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Message 1300777 - Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 19:14:25 UTC - in response to Message 1300442.  

I know one thing, French fries don't originate from France but from Belgium. So they should've been called Belgian fries!

I bet the waffles sure did.



The waffle was invented 600 years ago in Belgium. It was invented by the chef of the Prince Bishop of Liège (in eastern Belgium)
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Message 1300782 - Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 19:44:15 UTC

Not exactly the origin of a food, but an ode from the country of origin of a food:

Fair fa’ your honest, sonsie face,
Great Chieftan o’ the Puddin-race!
Aboon them a’ ye tak your place,
Painch, tripe, or thairm:
Weel are ye wordy of a grace
As lang’s my arm

The groaning trencher there ye fill,
Your hurdies like a distant hill,
You pin wad help to mend a mill
In time o’need
While thro’ your pores the dews distil
Like amber bead

His knife see Rustic-labour dight,
An’ cut you up wi’ ready slight,
Trenching your gushing entrails bright
Like onie ditch;
And then, O what a glorious sight,
Warm-reeking, rich!

Then, horn for horn they stretch an’ strive,
Deil tak the hindmost, on they drive,
Till a’ their weel-swall’d kytes belyve
Are bent like drums;
Then auld Guidman, maist like to rive
Bethankit hums

Is there that owre his French ragout,
Or olio that wad staw a sow,
Or fricassee wad mak her spew
Wi’ perfect sconner,
Looks down wi’ sneering, scornfu’ view
On sic a dinner?

Poor devil! see him owre his trash,
As feckless as a wither’d rash
His spindle-shank a guid whip-lash,
His nieve a nit;
Thro’ bluidy flood or field to dash,
O how unfit!

But mark the Rustic, haggis-fed,
The trembling earth resounds his tread,
Clap in his walie nieve a blade,
He’ll mak it whissle;
An’ legs, an’ arms an’ heads will sned,
Like taps o’ thrissle

Ye pow’rs wha mak mankind your care,
An’ dish them out their bill o’fare,
Auld Scotland wants nae skinking ware
That jaups in luggies;
But, if ye wish her gratefu’ pray’r,
Gie her a Haggis!
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Message 1300815 - Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 22:47:37 UTC - in response to Message 1300777.  
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I know one thing, French fries don't originate from France but from Belgium. So they should've been called Belgian fries!

I bet the waffles sure did.



The waffle was invented 600 years ago in Belgium. It was invented by the chef of the Prince Bishop of Liège (in eastern Belgium)



Yes I know Julie, I was there for the first one but ended to be second. LOL I cut no slack on those things. A bit over weight but OK.
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Message 1300817 - Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 23:04:12 UTC

I read one time that the prisoners (1600's) in New England were fed Lobster as a cheap and easy meal. Well folks let be bring the butter, I guess bead and water was out at that time. Must have took too long. LOL True or not I have no clue.
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Message 1300820 - Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 23:15:54 UTC - in response to Message 1300817.  

I read one time that the prisoners (1600's) in New England were fed Lobster as a cheap and easy meal. Well folks let be bring the butter, I guess bead and water was out at that time. Must have took too long. LOL True or not I have no clue.


A friend of mine who grew up many years ago on PEI (where the best Canadian lobster comes from) told me that they ate lobster when they didn't have anything else. His mother would tell him not to tell his friends at school they were having lobster again - she didn't want people to think they were poor.

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Message 1300823 - Posted: 31 Oct 2012, 23:28:29 UTC - in response to Message 1300820.  

I read one time that the prisoners (1600's) in New England were fed Lobster as a cheap and easy meal. Well folks let be bring the butter, I guess bead and water was out at that time. Must have took too long. LOL True or not I have no clue.


A friend of mine who grew up many years ago on PEI (where the best Canadian lobster comes from) told me that they ate lobster when they didn't have anything else. His mother would tell him not to tell his friends at school they were having lobster again - she didn't want people to think they were poor.



Well in that way one would get to hate the stuff if you ate it every day. I'm lucky to get some twice a year. LOL
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Message 1300855 - Posted: 1 Nov 2012, 2:31:20 UTC - in response to Message 1300820.  

I have heard this story out of Yarmouth Nova Scotia as well.
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Message 1300857 - Posted: 1 Nov 2012, 3:06:14 UTC - in response to Message 1300855.  

I have heard this story out of Yarmouth Nova Scotia as well.



