Tell me more about this "bad one" --from context, a bad eater? Dinner guests refusing to finish their salad again?
Ya know, I had a goat with the same problem. He really did eat a tin can. Kilt him, of course.
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['So ate him more in sorrow than in anger.']
Better when the goat is alive, I'd imagine.
2: Gah, doncha hate that? You go to all this trouble, and they're like: We don't like raw kale.
Buncha goobers. It's like that time my aunt went out of her way to make delicious bacon-wrapped scallops as an appetizer, and I was apologetic, and she just looked at me funny.
Man, even if you didn't want to eat them, calling her appetizers a "buncha goobers" was kind of rude, wasn't it? You could have just said "They look delicious, but I'm a vegetarian."
Eh. I said I apologized. I don't like scallops, I said, just one of those things, one of those seafoods I don't like.
It worked out okay -- we all talked about the kinds of seafood we don't like, can't explain it, just not my thing.
More seriously? My aunt knows I'm a mostly-vegetarian, and we're slowly working out a way in which she accommodates the heavy-duty meat eaters in the family without making a meal that I just can't eat at all, and without her feeling the need to strain to come up with a vegetarian meal. That's not her thing, at all.
You could have just said "They look delicious, but I'm a vegetarian keeping kosher."
Isn't a scallop pretty much the ideal vegetarian 'cheat'? I mean, for an animal, it's pretty much a plant.
9: I was kidding -- I assume that you didn't actually use the word 'goobers' to describe the scallops as you refused them.
12: I know.
11: It was the bacon around the scallops. These bacon-wrapped scallop things are dripping in fat, and it looks like the bacon isn't really cooked. I think that's the way they're supposed to be made. Ew? I'm sorry!
11: I've been wanting to research the various kinds of cheats. My Japanese gf once explained to me how some Buddhists classified rabbits with fish for the purpose of consumption, but I don't recall the details.
14: I've heard of similar cheats that were used by Catholics for Lent and Friday. I am unaware of Buddhist dietary rules.
Fish is not considered meat for kosher purposes.
But, scallops aren't considered fish for kosher purposes, are they? (Leaving aside the bacon)
Beavers, not rabbits were fish (water, you see). This caused the extinction of beavers in England. Wikipedia blames Aquinas, but does not mention that he personally was hugely fat, and smacked his lips noisily while gorging on minced beaver pies during lent.
while gorging on minced beaver pies
The man lived in Paris (and Italy)! I imagine he ate rather better than that during Lent!
18: Seems to me lw is still holding a grudge against Aquinas. That noisy smacking of lips can get really annoying meal after meal!
The man lived in Paris (and Italy)
Where you probably could have pushed a pig into the water, called it a fish, and cooked it up for Good Friday.
Scallops wrapped in bacon are closing in on the platonic ideal of not-kosher. Cook 'em in butter, and you're gold.
The original article still shows in Google Reader. Lo, the difficulty of unsaying that which has been said...
Even better:
1. milk a cow, make butter from the milk
2. kill the cow cruelly, make burger from cow
3. wrap scallop in bacon made from a pig that was tortured to death
4. put bacon-scallon in burger from step 2
5. cook in the butter from step 1.
(For bonus points, use a dirty pan.)
25: You'll need to deglaze your pan with some wine that goyim touched.
26: If you'd even see me tend bar, you'd assume goyim fingers are in all the wine.
26: Menstruating goyim. Also, the burger should be from the cow's child, shouldn't it?
These bacon-wrapped scallop things are dripping in fat, and it looks like the bacon isn't really cooked.
Ah. I was going to ask how you could cook the bacon properly without horribly overcooking the scallop. So the idea is to not properly cook the bacon. Tragic.
I'll gladly eat everybody else's rejected scallops.
You can partially pre-cook the bacon if you want. Just so long as it's not crispy you should still be able to get it around the scallop.
You can get crispy bacon around the scallop, but it takes a very large supply of toothpicks and patience.
Glue and indifference would also work.
Or use panchetta instead of bacon.
But definitely stick with the foolishness, which is key to eating shellfish at all.
Scallops wrapped in bacon...
... are on the shopping list for the twins' birthday party this weekend. Also on the list: an alcoholic punch for our grown-up friends. I am currently desperately seeking a recipe for a good, fall-themed punch. Can the Mineshaft help?
I suppose mulled wine would be too trite?
