Re:Science shows cheese can make wine taste better
by JaumeGreen on Thursday October 20, 2016 @06:41AM
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This was already known, but it's nice for science to confirm.
The Spannish expression "Darsela con queso" (lit: to give it to someone with cheese) was about the custom of giving cheese to buyers that wanted to taste a wine that the seller knew to be bad[0].
Re:Science shows cheese can make wine taste better
by hannob on Thursday October 20, 2016 @09:38AM
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It's an interesting phenomena. On a regular basis stories about the various problems of scientific quality make it to HN, e.g. recently this one [1].
On the other hand every now and then a study that is almost certainly completely bogus and of such low quality that it basically says nothing at all also is very popular.
Add to that the regular comments of the form "maybe this study isn't that good, but my personal anecdotes show ..."
Re:Science shows cheese can make wine taste better
by stupidcar on Thursday October 20, 2016 @08:56AM
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What an absolutely horrible website. Immediately tries to register to send you desktop notifications and covers the article content in a popover to try to harvest your email address.
Re:Science shows cheese can make wine taste better
by seszett on Thursday October 20, 2016 @08:51AM
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> No sane European would ever 'pair' wine with cheese for extra taste. We use it for eliminating taste of previous wine during wine tastings.
No, you're wrong, (red) wine and cheese are paired all the time, and eliminating taste is done with bread if at all.
I'm a sane Frenchman, by the way, and an important street of my city is named after President Hoover. Not sure if this has anything to do with the wine and cheese however.
Re:Science shows cheese can make wine taste better
by blablablame on Thursday October 20, 2016 @09:13AM
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Portuguese here, red wine + some cheeses is also common here. Not very strong, smelly cheeses, but your typical gouda's and the like (not sure if gouda as I don't remember the english names for the cheeses we use here)
Re:Science shows cheese can make wine taste better
by takingflac on Thursday October 20, 2016 @12:58PM
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Nice thing about cheeses being named after cities/regions they were originally made in is that different languages don't use different names. Bad part is that you gain no information about the cheese itself from the name when this is done.
Re:Science shows cheese can make wine taste better
by pklausler on Thursday October 20, 2016 @01:32PM
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I don't know about your language, but in English, the names we use for other countries, cities, and languages are often ridiculously different from what their native residents and speakers call them.
(And it's not just English, on further thought. Is there any language whose name for the country that calls itself Deutschland looks anything like "Deutschland"? And why are they all different from each other?)
The Spannish expression "Darsela con queso" (lit: to give it to someone with cheese) was about the custom of giving cheese to buyers that wanted to taste a wine that the seller knew to be bad[0].
[0] ESP http://marianitu.com/2011/02/17/el-origen-de-la-expresion-qu...
[0*] or any of https://www.google.es/search?q=darsela+con+queso
On the other hand every now and then a study that is almost certainly completely bogus and of such low quality that it basically says nothing at all also is very popular.
Add to that the regular comments of the form "maybe this study isn't that good, but my personal anecdotes show ..."
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12713249
Is it?
No, you're wrong, (red) wine and cheese are paired all the time, and eliminating taste is done with bread if at all.
I'm a sane Frenchman, by the way, and an important street of my city is named after President Hoover. Not sure if this has anything to do with the wine and cheese however.
(And it's not just English, on further thought. Is there any language whose name for the country that calls itself Deutschland looks anything like "Deutschland"? And why are they all different from each other?)
There is: it's called "Duitsland" in Dutch (and no, "Dutch" does not refer to the language spoken in Deutschland ;)
However, I'm not aware of any language that refers to Greece by its native name ( Ἑλλάς, "Hellas").