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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 2:32 pm
I get together with my Brit and Aussie friends twice a year. And the Brits spread the disgusting brown vegemite on their toast whenever we do breakfast. (Maybe it's cuz the Aussies travel with the stuff and the Brits are smarter and don't?) Creamed Chipped Beef on Toast I think originated in the UK. But a long time ago, like WWII era. And if you have a potato salad that has cubes of red Jello in it, then I think that one's the winner. Cuz that sounds disgusting to me. Are you sure it's not beets in it? (Potato, diced veg, beets?)
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 2:58 pm
If it was in the WWII times it's faded out now. I looked at the recipe and it has cayenne, which is very un-English. Maybe it's adapted from something British to meet US tastes..? Anyway I will look at the deli counter when I go this weekend and see if I can get a name for the jelly thing.
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Vsmart
Member
02-10-2003
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 3:02 pm
I love vegemite. In the north part of Sweden we had surstroeming (rotten herring). Smells like someone left the door to the outhouse open, but tastes great. Clay Aiken complained about LA that everything has guacamole on it. We would find greasy Southern cooking hard to swallow.
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Karen
Member
09-07-2004
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 3:31 pm
I think poutine would be the clear Canadian winner.
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Ladytex
Member
09-27-2001
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 3:31 pm
The SOS I had didn't have cayenne ...
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Calamity
Member
10-18-2001
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 3:33 pm
I've either never even heard of or at least never tasted any of the foods listed here. And I don't plan on trying any of them either, lol. Well, I did have peannut butter once. And once was enough. Plain peanuts - fine. Peanut butter -yuck. Terence may have been high maintenance but neither he nor Sarah bothered me that much so I was disappointed they were eliminated instead of a certain other team. I've never cared for those tasks that cause distress to animals or involve eating/drinking large amounts of food or really exotic (let's call 'em that) dishes so I hated the FF. Still hoping the mom and son win.
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Wilsonatmd
Member
01-23-2001
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 3:42 pm
I've actually always wanted to try poutine...sounds heavenly fattening. (for those who don't know, it's french fries smothered with cheese curds and gravy)
and around here, people like Scrapple (I don't- it's a pork scraps loaf kinda...) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scrapple
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Tntitanfan
Member
08-03-2001
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 4:57 pm
I think scrapple and souse might be fairly close kin - and things that I want to stay far away from! I ADORE cheese curds which are a completely unknown food in the south, but think I might have a problem combining them with gravy on French fries. But since I am not a huge FF fan in the first place, I might not be the best judge of condiments -
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 5:11 pm
Yuk! Gravy on fries? Gravy on cheese curds?
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Pippin04
Member
10-26-2007
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 5:43 pm
Ok.....I do not eat fries, hate gravy and cheese curds ore ok. However Poutine is amazing and if you get the chance you should try it. You can also get it with chicken added or meat sauce (called Italian poutine) in place of the gravy.
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Lexie_girl
Member
07-30-2004
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 6:02 pm
Thanks but no thanks Wilson. I think I'll stick with my french fries and A-1 steak sauce. Yummy!!!!
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Seamonkey
Moderator
09-07-2000
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 7:29 pm
The SOS we learned to make in fifth grade didn't have cayennne.. food back then was BLAND! And the SOS was this bottled, very thinly sliced "beef" that was pretty salty and you made a thick white sauce and served it over toast. Probably other ingredients but I just remember a bland mess.. cayenne would have been an improvement! I have a hard time imagining poutine, mostly because I really like very crip french fries. I had an odd dish and no idea if it is official anywhere. I was at Favori, a Vietnamese/French restaurant in Westminster, and went with a bunch from work which included a good number of Vietnamese co-workers, as well as Chinese, Filipino, Japanese, one from Burma, one from Cambodia, one from Nicaragua, one from Iran, and some locals and we had lots of good Vietnamese dishes. I went quite a few times. Their Chocolata Bombe dessert was to die for, so I went once with a friend and we ordered from the French menu.. well I had Duck a l'Orange which was quite good. It came with a twice baked potato (not called that) but ALSO, swimming in the orange sauce, crinkle cut frozen french fries.. soggy. It didn't SEEM French and definitely not Vietnamese either! -- We also have a local Chinese restaurant where the owners are Chinese muslims and thus many of their dishes are made with lamb, chicken, shrimp.. and no dishes are made with pork or beef.
