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Post by Tricia on Oct 11, 2007 11:48:46 GMT -6
You mean I can join another Custer organisation? Maybe we should start a "Custer Organisation For Those Who Belong To Every Damn Custer Organisation ..." And at our meetings, instead of offering lectures, we offer psychiatric help! This thread is hilarious. Keep it up! --t.
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 11, 2007 13:15:15 GMT -6
Bab-
Doesn't matter what it is if you drench it in Marmite.
M
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Post by gary on Oct 11, 2007 15:09:07 GMT -6
Bab,
A gammon steak is a particular British delicacy. It's pork. It's a bit like a big thick piece of bacon. For some reason, it is usually eaten with a ring of tinned pineapple on top.
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 11, 2007 15:25:43 GMT -6
Brokensword, I despair for the culinary tastes of you North Americans. We have Gordie refusing mushy peas, Mab not knowing what a gammon steak is and now you, drenching everything in Marmite. Let's get this straight, NOBODY refuses the mushy peas or they get to sleep with the fishes. Gammon steaks will be served at Bab's house until she can write an essay extolling their virtues and Marmite is only used to drench things on a Sunday. Every other day we drench food with brown sauce (ketchup) which, on caviar, is to die for.
Hunk
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 11, 2007 15:45:02 GMT -6
Trish, I hope you won't mind but I have put your name forward as Chairperson for NACC, Not Another Custer Club. Members will be known as Naccers and the sole rule of the organization's Constitution will be 'For chrissake let's talk about something else'.
H
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 11, 2007 16:34:19 GMT -6
Hunk - my friend
Despair NOT for North American cuisine!
Buffalo Wings (the hotter the better - my favorite is called “Three Mile Island”), sea food Etouffe, blackened salmon, Cajun crawfish (I spelled it right - its NOT ‘Crayfish’), Brunswick stew (most any of the 2,000+ varieties), Texas style bar-b-que, Maryland (not Kentucky) fried chicken, sour dough biscuits, New England clam chowder, maple syrup, pecan or sweet potato pie, roast turkey with jellied cranberries - it goes on and on, and that’s just THIS side of the Canadian border. Gordie can fill you in on the delights of the ‘Great White North’.
Mushy peas are readily available here. Usually to be found in the baby food section of the grocery store. Caviar? We have that in the South as well, but we call it bait..
I will admit this - A TALL mug of Guinness completes most of the above mentioned dishes.
Bon Appetit, my friend. I’m suddenly hungry and am off to dinner - maybe I’ll go for another great North American creation - CHINESE FOOD!
M
P.S. All three/four members of the CAGB are welcome to my home anytime...I will take you out and introduce you to some of the table fare here. If you personally are not a member, come anyway...I'll buy. And if you all include Elisabeth, she can bring a large jar of her beloved Marmite. It is allowed.
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Post by Tricia on Oct 11, 2007 16:46:52 GMT -6
Oysters Bienville ... now I've died and gone to heaven. NO mudbugs. No mudbugs. No freshwater lobster. Whatever the critters are called. They're definitely a delicacy not all Southern belles can enjoy--or stomach.
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 11, 2007 16:58:54 GMT -6
Trish "...Oysters Bienville ... now I've died and gone to heaven."
Agreed. Couldn't mention them all... didn't want to get Hunk's mouth watering too badly. The poor Brits are so confined to boiled EVERYTHING.
No crawfish? Well, I understand. They do sorta remind me of a water borne cock-roach.
M
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 11, 2007 17:34:51 GMT -6
All very well guys, but what about the ice cream?
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Post by BrokenSword on Oct 11, 2007 17:40:45 GMT -6
Ice cream... hummmmm
Not sure that is strictly a North American creation, BUT the chocolate that I love to cover it with certainly is.
M
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Post by Montana Bab on Oct 11, 2007 20:09:19 GMT -6
Brokensword, I despair for the culinary tastes of you North Americans. We have Gordie refusing mushy peas, Mab not knowing what a gammon steak is and now you, drenching everything in Marmite. Let's get this straight, NOBODY refuses the mushy peas or they get to sleep with the fishes. Gammon steaks will be served at Bab's house until she can write an essay extolling their virtues and Marmite is only used to drench things on a Sunday. Every other day we drench food with brown sauce (ketchup) which, on caviar, is to die for. Hunk Well, now, Hunk Pappy, I can handle the gammon steaks at my house (the pineapple makes it right).....but I think I'll let Sword and Elisabeth partake of the marmite! But come to think of it....I'll bet that marmite would be wonderful with another North American delicacy=fried muskrat (first soaked in beer!) But I must say, I've never seen brown sauce (ketchup). Over here our ketchup is red! Mab?
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Post by harpskiddie on Oct 11, 2007 21:56:04 GMT -6
Beaver tails, moose steaks, fry bread and pemmican [dried meat, cured with wild berries], smoked Sockeye salmon, Newfie Steak [wieners], Winnipeg Rye bread, Montreal smoked meat, rib-eye steaks, Nuthin Pie [pecan pie without the pecans], Nanaimo bars [chocolate and something else - marvellous], baked Northern Pike or Walleye [pickerel], pan-fried Cutthroat Trout or Steelhead, McIntosh Apples, PEI potatoes [like Idahos], Alberta beef -aged at least 28 days, any cut.
Bear roast, venison cutlets, buffalo steaks, blueberries and heavy cream, deep-dish apple pie, Canadian peamealed bacon....................................
Gordie, there goes the old diet................................................
PS Did not Martha Washington, or some other first lady, invent ice cream?
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Post by "Hunk" Papa on Oct 12, 2007 7:07:00 GMT -6
Gordie, Martha Washington invented wooden false tooth so that poor old George couldn't taste her dreadful cooking. Ice cream was invented in Paris in the late 18th century by an Italian, who else, called Tortoni, and derived from oriental ice desserts introduced into Europe some time earlier, so stop claiming it for North America. Admittedly, I think you lot make the best ice cream but don't hold that against me.
Hunk
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Post by harpskiddie on Oct 12, 2007 8:40:43 GMT -6
Hunk - I wouldn't hold it against you, especially certain parts which in most men are prone to shrinkage in the cold.................
Gordie, jamocha almond fudge, three scoops, please...............................................
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Post by crzhrs on Oct 12, 2007 8:57:27 GMT -6
<Ice cream was invented in Paris in the late 18th century by an Italian, who else, called Tortoni, and derived from oriental ice desserts introduced into Europe some time earlier>
I believe the Arabs and Chinese were far ahead (centuries) of Mr. Tortoni when it comes to ice cream.
The Italians do make a great Gelato, however!!!!
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