Season 3 DVDs

[Rowan]

OT - food

Okay... 'Micky D's' is a rip off. But at least I can identify what I'm getting when I look at their menu.

I mean, if I didn't have a previous clue, just what sort of impressions does 'bangers and mash' or 'bashed neeps' give one, eh? :}

{Long time medievalist who like colcannon and the like ...}

 

[padders]

"rip of britain" we call it. Another reason to emmigrate.

 

[jsc]

I don't mind bangers and mash. But what is bashed neeps?

Have you ever had Menudo or Huachinango a la Veracruzana or camarones a la plancha con ajo? I have had hagis and snake but no witchety grubs. So I am sort of adventurous.

 

[Rowan]

Foods...

'Bashed neeps' = mashed turnips. As to the other foods, yes to all the above. At gateCon this year Don Davis and I traded 'survival food' stories. We'd both done armadillo, courtesy of the US Army, but he somehow missed rattlesnake. I could tell him it honestly tasted like chicken. That got a laugh *&* a grimace. :}

The main rule of consumables I have now is to not eat something that has more eyes in one place than I do. That's left over from being in Saudi Arabia in Desert Shield / Desert Storm. [I really like to pass on the 'sheeps eye over rice or couscous thing...]

Other than that, either by curiosity or survival programs [civilian and US Military], I think I've tried a good cross section of things that walk, crawl, creep, slither, swim, fly or go 'cruch' or 'gush' when you bite them.

Just said I tried them. Didn't say I have to like them all.

 

[padders]

aww.. i feel ill just reading that post! I am a plane person food goer! beef, lamp, pork and chickean are what i stick to. Can't even be dealing with slimy fish!

Oh.. also a bit of cat/dog/pigeon/rat/hamster/extinct dinosaur/toenail kebab every now and again from the kebab van by our college. Normally stick to chicken, chips and cheese.. yummmmyyyy.

 

[jsc]

Yes, snake tastes like chicken! Isn't too bad. What does armidillo taste like? I have heard the chicken story so be wary. Padders you like chicken and don't like dinosaur. I follow the Ostrum/Bakker classification which is now gaining popularity! I am eating fried dinosauria (chicken) even as I type!

 

[Martouf]

Ahh, snakes, roo, koala they all taste the same mate. They are particulary nice fresh, just go out the bush shoot one up, chuck it on the barbie with some Quongdongs..... real beauty that is....

 

[jsc]

hought Koala was on the endangered species list? Good to know you are eating well!

 

[padders]

[sarcasm]koala[/sarcasm] ???

 

[Martouf]

Yeah they are endangered but we Aussies need to hunt somehting and Koalas are so slow, and besides they taste so nice (nearly as good as cereal)

 

[jsc]

LOLLOL!!?!?!?!

 

[padders]

lol

 

[Cap'tCrash]

LOL
Come on people have a heart I clicked straight to page 2 of this thread and was totally lost(mind you I am the wrong/right side of a couple of Carlsberg specials).
Most Rat packs I've come across look and taste like road kill anyway.

 

[jsc]

Sorry Cap'tCrash. Did you read the part about Rowan and Don Davis comparing armidillos as army food? I ask you, eating identical quadruplets and comparing that! You missed the squish, crunch and gush one too!

 

[padders]

Originally posted by jsc
You missed the squish, crunch and gush one too!

Luckily, i am still having nightmares

 

[Martouf]

Hehe,
Has anyone tried Kangaroo meat?

 

[Rowan]

Foods

Kangaroo? Yes. But it was a long time ago and under a fairly odd circumstance to do with trading octopus jerky for canned kangaroo.

One of those you hadda be there ...

BTW: Armadillo is not so much like chicken as it is a very bland pork...

 

[jsc]

One year MacDonald's, was caught in the USA selling roo burgers as beef burgers...you know where they were getting their meats. Have never eaten kangaroo. Koala must taste strange as they only eat a certain type of eyuclaptus leaves. I can only immagine the taste...

Had a friend that wanted me to try chocolate covered grasshoppers. Am allergic to chocolate but here they were very good and crunchy. A friend has tried ants and found them peppery.

Still having nightmares, padders?

 

[Rowan]

Foods

Ah ... bugs and stuff. *Not* my favorite part of survival school. I put it right up there with grubs, worms and the like.

Thank Ghod that once you've been through the school they don't make you requalify [except in very special cases and I wasn't one of them...].

 

[jsc]

Ah! Bugs and bush meat. Anthro is full of stories about them. My cousin's son went to Costa Rica and ate bush meat. Luckily it turned out to be a non treatened species of iguana. Some of the people who went to Africa weren't so lucky. One friend recognized his study animal (green vervet) in the bushmeat pile. Next to it was bonobo and gorilla (western lowland)highly endangered and endangered!

There are stories of anthros (primatologists) going to various places and finding new subspecies on the bush meat pile.

Different types of merchandising! (well have to tie it to this sections somehow!)