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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #150 on: July 18, 2013, 08:33:19 PM »
I'm going to have to make plans to visit during lobster season.  Just push me around in a wheelchair to every lobster roll shack for a week and I'll be happy.

edit:  holy crap, that's a 21-hour drive. 

I think I'll be flying this time.  I just hate renting cars.
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #151 on: July 19, 2013, 07:24:19 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on July 18, 2013, 08:33:19 PM
I'm going to have to make plans to visit during lobster season.  Just push me around in a wheelchair to every lobster roll shack for a week and I'll be happy.

edit:  holy crap, that's a 21-hour drive. 

I think I'll be flying this time.  I just hate renting cars.

I'd love the drive.
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #152 on: July 19, 2013, 09:41:41 AM »
Quote from: Chris_ on July 18, 2013, 08:33:19 PM
I'm going to have to make plans to visit during lobster season.  Just push me around in a wheelchair to every lobster roll shack for a week and I'll be happy.

edit:  holy crap, that's a 21-hour drive. 

I think I'll be flying this time.  I just hate renting cars.
I hope you do!! Would love to see you...or anyone else for that matter. I am a connoisseur of lobstah rolls!!!  and I can take you to the MG(yes, they deal with only MG's) store in New Castle, right down the street from mum's. I think of you, every time I go by there.
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #153 on: July 19, 2013, 10:44:12 AM »
Lobsters are often sold live to those who want them that way (ostensibly for later cooking) and then cooked/boiled along with the trimmings (drawn butter, lemon juice and whatever sides) in what's called a lobster pound.

Our first night in ME, the gang went to one of these in Southwest Harbor, ME, a very small town on Mt. Desert Island.

You line up and in front of you are salt water tanks with live lobsters congregated in them. Their claws (one for crushing and the other for slicing) are immobilized with rubber bands. You tell the guy what you're looking for and if it's lobster (usually about 1.5 lbs. in weight), he grabs one out of the tank and weighs it. You're charged by the weight of the bug.

Yes, that's right. Lobsters, like their cousins the crawfish, are bugs. Although the biology people will use a lofty name like "crustacean" when describing said bugs, do not be deceived. Those critters are bugs.

Then the guy takes that lobster, along with an ear of corn, and puts it in a mesh/rope bag, then puts it in line. Another guy will, in turn, take the individual orders and put them in a large steam vat.

You can't hear the lobster screaming in pain. But you can sense it.  :-)

Anyway, a couple minutes of that then they plate up the critter, along with the corn, you pay your money, and off you go to the outdoor picnic tables to eat your bug. And corn.

I saw one place where people had BYOB - essentially a box of wine.

The smell in that place was, not surprisingly, like fish.

Completely destroyed my appetite.  :shrug:   :puke:
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #154 on: July 19, 2013, 11:16:54 AM »
Quote from: Eupher on July 19, 2013, 10:44:12 AM
The smell in that place was, not surprisingly, like fish.

Completely destroyed my appetite.  :shrug:   :puke:
:panic: :bawl:

I used to work brunch.  I hate the smell of burned eggs and after a shift doing omlettes, that's all I smelled for the rest of the day.  It smells like ass.
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #155 on: July 19, 2013, 03:42:49 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on July 18, 2013, 02:37:14 PM
Jeff, those paper mills are the funkiest things on the planet, except for pig farms. Your nose has to be permanently burned out not to be affected by the funk in pig farms. But the paper mills absolutely reek -- no doubt.

There's one off of I40 between Knoxville and Asheville NC and another one on I75 between Knoxville and Chattanooga. I get to smell the one on 40 tomorrow.  :puke: :puke: :puke: soooooo nasty!!!
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #156 on: July 20, 2013, 02:21:08 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on July 19, 2013, 10:44:12 AM
Lobsters are often sold live to those who want them that way (ostensibly for later cooking) and then cooked/boiled along with the trimmings (drawn butter, lemon juice and whatever sides) in what's called a lobster pound.