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Supergranny
Member
02-03-2005
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 8:32 pm
I can relate to Terrence's not being able to eat that meat. We went to Denny's yesterday and I always order a hamburger with a Bocca burger substituted. DH and I were talking and I didn't pay any attention..took a big bite and gagged. It was a regular hamburger and it was vile tasting. I spit it out and didn't care who was looking. Gross!! I've been a vegetarian for years.
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Kitt
Member
09-06-2000
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 9:42 pm
Looked at the deli counter and the offending article is called "raspberry parfait," but it actually seems like a dessert, not a salad dish. It's right there next to the potato salad and macaroni salad so I always assumed it's a side dish. Weird. So not as gross as I thought, as long as you ignore the fact it's made of ground up animal bones of course.
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Teachmichigan
Member
07-22-2001
| Saturday, November 22, 2008 - 11:21 pm
Lexie -- nope, not fluff - although I find that disgusting too. My MIL makes another jello that if basically fluff w/cottage cheese in it. GAG!! Perfection salad is the closest I've seen, but it was actually an Ohio thing - haven't seen it here in Michigan (thank goodness).
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Aussiedeb
Member
07-05-2004
| Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 9:28 am
Gravy on fries... yummy but not the cheese curd yuck.. I am about to eat an Aussie Sausage Roll that I order from Georgia.. and for the record this Aussie hates Vegemite lol, but my daughter who now lives with us loves the stuff.. I just bought another jar for her from an Aussie Import Company here in the US.. I am a picky eater and the eating on TAR would be the only thing that gets me..
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Askme_who_ur
Member
08-19-2006
| Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 2:59 pm
My DD just got back from Australia and New Zealand. She brought home a sample size of vegemite. We haven't sampled it yet. She said to make toast and spread with butter then the vegemite. Is that how it should be eaten ? I want to try it but want to do it like it is typically. I might hate it but I am up to trying everything once.
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Babyjaxmom
Member
10-20-2002
| Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 3:06 pm
Well, my DH was a vegetarian for many years. He's not anymore, but he still can't eat beef. It kills his digestive system, causes him actual physical pain. He would not be able to eat beef under any circumstances. I myself am lactose intolerant and I thought the milk drinking was gross. Haven't drunk milk in years and am disgusted by the thought. I probably would've been able to choke it down, but it also would've played serious havoc with my intestines (nausea, major bloating, diarrhea and terrible cramps). Don't joke about food sensitivities. They can be very serious.
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Mamabatsy
Member
08-05-2005
| Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 4:59 pm
When my then teenage daughter became a vegetarian, I cooked only meatless meals for two weeks thinking she'd "get over it." Well she's in her 40s now and still hasn't "gotten over it." But when I went back to serving meat the whole rest of the family, including me, got sick. Not deathly ill, but upset tummies for several days. I imagine that someone who has been off meat for years could get quite sick from it.
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Sunday, November 23, 2008 - 5:30 pm
Askme, yes, that's how they eat it at breakfast. If I were you, I'd taste a bit before wasting a piece of toast. And yes, your body adapts to what you put in it. The enzymes required to digest meat basically go on vacation. So when you put meat in your stomach, your stomach will rebel. And not in a nice way. I accidentally ate crab about a year and half ago (it was SUPPOSED to be a stuffed artichoke with NOTHING but stuffing but it had crab in it)... you did NOT want to be in an enclosed space with me after that. And it took days before I felt back to normal (no bloating).
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Costacat
Member
07-15-2000
| Monday, November 24, 2008 - 3:15 pm
I'm watching this episode now and can I just say... they need to give the racers a whining test before letting them compete. Because if I didn't like Dan/Andrew before, they are my least favorite now!!! All that whining while they were in the crane, trying to get directions. And dude, the more you call people idiots, the more they are not going to want to help you!
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