Off Topic - The Long Awaited FOOD THREAD
Above pic reminds me of old joke How do you get 2 whales in a mini? The French are thin and scrawny, little wonder. Unlike good old US and Brit blubber. Plastic food guzzlers. On a cruise we went on years ago- things worse now- there was enough blubber on board to meet the fuel needs of a whole continent. They were shocked we hadn’t had the midnight feast (and the mid morning gnosh, and lunch and afternoon gorge and tea and trough..) We preferred to explore places.
The Portuguese, now they look so much more healthy- sun and seafood..
great ad Nathan :)
A food thread only means one thing . . . BACON!!!
How thorough is your wake and bake experience?
Michelin stars confirm Japanese food is of course by far the best. Hence the famous saying, I love the smell of Nippon in the morning
^ Witty.
This got disturbing really fast.
No Kenji. Just no.
Marmite (diucapkan [ˈmɑː®maɪt]) adalah semacam merek olesan roti. Marmite dibuat dari ekstrak ragi, yang didapat dari bir brew, dan cocok bagi vegetarian dan vegan.
Marmite adalah pasta berwarna coklat gelap, lengket dan memiliki rasa yang harum, kuat, dan gurih. Pasta ini sangat mirip dengan kecap. Rasa harum ini terdapat pada slogan iklan Marmite di Inggris: “Love it or hate it.”. Marmite sangat mirip dengan Vegemite dan Cenovis.
Foto yang ada pada toples menunjukkan “marmite” (diucapkan [/maʀmit/]), kata dalam bahasa Perancis untuk tembikar besar, atau panci metal. Marmite Inggris awalnya dijual di dalam tembikar tanah liat, namun sejak 1920-an Marmite dijual pada toples gelas seukuran sama. Versi Marmite yang kecil dan dapat dipencet dirilis pada tahun 2006.
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Marmite is an excellent cure for beri beri
Also, I had a chicken sandwich with bacon and swiss cheese for breakfast today.
That’s probably the only excuse that would get me to eat it…
I cooked some fish the other night. It was good.
“Blue parrots are very numerous there, as well as other birds ; among which are a kind, conspicuous for their size, larger than our swans, with huge heads only half covered with skin as if clothed with a hood. These birds lack wings, in the place of which 3 or 4 blackish feathers protrude. The tail consists of a few soft incurved feathers, which are ash coloured. These we used to call ’ Walghvogel,’ for the reason that the longer and oftener they were cooked, the less soft and more insipid eating they became. Nevertheless their belly and breast were of a pleasant flavour and easily masticated.”
(Cornelis Matelief de Jonge, 1606)
- easily masticated -
To think that that was part of the criteria for good… that you would even have to mention it…
Alas, poor Walghvogel
I’ve never had Marmite. I have, however, tried this barf-in-a-jar:
Are they similar?
I’ve heard… yes.
@Kenji — I was thinking that was the Dodo bird. Poor thing indeed… Talk about ALL GONE…
I had an Australian friend at college who had to bring that stuff into the cafeteria. Ugh.
@Nathan
As sort of joke/“punishment” I had a Sunday School teacher who had this elaborate system of rewards and punishments (for things like behavior, bringing your Bible to SS, etc.) Rewards would be fake money (“samolians”) whereas he’d take away your samolians if you broke rules. At the end of the year, you had to have enough samolians, otherwise you’d have to eat some vegemite on a cracker. The stuff looked like axle grease. The cool thing about this story was that at the end of the year, as the people who didn’t have enough samolians prepared them selves for their punishment, my teacher declared that he would eat the vegemite sandwiches instead—as a way to illustrate what Christ did for us. It was one of the Sunday School lessons I ever had. (Btw, the whole punishment thing was done light-heartedly. Still, he ended up eating about three crackers worth of vegemite. At some point, I sort of thought he liked the stuff.)
marinetti’s excited pig! – "A “whole salami, skinned” is cooked in strong espresso coffee and flavored with eau-de-cologne."
and david madsen’s ‘aiguillettes de canetones au esprit de femme’ that requires marination in a very specific place, while the lady is soothed to satie’s gymnopedies….
Vegemite is the exact samet thing as Marmite, just under a different name. Marmite is “British” while Vegemite is “Australian.” It’s actually fabricated from the goo left over after the fermentation of beer.
The goo after the fermentation of beer? Now that I know what it actually is, it’s even less appealing.
Holy…. lol! Satie’s Gymnopedies is what my first boyfriend (unsuccesfully) tried to seduce me with the first time we ended up at his apartment (parents for some reason both out of sight). That, and lobster. I kind of knew what was happening but after I left I was like, “Wait, don’t tell me?… Naaahhh..” I was only 16, and knew nothing about anything except when I smelled danger… Ha ha ha… childhood…
Anyone else have any funny stories about food and seduction?
I love Marmite. Vegemite tastes quite different though.
@Odilonvert
If he had tried Trois Gnossiennes instead, you would have realized how hip he was and the seduction would have worked, right?
He actually played the whole damn record with Aldo Ciccolini tickling the ivories. Let’s say he only got so far, but that’s because I was raised Catholic and actually believed in virginity before marriage at the time. Yeah, those kinds of Catholic girls still existed in NYC in the late 20th century. Ha!
As for hip, he was cute and witty and smart, but I knew pretty quickly by instinct what “hip” was being used as a tool for… duh… His dad happens to be a pretty famous American poet. And with that I close the books on the identity of this normal, horny teenage boy. :)
Marmite can only be appreciated by the most refined connoisseurs. It reaches a peak of deliciosity on hot buttered toast. It is feted annually in a most peculiar, lavish and possibly illegal ceremony by an underground organisation believed to be based at Hook Norton in Oxfordshire, England
Arcanus
Some of these photos are among the most disgusting I have ever seen. The obese kids are the worst. Uncle Skelly must have cracked his lens on these people.