Had one today sitting drinking my coffee out back and at first I thought I seen very large cat, well this one one hell of a cat it was a mountain lion. second one ever.
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Message 1300973 - Posted: 1 Nov 2012, 12:03:31 UTC - in response to Message 1300820.  

I read one time that the prisoners (1600's) in New England were fed Lobster as a cheap and easy meal. Well folks let be bring the butter, I guess bead and water was out at that time. Must have took too long. LOL True or not I have no clue.


A friend of mine who grew up many years ago on PEI (where the best Canadian lobster comes from) told me that they ate lobster when they didn't have anything else. His mother would tell him not to tell his friends at school they were having lobster again - she didn't want people to think they were poor.



So strange...To think lobster is food for rich people these days.
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Message 1300985 - Posted: 1 Nov 2012, 13:51:38 UTC - in response to Message 1300973.  

I read one time that the prisoners (1600's) in New England were fed Lobster as a cheap and easy meal. Well folks let be bring the butter, I guess bead and water was out at that time. Must have took too long. LOL True or not I have no clue.


A friend of mine who grew up many years ago on PEI (where the best Canadian lobster comes from) told me that they ate lobster when they didn't have anything else. His mother would tell him not to tell his friends at school they were having lobster again - she didn't want people to think they were poor.



So strange...To think lobster is food for rich people these days.


Sure is and a long time since the last one for me. Crab I get twice a year without fail.
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Message 1301005 - Posted: 1 Nov 2012, 16:10:06 UTC - in response to Message 1300973.  

I read one time that the prisoners (1600's) in New England were fed Lobster as a cheap and easy meal. Well folks let be bring the butter, I guess bead and water was out at that time. Must have took too long. LOL True or not I have no clue.


A friend of mine who grew up many years ago on PEI (where the best Canadian lobster comes from) told me that they ate lobster when they didn't have anything else. His mother would tell him not to tell his friends at school they were having lobster again - she didn't want people to think they were poor.



So strange...To think lobster is food for rich people these days.




I'd take my date out for it.
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Message 1301051 - Posted: 1 Nov 2012, 18:31:39 UTC - in response to Message 1300985.  

I read one time that the prisoners (1600's) in New England were fed Lobster as a cheap and easy meal. Well folks let be bring the butter, I guess bead and water was out at that time. Must have took too long. LOL True or not I have no clue.


A friend of mine who grew up many years ago on PEI (where the best Canadian lobster comes from) told me that they ate lobster when they didn't have anything else. His mother would tell him not to tell his friends at school they were having lobster again - she didn't want people to think they were poor.



So strange...To think lobster is food for rich people these days.


Sure is and a long time since the last one for me. Crab I get twice a year without fail.



Surimi will do for me...
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Message 1301570 - Posted: 3 Nov 2012, 4:58:40 UTC - in response to Message 1301051.  

Surimi will do for me..

Sorry Julie what is Surimi, that's a new one on me?
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Message 1301629 - Posted: 3 Nov 2012, 11:14:40 UTC

Surimi is a product made from Alaska pollock that resembles crab in texture, appearance and flavor and is a lot cheaper.
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Message 1301653 - Posted: 3 Nov 2012, 12:43:31 UTC - in response to Message 1301629.  

Surimi is a product made from Alaska pollock that resembles crab in texture, appearance and flavor and is a lot cheaper.



Oh I like cracking crab, might take 30 minutes but boy it's good. My friend makes a seafood salad with two of them that is to die for. Throw out the weight watchers for the night.
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Message 1301656 - Posted: 3 Nov 2012, 12:56:59 UTC - in response to Message 1301629.  

Surimi is a product made from Alaska pollock that resembles crab in texture, appearance and flavor and is a lot cheaper.


ah here it is called "mock crab". And honestly by some restraunts just refered to as "crab" unless you ask.


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Message 1302220 - Posted: 4 Nov 2012, 18:57:35 UTC

You're right, Chris. I also think it's horrible the way they're cooked alive!
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Message 1302254 - Posted: 4 Nov 2012, 20:34:30 UTC

I cannot eat any type of shellfish as it brings me out in Hives. That is large red and purple blotches at all my joints. I inherited the condition from my mother.
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Message 1302270 - Posted: 4 Nov 2012, 21:04:15 UTC

I'm allergic to 65 million year old meat, mainly liver, they produce gasteroids... ;)
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