Is Anyone Cooking for Talk Like a Pirate Day?

[Smithy]

I just realized that International Talk Like a Pirate Day is coming up this Saturday. We'll be glamping. With family and friends. There will be a boat. Fishing. Campfire for said fish later. Grog. Food. It's already off to a good piratish start, and may need only a slight push. I bet I can get my grandson and his mates to join in on the "Arrrr mateys", and maybe some adults after the grog starts rolling.

What food would help push the celebration along? Is anyone else thinking along these lines?

[gfweb]

Rum, salt pork, hardtack, and limes ye scurvy knave.

Edited September 17, 2015 by gfweb (log)

[IowaDee]

And lots of those gold foiled wrapped chocolate coins for the wee pirates in training. 

[teapot]

I'd just serve rum and some AAAARRRby sandwiches 

[Shelby]

Oh man!  If I didn't have a house guest I'd be in matey!  I guess I'd fry some fish...although I don't think real pirates fried fish.....

 

Pirate food pyramid 

[Smithy]

Oh man!  If I didn't have a house guest I'd be in matey!  I guess I'd fry some fish...although I don't think real pirates fried fish.....

 

Pirate food pyramid 

Shiver me timbers! Some rollickin' good guidance from all o' ye!

[Beebs]

White Spot Pirate Paks?  

 

(For anyone not familiar, White Spot is a BC-based family-style restaurant chain. Pirate Paks are kids' meals that comes in a really cool paper pirate ship. You get an ice cream cup and a gold foil chocolate coin in it. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_Spot  )

[Tri2Cook]

Seems like it'd be much easier to create a cocktail based on Talk Like A Pirate Day than to cook based on it... but what fun would life be if we always took the easy way?

[JoNorvelleWalker]

Dinner is thalipeeth and crispy okra raita from Ruta Kahate, 5 Spices, 50 Dishes.

 

Arrrgh is what I say when I see another okra.

[IowaDee]

Oh gosh, and I was still working on my menu suggestions. So far:

 

Walk the plank steak

Parrot and raisin salad

Peg leg o' lamb

[Alex]

Did pirates eat pizza?

[FauxPas]

How could pirates not have eaten fish fingers, given all that time they spent on the oceans? They must have had to rework the fish they caught, right?

 

And maybe some crab, like from The Crabby Song:

 

 

 

Sailors love to sail the seas

In weather bad or fair.
They love to feel
The ocean breeze
And sniff the salty air.
They love to Laugh
They love to Work
They love to Eat
Good food!!

{this is your captain speaking,
Cut out that singing,
Get back to work}

They love to sing you
This fine song
When you're in
A terrible mood:

Hay, what a crab and a Ho, what a crab!
Hay, what a crab and a Ho, what a crab!
HEY! what a HEY! what a HEY! what a
CRAB!!
Heigh-ho crabby cabby, ho ho, crab!

{stop that blasted music!
This deck better be swabbed by eight
Bells or no supper for anyone!
I'll be in my quarters!}

Read more: Sandra Boynton - The Crabby Song Lyrics | MetroLyrics 

Edited September 19, 2015 by FauxPas (log)

[FauxPas]

Or this:

 

 

Salmagundi

Other than hardtack and salt beef, the closest we may get to a genuine pirate dish today is salmagundi, loosely described as a “salad,” and consisting of a random hodge-podge of ingredients, generally a scrambled concoction of meat, fish, vegetables, and fruits.

Photograph by Theresa Carle-Sanders

Try this recipe from 1712:

Chop into small chunks turtle meat, chicken, pork, beef, ham, pigeon and fish. Marinate with spiced wine and roast. Add the meats to boiled chopped cabbage, anchovies, pickled herring, mango, hard-boiled eggs, palm-hearts, onions, olives and grapes. Add pickled chopped vegetables and garlic, chili pepper, mustard, salt and pepper, and serve in a mound upon a large dish.

 

From: http://theplate.nationalgeographic.com/2014/08/19/eat-like-a-pirate/

[Smithy]

Did pirates eat pizza?

It doesn't seem so, although the very adventuresome and interesting William Dampier in the article linked above might have encountered something like it. I fear I'd be keelhauled if I served fish - nay, even anchovies - on pizza to this gang.

That's a fascinating article, FauxPas. Thanks!