[Sca-cooks] Cooking steaks was Re: lethal drinks

[Ian Kusz]

On Thu, Jul 24, 2008 at 8:54 PM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <
adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:

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> On Jul 24, 2008, at 11:08 PM, Ian Kusz wrote:
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>  On Wed, Jul 23, 2008 at 6:29 AM, Phil Troy / G. Tacitus Adamantius <
>> adamantius1 at verizon.net> wrote:
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>>> I disagree, based on personal experience.
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>> I worked on a fishing boat, and there were a good number (about 15)
>> Japanese
>> advisors; one of whom was an excellent cook (all the Japanese guys, and
>> some
>> of the Polish guys who had been guests, raved about his cooking).  The
>> Japanese guys put soy sauce on EVERYTHING.  I mean, I never saw them eat
>> cereal, or anything sweet, but everything I DID see them eat, they put soy
>> sauce on....rice, soup, noodles, eggs, vegetable dishes, meat, bread,
>> whatever.
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>> Now, these were "blue collar" guys, I think (I mean, they worked in a
>> factory), but they used it EXACTLY like some people use ketchup.
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> I wouldn't dream of arguing your personal experience; you were there. I can
> only go by my own (including my own family by marriage) and a fair amount of
> written material on Chinese, Japanese, and Southeast Asian gastronomy.
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> And I'm also not discounting the possibility that this is a personal peeve
> of mine.
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> But on the other hand, I'm not making this up...
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> Adamantius
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> Maybe it's a "class" thing?  These guys being "blue collar" might have
different practices than a more urban socialite class?  Or maybe
urban/rural?  I'm thinking it might be a case of different practices in
different places; the question is, is there a clear division from criteria,
though?  Maybe people in Tokyo do it differently?

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> Ian of Oertha
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