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Walt wrote:
The Real Bev wrote: [1] Well, OK, I ate a whole baby octopus at Todai, but I only did it to say I did and only one. They look like flowers made of tentacles. I'm still ashamed. Marinated baby octopus is quite tasty. Unfortunately, it's also kinda pricy - if I'm gonna spend that kind of money on a delicacy I'll go for a nice runny blue cheese. That was mega-popular here for some years. They'd marinate it, and then sizzle it. Often a main ingredient in Marinara sauce (which here means full O fish) for pasta and pizza, too. Little tentacles sticking up everywhere. Still easy to get at the fisho (fish shop) or in frozen bags. I never got the impression they were expensive... lobster is quite pricey though. -- ant |
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The Real Bev wrote:
ant wrote: I found a steakhouse menu! Haven't been in a steakhouse in years, and I have to say, looking at this menu, I can see why. I'm not sure we even have any around here. anyway, this is what Outback should be, if it was australian. http://www.mooers.com.au/menu.html Lordy, I didn't think you guys could be that cute even if you tried really REALLY hard! It's in a big tourist trap, so I guess they wanted to impress tourists. The food looks a bit much and overblown, but that's your steakhouse. Not a bloomin onion to be seen (thank god). -- ant |
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Richard Henry wrote:
And then there's the little known fact that fresh oysters are not just raw but actually still alive, one of the very few animals that's commonly eaten alive. I like my food fresh, but not quite *that* fresh. When I took my final SCUBA class checkout dive (from a boat anchored off California's Channel Islands) the instructor gathered up some live scallops and fed them to all who were willing, while sitting on the sand about 40 feet down. Yeah, we used to have oysters all around the rocks near our beach house, but they've all been eaten over the years. all you needed was a stubby knife. and no sea urchin is safe, people cut them open with scissors and eat them with a spoon, right there where they find them. Their insides are very brightly coloured and smell fishy but a lot of people like them. -- ant |
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Walt wrote:
ant wrote: I found a steakhouse menu! Haven't been in a steakhouse in years, and I have to say, looking at this menu, I can see why. I'm not sure we even have any around here. anyway, this is what Outback should be, if it was australian. http://www.mooers.com.au/menu.html Wow. They have this delicacy: Skippy’s Bush Combo ... you’ll be jumping for joy over our kangaroo, napped with pepper sauce, barra tails, cooee croc & yabby therm-moodor Ya think it's the real Skippy? Wouldn't he be a little long in the tooth by now? There were lots of skippys, apparently. We call all roos Skippy. The Greeks here call US Skippy! yabbies, btw, are the native version of lobsters. They are very small and live in waterholes, you catch them by tieing a bit of string to a lump of meat, chuck it in the dam, and when you feel it move, you very slowly pull it in, and usually there is the yabby, eating the meat. Barra (Barramundi) is a very popular fish from the northern territory. That's where the crocs are from too. We eat them all (I don't, except the roos, the rest are too fishy). -- ant |
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ant wrote:
Walt wrote: ant wrote: anyway, this is what Outback should be, if it was australian. http://www.mooers.com.au/menu.html Wow. They have this delicacy: Skippy’s Bush Combo ... you’ll be jumping for joy over our kangaroo, napped with pepper sauce, barra tails, cooee croc & yabby therm-moodor Ya think it's the real Skippy? Wouldn't he be a little long in the tooth by now? There were lots of skippys, apparently. We call all roos Skippy. The Greeks here call US Skippy! I didn't know that. I was referring to the old TV show Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. http://www.angelfire.com/retro/cta/Aus/Skippy1966.htm or it's modern incarnation http://xnerg.blogspot.com/ yabbies, btw, are the native version of lobsters. They are very small and live in waterholes, you catch them by tieing a bit of string to a lump of meat, chuck it in the dam, and when you feel it move, you very slowly pull it in, and usually there is the yabby, eating the meat. Barra (Barramundi) is a very popular fish from the northern territory. That's where the crocs are from too. We eat them all (I don't, except the roos, the rest are too fishy). Ok. But you still didn't translate "napped with pepper sauce". I understand pepper sauce, but what's up with the napped? Nothing to do with nappies, I hope. //-Walt |
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ant wrote:
Richard Henry wrote: And then there's the little known fact that fresh oysters are not just raw but actually still alive, one of the very few animals that's commonly eaten alive. I like my food fresh, but not quite *that* fresh. When I took my final SCUBA class checkout dive (from a boat anchored off California's Channel Islands) the instructor gathered up some live scallops and fed them to all who were willing, while sitting on the sand about 40 feet down. Yeah, we used to have oysters all around the rocks near our beach house, but they've all been eaten over the years. all you needed was a stubby knife. and no sea urchin is safe, people cut them open with scissors and eat them with a spoon, right there where they find them. Their insides are very brightly coloured and smell fishy but a lot of people like them. Yes I've had Oursin in restaurants in Nice. Taste a bit iodiney... |
