Unless stock have been pouring in while I have been in Blighty till last week, the mustard shelves of the FR s/mkts have been completely bare for weeks. Last time I went to C4, myself and another customer took the last two jars of Maille ‘Ancienne’. None of those gt big jars of Amora …
Apparently the Canadian mustard seed crop, the principle source for FR mustard makers, failed due to drought. And guess where the alternative supplies come from? - Yup, Ukraine.
The UK s/mkts seemed not to have this problem. Stocked as normal, and that included the FR marques. Wierd.
Quite so Although not if one scours C4, Eric the Cleric and Lidl to find none at all. It’s getting wuss because E the C has joined the gap between mayo and ketchup where mustard used to be! The answer is obvious but painful - import from UK!
“It was a joke” Devotees of the sage, G.I. Gurdjieff tended to be a bit o.t.t. with the unquestioning devotion. At his centre at Fontainebleu he once ordered one acolyte to lather her icecream with mustard. She did this, to be told off by Gurdjieff for not thinking for herself and using common sense.
But Gurdieff was running an establishment and teaching that, amongst other things, emphasised the importance of ‘awareness’ that predated ‘mindfulness’ by many decades. There was a rigour in his approach adopted from three strands of learning and spiritual endeavour, ‘the monk’, ‘the fakir’ and ‘the yogi’. His approach, incorporting these three ancient disiplines he called 'The Fourth Way"
Furthermore, anyone wishing to undertake any of the traditional paths to spiritual knowledge, which Gurdjieff reduced to three—namely the path of the fakir, [the path of physical denial] the path of the monk [the path of contemplation] , and the path of the yogi [the practice of yoga/meditation] were required to renounce life in the world. Gurdjieff thus developed a “Fourth Way”) which would be amenable to the requirements of modern people living modern lives in Europe and America. Instead of developing body, mind, or emotions separately, Gurdjieff’s discipline worked on all three to promote comprehensive and balanced inner development.
Gurdjieff had a practice of trying to jolt his ‘students’ out of thoughtlessly hanging on his every word and obeying his every whim by occasionally throwing in absurdities, to see if students were indeed thinking for themselves.
Another example of the mustard/icecream stunt was to tell a student to perch on the front bumper of his car and cling on to the headlamps whilst he drove from his centre at Fontainleu to Paris. The student made to comply but was reminded of his obligation to think for himself.
Bullies come in all shapes and guises… and unless one has been a victim… it’s likely that one will never quite understand what I’m talking about…
I’ll get back to my weedkilling now…
Although not if one scours C4, Eric the Cleric and Lidl to find none at all. It’s getting wuss because E the C has joined the gap between mayo and ketchup where mustard used to be! The answer is obvious but painful - import from UK!