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compilerbitch) wrote2008-03-08 04:40 pm
compilerbitch) wrote2008-03-08 04:40 pm
The unlockable answers...
What is the most unusual food you've ever eaten... and enjoyed?
That's a tough one, because I'll eat nearly anything. Hmm... I suppose if I've eaten and enjoyed it, then *I* pretty much by definition don't find it weird. But of the foods that people frequently won't go near, I love haggis. I used to eat black pudding when I lived in north east England, but seldom do these days. And raw fish, and fish eggs. And sprats, whole, on black bread in the Russian style. I like a few Russian things, like cabbage pie, борщ, the little cabbage parcel things with meat and rice inside that I can never remember the name of, etc. But that's not *that* unusual, I suppose.
Oh, yes, I know what I can say. It's a drink rather than a food, though. Another Russian thing: квас, (prounounced 'kvass'). It's kind of a weird fermented fizzy drink that looks like coke and tastes like Marmite. I really like it. I'm weird. Yeah, laugh it up, I know, I know.
Though I should say that once, in Moscow, I was given a weird soup with bits of meat, vegetables and sour cream. In a base of квас. Maybe someone can remind me what this horror-concoction was called, but no one was very surprised when I didn't like it. I mean, cold soup, fair enough, I can deal, but FIZZY and Weird as Hell? C'mon!
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augeas I know via panzerpenguin, I think, though I've also bumped into him lots at Hinoeuma when I used to sound-engineer there.
davefish I know via doseybat, my ex. We were basically part of the same extended social circle for the last 4 years or so that I lived in the UK.
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That's a tough one, because I'll eat nearly anything. Hmm... I suppose if I've eaten and enjoyed it, then *I* pretty much by definition don't find it weird. But of the foods that people frequently won't go near, I love haggis. I used to eat black pudding when I lived in north east England, but seldom do these days. And raw fish, and fish eggs. And sprats, whole, on black bread in the Russian style. I like a few Russian things, like cabbage pie, борщ, the little cabbage parcel things with meat and rice inside that I can never remember the name of, etc. But that's not *that* unusual, I suppose.
Oh, yes, I know what I can say. It's a drink rather than a food, though. Another Russian thing: квас, (prounounced 'kvass'). It's kind of a weird fermented fizzy drink that looks like coke and tastes like Marmite. I really like it. I'm weird. Yeah, laugh it up, I know, I know.
Though I should say that once, in Moscow, I was given a weird soup with bits of meat, vegetables and sour cream. In a base of квас. Maybe someone can remind me what this horror-concoction was called, but no one was very surprised when I didn't like it. I mean, cold soup, fair enough, I can deal, but FIZZY and Weird as Hell? C'mon!
omnisppot asks who our common LJ friends are and how I know them...augeas I know via panzerpenguin, I think, though I've also bumped into him lots at Hinoeuma when I used to sound-engineer there.davefish I know via doseybat, my ex. We were basically part of the same extended social circle for the last 4 years or so that I lived in the UK.spidosaur Is doseybat's ex, which is how I know him. ~~~waves~~~, if you're watching.vulcanita I met via spidosaur, via doseybat.naranek I know via the Cambridge goth/geek scene.
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The квас I had from bottles came from a local store, and was rather fizzier, closer to normal soda.
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Man, I wish my attempt at making kvas had turned out well. Now I'm just letting it sit indefinitely while I watch bizarre chemical reactions occur in it - it's now solidly black in color and no more viscous than water!
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