Bagels!?! We got bagels!!

No, Lil' K, the pigs got and spread the trichinosis because they also consumed other animals droppings while rooting for the acorns in the mast--they preferred the acorns to the other constituents of the mast. Pigs are truly filthy animals in their personal habits, and the disease became endemic.

hmmmmm

Couldn't half as bad as the experimenting to distinguish edible mushrooms from the poisonous. Or the first person to eat an octopus....

or the last person to eat octopus if you're talking about that little killer down there in Oz - the blue ringed octupus?

marycat, glad you made it here. Although I make fun of the Boston crowd, I really like "hearing" from Bostonians. Very interesting crowd. I know you are a New Yorker now but I remember the old afuzz days. P.S. don't tell the rest of the Bostonians I actually like them, it will make their heads swell.

Speaking of rabbit, very tasty.

littlek, octopus made right is delicious

In Hawaii they make a dish called tako poke, and squid luau. hmmm, hmmm, hmmm. On Guam the make something with the octopus with cherry tomato's and coconut milk.

Pueo, in my heart I am still a Bostonian, I must say...

On a bagel-y note, I think I may possibly learn bagels at school after all! They made some up in the bread kitchen yesterday and they were yummy yummy yummy. Gonna wander up and talk to the bread faculty about this later on...

BREAD faculty?!

I'm in cooking school. That's what I came to New York to do.

We have bread faculty, pastry faculty, and culinary faculty. I'm in the culinary program now. If we can afford to stick around, I plan to take the bread program in the spring.

I knew that! I was just teasing - it sounds funny to non-cheffy ears....

Some of them mushrooms give quite a payoff! (It seems plausible that people learned about a lot of edible foods from watching animals eat them. Anything out there that eats mushrooms? Boar, perhaps?)

We raised two pigs once over the course of a summer.

The female, Pinky, I liked; her brother, Umber, no. I was happy to have someone shoot and prepare him for our table. He would chase me around the pen; scared the dickens out of me. His last few weeks of meals included a tree's full of cherries. He was delicious! (Burnt Umber - get it?)

Pigs do seem willing to be filthy, but mine loved to be sprayed clean with the hose and brushed with a stiff bristle brush. They lived quite nicely in a bit of sunny woods. Pinky was sent back to the farm to raise babies. Lovely Dark Red & Hairy Duroc pigs.

OK, it has been well established by now that one can get bagels in Oz (no thanks, i'll pass) and pork (yes please, thank you very much!). So, is it possible to find a decent cheese-burger there?

Well, the put fried eggs on 'em, jefe...

Wotza cheeseburger?

We do have McDonalds here, I'm afraid -and they sell something reputed to be a cheeseburger. Had a look at one once and couldn't identify anything in it! So - I'm still uncertain.

Take a medium grind of good beef, form into patties and fry or grill, first on one side, then the other. If you want a cheeseburger, add a slice of decent cheese after the patty has been turned. Serve on a bun, sourdough being ideal with mayo and catsup and lettuce and tomato and onion.

ahem... Cheeseburger In Paradise
By: Jimmy Buffett
1978
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Tried to amend my carnivorous habits
Made it nearly seventy days
Losin' weight without speed, eatin' sunflower seeds
Drinkin' lots of carrot juice and soakin' up rays

But at night I'd had these wonderful dreams
Some kind of sensuous treat
Not zuchinni, fettucini or bulghar wheat
But a big warm bun and a huge hunk of meat

Chorus:
Cheeseburger in paradise (paradise)
Heaven on earth with an onion slice (paradise)
Not too particular not too precise (paradise)
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise

Heard about the old time sailor men
They eat the same thing again and again
Warm beer and bread they said could raise the dead
Well it reminds me of the menu at a Holiday Inn

Times have changed for sailors these days
When I'm in port I get what I need
Not just Havanas or bananas or daiquiris
But that American creation on which I feed

Chorus:
Cheeseburger in paradise (paradise)
Medium rare with mustard 'be nice (paradise)
Heaven on earth with an onion slice (paradise)
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise

I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well good God Almighty which way do I steer for my

Chorus:
Cheeseburger in paradise (paradise)
Makin' the best of every virtue and vice (paradise)
Worth every damn bit of sacrifice (paradise)
To get a cheeseburger in paradise
To be a cheeseburger in paradise
I'm just a cheeseburger in paradise

Coda:
I like mine with lettuce and tomato
Heinz 57 and french fried potatoes
Big kosher pickle and a cold draft beer
Well good God Almighty which way do I steer for my

CHEESEBURGER IN PARADISE?

LOL Jimmy!

My grandfather always kept two pigs, one was called freezer and the other sausage. When they grew to the appropriate size well they became..........

Made bagels before the weird part was that I didn't know they had to be placed in semi-boiling water before baking.

marycat, my middle brother has made a career of being a chef. He worked (or labored as I did) at my mother's restaurant in his early years. Not to say my mother was mean, she just wanted us to learn the business from the bottom up at minimum wage . He moved on to executive chef at the Carmel Country Club and then tried his hand at his own restaurant which he decided to sell after two years of no sleep. He currently is the ex. chef at Clint Eastwoods newest restaurant.

marycat, BTW, I can do some a few things in a kitchen too. When you're ready want to do a Iron Chef type challenge?

We'll let the members of this thread choose the secret ingredient.

And tonight's theme is ?????????????????????

Hamster ala king????