mgthom63

11 hours ago, siamcrut said:

and it’s not the egg white what they use to color the „wine“ it’s the yoke.

 

@siamcrut  I've given you my perspective on the prevalence of egg whites as fining agents for wine, so I won't flog a dead horse on that one.

But, just out of interest, why do you also claim that the egg yolk/yoke is used to color the wine? 

I've never heard of this...can you elaborate and/or give me a link that supports this?  I've read that isinglass intensifies the yellow colour of white wine and agents such as casein clarifies it, but have never come across the use of egg yolks to color the wine.

As one of my previous posts indicates, I'm a little bit skeptical about this 'egg yolk as color' claim.  But, in hindsight, I wanted to play fair and give you the opportunity to respond...it was wrong of me to dismiss your claim so quickly and I apologize for that.  

Thanks in anticipation.

3 hours ago, xylophone said:

Finally, and as I think you mentioned in a previous post, some countries are now moving away from "animal products" for fining purposes, however others are stipulating that the contents and the fining agents and whatever else is used, have to be listed on the back label.

 

 

Just out of interest Xylophone (or anyone else), do you think that wines that have replaced animal-based fining products are in any way compromised or changed, in terms of taste?  Discerning a difference is way beyond my level of wine expertise and palate, but curious to hear what you think...

As an aside, I'm so glad dried blood powder is no longer used.  It's totally psychological (since I'm a total carnivore) but I have an aversion to animal blood...I've never been able to even try black pudding and always have my steak cooked medium-well done!

49 minutes ago, xylophone said:

Thanks mgthom63, and I've no idea why people need to swear about a particular topic (and indicate that the poster knows nothing about it), especially when they appear to know very little about it themselves.

 

 

Yep, you'd think some folks would do a little research before displaying their ignorance.  I'm ok with people making mistakes and/or being uninformed, but when they choose to insult posters with words like 'Bolllocks', I get irritated!  Rant over...I need to go down to my cave a vins and add some egg yolks to my Chardonnay to improve the colour :)

P.S. I'd be more concerned if you see the word 'isinglass' on your next box of Chardonnay.  It's a fining agent derived from the swim bladders of fish, originally sturgeons :)  And if you drink cask-conditioned ale in the UK, there's a high probability that isinglass has been used!

On 3/19/2018 at 9:27 PM, lanista said:

I'm also an Australian and i have no sympathy for this guy whether he is innocent or not.  Why is he running a beer bar and going out drinking again in  gogo bars?  I doubt if the embassy will be racing down the highway to assist him. He's working illegally in Thailand as a pimp collecting bar fines from his bar hookers.

 

No sympathy for him, even if he is innocent?

Why can't he own a beer bar and go out drinking again in gogo bars?  Up to him...would you prefer he stays in his bar 24/7?

He's working illegally in Thailand...?  Many farangs legally own bars but leave the actual 'work' to their TGF or wife and staff because they don't have work permits...he may well have one, but irregardless, do you have any evidence to back up your definitive and defamatory claim that he's working illegally?

...as a pimp collecting bar fines from his bar hookers?  I'm guessing you don't approve of bar girls, the bar owners who employ them or the concept of bar fines...up to you, but rather inflammatory to call him a pimp IMHO.

18 minutes ago, bwpage3 said:

I said there was Medicare, not that I am on it. I am not old enough for it

 

And no, you do not have to be low income, get your facts straight

 

 

Just to be clear, you said "Medicaid", not "Medicare" in post #1...and Medicaid IS designed for the under-65's who have zero or very low income....Medicare is available to all US citizens over the age of 65.

So I'm not surprised the poster who you wrongly "corrected" assumed you were struggling financially.

With all due respect, I think you need to get your facts straight... 

1 hour ago, phutoie2 said:

Any particular reason you are commenting on a post nearly ten months old?, get out much in CM?. 

Any particular reason you are replying to his comment?  Who cares how old the post is...you're the one who probably needs to get out more IMO :)

1 hour ago, JLCrab said:

I didn't say otherwise -- BTW we once stayed at another small hotel nearby. A UK friend of mine who often uses the lobby computer later asked me if I was still with then girl who I once brought over there. I said YES but I did not remember that you were there the time when we visited. He said NO that he wasn't but the hotel staff still talks about her.

