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My bro and his Taiwanese girlfriend just cooked my parents and myself a taiwanese feast of sorts. Some of it was damn tasty...like the prawn, scallop, squid stir-fry thing. There was a lot of tofu based things which are a bit bleurgh. But the weird thing was a oyster omelette thing. Imagine that eh? Oyster and scrambled eggs. It wasn't bad.

What (in terms of food) sounds so wrong but tastes so right? (if it tastes 'OK', that'll do as well.)

Also, a bat nearly flew into my face last night. Fucking creeped me right out.
less_than_zero | 10 Aug '05, 21:24 | Send note | Report this | Reply



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I had egg and fish pizza in france, it was gross.


I have a psycho bat that lives in my back garden and I swear its trying to kill me, goes for the head every time!!

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I dought any of you have had this, its a appalacian delacacy

once you are done with butchering a pig. Take all the parts you dont think you can use and mix it up into a mush. Mix the mush with cornmeal and burn it to a crisp and then you have LIVERMUSH

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my god after posting that my spelling has met new lows

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cheesecake sounds so wrong doesnt it? something to do with mixing foodtypes. how can you mix cheese...and cake? it would be like chocolate crisps or pasta ice cream or something. and yet its so damn good. those clever cook type people!

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I swear there were chocolate flavoured crisps around at some point in the 90s.

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I blew all my money once and had to live on dry toast and mustard for 3 days.

A bat flew into my hand a couple of weeks ago.

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are these two facts related?

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well indeed, at one point. actually at the moment there are some crazy cadburys things in a tube that are shaped like pringles and dont seem to sell very well and so are always on sale.

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There were chocolate covered pretzels....they were nice...

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Cheesecake is the greatest food of all time as it is the only food to contain the two most important food groups.

Cheese and Cake.

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but do you see what i mean about food groups usually needing to be taken in order? like you cant eat a bit of jelly before eating chips. that would be FLAT OUT FUCKED! ahem. whenever me and my mates used to pile round someones house for tv/film i had to make sure i covered both drink and all snack food groups, which meant: cider, crisps/nuts, chocolate, sweets (non chocolate). no wonder i used to be a fat bastard.

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Wow, I wish my mates were as good a host as you were!

Jelly and chips is good, well it cannot be really.

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yes but all that food was for me. i'm not talking multipacks here, but a lineup such as:
square crisps/party rings/galaxy.
drunkenness needs food.

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in regards to the bat thing, once an owl flew into my head. that fucking hurt.

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man. hardcore.

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It sure does, Ginsters and Walkers have made so much money from a drunk me....

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while i'm typing, can you explain where your username is from? i'm sure you've done it before but i canna remember. its just that every time i see it my mind for half a second thinks 'ooh someone from the band sparks is actually on here, thats amazing...hmm is it the one that looks like hitler?'. and i do that so many times that my mind now finds it impossible that you could look like anyone else.

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I am actually the mystery 3rd member of Sparks, my brothers were jealous of my talent so chained me to the studio.

Actually it's from an SFA lyric.

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aah okay then. but to me you'll always be hitler. night night.

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but, aren't some chocolate cakes made with potato? i'm sure someone once told me they made a cake with kidney beans, not on purpose and it tasted good.

in other news when i went to yugoslavia, as it was then known, they had fuckin feasts for breakfast including egg mayonnaise-y stuff. Needless to say I was very ill the whole time I was there, breakfast not being my meal. They also had burgers they size of plates!

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OH MY GOD, but chocolate crisps:

if you have a jaffacake, and IMMEDIATELY after eating it, while the taste of the chocolate lingers, you eat ready salted crisps... the taste is as close to heaven as you can get. and weirdly comforting! it feels like what i imagine being in the womb feels like, before life and all that yuckiness hits you. it's that good.

seriously. it's amazing. i urge everyone to try it.

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OH MY GOD, but chocolate crisps:

if you have a jaffacake, and IMMEDIATELY after eating it, while the taste of the chocolate lingers, you eat ready salted crisps... the taste is as close to heaven as you can get. and weirdly comforting! it feels like what i imagine being in the womb feels like, before life and all that yuckiness hits you. it's that good.

seriously. it's amazing. i urge everyone to try it.

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Steak Tartare.
It's not steak.
It's RAW MINCE.
That was a nice surprise.