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Walt wrote:
ant wrote: Walt wrote: ant wrote: anyway, this is what Outback should be, if it was australian. http://www.mooers.com.au/menu.html Wow. They have this delicacy: Skippy?s Bush Combo ... you?ll be jumping for joy over our kangaroo, napped with pepper sauce, barra tails, cooee croc & yabby therm-moodor Ya think it's the real Skippy? Wouldn't he be a little long in the tooth by now? There were lots of skippys, apparently. We call all roos Skippy. The Greeks here call US Skippy! I didn't know that. I was referring to the old TV show Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. http://www.angelfire.com/retro/cta/Aus/Skippy1966.htm or it's modern incarnation http://xnerg.blogspot.com/ You mean somebody thought it was worth reviving? Even the kids got bored with the original. Wild Kingdom was better, sometimes you got to see some animal tear some other animal into bite-size chunks. yabbies, btw, are the native version of lobsters. They are very small and live in waterholes, you catch them by tieing a bit of string to a lump of meat, chuck it in the dam, and when you feel it move, you very slowly pull it in, and usually there is the yabby, eating the meat. Barra (Barramundi) is a very popular fish from the northern territory. That's where the crocs are from too. We eat them all (I don't, except the roos, the rest are too fishy). Ok. But you still didn't translate "napped with pepper sauce". I understand pepper sauce, but what's up with the napped? Nothing to do with nappies, I hope. According to google: * A fabric whose surface fibers have been raised by mechanical means, thereby producing a softer, more compact fabric that usually provides greater warmth (example; flannel shirts, blankets, etc.). www.smartasn.org/glossary.html * brushed: (of fabrics) having soft nap produced by brushing; "a dress of brushed cotton"; "a fleecy lining"; "napped fabrics" wordnet.princeton.edu/perl/webwn Not quite it, I think. Don't we know any wine snobs? Given their inclination to force words into new meanings they ought to be able to explain (while giving us pitying looks for our plebeian ignorance, of course) exactly what it means. They probably also know what "scrupulously clean" coffeepots are. I rinse mine out after pouring the coffee into a thermos, do you suppose that's honorable enough? -- Cheers, Bev ================================================== === It's 95% of the lawyers making the other 5% look bad. |
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Walt wrote:
There were lots of skippys, apparently. We call all roos Skippy. The Greeks here call US Skippy! I didn't know that. I was referring to the old TV show Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Yes, I know. There were lots of skippys. A whole paddockful. Much like Full House and their assortment of babies. and now we call roos "skippy", like we call cops "mr plod" or "the plod". Yanks might not get the reference but poms and kiwis will. Ok. But you still didn't translate "napped with pepper sauce". I understand pepper sauce, but what's up with the napped? Nothing to do with nappies, I hope. I have no idea what those semi-literate tourist trappers meant by Napped. Only usage I can think of is in fabric, but it still doesn't seem to relate all that well. They probably made it up! -- ant |
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ant wrote:
Walt wrote: There were lots of skippys, apparently. We call all roos Skippy. The Greeks here call US Skippy! I didn't know that. I was referring to the old TV show Skippy the Bush Kangaroo. Yes, I know. There were lots of skippys. A whole paddockful. Much like Full House and their assortment of babies. Or to cite another example, Lassie. Of course, they actually used female Roos to play Skippy, while all the dogs that played Lassie were male. The camera guy had to be really careful about not photographing Lassie from the wrong angle. But I've never seen the "Lassie special" on any menus. Ok. But you still didn't translate "napped with pepper sauce". I understand pepper sauce, but what's up with the napped? Nothing to do with nappies, I hope. I have no idea what those semi-literate tourist trappers meant by Napped. Only usage I can think of is in fabric, but it still doesn't seem to relate all that well. They probably made it up! Ok. I don't feel quite as stupid then. //-Walt |
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Walt wrote:
ant wrote: Walt wrote: Ok. But you still didn't translate "napped with pepper sauce". I understand pepper sauce, but what's up with the napped? Nothing to do with nappies, I hope. I have no idea what those semi-literate tourist trappers meant by Napped. Only usage I can think of is in fabric, but it still doesn't seem to relate all that well. They probably made it up! I think it's from the french "nappe" (with an accent thingy on the e). It just means a suace has been poured over it. |
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