Food Snobbery

[Daz Madrigal]

I'm pretty certain that there is a lot of snobbery attached to food (as there is to Wine). How often have we seen wine connoisseurs given a wide selection to choose in order of taste - or palette as they insist on calling it - all varying from vintage wines to wine with a three figure sum attached yet for some bizarre reason the 'expert' always seem to choose some cr@p £3 plonk from Kwik Save as the winner.

Lets put it to the test.

Put yourself in the position of someone who has spent several days lost in the desert until he is finally airlifted to safety. What would you choose.

Several pints!

Erm..and then after that. What meal would you choose?

Caviar or Fish n Chips?

[darinka]

i have never eaten fish n chips, so caviar:)

[Pink Betty]

Caviar and chips for sure! Yummy... are you buying Daz?

[Pink Betty]

just to look at it makes me feel quite faint with longing...

[Pink Betty]

On second thoughts it would be a crime to eat it with chips (unless they were really exceptional ones...but even so, no). Thin slices of toast, a little lemon and some really good vodka.

Daz, this was an invitation, right?

[Xia]

admin said:

just to look at it makes me feel quite faint ...

It does me as well.



Unfortunately, I'm not too snobby when it comes to food, so I guess my answer might be irrelevant.

[Pink Betty]

no answer is irrelevant Xia. What would you choose to feast on after some time in thee desert?

[Xia]

admin said:

... in thee desert?

Add another 's', and you've got your answer.



Of the chocolate variety might be most pleasing.

[Pink Betty]

I am savoury not sweet...hence my preference for raccoons rather than kittens (actually I don't even like raccoons!)...but I did have a really delicious thing the other night - wafer thin slices of fresh pineapple with a dollop of coconut sorbet. Mr P introduced me to a turkish dessert wine too...beginning with T - it was all very good together.

[sandywinder]

You eat raccoons and kittens? I'm impressed.

[Xia]

She does, but she abstains on days ending with -y, am I right, Ms. Melon? ;D

[Pink Betty]

Raccoons and kittens are particularly tasty when you put them into the cooking pot alive. Let them fight it out for a bit - a natural way to tenderize the meat - then chuck a few swedes and onions at them to make sure they're dead (I'm a humane cook you know), and drown in water or any dregs of liquor you have to hand. Bring to the boil and simmer until the meat and fur is falling off the tiny little bones.

Bon Appetite!

[Xia]

What do you do when the cat eats the raccoon?



Guess it doesn't really matter... just don't let anything escape.

[mimi]

Re food snobs. I am a caviare snob. I worked in Tehran for a couple of years long, long ago and every Thursday a nice man called Mahmoud delivered fresh caviare from the Caspian. It was packed into tins which were packed in ice in his donkey's saddlebags. The ice lasted until he reached the top of the Elburz Mountains where he found more ice and this lasted until he reached his customers in Tehran. It was greenish-grey, not salty, and tasted wonderful. We drank it with local vodka. And as Pink Melons says, eaten with thin toast and a squeeze of lemon.

[darinka]

mimi, it souds great.


i ate only that small caviar which you can buy in a supermarket. i like it with white bread and vegetable butter:)