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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... |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: JulieF Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:14 AM DtG I'm really jealous about your trip to Scotland. If there's one thing I really miss its mince pie and chips with brown sauce from the Chippy and McSweeny's Haggis. If there's two things I miss they are mince pie chip,McSweeny's Haggis and Square sausage. Amongst the tings I miss are ...... Cobble - I don't know if you are ever in Sheffield - but there's tripe in the market, perhaps at Doncaster as well. All the best Julie |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Mrrzy Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:18 AM Oh, well, if we're getting into food that isn't food, how about chicken loaf? Wonderful stuff! I don't want to know what is in it, thank you very much. And wasabi? What a wonderful food! Gotta love anything that can raise the occipital bone off the rest of the skull temporarily, to let the steam out. And it doesn't stick around and burn twice like the African pili pili I'm sorry I didnt' like when I was there... And spaw, I know what you mean about sneak turnips, I've had that happen to me too. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:20 AM I like a lot of weird, off-putting foods, but I don't think I could manage Rock Mountain Oysters. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:36 AM the tomale and coral from lobsters...expecially the tomale ...yes, I know tomale is a disgusting green/grey colour with the consistancy of baby poop - but it tastes so good! sorta "essence of lobster" |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: guinnesschik Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:46 AM Himself gets freaked out when I eat Fritos (corn chips)with cottage cheese and tabasco. Good stuff! Also, we have a friend who cooks the best mojecas (I guess that's how you spell it), which he told me are thyroid glands of a bull. Don't care; wrap 'em in a tortilla, slap some pico on 'em and they're good to go. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Grab Date: 06 Jul 01 - 11:15 AM Oh, I also like chocolate. This may not seem strange, except that I've been over in the States for a while now and I've yet to find any proper chocolate - all that seems to be available is that Hershey rubbish. At best, American chocolate seems to taste like bad cheap cooking chocolate; at worst, it's just sugary shit. Why has America not discovered proper chocolate yet? Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 06 Jul 01 - 11:19 AM we have. we buy it from Europe. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Burke Date: 06 Jul 01 - 12:17 PM Hershey's milk chocolate is made with sour milk & tastes like it. Try the dark chocolate varieties. Is salad cream like Miracle Whip (fake mayonaise, but sweet)?
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Jul 01 - 12:44 PM I knew I'd find another person faked out by turnips Mrrzy!! KIM....There used to be a ramp fest over the border in Waynesville, NC but I never ran across one in TN.......If you find it, ya' oughta' go!!! Alright....The BIG CONFESSION........C'Mon Folks.....Tell the truth now.......How many of you are "FAIR FOOD JUNKIES?" You know, all that crappola that is sold at County Fairs and State Fairs all over the US. The thin, pinwheel shaped, powdered sugar covered "waffles"....Funnel Cakes, Elephant Ears, and Fried ANYTHING! Man, if it fits in a deep fryer, we'll batter it up and serve it won't we? Deep Fried Ice Cream, Cheese, Bananas, all kinds of Veggies from Asparagus to Zuchini, and of course my favorite, French Fried PICKLES!!!! Naturally, I'm hooked on those monster onion rings, but a fat slice of battered and deep fried eggplant has a certain merit too. Step forward you Steak on a Stick addicts and those of you can't live without one of those Pork Tenderloins that are about a foot across and an eighth inch thick......STAND UP AND BE COUNTED!!!! Spaw
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 06 Jul 01 - 12:50 PM most fair foods are about equal to school cafeteria lunches in my opinion. There are a few exceptions - the stuffies I got in Massachusetts one year (no longer sold) the quahogs on the half-shell (no longer sold) - and the barbecued pork-loin-on a stick at MD ren-faire. Chocolate covered cheesecake on a stick doesn't count as fair food, right? |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:07 PM Hell Mario, I didn't say it was good, just that I can't resist the damn stuff. When I hit the local County Fair I beeline for the fried pickles and then head for the Italian Sausage. Then as we wander I munch down all manner of other fried crap. I never have a cholesterol check within a week of the fair. