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Subject: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Jul 01 - 01:57 PM I have just finished my second plate of tripe this week and made and awful discovery. My name is Dave. I am a tripeoholic. There. I've said it now and it wasn't easy. Mine's a sad tale. I tried a bit of liver and onion years ago. I thought it would do no harm. Then the butcher convinced me to try a little kidney. It went downhill from there. Lambs sweetbreads. Ox tonge. Heart. Pigs trotters and then I hit rock bottom. Tripe. I know it's disgusting. I disgust myself at times but I can't help it. I have lost the respect of my children. I have to sneak it to the back of the fridge so my wife won't find it. Now I'm worried that if my boss finds out I will loose my job. I must give it up but I love it too much. The taste. The texture. The smell. How it slips down when covered in salt, pepper and vinegar. I have even started to experiment by deep frying it in batter. Using balsamic vinegar instead of malt. Giving it a delicate dusting of paprika... Mmmmmm.... No, no stop it. It's evil. Please, please help. Can we have a self help group. It need not be tripe. Anything weird will do. But help me. And help me now before it is too late.... Dave the repentant Gnome |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:09 PM I have it on good authority that pigs trotters are lower then tripe. at least they originate lower... tongue, heart, liver are all great -- kidney...errr, well not my favorite. now gizzards - mmmmm-mmmmmm. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Bill D Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:11 PM ummm...some have said that my taste, acquired in childhood, for Borden's Eagle Brand sweetened condensed milk, spread on bread, is weird....pooh! |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Liz the Squeak Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:11 PM I like sprouts. There. I've said it. I like SPROUTS!!!
I'm not shy, I'm proud to shout, I also like Haggis, but that's another story.... LTS the bratling has been known to down a few of the round green things too..... |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:15 PM Mom used to make gulyásleves with all kinds of things in it. We would all be served then spend about 3 mn saying Hey, who wants my kidneys? I've got some carrots to trade! Nowadays she doesn't put kidneys in it, and it just doesn't taste the same. I learned to love tongue at her table, too. Pig's feet never sent me, she likes all that gristle, I don't. And I don't eat the gall bladder in formaldehyde, I just keep in on my spice shelf pour épater les bourgeouis. I make my gravy with all the parts, I just mince them up. I remember being told by my then-spouse to not include the kidneys, so I minced them finer. He had a total kidney failure once for no reason, so we wondered if it was the rabbit's revenge, as that was who's kidneys I'd been feeding him... And check out the Larousse Gastronomique, the Encyclopedia of Food edited by the French. Under "offal" it has pages and pages and PAGES of recipes for things Americans tend to think of as inedible! But then you look under "leftovers" and find this simple definition: The product of poor planning in the kitchen. I kid you not! And not a single recipe for hash, or anything else I do with leftovers all the time! De gustibus disputandum non est, indeed... |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Kim C Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:31 PM Mrzzy, what's that Latin thing mean? Something about not disputing your gusto? All right. I like sushi. All kinds. But I especially love eel. I could eat unagi all day LONG. I also like calamari. Liver & onions. Love it. Chicken livers with milk gravy. Jalapeno-stuffed olives. Calf fries. Only had 'em once. Nothing really special, but I'd eat them again. Dave, don't feel bad. Tripe is a major ingredient in some Mexican dishes. There's nothing wrong with eating something that can be eaten, rather than wasting it. Our colonial ancestors ate tripe. They also ate eels, too. Eat up, y'all. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Bill D Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:36 PM "De gustibus disputandum non est" you can't argue about taste |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Bill D Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:38 PM except...what ELSE is there to argue about?...politics, food, drink, music, friends, religion....all one form or another of 'gustibus' |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:53 PM Not to worry Dave....You're in good company. My Dad had grown up during the depression in an already poor family and perhaps it was nostalgia, but my childhood was filled with weird meats that he had eaten then because they were virtually free. Some of those I still like myself and one of the things known as "Scrapple" by the Pennsylvania Dutch still tops my list of favorite breakfast meats(?). Basically, it's the all the meat boiled off the head of a hog and ground then mixed with cornmeal and put in a loaf. You then slice it and fry it. Here in east Ohio, we call it "Krepples" but it's also affectionately called "Pig Lips." I was hoping to serve it to Bill, Ian, and Sam, for breakfast when they were here, but I had to in for the dental operation and blew my chance! And, it's no secret around here that I'm now HOOKED on Vegemite and Marmite! I had never had either as they just aren't known here, but once tasted, I've become a nut on them!!