I’d like the comment but I’m shuddering too hard at the idea.
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Nah. That was what my Grandmum’s generation had passed down, but Mum, bless her, was not that fond of that style of cooking. Mind you, living in what was at that time the second-largest French-speaking city in the world certainly had an effect on even Fifties cuisine.
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Yeah, I think the gelatin thing was less widespread than people think. There’s a geography/ethnicity component to it.
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Now that is good.
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This reminds me of the main reason I like Southwest; this is what getting ON the plane looks like with them:
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When it’s good, it’s good. True dat.
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jellied tongues?
Is that like “Lark’s Tongues in Aspic?”
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That was SO familiar but I had to google it to recall.
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King Crimson album. They had a rather lovely song for Chidren of Men, but much of their stuff doesn’t hit the same notes.
In Life of Brian, Brian is selling food during the gladiatorial matches
BRIAN: Larks’ tongues. Wrens’ livers. Chaffinch brains. Jaguars’ earlobes. Wolf nipple chips. Get 'em while they’re hot. They’re lovely. Dromedary pretzels, only half a denar. Tuscany fried bats.
No aspic, though.
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Software, as an industry, has almost zero conceptual awareness of history of any sort. Almost like time didn’t start until about 1997 or so; before that was only an endless void of nothingness. It’s a huge blind spot that harms the profession (and I say that as someone who is admittedly not at all well-versed in history, myself).
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My whole family tastes it as soapy dishwater. Unfortunately it’s in a lot of Mexican food (which we love) but not in a way that can easily be removed - like you mentioned, mixed in with the salsa or something.
We tried several of those ‘pre-planned meal delivery’ services that ship a box of raw ingredients, in the right proportions, along with a recipe. Almost every one (from several companies that we tried) came with a wad of cilantro. It reminds me of that year when for some reason all the soft drinks and chips suddenly came out with lime-flavored versions, or the year that everything had to have cranberries. Are there just random big oversupplies of these things?
Anyway, I keep trying it again periodically in hopes that maybe my tastes have changed, but if it’s genetic they probably won’t, unless I undergo some tragic mutation event that could also give me superpowers. If so I’d have to get a fancy uniform and become “Enjoys-Cilantro Man” which would at least confuse/distract the villains for a few minutes.
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Well if we took the bones out they wouldn’t be crunchy.
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I’ve got one or two of their vinyl albums but haven’t played them in a long while. Court of the Crimson King, and Starless And Bible Black, I think. I’ll have to dig those out sometime.
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You never know. Once in a blue moon I’ll get a “soapy” bunch, but usually I can eat it. Maybe you’ll be similar in opposite proportions.
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Apparently we live on a planet with pneumatic fish tubes. Who knew?
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Insert Futurama opening sequence.
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Got any nuts?
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I haven’t got any nuts. Sorry. I’ve got wrens’ livers, badgers’ spleens…
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