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Jul 01 - 01:09 PM Fair food? OYSTER FRITTERS, served at the New Alban, Indiana Harvest Home Days! I for one haven't run into them elsewhere. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Kim C Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:15 PM I like sausage on a stick and funnel cakes. My real weakness at the fair, though, is the humble Sno-Cone. I also enjoy cotton candy but only if it's fresh. I can't stand it when they put it in bags. Ich! MMario - Mister and I went to Nick's Seafood Pavilion in Yorktown, VA on our vacation. We both got soft-shell crabs. He had never had them before and thought it was a lot like eating large insects. Anyway these crabs have a tomale, too, although it's itty bitty. It's an interesting thing to eat. I didn't leave any little bit of a scrap! I mentioned the spicy pork rinds on another thread. I rarely ever buy them, though. I have to be in a mood. I've never tried brains before. I guess I would, if I had the occasion. I'll eat anything once. Except worms. They had to eat worms on Fear Factor this week. I'm not goin there, not even for $50,000. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Liz the Squeak Date: 06 Jul 01 - 02:17 PM Corned beef and mixed fruit jam (jelly) sandwiches. Yum Boiled egg and sugar sandwiches.. Hmmmm Cold baked bean mashed with butter? Perfect! LTS |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Don Firth Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:16 PM I once mowed my way through a can of salty, crispy little things that somebody set out on a coffee table. I picked up the can to read the label and discovered that they were fried grasshoppers. My host then suggested that I try the chocolate-covered bees, but I declined, thank you. A book called Possum Living suggests the following as an endless food source for lean times: borrow a lab coat, a net, and a clipboard. Go downtown. Catch a pigeon in the net (fairly easy to do), then mime making a note on the clipboard. Because you are obviously some kind of scientist, this may give you some immunity from arrest for molesting city pigeons (a law in some cities). Continue until you have as many pigeons as you think you need. Properly prepared, the author claims, city pigeon compares favorably with Cornish game hen. I've never actually done this, but I am told that you should either a) not do it at all, or b) at least cook them thoroughly, because city pigeons can carry all kinds of parasites and diseases. Not all that weird, really, but I used to buy small pre-cooked hams and construct bagel sandwiches composed of a thick slice of ham, a slice of cheese, a slice of onion, and a generous dollop of mustard. I would take a couple of these to work with me. A co-worker of the Hebrew persuasion noted the ham and bagel combination and dubbed them "blasphemy sandwiches." He warned me, "Firth, God's gonna get you for that!" I definitely vote for peanut butter and dill pickle sandwiches. Talk to ya later. Snack time! Don Firth |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Walking Eagle Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:37 PM Jeeze! Sounds like we're all pregnant or sumpthin'! Fair food? EMU! You read it right! EMU meat at one of our Strawberry Fairs here in my neck of the woods! Now folks, I'm considered right adventuresome by some and downright crazy by most, but I have yet to get in line at the Emu stand! This from a woman who thinks nothing of eating rattlesnake meat, squirrel, ramps, wild mushrooms what have you. Guess I'll have to buck up my courage next year and give it a try. Oh yes, we Cherokees make a bread called Cherokee Bean Bread that, when made right, is just out-of-this world. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Charmion Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:52 PM Everyone should have a copy of Larousse Gastronomique; if it's not in there, it's poisonous. Come to think of it, Larousse Gastronomique tells you how to eat some poisonous things without getting poisoned. My mother was a dreadful cook -- one of my most painful childhood memories has to do with a dish called trainsmash, comprising pork liver (the really cheap tough kind) fried in bacon fat until hard and grey, served with mashed potatoes and stewed tomatoes out of a can. This experience convinced me to learn to cook -- survival trumps laziness. However, to this day I can eat liver only in pates (meatloaf to you Americans). My favourite junk food is the famous Brown Sugar Sandwich; i.e., hot buttered toast with brown sugar on it. Period. The gourmets in our midst may put cinnamon on it. