Ok, so some things in the golden era were not too cool...

[jamespowers]

OK... the thread is back to normal I see. I left my ball here somepalce...

Back to food. We used to eat new prickley pares and the friut was made into a candy or a jelly. Usually in the spring after a rainstorm there would be new growth that was tender and edible.
Nopalitos and Tunas. My dad would bring some in from work and we would remove the spines and needles before preparing them for dinner or breakfast or lunch or all three.

Chayotes are decent eating stuffed or even just plain boiled---for a loooongnngg time. I have a vine in the yard right now---if the cold didn't kill it.
Nopalitos and Tunas are ok as well. Nothing like skunk.

 

[LizzieMaine]

I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

How do you get them to stay on the food til you can't get them down yer gullet?

They're small. You mash 'em up and spread the paste onto the food. Or, if the food itself is sticky and pasty (like rice balls or mashed potatoes), you can stick the insects right into it.

 

[jamespowers]

Hi

Actually, I asked what they tasted like and a guy told me that basically eating an oyster was like swallowing a hocker. I finally tried three while in Seattle last Summer, he was right, no flavor. The sauce was GREAT though.

I tried escargot years ago and it tasted like Garlic Bread Bubble Gun. I think that there is a California banana slug that is effectively an escargot snail with no shell, and that you could go in the yard and rake them up. If you COULD really get them by the bucket, they would be worth cooking, otherwise, just buy the Garlic Bread.

Delicacy, a food item that grosses us out and we want to sell it to tourists.

Later

You can't eat escargot straight from the garden. They have to raised on cornmeal for a while to get the gunk out of them or they are a horrible mess.
I don't mind escargot or caviar for that matter.

 

[jamespowers]

Oysters were "poor people food" in England once upon a time too. Funny hoe some things do change.

So was Salt cod out here.

 

[jamespowers]

They're small. You mash 'em up and spread the paste onto the food. Or, if the food itself is sticky and pasty (like rice balls or mashed potatoes), you can stick the insects right into it.

Ok, I am glad lunch is over.uke:

 

[jamespowers]

I ate a spider once.

On purpose?

 

[AmateisGal]

My family eats bagna cauda, a dish from the Piedmont region in Northern Italy. It has anchovies in it (keeping with the slimy foods theme here), butter, and garlic cloves. You heat it up in a skillet then dip veggies in it, bread, or meat.

Supposedly this was the poor man's meal in Italy, too. It tastes delicious and we eat it as often as we can when we all get together.

(I'd add a picture, but I can never successfully upload them on here.)

 

[jamespowers]

My family eats bagna cauda, a dish from the Piedmont region in Northern Italy. It has anchovies in it (keeping with the slimy foods theme here), butter, and garlic cloves. You heat it up in a skillet then dip veggies in it, bread, or meat.

Supposedly this was the poor man's meal in Italy, too. It tastes delicious and we eat it as often as we can when we all get together.

(I'd add a picture, but I can never successfully upload them on here.)

Ah, fondue, only better.

 

[Marc Chevalier]

Not again...

Please direct any and all complaints to Nathan Flowers and Matt Deckard, this thread's alleged moderators.

 

[jamespowers]

Democratic Socialist states like Denmark have as much liberty as any "capitalist" state. Ergo your capitalism is not synonymous with liberty. I have access to a dictionary too. Nowhere in the entry on capitalism does it mention capitalism as synonymous with "liberty".

And if you're so into dictionaries you might want to look up the word "loose".

loose: Adjective:
Not firmly or tightly fixed in place; detached or able to be detached: "a loose tooth".
Verb:
Set free; release: "the hounds have been loosed".
Synonyms:
adjective. lax - slack - free
verb. release - loosen - untie - unfasten - unbind - undo

Enough!

 

[AmateisGal]

Ah, fondue, only better.

Yes - although ours doesn't look quite like that. I think it literally means "hot bath" in Italian.
All I know is, it's GOOD STUFF.

 

[jamespowers]

Yes - although ours doesn't look quite like that. I think it literally means "hot bath" in Italian.
All I know is, it's GOOD STUFF.

Send some. I'll be glad to taste test it.

 

[AmateisGal]

Send some. I'll be glad to taste test it.

You could have had some over Thanksgiving when we all got together to make our homemade Italian salami. We ate bagna cauda beforehand, then got nice and dirty with the sausage-making. Pictures here (though not of the bagna cauda):


http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2490157066652.124931.1634503002&type=3&l=4da4598ecc

 

[1961MJS]

You can't eat escargot straight from the garden. They have to raised on cornmeal for a while to get the gunk out of them or they are a horrible mess.
I don't mind escargot or caviar for that matter.

Hi James, I LOVE escargot, I HATE paying for it. IF I lived around a hoard of snails, I'd feed them cornmeal and eat like a king. Since I don't, they're over priced garlic bread... Worms like Cornmeal too, they get the size of small snakes pretty quickly, fished with them, didn't try any as a food group.

later

 

[vitanola]

I knew an old lady who swallowed a fly. I don't know why she swallowed a fly. Perhaps she'll die.

But Mr. Chevalier says he swallowed a horse.

Yet he's here (of course?)

 

[Marc Chevalier]

But Mr. Chevalier says he swallowed a horse.

You bet!

 

[jamespowers]

You could have had some over Thanksgiving when we all got together to make our homemade Italian salami. We ate bagna cauda beforehand, then got nice and dirty with the sausage-making. Pictures here (though not of the bagna cauda):

http://www.facebook.com/media/set/?set=a.2490157066652.124931.1634503002&type=3&l=4da4598ecc

Oh geez, salami too? Now I am hungry.

 

[jamespowers]

You bet!

You sure that says horse?

 

[jamespowers]

But Mr. Chevalier says he swallowed a horse.

Yet he's here (of course?)

Oh my, he gulped it out of the sky! I don't know why.