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:59 PM good scrapple is not a "wierd food" - it is ambrosia! On the other hand - "Ambrosia" - as exemplified by the orange/coconut/marshmallow combination is wierd |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Jul 01 - 02:59 PM Ooh, yes, scrapple, lovely stuff. Wish it were available down here in ole Virginny... and I've never tasted Haggis but knowing me, I'd like it. The only thing still too gross for me even after tasting it (since so much yukky-sounding stuff is good if you can get past your eyes and into your mouth) is brains. Probably haven't tried everything yet... |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Steve Latimer Date: 05 Jul 01 - 03:08 PM I just wonder who had the guts to be the first person to eat an oyster, clam or snail. (Thank God they did, I love all three) |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 05 Jul 01 - 03:50 PM probably some hungry person on the seashore - fighting with the gulls... |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Cobble Date: 05 Jul 01 - 03:57 PM oh Dave the Gnome where can I get tripe from ? I love it but no one around here sells it any more. Love it cooked with onions in white sauce, dash of cayenne pepper, served with peas and mashed potato, a little English mustard too. Mrs C |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Grab Date: 05 Jul 01 - 04:04 PM Peanut butter. That's not too strange on its own - and therein lies the problem. See, I'll mix peanut butter with any number of strange things in a sandwich (although only one thing with the peanut butter at once, of course). Cheese (Cheddar or Tasty Lancs preferred). Honey. Bovril. Crisps (chips, for Americans; salt and vinegar or chicken are best). The strangest though must be mixing peanut butter and home-made crabapple jelly, although I've not been able to do that for many years since my mum stopped making jam. A good non-peanut butter combination is mature cheese and honey - Grandma Singleton's Tasty Lancs spread on toast and mixed with honey is great. For something that's pleasing to the tongue but not the eye, try chips (fries), baked beans and grated Cheddar cheese. Mix them all together thoroughly until the sauce has soaked into the chips and the cheese has melted. It looks like a car crash in a maggot factory, but it tastes great. On the gross-out theme, I would nominate bogies, but I'm not sure they qualify as food since they're low in nutritional value... ;-) And scabs - after all, what else do you do with them once you've pulled them off? Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Linda Kelly Date: 05 Jul 01 - 04:08 PM I am so relieved -for years I have wanted to confess my food obsession- I am only able to eat vegetables cut in a certain shape. I can eat batonned carrots and cucumber but not sliced. I can't eat cubed carrot or beetroot of any description. Please do not serve me a tomato that has been sliced -quartered only please. Also, and I feel I'm on a roll here, I cannot eat new potatoes at all unles they have the skin left on -and then only with mint. however I cannot eat minted peas. Please avoid serving me pasta that is not spaghetti or penne because i do not like it. I also do not like anything that is banana flavoured other than bananas but adversely like strawberry flavouring but dislike strawberries. I think I must have had too much time on my hands as a child. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 05 Jul 01 - 04:12 PM Grab - your peanut butter and crab-apple jelly is only strange on your side of the pond. On the left bank it would be considered only slightly above dull. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: GUEST Date: 05 Jul 01 - 04:16 PM In reading different things to try with peanut butter, I was amazed you left out pickles, (dill). You just haven't lives till you tries a peanut butter and dill pickle sandwich . :) mmm |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 05 Jul 01 - 04:16 PM cold baked bean sandwiches. with onion. |
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Subject: Mushroom Slop From: Joe Offer Date: 05 Jul 01 - 04:21 PM Well, I'm engaged to a woman who grows huge, slimy mushrooms in the kitchen in gallon jars of some sort of brew made from tea and sugar. Once a mushroom has grown on top of the brew, she and her mother drink this potion for breakfast. Now the fruit flies have discovered this "mushroom slop," and I'm afraid that fruit fly maggots have been added to the mix. She even tricked me into drinking the stuff once (and I have to admit it tasted pretty good - kind of like cider). What am I getting myself into? Is anybody familiar with a Website that will give me full information on thse mushrooms? -Joe Offer- |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: GUEST,Walking Eagle Date: 05 Jul 01 - 04:23 PM Souse! Ramps! Now I'll send everyone to the moon - - Rattlesnake meat! Love 'em thangs! |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Burke Date: 05 Jul 01 - 04:27 PM When I was in college I think we put peanut butter on everything we could think of. Special favorites are on apple slices, raw carrots, bananas. Raisins are a good addition to PB&J. But I'm on the left side of the pond so these aren't strange. Liver & onions. Hog's head cheese. Fried Pork Skins. Beef tongue reminds me of corned beef. Fried chicken livers. Stewed okra! Grab, the bogies & scab had me howling. Now that Spaw has tried the marmite & vegimite isn't Bovril the next thing he ought to try?
