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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: Swoop on August 03, 2003, 06:08:18 AM
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ok, I've kinda got this thing for trying stuff from a menu if I dont recognise what it is. I've eaten all kindsa crap but have always drawn the line at snails.
Not last night. Was in an italian restaurant in Den Haag, menu is split between italian and dutch so no help there.......there's ONE starter I couldn't translate so of course I ordered it........6 oven ready snails in garlic butter. :eek:
Eating snails is like chewing the fat off a pork chop. I cannot describe it any other way.
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any taste you could make out beside the garlic butter? :p sounds like fun i might wanna try them when i get older lol
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Once again we learn that one thing: don't order what you dont understand :)
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Nah that's half the fun.
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I used to order the snails just to get the garlic butter..then I would dip my dinner roll into that...mmmmm
The snails I would eat too...two chews and then gulp. Quickly. Trying hard not to think about what I was eating.
Then, in a Paris restaurant one of my quick chews had a very unhealthy "crunch" to it. The waiter said it was sand that sometimes gets into the snails.
Haven't ordered them since.
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We always used to get the snails in tomato sauce in Athens. Great appetizer and I always thought they were much better than the more famous "garlic sauce" French style snails.
They were bowl-licking good! Karaoli yahni ? Something like that.
Man.. what good times!
Black and green olives, taramosalata and tzatziki with a basket of fresh Greek bread. Salata horiatiki; saganaki; kolokithakia and kalamarakia.
And I remember wine... lots of wine...
Get drunk, stuff yourself sick and spend about $5.
Then go out for serious partying.
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squeamish sissies :)
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Escargot ..... MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm :)
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Originally posted by skernsk
Escargot ..... MMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmm :)
Was going to make some of that, but closest thing I could find to it was buckshot. oooh man, did I pay for that! Next morning, I bent over to pet the cat and shot the canary. ;)
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i ate sand fleas once , but thats another (military) story, they didn't taste too bad, looked like pepper on my mashed potatos.
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You should come to Korea.
We've got, mini-snails, sea snails, fresh water snails and various assortments of slugs and molluscs for your tasty pleasure ;)
Except we don't use garlic butter, we usually use chili paste.
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On a trip to France I went through the same thing. Almost never knew what I was ordering until it showed up. I started out asking the waiters to explain the choices to me, but the cliche of the rude French waiter was no lie, and I just gave up doing that... opting instead to just taking my chances and picking things that sounded ok. The worst thing I ended up with was a plate of fish egg crepes. Was called something like "lumpy". Heaps and heaps of raw fish eggs wrapped in a crepe. Just disgusting. Escargot? Mmm.. tastey. I'm a very picky eater but even I don't consider those to be all that exotic.
Btw., I can't really blame those French waiter's attitudes. The first day there I accidently ended up using what I finally discovered was a tip tray... as an ashtray. No telling how much bs like that they've witnessed. I even heard some guy call the waiter over by saying "garcon". I thought that was just an exageration - but it really happens. The look on the waiter's face was classic though. One of the most authenticly French things I saw on the entire trip.
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I've heard some eat these (http://www.kolumbus.fi/staga/shavedcat.jpg) too :)
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Staga.. :(
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Ive djust started to eat sushi, at first you think its so-so then an few dishes of sushi later the damn thing is getting addictive...
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Snails are just another mollusk guys.
Just think of them as an Oyster with one shell or a smallish abalone, or even a squid in a house. It's all good eats.
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Try our raw haring with fresh onions.
I really love it.
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Originally posted by BUG_EAF322
Try our raw haring with fresh onions.
Now there's a good reason to move back home.
If there's one thing I'll never understand is why Cloggies infest their beach resorts with these damn fish huts selling nothing but raw haring and onion. As if the beach didn't smell salty and fishey enough already.......
And you can really tell when it's the fresh haring season in Holland, you can smell it from the plane, the whole country smells of fish for a month.
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Dude, Fear is obviously not a Factor for you!
You should audition for Fear Factor. Since you get to spend the day hanging out with busty babes, watching them eating cows vial and blood.
Thinking: Damn! I bet there isn't anything these babes wouldn't swallow for 5 bucks.
...-Gixer
-Hells Angels-
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Thinking: Damn! I bet there isn't anything these babes wouldn't swallow for 5 bucks.
i had a horrible thought so here it goes...
i bet i know what you would want them to swallow
hehe :) :p