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 06 Jul 01 - 03:59 PM liver - cut in strips, marinated in soy, ginger, garlic and green onion, stir-fried just until just browned -the liver liver haters will eat (I've proved it on a number of liver haters. Usually they just refuse to believe it is liver) The only thing I have against emu is the price. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Bill D Date: 06 Jul 01 - 04:39 PM I guess I wasted the tofu cartoon WAY back up there....ah, well.... |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Burke Date: 06 Jul 01 - 06:47 PM Yeah, Spaw, let me smell that deep fat & I drool. The stomach does start to balk after while. I love a bloomin' onion, but one is twice what I can eat. I must admit I've never even seen a fried pickel, much less tried one. When I was about 10, if I got home from school with no one home, I'd dig into the brown sugar & eat it straight. I still like it, so I'd probably like that sandwich. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: CarolC Date: 06 Jul 01 - 08:30 PM The best fair food I ever had was called an 'Indian taco'. I got it at a Pow-Wow in western Maryland a few years ago. It was fry-bread with cheese, beans, onions, and salsa. You could get meat on it, but I don't eat meat. I could go for one of those right now, come to think of it. But they don't have any Pow-Wows where I live now. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Jul 01 - 09:16 PM Actually Bill, I should have commented but I was waylaid by thoughts of a bagel.................. I have the entire Larson collection myself and when we were going through our "Tofu Period" I had that cartoon on the fridge. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Jul 01 - 09:52 PM Someone mentioned fried grasshoppers. Once, many years ago in my 20s, exercising my macho adventurousness, I bought a little souvenir can of fried grasshoppers. Took it home, and in company with my then love interest, opened it and tried the first one. OOOOOOOOOHHHH!!!! AWWWWW!!!! AAAARGHHHH!!! (Cough, spit, spit, gargle!) It was a combination of rancid and extreme bitter. Needless to say, my light-of-love was warned in time. I don't say this is typical of what fried grasshoppers might be; I think it was in the processing. Besides, I'm not sure that they ever expected anyone would ever _EAT_ fried grasshoppers! In any case, I know I won't take that chance again! Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: catspaw49 Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:01 PM Maybe they don't can too well Dave and the fresh ones are better.....kinda' like boiled peanuts. I had a can of them once and they were nothing like a real boiled peanut. Nothing like having some guy scoop some up for you out of that big vat of boiling green brine slime...........good eatin' there I tell ya'!!! Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:04 PM Another anecdote of my misspent youth: While I was at the University of Minnesota, a group of us were returning to campus from a movie in downtown Indianapols on a Sunday evening. None of us had eaten since noon, and the only eating place around campus open at that hour (10:00, 10:30 PM), was a little hole in the wall eatery. Okay, so we go in. Nothing on the menu appealed to me. The waitress said, "That's okay. It's slow tonight. Tell me what you'd like , even if it's not on the menu, and I'll bet the cook can do it for you." "Hmmm. Okay, I have a yen for an onion sandwich." "Okay, one onion sandwich coming up." She retires to the nether regions. Comes back. "Uhhhh, how do you make that?" "Well, you take two pieces of bread--" "Uh-huh." (Noting on a pad for the cook) "--spread them with butter--" "Uh-huh." (More notes." "--slice some nice thick slices of onion, preferabley sweet, but if not that's all right--" "Uh-Huh." "--put the onion slices on the bread, salt and pepper liberally, and put the other piece of bread on top!" [Dead pause.} "Oh!!! You mean..........an _ONION_...._SANDWICH_!" Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:07 PM In that onion sandwich post I meant downtown Minneapolis, not Indianapolis. Indy is where I've lived for the last 40 years. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: RangerSteve Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:17 PM I've been waiting for another Spam lover to comment. Am I the only one? I had bear sausage at an Indian Pow-wow once, it was ok, but I'm not rushing out to get another. Buffalo is ok, but not great. My house is bordered on two sides by the only buffalo farm in New Jersey. Really, there are buffalo in NJ. I bought some of their ground buffalo to make chili. It tastes like chili made with beef, but without the grease floating on top, and without grease, chili is pointless. Bisquick is a gift from the gods. Try their recipe for drop biscuits, adding chocolate chips or chopped cranberries. A little sugar doesn't hurt either. Any cheap muffin mix (Jiffy, Washington's) baked in an electric sandwich griller. