FOOD!!!!!!!!

I would put
Sirloin Steak Tips

with that combo, but what would a Vegan do with those 3 things?
 
Tofu fajitas? Tofu bratwurst?

Or the onions and peppers could be on a grilled portabello sandwich.

We love mushrooms at our house. We know a whole family that doesn't like them, though. One of the young women was trying to expand her palate and get used to them. The mischievous streak in me wanted to point out that mushroom cell walls are constructed of chitin, the same thing as insect exoskeletons. The nice part of me prevailed, however, and I kept quiet. :D
 
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^ What you said.

What I saw v
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lol

I am in the middle of a series of books about a dark elf, Drow, in an underground world called Underdark, where there are mushrooms that are large enough to form forests and supports for buildings.

Grill one of those.

It's actually a pretty good series if you like elves, dwarfs, halflings, giants, goblins, orcs, barbarians and humans. I started with book 4 - the Crystal Shard.
 
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I am in the middle of a series of books about a dark elf, Drow, in an underground world called Underdark, where there are mushrooms that are large enough to form forests and supports for buildings.
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Such a good book/series. I have the first six books. Need to finish them. :D
 
I read books 4,5,6 then went back and read 1,2,3 - it didn't hurt the flow at all. Now to the next three. He seems to write in trilogies.

To tie this to food - in book three a dwarf gets sick when he ate some dog...anyone ever eat really weird stuff like dog? Weird for me is calamari and octopus.
 
I have grown to appreciate tofu - never was a big fan,but I enjoy it now - kinda like grits - it tastes like what you put on it or you put it in.
 
I don't mind tofu. I just don't prefer it.

Tryna think of weird things I've eaten. Had calamari before, but I didn't think it all that weird. Hmm. Memory fails me. Could actually be the "weirdest" thing I've eaten.

I need more foodventure in my life. It's adventuring in food!
 
As for weird, Dim Sum is a good way to go. It's Chinese a la carte, so you buy little plates of a lot of different things rather than a single meal. Got to try shark fin and chicken feet that way. I wouldn't eat either of them again, not because they tasted bad, but because there's very little payoff. Two large of a gristle to meat ratio.

As for Long John Silver's, it's one of those places I drive past and wonder who eats there, because I never do. Arby's is the same way.

LJS, because fish and fast food seem like they belong on the complete opposites of the spectrum of food. Fish should be as fresh as possible and cooked as lightly as possible, whereas fast food has a shelf life short of eternity and is deep fried.

Arby's because as far as I can tell it's about a lot of meat, bread, cheese and sauce. I like a few vegetable kingdom items thrown in with those, even if it is shredded iceberg lettuce and unripe tomatoes, a la Burger King.
 
I like oysters a lot of different ways.

What I often think is weird is - who first opened an oyster and said, "I think I'll eat that."?
 
LOL! That could start a whole discussion on its own, Abba San.

I have a friend who's a missionary in the Phillipines who has tried a fairly common street snack there called balut. A fertilized chicken egg is allowed to develop and then boiled. I can understand why someone would eat a partically grown chicken fetus if you're really hungry. But why would it become a normal snack?

Or, my favorite for "who decided to eat that?" would be huitlacoche.
 
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Ahh yes, balut eaten with white rice and sometimes with bagoong. It's a normal snack because it's an ethnic tradition. But many believe balut to be an aphrodisiac.

That huitlacoche looks sick. But hey every culture has their foods that makes us raise an eyebrow :)
 
While we are grossing out all our Norte Americanos what is your opinion on countries that have horse meat on the menu? Currently there is a scandle of horse meat mixed in with the beef in the supplier to UK Burger King. Yet some countries sell horse meat for human consumption. How hungry would you have to be to knowingly eat horse meat?
 
I don't know why, but I don't have a visceral reaction to horse meat. Cat or dog, though, does seem repulsive.

Maybe I just haven't known enough horses.
 
Honestly wouldn't be opposed to eating horse. Not on some sense of moral principle, anyway. /shrug
 
Back in the mid 80s there was a local restaurant that got caught selling horse meat. So I think I've eaten it. I am opposed to eating shark fin soup considering the wrongful way shark fins are acquired. No, I'm not an animal rights activist either :)
 
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