Guessing Games With Andrew Chalk: WTF is This?

Posted on October 28th, 2009 12:51pm by Nancy Nichols
Filed under Andrew Chalk, Cheap trick for comments

I love guessing games. Especially here on SideDish. It’s a great distraction from work and it drives my page views through the lower atmosphere. I was so happy when I opened an e-mail from SD reporter, Andrew Chalk. In it was a guessing game. So, here goes!

clu1This is a picture of:
a)    A new building in the Arts District
b)    A modern sculpture
c)    A new $64 chocolate truffle from Noka
d)    Something caramelized
e)    All of the above
f)    None of the above
g)    Whatever I want it to be

Go for it. I’ll post another clue a little later in the day.

UPDATE: 3:09 p.m. Clue number 2.

clue2

UPDATE: DGirl takes the prize. Oh, we didn’t offer one! Whoopsie. Here’s Andrew:

GjetostIt is indeed a cheese. Gjetost from Norway, also known as Brunost, is a semi-hard cheese made from cow and goat’s milk to which caramelization during boiling of the milk contributes an unforgettable brown color. The caramel is also evident in the taste which is nutty and creamy. It is usually cut with a cheese slicer in order to create thin strips as the taste is quite intense and the finish long-lived. I bought it for $15.90/lb at The Wooden Spoon in Plano. A store for all things Scandinavian except, on my last visit, the famous fetid shark. I settled for herring.

26 comments

  1. C

    @ 12:58 pm on October 28, 2009

  2. looks like Andrew Chalk to me.

    By the way, Nokia makes cell phones.
    Noka makes the rip-off chocolate.

    @ 12:59 pm on October 28, 2009

  3. Looks like a circa 1972 See’s Candy from an abandoned storeroom at Richardson Square Mall

    @ 1:01 pm on October 28, 2009

  4. d.) something carmelized

    @ 1:13 pm on October 28, 2009

  5. meant caramelized

    @ 1:13 pm on October 28, 2009

  6. Bad Foie Gras or my boss’s ‘block head’.

    @ 1:19 pm on October 28, 2009

  7. A piece of chocolate with the image of the virgin mary on it?

    @ 1:23 pm on October 28, 2009

  8. f. a package of graham crackers

    @ 1:36 pm on October 28, 2009

  9. C

    @ 1:41 pm on October 28, 2009

  10. Brown Hash

    @ 2:09 pm on October 28, 2009

  11. Some sort of cheese?

    @ 2:24 pm on October 28, 2009

  12. Oh glorious day! I got Kirked by BillUSA!

    @ 2:33 pm on October 28, 2009

  13. Looks like D

    @ 2:35 pm on October 28, 2009

  14. Not to be confused with Dilly Girl . . . I’m DGirl and have been around a while. Anywhoo –
    Gjetost cheese

    @ 3:16 pm on October 28, 2009

  15. Flourless chocolate cake.

    @ 3:30 pm on October 28, 2009

  16. F. – my guess is it a piece of smoked gouda cheese or some other hard aged cheese.

    @ 3:32 pm on October 28, 2009

  17. It looks like a Kraft caramel

    @ 3:40 pm on October 28, 2009

  18. I would say it is either a chocolate truffle from Dude Sweet Chocolates or it is a picture of something neither carmel nor choclate from Heston Blumenthal’s new Fat Duck cookbook.

    @ 4:20 pm on October 28, 2009

  19. crustless pumpkin pie

    @ 4:25 pm on October 28, 2009

  20. Really? No prize. Sniff, sniff.

    @ 4:36 pm on October 28, 2009

  21. You’re right. There should always be a prize for Guessing Games. Send me you mailing address. Free FroYo for DGirl.

    @ 4:57 pm on October 28, 2009

  22. Yay!!!! I love winning things! Thanks Nancy!! And since my name is Norwegian (no, not DGirl, my real name) I’m going to The Wooden Spoon to see if I can buy a keychain with my name on it. Spelled right. Never had one before.

    @ 5:00 pm on October 28, 2009

  23. I thought I was a cheese freak and scored well on Leslie Brenner’s ‘cheese or font’ test. My large foam cheese head hat off to DGirl. If she wasn’t given a prize, I woulda. ;)

    http://eatsblog.dallasnews.com/archives/2009/10/think-you-know-your-cheeses.html

    @ 6:55 pm on October 28, 2009

  24. Andrew:

    If you are looking for hákarl (fermented shark), you need to find an Icelandic version of the Wooden Spoon. The closest thing to hákarl that you’ll find in Scandinavia is lutefisk. (I wouldn’t lye about such a thing.)

    Skål, broder.

    @ 3:41 pm on October 29, 2009

  25. You may have found the statement fishy but according to Wikipedia Iceland is sometimes considered part of Scandinavia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Skandinavia).

    @ 4:16 pm on October 29, 2009

  26. Only when the Icelandic economy needs help!

    @ 8:26 am on October 30, 2009