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Uncle_DaveO Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:31 PM When I was a kid, during WW II, a family favorite supper was fried Spam, canned currant jelly, and canned sweet potatoes. Haute cuisine, no. Dave Oesterreich |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: IvanB Date: 06 Jul 01 - 10:43 PM Years ago, my ex brother-in-law butchered a small bull he had. Since it was still fairly young, we asked if we might have the sweetbreads, to which he agreed. He actually sent us home with several packages of meat. One Sunday, a couple weeks later, we got the 'sweetbreads' package out of the freezer and set it on the counter to thaw. Imagine our surprise when we opened the package preparatory to cooking our dinner to find two well-formed Rocky Mountain Oysters. Not having anything else out to substitute, we went ahead and cooked them anyway. They were enjoyable, but sure weren't sweetbreads (which I'd almost kill for). Peanut butter on hot dogs, yum! |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Banjer Date: 07 Jul 01 - 06:05 AM Iven B's story and the theme of this thread remind me of a story.....It seems this fellow is visiting Madrid, Spain and has gone to a restaurant. As he peruses the menu he sees a waiter delivering a large plate of what looks like two meatballs with potatoes and veggies. He tells the waiter he would like what that gentleman just got. The waiter explains that was a special dish, only available during the bullfighting season. Those were the testicles of the bull which had just been freshly slain in the ring, and sucha meal is usually reserved in advance, to be prepeared for the diner on the day of the bullfight. Understanding the explanation of the local custom the man then orders the 'special dish' for the following week. On the given day he arrives at the restaurant and is led to his table. The waiter bring his meal on a covered plate and sets it before him. Upon removing the cover he sees his mashed potatoes and veggies, but instead of the two magnificent mounds of meat he saw on the other fellows plate he finds two shriveled up, dry looking wads of pale flesh! He demands to know from the witer 'What is this, it is nothing like what I saw last week!!' The waiter calmly explains that what he saw last week were the testicles of the loser of that weeks fight, 'But Senor, you must understand, not always does the bull lose!' ` |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Bill D Date: 07 Jul 01 - 12:10 PM yum!! |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: lady penelope Date: 07 Jul 01 - 12:32 PM What's wierd about a condensed milk sandwich? It's a staple in Glasgow ( and in our house by default) and apparently in Jamaica. My two favourite sandwiches are taramasalata ( cod roe), marmite and peanuts on white bread and peanut butter, marmite and baked bean toasty. Weird sandwiches that I like - brie, taramasalata, onions and sweet pickle ( on a baguette's best ) and liver pate and rasberry jam on toast. Weird food eaten by my family - Clootie dumpling ( fried ) and stewed pork chipolatas. Winkle sandwiches by my Dad. I have yet to sample the delights of the deep fried, battered Mars bar. TTFN M'lady P. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Rich(bodhránai gan ciall) Date: 07 Jul 01 - 02:38 PM Spaw, I thought I was the only one who liked fried pickles. At a local pub that hosts céilís and sessions here, they have them on the menu. Batterfried dill wedges. I need to share a plate, with someone as they get to be a bit much, but they're pretty good. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: catspaw49 Date: 07 Jul 01 - 08:14 PM We need to get together over there Rich and we'll share an order. Spaw |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: ard mhacha Date: 08 Jul 01 - 02:38 PM Hello All, It seems like quite a few of you would have got on famously with SAWNEY McBEAN, First cave on the left past Ayr. Slan Ard Mhacha. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: GUEST,RobDale Date: 08 Jul 01 - 10:16 PM Has anyone mentioned Cod Tongues yet? Yes the tongue of a codfish rolled in flour and panfried. I used to love 'em when I could get 'em. Blood pudding is nice. Corned beef and cabbage, green, leafy cabbage. Salt fish and Brewis? Newfoundlander |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Sorcha Date: 08 Jul 01 - 11:01 PM You guys are ALL crazy!! I ain't eatin that stuff!! Mr. eats peanut butter/banana sandwiches with maple syrup. Calf fries are GOOD!! (but they have to be from a CALF--NOT a bull. Bull fries have too much testoserone and are strong flavored). Turkey fries are hard and gristly--besides, can you imagine trying to find nuts on a