Food

Mon - September 7, 2009

Prime Rib of 'Roo

For the benefit of the shopping public, Southern Game Meat Pty Ltd shares a chart showing all the cuts of meat you can get off a kangaroo.

I'm not sure if they will ship to North America, but you can call them and ask. They ship it in vacuum-packed pouches, so it'd probably keep on the boat over.

Kangaroo is very lean and tender and is high in iron and zinc.

[Found at J-Walk Blog.]

Posted at 03:43 PM

Tue - April 7, 2009

Less vomiting is good

Here is a nifty little web site, StillTasty.com, that advises you on how to safely store food, and what food is safe to eat if left out, or if kept in the fridge for a long time.

I have twice been food poisoned to the point of thinking I was going to die but being too weak to do anything about it and not particularly caring anyway. One of those two times was self-inflicted. So I will be sure to bookmark and refer to this site.

The good news is, liquor keeps indefinitely.

Posted at 01:34 PM

Wed - April 1, 2009

Salivary glands, all ahead full

Unfortunately, I think Squeez Bacon is just an April Fools' day joke.

But I want some RIGHT NOW.

Posted at 12:49 PM

Sun - February 15, 2009

Live bloated, die full, leave a well-marbled corpse

If you have been feeling a bit heavy-ish lately, maybe it's time to quit building your daily menu from the food items displayed on "This Is Why You're Fat."

But, EVERYthing tastes better breaded and fried and coated with chocolate and/or cheese and/or gravy.

Posted at 01:52 PM

Thu - January 22, 2009

Breaking news from the Indiana State Capitol

The Indiana Senate today passed a resolution urging that the sugar cream pie be made the official state pie.

A resolution does not have the force of law, and besides, a law would have to be passed in both the Senate and the House and be signed by the Governor, so Indiana still is without a state pie. There is no word regarding the sense of the other house of the General Assembly; perhaps the state pie bill will have to go to conference committee, where they will eat a lot of pie.

Now, I like pie as much as the next guy, in fact probably more than the next guy, and I think that we, as a nation, should eat more pie. But having an official state pie is ridiculous.

Moreover, I spent the first twenty-three years of my life in Indiana, and I never ate so much as one slice of sugar cream pie. I still have never eaten sugar cream pie. I don't even know what a sugar cream pie is. I never saw sugar cream pie on a menu in Indiana, and I never even HEARD of sugar cream pie until this very day. How could sugar cream pie be the official state pie, if people can live decades in the state and never eat it, or even know of it? I ask you.

If they want to have a state pie, it should be pumpkin. Washed down with a glass of freshly-pressed apple cider. All those in favor, say "MMMMMMmmmmm."

Posted at 07:16 PM

Fri - January 16, 2009

It's sweet, it's fatty -- it's perfect!

Here is a local couple who are going to live on nothing but Hostess Fruit Pies for two weeks, on the theory that Hostess Fruit Pies give you more calories for the dollar than any other food.

I don't think that is long enough. You would barely be hitting your Fruit Pie stride when it would be time to quit.

Although I have not had one for several years, there was a time when I was eating at least one Hostess Fruit Pie every day. When I left the employ of the large airplane manufacturer, a coworker presented me with a box filled with Fruit Pies. I was in hog heaven, for the week it took me to eat them all.

(I have been reading more on the Fruit Pie eaters' web site, and it appears they are kind of nuts in general.)

Posted at 01:31 PM

Tue - January 13, 2009

Their best sandwich

Just in time, young Minnesota blogger Alan Klein provides us with the McRib Locator.

You can't find McRibs at every McDonald's, nor at every time of the year. Now, thanks to the McRib Locator, you can see a map of McRibs sightings nationwide.

Better than user-provided McRibs sightings would be a searchable database of all McDonald's restaurants currently serving McRibs. Oh, well, McRibs beggars can't be McRibs choosers.

I think the most McRibs I ever ate in one sitting was four. If I had paced myself, I easily could have eaten ten and not tired of them.

Posted at 08:50 PM

Culinary update

When I was a boy, I used to drink worcestershire sauce straight out of the bottle.

I have started doing it again.

No, you don't drink a bottle of it in one sitting -- the sodium would stop your heart immediately. (Although, there is much less sodium in worcestershire sauce than in soy sauce, which I also used to drink straight, and which I have NOT started drinking straight again.) You just tilt your head back and take ten or twenty drops, and you are good for the whole day. Or for a hour, depending on your taste.

