"Carl's Lounge" (Off-Topic Discussion, Traditional Knife "Tales & Vignettes")

[mbkr]

There is a local place that is using them in some tacos, my sister is trying to convince me to try them but I can’t get past the wings. And the eyes - yikes.

I had a taco for dinner tonight

 

[Peregrin]

There is a local place that is using them in some tacos, my sister is trying to convince me to try them but I can’t get past the wings. And the eyes - yikes.

I hear they are good lightly fried and eaten like popcorn! I might try them when they come back in 11 years!
Has your sister tried one?

 

[sf fanatic]

I hear they are good lightly fried and eaten like popcorn! I might try them when they come back in 11 years!
Has your sister tried one?

I’ve eaten chocolate covered antes and grasshoppers. The antes were like eating chocolate covered rice crispies and they were okay once. The grasshoppers not so much. But when you’re ten years old and your best friend dares you to I couldn’t back down.

 

[Whetstone39]

I hear they are good lightly fried and eaten like popcorn! I might try them when they come back in 11 years!
Has your sister tried one?

No she has not, in fact I suspect it is a plot wherein “we” will go to the restaurant and somehow I will try it first .

 

[Peregrin]

I’ve eaten chocolate covered antes and grasshoppers. The antes were like eating chocolate covered rice crispies and they were okay once. The grasshoppers not so much. But when you’re ten years old and your best friend dares you to I couldn’t back down.

Been there, done that, Dan!

 

[knarfeng]

I've not had the ... er..."pleasure".

 

[meako]

CIcada is very good....if ya like spiky little legs and green gloop....interestingly after the 1994 bushfire in Sydney...the bush was blackened and only the BlackPrinces survived....the brighter Greengrocers and YellowMondays got picked off by birds...

 

[screened porch]

They didn't look too tasty to me though.

I was going to say, "May we never be that hungry", but the Japanese eat something similar without being driven to it. Grasshoppers, I think.

 

[Rookie82]

Maybe a SFO Cicada skinner knife is in order?

 

[Peregrin]

I was going to say, "May we never be that hungry", but the Japanese eat something similar without being driven to it. Grasshoppers, I think.

I have to agree with that, Jer. One man's infestation is another man's sustenance. Pretty brutal.

 

[black mamba]

Ugly as sin, but when you are hungry . . . . . . . . . . . . ?????????

There's a story of one of the old mountain men who was captured by the Indians. In making his escape he killed one of his captors and cut off his leg to have food for his long journey to safety. When asked how he could eat human flesh he replied, "Sh_t, meat's meat."

 

[Peregrin]

I've been through the Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevadas a few times. The Story of the Donner-Reed Party is pretty sobering.

 

[waynorth]

Hey Charlie waynorth !! Now all I need is one of your Lambsfoot knives!

I wish I could oblige, Doc!! Long sold out, except for my archive!!
They pop up occasionally!!

 

[meako]

Maybe a SFO Cicada skinner knife is in order?

Ive been wondering about a 2024 Forum Knife....The Cicarva? no?
The Chirpy Cutlet Cutter? ...perhaps not ...too 1930s...wait I have it! Yes...a 2024 handle for a 2024 TradForum knife...As the traditional knife world heaves and flexes under the glare and pressure of the modern world ...from beneath the very Earth we walk upon ...comes........

The Insectivore

 

[Jack Black]

CIcada is very good....if ya like spiky little legs and green gloop....interestingly after the 1994 bushfire in Sydney...the bush was blackened and only the BlackPrinces survived....the brighter Greengrocers and YellowMondays got picked off by birds...

I've been through the Donner Pass in the Sierra Nevadas a few times. The Story of the Donner-Reed Party is pretty sobering.

I've been through a few Doner kebabs

 

[Peregrin]

I've been through a few Doner kebabs

I had to Google that, Jack! My tastes are fairly pedestrian but those sound pretty good!

 

[Jack Black]

I had to Google that, Jack! My tastes are fairly pedestrian but those sound pretty good!

Sorry Gary, they're not to be eaten sober

The Significance and Cultural Importance of the Doner Kebab in the United Kingdom

The sociology of food explores the social, cultural, and economic aspects of food and how they shape our society. One

easysociology.com

Edit - I thought that might be funny and interesting to read, but it is in fact rather dull, and badly written Sorry

 

[Peregrin]

Jack Black:
Sorry Gary, they're not to be eaten sober

The Significance and Cultural Importance of the Doner Kebab in the United Kingdom

The sociology of food explores the social, cultural, and economic aspects of food and how they shape our society. One

easysociology.com

Edit - I thought that might be funny and interesting to read, but it is in fact rather dull, and badly written

Sorry

I enjoyed the read, Jack. I've read worse!

Sounds like something I might have eaten back in the day when I might drink too much and find myself hungry in the wee hours!

 

[Jack Black]

I enjoyed the read, Jack. I've read worse!

Sounds like something I might have eaten back in the day when I might drink too much and find myself hungry in the wee hours!

Well over 30 years since I last had one Gary I guess I could have just summed them up by writing: "The traditional late-night repast of the English drunk!" I know one younger feller who will eat them sober, and he even asks them to leave off the salad! The 'meat' is roasted vertically on a spit, and comes in frozen sections, often of dubious provenance, and which have certainly not come from any animal I recognise The shawarma on the other hand is actually made from meat!

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/article-12344397/People-vowing-never-eat-doner-kebabs-finding-whats-really-them.html

 

[Prester John]

I thought that might be funny and interesting to read, but it is in fact rather dull, and badly written

Sorry

Maybe A.I. generated?