Did she have big hands?

3 minutes ago, JLCrab said:

Of course there were other reasons -- but if that wasn't one of the reasons, the hotel owner wouldn't have mentioned it.

No doubt...I just said that 'other reasons' were more likely to have contributed to you getting kicked out.

13 minutes ago, JLCrab said:

Guess all you want -- that's what the hotel owner said.

I will...given the fact that you said there were 'other reasons' given by the hotel owner...which I'm guessing may be more responsible for getting you being asked to leave, in the absence of any elaboration on your behalf. 

Going bra-less doesn't seem like a legitimate reason for getting rid of a long-term guest (or even a short-term one).

Was it a girl or LB? 

43 minutes ago, JLCrab said:

For many years I lived in a service apartment at a 100+ room hotel. I was finally asked to leave because -- among other reasons -- when my Thai girlfriend used to arrive at the hotel without wearing a bra, it created too much of a disturbance amongst the hotel's other guests and employees.

I'm guessing the 'other reasons' may have been more responsible for you being asked to leave :)

IMHO, it usually takes a lot of unacceptable behavior for an apartment/hotel to boot out a long-term resident.

32 minutes ago, Happyman58 said:

The point  i am trying to make is the law comes down on farang a lot harder than it does on Thais Have a nice day 

I don't agree.  Have a nice day also.

12 hours ago, Happyman58 said:

Roles being reversed. Usually its the bar girl stealing something like money etc. So he will be fined heavily for his actions and if it was the bar girl in the wrong it would " Please  dont do that again there are cameras there ok "

Damn right he should be fined heavily...and barred from re-entering Thailand IMO.  

Have you ever experienced a situation where a bar girl has stolen something valuable from a customer and is just sanctioned with a 'please don't do that again..."?  I haven't but maybe I'm in the minority.

13 minutes ago, survivalblue said:

I'm not an urbanite.  Where I come from we have wild animals.  I have compassion for life.    But when an animal attacks a human, you shoot it.

This does spring a lot of useful thought,  I don't actually get the point the poster was trying to make no. 

 

I totally understand shooting an animal when it attacks a human without provocation, is rabid or is seen to have a very high likelihood of either. 

But you said "common sense would be to exterminate a few million stray soi dogs"....on the basis that some of them might attack a human?  

23 minutes ago, survivalblue said:

Those aren't soi dogs.  

So what if they're not literally soi dogs?  Didn't you get the point the poster was trying to make?

Drug addicts aren't useful to society...should we exterminate them as well?

I'm no animal activist but you seem to have no compassion for life...

22 minutes ago, overherebc said:

I keep an empty malt whisky bottle and an empty gin bottle to remind me of departed spirits.

PS

I don't wear them around my neck.

And replace them daily with your newly emptied bottles, I assume? :)

34 minutes ago, hugh mckee said:

read my post from yesterday in response to cheeryble

 

I hadn't posted in a long time or even logged in because if I write anything positive about condo ownership then the usual suspects come out and insult and ridicule me and yesterday after my positive post was no exception and I got the same ridicule from the same guys, it's very difficult to write anything positive for this reason I don't think this is the best place to get the information you are seeking.

 

I bought a condo and never read this forum until afterwards and then thought what have I done? I actually got worried and regretted my decision after reading the overwhelming negativity on this forum, now I until this week ignore this forum it's full of bitter and jealous people whose opinion is not worth listening to and I am very pleased I made my decision to buy and not rent as I want to live in my own place, each to their own of course and now my condo is almost finished and has turned out (very luckily)

to have been a shrewd purchase, of course I can't right these things and now await ridicule from the usual suspects.

I hear you!  But if you continue to respond to his insults with your own insults, you're just helping to derail the thread and feed the troll.  Best to just ignore them, rather than get into a slanging match IMHO...some folks have nothing better to do than bait and insult others...but I totally understand why you have got riled up.

I was just (maybe unrealistically) hoping this thread could get back on track :)

16 hours ago, eezergood said:

Many reds, just off the top of me head stand out here. Most Pinot Noirs would be great, GSM (this with higher Grenache) for sure would be fantastic, all Grenache - particularly takes a chill also.

Lots not also forget the home of the humble Thai Chili - Portugal. Piri piri is indeed spicy and they produce LOTS of wine.

