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Skriven 2008-06-09 14:11:00 av Michael Loo
     Kommentar till en text av DAVE SACERDOTE
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 -=> Dave Sacerdote said to All <=-
 DS> Horned Melon: The Triple Dog Dare Challenge!
 DS> A blogger named Toontz, in her blog Okara Mountain,
 DS> (http://okaramountain.blogspot.com) recently wrote about her
 DS> tendency to breeze on past certain items when she's grocery
 DS> shopping:

A grocer not far from Toronno
Sold a veg'table called a Kiwano.
A blogger named Toonts
Whose tastebuds were Roonts
Said, They're ugly and I just dono wanno.

 DS> "I lamented to my husband that there are so many items in the
 DS> grocery store that I just pass by, without even giving them a
 DS> second thought, just because I have never eaten them before.
 DS> Or had a bad experience with growing up. My mother, when she
 DS> fried eggplant, would laugh at me because the smell would
 DS> literally run me out of the house. I hate brussels sprouts,
 DS> though my sister raves about them. My little darlings have
 DS> never eaten a turnip, just because I have never picked one
 DS> up at the grocery."

It must be an interesting household where the mother laughs
at a child for something like that.

 DS> Sounds familiar, doesn't it? I think all of us do that to some
 DS> degree. But toontz decided she wants to start pushing out of her
 DS> comfort zone, and she's invited fellow bloggers along for the ride.

I'd be interested in what people come up with but not interested
enough that I'll bother to look it up. Please report back. Flyertalk.com,
whose members are sometimes interested in things other than being
transported around in metal tubes, once had a thread on foods that are
just nasty no matter how you look at them. I found most of the posters
unbearable sissies, well within the Andrew Zimmern outer limit, which to
me is sort of like not very far out - sort of like Route 128.

 DS> Welcome to the Triple Dog Dare Challenge, a monthly event in which
 DS> participants try out something new and different in a defined food
 DS> category - it need not be exotic, rare, or expensive, only
 DS> something one has never tried before. This month's category
 DS> is Fruit.

I wonder how many durian merchants will be made happy by this
event.

 DS> This one was something of a stumper for me because I actively
 DS> seek out strange and unusual foods. I'm familiar with most of
 DS> the items on internet-based "strange fruit" lists, and most of
 DS> the supermarkets in my area don't have a very large selection
 DS> of exotic produce from which to choose.

I was going to say. Unknown for you, especially given the egging
on that you've been getting the last decade and half, must meal
pretty exotic indeed.

 DS> How fortunate, then, for me to find horned melons at one of the
 DS> local markets. Also known as kiwanos, melanos, jelly melons,
 DS> hedged gourds, and "English tomatoes" (really?) horned melons
 DS> are a bright yellowy-orange when ripe and covered with sharp
 DS> spikes like a miniature durian.

Welcome to the Kiwanos Club! I think the things taste like a
salad ingredient rather than a melon or any other kind of
desserty thing.

 DS> J. Bruce Ismay believed that a double hull and watertight bulkheads
 DS> made his boat unsinkable.  Unfortunately he arrived in New York with
 DS> wet shoes.

Whereupon he changed his first initial to D.

 DS> I'm a proponent of nuclear power.  I'm not a proponent of hubris. [g]

I'll go for major investment in nuclear power only if a good
portion of that investment goes into design and testing as
well as recruitment and training of top-notch employees.

---------- Recipe via Meal-Master (tm) v8.01

      Title: Castle Stuffed Peppers
 Categories: Ground beef
      Yield: 6 servings

     10    White Castle hamburgers           1/4 ts Chili powder
      3 lg Green peppers                       1    Dash Tabasco (R) sauce
      2    Eggs                                1    Jar of your favorite salsa
    1/4 ts Cumin

  Cut peppers in half lengthwise and core. Chop up hamburgers and mix in
  eggs, chili powder, cumin and Tobasco. Stuff peppers and place in baking
  dish. Top with salsa and cover. Bake at 350 deg F. for 45 minutes.

  Ellen Garvey, Bridgewater, New Jersey

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