The little MINX!!!

Caught red-pawed!

A year or so ago, DH left some bratwurst on the counter to cool.
Typically Oscar doesn't get up on the counter (while we're home), and
anyway, bratwurst?

Came downstairs some time later and found bite marks in all three brats.
Just on the ends. She apparently didn't like them, but took care to
sample all three, just in case.

DH was not amused. I was. (I'm sure the fact that I'm not crazy
about bratwurst is irrelevant.)

lol! I seem to remember you telling us that story. I love the idea of
her tasting all three just in case one was acceptable to her. Of
course she could have been releasing greeblings that were trapped
inside the sausage casing. Yeah, that's the ticket, greeblings.

Julie

On Jan 4, 11:49 pm, Mischief wrote:
I cooked myself Tuna Helper tonight, and like an idiot I took my
helping and left the rest in the pan on the stove.

That was about 30 minutes ago.

I just went to put my dish in the sink and guess who I found on the
stove, perched over the pan.

Mischief jumped off the stove, licking her lips and ran off. I gave
her a light smack on the rear and scolded her. Didn't even phase
her. She just kept licking her lips and starting washing herself.

It didn't look like she ate much, but several areas were missing sauce
as it if it had been licked off. I thought about it and then scooped
the rest of the Tuna Helper into a container and put it in the
fridge. I can't afford to be throwing food away.

And besides, like they say here, everything is supposed to taste
better with cat spit.

The little varmint.............

lol! I suspect Barnabus would do that. Hobbes definitely has been
guilty of tasting food on the stove when he was a young, spry kitten.
Fortunately I have an electric stove so I don't have to worry about
pilot lights burning him but I have a fear of a cat on the stove
somehow tuning the stove on and burning paws. When I realized Hobbes
would jump onto the stove to taste dinner I started putting pans of
food in the oven or microwave while we ate. Like everyone that has
responded, unless it has a lot of hair in it I'll eat after my cats.
Barnabus is the only one I have to think twice about. He likes to
taste food first by putting his paw in it and licking the food off his
paw. I have some trouble thinking about the paw that had recently
been in the litterbox dipping into my ice cream.

Julie

On Jan 5, 9:33*am, "Monique Y. Mudama" wrote:

DH was not amused. *I was. *(I'm sure the fact that I'm not crazy
about bratwurst is irrelevant.)

I love Bratwurst!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

On Jan 5, 11:40*am, Lesley wrote:
On Jan 5, 9:33*am, "Monique Y. Mudama" wrote:

DH was not amused. *I was. *(I'm sure the fact that I'm not crazy
about bratwurst is irrelevant.)

I love Bratwurst!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Verging slightly off topic, if liverwurst is made of liver, what's
BRATwurst made of? =o)

Everything does taste better with cat spit, barring juicy little
sneezes, of course. But I can' afford to throw out anything the cats
might have investigated, either.

Melissa

On Jan 5, 12:14*pm, Shiral wrote:


Verging slightly off topic, if liverwurst is made of liver, what's
BRATwurst made of? =o)

As I said I love small children but I can't eat more than one at a
time!

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Lesley wrote:
On Jan 5, 12:14 pm, Shiral wrote:


Verging slightly off topic, if liverwurst is made of liver, what's
BRATwurst made of? =o)

As I said I love small children but I can't eat more than one at a
time!

I think it depends on how they're cooked. ;o)
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk

On 2008-01-05, Shiral penned:

Verging slightly off topic, if liverwurst is made of liver, what's
BRATwurst made of? =o)

Unless things have changed around here, food is never off-topic!

Actually "brat" means -- huh -- interesting. I would have said it's
related to the word "to fry", "braten", but apparently I'd be wrong.

http://germanenglishwords.com/rlgb.htm

from Bratwurst "meat sausage": a kind of sausage ideally made of pure
pork that is usually fried [ German Brät, Brat "finely chopped, raw
sausage meat before filling into skins" Middle High German brate
Old High German brato "pure meat (not mixed with other ingredients),
soft parts" (related to German Braten "roast meat", not related to
braten "to fry" as some dictionaries state and many German speakers
themselves also believe) + Wurst "sausage"].



--
monique, who spoils Oscar unmercifully

pictures: http://www.bounceswoosh.org/rpca

On Jan 5, 1:28*pm, "Adrian" wrote:

I think it depends on how they're cooked. ;o)

Try slow roasted on a spit with some sage and onion stuffing and an
apple in their mouth

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Monique Y. Mudama kirjoitti:
On 2008-01-05, Shiral penned:
Verging slightly off topic, if liverwurst is made of liver, what's
BRATwurst made of? =o)

Unless things have changed around here, food is never off-topic!

Actually "brat" means -- huh -- interesting. I would have said it's
related to the word "to fry", "braten", but apparently I'd be wrong.

http://germanenglishwords.com/rlgb.htm

from Bratwurst "meat sausage": a kind of sausage ideally made of pure
pork that is usually fried [ German Brät, Brat "finely chopped, raw
sausage meat before filling into skins" Middle High German brate
Old High German brato "pure meat (not mixed with other ingredients),
soft parts" (related to German Braten "roast meat", not related to
braten "to fry" as some dictionaries state and many German speakers
themselves also believe) + Wurst "sausage"].


I would be inclined to concur with your deduction with regards to the
relations to the word "braten"... I'd say braten is a word used both
for frying in a frying pan or cooking something in the oven.

--
Christine in Laitila, Finland
christal63 (at) gmail (dot) com

Lesley wrote:
On Jan 5, 1:28 pm, "Adrian" wrote:

I think it depends on how they're cooked. ;o)

Try slow roasted on a spit with some sage and onion stuffing and an
apple in their mouth

Lesley

Slave of the Fabulous Furballs

Mmmmmmmm. You're making me feel hungry. ;o)
--
Adrian (Owned by Snoopy & Bagheera)
Cats leave pawprints on your heart
http://community.webshots.com/user/clowderuk