#64500 - 04/08/02 02:35 PM
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Carpal Tunnel
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Using this category for the purely non-word-related:
Helen has called herself "your basic omnivore". OK, omnivores, let's get serious:
What is the most "extreme" food you've ever eaten -- and would you do so again?
In my case: eels, and "yes, but I'm in no hurry".
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#64501 - 04/08/02 05:06 PM
Re: omnivores
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 01/18/01
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Dear Ken: there is a Japanese delicacy, sliced smoked eel, that is so delicious I remember it sixty years later, never having been able since to find a place where it was on the menu. A classmate from LA brought it to Christmas party in Boston. Called "unagi"
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#64504 - 04/10/02 08:34 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 09/30/01
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Fried chittlin's, mountain oysters, sweetbreads, eels and snails--all I've enjoyed--but I don't eat eyes.
Best regards,
WatchingherWaist
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#64505 - 04/11/02 06:49 AM
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Carpal Tunnel
Registered: 04/09/00
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Loc: Jakarta
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Sweet and sour snake (no idea what kind of snake it was and I didn't inquire). Tasty. When I was living in Surabaya, I was told that a certain restaurant served pangolin, but I don't know if it was true or not. At one wedding reception here in Jakarta I did eat something and no-one would tell me what it was, but I suspect it was dog. It was so heavily chillied it could have been anything.
Bingley
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#64506 - 04/11/02 04:03 PM
Re: omnivores
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Carpal Tunnel
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Fastidiousness in food can be illusory. Consider the guy who could bear to eat lambs tongue because it had been in an animals mouth, and requested an egg instead.
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#64507 - 04/17/02 01:09 AM
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old hand
Registered: 03/15/00
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Loc: Switzerland
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Fastidiousness in food can be illusory
A long time ago, I heard that Chinese were astonished about Europeans eating Insects' excretions - meaning honey...
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#64509 - 04/17/02 03:30 PM
Re: omnivores
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Dear wsieber: I never thought of it that I have never seen mention of Chinese eating honey. But I found a site which says one company exports 800 MT of beeswax each year. That represents a lot of honey. I have heard of Chinese being surprised us bignoses eat rotten milk. (cheese) Now I've got to look again, and see if Chinese export cheese!
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