{"id":16534,"date":"2022-12-09T22:57:41","date_gmt":"2022-12-09T21:57:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=16534"},"modified":"2024-06-11T21:38:17","modified_gmt":"2024-06-11T20:38:17","slug":"daily_2865_-_strange_glogg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2022\/12\/09\/daily_2865_-_strange_glogg\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2865 &#8211; strange <i>gl\u00f6gg<\/i>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2865_glogg.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nWe found a bottle of last year&#8217;s <i>gl\u00f6gg<\/i> in the pantry. I don&#8217;t believe in best-before dates too much, so we opened and tried it.<\/p>\n<p>Last year&#8217;s <i>gl\u00f6gg<\/i> flavour was mojito: <i>gl\u00f6gg<\/i> with a flavour of lime and mint. Quite a bizarre combination, since there is no overlap in ingredients between mojito and <i>gl\u00f6gg<\/i>. Well, apart from the sugar. And their flavours don&#8217;t match or complement each other, either. Mojito is fresh and cold and tart; <i>gl\u00f6gg<\/i> is warm and round and spicy.<\/p>\n<p>The idea of mixing the two was not a good one. We tried it; I was the only one to want to taste it twice. Then we poured it down the drain.<\/p>\n<p>Marketing people want everything to have &#8220;this season&#8217;s variety&#8221;. Clothes, shoes, Christmas gifts&#8230; and <i>gl\u00f6gg<\/i>. There&#8217;s rarely a point in having a favourite model of sandals, or even of socks, or of <i>gl\u00f6gg<\/i>, apparently, because when the old ones have run out and you want more, your favourite has already been retired in favour of something newer and shinier.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We found a bottle of last year&#8217;s gl\u00f6gg in the pantry. I don&#8217;t believe in best-before dates too much, so we opened and tried it. Last year&#8217;s gl\u00f6gg flavour was mojito: gl\u00f6gg with a flavour of lime and mint. Quite a bizarre combination, since there is no overlap in ingredients between mojito and gl\u00f6gg. Well, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[790,791,18,745,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16534","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-celebrations","category-christmas","category-dailies","category-food_and_cooking","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16534"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16535,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16534\/revisions\/16535"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}