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STRANGE FOOD

David's romantic dinner was a hoot! Rod, I think I'll give the heart a great big miss. I can remember mum making brawn though and I didn't like it then, but now I'm not allowed to eat it I think it would be great!
Don't we all wish we could sit down to our mum's high tea again? Mum would have cold lamb, salads, fresh cooked beetroot from the garden, tea cake, trifle, scones, jam and cream, fresh raspberries in season or strawberries. Yum! But best of all it would be good to see mum again.
 
Kate you do yourself an injustice if of course your not Vegetarian? Heart really is a lovely meat to eat. In my opinion there is no offal type taste to it, and provided it's cooked properly it is lovely. Buy a little and try it? if it's not to your liking the animals will eat it?

I do agree with you on one thing though, seeing mum would be tops. I miss my mum so much :-\
 
Rabit stew is great to eat. I suspect that thinking about little bunnies spoils it for some.

Anyone had neck of lamb stew..mm

How about fiddle heads, very popular vegetable in some parts. It's the top of a fern when it grows in the spring.
You see people collecting them in the woods at times and sometimes they are in small green grocery stores.

Pork hocks..mm not for everyone though.

Frogs legs.. over rated. What can you say.

Lobster is delicious but too expensive.

But you know good old roast beef and yorkshire pud....Rules.
 
HI POSTIE , I HAVE JUST READ YOUR ARTICLE ON STRANGE FOOD,S IT WAS GOOD , IT WAS SO GOOD YOU GOT ME IN A FLUTTER OF LAUGHTER I COULDN,T, STOP LAUGHING I FELL OF MY CHAIR , WHEN YOU SAID YOU ORDERD RABBIT AND YOU THOUGHT IT WAS WELSH RABBIT AND NOT KNOWING THE DIFFRENT,S, NICE ONE ;I WAS OFFERD RABBIT HOT POT BY A GIRL FRIEND ,S MOM WHOM WAS RELATED TO THE GREAT KEN DODD THE COMEDIENE I WAS GOING OUT WITH AT THE TIME HER NAME WAS SHIRLEY HANSON, IT WAS LOVELY ,JUST LIKE CHICKEN, WHEN I WAS IN THE COOK HOUSE IN THE ARMY ME AND THE SARGE;; USED TO GO BACK OF THE COOK HOUSE AND SHOOT WOOD PIGEON,S TO EAT, THEY WAS LOVELY, TO EAT, BEST WISHES ASTONIAN,;;
 
Aston are you off the floor yet or shall we call someone in :2funny: We had a High Tea yesterday we sat at the table for a change :)
 
I remember a lot of the foods mentioned - the only ones I like are the salmon sandwiches and thinly sliced cucumber too – don’t miss pilchards prawns the offal or blood pudding – would like a to taste again an old country watercress sandwich with your bread – just thinking abouit it makes my mouth water - the watercress is much larger here in Canada and not nearly as nice – and I like your bread better too – so we often buy Italian bread
 
Beryl
Do you remember at school how you use to grow Mustard and Cress on a wet flannel and after a few weeks cut it all off and ate it ? (not the flannel)
 
Yes Cromwell I do very well remember growing mustard cress on flannel - think all schools must have done that if you did - there are certain things I do miss in this country - it's the fresh taste of the vegatables from allotments i.e carrots - the taste is not is not so flavourful here - probably due to the climate - However, I don't miss the steam puddings - dumpling things - never liked them at home- Although I still regard Brum as home - as much as I would like to - I can never live there- I would miss my family it's a sacrifice I have had to make - I think is is a great site for ex pats like me
 
We used to grow mustard and cress on blotting paper(litmus) at school. I remember being given a piece of blotting paper and some seeds to grow some at homes. It was'
fascinating and it was very good to eat it at the end of the project!

I too miss the fresh taste of vegetables that we had in England. I buy loads of
vegetables every week and find the organic grown types are better. I miss the Jersey mids in the spring. We buy blood pudding once in a while from an English butcher. I miss really good pork pies like the ones they sell in the Bull Ring market and at the
special summer markets they hold on New Street in the summer. Bacon isn't the
same and I miss the bacon from the Bull Ring.
 
