[Sca-cooks] OOP? Raw meat...

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

Also sprach Bronwynmgn at aol.com:
>In a message dated 2/12/2004 11:30:50 AM Eastern Standard Time,
>adamantius.magister at verizon.net writes:
>
><<Does anybody remember a parent or
>grandparent, possibly one who would sneer at fancy presentations with
>egg yolks and capers, grossing out the kids by eating raw meat on rye
>with maybe a few pickles?>>
>
>Well, sort of.  My father, who definitely sneers at all high-falutin' food
>presentations, used to take raw ground beef, sprinkle it with a bit 
>of seasoned
>salt, and eat it while making hamburgers or separating meat for the freezer. 
>he taught me to do it, too, and I will still occasionally snitch a bite.  No
>bread or anything, just the meat.  Certainly grosses out my husband
>effectively, who comes from a medium-well beef family...
>My Dad's also the man who taught me to spoon drippings from roast beef into
>my mashed potatos.  And since we did medium rare beef at my house, that means
>something pretty well blood-colored, at least.
>
>Of course, Dad also used to tell us stories about when he was a kid, how they
>would cook road-kill animals in their mother's scrub buckets with vegetables
>stolen from people's victory gardens...Knowing my Dad, he probably did, but
>between the road kill and the residues from the scrub buckets I'm not sure why
>he's still alive at age 74.
>
>Brangwayna
>
>PS. Dad is of German-English (surname Croll, mother's maiden name Page)
>background, but at least several generations removed from the boat 
>that brought
>Zebulon Croll (isn't that a cool name?) over here.

The man's name was Zebulon Croll and he _doesn't_ have a mountain, or 
a town, named after him? That's a shame. I can see it now... nestled 
in the foothills of Croll Mountain, the town of Crollsburg, with a 
statue of old Zebulon Croll, Our Founder, who blazed the trail 
through the wilderness with only his teeth, a pocketknife, and some 
raw chopped beef... ;-)

Hmm. Okay, before I get carried away, yes, that _is_ a cool name!

Adamantius