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>foreigners
except Torben & Rumbas. Those fuckers will eat anything.
hmmmm... where's 'hominy' on the list? Even southerners have trouble with hominy. I love the stuff with red-eye gravy.
The Scottish are a bit extreme with their haggis but surely you can come up with something worse than white sandwich bread. Who compiled that list?
I thought something like potato salad would be on that list.
It is a very crappy list, agreed. But ~hey~ even going back to my earliest wmw-pumping days, nothing, repeat nothing, fires up a forum of lazy members like a food thread.
>hagis
I know it was a slightly downgraded, restaurant version you and i had in edinb, but i thought it was ok. Wouldn't turn i.t away if someone served it.
The worst i've had was that black ink squid meal in Barcelona.
I'm going to Denmark for their traditional christmas dishes, one day. I should be right at home. Here, i would take the vikings out for extreme southern meals where only good-ol-boys ate, and every disk would be "bork bork bork" --which translate to "tastes like a dish we have at christmas."
>>>wmw-pumping days<<<
You are forgiven for use of the term WmW.
Those were the days when we all sorta liked BT
You guys are making me hungry. Except for the white bread, heck they add some chemical to that sh## so it won't even dry out anymore.
Also, grits, never liked them. You can tell which side of the Mason Dixion line you are on if the breakfast menu says hash brown potatoes or grits with you breakfast eggs. Navigation skillz.
I like TACOS ;D
http://i.imgur.com/Pe5DscH.jpg
Hahaha, I love a good food thread.
>except Torben & Rumbas. Those f###ers will eat anything.
Yup. Especially everything from a pig - nose to tail.
>"tastes like a dish we have at christmas."
Extremely spot on. I was amazed how much of it was similar to what we ate 100 years ago and now loves for Xmas.
The good-ol-boys in the South likes their pigs for sure too.
Peanut Butter and Root Beer were always the two foods that I was surprised most Europeans find revolting. We had a number of exchange students growing up and they all hated those two.
The foreign food that many SE Asian cultures adore and love that I just can't wrap my head around is durian. I tried one of those in Indonesia a few years back and it tasted like rotten onions and gasoline strained through a dirty sock. Other foods you can taste and not care for but see why some people might like it but durian isn't one of those. And of course I bought some durian candy and made everyone back home taste it.
I want to try durian once, just to see what it actually tastes like. There is a local Asian market that sells them. Those things are bigger than coconuts and with spikes, I'd hate to have one of them fall on me from a tree.
>>There is a local Asian market that sells them.
I bought one at an Asian market here. I believe it was frozen and shipped over and the taste was no where near as pungent as a fresh one. It was still horrible and would definitely give you enough of the experience. Just make sure to not cut into it inside your house. That smell will linger for quite a while.
>smell will linger
I think that's the main reason collards aren't mainstream like spinach. They smell like a sewer while cooking and your house will reek for a day or two.. Also, they are a PITA to clean properly and get the grit out of the frilly leaves. OK, All the above AND they are best when they've been through a light frost just before harvesting. The above notwithstanding, they have something of a cult following.
>>collards
Since moving down south I have eaten a LOT more collards than when I lived up north. There are some really good collards out there and some really bad ones. I hate the collards that have too much garlic or too much hot sauce. That spicy note doesn't mix well with the greens in my opinion. But when you can find a place that makes good, well cooked collards they can be a thing of beauty.
I was in a market in Viet Nam a couple of summers ago and became aware of a horrible smell. I thought there must be a dead rat someplace that was decomposing.
It was the durian.
>> durian
don't like it alone, but I do like it ccovered in white chocolate. I hate white chocolate. No idea why putting two nasty things together makes them both ok.
The funny thing is, aside from strawberry-rhubarb pie about which I have no strong feelings etiher way, that looks like the list of foods *I* hate.
Jello. Yuck! Of course the most disgusting meal I've ever had was "aspic" everything in Switzerland which was basically like clear jello with things like broccoli and asparagus in it.
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>>>collards
"Since moving down south I have eaten a LOT more collards than when I lived up north." --Doc Cool
I've mentioned here that I eat at restaurant on a nearby farm. The owner told me that he raises 80-100 thousand pounds of collards a year and that the Friday before Thanksgiving would be the biggest sales day. I happened to be there Friday. He harvested 20k pounds for Friday alone. Trucks came in and picked up 3k loads. One truck came back and picked up a second 3k load that afternoon. Today, they told me that sales were good and they didn't know if they had enough to cover christmas. To use Rupert's lingo, I'm gobsmacked! I mean, I know the South likes collards but watching thousands of pounds evaporate off the lot was pretty impressive.
Oh, and they sold 180 pounds of pigtails last week.
>>collards
Every time I cook a big BBQ meal I always cook up some collards. Most people here are dumbfounded and are apprehensive to try them even though I reassure them they are delicious when cooked right. In a week or so I am doing a bbq/Christmas dinner for some friends and will definitely have collards on the table.
>80-100 thousand pounds of collards
>180 pounds of pigtails
Doc, they told me today that they'll sell 1400 pounds of ribeyes between now and Christmas. Phone orders coming in for 8, 10, 12 pounders for roasts (ribeye roasts?). I had noticed previously that this locals-only, tiny, hole-in-the-wall store out in the sticks sold a lot of ribeyes. Mega-farmers must like to indulge in ribeyes.
>>1400 pounds of ribeyes
Sounds like a bunch of prime rib roasts. Those seem to be gaining in popularity for a nice Christmas meal. Personally I would rather have them cut into ribeyes than the whole roast. Never been a huge fan of prime rib. Not saying I wouldn't eat it or enjoy it, I just like a good steak vs. a roast.
*whispers* I love headcheese.
*slides down in chair*
Headcheese is called 'souse' or 'souse meat' in the south. I like it, but don't love it. On a Redneck Tour I took Rumbas & Torben over to a country store with a thriving butcher shop. We had souse meat on a slice of real hoop cheese. That was excellent.