Read me at:
--- On Fri, 26/11/10, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date: Friday, 26 November, 2010, 10:46
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Indrajit Gupta
Ask for vegetarian food in South Korea without an interpreter's
help,
and I guarantee that you will see some very strange 'food'.
For a couple of days back in 2003, I had breakfast in Seoul by
wandering
around the streets and pointing at stuff in the carts. I had no way of
knowing what it
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:37 PM, Keith Adam keith.ad...@blueyonder.co.ukwrote:
Keith
Keith...and strange thingsI was instantly reminded of a catchy song ,
from the TV series, Spitting Image:
http://artists.letssingit.com/spitting-image-lyrics-the-chicken-song-zh46wn8
Eat a Renault Four
On Wednesday 24 Nov 2010 1:33:31 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
On 24 November 2010 12:47, Sriram Karra ska...@gmail.com wrote:
Are vegetarians just plain dull?!
No. They're just prejudiced in my opinon.
I would say meat become inedible and disgusting more rapidly than vegetarian
food,
On 25 November 2010 16:51, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wednesday 24 Nov 2010 1:33:31 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
On 24 November 2010 12:47, Sriram Karra ska...@gmail.com wrote:
Are vegetarians just plain dull?!
No. They're just prejudiced in my opinon.
That should explain the
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 4:51 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
I would say meat become inedible and disgusting more rapidly than
vegetarian
food, particularly in India, It's not for nothing that culture media for
growing bacteria use some form of animal protein. In fact the specific
On Thursday 25 Nov 2010 5:27:05 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
That should explain the prejudice
No it doesn't.
A prejudice is a prejudgment, an assumption made about someone or something
before having adequate knowledge to be able to do so with guaranteed
accuracy. (Source: Wikipedia)
Top post: The battle has been joined! SSS v. KKK.
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 8:07 PM, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 25 Nov 2010 5:27:05 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
That should explain the prejudice
No it doesn't.
A prejudice is a prejudgment,
Now *that* explains.
On 25 November 2010 20:07, ss cybers...@gmail.com wrote:
On Thursday 25 Nov 2010 5:27:05 pm Kiran K Karthikeyan wrote:
That should explain the prejudice
No it doesn't.
A prejudice is a prejudgment, an assumption made about someone or
something
before having adequate knowledge to
On 25 November 2010 20:16, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Top post: The battle has been joined! SSS v. KKK.
Well, I'm actually Korandattil Kiran Kumar Karthikeyan from Kakkanad, Kochi,
Kerala.
When in school in the US, I avoided initialing anything as KKK for obvious
reasons and used
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
Well, I'm actually Korandattil Kiran Kumar Karthikeyan from Kakkanad, Kochi,
Kerala.
Now, I live in Koramangala, Bangalore, Karnataka. I was really hoping they
would change the name to something starting
Why don't you call yourself K6 then, for brevity?
http://ahvan.in/ahvan10/klueless6/
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 November 2010 20:16, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
Top post: The battle has been joined! SSS v. KKK.
On 25 November 2010 23:01, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
Why don't you call yourself K6 then, for brevity?
http://ahvan.in/ahvan10/klueless6/
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 10:15 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
On 25 November 2010 20:16, Deepa Mohan
My congratulations to him, and to his best friend.
Getting back to the topic, there have been rampant rumors that A Well Known
Eatery in Bangalore Specializing In Rolls serves dog. Does anyone have any
additional information?
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 9:13 AM, Ashwin Kumar ashwi...@gmail.com
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:20 AM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
My congratulations to him, and to his best friend.
Getting back to the topic, there have been rampant rumors that A Well Known
Eatery in Bangalore Specializing In Rolls serves dog. Does anyone have any
additional
Try learning and singing Bicycle Meant for Two.
Read me at:
--- On Thu, 25/11/10, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
From: Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?
To: silklist@lists.hserus.net
Date
On Fri, Nov 26, 2010 at 10:40 AM, Indrajit Gupta bonoba...@yahoo.co.inwrote:
Try learning and singing Bicycle Meant for Two.
?
Wood-dweller, I didn't get thatyou meant Bicycle Built For Two, I
suppose...but I can't get the connection
Deepa.
On 24-Nov-10 1:17 PM, Chetan Nagendra wrote:
Ask for vegetarian food in South Korea without an interpreter's help, and I
guarantee that you will see some very strange 'food'.
For a couple of days back in 2003, I had breakfast in Seoul by wandering
around the streets and pointing at stuff in
On 24 November 2010 12:47, Sriram Karra ska...@gmail.com wrote:
Are vegetarians just plain dull?!
No. They're just prejudiced in my opinon.
Kiran
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote:
kutti pi.
For all those on this list who speak or understand Tamizh
Can you please elucidate what all those things are? Never heard of them
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote:
Strangest stuff I've eaten would have to be balut, cobra heart, rocky
mountain oysters and kutti pi. Akhuni isn't very strange but damn, the
smell!
Balut = fertilised duck egg/embryo
Rocky Mountain Oysters - sheeps'
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 November 2010 12:47, Sriram Karra ska...@gmail.com wrote:
Are vegetarians just plain dull?!
No. They're just prejudiced in my opinon.
Huh! I said flowerpot mud and no one reacted. And then you
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:21 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 12:34 PM, Gautam John gkj...@gmail.com wrote:
Strangest stuff I've eaten would have to be balut, cobra heart, rocky
mountain oysters and kutti pi. Akhuni isn't very strange but damn, the
smell!
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:25 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
and Akhuni?
It's a Naga dish of fermented soya beans.
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 8:17 AM, Sriram Karra ska...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Wonder why an overwhelming number of the responses on this the thread
are about animals of some kind. Aren't there any veggies, fruits,
'dairy' products (Hm, let's say - Blue Whale's Milk?) that people
yearn to
On 23 November 2010 23:12, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 4:05 AM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
Don't know what a mopane worm is so I probably haven't eaten it,
though I've eaten other grubs and caterpillars.