 

I read the OP and have seen his posts on other forums, he KNOWS his wine - far more than I do, I know taste & flavour. I also agree that Mont Clair os not wine 

Many thanks for the recommendations.  By OP, I meant the poster who made the 'blacklisted' comment...I wasn't referring to SkyRider...apologies for my typo.

17 hours ago, spidermike007 said:

Funny reply. I could say a lot of things about it, but I will say it is a fairly typical view of a western man, who has suffered a lifetime of indoctrination.

 

 

I respect your opinion but still stand by what I said.

I certainly haven't suffered a lifetime of indoctrination in my 50+ years...married once only and that ended many years ago...several significant long-term relationships before and after, the majority being Asian women.  And I've lived in both the East and West.

I just disagreed with your suggestion that intellectual stimulation is overrated in a marriage and the comment that you brought an 'honor' to her and her family by marrying her...the latter suggests that she was somehow 'privileged' to have you agree to marry her, which came across to me as a rather egocentric and misogynistic claim. 

The first/former comment just seems indicative of a marriage that just doesn't seem to be firing on all 12-cylinders...but maybe I was just lucky to have a wife where there was a lot of intellectual stimulation.

But we can agree to disagree!

9 hours ago, eezergood said:

What total nonsense! Blacklisted by whom?

I have worked in 1,2 & #star Michelin and have been a chef for over 20 years (9 countries and almost every internationally branded Hotel chain) And I have to agree with xylophone that some wines match PERFECTLY with spicy food! 

As for India, they dont drink wine as they dont bleedin produce it!

How dare you say that eezergood :)

As I recall, the OP 'claimed' that he was formerly a sommelier, so he should know his stuff.

Not sure if that was before or after a presumed stint as a CIA agent or high-ranking member of the diplomatic corps in West Africa.

Regardless, l'm hoping this thread can get back to friendly and non-combative discussions about wine.

So, on that basis, what wines would you recommend with spicy food?  I'm a bit of a novice so, per my previous reply to xylophone, typically just go with off-dry Reislings...but would like to be a little bit more adventurous. 

26 minutes ago, Thian said:

Many Thai even can't speak Thai, serious...they speak half Lao, even my wife can't understand them.

Your wife can't understand Lao?

I hope she never tries to work at a hotel, hospital or real estate agency!

My Lao GF would really shout at her if she wasn't understood, serious :)

I'm half-tempted to write a letter to the Thai PM suggesting that all hotel, hospital, ambulance and realtors pass a language proficiency test in Lao, Mandarin, English and Russian...or be terminated from their employment immediately.

OK, I understand that you're not happy by the level of English demonstrated by Thai hospital/hotel/ambulance/police/mall staff/real estate agents....and would prefer that more of them speak English.

I personally think you're wrong, unrealistic and a little xenophobic.  But I respect your different opinion.

But let's not argue about this anymore. Ok?

We can agree to disagree and move on :)

1 hour ago, xylophone said:

Nice one mgthom63..........I think that poster is a Troll. He has to be in view of his posts which bear no relation to reality.e.g........

 

--"Red wine and spicy food definitely do not match!

Wrong and proven so by chefs, restaurateurs and food and wine critics.

--"The chef would be blacklisted".

Well that's a nonsense again.

--"Well all of these people answer to the producers'.

Poppycock!

-- "Probably never been to New Zealand"

A complete nonsense as I am actually a New Zealand citizen and lived there.

--"New Zealand doesn't have any spicy food".

When in fact it is full of restaurants which specialise in it. 

--'Very strange that you think Nigeria is "West Africa".

Sorry to have to inform him that Nigeria is in fact in West Africa

 

This as I mentioned that I worked in West Africa, and for some strange reason the poster has gone onto talk about French West Africa, which I never mentioned. So he is wrong again.

 

Perhaps he gets on the juice when posting, who knows? But what I and others have seen is that his posts are generally a nonsense, and as one would a Troll, best ignored

 

 

Yes xylophone, best ignored..on the juice, lonely, bored and/or just driven to show how (un)smart he is? 

Who knows?  But not worth spending a lot of time trying to understand what drives this kind of anti-social behaviour IMHO.

I come on this forum for useful information and friendly discussions; I'm open to different opinions and constructive debate, but when I come across a troll I find it's best to just ignore them.