turkey?? Or how many you would have to castrate to get enough fries to eat??? I can't think of anything I eat that is really weird...I ate rattlesnake once and couldn't see the attraction. Batter and deep fry a really skinny chicken neck and you got it. I ate mountain lion/puma/cougar once and it was really good. My da said house cat tastes pretty good (post war Japan). |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Dave the Gnome Date: 09 Jul 01 - 04:04 AM Well - just expanded my tastes a little more. Yesterday I had some scurly with my breakfast. Oats and onions fried in butter! Yummy - and I guess the bonus is that while the butter puts up your cholestrol 1 million % the oatmeal brings it back down again:-) Remembered some of the dishes my Polish Babshka used to make and realised why I may have some odd tastes. Chickens boiling in the pan - with the head hanging over the side. Scraping the mould of a piece of fatty meat (or was it meaty fat?) before eating it. Cold fish and fried egg sandwiches... Washed down with kislushka (sp???) - Sort of beer made by throwing raisins, old bread crusts and any leftover source of sugar in a bowl and letting it ferment for two or three days. Colour it with instant coffee powder and drink it still warm and bubbling! Ah those were the days. Hmmm. Hungry now - and its only 9:05 GMT. Curses... DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: GUEST,Bill in Alabama Date: 09 Jul 01 - 07:54 AM We have scrapple in the South--we call is Souse. 'Spaw describes its preparation in an early entry here. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Gervase Date: 09 Jul 01 - 10:08 AM Ah, Larousse Gastronomique; the eating man's pornography! I relish the inner organs of beasts and fowls - so there's nowt wrong with tripe of any sort in my book. For sheer gaminess, try anduillettes - a sort of garlicky chitterling made of pigs' bowels. Whack 'em on the barbie and there's a definite faecal smell to begin with (like the urine tang of fresh pig's kidney), but the taste...wow! Black pudding/bourdin is also fit for the gods (with a dollop of mayonnaise or salad cream for preference), as is ox cheek, pigs' trotters (oh so sticky!), sweetbreads (and no, they're not the bollocks - merely the thymus and pancreas), lambs' tongues with caper sauce, brawn... Then there's the fishy stuff - Bombay duck (dried bummaloe fish, like biltong that's been kept too long in a tart's drawers), gentleman's relish/anchovy paste, with scrambled egg... ...and cheese; ripe Stilton, brie that reeks of ammonia, salty Cheddar, Roquefort, lumps of Parmesan... Yup, I love stinky food! |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Kim C Date: 09 Jul 01 - 11:40 AM Woe be unto me, I have just discovered Flamin Hot Cheetos. They turn your fingers red instead of orange. I took a little Ayurvedic quiz in Fitness magazine that's supposed to tell you your ruling dosha so you can balance your life... mine, of course, is Fire and I'm not supposed to eat spicy food. Heheheheh. RangerSteve, I love Jiffy cornbread mix. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: RangerSteve Date: 09 Jul 01 - 10:11 PM I forgot to mention the soup of the Gods - Campbell's Pepper Pot Soup. It has tripe, but in small pieces and it's not only edible, it's incredibly good. And, no, I don't work for Campbells. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Kim C Date: 10 Jul 01 - 05:28 PM Does anyone put peanuts in their Coke? I think I may have tried this once but I don't remember. Supposed to be a Southern thing. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: NightWing Date: 10 Jul 01 - 06:07 PM Dave tG, "... scurly .... Oats and onions fried in butter!" "Oats"? Fresh oats or oatmeal? If oatmeal, cooked or raw? It sounds tasty, indeed!
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 10 Jul 01 - 09:15 PM I haven't tried it myself - but I've seen recipes using both cut oats and rolled oats. Uncooked when they go in. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: RangerSteve Date: 10 Jul 01 - 09:31 PM KimC - you take a small bag of peanuts and empty them into a bottle of Coke. Each time you take a swig of the Coke, you get a mouthful of peanuts. Dr. Pepper works well this way, too. It doesn't work with canned soda. Cans don't funnel the peanuts into your mouth. I was taught this method by some friends from Tennessee. Up in New Jersey I'm considered strange for doing this. You might want to do in in private if you're a northerner. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Bill D Date: 10 Jul 01 - 10:14 PM *smile* for the Spam lovers...you always suspected..*grin*.. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: IvanB Date: 10 Jul 01 - 10:43 PM I grew up in the north and learned the bag of peanuts in the bottle of Coke early on. 