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Weird Foods I Have Known
Still on restricted computer access until I get my home computer sorted out. I didn't get a chance last night (BASPHEMY!) because I needed to hit the grocery store.
You know? I really should know better than to go shopping right after work but before I eat dinner.
I also know that I should avoid my local Victory Supermarket.
See, I have a theory: You can always tell what kind of city you've moved in by the local chain grocery store.
Now, when I lived in Rhode Island, my local grocery store was the Eastside Marketplace, which was big on the organic and free range before it was the rage (I lived near Brown University).
When I lived in Beverly (north of Boston), my local Stop & Shop and Shaw's were very, very whitebread. Aside from a little "Italian" flava in some of the aisles, nothin' by way of fun food that makes you wonder, "I wonder what that tastes like." If I wanted anything Spanish, I had to go into Salem (the town next door) and hit up the botegas.
Now I'm in Waltham in which "multicultural" and "working class" just about covers everything. My local Victory supermarket has some *very* weird-ass food and a million different varieties of said weird-ass food. Good thing it's one of those stores where you can get lost just trying to navigate the produce/seafood/deli counter troika.
So, last night I was loading up on duck, veal heart, buffalo, (I looked at the ostrich and emu but wasn't sure), and fruits and veggies that I can only begin to guess what they taste like...and I think I heard more languages in the produce department than there were actual people.
Ahhhhhhh! Paradise!
Of course, if I want to go down Moody Street this weekend, I'll be able to hit the Pakistan-Indian grocers (only in Waltham do they get live in peace and thre's two of them!); Asian market, Spanish botega(s), Italian food import store, Middle Eastern corner store with its Halal beef (sooooooo tender).
Eeeep! I'm tryin' ta loose weight over here and I move to an international food paradise.
*whywhywhwywhywhy*
Anyway, here's hoping my "one last thing to try" works. Otherwise, I'll have to haul it out for a diagnostic (I want to be sure it's the ethernet card). And thanks for the recommendation on Netgear guys! If the Ethernet card is the issue, I'll be sure to grab that one and install it.
You know? I really should know better than to go shopping right after work but before I eat dinner.
I also know that I should avoid my local Victory Supermarket.
See, I have a theory: You can always tell what kind of city you've moved in by the local chain grocery store.
Now, when I lived in Rhode Island, my local grocery store was the Eastside Marketplace, which was big on the organic and free range before it was the rage (I lived near Brown University).
When I lived in Beverly (north of Boston), my local Stop & Shop and Shaw's were very, very whitebread. Aside from a little "Italian" flava in some of the aisles, nothin' by way of fun food that makes you wonder, "I wonder what that tastes like." If I wanted anything Spanish, I had to go into Salem (the town next door) and hit up the botegas.
Now I'm in Waltham in which "multicultural" and "working class" just about covers everything. My local Victory supermarket has some *very* weird-ass food and a million different varieties of said weird-ass food. Good thing it's one of those stores where you can get lost just trying to navigate the produce/seafood/deli counter troika.
So, last night I was loading up on duck, veal heart, buffalo, (I looked at the ostrich and emu but wasn't sure), and fruits and veggies that I can only begin to guess what they taste like...and I think I heard more languages in the produce department than there were actual people.
Ahhhhhhh! Paradise!
Of course, if I want to go down Moody Street this weekend, I'll be able to hit the Pakistan-Indian grocers (only in Waltham do they get live in peace and thre's two of them!); Asian market, Spanish botega(s), Italian food import store, Middle Eastern corner store with its Halal beef (sooooooo tender).
Eeeep! I'm tryin' ta loose weight over here and I move to an international food paradise.
*whywhywhwywhywhy*
Anyway, here's hoping my "one last thing to try" works. Otherwise, I'll have to haul it out for a diagnostic (I want to be sure it's the ethernet card). And thanks for the recommendation on Netgear guys! If the Ethernet card is the issue, I'll be sure to grab that one and install it.
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That said, the village I live in does have a nationally famous bakery which does the best iced gingerbread I've ever tasted...
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(Anonymous) 2004-05-25 01:11 pm (UTC)(link)Buffalo is awesome, better than beef IMO, and I love good beef (then again, I grew up on a ranch, so good steak was pretty much a nightly event). When I was young, we had a place named Buffalo Ranch about 20 miles down the road that had over 200 head and regularly had buffalo meat for sale. About the only thing I miss about the midwest, cheap buffalo. :)
Ostrich? Not so much. I was hoping it would have that richer taste that makes duck so much tastier than chicken, but the sample I had was awful.
Alligator tasted like mud. Ick. Rattlesnake wasn't much better. Nor was bear. Sometimes 'exotic' just means 'stuff that people don't eat for a *reason.*' :)
On the other hand, rabbit, roast in red wine and stuffed with garlic and mushrooms (sort of a beef bourguinon sauce)? Heaven.
We had a little middle eastern deli around the corner. It opened a month before 9/11. Needless to say, it died soon thereafter, amidst the anti-dark-skin & bearded foreigner hysteria. Pity, they had the best food, *way* better than Indian cuisine, IMO, although the way they'd mix fruits and meats together took some getting used to. Up here in NH, there ain't much culture. People looked at me funny in college for eating yogurt and we don't talk about the quiche. (although if you're Greek, make it with spinach and call it pistichu or something, it's okay...)
Suddenly the hotdogs I'm having look particularly unappetizing...
Set
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Hi Set!
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Gingerbread!
I feel for your sad state of affairs food-wise. Oooooh, and I just found an African grocery store in town. Man, Waltham just gets more and more international every time I turn around.
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And, if they offer crocodile, just say no. It's very tough and tastes like catfish. Not at all like chicken.
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Crocodile and catfish are just two meats I don't ever wanna try.
Then again, steamers (steamed clams) can look pretty gross. Sort of like eating snot dipped in butter but *yum*
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Dances with Various Food Products
Re: Dances with Various Food Products
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I know just enough how to screw my computer up, usually enough to figure out how to get out of it. It's the bit that I can't figure out that's annoying as all hell.
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Anyways... if I've peaked your interest, here's a link.
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Local Boston history...definitely up my alley.
Sorry I've been bad about responding but it seems my computer time has been severely curtailed by real-life pressures. I'll definitely try to get to read it in a within the next few weeks. Hope you don't mind if I friend you. :-)
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Krissy
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