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serious crayons:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 14, 2013, 12:48:11 pm ---What is the most unusual thing you ever ate? For me, I guess it would be sea urchin. It was wonderful, but I wouldn't eat it often. In Scotland I ate (and loved) haggis and in Nepal I ate yak meat. That was pretty bland. There are more off-putting dishes here in America, IMHO. Okra! Fried pickles! In fact, anything fried kind of turns my stomach.
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I usually like to try anything unusual I have the opportunity to eat. So ostrich, rattlesnake, alligator, nutria, raw oysters, crawfish, fried pig's tail (like if bacon were shaped like a pig's tail), all the stuff they put in sushi. Plenty of okra. And fried pickles, at a restaurant in Wyoming in the company of Brokies! :D
Someone recently circulated a list of 100 "unusual" foods on Facebook (most but not not all them unusual to the average American) and I scored 71.
I added a couple to my list, Lee, at that restaurant in Denver that possessed the city's first liquor license and where the walls are covered with animal heads. That dinner was kind of a disaster, though -- my younger son was a vegetarian at the time, and a restaurant covered literally floor to ceiling in multiple rooms with severed animal heads is not the ideal setting.
Front-Ranger:
--- Quote from: serious crayons on November 14, 2013, 03:44:47 pm ---
I added a couple to my list, Lee, at that restaurant in Denver that possessed the city's first liquor license and where the walls are covered with animal heads. That dinner was kind of a disaster, though -- my younger son was a vegetarian at the time, and a restaurant covered literally floor to ceiling in multiple rooms with severed animal heads is not the ideal setting.
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Oh, that would be the Buckhorn Exchange. What did you have there? The BBQer's went there in 2007 before departing Denver for Estes Park. I didn't go because I was picking up Chrissi at the airport. However, I did go back there with Luigi a year or so later and we had a rattlesnake appetizer. And there's a fellow Wyoming-loving friend who I meet there in the upstairs bar for a drink every once in a while.
I can see how your vegetarian son would have been freaked out by the animal heads. There are getting to be some nice vegetarian restaurants in Denver now. And many of the regular restaurants are adding vegetarian dishes. When I am out with my vegetarian friends I always follow their dietary preferences but, secretly, I miss fish and seafood when I can't order it...meat, not so much.
Front-Ranger:
I could understand vegetarianism, although I am not one. But I could never understand veganism until recently. Then I realized that we have an abundance of milk and other dairy products because the calf is taken away from its mother shortly after it is born. That seems cruel, maybe even more cruel than eating meat. I still drink milk and eat cheese but I am careful not to waste it. Milk is so cheap that we oftentimes just grab a gallon of it and then end up pouring half down the drain at the end of a week.
milomorris:
--- Quote from: Front-Ranger on November 16, 2013, 06:25:47 pm ---Milk is so cheap that we oftentimes just grab a gallon of it and then end up pouring half down the drain at the end of a week.
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We were having that issue too. Then we started down-sizing. We finally figured out about 3 years ago that 1 quart would get used regularly before any of it spoiled.
CellarDweller:
--- Quote from: milomorris on November 16, 2013, 07:05:13 pm ---We were having that issue too. Then we started down-sizing. We finally figured out about 3 years ago that 1 quart would get used regularly before any of it spoiled.
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I actually never buy milk unless I know people are coming over and want it for coffee. I don't drink coffee, and almost never use milk. If I buy it I end up wasting it, so better not to have it at all.
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