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Skriven 2015-12-24 12:04:00 av NANCY BACKUS (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av MICHAEL LOO
Ärende: Re: food oddities 701
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-=> Quoting Michael Loo to Nancy Backus on 12-22-15  07:00 <=-

 >  ML> nor jumiles, as they have been unavailable, nor water
 >  ML> bugs, because when I had the chance they looked stale,
 >  ML> whereas the crickets were relatively fresh.
 > I'd agree that it was unfair... :)
 ML> Skewed in a particular direction anyhow. I rather
 ML> liked Dave the Sac's "Grail list" for odd things -
 ML> insects get one listing, but there are weirder
 ML> things that don't get mentioned elsewhere, such as
 ML> canned pork brains, canned cheeseburgers, and the
 ML> aforementioned Blind Robins.

So, who cans pork brains and cheeseburgers...?   I've seen frozen
cheeseburgers, of course...  :)   And how did Blind Robins get their
name, being as they are herring... ;)

 >  >  ML> 9/20
 >  > Were theirs including a lot of odd insects, too...?
 >  ML> Yep, as I recall, an overreliance on that particular
 >  ML> kind of grossout factor.
 > Far too much, then...  :)
 ML> As opposed to Bourdain eating charred warthog 
 ML> bungs, another kind of grossout factor (I've
 ML> eaten bungs, but not in the uncleaned state
 ML> as depicted in the TV show).

Indeed a different sort of grossout factor...  

 >  > Sounds to me as though somehow insects are trumping the lists... like
 >  > they are somehow more gross than anything else....
 >  ML> I guess they are, except for blue cheese and zucchini.
 > And I like blue cheese, and we both can tolerate zucchini (admittedly, I
 > more than you)...  ;)
 ML> Last night my mixed salad had a slice of cucumber
 ML> (not a real grossout, just slightly unpleasant) and
 ML> a slice of zucchini; this latter had nice grill
 ML> marks, and I debated actually eating it, but then I
 ML> flipped it over, and the reverse was raw and without
 ML> grill marks, so it found its bed on the refuse pile
 ML> next to the cucumber.

Ah, well....

 >  >  ML> does the volcanic thing. There are all-natural
 >  >  ML> marshmallows that one could verify that with.
 >  > I wonder if those would age properly, then... ;)
 >  ML> They should shrivel gradually, but that's an experiment
 >  ML> one could do as well.
 > More experiments for sometime in the future...  ;)
 ML> Perhaps I'll feel bored someday and not wait for the
 ML> next echo picnic. But at the picnic we could actually
 ML> make marshmallows and play with some in the microwave
 ML> and keep some around until the last day of the picnic,
 ML> then divide up the remainder and have each person age
 ML> them further under different conditions - someone in
 ML> the fridge, someone in the freezer, someone at room
 ML> temperature.
 
Never kept marshmallows in the fridge or freezer, always have been in
the cupboard or similar...  How difficult is it to make marshmallows,
then...?  And would they be more similar to the ones of my youth...?

 >  ML> Here's an oddity, but not as odd as the recipe in
 >  ML> the previous post, I think.
 > You mean beef lung with bananas...?  ok, plantains... ;)   Odd, but in a
 > different way...  :)
 ML> In a good way, perhaps, I thought. Though I have eaten
 ML> lung, it was stewed and collapsed and not very 
 ML> interesting; I admit that I've not eaten much of the
 ML> stuff at a time.

It did seem to have possibilities...  :)  Stewed and collapsed, how
different would it be from other offal...?

 >  ML> Black Moth Sangria
 > Odd, indeed... I thought that sangria was fruits in wine, not veggies in
 > vodka, anyway...  ;)
 ML> This seemed to be more a sangrita, which has a
 ML> tomato base. The etymologies both stem from the
 ML> Spanish word for blood.

Ah, ok...  :)

 >  ML> 5 ml 8 to10 yr old balsamic vinegar
 >  ML> Sliced black truffle
 > And I'll agree on the pretentious, too... ;)
 ML> More money than sense ... .

Indeed.  :)

 ML> Oliveto
 ML> category: booze, odd
 ML> servings: 1
 ML> 60 ml dry gin
 ML> 25 ml lemon juice
 ML> 12 ml simple syrup
 ML> 12 ml Licor 43
 ML> 1 egg white
 ML> 15 ml olive oil

Sort of a boozy vinagrette...?  (G)

ttyl        neb

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