Any club that offers liver in any form -- chopped, fried, sauteed, whatever -- is for me. The fact that I get no respect is just an added bonus to enable membership.
@ossobuco,
Wow osso, you were a hot tamale - great pictures!!
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I am with Andy, I like liver in every form or shape, but I'd like to have onions with mine please!
@Lustig Andrei,
I liked liver once I tasted it not over cooked..
not in our house, but a long time later. Not to yammer at my parents, that was the way it was.
I am looking forward to meetings.
When I was growing up in the Irish, French Canadian, Latvian, WASP neighborhood, we would occasionally taunt somebody or some team by saying they were chopped liver.
Fast forward to 1968 December, I am in a deli with my oldest, dearest (still is) friend, Annie, and our friend, Barb, whom we have both known from high school and whom one of us (me) l o n g s to be in love with and..............her new very rude Jewish fat boyfriend who was fat. Ahem. Anyway we ordered food and he, the rude (he was rude and mean) fat Jewish slug ordered "the chopped liver".
When our food came, I asked, very nicely, while saying that I had never tasted chopped liver, if I could have a smidge ??
He said " Order some. It will taste like mine."
{I can't get the image out of my head that those two ever shared anything more than a cab}
So, I'm a sport. I went up to the counter and ordered the chopped liver.
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It was like eating butter.
With some finely chopped onion and garlic.
No wonder he, the fat, yadda yadda yadda, wouldn't share.
Any way,
fast forward
to now
why, he asked nicely, is chopped liver a derogatory term?
Joe(What are we, crazy? It's ambrosia)Nation
@ossobuco,
Quote: I see I've veered off topic.
Shall we talk liverwurst?
Oddly enough I ate a liverwurst sandwich earlier today.
Liverwurst always is a strange item for me to eat as it brings back memories of my late Arthur the cat. He loved liverwurst (loved garlic as well but that's another story).
Still have some liverwurst in the refrigerator for tomorrow.
As Groucho said, I don't want to belong to any club that would accept me as a member.
@MontereyJack,
Well then you can safely belong to this one. None of us want you to be a member.
OK, I'm in. Or am I out? In the circumstances, it's kinda hard to tell.
You're in.
Did you pick up your badge?
@ossobuco,
Badges? We don' need no steenkin' badges.
@Lustig Andrei,
C'mon, you knew I was kidding.
@ossobuco,
ossobuco wrote:
C'mon, you knew I was kidding.
Of ccourse I knew that, Osso. But the line was too good to resist. And while the
Blazing Saddles tribute to the line is certainly welcome, let's not forget the original was delivered by Carlos Montoya as the Mexican bandit in
Treaure of the Sierra Madre. Btw, as a nice bit of trivia, that line does appear in, and was lifted intact from, the original novel by B. Traven. It's not a Hollywood addendum.
The best way to eat liverwurst is with a bunch a onion salt on it . . . you know, the kind with the chemical taste?
@Setanta,
Liver! I don't want no stinking liver!
@dlowan,
Good! This means this thread is a place of no significance to you, if not even a matter of utter indifference.
@izzythepush,
and you wonder why folks bag on british food.
I'll just have some mushy peas, thanks...
@dlowan,
dlowan wrote:It provokes me.
Good . . . maybe some of us have a smidgen of significance.