Posted at 12:32 PM

Mon - December 1, 2008

A tasty repast

There is nothing wrong with accidentally eating a half-pound bag of Jelly Bellies for dinner.

Except for the lack-of-nutrition part. I feel scurvy coming on.

Posted at 05:27 PM

Thu - July 10, 2008

Stroopwafels

If you are not eating stroopwafels, you are missing out.

Stroopwafels are thin sandwiches made of two very thin waffles with a sweet caramel syrup in between. I eat them with coffee, and rest a stroopwafel on top of the coffee cup to warm it a little bit before eating it. And who can eat only one stroopwafel -- three or four is a minimum, I think.

You can't find them everywhere, but you can find them.

I mention this to you because I bought some yesterday and am in stroopwafel heaven this morning.

Posted at 07:36 AM

Thu - June 12, 2008

Bursting with flavor

Speaking of succulence, I have never eaten an eyeball.

Well, not as a distinct mammalian eyeball, floating in broth or something. I may have had an oyster eyeball, or something like that, if oysters have eyeballs -- which is to say, I may have eaten a very small eyeball as part of eating an intact larger, but small, creature. But not an eyeball that would just be sitting there, and looking approximately like one of the eyeballs that looks back at me in the mirror.

But, having thought about eating an eyeball, I think I could do it. But I would have to try to swallow it in one gulp. I am pretty sure I could not bite into an eyeball.

Of course, swallowing an intact eyeball would probably be difficult. It would probably lodge in my esophagus and require someone to perform the Heimlich maneuver on me. While if I bit into an eyeball, the vitreous humor would burst out and the shell of the eye (the fibrous tunic) would go easily down my gullet like so much calamari. It would be like biting into a cherry tomato.

Still, I'm swallowing.

Posted at 01:30 PM

Such succulence

The Crenshaw melon is my favorite melon.

It kind of tastes like cantaloupe, but is much more sweet and juicy. On the linked page I read that it is a cross between the casaba melon and the Persian melon, neither of which I have ever had. Maybe I would like them, too.

I'm eating half of a Crenshaw right now, and it is a blissful experience.

Posted at 09:58 AM

Wed - May 7, 2008

Mark your calendar: Free food May 15

McDonald's will be giving out their new "southern-style" chicken biscuits and chicken sandwiches on May 15.

You have to buy a medium or large drink to get the free sandwich.

Posted at 11:17 AM

Sat - April 26, 2008

Suds finder

If you are in New York City, and have a yen for a certain brand of beer and want to know where it is served, visit BeerMenus.com.

Or if you just want to see what beers are served at a given restaurant or tavern, you can do that, too. Or you can find watering holes by location, and then see what they serve.

The site even shows how much each establishment charges for the beer, so you can comparison price shop before going out to drink.

So, for example, if you had a taste for Yuengling Lager, you could see a list of eighteen different bars on Manhattan serving it, and you could see that while Katwalk charges $7 for a 16-ounce draft, Stanton Public only charges $4. I would go to Stanton Public. I think -- I suppose one might wish to consider ambience, and I've never been to either, but I would guess Katwalk is more swanky. But if you are using BeerMenus.com, I assume you are going for the beer, not the ambience.

So far, this site is only for New York City. We await its spread to the rest of civilization.

[Found at Lifehacker.com.]

Posted at 12:09 PM

Mon - April 21, 2008

Mangez! Ou non.

The London Telegraph offers us this list of the fifty best restaurants in the world.

I have not been to any of them. I have only heard of one of them.

"Votes for this year's list were cast by nearly 700 top chefs, restaurateurs, food writers and restaurant critics," it says here in the accompanying article.

I googled it and found that this is an annual ranking sponsored by the folks who bottle San Pellegrino water. Here is their version of the list, in which you can click on the names and read about the restaurants, and which also shows numbers 51 through 100. (I have not been to or heard of any of numbers 51 through 100.)

While we are on the subject of dining out, here is a little article from the Wall Street Journal about how to save money, and the number one way most folks can save money, the author says, is to not eat out so much. Since I have not been to any of the top one hundred restaurants, I cannot say for sure, but I would guess you could especially save money by not eating at the top one hundred restaurants -- it's probably three or five times more economical to not eat at them than to not eat at a regular restaurant.

Posted at 05:24 PM

I like a touch of maple syrup on mine

Favorite smell: Bacon

I'll be eating out of their hands

Free food today

"One lump or two?" "Lump of what? Where?"

Eat well quick

You are never too old to learn, food division

The only animals that belong in restaurants are on the plate

Makes your mouth water

Home-cooking sounds better all the time

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