“Sod the wine, I want to suck on the writing. This man White is an instinctive writer, bloody rare to find one who actually pulls it off, as in still gets a meaning across with concision. Sharp arbitrage of speed and risk, closest thing I can think of to Cicero’s ‘motus continuum animi.’

Probably takes a drink or two to connect like that: he literally paints his senses on the page.”


DBC Pierre (Vernon God Little, Ludmila’s Broken English, Lights Out In Wonderland ... Winner: Booker prize; Whitbread prize; Bollinger Wodehouse Everyman prize; James Joyce Award from the Literary & Historical Society of University College Dublin)


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06 March 2015

RACISM ON RUM NOT CHEESE


Racist Australia has been convinced to abandon blatant evil like this rum brand, which disappeared a long time ago. So how come National Foods, a subsidiary of Lion Nathan (in turn owned by the Japanes brewer, Kirin)  still sells Coon cheese? 
The Philadelphia cheesemaker Edward William Coon (1871–1934) worked out a rapid way of maturing cheddar using more heat and humidity than the traditional cheese cellar, so National Foods say their cheap cheese was named after him, and remains so. You may be surprised to learn this monolith also owns Clover Creek, King Island Dairy, South Cape, Tilba and Timboon cheese factories. Yet they claim Coon is the tastiest cheese in the country. Try telling that to the good dairymen and cheesemakers of King Island ... 

A family of Ainu, the original Japanese people. This photograph was taken a century ago on Hakkaido. Contemporary big city Japanese tend to give these people the same sort of disdainful shit the worst white Australians give to this country's many original peoples. That includes Australia's current government, whose record is sickening. I wonder if Kirin has a relative cheese with a distasteful Coon-like Japanese name?

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