Jennyann - I did the blotting paper thing for mustand and cress too -Actually that's one thing we can get in Toronto is a good pork pie - if you like cooking which I don't - and you really wanted just maybe someone can post the recipe for you on how to make it -
 
When I visit my relatives in Yorkshire they have 'Pie and Peas' which consists of a hot Pork Pie covered with Mushy pies and mint sauce. The Pork Pie is a little different to the Melton Mowbray pie which is set it jelly the Yorkshire one has a finer texture
 
Beryl, have you tried the Melton Mowbray pork pies from Loblaws Deli?

They are the only ones I have found that taste like English pork pies. O0

My inlaws introduced me to bacon, peas and potato with mint sauce, we still have it occassionally. Nice bacon is hard to find here.
 
Sakura - Yes Loblaws Deli is the place where we get our pork pies- it has been so long since I have tasted an English pork pie I now wouldn't know the difference - Used to get a lot of English foods when Marks and Spensers were here - if their clothing had been more fashionable maybe they still would be - who knows???

Don't you live- you live in Ajax??????
 
Langstraat - Pork pie that's just the way I like it - get a reasonably good pork pie at Loblaws Deli in Canada - as I said to Sakura it's been so long since I have tasted it in England I wouldn't know the difference - admit I have never tasted the Yorkshire one with the finer texture I might just like it better
 
Yes Berryl, I do live in Ajax.

We used to buy the M&S pork pies and a few other things, we M&S in Pickering Mall.

Our son is at Hong Kong University and that is one of the things he likes, they have a M&S.

When he came home at Christmas he brought a Christmas pudding, mince pies, potato sticks and a load of other things that we like and can't get. :'(

Oh well, we really appreciate the things when we get them.
 
Will you lot stop talking about food that is forbidden to me please? Pork pies indeed :( You lucky beggars! Wish I could partake in that sort of fare again (cholesterol, weight, diabetes blah de blah). Last night I let myself have a little treat - 97% fat free bacon (wow!) with an egg on toast and some 97% fat free oven cook chips. I enjoyed it immensely, so you can train yourself to enjoy the low fat stuff.
Tonight I am cooking a favourite - a rabbit! Not an old wild rabbit - oh no, they might have diseases these days. No less than a (sorry Chris) New Zealand White specially farmed for the table. So I will let you know my opinions. I'm casseroling with herbs and tomato, some carrot and onion and some dried rosemary. It is supposed to by high protein very low fat (which I think the old wild bunny was too). But this variety is not supposed to have the gamey taste and is more like chicken. Well, I used to like the gamey taste, but we'll see. These rabbits are farmed locally. What a good idea. The butcher we bought the rabbit from told us there are the most stringent regulations so the meat is protected from any disease. They have to go to the abattoirs to be killed. You can't just raise your rabbit in the back yard and butcher him yourself. (Not that we could do that anyway :-[). This butcher makes rabbit sausages and rissoles too which I've yet to try. He said they are all rabbit meat and the only fat is the tiny bit that is on the rabbit. It's a bit expensive though. This rabbit, which is just over a 1kg cost us $20 Australian - but guess that doesn't sound too bad to you over there. But as you probably know there is not a lot of meat on a rabbit, but apparently the farmed variety have more meat on them. As I said - we'll see.
Bon appetite! :)
 
Although it is many years ago now, I still remember the MYXOMATOSIS out break or rather when it was introduced to Australia.. Is this still a concern in Australia?

Although I have not heard of it here in Canada I gather rabbits do still get it in the States not just wild ones but pets too. Do you hear of it in the UK now?

Sorry to mention this but hopefully you will have enjoyed your meal by now Kate, since you are ahead of us.
 
