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  • The Juggler
    The Juggler Posts: 49,599
    hedonist said:
    You know...this whole "mixed" nuts thing is a racket.  A sham and a scam.

    The container says peanuts, cashews, pecans, almonds, and Brazil nuts.

    The bulk is peanuts and those goddamned oversized Brazils.  Maybe ten pecans.

    I may have been lured in by Mr. Peanut, but no more.  Fuck you, Planters!  

    you're a racket
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  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    The Juggler said:
    hedonist said:
    You know...this whole "mixed" nuts thing is a racket.  A sham and a scam.

    The container says peanuts, cashews, pecans, almonds, and Brazil nuts.

    The bulk is peanuts and those goddamned oversized Brazils.  Maybe ten pecans.

    I may have been lured in by Mr. Peanut, but no more.  Fuck you, Planters!  

    you're a racket
    I think she's more of a paddle than a racket.

    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    dankind said:
    The Juggler said:
    hedonist said:
    You know...this whole "mixed" nuts thing is a racket.  A sham and a scam.

    The container says peanuts, cashews, pecans, almonds, and Brazil nuts.

    The bulk is peanuts and those goddamned oversized Brazils.  Maybe ten pecans.

    I may have been lured in by Mr. Peanut, but no more.  Fuck you, Planters!  

    you're a racket
    I think she's more of a paddle than a racket.

    If I were holding that, I'd either be laughing or angrily yelling "Schnelle!"

    You know what's a good nut?  The walnut.  Growing up, my mom used to have a big wooden bowl of them with a built-in cracker.

    Those were the days!  Not that I can't do that now...
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    hedonist said:
    dankind said:
    The Juggler said:
    hedonist said:
    You know...this whole "mixed" nuts thing is a racket.  A sham and a scam.

    The container says peanuts, cashews, pecans, almonds, and Brazil nuts.

    The bulk is peanuts and those goddamned oversized Brazils.  Maybe ten pecans.

    I may have been lured in by Mr. Peanut, but no more.  Fuck you, Planters!  

    you're a racket
    I think she's more of a paddle than a racket.

    If I were holding that, I'd either be laughing or angrily yelling "Schnelle!"

    You know what's a good nut?  The walnut.  Growing up, my mom used to have a big wooden bowl of them with a built-in cracker.

    Those were the days!  Not that I can't do that now...
    I so want to cite the old Rudy Ray Moore "chinnuts" bit, but I'll refrain.
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • HesCalledDyer
    HesCalledDyer Maryland Posts: 16,501
    When I was a kid, my grandfather and I used to go hunting for black walnuts. After the day or two it took de-hulling, washing, & drying them, we'd sit on paint buckets in front of the garage with a pair of work gloves on shelling them.
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    HesCalledDyer said:
    When I was a kid, my grandfather and I used to go hunting for black walnuts. After the day or two it took de-hulling, washing, & drying them, we'd sit on paint buckets in front of the garage with a pair of work gloves on shelling them.
    I was gonna make a "racist!" joke, but am curious about black walnuts.  Never heard of them before.

    Google, here I come!
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,965
    Foie Gras

    Yes, No or Never Tried?

    (I'm for responsibly sourced Foie Gras)

    I am 100% in the 'Tastes Amazing" camp...but I already shared that I love offal so loving a fatty liver is no stretch for me.

    Best way I have eaten it was Foie Gras Cotton Candy at a Jose Andres joint (The Bazaar) in LA.  A few 10C board members joined me and also loved this.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    hedonist said:
    HesCalledDyer said:
    When I was a kid, my grandfather and I used to go hunting for black walnuts. After the day or two it took de-hulling, washing, & drying them, we'd sit on paint buckets in front of the garage with a pair of work gloves on shelling them.
    I was gonna make a "racist!" joke, but am curious about black walnuts.  Never heard of them before.

    Google, here I come!
    Not worth the trouble lol
    Stains your hands tobacco yellow and they are often sour.
    Chestnuts and butternuts are better.

    I cut down all my black walnut trees because they are a pain and some members of the juglans family are toxic to most plants worth cultivating. Juglans Nigra is definitely one of them.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    I had a bachelor's dinner, meat and cheese tray.
    Troyer's trail Bologna and Guggisberg original baby swiss, a world champion several times.
    Both from Holmes County, Ohio, the largest Amish community in the world.

