@hybotics Defective before or after the arc? ?
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@kdfrawg Reading of the comments revealed the brand name, Red Feather. It isn't cheese, not proper cheese, anyway. It's "processed cheddar" which should never be associated with cheddar & is a foul substance my late grandfather insisted was made with "sewage fat."
I do know that in the US, some processed cheese products have so little cheese content that they have to be marketed as "cheese food."
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@kdfrawg Dunno. The only canned cheese I have experienced is the Amadeus brand from Austria. Note well: Austria. Perhaps someone has mistaken Australia for Austria (again)?
// @jextxadore @hazardwarning @indigo
@indigo In the canning process, cooking does not always coincide with sealing.
// @jextxadore @hazardwarning @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg That's all it is. It's a plain ordinary (albeit pasteurised milk) brie or camembert cheese. Just the packaging is different, less porous than the normal paper wrapping.
// @jextxadore @hazardwarning @indigo
@hazardwarning Saw pictures of cars trapped in ice in Boston, they'd been caught in a flood the previous day & hadn't been moved in time.
// @kdfrawg
@indigo It's an alternative to the paper wrapping. Still needs refrigeration.
// @hazardwarning @kdfrawg
@kdfrawg They closed the 3'6" narrow gauge line in 1980. Now runs on Standard gauge of 4'8½". Since 2004, trains have been able to travel the full distance of 2979 km. The train on the TV program was 903 metres long, weighed in at some 1800 tonnes, had 38 carriages & was hauled by two big locos. Sometimes the train can be 200 metres longer.
I shall be watching a TV show called "The Ghan" in about ten minutes, it goes for 185 minutes. Here's the blurb from a TV guide:
'An Australian first foray into the 'Slow TV‘ movement. This is an immersive journey on Australia's most iconic railway that reveals - in real time - the stunning topographical vistas and dramatic palette changes from Adelaide to Darwin, while unpacking our indigenous, multicultural and social history in the most surprising way. The train line and subsequent development of
Central Australia and the growth of Darwin, Alice Springs and Port Augusta can be attributed to local indigenous communities' knowledge of surviving the harsh desert, as well as early immigrants, including Europeans, Chinese and the Afghan cameleers “The Ghan” is named after.'