Comments on: Those barbaric bastards!!!

By: BillT(aka "The .0004572% Of Traffic That\'s From Iraq)

BillT(aka "The .0004572% Of Traffic That\'s From Iraq) — Wed, 23 Dec 2009 11:30:19 +0000

Out of respect for your tender culinary sensibilities, I’ll refrain from enlightening you about how rice is hulled in — ummmmm — well, places where they grow rice.

By: jwpaine

jwpaine — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 03:50:59 +0000

Scrapple. Oh, yeah! Ate me a mess of it when my ship was in Philly for an overhaul. Plus cheesesteak sangwiches! And the all-time best BLTs ever, from a place called Blindman’s.

Philly: Great town for eats and bar crawling, fucking cold as a Princess Al’s left teat in the winter (and I’m from Colorado, so I’ve not unacquainted with the concept of “cold”).

By: Sockless Joe

Sockless Joe — Fri, 18 Dec 2009 00:04:54 +0000

poking around the rest of that msnbc odd foods link… What do they have against lunchmeat loaf? We used to sell tons of that stuff back when my family had a wholesale food business. Pickle & Pimento Loaf, Olive Loaf, “Old Fashioned” Loaf (sorta spice loaf like), Mac & Cheese Loaf…

Totally palatable and not weird at all.

Good thing they didn’t stumble upon scrapple/ponhaus.

By: jwpaine

jwpaine — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 23:30:54 +0000

Enough barbecue sauce, and anything tastes like chicken.

By: cube

cube — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 21:16:33 +0000

They taste like chicken

By: S. Weasel

S. Weasel — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 19:38:49 +0000

We have a blackbird in our garden. He's leucistic -- he has a band of white around his head. He does indeed have the most beautiful, warbling song -- just like the blackbird in the Beatles song.

By: weirdsister

weirdsister — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:38:24 +0000

David Gillies, I thank you for clearing that up for me; further reason not to eat them!

By: jwpaine

jwpaine — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 18:12:40 +0000

“I always said we should have nuked Paris and Montreal instead of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, But noody ever listens to me.”

It’s never too late, Spad.

Unless, of course, we unilaterally disarm because we’re, you know, post-nationalist. When that happens, we can only hope the Iranians take requests.

By: Allen

Allen — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 16:34:37 +0000

For strangeness, nothing beats Japanese cuisine, so desuka? Let's see there's Basashi or raw horsemeat, there's this tasty morsel live shrimp don't let those waving antenna bother you. Then there's tempura sea slugs, cuttle fish, and other assorted oddities. Then you have to try Fugu, or puffer fish. Hey, what's a bit of neurotoxin amongst dinner guests?

By: David Gillies

David Gillies — Thu, 17 Dec 2009 15:33:19 +0000

I remember my Mother shuddering at the sound of me singing Alouette when I first started learning French at 7 or so and asking me to actually read the words. I was horrified. Who'd want to kill and dismember a sweet little lark? And apparently that vile old bastard François Mitterand lurved him some Ortolan, even though (more likely: because) its consumption was strictly forbidden. Bloody frogs. Still, I console myself with the fact that their song about larks is a meretricious nursery rhyme, and ours is by Vaughan Williams. Weirdsister: blackbirds (UK) ≠ blackbirds (US). The UK versions (which are basically a thrush) sing beautifully.