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 05 Jul 01 - 04:31 PM Hog-brain sandwiches! Rolled in beaten egg, dredged in cracker (saltine) crumbs, and fried, they're wonderful! Haven't had a good steak-and-kidney pie for years, because I insist on lamb kidneys, and I can't get 'em anymore. The butcher shops used to get the kidneys still in the carcasses that they received, but no more for some reason. Veal kidneys really won't do; too strong. A great sandwich: Peanut butter and mayonnaise, on hot toast, so that the ingredients run into each other from the heat. Nirvana! DAve Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Dave the Gnome Date: 05 Jul 01 - 06:02 PM Where abots is 'around here' Mrs C? Perhaps I can send you some in the post. Provided that is legal of corse...;-) DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Hollowfox Date: 05 Jul 01 - 06:07 PM Joe, it's called "kambucha". I'm sure a keyword search on Google will get you all you need to know. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Midchuck Date: 05 Jul 01 - 06:08 PM I hate peanut butter. I hate bananas. I like liver, especially with bacon. I like spinach, provided it has vinegar, not butter, on it. Likewise brussells sprouts. I don't know what the point of all that is, except that I may not be a good American boy. Peter. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: John Routledge Date: 05 Jul 01 - 06:15 PM D t G please watch what you eat before Shellbacks - Or stand at front. Cheers GB |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Jul 01 - 06:29 PM JOE....Karen and I were into the mushroom tea thing for awhile. You also give them to friends for starters of their own. Nothing harmful, possibly a bit invigorating, and as you say, almost cider like. Supposedly it has great medicinal value. However, my old friend, consider this: After we drank the stuff for about a year, I had the by-pass, the aneurysm, the ablation, a foot of small bowel removed, and then the replaced mitral valve. Enjoy it!!!! (or not) WALKING EAGLE.....Bro, I LOVE RAMPS!!! The only requirement for eating ramps is to be sure EVERYONE eats ramps with you else there is a lot of complaining from any who haven't. Ramps, for the uneducated, are like a very strong onion, but that doesn't begin to describe the flavor! MARIO......I think we come from the same family. Nothing like the post holiday dinner concoctions is there? Dressing sandwich with cranberries and turkey sound familiar (or something along those lines). I used to think there was nothing like a good baked bean sandwich! Come to think of it, I'd go for one right now........... BILL D.......You REALLY need to try my "Buttermilk Pie" recipe.....you'll be in hog heaven. Spaw
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: CarolC Date: 05 Jul 01 - 07:02 PM I like tofu. (Ramps are good, too. But not with tofu.) |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Banjer Date: 05 Jul 01 - 07:39 PM I love liver and onions. As a kid we used to have pork brains and eggs, scrambled together. Haven't had them in ages. Love almost all veggies, do draw the line at boiled okra. Like fried breaded okra, however. Looking through everyone's like and dislikes I saw no mention of one of my favorite 'things to eat that will gross out everyone': to-whit....Limburger Cheese sandwiches!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Bill D Date: 05 Jul 01 - 07:46 PM see experts experiment with tofu (ain't technology grand!...6 minutes from a drawer in the next room to YOU) |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Cobble Date: 05 Jul 01 - 07:52 PM Dave the Gnome, I'm in Hook East Yorkshire. I think this weather and the slow post the tripe would be well past it's best, but thanks for the offer. Mabe we can get Val to put it on the menu at the Jug next time we have a Gathering. :)) Mrs C
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Little Neophyte Date: 05 Jul 01 - 08:04 PM Did anyone mention Miracle Whip & peanut butter on a toasted bagel? To Die For! Joe, like Catspaw I was into the Kambucha Tea for a while too. That is the reason I now wear thong underwear. After drinking the stuff for a while my underwear started to dissolve and what was left of them seemed to suit me fine. Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Jon Freeman Date: 05 Jul 01 - 08:15 PM OK, one of my current favourites is a ham and hummus sandwich - I've suggested it to a few people and have been called weird (probably correctly) but I love the combination. Jon |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: catspaw49 Date: 05 Jul 01 - 08:19 PM Anything goes well on a bagel!!! Hell, dog crap would be good on a bagel! Since discovering Vegemite/Marmite I've added that to the butter and cream cheese and....oooooo dogies!!! Serious eatin'!