Oh Baby, It's Cold Outside (and in) and a rant

Jofirey wrote:

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On Oct 25, 10:13 am, "Jofirey" wrote:


No corn dogs? How sad!

Something like sausage in batter from any local chippie then? But
without the stick

Personally I prefer a saveloy- do you have saveloys? Best served with
pease pudding

And I worked out cotton candy we call it candyfloss but funnel cake?

************

I doubt we have a corner on it, but there is nothing Americans
cannot figure out how to deep fry.

Now I don't think were entirely responsible, after all we weren't
the ones who started in with fish and chips, fried in lard no less
in the good old days.

A funnel cake is made by heating up a pan of hot fat. Then you
drizzle cake batter through a funnel into the hot fat slowly, in
kind of a lacy pattern. A bit like a deep fried waffle. Sometime
topped with powdered sugar, or with strawberries and whipping cream
or...

These are usually purchased at fairs or amusement parks since they
are entirely too messy to make at home. Not so awful if they are
only a once a year treat.

I still feel bad as I offered to buy one for youngest grandson when
we last went to Six Flags. He decided the line was too long. But
as it turned out the line to get the car out of the parking lot,
(forget how long it took to get all the way to the highway) was over
an hour. We were all starving my the time we got to food again.

Jo


Anybody for a nice Greek Gyro? (My favorite fast food). MLB



Naw, Gyros are entirely too healthy. They contain vegetables, dontcha
know

Jill

I'm such a pushover for any food suggestions. There is a nice new Greek
cafe and deli not half a mile from here. I've got to check it out.

Jo


Eager to hear what you think. MLB

MLB wrote:
Jofirey wrote:
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Jofirey wrote:
"Lesley" wrote in message
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On Oct 25, 10:13 am, "Jofirey" wrote:

No corn dogs? How sad!

Something like sausage in batter from any local chippie then? But
without the stick

Personally I prefer a saveloy- do you have saveloys? Best served with
pease pudding

And I worked out cotton candy we call it candyfloss but funnel cake?

************

I doubt we have a corner on it, but there is nothing Americans
cannot figure out how to deep fry.

Now I don't think were entirely responsible, after all we weren't
the ones who started in with fish and chips, fried in lard no less
in the good old days.

A funnel cake is made by heating up a pan of hot fat. Then you
drizzle cake batter through a funnel into the hot fat slowly, in
kind of a lacy pattern. A bit like a deep fried waffle. Sometime
topped with powdered sugar, or with strawberries and whipping cream
or...

These are usually purchased at fairs or amusement parks since they
are entirely too messy to make at home. Not so awful if they are
only a once a year treat.

I still feel bad as I offered to buy one for youngest grandson when
we last went to Six Flags. He decided the line was too long. But
as it turned out the line to get the car out of the parking lot,
(forget how long it took to get all the way to the highway) was over
an hour. We were all starving my the time we got to food again.

Jo

Anybody for a nice Greek Gyro? (My favorite fast food). MLB


Naw, Gyros are entirely too healthy. They contain vegetables, dontcha
know

Jill
I'm such a pushover for any food suggestions. There is a nice new Greek
cafe and deli not half a mile from here. I've got to check it out.

Jo


Eager to hear what you think. MLB
My first and last visit to a greek restaurant was a big
disappointment.
Everthing tasted like peppermint .

On Oct 27, 3:56*pm, hopitus wrote:
On Oct 25, 3:13*pm, "Smokie Darling (Annie)"
wrote:

On Oct 25, 1:14*pm, Christine BA wrote:

Smokie Darling (Annie) kirjoitti:
snip

In Austria, the equivalent to funnel cake is called Strauben and is
made and served, with regional varieties, the same way as among the
Pennsylvania Dutch. The Finnish analog of funnel cakes, tippaleipä, is
traditionally served at May Day (Vappu) celebrations

And tippaleipä is more of a mess than a meal...

but is it less fattening than funnelcake, this is what I want to know
(funnelcake is generally served as a "desert" type thing, so you eat
your corndogs and fries, *then* you get your funnelcake).

I hope Finnish funnelcake is better than USA funnelcake. I ate it
once in CA and was quite disappointed..just one of those things
that looks a lot better than it tastes, IMHO.
Recently at a Harvest festival here I found a new weirdity on a stick.
Mac 'n' cheese. Deadly grease but good.

Depends on how it's made. The county fair here has an *awesome*
funnelcake. One I went to over on your side of the mountain was
completely awful, but another (another county fair) one was really,
really good.