    When the ingredients are the best, you don't have to do much with them.
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  • rgambs
    rgambs Posts: 13,576
    HesCalledDyer said:
    When I was a kid, my grandfather and I used to go hunting for black walnuts. After the day or two it took de-hulling, washing, & drying them, we'd sit on paint buckets in front of the garage with a pair of work gloves on shelling them.
    Nutting!  An old time tradition that is almost entirely gone.
    The eastern US forests used to be bursting with beechnut, chestnut, butternut, hickory, and walnut, but blights and logging for lumber have wiped them out almost entirely.
    I have about 2 dozen shagbark hickory trees and as many black walnuts on 5 acres.
    The lumber assessment was over 15,000$ which is about twice what you might expect from that tract because of the hickory.
    They can have my trees when they pry them from my cold dead hands lol
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  • PJ_Soul
    PJ_Soul Vancouver, BC Posts: 50,918
    edited September 2017

    F Me In The Brain said:
    Foie Gras

    Yes, No or Never Tried?

    (I'm for responsibly sourced Foie Gras)

    I am 100% in the 'Tastes Amazing" camp...but I already shared that I love offal so loving a fatty liver is no stretch for me.

    Best way I have eaten it was Foie Gras Cotton Candy at a Jose Andres joint (The Bazaar) in LA.  A few 10C board members joined me and also loved this.
    I LOOOOOOVE it. One of my favorite foods. I've even had some of the best stuff straight from France - my French ex's parents came to visit and brought us some. Just amazing, nice and simple on a real french baguette (I say "real" because some people seem to think that a baguette is basically just regular white bread in the shape of a baguette, lol). This great restaurant I discovered recently serves it (Juniper on Keefer St), but I went for charcuterie and duck breast with pickled peaches, beets, and fennel (which was DELICIOUS!), but next time I go it will definitely get the foie gras for an appy. I can't wait. :)
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  • hedonist
    hedonist Posts: 24,524
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Foie Gras

    Yes, No or Never Tried?

    (I'm for responsibly sourced Foie Gras)

    I am 100% in the 'Tastes Amazing" camp...but I already shared that I love offal so loving a fatty liver is no stretch for me.

    Best way I have eaten it was Foie Gras Cotton Candy at a Jose Andres joint (The Bazaar) in LA.  A few 10C board members joined me and also loved this.
    :)

    In this case, one awesome bite is / was perfect.
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,067
    I had it tonight. In Raleigh and took clients out to a steakhouse and had It seared over a green and bean mixture.
  • F Me In The Brain
    F Me In The Brain this knows everybody from other commets Posts: 31,965
    It rocks,!
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  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,877
    F Me In The Brain said:
    Foie Gras

    Yes, No or Never Tried?

    (I'm for responsibly sourced Foie Gras)

    I am 100% in the 'Tastes Amazing" camp...but I already shared that I love offal so loving a fatty liver is no stretch for me.

    Best way I have eaten it was Foie Gras Cotton Candy at a Jose Andres joint (The Bazaar) in LA.  A few 10C board members joined me and also loved this.
    Liver...  Not a fan of liver.  But I'd try this just to say I did.
  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    Reading about all this nice Food is making me Hungry...
  • i_lov_it
    i_lov_it Perth, Western Australia Posts: 4,007
    edited September 2017
    Ok coming from Australia who's up for some Vegemite Sandwiches :tongue: haha
  • tempo_n_groove
    tempo_n_groove Posts: 41,877
    i_lov_it said:
    Ok coming from Australia who's up for some Vegemite Sandwiches :tongue: haha
    So.  What regional foods are loved in your area but have no desire anywhere else?

    I know about vegemite in Oz.  Then there's Mauby in Barbados, a horrible drink...

    Anything else?
  • dankind
    dankind Posts: 20,841
    Not my area, but these come to mind: haggis (Scotland), lutefisk (Scandinavia), kæstur hákarl (Iceland)
    I SAW PEARL JAM
  • Cliffy6745
    Cliffy6745 Posts: 34,067
    edited September 2017
    Spiedies! From where I grew up.

    I don't know about no desire anywhere else, they just aren't anywhere else

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