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Snacking while eGulleting... (Part 3)


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Ingredients: Minced Fish Surimi [Soy Protein Isolate, Water, Vegetable Oil, Starch, Edible Salt,Sugar, food additives (sodium glutamate, sodium pyrophosphate, gelatine), Edible flavor, Spice]  water, sugar, edible salt, food product additives (sodium glutamate, citric acid,5-taste disodium glutamate, D-sodium ascorbate), spices.

 

Allergen Information: This product contains fish and its products, soy and its products.


How to eat: Ready to eat.

 

(translated from the Chinese)

 

 

I'd change the last part to "How to eat: Cut out the middleman and despatch to the compost heap directly."

 

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4 hours ago, liuzhou said:

 

I'd change the last part to "How to eat: Cut out the middleman and despatch to the compost heap directly."

 

 

At least the salt is edible.

 

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8 hours ago, liuzhou said:

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I'd change the last part to "How to eat: Cut out the middleman and despatch to the compost heap directly."

 

 

Is it safe to compost?  

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Potato chips made with newly acquired Mastrad microwave chip maker.  It was 2 dollars at the thrift shop.  I could not resist.  Served with guacamole and blue cheese.

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3 minutes ago, kayb said:

So how were the chips?

 

Good.  Very different from the commercial chips.  You basically taste the potatoes and nothing else.  Perfect for strong tasting cheese and guacamole.

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Last evening my very talented granddaughter brought me this plate of tiny nori-wrapped smoked salmon, cream cheese and cucumber bites. 

 

 

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20 minutes ago, Anna N said:

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Last evening my very talented granddaughter brought me this plate of tiny nori-wrapped smoked salmon, cream cheese and cucumber bites. 

 

 

She made them?

 

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19 minutes ago, Kerry Beal said:

She made them?

 

Yes, she made them!  Puts mine to shame. 

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I was wondering something the other day as I was perusing eG and noshing.  Is there anywhere else in the world besides the Southern US that a sleeve of saltines and a stick of butter constitutes a reasonable snack?  This and @racheld's "things in dishes" are the items that come out when house guests arrive in the wee hours or when card games go on and on.  @caroled?

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38 minutes ago, Kim Shook said:

I was wondering something the other day as I was perusing eG and noshing.  Is there anywhere else in the world besides the Southern US that a sleeve of saltines and a stick of butter constitutes a reasonable snack? 

 

It is to me, though I've certainly received my share of odd looks.

At the end of the day a cracker is nothing more than a crisp flatbread, and why should anyone think it odd to put butter on bread?

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15 hours ago, Kim Shook said:

Is there anywhere else in the world besides the Southern US that a sleeve of saltines and a stick of butter constitutes a reasonable snack?

 

That takes me back - when we were kids, mom used to give us buttered saltines for a snack all the time. 

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as a 3 or 4 year old it was Ritz with a dab of Miracle Whip and a piece of blue cheese.   I was … and still am … a bit weird.🤪

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Oh Ritz! Plain though for us. A a kid I never understood the cup  of saltines (packed by 2's) on the table at some  diners, What?   They were to me matzo with salt!

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1 hour ago, suzilightning said:

as a 3 or 4 year old it was Ritz with a dab of Miracle Whip and a piece of blue cheese.   I was … and still am … a bit weird.🤪

...and then there's this stuff...

 

 

 

(from the "weird crap I legitimately find while working" dept...)

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On 2/21/2020 at 5:08 PM, Kim Shook said:

I was wondering something the other day as I was perusing eG and noshing.  Is there anywhere else in the world besides the Southern US that a sleeve of saltines and a stick of butter constitutes a reasonable snack?  This and @racheld's "things in dishes" are the items that come out when house guests arrive in the wee hours or when card games go on and on.  @caroled?

 

Are you suggesting that a whole sleeve and a whole stick is a snack for one?  Growing up we had saltines around for one reason, which is pretty weird: my mother used to eat saltines alongside chocolate ice cream. For years I never even thought about saltines, but then 32 years ago when I was pregnant it was the only thing I could eat. Now I'm rather fond of them, with or without butter. Unsalted butter, that would be. Last year I convinced my husband to MAKE saltines. They were pretty good the first day, but became completely stale overnight. Clearly what comes in a sleeve should stay in a sleeve.

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10 hours ago, Katie Meadow said:

 

Are you suggesting that a whole sleeve and a whole stick is a snack for one?  Growing up we had saltines around for one reason, which is pretty weird: my mother used to eat saltines alongside chocolate ice cream. For years I never even thought about saltines, but then 32 years ago when I was pregnant it was the only thing I could eat. Now I'm rather fond of them, with or without butter. Unsalted butter, that would be. Last year I convinced my husband to MAKE saltines. They were pretty good the first day, but became completely stale overnight. Clearly what comes in a sleeve should stay in a sleeve.

No, not a whole sleeve and a whole stick.  Just that a sleeve of crackers, a knife and a butter dish on a table makes a fairly complete snack for me that goes back as far as I can remember.  

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A whole sleeve and whole stick is no longer a snack, it's a "light lunch." :P

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I grew up slathering butter (margarine, really) on saltines as a snack. Sometime in my adulthood when I started thinking about fat, I stopped - but really, it isn't very different than cheese on crackers! I may have to try some today. Mmm.

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