[silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Udhay Shankar N
I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Maybe Charles can post multiple times to this thread? :) Udhay -- ((Udhay Shankar N)) ((udhay @

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2010-11-23 Thread Mahesh Murthy
An ex-girlfriend.

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2010-11-23 Thread Aadisht Khanna
On 23-11-2010 22:35, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Squilla. Locust grubs. Red Bull. -- Regards, Aadisht Email for lists: li...@aadisht.net Personal Email: aadi...@aadisht.net Mobile (TN): +91-96000 23067 Website:

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2010-11-23 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On 23 November 2010 22:35, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Snake Frog Legs Brain Fry

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2010-11-23 Thread Thaths
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Curd rice? Thaths -- Marge: Quick, somebody perform CPR! Homer: Umm (singing) I see a bad

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2010-11-23 Thread Danese Cooper
Durian On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 11:12 AM, Thaths tha...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 9:05 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Curd rice?

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2010-11-23 Thread Kiran K Karthikeyan
On 23 November 2010 22:35, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Forgot rabbit. Cuteness

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2010-11-23 Thread Ingrid
On 23-Nov-2010, at 7:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Maybe Charles can post

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2010-11-23 Thread Andre Uratsuka Manoel
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 15:05, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Maybe Charles can post

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Charles Haynes
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Maybe Charles can post multiple times to this thread? :) Laugh. I could time limit it.

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2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Camel and ostrich in saudi arabia, kangaroo in australia Not terribly exotic --Original Message-- From: Udhay Shankar N Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: Silk List ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

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2010-11-23 Thread Dave Kumar
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. It may not seem so strange since it is consumed so commonly in some parts, but I'm going

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2010-11-23 Thread ss
On Tuesday 23 Nov 2010 10:35:42 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote: Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Filter paper soaked in LSD Bhang: I drank it. It was terrific. shiv

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2010-11-23 Thread Deepa Mohan
Is it OK to include the weird things eaten during the course of a pregnancy? If so, flowerpot mud, chalk, and extremely old buttermilk. Deepa. On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:08 AM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote: On Tuesday 23 Nov 2010 10:35:42 pm Udhay Shankar N wrote:

[silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Shoba Narayan
Turkey soup by accident in a dorm. Made me reaffirm my vegetarianism, although friends tell me that I should eat meat just before I die so I won't die of regret for abstaining all these years :) Shoba Shoba Narayan http://shobanarayan.wordpress.com/

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2010-11-23 Thread Sean Doyle
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 12:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. In Kangding I was

Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:18 AM, Shoba Narayan narayan.sh...@gmail.comwrote: friends tell me that I should eat meat just before I die so I won't die of regret for abstaining all these years :) Eat fugu, it would probably ensure that you ARE eating meat just before you die. You won't die of

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2010-11-23 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:32 AM, Sean Doyle sdo...@gmail.com wrote:I had recently eaten haggis. I was asked to describe it.. and when I did they looked visibly ill and said That's disgusting! They couldn't stomach stomach?

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2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Sean Doyle [23/11/10 22:02 -0500]: In Kangding I was treated to a hotpot restaurant by some of my wife's colleagues and it was delicious. I remember feeling a big queasy about duck intestine and yak stomach but when I ate it all I could feel was the unusual texture and the kick of the red, red

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2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [24/11/10 08:32 +0530]: friends tell me that I should eat meat just before I die so I won't die of regret for abstaining all these years :) Eat fugu, it would probably ensure that you ARE eating meat just before you die. You won't die of regret, just of fugu! You can eat fugu if

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2010-11-23 Thread Meera
Well I didn't really eat this one, but worth sharing anyways. When I was a kid in Madras, the gardener brought home something called mookuchali pazham - translated as 'nose-mucus fruit'. That's exactly what it looked like. -Meera ~Bangalore's own interactive newsmagazine at

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2010-11-23 Thread Sean Doyle
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:40 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Sean Doyle [23/11/10 22:02 -0500]: You made a chinese guy look ill? That's a first. The folks in Kangding were ethnically TIbetan; in my experience they have very different eating habits than Han. For example -