I'm planning to do a (non-alcoholic) mulled cider, so another mulled beverage seems like it might be mull overkill.
ArrackPunch is kind of seasonal, by the transitive property of cocktail relevancy (colonial to thanksgiving to autumn).
Scallops wrapped in bacon...
... are on the shopping list for the twins' birthday party this weekend.
Hmm, maybe your brother was right.
43: Maybe a variation on this (here in a more cocktail form):
Hayrides!: (1) Take a big pot and pour in 3qts apple cider. Drop in an orange with some cloves (like 5 -- my pic is non-representative!) stuck in it, a cinnamon stick, 5 or so allspice berries. Simmer this until it reduces by 2/3. For my fellow literature students, this means you will have 1qt left. Let this cool a bit and strain. Then put it in ... Read Moresome kind of bottle in your fridge. Now you can make the drink! (2) Run a lemon wedge around the rims of your cocktail glasses. Give said glasses a little twist on a plate covered with cinnamon sugar (1/4sugar + 1/2tsp cinnamon swished briefly in a spice blender, or just swished together). (3) Fill cocktail shaker with ice. Add 2oz bourbon, 1/2 oz pear brandy, 2oz spiced cider. (4) Shake! (5) Pour into glasses, garnish with a pear slice.
To the Orientals we owe punch - as many other good things.
Do tell, Alice Morse Earle.
Hmm, maybe your brother was right.
In fairness, I think one should conclude that bacon is the greatest threat facing Judaism today. If only it weren't so delicious...
I made the second cocktail listed here the other day, and it was delicious, but I have no idea if you could scale it up to punch bowl proportions.
Delicious and very autumnal, I should say.
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Why would someone want crispy bacon?
crispy bacon is delicious! the very best is when bacon has very crispy places and much softer places. ultimate texture. this is possible when you bake bacon in the oven. it's even better if you use a bit of amaretto or bourbon.
trying hayrides tonight. thanks, oudemia!
I don't like to think why the fishkeepers consider that advisement to be practical.
females of the species bite off the penis of their male partner and feed it to their young.
"You won't be needing this anymore!"
A somewhat more confidence inspiring recipe for Batavia Arrack Punch.
Yes, ultimate texture.
I've been busy, like fucking working and shit today, so no Internet. Finally got a chance to check in, and what is at the top of the comments side bar? Giant penis-eating worm comments on Well, I am a good eater. It almost brought a tear.
I eat where it counts.
Crispy bacon is about the only style of bacon I'll eat.
I like mine to be right on the crispy/not crispy border, so parts areand parts aren't.
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67: You didn't give the nurse a 'tip', did you?
What is pear brandy, is it just another name for pear eau de vie or something else?
A popular Polish cider cocktail is the 'szarlotka' (apple pie): Żubrówka plus apple cider or apple juice. Personally I prefer it straight up, but tastes vary. Only use the real version that you get in Europe, the one sold in America is artificially flavoured. The FDA kindly decided that since if you drink over a fifth a day of the stuff the bison grass extract will destroy your liver, it would ban it. Of course drinking a fifth a day of plain old vodka is just the thing for healthy organ function.
60 So, GPW, any recipes? My Joy of Cooking has sheep balls but none in your specialty.
There should be a Scottish mixed drink named Sheep Balls. That would delight me to no end.
It would probably just be another phase.
The not banning of sheep ball recipes or the banning of [bison] grass?
The thing is, that while the real stuff will kill you faster than plain old hard liquor, a single binge, or even a several day bender exclusively done on it won't do anything bad, you have to drink it day in, day out over a period of time.
72 - HEY, WE'RE THE ONES WHO LIKE SHEEP BALLS!
I'm actually quite indifferent to (really) crispy bacon - it's behind ham and sausage on my breakfast meats rankings. But I adore truly thick-sliced bacon - not that 0.1" stuff, but hand-sliced hunks approaching 1/4" - the meat is meaty, the fat becomes meltingly tender, and the edges are crisp.
I may be in the midst of a change of plans for lunch.
Michael Ruhlman's BLT from scratch challenge has made me want to get around to makin' bacon. And eating more BLTs.
In other news, I now have half of a lamb in the freezer.
In other news, I now have half of a lamb in the freezer.
That's going to waste a great deal of electricity.
Second the Bison Grass. Best vodka I've ever had.