Not sure what a pimento cheese sandwich is but meat or cod filled pimentos are a delicatessen over here (and I’m lucky enough that my butcher makes them regularly, the ground beef ones).
Never mind: pimento cheese (I just found) a real sandwich spread from the SE USA (I lived there long ago and never encountered it, but seems it’s “deep south” stuff). Also, apparently, in English “pimento” or “pimiento” means hot peppers and in my native Spanish it means sweet peppers instead, a dangerous linguistic “false friend” it seems to me.
Sark’s kinda half-in, half-out, so sometimes slips in those references. Clearly Southern enough to appreciate gumbo AND be familiar with pimento cheese, though.
You are, becase it’s so much from a local real world that is almost an insider joke (I didn’t got it at first). Also we all know by now that this orc guy is a PC character, he does that kind of “I’m from Earth” comments all the time.
Nice full recipe and seems like the Texan stuff this guy would refer to IRL. In my corner of Europe finding those ingredients would be hard but I’m pondering what sacrilegal imitation can be done (mwahahaha!, I’ll be the experimental victim, so not sure why I’m laughing evilly).
Ha! Maybe it can be found in specialized shops of the kind that import exotic foods for poshy palates but I don’t visit such scumbag stores ever (my mum surely does however but I’m not in speaking terms with her). I buy local in neighborhood shops as much as possible but, honestly, I’ve never seen such thing in any supermarket either, people would confuse it with (the very popular) Russian salad and then complain it’s too spicy and has no potato in it.
I live in the Basque Country, in the very heart of its largest city, Bilbao. We have McDo but no self-respecting body ever steps in, every other tavern has better sandwiches for a better price, with real crusty baguette bread and not that gummy sweet thing they sell as “bread” in Great Virginia and its pseudo-restaurants.
Just browse for “Basque pintxos” or “Basque cuisine”… we have no need of (most) Anglosaxon industrialized pseudo-food (and I know there’s other nicer stuff but that’s the homier kind of stuff that doesn’t get commercial enough to be exported). Actually in terms of industrial fast food even (pintxos are not industrial but usually home-made at each tavern or an associated outlet), the most popular is kebab, which is some sort of Turkish or Arab pseudo-traditional fast food (cumin-spiced meat with stuff, I usually request salad with it but no ketchup, too sweet, it’s the lesser evil).
You can get a full meal, with some choice of dishes (three courses), for 10€ (9€ in the Bolivian restaurant), with wine even. Coffee is extra however.
Have only heard of pimento loaf, didn’t know it was referring to the little things in the loaf (no bread, more like a meatloaf, but used to make sandwiches apparently)
We already know (from sharp-eyed readers) that Jen, Brian and the original D&D players are from TX, and even a specific location in TX. I also know from an impeccable source that Jen’s darker skin-tone when she and Bree were together with the former Wood-Elf Queen, that she is Mexican-American, and maybe Sark’s avatar’s love of Mexican wrestling might (possibly) indicate the same. Again, I’m informed he is NOT “Graysider Dennis”, a sidebar character depicted quite a few years back, and never explained.
Meantime we have Renata, talking with a Southern American accent, and – as yet – not as fierce as previous depicted, and apparently the cousin of Sark’s deceased daddy. Hopefully someone of Sark’s side!
Neither Sark nor Bree seem to have had mothers that get mentioned, only fathers, which, given the female-centric nature of “Delve” is a curious omission. And both now have lost their Delve world fathers – again do their avatars have parents still alive in the ‘graysiders’ (our) world?
You can get cream cheese with pimento in the grocer’s, which is what I thought he meant.
The ‘official’ southern recipe doesn’t look that bad, assuming you like the taste of pimento peppers.
I don’t, along with most hot peppers.
It isn’t the heat, I love a good curry, it’s the taste.
Not sure what a pimento cheese sandwich is but meat or cod filled pimentos are a delicatessen over here (and I’m lucky enough that my butcher makes them regularly, the ground beef ones).
Obviously hard to say, but I think if it would contain actual ground beef it wouldn’t be implied to be that bad.
Never mind: pimento cheese (I just found) a real sandwich spread from the SE USA (I lived there long ago and never encountered it, but seems it’s “deep south” stuff). Also, apparently, in English “pimento” or “pimiento” means hot peppers and in my native Spanish it means sweet peppers instead, a dangerous linguistic “false friend” it seems to me.
