There are only two problems I have with tripe:
1. It's called tripe. 'Nuff said.
2. I try not to eat things that Wikipedia describes as "edible offal." So far, this strategy has been working out pretty well for me.
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Thes Hunter, how could eating disgusting things get you extra credit? I can't see how that would be relevant. Kangaroo and ostritch are the only unusual things I've tried (I liked kangaroo, but ostrich would be better if it had some fat in it; that's my favourite part of meat).
SPAM?!?! This is a sophisticated discussion about the merits of tongue, brains, scaled monsters, and primitive sealife! How dare you bring something as nasty as.... SPAM into... um....
Seriously though, isn't beef tongue just the greatest? It's the beefiest part of the cow, and therefore the beefiest meat in the world, beef coming mainly from cows. It has the texture of liver, which some find off-putting, but I actually find liver rather pleasant; it tastes very good, and the texture, though strange, is not unlikeable, but rather simply alien in nature; it's very unique, and can weird someone out if they've never had it before. But tongue? Accept no substitute!
Conch is actually the one thing from the list I've not had. My father has had it though on a visit to the Keys, and reports that it is excellent. I trust his judgment, him being something of an expert on great food; an excellent griller if ever there was one, we mark Memorial Day as brightly as Independence Day at our house, and not just because of the veteran thing.
I've never had tripe or brain, but I would be at least willing to try brain, and perhaps even tripe if I thought it looked and smelled presentable enough. As I said, I'm something of a gourmand, and I'd hate to think I was missing out on something delightful.
As far as live squid goes, I don't have any idea. But the dead ones are yummeh-yummeh.
You know, all this might not lead you to believe that I am, in fact, rail-thin.
Oh yeah: I also heard ox heart was incredible. Can any of you confirm or deny this? :smallconfused:
I dunno about ox heart, but ox tongue is pretty damned tasty.
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I love calimari too. But I'm NOT eating something that might try to eat its own way back out! :eek:
Braaaawk.
Weird dreams.
Weird sleep.
Weird everything.
All I know is I got Hard Candy recorded on Sky+ last night and I should be moving the computer today.
Gleeeee.
What did your dreams involve, Jiba? Also, why are you moving your computer?
Bah! Speak not to me of bizzare dreams!
Giant cross-dresing parrots destorying london town!
Oh, and Ragnarok.
France does strange things to my dreams, it seems. the ones i had in itals were much more fun. :smallwink:
Hmmm. I wonder, then, how ox tongue stacks up to beef tongue. It seems like they'd be very similar, but apparently not. Then again, what exactly put you off about? The flavor? The texture? How was it prepared? What wine did you select with it? What time did you eat it? Was it in season? Was it raining in Shropshire? THE PUBLIC HAS A RIGHT TO KNOW!!!
On the other end of the animal, however, ox tail is ideal for making stock, as is beef shank. In fact, most of the muscles or bonier parts you might otherwise simply throw out make superb stock. It's all about the collagen, baby.
I had the damnedest dream recently, but I can't remember a thing about it, only that it was noteworthy. Huh.
The only part of Ox I've ever tried is the tail, in a soup. I didn't like it; it's really fatty.
Today is my second to last day before I have to go back to school. Gotta think of something really awesome to do.
Aziraphale is returned! *Bull rush tackle hug*
Dream? Yessss, a dream. Nothing but a dream. Not a test run at all. Go back to sleep Aziraphale, there are no giant drag destructo-parrots here. :smallamused:
Unrelated: one of the spelling corrections Firefox offers for 'Ragnarok' is 'ragamuffin' (mental image of Jibar as tea cosy-hatted white Rasta-boy :smallconfused: ).
Top Gear Mars lander - Great British Win is manifest. :smallbiggrin:
Awesome? Jump off a building and improvise a way down!
...
Punch out a dinosaur?
On an unrelated note: finally got my L's! And soon, I shall get a girlfriend. Yessiree, everything's going my way at the moment...not looking forward to the flip-side of the coin though...
Until the world oceans and lakes started being affected.
Shoot down the moon? No.
Carving your name into the face of the moon with a giant frikken' laser beam? Yes.
Yeah, the surviors would probably focus on how bad that would be for them, not how awesome it was for you.
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pub/image...azoness_21.jpg
We could shoot down someone else's moon.
Too bad he ran out of room...
well, and then there was the whole superhero thing...but running out of room was the real reason he failed...
Yay! Monday morning...
Time to monitor GitP for the next eight hours...
I hope everyone had a fine weekend...
Its wonderful to be here, its certainly a thrill.
Goodbye, Playground! I will soon be off to the AMNH for classes and stuff! I'll be back around 5:30 GST!
It's funny... the way I had intended to manipulate my class schedule was supposed to get me Fridays off, but instead I find I have Mondays, Wednesdays, AND Fridays off.
However, I suspect that Tuesdays and Thursdays are gonna be hell for me...
<,<
Because I don't wear one of those hats already...
I'm not a practising rasta or anything, my friends just have the hats and say I look good in them...
I like it. 'Kay?
And now I have the computer in my room. Which means InksGuy and I are going to have a nice looksee into steampunking it.
We also found a place in Norwich that sells cheap goggles which we should easily be able to mod up.
Heh. For all my plans, InksGuy has taken to calling me Captain Steampunk. I like it. :smallbiggrin:
Steampunk... Lol. It's better than cyberpunk, though...
As crazy as this may sound, I think I might be losing my interest in Noir.
I loves me my shadowrun.
Have a fond memory of playing a Human Hacker called "pretty-boy" because I used tailored pheromones to get a 7 CHA (this was 2nd edition.) We were stuck in the Renraku Arcology and were trying to take on Deus.
I tell you, those Otaku can really pack a cyber-punch!