It's been said elsewhere, that the grease has to be a certain
temperature, otherwise it ends up tasting very flat and heavy.

hopitus wrote:

In Austria, the equivalent to funnel cake is called Strauben and is
made and served, with regional varieties, the same way as among the
Pennsylvania Dutch. The Finnish analog of funnel cakes, tippaleip?, is
traditionally served at May Day (Vappu) celebrations

And tippaleip? is more of a mess than a meal...

but is it less fattening than funnelcake, this is what I want to know
(funnelcake is generally served as a "desert" type thing, so you eat
your corndogs and fries, *then* you get your funnelcake).

I hope Finnish funnelcake is better than USA funnelcake. I ate it
once in CA and was quite disappointed..just one of those things
that looks a lot better than it tastes, IMHO.

Hop, I have to agree. I've never had it anywhere else, only here in
California, and it was terrible. As you said, it certainly *looked*
like it was going to taste good. It was not only greasy, but way too
sweet.

Recently at a Harvest festival here I found a new weirdity on a stick.
Mac 'n' cheese. Deadly grease but good.

That sounds like it ought to defy the laws of physics.

Joyce

--
War [or possibly funnelcake? ] is God's way of teaching Americans
geography.

On Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:00:02 -0700, Smokie Darling (Annie) wrote:

On Oct 27, 3:56Â*pm, hopitus wrote:
On Oct 25, 3:13Â*pm, "Smokie Darling (Annie)"
wrote:

On Oct 25, 1:14Â*pm, Christine BA wrote:

Smokie Darling (Annie) kirjoitti:
snip

In Austria, the equivalent to funnel cake is called Strauben and
is made and served, with regional varieties, the same way as
among the Pennsylvania Dutch. The Finnish analog of funnel cakes,
tippaleipä, is traditionally served at May Day (Vappu)
celebrations

And tippaleipä is more of a mess than a meal...

but is it less fattening than funnelcake, this is what I want to know
(funnelcake is generally served as a "desert" type thing, so you eat
your corndogs and fries, *then* you get your funnelcake).

I hope Finnish funnelcake is better than USA funnelcake. I ate it once
in CA and was quite disappointed..just one of those things that looks a
lot better than it tastes, IMHO. Recently at a Harvest festival here I
found a new weirdity on a stick. Mac 'n' cheese. Deadly grease but
good.

Depends on how it's made. The county fair here has an *awesome*
funnelcake. One I went to over on your side of the mountain was
completely awful, but another (another county fair) one was really,
really good.

It's been said elsewhere, that the grease has to be a certain
temperature, otherwise it ends up tasting very flat and heavy.

It is probably a case of sufficiently-hot grease cooking the outer
surface quickly enough to seal off the inner portion of the funnel cake,
vs. cooking slowly enough that the grease has time to penetrate all of
the way through. The worst french fries that I have ever had were at the
student lounge in graduate school; the fryer evidently didn't get the
grease hot enough, as the fries were both totally limp and totally grease-
soaked. To make things worse, there wasn't an exhaust hood to capture
any oil spray, so the entire lounge, chairs and tables included, was
coated with a sticky layer of old grease.

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"Reserve your right to think, for even to think wrongly is better
than not to think at all." -- Hypatia of Alexandria

The worst french fries that I have ever had were at the
student lounge in graduate school; the fryer evidently didn't get the
grease hot enough, as the fries were both totally limp and totally grease-
soaked. To make things worse, there wasn't an exhaust hood to capture
any oil spray, so the entire lounge, chairs and tables included, was
coated with a sticky layer of old grease.

Does that sort of explain something?

I've never been very enthusiastic about fried food. What furred up
my coronary artery was probably a lifetime of cheese addiction. When
I was a student in New Zealand I discovered you could buy cheddar in
20-pound blocks - they would only just fit in my fridge. If they'd
criminalized it that would have been enough to convict me as a dealer.

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Jack Campin - bogus address wrote:
The worst french fries that I have ever had were at the
student lounge in graduate school; the fryer evidently didn't get the
grease hot enough, as the fries were both totally limp and totally grease-
soaked. To make things worse, there wasn't an exhaust hood to capture
any oil spray, so the entire lounge, chairs and tables included, was
coated with a sticky layer of old grease.

Does that sort of explain something?

I've never been very enthusiastic about fried food. What furred up
my coronary artery was probably a lifetime of cheese addiction. When
I was a student in New Zealand I discovered you could buy cheddar in
20-pound blocks - they would only just fit in my fridge. If they'd
criminalized it that would have been enough to convict me as a dealer.


20 pounds?????????? How long did that last?