'Course then, the bottle and the bag cost a nickel each. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Pelrad Date: 10 Jul 01 - 10:53 PM I forgot about pepper cookies. They are SO good, especially if you go heavy on the pepper. :-) It's nice to see a thread with plenty of alternative foods. I have so many allergies that I have to skip most aisles in the supermarket; after reading this thread I have a lot of new choices. You still won't catch me eating tripe, though. My grandmother loved the stuff, but I can't go near it. My brother used to make mustard sandwiches; just two pieces of bread and as much mustard as the bread could soak up. I got jealous of his creativity one day and made myself a relish and bacon-bit sandwich in retaliation. I can still feel my gorge rising with the memory. Ickle Dorrit: I'm a spirited child too. :-) My food must be a certain temperature, and different foods cannot be touching or I can't eat them. I actually used to eat pizza one ingredient at a time, which drove my parents insane. Now my kid does it to me; he's three years old and has only recently been able to deal with more than one food item on his plate at a time. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Dave the Gnome Date: 11 Jul 01 - 09:38 AM Different spelling - But here is a recipe I found for scurly - Skirlie accompanies meats, game birds, cod, soups or mashed potatoes. Uncooked, its nutty texture makes a delicious stuffing for chicken or boiled mutton. It is also known as Mealie Pudding in some parts of Scotland, where it is steamed in a greased basin for one hour before being turned out. Small spoonfuls are often rolled into balls and cooked in boiling soup like dumplings; for example, in Scots Broth I and Scots Broth II. It is sold in sausage form throughout Scotland. (See Black Pudding.)
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 11 Jul 01 - 09:44 AM DtG - clarification for us on the Left bank of the pond...."medium oatmeal" I would guess the equivilant over here would be a medium steel cut oat? not a "rolled" or flaked oatmeal, correct? |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 11 Jul 01 - 04:13 PM We have the cookbook "White Trash Cooking." Perhaps a little upscale for some of the chefs in this thread. Did anyone mention the old standby for the po', bread fried in bacon grease- a standard on both sides of the water. Where the cilantro fad came from (probably California Nuuvell kuuseene), I don't know, but coriander seed is useful in a number of recipes. Good chile con carne should never be greasy and should never contain beans. Take 2 lb lean mutton or beef, 1 lb pork, cubed (some use ham shoulder), a few cloves garlic, 2 tbsp ONLY lard or drippings, bay leaves, 1 (or more) chopped onion, 6 tbsp Chimayo (medium hot) chile powder, 1-2 tbsp oregano, 1 tbsp salt. Use tomatoes to provide liquid. Brown onions and meat and proceed in stew fashion. Serve with pinto beans cooked with ham hock (don't overcook beans to the mush stage). For those who like more grease, serve with Navajo fry bread (almost approaches bread fried in bacon grease) rather than tortillas. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 11 Jul 01 - 04:17 PM I've seen the "White Trash Cookbook" heck - my family couldn't afford most of the stuff in there!. We used to beg my mom to not tell us what was in dinner until several days afterwards. much safer that way. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Grab Date: 11 Jul 01 - 04:40 PM Fried bread is nothing unusual, it's a standard part of an English fried breakfast. Using fat that's previously had bacon or sausages in it is always a good move for better-tasting fried bread. Tesco's had (maybe still has) venison burgers. They were interesting, but not something I'd bother with again. Unlike venison braised in red wine, which is amazing. I've developed a great recipe for flapjacks - blowing my own trumpet, but I've yet to find a shopmade version to match it. It makes a good alternative to breakfast (the way I make it, one slab keeps you going all morning) and never goes stale, so I used to take some when I went camping. Unfortunately, one Spring Bank Holiday I went climbing with a bag of these, and it got hot. Really hot. Now flapjacks are oats held together with cooked sugar and margarine, and in the heat all this gave way to form one squishy brown oat-textured bagful of mush, rather resembling a used pooper-scooper bag... I wasn't entirely surprised when I offered it around and everyone refused, but all the more for me, right? Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Dicho (Frank Staplin) Date: 11 Jul 01 - 05:19 PM My grandfather used to make good camp flapjacks. Since we stayed out for 1-2 weeks, we took along a cloth bag of flour. He broke the eggs in the flour in the bag with a little baking powder (or soda? memory fails) and water, mixed with his hands, and out came the pancake dough. This method came west with the pioneers. Fried in bacon drippings. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: RangerSteve Date: 11 Jul 01 - 10:05 PM I've already made quite a few contributions to this thread, but I can't stop. I'd like to see this one go on forever, especially since I've gotten a lot of good information from you folks. So, I'd like to add: biscuits with sausage gravy, creamed chipped beef on toast, meatloaf served in any diner, turtle soup (real snapping turtle, not that "mock" nonsense), chocolate graham crackers with peanut butter and raspberry flavored marshmallow Fluff. (yes, it comes in flavors now). Once, when I had torn some heel ligaments, I had to eat by standing in front of the fridge on crutches, eating whatever I could find that didn't require cooking. I discovered the joys of just rolling up cold cuts and cheese slices together. Speaking of cheese, why don't Asian restaurants have it? Don't they know about cheese in those countries? How sad. Maybe we can all get together and send them some. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Burke Date: 11 Jul 01 - 10:14 PM I just want you all to know that this thread has really done a number on me. My real secret food love is raw cookie or biscuit dough. A couple spoonfuls of biscuit mix, add milk to the right texture. Spoon it up. I came home from the grocery store on Sat. with a roll of refrigerator cookie dough. Slice off 1/4 inch, eat, follow with milk to settle the stomach. I haven't done that in years! |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Rt Revd Sir jOhn from Hull Date: 11 Jul 01 - 11:36 PM I'm getting hungry! |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: GUEST,Souter Date: 11 Jul 01 - 11:57 PM It's so wierd, I was talking about this earlier today! I always liked french fries with BBQ sauce or peanut butter with green peppers. Apples and onions aren't bad, if its a sweet onion and a tart apple. But whats really good, and not even that wierd, take an English muffin, split it in half, put cream cheese on it and stick the halves in the toaster oven until the cheese browns on top. That is sooo goood. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Pelrad Date: 12 Jul 01 - 12:36 AM Most, if not all, Asians are lactose-intolerant. Cheese and other dairy is therefore not part of the diet. If there's dairy in an Asian recipe, guaranteed it's in a dish invented for the American palate. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Sourdough Date: 12 Jul 01 - 03:06 AM The title of this thread reminded me of something I hadn't thought of in years, a time when I introduced a strange food to a group of people. The food was popcorn and the people were Djuka children in a village towards the head of the Marrowijne River, about seven days upriver from the Caribean coast by dugout canoe. THe Djuka are descendents of Africans slaves (they prefer to think of their ancestors as having been prisoners of war)who fought their way free in a rebellion at the end of the 17th century and resettled in the bush, a very thick rainforest. A friend who has had much more experience in pre-technological cultures than I did made several suggestions that she felt would be useful in the villages to which I was going. One was to learn how to do complex string games based on Cat's Cradle (hear that kat and Cats?) and to bring dried popcorn. Both turned out to be very successful techniques for ewstablishing contact but the popcorn was especially fun. It must have been just about seven one evening, just after dinner. Being so close to the equator, sunset is always around six and so is sunrise. A group of children approached our hut rather timidly and stood just far enough away to feel safe but close enough that they could observe everything that went on. When I invited them closer, they moved in a little but they were not comfortable around our little group of white people. Actually, one of us was Afrcan American but the people in the village referred to her in the same way they did to us, Bakra, "white". So few outsiders had ever been to this village tha the language really hadn't developed a way of distinguishing between European outsiders by our color. Anyway, to try to make contact with the kids, I took out some popcorn and made a show of pouring a cup or two of those hard little popcorn kernels into the pot. The rattle as they hit the bottom made it clear to them that these were tough little objects. In their experience, things like that would have to cook for a long time. I put the pot on the fire and the kids watched. They knew something was going to happen but they had no idea what it would be. When the first kernel popped, hitting the lid, they jumped nervously and then