On Tue, Nov 23, 2010 at 6:05 PM, Udhay Shankar N ud...@pobox.com wrote:
I ask silklisters
to let us know what is the strangest thing they've eaten.
Sugar or uh, artificial sweetener. After consciously cutting sugar
and fat almost entirely from my diet for more than a year I was
offered a
Rocky Mountain Oysters - sheeps' testicles
Bulls' testicles, AFAIK, and confirmed recently by a guy who grew up on a
farm where they were 'harvested'.
--
Sumant Srivathsan
http://sumants.blogspot.com
] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?
Rocky Mountain Oysters - sheeps' testicles
Bulls' testicles, AFAIK, and confirmed recently by a guy who grew up on a
farm where they were 'harvested'.
--
Sumant Srivathsan
http://sumants.blogspot.com
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 2:48 PM, Sumant Srivathsan suma...@gmail.com wrote:
Bulls' testicles, AFAIK, and confirmed recently by a guy who grew up on a
farm where they were 'harvested'.
Sorry. My bad. Too much sheep on that list.
[The phone forces top posting... apologies]
Not a particularly interesting flavor. Quite tough and so served sliced very
thinly in a chrysthanthemum flower pattern vaguely reminiscent of carpaccio.
But didn't *taste* like cardboard.
Have not had cobra heart and probably won't. Don't like the
Bulls' testicles, AFAIK, and confirmed recently by a guy who grew
up on a farm where they were 'harvested'.
By the time of cooking, let alone eating, they're steer's testicles.
I believe not even Chuck Norris eats bull's testicles.
Carbonated drink made from lacto-serum, the
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:17 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 let us
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:05 PM, Charles Haynes charles.hay...@gmail.comwrote:
Hm. Durian has already been mentioned. I thought drumstick was weird
the first time I had it. I'm not a big fan of natto, but I don't think
it's particularly weird. Lots of fermented milk products and smelly
How did you google for the ex-girlfriend, by the way?
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:41 PM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
This thread is requiring more googling than ever. To me, eating smen
sounds like smut...and it seems as if eating fungified food seems to be a
cuisine all by
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 5:47 PM, Lahar Appaiah thew...@gmail.com wrote:
How did you google for the ex-girlfriend, by the way?
SOME things are better left ungoogled...xgfs, for starters!
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 6:52 AM, Deepa Mohan mohande...@gmail.com wrote:
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 1:33 PM, Kiran K Karthikeyan
kiran.karthike...@gmail.com wrote:
On 24 November 2010 12:47, Sriram Karra ska...@gmail.com wrote:
Are vegetarians just plain dull?!
No. They're just prejudiced
Pica. Calcium deficiency.
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On 24 November 2010 18:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Pica. Calcium deficiency.
Pica is quite common among pregnant women. I'm assuming only food consumed
non-compulsively is to be added to this list.
Kiran
Given that it's unlikely Suresh was ever a pregnant woman we could allow him
that one
On 24 Nov 2010 19:23, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 24 November 2010 18:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Pica. Calcium deficiency.
Pica is quite common among
: [silk] What's the strangest thing you've eaten?
Given that it's unlikely Suresh was ever a pregnant woman we could allow him
that one
On 24 Nov 2010 19:23, Kiran K Karthikeyan kiran.karthike...@gmail.com
wrote:
On 24 November 2010 18:39, Suresh Ramasubramanian sur...@hserus.net wrote:
Pica
phane - steamed caterpillar (mwanza, tanzania) also available unsteamed.
nsenene - fried grasshopper (kampala, uganda)
kitfo lebleb - kind of an ethiopian tartar steak eaten raw
mutura - traditional kikuyu blood sausage
zebra, giraffe, crocodile, ostrich, various antelopes.
Muratina -
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 5:44 AM, Ashok Hariharan listmans...@gmail.com wrote:
kitfo lebleb - kind of an ethiopian tartar steak eaten raw
Mmm. Kitfo. http://www.flickr.com/photos/haynes/5043252531/
I was happy when I finally found decent Ethiopian here in Melbourne.
Have you tried dulet? Lamb
On Wed, Nov 24, 2010 at 10:44:32AM -0200, Andre Manoel wrote:
Huh! I said flowerpot mud and no one reacted. And then you say vegetarians
are dull..dull as the mud?
Your answer was simply off the scale. If it were given proper
consideration no further discussion would be possible because
On Wednesday 24 Nov 2010 6:05:27 am Dave Kumar wrote:
but I'm going to have to say lobster. That thing is just really ugly
looking, and I have no idea who first caught one of them and said -- I
wonder how this tastes? I do love me a good lobster roll, though.
Agreed. I am not a big seafood
On Wednesday 24 Nov 2010 10:29:43 am Shoba Narayan wrote:
Bhang: I drank it. It was terrific.
shiv
Ah, Shiv, if we include substances and not just food, I can give you
a run for your money. :)
What? You mean bhang is not food?
shiv
ss [25/11/10 07:39 +0530]:
Agreed. I am not a big seafood fan. My experience with squid told me that they
are rubbery and tasteless. Snails - on the one occasion I ate them were oily
and fried and did not stand out as something I would want to eat again and
again. Unlike curd rice.
Eating
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.
Maybe Charles can
An ex-girlfriend.
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.
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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
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
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?
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
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
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
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.
Camel and ostrich in saudi arabia, kangaroo in australia
Not terribly exotic
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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
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
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:
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
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
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?
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
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
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
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 -
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
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
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,
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
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?
--
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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.
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 ?
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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,
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
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
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
Vegetables are what the food eats
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