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Skriven 2007-11-09 15:34:12 av Michael Loo (1:18/200)
Ärende: tastes 404
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Okay, I'm here for the night having listened to a community
chorus whose patron is the mayor (had to limit their horning
in on the Christmas series, of which they wanted a piece and
which we were willing to offer a tiny bit) and having advised
a professor on a cheating scandal (apparently some student
pled to take an exam a day early, citing some kind of important
conflict on exam day, and after taking the exam called her
buddy, who called at least six other friends with the exam
questions. It has since come out that this same student had done
the exact same thing the previous year with the same bunch of
friends last year in another course. That professor, whom I knew
vaguely, reacted by bursting into tears, the poor innocent).

So the hostess went to bed and the Prof and I watched the very
exciting end of a football game between Central Michigan and
Western Michigan (doesn't sound that good, does it?) in which
after starting the 4th quarter head at 10-7, CMU lost its lead
and regained it and lost it and regained it, et cetera, finally
making the winning touchdown with 12 seconds left; the final
was 34-31, not before a scare in which the kickoff return was
lateraled many times by the receiving team, who marched halfway
across the field before being run out of bounds with no time or
less left.

After that, I was left alone, not sleepy yet, and so I found the
touted Andrew Zimmern ... well, as far as I can see he's a gay(er)
version of Rick Steves with a humorous touch, a flair for self-
promotion, and a palate that appears far less adventurous than he
lets it on to be. On this show the bizarre foods in question were
raccoon, possum (the file video shows the wrong kind of possum),
chitlins, fried dill pickles, green tomatoes, raw oysters, gator
three ways, grouper collar (fried of course), and mullet gizzard
and roe (fried of course). Whoop de doo.

More interesting were advertising clips for another episode, in
which he in fact opens a balut to show the innards to the camera
and later eats a palm tree worm (I salivated).

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Speaking of community choruses, I'm playing with one this weekend
so after a pleasant visit up north went off to the Worcester area
to stay with the director's family. Nice folks, he's from northern
Vermont and very staid in his eating habits; she's from Maine and
integrating small town New England with big city tastes, so the
principal things clogging the fridge are apple crisp and shrimp
quiche. Lunch, perfect for prediabetics: cranberry-chicken salad,
Cape Cod potato chips, and M&Ms (leftover from Halloween). Also,
Smoking Loon Cabernet, which was a bit acidy and thin but showed
good berry fruit, a little California vegetality, allspice, and
maybe a bit of "smoke."

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