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that reminded me of tartare sauce.
i love tartare sauce.
reminds me of when we had fishy fridays at school.

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I've recently eaten fish. FISH! ME! I even had prawns and muscles!

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My god, call an ambulance or something.

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I was as suprised as anyone that I didn't die. My seafood hitlist now looks like this;

Fish Fingers
Fish Cake
Tinned Tuna
Squid
Plaice
Muscles
Prawns

That's liek, half the bloody ocean!

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ever tried Fisherman?

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No, his Friend is allright though.

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Muscles eh? you've not been eating seafood, you've been gnawing at someone's arm again!

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are you allergic to seafood?
you probably shouldnt eat it then.

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No, I just had this stupid psychological aversion to it. It was in direct opposition to my "I'll eat any old shit me" atittude to food, and so I'm slowly chipping away at it.

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ah i see.
i'd have an 'eat any old shit' attitude if it wasn't in direct opposition to my 'shit is not food' attitude.

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Well you're missing out on a feacal treat.

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i fucking hate fish. ALL fish. i will not eat any seafood at all.

except the little bits of seaweed you get on japanese rice crackers. and i really don't think that counts.

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That's how I was untill recently. But then untill about a year ago I was the worse food-appreciator in the world. I only liked meat, potatos, pasta and rice. Fish is the final phase in my cullinary journey.

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...Although I may need to take a small detour to Mushroom before reaching the final destination

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mushrooms scare me.

they are a flavouring, NOT a foodstuff. nice flavour, BAD food.

likewise onions. ugghhhh. slippery.

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Onions are the best and when frying anything you need onions and garlic as well!

Mushrooms are best left in the bin though...

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definitely, they are very necessary flavours. i just don't actually eat the onions and garlic.

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Ah, your missing out on the raw/pickled onion experiance then.

You need one of those fisherman's friends on standby though.

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i'm like that, minus the rice.

lately i have grown to like pizza. i think i'm on the road to normality.

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Ah you sound like my friend Shane, who was utterly hopeless untill we rescued him. He eats rice and everything now.

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i am hopeless :)

i don't like ice cream either! or yoghurt, or mayonnaise, or ketchup, or indeed anything that is sort of liquid but sort of not, and in other words GLOOPY.

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I think you're a lost cause Gen. There's nothing I can do, even Shane liked gloopy.

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Strawberries and balsamic vinegar was nice when I had that.

Actually, I have a few strawberries knocking about in my fridge, but my house is flat out of balsamic at the moment. I don't reckon a bit of Sarson's would do in this case... hmm.

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my grandma makes something called 'cassava pie'. it's basically like pork suspended in sponge cake. sounds gross, doesn't it? it is.

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Influenced by my dad's Yorkshire roots, I am a big fan of Christmas cake with a nice slice of cheese on the side.

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My dad does that as well, and he has nothing to do with Yorkshire.

Grinner: Strawberries and Balsamic Vinegar? Really?

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My bottle of balsamic vinegar says 'good with strawberries' on it, so it seems to be a well known thing - I've never tried it though. Apparently strawberries dipped in Guiness are an aphrodisiac.

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But would you really be that excited if on some romantic night out with a prospective fella, he started dunking strawberries into his pint and trying to feed them to you?

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Steak Américain is really, really, really nice. It's basically an uncooked hamburger. Not exactly the most appetising sounding er, thing, but it's delicious! And when you order it, they come out and prepare it and put RAW EGGS in too. Mmmm...

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It sounded so nice til you got to raw eggs...

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I know. Sorry about that. But it's still nice. I had an Américain sandwich on Sunday, it was lovely. Yumyumyum. They also put other things, besides raw eggs and raw meat though. :)

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don't raw eggs and raw beef give you salmonella?
i don't like raw things ever since i i got salmonella and nearly died.
aprat from the nearly died bit.

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aye, that's what you'd expect.. but apparently not. unless this was just one crazy spanish waiter who did that, considering i haven't seen anyone else do it. Yes, that's a fair point. He may have been trying to kill me.

OH MY GOD!! WISHPIG HAD A TYPO! Spelling Enforcer... pah!

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:) aprat is the new apart dontcha know...
get with the program as oprah used to say.

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What about the fucking bats though?