Johnny Chiodini
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Dear Patreon #15
🕑 Added 2024-08-24 10:46:40 +0000 UTCHello folks,
You’ll doubtless have noticed that this is a newsletter and not a Patreon post announcing a new episode of Press Any Chiodini. Forgive me - it is on hold until next week. Without going into details, it’s been a most unusual week and I’ve needed to take some time to process things. I don’t feel comfortable sharing details, but I can assure you that I am fine and I will be back on form next week, when we can all get back to the important business of beating the snot out of everything that moves in midgard and beyond. Thank you for your understanding!
Right, newsletter time. Let’s do this.
Three things I have been enjoying lately
The Loxwood Joust is a lovely ren faire-adjacent event that takes place over the first three weekends in August, and it’s absolutely fantastic. There are two honest-to-goodness jousts each day, there are puzzle quests to undertake, and there’s even a full contact medieval fight pit if you want to watch a bunch of grown men whacking each other with genuine axes. You’ll have to wait until next year if you want to catch it, but my goodness it’s worth doing. Hello to everybody who said hi last weekend!
I really love a good sandwich. I think sandwiches might be one of my favourite things ever? Anyway, I had a sandwich with hummus, tomato and salted crisps yesterday and it was an absolute banger. A few days before that I had some sourdough baguette with nduja, pesto, chicken, tomato and camembert and that was pretty great too. Please tell me about your favourite sandwich, I am always looking for inspiration.
Hunt: Showdown has been out for ages now and I’ve dipped in and out of it several times over the years. It’s a fairly hardcore extraction shooter set in a wild west stuffed with horrible monsters. It’s just had an enormous update so I dropped in with two friends last night to see what was what. It took ages for us all to download the update and then update our graphics drivers and then make sense of the new UI and then drop in for a game and we were absolutely, joyfully dreadful. A combination of being rusty and just deciding to throw caution to the wind and sprint everywhere did not serve us well, but we had a great time. After three games our nerves were too jangled to keep going so we swapped out for Helldivers 2 and blew up a lot of bile titans. All in all I’m fairly sure we spent longer prepping for Hunt: Showdown than we actually did playing, but it was an absolute delight. I might stream Hunt sometime, the pacing and the tension are both fantastic.
Usual questions
How’s Watson?
She’s been unbelievably good lately - the kittens are zooming about the place almost constantly and she is so, so gentle with them. One of them has taken quite a shining to her, so sometimes she has to deal with a tiny grey ball of chaos getting all up in her grill. I took her to Loxwood Joust with me to give her a bit of a break and she had such a lovely time - she ran about the woods constantly and charmed a lot of people. She also spent an afternoon lying down in the (very cold) ashes of the previous night’s campfire, I think they might have been cooling on her tummy. Anyway, she’s been my constant companion for nearly 8 years now and she continues to wow me with her sweetness.
How’s work?
As mentioned at the top of this newsletter, it’s been an Unusual Time for me lately. I’m looking forward to getting back on it and injecting a sense of normality back into proceedings. I am, as ever, extremely grateful to my patrons for their support and understanding.
How’s Blood Bowl?
The league is in the grip of The Summer Lull which happens every year, so nobody’s played in a good while. There’s always a delightful rush of games come Autumn though, so I’m looking forward to that.
Right, that about does it for this newsletter - thank you very much for reading! Please, please tell me about your favourite sandwich.
Comments
Julia Weygandt
The sandwich that surprises British folk a lot when they hear about it: a fluffernutter. It's peanut butter and marshmallow fluff on the softest bread you have, and it's absolutely a sugar bomb, but it's delicious.
David Cross
If I’ve had 1000 subway sandwiches, 990 of them have probably been Italian BMTs.
Donna Crozier
I’ve been trying keto for a few weeks and I do miss sandwiches, so was living vicariously through your description of your recent favourite. I do miss a classic crispy bacon buttie with a slice of Camembert on a Saturday morning.
Adam Bass
Dogs like yours are the greatest. Send like some are clearly motivated by food alone and will act accordingly to keep getting it - then there are those that genuinely seem motivated by affection, and while there is a spectrum between the two and while I we've never met Her in the fuzzy flesh, I'll bet pounds to doughnuts she's more a love Bug (that said I'm sure she LOVES a good meal!) She's such a ham, give Her ears a good scratchin' for/from Me!!! 😘🐶
Vicki Smart
I love bread so any sandwich is a good one! But my absolute favourites are pastrami, which I'll get any time I'm in the US, or any kind of deli meat and cheese combination. I do however, still think about the chicken parm on sourdough I had at a sandwich shop in Massachusetts when I worked at a summer camp there. It's been close to 10 years since I was there... it was SO good!
Jonathon West
This sounds incredible.
Jonathon West
One of my favourite sandwiches. You're preferred best sausage, sliced up lengthways, a nice crumbly layer of your preferred blue cheese, and a healthy layer of mango chutney. Preferably in a nice crusty baguette. Can't be beat, in my opinion. Looking forward to having you back Johnny.
Dominic Carter
Glad to hear things are normalising for you johnny, you take whatever time you need, we will all be here patiently waiting as long as it takes. Your content is worth the wait in spades.