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2010-11-23 Thread Ashwin Kumar
On 24 November 2010 09:15, Meera meerak...@gmail.com wrote: Well I didn't really eat this one, but worth sharing anyways. When I was a kid in Madras, the gardener brought home something called mookuchali pazham - translated as 'nose-mucus fruit'. That's exactly what it looked like. That

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2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Deepa Mohan [24/11/10 09:40 +0530]: On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:15 AM, Meera meerak...@gmail.com wrote: the gardener brought home something called mookuchali pazham - translated as 'nose-mucus fruit'. I guess an editor would not use the word snot! What WAS it, ultimately, Meera? 2929

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2010-11-23 Thread Deepa Mohan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 9:42 AM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com wrote: On 24 November 2010 09:15, Meera meerak...@gmail.com wrote: something called mookuchali pazham - translated as 'nose-mucus fruit'. That would be Durian curry? No...we don't have Durian in Chennai Meera,

[silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?

2010-11-23 Thread Shoba Narayan
Message: 5 Date: Wed, 24 Nov 2010 06:08:36 +0530 From: ss cybers...@gmail.com To: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten? Message-ID: 201011240608.37075.cybers...@gmail.com Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=iso-8859-1 On Tuesday 23 Nov 2010

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2010-11-23 Thread Charles Haynes
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:41 PM, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote: Deepa Mohan [24/11/10 08:32 +0530]: friends tell me that I should eat meat just before I die so I won't die of regret for abstaining all these years :) Eat fugu, it would probably ensure that you ARE eating meat

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2010-11-23 Thread Madhu Menon
On 24-11-2010 11:37, Charles Haynes wrote: I've had fugu a couple times. It's not that dangerous, and it's not that expensive. How's the taste? -- Madhu Menon http://twitter.com/madmanweb

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2010-11-23 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:20 PM, Madhu Menon c...@shiokfood.com wrote: On 24-11-2010 11:37, Charles Haynes wrote: I've had fugu a couple times. It's not that dangerous, and it's not that expensive. How's the taste? The time I ate it, it tasted like cardboard.

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2010-11-23 Thread Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:24 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote: The time I ate it, it tasted like cardboard. So cardboard isn't one of the strangest things you've eaten ? -- sankarshan mukhopadhyay http://sankarshan.randomink.org/blog/

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2010-11-23 Thread Gautam John
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:29 PM, Sankarshan Mukhopadhyay sankarshan.mukhopadh...@gmail.com wrote: So cardboard isn't one of the strangest things you've eaten ? Nope. It's vegetarian. Vegetarian food can't get very strange, no? Strangest stuff I've eaten would have to be balut, cobra heart,

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2010-11-23 Thread Sriram Karra
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten. Wonder why an

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2010-11-23 Thread Venkatesh Hariharan
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:47 PM, Sriram Karra ska...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 10:35 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about lutefisk, I ask silklisters to

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2010-11-23 Thread Chetan Nagendra
Ask for vegetarian food in South Korea without an interpreter's help, and I guarantee that you will see some very strange 'food'. On 23 Nov 2010, at 17:05, Udhay Shankar N wrote: I think we had a similar thread lo, these many years ago, but still. Inspired by a friend's status message about

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2010-11-23 Thread Suresh Ramasubramanian
Vegetables are what the food eats --Original Message-- From: Chetan Nagendra Sender: silklist-bounces+suresh=hserus@lists.hserus.net To: silklist@lists.hserus.net ReplyTo: silklist@lists.hserus.net Subject: Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten? Sent: Nov 24, 2010 1:17 PM

[silk] Bangalore bound

2010-11-23 Thread Chandrachoodan Gopalakrishnan
I will be in Bangalore this weekend and Monday the 29th. I am there primarily for a friend's wedding, but will have a lot of free time. Silklisters in the city, meet sometime? Lunch/coffee on 29th will be ideal for me, but will bow to majority opinion. C --