smiled nervously as their own discomfort. They shuffled a little in the dirt with their bare feet, waiting. Then another kernel popped and they got very curious. There was something going on inside that closed aluminum pot and they couldn't figure out what it was. Was there something alive in there? As the popping grew more frequent they began moving in and as the sound changed quality as the pot filled witht he cushioning of previously popped corns, it didn't sound so threatening. They grew closer and began talking among themselves, trying to guess what was going on inside. When the popping slowed down, I took the pot from the fire and holding it by the bail I took off the cover. I made sure that the children would have a good view of the inside as I raised the top. When I opened the cover, it was as though I had performed a magic trick. The children gasped and then began giggling when firelight showed that instead of those hard little kernels, the pot was now filled with some white, fluffy material. They watched to see what I would do next. I took some salt and sprinkled it over the corn. Then I did something that they were totally unprepared for, I ate some. I then passed it to the black woman in my group and to the group leader. I offered some to the boatman and to the translator who were all familiar with popcorn already. THen I held the pot out to the children. A particularly adventuresome boy of about nine or ten came forward. I had already noticed him because he always seemed to be at the head of groups watching us. He took one kernel and tried it. The children of the village watched him closely to see what would happen. He let it soak for a moment in his mouth and then chewed down on it. He was clearly delighted by the new taste and texture. When I offered him more, he took several, The other children became bolder and they tried it. Soon they were crowded around me, reaching nto the pot for more wothout any shyness, alughing and talking, enjoying the totally new experience. Their parents who had been watching from the darkness just beyond the firelight came forward drawn by their own curiousity. Our relationship was the village was established thanks to several hundred kernels of popcorn squireled away in a back pack three thousand miles away. (Of course, when the Djuka served me piranha, they didn't think it was an unusual food.) Sourdough |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Dave the Gnome Date: 12 Jul 01 - 03:54 AM Not sure about the oatmeal Mmario. Judging by the end result I would guess it is what we call 'porridge oats' - Ie. the type of stuff you can make porridge with. Hope that helps DtG |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Steve Latimer Date: 12 Jul 01 - 11:53 AM I just remembered something I tried in Florida. Boiled Peanuts. They came in a can and were pretty salty, but not bad. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: Grab Date: 12 Jul 01 - 01:02 PM Doesn't sound like my flapjacks, Dicho. Flapjacks over here are a Scottish recipe, I think - thick square biscuits made with rolled oats, margarine, brown sugar and treacle or Golden Syrup Actually, there's something - Lyle's Golden Syrup. Apparently this is quite specific to Britain. A French friend of my mum's always used to take back tins of the stuff when she went home, bcos they just don't have it over there. Sourdough, I've never understood why anyone eats salty popcorn. Toffee, or sugar at least, but salt?! Graham. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: MMario Date: 12 Jul 01 - 01:19 PM ah! but on THIS side of the pond, flapjacks will flap! (picture a thick crepe - very thick sometimes - up to 1/2 inch - but the good ones are light and fluffy.) Your "flapjacks" sound like it's break or crumble. actually - the closest thing I can think of to what you are describing are "rice crispie treats" - which are made of puffed rice, butter or margerine and some kind of sugar - in most cases, melted marshmallows. "down south" in the US you can get "golden syrup" I am told is very like Lyle's - tho' another brand. sorghum syrup. |
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Subject: RE: BS: First meeting of strange foods anonymous From: lady penelope Date: 12 Jul 01 - 03:13 PM Over here they're called "drop scones" or pancakes. And, indeed, as a daughter of Glaswegians, I had never seen crepes untill I was about nine and someone tried to convince me that this thin strange looking thing was a pancake! On the lard front, as a family, on sunday afternoon after the beef roast, fights would break out over who could get the "sediment " from the bottom of the roasting pan. There was skill involved in tipping the majority of the fat away so you could get to the sediment (roasted blood ). OOOOooooh, nummy. I'm off to drool. TTFN M'Lady P. |
