I just described Kraft as "the Platonic ideal of neon Mac n' Cheese". My son thinks this is the first time that sentence has been uttered. Naively it's because he thinks the Venn diagram of people who use "Platonic ideal" and people who eat neon Mac n' Cheese contains only me.

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So, it has come to this.

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1. God, yes 2. Hadn’t thought of it but yes. I think ‘dessert’ wine was starting to be used by then, because it’s the term I was familiar with in my mid-20s

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thanks for re-upping an utter classic. Two things strike me 1. "which is not an amateur's drink" is wonderful, worthy of Kingers himself 2. Back then the FT called it "pudding wine" as is, of course, correct. I fear they have succumbed to popular solecism since

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(The idea is that the pink paper invites one of “the world’s most fascinating people ... They choose the restaurant, we pay the bill, and you get a seat at the table.” A book blurb from a compilation says they’ve done “film stars to politicians, tycoons to writers, dissidents to lifestyle gurus”)

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