[Sca-cooks] Snow and Storms

[Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius]

On Dec 15, 2005, at 5:59 AM, Betsy Marshall wrote:

> Had to Google this one, but...
> Gravy cheese fries?!?!
> Must be a regional thing
> Pyro (Mystified at best)

I confess I'm with you on this one: not just gravy cheese fries, but  
gravy COTTAGE cheese fries. My initial reaction is that food is  
supposed to look like that _after_ leaving the stomach of a massively  
drunk college student, not before entering it...

But then one can't be too judgmental when there are things out there  
like Nick Tahou Hots' Garbage Plate in Rochester, or even the quasi- 
Ukrainian borscht I made the other day...

An old adage says something to the effect of, it was a brave man that  
tried the first oyster or lobster, but I can't help thinking some of  
this stuff is conceived by people going for shock value first (or  
possibly chemically-induced "munchies") and culinary virtue second --  
in its day, tournedos Rossini was one such, reportedly served under a  
napkin because it was deemed so repulsive to look at. Sometimes (as  
in the case of the aforementioned tournedos) such dishes turn out to  
be great.

Adamantius

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> Behalf Of Patrick Levesque
> Sent: Wednesday, December 14, 2005 9:22 PM
> To: Cooks within the SCA <sca-cooks at ansteorra.org>
> Subject: Re: [Sca-cooks] Snow and Storms
>
> Well, that's it. If they have poutine in California now I'm moving  
> over
> there!!! :-))
>
> (Are they looking for a professor of music theory at UCLA??? :-))
>
> Petru
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