I feel guilty about a half pound 20+ ..........
although it does not survive the night, and weeks till the
next piece

On Oct 26, 12:49*pm, "Jofirey" wrote:

Its a real shame you didn't learn.

There used to be, maybe still is, a chain of 'southern comfort food'
restaurants called 'Po Folks' *I think. *The food back east and in
the south was wonderful. *They had the best fried okra in the world.
Fish, chicken, you name it. *When they opened one up here in
California, we were so excited. *Shouldn't have been. *The food was
horrible. *A greasy soggy mess. *You can't have southern cookin with
out southern cooks.

Jo

Ohhh, careful now, Jo. You're going to come very close to resurrecting
the MooMoo Ladies of rpca

Julie

On Oct 23, 10:47*pm, "tanadashoes" wrote:
We experienced temps in the 30s F here in North Carolina last week. *This
was very uncomfortable for us all as the heater is based under the house and
none of us were able to go under to make sure the pilot light was on. *So we
got cold. *I got up in the middle of the night to shiver my way to the
bathroom and realized that there were five cats on the bed. *Everyone except
for Sonya and Miss Calico Girl were snuggled up. *Tanada, QC, and Merlin
were lined up down the middle of the bed between the lumps that were Rob and
myself. *Huey was tucked between Rob's ankles and Pine Cone was snugged
between my bottom and the edge of the bed. *I found it amazing that we could
fit that many of us on a Queen bed.

lol! I've been finding 5 cats on the bed as well. When I get home
from work I turn on my electric blanket and within an hour all 5 cats
are scattered over the bed. They usually get up and get a snack when
I come to bed but by 3 am (usually when I get up to go to the
bathroom) I find all 5 of them are back in bed with me.

A couple of days later, Rob and I went to Wal-Mart and picked up a cheap
space heater. *Later, of course, I had to get up to use the bathroom. *I
noticed that everyone except Huey was on the bed. *Huey was stretched out at
an angle to the heater, exposing his beautiful sausage belly to the warm.
His tail was straight out and his front paws were crossed under him. *His
back paws were contracting and expanding in a sensual rhythm and an obvious
smile, punctuated by snores that lifted his upper lip stretched across his
muzzle. *I almost wet myself while staring fascinated at my Hoodyman.

This reminds me of Hobbes. In summertime and winter he would sleep
near the vents in the house. We used to keep one of the cat beds
beneath the heat vent. We moved it to the top of the armour because
someone is always sleeping up there. Selena would sleep in the bed
and lay on her back exposing a pink belly to the heat. Please be very
careful with the space heater! Do you have an electric blanket? That
would at least keep you warm when in bed.




I've been down with sinus infections from our weather. *It has generally
been raining just enough to trigger mold growth. *I've become a devotee of
Advil and Afrin. *They both seem to work as a rule. *I also have some stuff
that helps with the ear aches I get. *Not good.

Rob is gradually getting weaker. *A few weeks ago he was able to jump out of
his chair and walk off. *Now it takes more effort. *He is having a harder
time with his bodily functions than before and is less able to articulate
what he wants to say. *I seem to get used to one level of Rob's condition
only to find that he has slipped into a different, and usually, lower level
of ability.

Purrs on the way for both of you. Having met Rob I know how frustrated
he must get when he can't articulate what he wants to say. I could
see some of that to a very lesser degree when we were together earlier
this year.

Julie, Lacey, Sam, Barnabus, Meeka and Rosco

"hopitus" wrote in message
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On Oct 25, 3:13 pm, "Smokie Darling (Annie)"

wrote:
On Oct 25, 1:14 pm, Christine BA
wrote:

Smokie Darling (Annie) kirjoitti:
snip

In Austria, the equivalent to funnel cake is called Strauben
and is
made and served, with regional varieties, the same way as
among the
Pennsylvania Dutch. The Finnish analog of funnel cakes,
tippaleipä, is
traditionally served at May Day (Vappu) celebrations

And tippaleipä is more of a mess than a meal...

but is it less fattening than funnelcake, this is what I want to
know
(funnelcake is generally served as a "desert" type thing, so you
eat
your corndogs and fries, *then* you get your funnelcake).

I hope Finnish funnelcake is better than USA funnelcake. I ate it
once in CA and was quite disappointed..just one of those things
that looks a lot better than it tastes, IMHO.
Recently at a Harvest festival here I found a new weirdity on a
stick.
Mac 'n' cheese. Deadly grease but good.

*************

Not that anyone needs to try funnel cake more than once in a
lifetime, but some are much better than others.

I thought I'd heard of nearly everything on a stick. Cheese is
good. Zucchini is good. Mac 'n' cheese? That I'd try.

Jo