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Skriven 2015-12-13 22:53:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: food oddities 651
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-12-15  07:29 <=-

 >  ML> Oh, sure, I'll eat the occasional just about anything.
 > I know.  ;)
 ML> Nothing too outlandish the last couple months, but
 ML> looking back, yeah, I've had a bunch of peculiar
 ML> things from fried moth larvae (this grossed out Carol
 ML> Bryant) to Blind Robins (look it up - this grossed out
 ML> Dave the Sac) to bird's nest soup. I'm sort of pleased
 ML> that in most lists of top bizarre foods I've at least
 ML> tasted a majority.

You do have quite the track record there... ;)

 ML> The ones that tend to gross ME out are things that are
 ML> pretty mainstream - dill, zucchini, blue cheese.

All of which I have no problem with... ;)  
 
 >  ML> What's wrong with modern marshmallows? I am unaware but
 >  ML> could maybe investigate (going to the store today).
 > Ever since they've been advertised as "jet-puffed", they don't stale
 > down to that nice chewy-ness they used to... now they are the same
 > forever until they get hard as a rock and totally inedible...
 ML> I'll have to pay more attention. Looks like the 
 ML> opportunity for an inexpensive play-with-your-food
 ML> session. My usual thing with marshmallows is to pop
 ML> them in the nuker and watch them puff up grotesquely
 ML> and then shrink into brown marshmallow raisins, at
 ML> which point I can stop the process and eat them or
 ML> continue until they burst into flame.

I wonder if the old ones would have done that... of course, they were
pre-microwave, so it's totally a moot speculation... 

 >  ML> The immediate response followed by the measured 
 >  ML> retrospection. Sometimes I use some of the same
 >  ML> words in both.
 > As I've noticed... But there is more context in the reports, usually. :) 
 ML> But sometimes the details have been mushified in my
 ML> brain by the time I get around to doing the detailed
 ML> version. And there's the issue of faulty recordkeeping 
 ML> - for example, the Alaska report long promised turns
 ML> out to have had notes in two files with different
 ML> months with some events noted twice, made up for by
 ML> some being not noted at all. Thus begins the decline
 ML> of a decent mind. Sometime when there's a lull in the
 ML> activity here I might start posting some of that.

Ah, well...  The old grey matter aint what it useta be... :)  Sounds
like you need to get the reports written before you totally lose
them.... ;)
 
 >  > crummy... would take forever to use up... unless one knew a likely,
 >  > non-discriminating soup kitchen that would welcome the donation... ;)
 >  ML> Hey, Homeless Shelter, what do you say, how about 
 >  ML> a half can of bad sausage gravy?
 > Just thinking that what we might think inedible might taste good to
 > someone else... or not too bad, anyway, if mixed in with other stuff...
 ML> Maybe, but what shelter or soup kitchen would accept
 ML> an opened, partially used can?

One that one had some sort of ties with, maybe...?  ;)

 >  ML> It was kind of out of the way. The friend I was with was
 >  ML> an Indian woman, who, when I visited her after her breakup
 >  ML> with some guy or another, informed me right away that she
 >  ML> wasn't looking for a relationship.
 > Oh.  Yeah... I can see how that would happen...  Oh, well... hard to
 > fathom other people at the best of times... and that was rather mixed
 > signals on her part... :)
 ML> Not exactly mixed - as occasionally happens, she said
 ML> what I later tumbled to was the exact opposite of what
 ML> she was thinking. The suggestion is made that this is
 ML> some kind of sophomoric reverse psychology, make him 
 ML> beg and then he'll really want it sort of thing. I've
 ML> seen it several times, and it really makes it hard to
 ML> figure out the "no means no" thing, and I don't envy
 ML> the young 'uns these days.

It's the sort of thing that is almost guaranteed to backfire... or at
least not have any sort of guarantee of working out... Only place I can
see it likely to be at all workable is within a relationship that
already has enough give-and-take in it to be able to do that sort of
thing as a sort of play, and understood as that by both players... with
some sort of specific clues that that is the case, as well...
 
 >  ML> Yeah, and I'm not all that fond of nutmeg anyhow.
 > Nutmeg's fine in its place...  :)
 ML> I can deal with a few grains in a dessert, maybe a few more
 ML> in an artfully-crafted spice mixture, but on the whole, I
 ML> can do without.

I remember it working out surprisingly well in a moussaka recipe..

 ML> Interesting thinking back on my changing palate - some of 
 ML> the flavors I once actually tolerated well, such as dill and
 ML> zucchini, I find wholly objectionable now; nutmeg has gone
 ML> from a must have to a tolerable once a month if that.

I notice you didn't put blue cheese on that list... ;)

 ML> So I'm at a bar, see, and I buy a shot of Wild Turkey, and
 ML> they go, whoa, dude, want a chaser with that, eggnog's free,
 ML> 'tis the season. So I got a cup of that - very thick, very
 ML> sweet, but of egg flavor, nil, of vanilla flavor, nil - all
 ML> I could detect was nutmeg. That was enough for the year,
 ML> though when I'm at the United Club in Philly on Christmas
 ML> Eve I bet I'll have to accept their gift of a glass of it.

Hmmm...  Milk, eggwhites, and nutmeg to cover...?  Did you need pills
for it...?   I used to like a little eggnog in season... but it turned
out to be something that usually didn't set well, so I really limit it
now...  Last year's Christmas there was a spiked one that wasn't bad,
though...  :)  I still didn't have a lot of it...  :)

ttyl        neb

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