Post by: cosine on September 07, 2007, 09:11:52 AM
Who wants to join?
Post by: charby on September 07, 2007, 09:21:05 AM
Post by: grislyatoms on September 07, 2007, 09:23:21 AM
Honestly, there aren't many vegetables I don't like. Eggplant, Brussels Sprouts, squash, asparagus, turnips, rutabaga, and beets are all off limits. I'll eat just about any other vegetable.
Lightly steamed broccoli with lemon-pepper butter is a favorite, along with a plate of sliced fresh tomatoes and fried cabbage. Oh, and collard (or any other, truth be told) greens. Oh, and fresh picked corn. Oh, wait, I forgot... sheesh, I could go on for awhile...
Post by: K Frame on September 07, 2007, 09:28:08 AM
Butter beans... not so much.
Are turnips included? They'd better be!
Post by: JonnyB on September 07, 2007, 09:29:05 AM
Caffeine
Nicotine
Alcohol and
Pizza
All else is, I guess, fluff, and beneath consideration. That would include, naturally, Brussels sprouts, beets and butterbeans.
jb - not a marine
Post by: HankB on September 07, 2007, 09:57:43 AM
Post by: Paddy on September 07, 2007, 09:59:22 AM
Post by: Gewehr98 on September 07, 2007, 10:01:44 AM
Love those canine teeth...
Post by: Brad Johnson on September 07, 2007, 10:39:41 AM
Brad
Post by: Hugh Damright on September 07, 2007, 10:52:40 AM
Post by: K Frame on September 07, 2007, 11:15:01 AM
I don't care for brussel sprouts. They taste bitter to me (and, yes, I've tried them more than once).
Brad
Brad
They're supposed to taste somewhat bitter. Bitter is one of the four primary taste sensations.
Post by: K Frame on September 07, 2007, 11:20:34 AM
The beets we eat are not sugar beets.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 07, 2007, 03:03:28 PM
Post by: wmenorr67 on September 07, 2007, 04:02:54 PM
Keep on outing yourselves, food perverts. I'm putting a together a nice list for the purge.
If they keep eating all those veggies the purge won't be far behind.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 07, 2007, 07:50:34 PM
Post by: stevelyn on September 07, 2007, 08:04:38 PM
Can I bring squash?
Post by: Chuck Dye on September 08, 2007, 12:25:29 PM
Try gazpacho, too. Gazpacho, blended thoroughly, also makes a truly superior Bloody Mary. (No! That drink is not too thick, it just needs more booze!
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Post by: mtnbkr on September 08, 2007, 04:00:55 PM
Chris
Post by: Bob F. on September 08, 2007, 04:46:33 PM
Strangely enough, I'm making borscht right now to take to an "international" dinner tomorrow at church. Actually, it was the only Polish dish I could think of to make easily. Can't get good kielbasa around here, most of the other dishes are "labor intensive" and I've never made them. I ight even taste the borscht!
Stay safe, and eat hearty!
Bob
Post by: The Rabbi on September 08, 2007, 06:03:48 PM
I understand that vegetarian is an old American Indian word for "He who cannot hunt".
Love those canine teeth...
Love those canine teeth...
Shwein und Kartoffel....
Post by: Paddy on September 08, 2007, 09:43:25 PM
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Shwein und Kartoffel....
Add a glass of milk or vanilla shake you got a deal.
Post by: mfree on September 09, 2007, 07:40:52 AM
Seriously, I eat just about everything. I might need a moment to get used to something new (read: wierd), but then I quickly start appreciating it.
Brussel sprouts, butterbeans, beets? Sure. I'll actually eat a can of pickled beets by itself in a sitting. Same with palm hearts, black olives, and artichoke heart quarters. No pickle is safe in my house, including pickled okra and cauliflower. I eat sardines and fish steaks for breakfast some days. Salted raw turnip is like a delicacy. Potatoes, too.
There's a spanish manufacturer that cans squid, octopus, and abalone much like sardines. I love those when I can find them. Gravlax? Love it. Frozen mussels? I actually found and ate microwaveable ones. Not bad.
Anybody feelin' funny in the tummy yet? :-D
Post by: RocketMan on September 09, 2007, 10:43:10 AM
Canned smoked clams, mussels or octopus and crackers and a microbrew. Oh, baby.
Never had pickled okra, but my wife (she's from NC) makes great fried okra. Hard to believe an Oregon boy likes okra. It's hard to find it fresh around here.
Post by: K Frame on September 09, 2007, 01:14:48 PM
Post by: cosine on September 09, 2007, 01:16:29 PM
I've eaten things that I know would make you puke your guts out.
Such as?
Post by: K Frame on September 09, 2007, 01:19:13 PM
True haggis.
Pickled tongue (don't care for it)
Canned elephant
Sheep's eyeballs
Tempura fried shrimp heads
Those are some of the tamer ones.
I draw the line at brains, though.
Post by: grislyatoms on September 09, 2007, 01:35:46 PM
I would probably try the elephant, the tongue, and the shrimp heads, though.
What was haggis like as far as flavor and texture? I have always wondered about haggis. It seems to me the lungs would be, well, spongy and the kidneys would be something like chicken livers.
Post by: Perd Hapley on September 09, 2007, 02:33:46 PM
I've also eaten live ants (one or two of them bit my tongue on the way down). They're lemon taste was apparently caused by a high acid content.
The one time I had fresh-caught, field-cooked lizard, it tasted like perfectly grilled chicken. Not too dry.
Post by: Gewehr98 on September 09, 2007, 03:20:00 PM
The menu is varied and intense, to say the least. In the course of a week or two:
Boiled Garter Snake
Smoked Field Mouse
Toasted Grasshoppers
Cattail Shoots and Rhizomes
Sedges
Brackish Cedar Swamp Water
and so forth.
The squirrels we caught were pretty good when wrapped up in foil and cooked in the campfire, along with the cattail shoots.
Then you take your new training in gastronomy and start globe-hopping.
Don't forget to try the Balut, or the Bosin-Tang, the industrial-strength Kimchi, Lutefisk, and whatever else your gracious hosts in each country offered you. Have your Pennsylvania Dutch roommate explain what's in the Scrapple he's serving you for breakfast. Go to tech school in Denver, and have your lady friends talk you into eating Rocky Mountain Oysters.
No big deal. In my neck of Wisconsin, we grew up eating Spam, Braunschweiger, Pickled Herring, Head Cheese, and on holidays, Cannibal Sandwiches - good ground sirloin (raw) spread on rye bread, topped with chopped red onion and salt and pepper. (think something like a Midwest version of steak tartare) I do miss the raw shucked oysters from my former Florida digs.
And I'll never turn down an offer of decent sushi and sashimi.
Post by: Paddy on September 09, 2007, 06:26:42 PM
Post by: K Frame on September 09, 2007, 08:26:18 PM
Hehehe...
I AM Pennsylvania Dutch.
Mom put scrapple in my baby bottle.
Ponhaus and Souse, too.