SC - Zampone

[Huette von Ahrens]

- --- Philip & Susan Troy <troy at asan.com> wrote:
> "Laura C. Minnick" wrote:
> > 
> > Philip & Susan Troy wrote:
> > 
> > > The filling of a zampone is a basic cotechino
> "boiling" sausage, only
> > > encased in the boned-out pig's trotter instead
> of a gut casing.
> > > Cotechino (at least modern cotechino) isn't much
> different from
> > > cervelato or saveloy, for which we have period
> Italian and German
> > > (Austrian?) recipes. Whether anything like a
> zampone was made, I
> > > couldn't say, but it's not impossible, I
> suppose.
> > >
> > > Hope this helps...
> > 
> > Boiled sausage? Where would you put if when you
> drive out onto the ice
> > during the half? I'd think it would be a problem
> if you spilled any, and
> > it would stick to the skate blades....
> 
> Hah! HAH!!!!
> 
> Half, you say? HALF??? What half??? Half-time in a
> figure-skating
> tournament? A hockey game has three periods, ma'am!
> > 
> > ...uh, _zampone_ you say?
> 
> Adamantius, fan of the team with both the most goals
> scored _and_ the
> most goals scored against, in the NHL, and foaming
> at the mouth while
> making yet another batch of emergency Christmas
> cookies between 1 and 2
> AM. Bah, humbug! Are there no prisons? 
> >            ^
> > 
> > Oh.
> > 
> > _Never mind_....  :-D
> > 
> > 'Lainie
> > (who's hair looks suspiciously like Rosanne
> Rosannadanna today...)
> 
> Well, 'Lainie, it just goes to show you...
> 
> It's aaaalways something... If it's not one thing,
> it's another. If it's
> not a giant pig's foot stuffed with cooked salami
> smoothing out the ice
> during halftime, it's a cookie press at %$#@* 1:24
> AM...
> 
> Adamantius, realizing with a blinding flash that
> there are probably now
> people on the Cooks' List who don't remember
> Roseanne Roseannadanna

But it was Emily Littela who always got things wrong
and said "Nevermind", not Roseanne Roseannadanna.

Same actress, different character.

Huette

=====
Blessed are they who can laugh at themselves for they 
shall never cease to be amused.

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