Quickly checking my impulse to call him a naive little twit, I decided to just use local growers during the summer and wing it the rest of the time. "Organic," "natural," are simply words with several different meanings. Botulism is organic for pity's sake. These words have become big business with a surprisingly accepting public who have enough extra money to pay their price. Inspectors can be bribed. I'll take the small farmer who might use a little insecticide that disintegrates after three weeks. He can't use more because he can't afford it. He uses cow manure from the local dairy farms, not that super expensive stuff from places like Dow Chemical.
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Now, ain't that the cotton pickin' truth? I get tomatoes from the farmer's market, and/or the health food store (Wildly Natural) on occasion. I'm not much impressed with the organic/healthy movement, but tomatoes ripened on the vine are worth the extra effort. What "vine ripened" means in the context of a supermarket, I have no idea. Most of them have been coaxed into some kind of pinkish/orange color, but the first bite says "green".
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Sun 18 Jun, 2006 10:24 pm
Hey Roger, you haven't been down in a while. Anytime is fine with us, but be sure to come by when our tomatoes are ripe. Heaven on a vine!
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Linkat
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Mon 19 Jun, 2006 07:54 am
Diane don't mention the steamed clams - next thing Wholefoods will boycott them too.
Love those little suckers too.
One time David Letterman had a lobster on his show - Larry the Lobster I believe. He took viewers vote to determine whether Larry should be boiled and eaten or whether he should be set free. My sweet loving mommy couldn't wait to call and have the thing boiled. Unfortunately there were too many nuts that the vote went in favor to save Larry. Fortunately Letterman being the PC type of guy he is boiled and ate the sucker any way.
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Linkat
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Mon 19 Jun, 2006 07:56 am
Many people mentioned their disgust with lobsters because essentially they eat all the crap and sh*t that no good thinking fish would touch. Well when I was a child I ate dirt so this is definitely a step up for me.
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Diane
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Mon 19 Jun, 2006 10:31 am
Linkkat, you are one hilarious woman.
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Linkat
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Mon 19 Jun, 2006 10:49 am
Why thank you - thought I was the only one who appreciated my odd sense of humor.
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Linkat
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Mon 26 Jun, 2006 01:22 pm
For all you "don't hurt the lobsters" people (ie. Wholefoods lovers) - you would have loved the most recent Iron Chef show. The meal - lobsters! They had piles of these huge lobsters. The chefs were not the least bit concerned about the lobsters' comfort. I saw them grab the lobster and simply pull off the tail and claws - while still alive! They were under at time constraint to prepare these unfortunate creatures so there was no opportunity for a humane killing. One chef even dropped them in the water before boiling! I'm not even that cruel. And all I could think of while I was chuckling under my breathe was the poor saps at Wholefoods and this thread.
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Chai
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 06:15 am
What kind of dirt did you eat?
The gray kind or the brown kind?
The brown kind has dog poop in it.
The gray kind has bird poop in it.
You know how some dirt has little greenish things in it?
lobster poop.
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Linkat
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 06:50 am
It was more brownish - typically I mixed water with it. Mud tastes so much better than just plain dirt.
Actually lobster poop is kind of black - just remove the tail meat and then remove the poop along the back of the tail (proper way to eat lobster). The green stuff in the lobster is the tomalley - the digestive gland - not the actual poop itself.
Just call me a poop expert.
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DrewDad
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 07:35 am
OK. You're a poop expert. I thought Gus held that title, but he's gone now....
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Chai
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 07:46 am
mmmm....a nice steaming hot bowl of lobster digestive gland
you're making it really hard to resist.
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Linkat
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 10:47 am
I feeled honored to be able to be even considered a replacement for some one so esteemed as Gus. Thanks!
I actually do not eat the tomalley - can't bring myself to eat digestive parts of the body.
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Chai
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 11:09 am
AAAAAHHH.....so there IS a limit to your perversion!
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Linkat
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 11:17 am
Yes - there are a few things I won't eat - insects and most organ meats and definately not monkey brains.
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Chai
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 11:40 am
So what do you substitute when a receipe calls for minced monkey brains?
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sozobe
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 11:42 am
As this is the first time I've seen chai's new sig line, the above appeared to me as:
Chai Tea wrote:
So what do you substitute when a receipe calls for minced monkey brains?
TRADITIONAL CHINESE BREAKFAST!
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Chai
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 11:47 am
Yes, that's what's in the bowl in the upper left of my avatar. The one next to it is Maypo.
Remember Maypo?
It seems nowadays you can only get it in China.
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Linkat
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Tue 27 Jun, 2006 12:28 pm
Quote:
So what do you substitute when a receipe calls for minced monkey brains?
Well lobster of course!
Maypo - don't think I ever had it, but I do remember vaguely hearing that name and a jingle.
