Musings on the unwell, attention grabbing ploys, things musical...

[Pixie_Dust]

Oh, the glorious Brussell Spouts! You must forget about those bland humongous, grossly overfed with antibiotics, genentically modified ghetto supermarket green giant balls and pluck them directly off the staulks in the garden when they are tiny, tender & young and can’t feel any pain yet.

We like to sautee them in a hot skillet so the edges get brown & charred with olive oil shallots…or oven roasted till they are unrecognizably crispy with olive oil and shallots…and don’t forget the salt!

What good cheese isn’t stinky?

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[Jair]

You’re way off topic as usual Heidi, head cheese is not even real fromage. Its a fraud, a doppleganger used to hurt the cause of real cheese by virtue of its putrifying and digusting ingredients

Well SaddlefitterVA, from your cruel and disturbing posts about what you do to brussel sprouts I can only assume that you are the sort of person who stuffs their potatoes into boiling water alive just to hear them scream too!

You are not welcome at my dinner table!

[DMK]

And well, THAT topic…

Having resisted posting so far not because I didn’t feel strongly on that sort of topic, but because I think it might feed into a larger problem…

So I thought a nice diversion might be found in the form of baby carrots, baby quiches, peeps, Buckhead, PETF and the infamous dog park thread.

If you haven’t read the dog park thread yet, please, enjoy… it was a work of art…

[NOTE - it’s not here, was going to insert link, but may have been archived - hopefully Erin can retrieve it! hint hint, feel free to put link here… oh yea, and Jair wants credit for telling me that you could get the thread, so don’t make him a liar - his self esteem is pretty much riding on this…]

If you have, exactly what is your stand on the topic of French and Russian judging at the Annual Baby Quiche-athon?

And if you feel a need to post on THAT topic, try discussing the views of PETF here instead. It will be for the greater good, I promise you.

Edited Note: The link to the thread is on page 2 and Jair’s self esteem is saved! Oh happy day!!

[I]"You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty. "

• Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) *[/I]

[This message was edited by DMK on Feb. 26, 2002 at 10:32 PM.]

[DMK]

Magnolia… I thought I had seen some tough characters, but to eat baby corns???

Oh the horrors!!

And Jair, don’t you be dissing the Brussel Sprout!! His tumbling routines were without parallel!!

[I]"You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty. "

• Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) *[/I]

[DMK]

Magnolia… Words fail me… Eating olympic contending Brussel Sprouts? Have you no shame? Do you even pluck them off the shelves without considering their innate talent? Shocked, I am SHOCKED I say… Oh the things one finds out about people on this BB!!!

Beezer, I so totally agree with you about the potato issue. I hear the Russians have washed their hands of that problem. His salad days are over, don’t you think?

[I]"You can pretend to be serious; you can’t pretend to be witty. "

• Sacha Guitry (1885-1957) *[/I]

[Everythingbutwings]

To think that I have been actually BONDING with people who would eat those nasty little barbie doll cabbages!

Everyone knows that they only exist to be glazed and surround the current favorite variety of roasted turkey on the Thanksgiving cover of Martha Stewart!

Now, those who attended FFP III will attest to my constant attempt to provide the complete array of the “in” baby vegies and quiches. Baby carrots and mini (don’t they count as baby?) quiches were appropriately displayed both at the steeplechases AND Frying Pan!

As to the provisioning of COTH fromage, we had quite a fine array although only the Herbs de Provence Goat Cheese could quite be considered young.

[HeyYouNags]

The most recent scientific evidence has discredited the theory that young brussels sprouts have not yet developed the ability to perceive pain. Studies have proven that brussels sprouts come into this world with their sensory apparatus fully intact.

[Heidi]

Jair, your cruel and dismissive response is the reason I shall adopt the head cheese as my culinary cause celebre. I’m hopeful that the rest of you bleeding heart broccolians and brussel sprouters will accept me and my head cheese on play day. Love me, love my head cheese, I say!

We should be celebrating the ingenuity of the butchers who slavishly and lovingly wove together congealed organ meats and, in an inspired state, decided to call it frommage. I’m pretty certain the french judge will reward us and slam those of you who’d so desparately cling to their hole-ridden, mould-laden, fermented milk products.

Head cheese. It’s a good thing

[Jair]

was the name of Jeb’s hysterical thread where the baby quiche first came into being…

Please find it Erin!!!

Personally DMK, I would far rather have baby carrots with french dressing, then russian. The bright red colour of Kraft Russian Salad Dressing is a bit offputting

[Janeway]

Forget about the vegetables, what about all those poor little neats? Having their feet cut off just to make oil for us equestrians to use on our tack.

I propose to start the Society for the Protection of the Feetless Neats!!

[Erin]

Sorry to interrupt…

DMK, Jair: what exactly was the dog park thread? Give me a few clues on the title and when it was posted (in H/J, I assume?) and I’ll dig it out and move it back.

[elizabeth]

As long as we are all talking honestly and openly about fromage, I would like to share with you my views. Now, I realize they might not be popular ones, nor might they be educated ones, but I’m entitled to my views, right? I mean, our forfathers (sp?) fought for my right to articulate my own view on fromage, nomatter how rebarbative, right?

O.k., then: I just don’t see the point of ordering an assortment of stinky cheese. To me, it is a waste of calories AND money. That is to say, perhaps stinky cheese is an acquired taste. Maybe you all just have more refined palates than I do. The truth is, however, that calling it “fromage” does nothing to change my view that I would rather skip the cheese course than have the stinky cheese plate.

No flames please. JMHO. Thank you for listening.