> and fat that twice as much lean roast beef in a sandwich.

Kemper now:
I'm wondering if the book takes into the kind of fat.  The good Omega
fat in Tuna.  But I'm sure it's the mix of mayonnaise that puts it
over the edge.  I wonder what the bad fat ratio is between their roast
beef sandwich.  And if you put mayo on the beef sandwich, is it equal? 

> Steve:
> Another, and more the subject, is that instead of one fancy
> gourmet coffee, you can have SIX Haagen Daaz ice cream bars and
> get equal calories and fat. Though I wiser person would settle
> for one ice cream bar and forgo all the calories and fat.

Kemper now:
By 'fancy gourmet', you mean coffee drinks (mochas, lattes, etc.)
right?  Because black coffee has zero fat and zero calories.

Kemper, who adds fat and calories to his coffee by adding 1/2&1/2 and
sugar in the raw ::sips his coffee before hitting send::