Rabbit Kate -oh dear never eaten rabbit since I was evacuated - used to collect grass every night to feed the rabbits and guinea pigs - was given a pet rabbit for all may work- One day I came home from school and told we were having chicken for dinner - which I ate - later went down the garden - when lo and behold the skin of my gray rabbit was drying on the line - to think I had eaten my own pet - I never want to eat rabbit again
 
I can relate to that Beryl. My dad fattened up a cockrel on bran mash for Christmas one time just after the war. My sister and I did not know what was going on and the bird became a pet in the pen in the yard. When Christmas came around and we were presented with the cooked bird on the table, we suddenly realised what had occured and both started to cry. Wouldn't eat a mouthfull. Dad only did that one time.
Regards.
 
I've not been back from Brum very long but reading all about pork pies etc makes my mouth water, believe me spending a month back home l made up for all the lost time of not having the priveledge of being able to going to any store in Texas and buying a pork pie,pigs pudding, chitterling etc. for a month it was to h--l with chloesteral,when l think of how many lard sandwiches we ate as kids its a wonder we are all still alive and kicking. Saturday nights were always the same at no.9 copeley street, after mom had been to Thompsons we had pork pies chitterlings pigs pudding ,cheese and of course pickled onions and cabbage, as we say happy days. Living this far south and just a 2hr drive drive from Louisiana some very strange food is offered and l do say strange, i have tried alligator and it was quite tasty much like chicken, but have never been brave enough to try some of the other fare,Louisiana is been over run with" Nutrie"
a swamp rat, they grow quite big about 40lbs and now its been offered on menues. I'm with yo'all can'nt beat roast beef and yorkshire pudding.
 
Brenda - Aligator?? you were brave!!! :2funny: I would have imagined it to have tasted fishy with spending all the time in water?? Giant rats over there too?? ha ha

Reminds me of when I went to Dominican Republic and they served "Rhum goat curry" - ha ha not a chance of me ever trying anything so strange ever!!

Give me roast beef and yorkshire pudding anytime!! or toad in the hole with lovely onion gravy!! :smitten:
 
The rabbit was good, but I could have cooked it a little more as it wasn't very tender, but I think rabbit is a bit tough. Myxo is still a problem in Australia but the butcher explained the stringent processing the rabbits go through so I think it's pretty safe - I hope so anyway! Butcher said that it is spread by mosquitos so the cages have to be insect proof. But I think it is pretty obvious if an animal has the virus. It was introduced of course to Tasmania to kill off the high numbers of wild rabbits many years ago. I don't think I could eat a bunny that I had raised - just as I couldn't eat a chicken I had raised either. The first time my daughter saw a lamb on the spit-roast at a farm bbq she nearly fainted. I told her it was an old animal who had died of old age and she seemed to accept that, but when you think of it, it's a pretty barbaric excuse :)
Rod, re your earlier posting re brawn - I'm not vegetarian as you can see. It's more I have to watch cholesterol and fat in my diet. I don't think brawn would fit in, would it? I'll have to look at the recipes.
 
If an animal is raised as a pet even if considered a rodent- it gives me real problems to eat it - I guess I would have to be starving - all are God's creatures - Yorkshire Pudding fine - anything that has a face though not quite there yet - because food is camouflaged with so many sauces etc - it wouldn't take much for me to be a vegetarian
 
Although I am not vegetarian, I never eat beef for a number of reasons.
Our daughter is vegetarian so we have a lot of soy meat in spaghetti sauce, tacos, chilli and shepherds pie.
People who enjoy beef will never change but it really is better for ones health. I do eat chicken and fish but our daughter doesn't.
We eat lots of vegetables, fruit and salad every day and love it. :smitten:
 
We've had crocodile here in Far North Queensland, Australia. Also had Emu. Both are quite nice. Guess it boils down to are vegetarians or we are not! I remember going on a holiday on a farm where there was a dam full of yabbies (like a freshwater prawn). We caught a lot and the couple we were with showed me how to boil them up. I said "oh no, I can't do that", until I tasted them - yum! The next batch I caught I cooked. We are quite a blot on the landscape aren't we, us human meat eaters? But we are also part of the food chain :) :) But I am eating less and less meat so am doing my bit for the environment I hope. Peace :)
 
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