Guest guest Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 , I'm sure it is true what you say about people from other countries, although I often think that they are stuck on some really healthy foods while Americans are stuck on donuts and pop and french fries... But I meant that the group was mostly open-minded born and raised Americans! (That's not an oxymoron is it?) Yes, teenagers that eat liver, tongue and are willing to sit around listening to a bunch of goofy middle-aged grown-ups! I agree that tongue doesn't have the same mouth-feel that liver does-but yes, dense and not fibrous. What other not -your-everyday American foods do you make or have you tried? Kathy What > > Just a follow-up report on the beef tongue- I'd say a little over 1/2 of it was > > eaten. Even though this is a very open-minded group of people, I think my > > Russian friend ate most of it. She declared it very good, although she said I > > didn't really get the presentation right- something about that it is supposed to > > have cooked vegetables like carrots and be in gelatin (difficult to please is > > that one!). > > I do recall tongue in aspic being a traditional preparation. It's certainly not the only one. > I've noticed in the past that people from other countries are every bit as stuck on how they were > raised eating a particular food as Americans are...they're just hung up about different things so > it sometimes looks like they're more open-minded. > > > One out of two teenagers that were there tried it and said it had the > > taste of beef and the texture more like liver. All in all, I still consider it a > > success and would make it again. > > Has that teen ever had liver? I don't think that tongue has a texture even remotely like liver. > It's a very dense, small-grained meat, but it doesn't have any of that grainy texture that liver > does. Maybe it was just the non-fibrous texture that reminded them of liver. I sometimes forget > that many people have fewer points of comparisons when describing food's textures and flavors... > > Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 --- realfoodie2003 <realfoodie2003@...> wrote: > What other not -your-everyday American foods do you make or have you > tried? Gizzard, heart, preserved duck eggs, licorice-flavored sweet & salty dried olives, chewy seaweed candy, blood sausage (in many forms), mexican brain tacos, tripe, kidneys, sea urchin, dried whole tiny shrimp (they look kind of like slightly larger dried mosquitos), squirrels, acorn-flour pancakes, acorn battered frog-legs (speared them myself in a local peat field with a home-made spear when I was about 13), dog-tooth violet tubers, wild leeks (aka ramps), fiddlehead ferns, cattail pollen-flour (I used it in muffins), stinging nettles, king plantain leaves, fried dandelion buds, cooked dandelion root (leaves too, but that's not that uncommon), lambs-quarters (another wild green), wild salsify root, wild sunflower root (jerusalem artichoke), wild burdock root, whole fish egg-sacs cooked like dumplings in soup, various raw beef things (tartar, carpaccio, thai laab, ethiopian kitfo), alligator. That's all that comes to my mind at the moment, and some of those aren't all that strange...depending on where you're from. The only things in that list that I didn't really like were the seaweed candy, the dried olives and the preserved duck eggs. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 > > Gizzard, heart, preserved duck eggs, licorice-flavored sweet & salty dried olives, chewy seaweed > candy, blood sausage (in many forms), mexican brain tacos, tripe, kidneys, sea urchin, dried whole > tiny shrimp (they look kind of like slightly larger dried mosquitos), squirrels, acorn-flour > pancakes, acorn battered frog-legs... You're quite the epicurean. ) ~Joe Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest guest Posted April 26, 2004 Report Share Posted April 26, 2004 > You're quite the epicurean. ) > ~Joe Epicurean or human garbage-disposal? It's probably up for debate... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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