Our first night in ME, the gang went to one of these in Southwest Harbor, ME, a very small town on Mt. Desert Island.

You line up and in front of you are salt water tanks with live lobsters congregated in them. Their claws (one for crushing and the other for slicing) are immobilized with rubber bands. You tell the guy what you're looking for and if it's lobster (usually about 1.5 lbs. in weight), he grabs one out of the tank and weighs it. You're charged by the weight of the bug.

Yes, that's right. Lobsters, like their cousins the crawfish, are bugs. Although the biology people will use a lofty name like "crustacean" when describing said bugs, do not be deceived. Those critters are bugs.

Then the guy takes that lobster, along with an ear of corn, and puts it in a mesh/rope bag, then puts it in line. Another guy will, in turn, take the individual orders and put them in a large steam vat.

You can't hear the lobster screaming in pain. But you can sense it.  :-)

Anyway, a couple minutes of that then they plate up the critter, along with the corn, you pay your money, and off you go to the outdoor picnic tables to eat your bug. And corn.

I saw one place where people had BYOB - essentially a box of wine.

The smell in that place was, not surprisingly, like fish.

Completely destroyed my appetite.  :shrug:   :puke:

Eupher, that sounds like heaven to me! And the lobster rolls I had when visiting Cape Cod were to die for! Bring on those delicious bugs!! And lots of melted butter!
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #157 on: July 20, 2013, 05:27:14 PM »
Quote from: njpines on July 20, 2013, 02:21:08 PM
Eupher, that sounds like heaven to me! And the lobster rolls I had when visiting Cape Cod were to die for! Bring on those delicious bugs!! And lots of melted butter!

I'm with njpines.  I've ate bugs, and lobsters don't taste anything like a bug.  :-) :tongue:
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #158 on: July 21, 2013, 08:30:09 PM »
Quote from: njpines on July 20, 2013, 02:21:08 PM
Eupher, that sounds like heaven to me! And the lobster rolls I had when visiting Cape Cod were to die for! Bring on those delicious bugs!! And lots of melted butter!

I agree wholeheartedly - sounds fabulous to me!   :drool:
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #159 on: July 21, 2013, 08:41:19 PM »
Quote from: JLO on July 21, 2013, 08:30:09 PM
I agree wholeheartedly - sounds fabulous to me!   :drool:

Ditto!
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #160 on: July 22, 2013, 08:12:22 AM »
^5s for all the bug eaters!!  :-)
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #161 on: July 22, 2013, 10:54:05 AM »
I love Lobtstah rolls. The Beach Plum Restaurant makes the best. Another great restaurant on an inlet, is in Freeport, Maine.. :drool: :drool:. Bg's Boat House in Newcastle, NH. Petey's in Rye on rt 1. The Lobstah Shack in Bath and her sister store in Wiscasset, are fantaststic.
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #162 on: July 22, 2013, 12:20:14 PM »
I like to get my snack down at the Y.
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #163 on: July 22, 2013, 12:43:47 PM »
Quote from: CG6468 on July 22, 2013, 12:20:14 PM
I like to get my snack down at the Y.
I see what you did there!!! bad boy!! :asssmack: :asssmack:
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« Reply #164 on: July 22, 2013, 01:50:39 PM »
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I see what you did there!!! bad boy!! :asssmack: :asssmack:

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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #165 on: July 22, 2013, 06:14:50 PM »
Quote from: Eupher on July 16, 2013, 12:13:04 PM
Damn, this is the first thing we've agreed on since you did brisket back a couple years ago!   :-)

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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #166 on: July 23, 2013, 12:19:25 PM »
I have an un-rec.  It's Tyson Herb-baked Chicken, in the lunch meat section.  I didn't look closely enough at it when I bought it.  It looks like what they did was, puree some "chicken" parts (like hotdog meat), added some herbs and other junk to the slop, formed it into a blob, and sliced it.  Absolutely execreble.  I fed the lot to the skunks in the woods.

