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compilerbitch ([personal profile] 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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[livejournal.com profile] augeas I know via [livejournal.com profile] panzerpenguin, I think, though I've also bumped into him lots at Hinoeuma when I used to sound-engineer there.

[livejournal.com profile] davefish I know via [livejournal.com profile] 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.

[livejournal.com profile] spidosaur Is [livejournal.com profile] doseybat's ex, which is how I know him. ~~~waves~~~, if you're watching.

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[livejournal.com profile] naranek I know via the Cambridge goth/geek scene.

[identity profile] marnanel.livejournal.com 2008-03-09 02:47 am (UTC)(link)
Wikipedia says your soup was called okroshka.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Okroshka

[identity profile] compilerbitch.livejournal.com 2008-03-09 03:06 am (UTC)(link)
Yes!

That's it. Weird as a clockwork chocolate wombat that's been left to go mouldy for a few weeks, pressed between a pair of Republicans and then decanted into a soup bowl prior to serving.

[identity profile] fluffthebunny.livejournal.com 2008-03-09 12:39 pm (UTC)(link)
OMG. I just had one of those "you made me laugh so hard, milk came from my nose... and I wasn't even drinking milk" moments.

LOL

[identity profile] lysana.livejournal.com 2008-03-10 06:34 pm (UTC)(link)
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