An unholy mix of pimentos, cheddar (or more likely Velveeta) and mayonnaise, as I recall. I avoid anything that hardcore Southern.
Just means more for those who do everything enjoy it!
…Now I want one…
I’m not the only one slightly taken aback by the fact that pimento cheese exists in this world, right?
Sark’s kinda half-in, half-out, so sometimes slips in those references. Clearly Southern enough to appreciate gumbo AND be familiar with pimento cheese, though.
Does it exist though? Sark like Bree has some connection to the gray, magicless world.
You are, becase it’s so much from a local real world that is almost an insider joke (I didn’t got it at first). Also we all know by now that this orc guy is a PC character, he does that kind of “I’m from Earth” comments all the time.
Pimento cheese is a major thing in the American South, y’all!
https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/189930/southern-pimento-cheese/
I wonder if Sark’s mention of a pimento cheese sandwich, like his earlier memory of el luchador El Santo, might come from his extraplanar existence.
https://www.tasteofsouthern.com/pimento-cheese-recipe/
Nice full recipe and seems like the Texan stuff this guy would refer to IRL. In my corner of Europe finding those ingredients would be hard but I’m pondering what sacrilegal imitation can be done (mwahahaha!, I’ll be the experimental victim, so not sure why I’m laughing evilly).
Dude, those can be easily found in almost any civilized corner of Europe. I’m shocked! Which uncivilized corner do you inhabit? England? 😉
Ha! Maybe it can be found in specialized shops of the kind that import exotic foods for poshy palates but I don’t visit such scumbag stores ever (my mum surely does however but I’m not in speaking terms with her). I buy local in neighborhood shops as much as possible but, honestly, I’ve never seen such thing in any supermarket either, people would confuse it with (the very popular) Russian salad and then complain it’s too spicy and has no potato in it.
I live in the Basque Country, in the very heart of its largest city, Bilbao. We have McDo but no self-respecting body ever steps in, every other tavern has better sandwiches for a better price, with real crusty baguette bread and not that gummy sweet thing they sell as “bread” in Great Virginia and its pseudo-restaurants.
Just browse for “Basque pintxos” or “Basque cuisine”… we have no need of (most) Anglosaxon industrialized pseudo-food (and I know there’s other nicer stuff but that’s the homier kind of stuff that doesn’t get commercial enough to be exported). Actually in terms of industrial fast food even (pintxos are not industrial but usually home-made at each tavern or an associated outlet), the most popular is kebab, which is some sort of Turkish or Arab pseudo-traditional fast food (cumin-spiced meat with stuff, I usually request salad with it but no ketchup, too sweet, it’s the lesser evil).
You can get a full meal, with some choice of dishes (three courses), for 10€ (9€ in the Bolivian restaurant), with wine even. Coffee is extra however.
Turns out… Renata is bigger than she appeared in the invotive, and she’s a Southern Gal 😀
Have only heard of pimento loaf, didn’t know it was referring to the little things in the loaf (no bread, more like a meatloaf, but used to make sandwiches apparently)
We already know (from sharp-eyed readers) that Jen, Brian and the original D&D players are from TX, and even a specific location in TX. I also know from an impeccable source that Jen’s darker skin-tone when she and Bree were together with the former Wood-Elf Queen, that she is Mexican-American, and maybe Sark’s avatar’s love of Mexican wrestling might (possibly) indicate the same. Again, I’m informed he is NOT “Graysider Dennis”, a sidebar character depicted quite a few years back, and never explained.
Meantime we have Renata, talking with a Southern American accent, and – as yet – not as fierce as previous depicted, and apparently the cousin of Sark’s deceased daddy. Hopefully someone of Sark’s side!
Neither Sark nor Bree seem to have had mothers that get mentioned, only fathers, which, given the female-centric nature of “Delve” is a curious omission. And both now have lost their Delve world fathers – again do their avatars have parents still alive in the ‘graysiders’ (our) world?
You can get cream cheese with pimento in the grocer’s, which is what I thought he meant.
The ‘official’ southern recipe doesn’t look that bad, assuming you like the taste of pimento peppers.
I don’t, along with most hot peppers.
It isn’t the heat, I love a good curry, it’s the taste.