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Thread: OT: salute to the chip butty
lammergeier
Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:07 pm
#106
JascoSmlee wrote:
Temujin23 wrote:I've never actually seen scrapple, but I have friends from the east coast who have told me about it. It was pretty much described to me as 'the parts of animals that don't go into pet food and boot soles, processed and compressed into a brick that you can lob through a window.'You really eat that sh1t?al-djinn'iMaster Ranger/Master RiflemanFish & Chips with 'scraps'. Basically its just bits of batter.
/edit bah somebody ate them! (LD)
Message Edited by JascoSmlee on 02-01-2005 12:40 PM
you mean 'cracklins'.
you can walk into any LJ Silver's and get a bag of 'em.
scrapple? that's a different story. I'll leave that alone, along with the vegemite. and the "pork brains in milk gravy" (5.5 oz can, 3500 mg cholesterol (1170% your recommended daily dose)) are hanging out in a dark alley with the scrapple and the vegemite, waiting to assault any who lose their way with "food product in can" trickery.
Phenix1050
Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:32 pm
#107
oh god vegemite. Good lord, that stuff strips years off of your life. One bite, and your life expectancy drops by 5 years.
Owen-Lars
Wed Feb 09, 2005 12:58 pm
#108
Lol no cracklin is crispy port skin/fat. Scraps are bits of fried batter that fall off the fish in the frying process. The fryer scoops them us now and then and you serve them as a sort of 'garnish?' on your chips.
Jolandir
Wed Feb 09, 2005 1:43 pm
#109
Watch out or we will dump the tea in the blasted harbor again. Lol I love my tea.
Jolandir
Temujin23
Wed Feb 09, 2005 3:04 pm
#110
I'm extraordinarily picky when it comes to meat. The low-grade stuff that is the norm in this country turns my stomach. So, I've developed a taste for fake meat. Sure, it doesn't beat a good steak, but a spicy plate of vegetarian buffalo wings goes down real nice. Anyway, gardenburger makes this product called Riblets. They're soy-based ribs slathered in bbq sauce andwhen stuffed into a roll they make one hell of a tasty sandwich. A wee bit salty, though. I think I'm slowlydessicating into a mummy.
al-djinn'i
Master Ranger/Master Rifleman
Owen-Lars
Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:12 pm
#111
Oh marmite....... yum. Yiest extract never tasted so damn good.
Message Edited by Owen-Lars on 02-09-2005 11:12 PM
Sondhi
Wed Feb 09, 2005 4:36 pm
#112
Owen-Lars wrote:
Oh marmite....... yum. Yiest extract never tasted so damn good.
Message Edited by Owen-Lars on 02-09-2005 11:12 PM
/puke 
Northerners: like what they say, and say what they bloomin well like. eee that's champion 
Almagill
Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:08 pm
#113
Aerec_Krouse wrote:
Phenix1050 wrote:oh god vegemite. Good lord, that stuff strips years off of your life. One bite, and your life expectancy drops by 5 years.
Also known as Marmite in the UK. However, in this household, it is known as "The Jar of Evil" and is eaten only by me, when no-one else is around to moan at me for eating it.
Oh, and I finally tried Taylor Pork Roll. I am still breathing, so it couldn't have been all that bad.
It's worse than that.
Trivia time. In French rural areas it was traditional to have a large cast iron pot on the fire all day, every day, into which was tossed whatever Papa had managed to shoot, trap or drive his 2CV over. This would be served up a stew, or soup if Mamam had just put some water in to top up the gunge...
But, if it was left to render down you'd get this gelatinous, brown, sludge that tasted of "meat", was incredibly powerfully flavoured and THAT was the inspiration for our little jars of Marmite. (The jar is the same shape as the pot).
Just to be twisted, Marmite isn't made with meat but some sort of yeast extract, then there's Vegemite which IS a vegetable based product "similar" to Marmite.
Finally there's Bovril. This is a beef extract, similar in colour and taste to the other two, which used to be served up as a "tea" to invalids. The idea being that it tasted so flipping disgusting that, even with missing limbs, terminal scrofula and chronic dysentry, the patient would rather be up and about than have to drink another mug of that stuff.
I have in immensely foul joke about Bovril and football matches, but its really not safe for family consumption
Message Edited by Almagill on 02-10-2005 03:13 AM
Almagill
Wed Feb 09, 2005 8:15 pm
#114
Temujin23 wrote:I'm extraordinarily picky when it comes to meat. The low-grade stuff that is the norm in this country turns my stomach. So, I've developed a taste for fake meat. Sure, it doesn't beat a good steak, but a spicy plate of vegetarian buffalo wings goes down real nice. Anyway, gardenburger makes this product called Riblets. They're soy-based ribs slathered in bbq sauce and when stuffed into a roll they make one hell of a tasty sandwich. A wee bit salty, though. I think I'm slowly dessicating into a mummy.al-djinn'iMaster Ranger/Master Rifleman
Vegetarian bacon... /bliss
Aerec_Krouse
Thu Feb 10, 2005 1:33 am
#115
Phenix1050 wrote:oh god vegemite. Good lord, that stuff strips years off of your life. One bite, and your life expectancy drops by 5 years.
Also known as Marmite in the UK. However, in this household, it is known as "The Jar of Evil" and is eaten only by me, when no-one else is around to moan at me for eating it.
Oh, and I finally tried Taylor Pork Roll. I am still breathing, so it couldn't have been all that bad.
Owen-Lars
Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:27 am
#116
AhBovril.......... the staple partner to a meat and potato pie at a cold winters football match 
Aerec_Krouse
Thu Feb 10, 2005 7:35 am
#117
Owen-Lars wrote:Ah Bovril.......... the staple partner to a meat and potato pie at a cold winters football match
Or, at the Playhouse of Nightmares (St Andrews in other words) you can get a Chicken Balti Pie to go with your Bovril. Curry, football and Beef Extract all in one afternoon, can't be bad
