[Sca-cooks] scary foods

[Steve]

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Master A, there is nothing to fear from Balut (Filipino embryonic duck
eggs) they taste like duck soup.  The nasty Filipino food is Bagaoong which
is a scary carnation pink preserved anchovy dish.

Æduin



>The only food I genuinely fear are those Philippino embryonic duck eggs.
>As far as I can tell, I will try just about anything else, but have a
>general dislike for both most eggplant preparations, with some exceptions,
>and frozen lima beans (no exceptions to date). I do think, though, that a
>lot of the food "dislikes" that are widely publicized are cases where
>people were brought up in a tradition that a particular food is awful, and
>no matter what its quality or characteristics may be in real life, it is
>its role in this world to be reviled. Haggis is a classic example of this;
>most of the people that complain about it, especially outisde of the SCA,
>it seems, have never even seen one, let alone tasted it, and many of these
>same people will eat liverwurst or scrapple without adverse comment. It
>amounts to a sort of licensed xenophobia, in some cases parent-sanctioned
>as "cute".
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>Let's see... what are a few of my favorite things? Real head cheese. Real
>scrapple. Haggis. Both thousand-year and salted duck eggs. Tripe in nearly
>any form. Liver, kidneys, sweetbreads, all that stuff. Brains I will eat,
>but I prefer them blanched, trimmed, sliced, battered and fried. Black
>puddings. (Hmm, I have some in the freezer. Do I have any eggs, or how
>about some fried apples with those?) Jellyfish, assorted cephalopods, sea
>cucumber. I do _not_ like sea urchin roe. Raw herring fillets, on the
>other hand, are kewl, as is lightly cured gravlax. (Also more heavily
>cured, too.) Bean curd in nearly any form is good, and anybody who says it
>is tasteless is a poophead.
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>Adamantius
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>Phil & Susan Troy
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>troy at asan.com

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