The Blakes
My favourite sandwich was somewhere in the middle of nowhere in Dumfries and Galloway. It was a toasted ciabatta with haggis, rocket, and brie. I ate it while listening to my dad gleefully explain to a lovely dutch couple at the next table what haggis is, because they thought it was a kind of fish
Business Corgi
There's a sandwich shop near me that does a really great Cuban. I get it there enough that them asking what I want is just formality at this point.
Sabine Gordon
Honestly I think my favorite sandwich of all time is just a tomato sandwich with a thick slice of homegrown tomato. I've been making these bagel sandwiches with fried egg, cheese, cream cheese, ham, caramelized onion jam, and sauteed peppers/onions/mushrooms. Highly recommended.
Sabine Gordon
A grilled pimento cheese is even better if you open it up and put a strip of bacon and a piece of tomato on it
Bill
As long as you and yours are doing okay, we don't need details. Hunt: Showdown has been one of those games on my radar and wishlist but I have nobody that would play so... it sits and I watch strims instead. My favourite sandwich varies from season to season, but I can always get behind a nice turkey club. Actual turkey (not processes), applewood bacon, tomato, lettuce, habanero mayo, all on rye. Mmmhmm. That's my sammy bliss.
Louis Albrecht
I am a huge grilled cheese fan. If we’re getting fancy, a grilled pimento cheese sandwich.
Ashley Lyons
One of the all time greatest sandwiches of my life was red bell pepper hummus with eggplant that had been roasted in accidentally "too much" olive oil on thick slices of crusty bread. Can confirm it works well with just about any summer/early fall vegetable from the nightshade or squash family.
kei taniguchi
My go-to questions for grtoup interviews and other bullshit of that sort, are "What's the best sandwich?" and "If a deli named a sandwich after you, what would be in it?" Anyway, I maintain that a good fish finger sandwich is near unbeatable, although my recent intake has mostly been of the drunk "Fuck it, throw in a hash brown as well" variety. After a few pints, it's unbeatable.
Lisa Hunt
I am basic and therefore my favourite sandwich is mature cheddar cheese and sliced tomato on thick cut bread.
Scott Perkins
Toasted ham and cheese sandwiches always make me think of home. Not nearly as interesting as some of these but I'm a sucker for stringy melted cheese.
Johnny Chiodini
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Matt Dancer
When I was in 6th form, there was a shop near school thst did the most divine chicken tikka baguettes. That was over twenty years ago; the shop is long gone, but the memories of the warm fresh baguette, the tender chicken and the subtle flavours of the tikka sauce are still etched into my mind.
Freya Ingram
My absolute favourite sandwich (more of a roll really) is cold roast beef, cauliflower pickle, and cream cheese with a good cracking of black pepper, on a fresh baguette. Oh god, now I want one. It's one in the morning. Sigh. Lol. Anyway, sending hugs to you and belly scritches to Watson.
Kara Dennison
I used to work at an independently owned little deli just out of college, and my favorite thing on their menu was turkey and pepperoni with cheddar on a baguette. I’ve never been able to find the specific bread they use again (I think it was from a bakery out of state), but the combo is one I still stand by.
Chris Butler
My favourite sandwich filling is chicken and bacon chopped up small then mixed with sweetcorn and mayo. Also makes for a great jacket potato filling!
theposhgoblin (AKA Tim)
Every payday (a ritual I picked up from my dad); I go to the local bakers (quiet, Belle) and get myself a nice fresh bloomer, then get some nice bacon from the butcher and treat myself to nice bacon sarnie with nice crisp rashers and crusty soft bread... and if I've feeling extra fancy, might fry an egg to go in there too
Alex Jane
My favourite sandwich is a Cheese Savoury, which is apparently unknown outside of the North East. For the uninitiated, it's at least two kinds of grated cheese - cheddar, mozzarella or Red Leicester are all good, but one of them has to be orange - chopped onion (I personally like spring onion instead), and mayonnaise or salad cream, all mixed together in a stottie (a squishy kind of bread bun). Sometimes people add grated carrot as well, but you don't have to.
Faith Quist
On the slightly sweeter side, I enjoy a peanut butter and avocado sandwich on whole wheat bread.
Wings of Eternia
One of my favourite sandwiches is chicken, ham and chorizo with spicy mayo. Was one that Sainsbury's used to do but stopped so I took to making myself now and again.
Brock Anthony Sisson
My favourite sandwich is very simple. A sourdough roll, ham, shredded chicken,old english cheese, some original crisps, jalapeno and my one twist is that I use thousand island dressing for a sauce instead of something conventional like mustard or tomato sauce
SnoodDogg
My favourite sandwich is from a local tea shop. It's just ham and mustard, but we're in Wales so the mustard also has leek and honey in it, plus delightfully crunchy mustard seeds. It's simple but delightful.
N Gregory
There is nothing to forgive (the delay). Unusual Times happen to the best of us, and with the best will in the world, sometimes life spanks our little bottoms without consent. Currently going through my own personal year of hell - anything that I can consume from one of my favourite content creators - whether that's actual videos or newsletters featuring Watson and kittens(!) is a balm for my soul right now.
Em
My favourite sandwich is from a local cafe that does poached chicken with mayo, pesto, spinach, capers, and a slice of American cheese on sourdough, and it's bloody brilliant
