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Skriven 2014-09-27 20:46:14 av Ruth Haffly (1:396/45.28)
  Kommentar till text 17417 av Dave Drum (1:18/200.0)
Ärende: Ethnic foods                                             [1]
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Hi Dave,

 DD> The Isles are big on fish as a part of their diet. Fish & Chips, etc.
 DD> Herring, sardines, lampreys, eel, rays & skates, sturgeon, carp,
 DD> tarpon, catfish, all the salmon and cousins (such as trout), etc. Even

 RH> I was thinking mostly along the lines of a white fish like flounder.

 DD> As do most people. I like the white fleshed fish better than salmon at
 DD> all times. Flounder, cod, halibut, plaice, even fresh shark.

Salmon is good from time to time but I don't want a steady diet of it.


 DD> bloaters (which don't *sound* especially appetising). Bloaters are

 RH> Sounds more like a dead fish that's been lying around too long.

 DD> I know that's what they sound like - but, the truth is different. I
 DD> have an ex-pat Brit friend who steers me on a straight course about

Helps to be set right. (G)

 DD> things like that. Of course he thinks that Marmite is better than
 DD> Vegemite. And he calls bangers (sausages) with mashed potatoes and
 DD> tomato sauce "train smash". But, overall ....

Cockney rhyming slang?


 DD> You'd probably not imagine that fish sauce or garum (a highly prized
 DD> substance from the Roman/Mediterranean culture) was really rotted
 DD> fish, either.

Thanks to the echo here, I know better than that.


 DD> distinct from kippers in that bloaters are cured whole herring, while
 DD> kippers are split smoked herring. Additionally, while the bloater is
 DD> associated with England, kippers are associated with Scotland and the
 DD> Isle of Man (the Manx kipper).

 RH> I'm not that enthusiastic about eating that type. Steve eats sardines,
 RH> sometimes kippers, but they are a bit strong for my tastes.

 DD> I'm not big on smoked kippers. Although I like pickled herring and
 DD> herring in sour cream.

That was the one meal I refused to eat when I was in the hospital in
Berlin. OTOH, Deborah chowed down on my turn down.

 DD> vote. Apparently Scottish teens are not so easily stampeded as
 DD> American teens. There will be a *lot* of acrimony over it in years to

 RH> They may give it another go in another generation or two.

 DD> No doubt. Some people aren't content to let things lay. Or to improve
 DD> from within.

Always somebody wanting things to change.

 DD> come. I hope it doesn't devolve into what we had here a couple
 DD> centuries ago. Whilst that was settled pretty definitively (Grant v
 DD> Lee; Appomattox Court House) people are still quibbling over the
 DD> outcome.

 RH> Very much so, depending on where you live, what side you take.

 DD> Doesn't make any difference which side one *claims* to take. We either
 DD> have a union or we have 50 individual, feudal satrapies.

Seems like a bit of both these days. Depends on which way the wind blows
I guess.

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Ruth
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