Their Black Forest ham in similar packaging, however, is excellent.  I was fooled by association.
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Re: Foods we Despise
« Reply #167 on: July 23, 2013, 01:22:53 PM »
Quote from: Karin on July 23, 2013, 12:19:25 PM
I have an un-rec.  It's Tyson Herb-baked Chicken, in the lunch meat section.  I didn't look closely enough at it when I bought it.  It looks like what they did was, puree some "chicken" parts (like hotdog meat), added some herbs and other junk to the slop, formed it into a blob, and sliced it.  Absolutely execreble.  I fed the lot to the skunks in the woods.

Their Black Forest ham in similar packaging, however, is excellent.  I was fooled by association.

I love the way you describe prepared foods like that.

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« Reply #168 on: July 23, 2013, 01:28:13 PM »
Some of that stuff should come with a warning (or at least an accurate description like 'mechanically-extruded chicken-based meat product') :p
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« Reply #169 on: July 23, 2013, 02:44:43 PM »
Quote from: Chris_ on July 23, 2013, 01:28:13 PM
Some of that stuff should come with a warning (or at least an accurate description like 'mechanically-extruded chicken-based meat product') :p

The fun part of getting a live lobster is bringing it home, cutting off the claw bands, place it on the floor to wander about driving the cats crazy while the water boils.

BTW one fall we got a very large fish tank for a salt water aquarium. Once set up we went to the supermarket and bought a small lobster to insure the expensive fish could live in it.   I named her Elvira and she survived until June when the water became too warm for her.   Very interesting behavior for something we knew little about.  Sad we had to turn her loose when she would not stop sheding. Lobsters eat their shell when they shed.

Over fed she would bury the not eaten under the sand, she was curious, would stand on her tail against the glass and check us out, at one time I put a bubblier at the bottom of the tank that annoyed her, she slid under it on her belly, stood up and popped the thing off the glass.

Made us wonder, that critter was not just a dinner but a thinking being.   

 
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« Reply #170 on: July 23, 2013, 04:17:02 PM »
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Made us wonder, that critter was not just a dinner but a thinking being.   



Smart bugs? Still damn tasty.  :drool:
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« Reply #171 on: September 05, 2013, 09:34:47 AM »
So I go into the breakroom at work, and there's an opened bag of a snackfood lying on a table.  Curious, I tried one.  It was the worst thing ever. 

They were "baked sweet potato chips."  I put one in my mouth and regretted it instantly.  When chewed, the consistency turned into kindergarten paste, and remains stuck in your teeth like any paste would.  The taste was both cloying and bitter. 

These must have been from the school lunch collection we warehouse, and a case must have broken open or something and they were trying to get rid of it.  They had the mark of Michelle Obama all over them, being non-fat and gluten-free, and the kids were right:  They tasted like vomit. 

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« Reply #172 on: September 05, 2013, 09:36:52 AM »
What brand was it?

Terra makes good chips, but they're not cheap.
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« Reply #173 on: September 05, 2013, 10:28:32 AM »
Quote from: Karin on September 05, 2013, 09:34:47 AM
So I go into the breakroom at work, and there's an opened bag of a snackfood lying on a table.  Curious, I tried one.  It was the worst thing ever. 

They were "baked sweet potato chips."  I put one in my mouth and regretted it instantly.  When chewed, the consistency turned into kindergarten paste, and remains stuck in your teeth like any paste would.  The taste was both cloying and bitter. 

These must have been from the school lunch collection we warehouse, and a case must have broken open or something and they were trying to get rid of it.  They had the mark of Michelle Obama all over them, being non-fat and gluten-free, and the kids were right:  They tasted like vomit. 



My wife makes homemade sweet potato chips.  She slices them about 1/8 inch thick, sprinkles with cinnamon and then bakes them.







She makes them as a healthy treat for the dog and the dog likes them.
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