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but not a great rat
It's all in the presentation.
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It's all in the presentation.
From "Blackadder goes forth"
(based in the trenches of World Wat I)
Baldrick: Right, how about a nice meal, while you chew it over?
Blackadder: [suspicious] What's on the menu?
Baldrick: Rat. [shows him a big black rat] Saute or fricassee.
Blackadder: [peers at the rat] Oh, the agony of choice. Saute involves...?
Baldrick: Well, you take the freshly shaved rat, and you marinade it in a puddle for a while.
Blackadder: Hmm, for how long?
Baldrick: Until it's drowned. Then you stretch it out under a hot light bulb, then you get within dashing distance of the latrine, and then you scoff it right down.
Blackadder: So that's sauteing, and fricasseeing?
Baldrick: Exactly the same, just a slightly bigger rat.
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Please, what is the significance of the term ‘chopped liver’?
Ouf, I shoulda come in here first! thanks for asking this, dxb....I finally figured it out, from context, in another thread here (and now I cannot remember the thread subject - back in a jiff...)...
Edit: It was Kiran's "Correctness" thread....There's a fine example of chopped liver in there. Paté, one could even say, as has been pointed out....
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Or chopped haggis (yum).  My grandmother (may she rest in peace) used to love to heat-up that strained liver that came in the little baby jars (they were for my baby brother) when she stayed with us. She's dump the puréed liver into a sauce pot, stir it, heat it up, and then chow out. Just the fumes in the house were enough to make me sick (literally, believe me). I've hated liver ever since.  (I was 8 years old then) My folks used to like liver and onions, but they had to stop making it because they got tired of watching me and my little sister throw up at the dinner table.  Not kidding.
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Oh, boy, can I relate to the liver and onions story, Whitman. When I was a young lass, it was a special treat to go to the local Picadilly Cafeteria. This was a fairly small town, and there were no "fancy" restaurants back then, so the cafeteria was the Best place to go out to eat.
My mother would always order the Liver and Onions. I was always aghast that she would order something so perfectly horrible, when there was such a glorious array of food showcased, that she could otherwise choose from!
Incidently.....my mother is one of those people who has a very bland sense of taste, and cannot abide many foods the rest of us take for granted:
Chocolate.....the woman HATES chocolate, for cryin' out loud! Tea.....whoever heard of a southern born and bred woman who hates tea?!
Coffee..... the woman cannot even stand the smell of coffee; she's a freak, I tell you!
Pizza.....I'm NOT kidding here......she does not care for pizza.....but if she is forced to eat it, will only do so if it has pineapples on it.
Sea Food of any kind.....this woman is living her life without benefit of tasting lobster dipped in drawn butter, shrimp dipped in marinara
sauce, lemon herb fish.......'tis sad, so sad......
Yet, she likes Liver and Onions???!!!
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But she had the good taste to have you as a daughter!
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Says the small voice from the South:
I like liver and onions...and chopped liver, too. Not being it, mind you, but I do like chopped liver and don't find it bland at all, but rather...exciting.
Call it a sheltered life. But I draw the line at rats. How truly offal!
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Shift from the big smoke to Chloride AZ, Theresa. It'll broaden your culinary horizons no end ...
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Chloride AZ! And there's a story there ...
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