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Thank you, because I was about to go back and look through everything that you had written. And that might take me a while.

I don't know how this one got past me. But you have got to be kidding me. Was it @liuzhou that posted an article about a young Icelandic man that wouldn't eat fermented shark? It seems that they slit the shark down the middle and pack it with other fish then bury it until it is totally fermented (rotten). Just the description of the fish inside at the end is enough to give you terminal food poisoning. How have these people survived that all these years? Do we have any Icelandic eGers that can explain this.

I do too but the Nicaraguan couple that I share my house with just shudder at the thought. Carlos is pretty adventurous and will eat just about anything but he draws the line at sushi. Rosario could exist on beans and rice if that was all I would feed her. I've been feeding them a lot of tonkatsu which they love, and I finally got them convinced that if they go to a sushi restaurant with me that they can always get tonkatsu.

I don't know if old food myths can be considered history, but they are a history of how our thinking about food has changed through the years.

Yeah, you're right. It was just something that I read years ago. Seriously though, dining cars were a big thing and one big item in the collectors Market nowadays is the dinnerware that was used on the trains.

Wrong topic, however, the Internet won't back me up on this but maybe he was one of the first to figure out the double fry method.

No, I left Nebraska when I was 18 to get away from it. As far as I know all the rest of them are still back there eating sauerkraut.

Have you ever had pastrami? If you like that you will love corned beef and cabbage.

One of the funniest food rant articles that I ever read was from a young Scandinavian man that couldn't stand gefilte fish. In fact it was that article that put me in mind of this topic. I've tried them and I agree with you.

I had to go to the internet on that one and I am with you 100%. It sounds too much like the head cheese that my mother-in-law used to make. I have low gag reflexes but that one got me every time. ** but then come to think of it, everything she cooked did.

Some years back @liuzhou introduced a topic, So I would like to revive it but with a slight twist. Is there a food that is so fundamental to your family or to your ethnic group that it is almost mandatory eating but you can't stand it? Mine is sauerkraut. My father's family is German, all German, 100% German and everybody ate sauerkraut. I hated potluck style family reunions with my father's family. At least half the family brought something with sauerkraut. Sauerkraut salad, anyone? I couldn't stand the smell of the place. Every fall my grandmother made sauerkraut, huge crocks of sauerkraut. I couldn't stand the smell of her house and wouldn't go anywhere near while she was making it. And that's when I learned that sauerkraut is just rotten cabbage. It doesn't matter how anybody fixes it or tries to disguise it, I will never eat sauerkraut! On that point, I will never change and I hope that everyone will play nice and not criticize or try to change the preferences of anyone else. We Are Who We Are and everyone has a reason, logical or not, for feeling the way he/she does. A few words here or snarky comments are not going to change anybody's mind. We're here to find out what's on your mind, not psychoanalyze it. Conversely, is there anything that you love that no one else around you will eat?

Are you kidding? They most certainly did. Railways all over the world offered and produced fine dining. I don't know how true it is, but I read years ago that french fries, as we know them now, were first made in the kitchen car of a train.

You would be out of luck. Bears have toes therefore it would be tofued.

Thank you, that clears up a lot. Personally, if I were to eat bear (I have been offered bear meat by friends who are hunters, I declined) the paw would be the last part that I would choose.

I can understand eating bear and I don't think that there is any culture that hasn't done it, because when you think about it, that is a big hunk of meat that will serve a lot of people when you're hungry. Primates are in a whole different category. They look like us. Who hasn't gone to the zoo and seeing somebody that looks just like their brother-in-law or the nasty neighbor down the street looking back at them. And most of them are pretty slim pickings when it comes to getting meat. My question is, @liuzhou, has there ever been a time when monkey meat has been a common item in the diet of the Chinese or has it been a desperation survival food?

Not to mention Indiana Jones and the Raiders of the Lost Ark.

Years ago, I worked in the deli section of Bud's Meats, the best meat market in the Seattle area. The manager, Roy, was an older man who was never happy unless he was unhappy about something. He had a shock of white hair that stood straight up on his head and a perpetual frown but Roy was a real sweetheart underneath. Years later I had a job delivering flowers. One of the best jobs I ever had because you usually make people happy. The one downside of the job was delivering flowers to families who had lost a loved one and when it was someone you knew it could turn into the worst job in the world. One of my worst days was the day that I had to deliver flowers to the funeral home for Roy. I asked if I could please go in and pay my respects because he was a friend of mine. I got quite a shock when I looked into the coffin and it wasn't Roy. I was just about to go ask the funeral director where he was when I realized what the problem was. They had combed down that shock of white hair flat to his head and they had put a smile on his face. My first thought was that it Roy had seen that he would have turned over in his grave.... oh wait, he isn't even in it yet. I think it was a reaction that Roy would have approved.

To address the multiplicity of some of the animals, it just looks to me like the artist was trying to "fill up his plate". The dog definitely looks like a hyena (maybe he couldn't find a good dog stencil) to me. Are there hyena in China? And why the alligator and the vulture? It was my understanding that the coronaviruses only affected mammals, I may be wrong. I often am. I found this article on animals and the virus and none of them mentioned are on the chart. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/daily-life-coping/animals.html#:~:text=Many studies have been done,become infected with the virus. Is this a warning to avoid covid or is this just a general health warning, something that should have been done several decades ago.

Makes sense to me, thank you.

This is one of my very favorite subjects, thank you. I came across this article the other day.

Thank you, I have always wondered what those were used for. The restaurant supply in Chinatown that I go to has quite a few of these in all sizes. They also have every other one that you have shown. Do the ceramic ones need to be tempered in the same way that the clay pots do?

So sad to hear this. She was a very kind lady.

Actually, I thought they were more like a frittata. (At least the ones that I make are). I don't care what you call that in the picture, I would eat it by any name. It looks a little bit like a Joe's Special, it just doesn't have spinach.

That reminds me of the time that my brother-in-law and his wife were in Africa. They were served bat soup. They didn't take it seriously and thought it was just an interesting name for a soup. They were with a large group and they were all served from a big tureen in the middle of the table. He was the last to be served and he got the bat.

Externally, the diameter is 5½ inches Quite a bit bigger than this one. This one is too small to have ever held anyone that had gotten old enough to have become an ancestor.