Food from other countries..

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  1. The Rhetoric of Life

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    What came first, the chicken or the egg?

    A: the egg, we had that for breakfast.

    Peace, I'm out.
     
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    I'll be happy when I see a video of you eating a nice big serving of dark green, raw kale. No dressing, either.

    I went to a rabbit convention once and I swear the people looked like rabbits.
     
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    My rabbit isn't crazy about greens either. He prefers carrots. They are his absolute favorite thing in the world. He will eat other veggies begrudgingly.

    A rabbit convention? Is there such a thing? :hmm:
     
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    The chicken of course! :razz: Without the chicken how can you have an egg?
     
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    Who laid that egg? :laughing:
     
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    Some bird had a mutated offspring that then became a chicken. Obviously. Their whole existence is an accident. :)
     
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    Just curious... where does your bacon come from?
     
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    A pig, I assume. Lol.
     
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    We do lots of stir fry. One of my own creations is sweet and sour pork with shrimp. The combination of the shrimp and the pork is great. I also do my own egg rolls. And my own won ton soup.
     
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    I want to say the Easter Bunny, but..
    Also, chicken comes after breakfast.
     
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    I found British food in my local mall in PA in 2004, I found Fruit Pastilles and Aero bars.
    I considered that a score since I happen to like those 2.
    There's this news agents in Soho that also have American M&Ms and Tootsie Rolls and Arizona and this water I like, Fiji Natural Water.
    There's this butcher/grocery shop in Thornton Heath that has Caribbean snacks that I like, This corn chip I like from the Trinidad & Tobago called Chee Zees and these biscuits/cookies from Barbados called Shirley I showed my friend who knows Barbados, seem to have all the flavours of that. Also, Polish Supermarkets have great snacks, Lays (like Walker's in the UK and Lays in Poland and Smith's in Australia), Get Polish food too in Tesco as well as those Polish supermarkets.
    Tesco have a Caribbean section, but that's all UK made and Red Stripe and Dragon Stout, so like energy drinks and patties and ready jerk chicken and rice meals. There's this African shop I use for currency exchange since it's on my high street but, they have snacks from Africa.. I recognise this energy drink from Nestlé called Milo, but this African shop has cubes of that and dried fish.

    Last time I went to Amsterdam, I got most of my Euros from that African shop and since I was going by coach, I took a lot of those Chee Zees from Trinadad & Tobago I bought in the butcher's/grocery shop as well as UK snacks I bought in Poundland, to eat/line my stomach for the booze and pot for the party bus that was chartered from Vauxhall, London - Amsterdam (Dover - Calais route) Like a 10 hour trip including 90 minutes on board a ferry crossing the English Channel, then it's back on the bus that goes from France to Belgium's Wales called Flanders, through the Netherlands's Wales called South Holland to Amsterdam in North Holland, NL.
     
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    I love M & M's. I've been eating those since I can remember. I always eat two at a time, and the same color. My OCD. Lol.
     
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    Duck..... MMMMMMMMMMMMM....
     
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    We have M&Ms in England, just Chocolate M&M, Peanut M&M and Crispy M&M..

    In Soho I treated myself to Mint M&M from America (like £2.50)!, they had a lot of interesting flavours including Birthday Cake M&Ms... But also, just down the street, is a big tourist attraction at Piccadilly Circus anyways called M&M World, I've walked through that at times.
     
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    I saw some that looked purple, but it was uncooked too. I think the dark meat sometimes has a purple hue. Maybe it depends on the kind of duck?
     
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    Deep maroon/purplish is a sign of GREAT duck.

    It's a lot like pork loin..... Just mid-well will do.
     
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    I like the peanut ones once in a while (when I feel like a nut - :laughing:), but mostly I just eat the plain ones.

    We used to have an awesome candy store in the mall here. It was called Fanny Farmer, but it closed unfortunately. My mom and I would always stop in there when I was little and get me some chocolate. That was the BEST chocolate I've ever had. I'd put that in my mouth and my taste buds would just start squirting and freaking out! :p
     
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    I love pork loin but never tried duck before. I'll have to try it one of these days. Is it very gamy?
     
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    Damn. That's hot.
     
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    Wild duck's a bit more gamey than farm raised of course, but especially in the case of duck breast, it's like a good beef tenderloin.
     
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    It's hard to keep a straight face with Fanny Farmer, I'm sorry.
     
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    Lol! I guess that did come out sounding a little questionable, but seriously, have you ever eaten something that makes your salivary glands squirt like that? That's how you know it's good! :D
     
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    Fanny makes some good candy! :laughing:
     
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    I've never had either farm raised or wild duck. I'd be curious to try it but wouldn't want to spend a bunch of money on something that I'm not going to like and end up wasting it and throwing it away. I always feel so guilty about doing that. That is probably the main reason why I do not try a lot of different foods.
     
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    Some smaller upscale restaurants will let you sample. I'd suggest trying that route, but I'm sure you'll love it.
     
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