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Bill D Date: 05 Jul 01 - 08:24 PM Jon...ham & hummus sounds great!...I may just try that |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 05 Jul 01 - 08:56 PM Tofu marinaded in a mix of Frank's Redhot sauce with either honey or brown rice syrup and fennel seeds and a little turmeric. b-but I c-can quit a-any t-t-time I wah-want!!!! Rich |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 05 Jul 01 - 09:18 PM Would you believe I had a sister-in-law who had to be taught that leftover pizza is not "garbage" - it's "breakfast". |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Mrrzy Date: 05 Jul 01 - 09:31 PM Leftover pizza is a great breakfast. On the down side: Fresh cilantro, anyone? Can't even have it at my table, unless it's downwind, it's so throat-catchingly disgusting. Getting harder and harder to find good salsa, since cilantro got so fashionable. On teh up side: One of my favorite fictional detectives taught me to use potato salad as a condiment on sandwiches. Ham and swiss on rye with mustard, horseradish and potato salad, yum. He also taught me that eating some sandwiches over the sink is not just OK, it's de rigueur. Thank you, Edward X. Delaney! |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Little Neophyte Date: 05 Jul 01 - 11:12 PM Eat some halavah (ground sesame seeds & honey - middle eastern dessert stuff) and wash it down with a Coke. The combo literally explodes in your mouth. Don't ask me why, it just does. Bonnie |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: RangerSteve Date: 05 Jul 01 - 11:18 PM Peanut butter and duck sauce sandwiches. (duck sauce is a lousy name, why don't they call it what it is, peach and apricot chutney). Saltines with a thin spreading of mustard -(stone ground or dijon, not neon yellow) and topped with peanut butter. All you folks who mentioned scrapple are my friends, even though we've never met. Pork Roll, which you can only get in the New Jersey area, it's related to salami, but better. Spam. yes, spam, and I don't care who knows. Take a spam brick, lay it down flat and slice it, but not all the way through, so you can open it like a fan. Put slices of Velveeta in between the spam slices. Bake it. This meal is proof of a deity. (From the White Trash Cook Book. No kitchen is complete without a copy). Head cheese, however, "is the work of Satan and an abomination unto the Lord," (Rangersteve's Big Book O' Bible Quotes). |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Pelrad Date: 05 Jul 01 - 11:40 PM Love Sushi. Hate wasabi. I actually like the yellowfin tuna the best, even though the sushi snobs say it's not so great. I'm addicted to homemade guacamole, and adore tomatilloes, but neither of those is too strange unless you're here in New England. Ickle Dorrit, forgive yourself for your strange food fetishes. You are a "spirited child." (The latest excuse for being outside the box) I bet you only buy cotton clothing too because other materials don't feel right. How about your shoes, do they have to be tied just right or they drive you nuts being too tight or too loose? ;-) |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Dave the Gnome Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:51 AM Wow - what a response. And I thought I was weird..... I guess I don't have to give up the tripe after all. Just make sure I only eat it at the Mudcat Cafe. It would seem positively normal. I wonder if the ability to eat anything and everything is hereditary (sp?). My Polish dad used to love raw bacon fat, salt sandwiches and raw turnip soaked in oil. Wonder why he now suffers from high blood pressure and angina??? Of to Scotland this weekend. Haggis, black and white puddns', deep fried meat pies and neeps an tatties....Mmmmm Cheers DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Linda Kelly Date: 06 Jul 01 - 06:30 AM Pelrad -thanks for your understanding. I don't have any lace-up shoes -I don't like them. I think I must be a spirited child too, did I tell you I can only sleep on the right hand side of the bed and that no matter what the circumstances -if I see a magpie I have to wave at it - Anyway, I used to think I was odd until I moved to Yorkshire where this type of thing is considered normal. