Originally Posted by Pulaski

Bleach and swimming pool treatments are acceptable chemicals for sterilizing a well. There is a slight chlorine taste left after the well is flushed, but no different from the chlorine smell from city water, usually IME, on Fridays.

Originally Posted by mikelincs

The only difference with vegetarian cheese is that the rennet is derived from plants not animals, the rest is the same. Cheese goes really well with apple pie and with fruit cake..

Originally Posted by mrken30

It appears that vegetarian cheese is not widely available in the US, so you are safe.

The only country in the world that requires their cheeses be labeled and showing the source of the rennet is the U.K. where the majority of cheeses are used using plant based (fungi or mushroom) rennet.


So, in the United States and most of the world, most cheeses are not vegetarian, while in the UK, you can easily check the label to see.

Originally Posted by Pulaski

As far as I know, all cheese is made from animal fat, ergo "vegetarian cheese" is an oxymoron.

I have no issue with true vegetarians (eat no animal products), if that is their thing, but "vegetarians" whose motivation is only to ensure that nothing cute and fluffy died in the making of their food, are frauds.

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

We get a barely detectable chlorine smell in our city water that isn't noticeable in the taste.

Elemental chlorine is the problem, but if you've got clouds of chlorine gas coming towards you, then you apparently have just found yourself in World War I and have more things to worry about than your water ...

Originally Posted by Nutmegger

I have become so used to well water that whenever I'm in a place with chlorinated city water the smell, however faint, is unbearable. I was in Philadelphia last year and could hardly brush my teeth, the water smelled so bad; my friends who live there didn't know what I was talking about!

Originally Posted by Pulaski

I'm not weird, I'm perfectly normal. It's just y'all who are weird.

Of course JG is only slightly weird, what with her coming from Sheffield.

Originally Posted by mrken30

I thought vegetarians ate dairy and maybe eggs but not animal body parts. Vegans don't eat anything that comes from an animal.

Originally Posted by Nutmegger

I have become so used to well water that whenever I'm in a place with chlorinated city water the smell, however faint, is unbearable. I was in Philadelphia last year and could hardly brush my teeth, the water smelled so bad; my friends who live there didn't know what I was talking about!

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

We used to have a house with well water. I couldn't drink it because it tasted like iron and when you ran the taps it smelt like farts.

I'll take the chlorine any day

Originally Posted by Nutek

All y'all? ....

Originally Posted by Pulaski

No, just y'all.

I shall submit y'all's paperwork to make you an honorary Southerner. .... You will need to have your Mini's roof sprayed with a CBF.

Originally Posted by mrken30

I remember staying in Yorkshire where the outdoor well water was cleaner and tasted better than the brown stuff that came out of the house taps.

Originally Posted by mrken30

the brown stuff that came out of the house taps.

Originally Posted by mrken30

I remember staying in Yorkshire where the outdoor well water was cleaner and tasted better than the brown stuff that came out of the house taps.

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

Whereabouts in Yorkshire did you stay? 1847?

Originally Posted by SultanOfSwing

Whereabouts in Yorkshire did you stay? 1847?