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Angie Date: 06 Jul 01 - 07:11 AM i am partial to cornflake and salad cream sandwiches (on white bread of course). |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Jul 01 - 08:34 AM "......raw turnip soaked in oil..." Geeziz.....what kind of oil? Motor oil? I mean like whu not? How much worse could you already make a friggin' turnip? What a disastrous vegetable!!! One of the most disgusting and disappointing experiences of my life is digging into a big pile of white, whipped stuff which I assumed to be potatoes and was actually turnips. My grandmother did this to me several times in my childhood. She was a cruel woman. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: LR Mole Date: 06 Jul 01 - 09:29 AM I knew someone who ate ramps but he got too many stares... |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Steve Parkes Date: 06 Jul 01 - 09:42 AM Damn--missed a tag off! that's what comes of talking about food when you're trying to concentrate. Try again: Anything that comes off an animal but is not actual meat, i.e. offal, is fair game as far as I'm concerned. For some reason, I've never eaten tripe (i'll put that right some day, I promise!). I used to love chitterlings when I was a kid--yes, even in the UK we've got chit'lins!--but I'm told they're illegal now. Conjures up strange images: chitterling-leggers, offal-pushers ... But my very favourite of all is pig's pudding. For some reason, everyone outside the Black Country calls it "black" pudding, which I suppose is accurate, at least. Nice and solid, with big lumps of lard, none of that factory-made plastic-coated rubbish! You can slice it up nice and thick and eat it on sandwiches (peanut butter optional), or just peel it like a banana. Years ago in my first job, I was tucking into my pig's pud sandwiches, when a young female colleague asked what on earth I was eating? When I told her, she said, "My husband calls it that," (she was a Brummy, poor girl). "Do you know, some people actually eat it raw?" she added, incredulousy. I tried to point out that it's already been cooked when you buy it (otherwise it really would be disgusting!), and that frying something that was 20% fat to start with was gilding the lily, rather. Oh, I shall have to go and lie down now, or maybe eat some chocolate, until I can get to the butcher's. Steve
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Kim C Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:06 AM Cobble, here in Nashville, where we have a fast-growing Hispanic population, especially in my end of town, tripe is easily available in just about any grocery. I saw a huge package of it the other day. Also if there's a Mexican grocery anywhere near you, they probably have it. There's a town in Tennessee that has a Ramp Festival every year. I've never tried them but seeing that I am an onion lover, I would probably like them. Most of you probably remember my story of the canned haggis on Robert Burns Day. mmm mmm GOOD! I gave one to a friend of mine, and she said, can you really eat this?!? And I said, Lord yes, you can eat it, and it's actually good! I would try souse or scrapple if it's homemade. The prepackaged souse at the grocery don't look too good. I must admit that once in awhile, I get a craving for bologna. Not just bologna, but olive loaf. And this can only be eaten on white bread with Miracle Whip. Pickled bologna. Awesome. You can't buy it just anywhere, neither. A veggie burger with a slice of cheese, and a spoonful of Branston Pickle Relish is quite tasty. I make peanut soup in the winter. This is a very old dish but outside Africa or Virginia, a lot of folks are unfamiliar with it. Let me tell you, it is DIVINE. Nothing like it on a cold windy day. You can make it smooth, or add chunky vegetables to it, like carrots, onions, mushrooms, and celery. American culture tends to treat peanuts like a candy food, rather than the versatile legume that it is. Yes, peanuts make a good sweet, but they also make pretty darn good real food too. I bought chorizo at the grocery once to put into some chili. It's got random beef and pig parts in it, but I bought it anyway, and it was a damn fine pot of chili if I do say so myself. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:09 AM turnip, radish, or in desperation cucumber or zuchinni - dipped in olive oil with just a touch of salt and pepper. yes! the nice thick fat layer on a real ham - oozing juices but crispy crackling on the outside. yum! butter and mustard sandwiches. butter and horseradish sandwiches. butter. matzo with schmaltz and horseradish and charoses... |
