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Munsterlad102

tudderone wrote: »

I seen last night, CNN admitted they suppressed stories relating to Hunter Biden as they don't consider him or the gas scandal in the Ukraine to be relevant to the election.

There should be some punishment for these "news" publications that mislead the public or suppress evidence.

tudderone

Munsterlad102 wrote: »

There should be some punishment for these "news" publications that mislead the public or suppress evidence.

They cannot be punished for what they didn't say though. Like RTE "news" here, if something happens that doesn't suit the agenda, they ignore it completely.

That reminds me, i believe we are going to witness a stunt, as mehole, verrucca, and mary loo are going to be injected with the plague vaccine on live telly, what a treat ladies and gentlemen :rolleyes:

Grizzly 45

tudderone wrote: »

That reminds me, i believe we are going to witness a stunt, as mehole, verrucca, and mary loo are going to be injected with the plague vaccine on live telly, what a treat ladies and gentlemen:rolleyes:

Why not get the Hobbit and wife out of their bunker in the Park and dose the pair of them? About high time he stepped up and acted as president of this nation, not skulking in the Aras writing hikayus in Gaelic about whatever Socialist ideals are in vouge, or showing up to commemorate bloody Sunday in 1920?

He can risk catching Covid for something like that, but couldn't address the nation on St Patrick's day when we were starting off "all in this together" [Apart form golfing TD's judges and senators and partying RTE members:rolleyes:] and left it to Leona to quote movie lines from Terminator.:rolleyes:
The hypocrisy and smugness of that horrible little man and his joined at the hip wife sickens me to vomit every time I see or hear the pair of them. So maybe they could actually try and do somthing presidential and leadership worthy for their salary?:mad::mad:

Rosahane

Over on the Farming and Forestry forum there is some debate on the treatment of people who questioned the vegan diet on the Vegan forum. One of the posters put up this link to an article from a microbiologist from Greenland about the Greenlander diet of fish and game which makes interesting reading:

https://fivemedia.com/articles/she-wants-to-ignite-a-diet-revolution-in-greenland-we-eat-from-nature/?fbclid=IwAR3rNqEX2Q45wvAvKMzdek9Zp7f73Gefb9rzjm63AbBWV0UkgHUPti6bBg8

I think it will strike a chord with us hunters!

Grizzly 45

Rated the worlds most disgusting food...
To make kiviaq, she learned, around 30 whole birds (with feathers, intestines, and all) are sewn into a sealskin, then left to ferment under a pile of rocks for at least three months. When they’re finally removed, the birds are eaten raw.

Can't wait to see Darina Allen serve that one up !!!:eek:

What's the grossest, nastiest thing you lot have eaten? [Your significant other's cooking doesn't count.]
Rat and rattlesnake in my case. Yes, they both taste like chicken, the rattler more like a gamier tougher chicken.:rolleyes:

Feisar

Probably the worst I ever ate was swordfish. Sort of a chicken texture with a fishy taste. I detested it. Tripe soup in a village in Poland, great stuff. On our honeymoon my wife used to laugh at me brushing my teeth with bottled water but would eat anything. Ate some questionable stuff at a market. Cold pigs ear in a Chinese on Parnel St in Dublin was manky. I used to go in and point at Chinese writing, lucky dip as to what’s appear on the plate.

tudderone

Feisar wrote: »

Probably the worst I ever ate was swordfish. Sort of a chicken texture with a fishy taste. I detested it. Tripe soup in a village in Poland, great stuff. On our honeymoon my wife used to laugh at me brushing my teeth with bottled water but would eat anything. Ate some questionable stuff at a market. Cold pigs ear in a Chinese on Parnel St in Dublin was manky. I used to go in and point at Chinese writing, lucky dip as to what’s appear on the plate.

Many years ago i was in a boxing club with a lad who was in the French Foreign Legion. I was asking him what it was like, he reckoned all they fed you was tripe in milk, its to try and build you up. Sounds manky.

Rows Grower

tudderone wrote: »

Many years ago i was in a boxing club with a lad who was in the French Foreign Legion. I was asking him what it was like, he reckoned all they fed you was tripe in milk, its to try and build you up. Sounds manky.

That is considered a delicacy by a lot of the older generation in Cork, usually served with drisheen.

I'd take it instead of frogs legs any day of the week.

Mellor

Feisar wrote: »

Probably the worst I ever ate was swordfish. Sort of a chicken texture with a fishy taste. I detested it. Tripe soup in a village in Poland, great stuff. On our honeymoon my wife used to laugh at me brushing my teeth with bottled water but would eat anything. Ate some questionable stuff at a market. Cold pigs ear in a Chinese on Parnel St in Dublin was manky. I used to go in and point at Chinese writing, lucky dip as to what’s appear on the plate.

Sounds like the swordfish was just badly cooked tbh. Should be a meaty fish, like tuna steak or other robust white fish.

The pigs ear. Probably depends how its cooked. Cold in a broth and its going to be manky ang gelatinous. But it can also be crumbed and deep fried like a snitzel - delicious when done right. There's a Irish chef in Oz, he's on MyKitchenRules if anyoen has seen the show, who is know for snout to tail philosophy - some thing I think hunters are quicker to agree with.

Offal and odd bits don't bother me - but only if there's a way to make it tasty. ie I'm not going to drink blood for sustenance, but more than happy to eat black pudding. I'd need to be stranded a few months bore I think the 10calories from an eyeball would save me.

Had snails in a french restaurant. Just like tough mussels, no flavour, just and excuse for a bowl of garlic butter.

Worst thing hands down was some questionable durian fruit from a market in thailand. Durian stinks and is banned from hotels. I was tole told the taste makes up for the smell. It didn't, (may have been a rotten piece also)

Grizzly 45

Mellor wrote: »

Sounds like the swordfish was just badly cooked tbh. Should be a meaty fish, like tuna steak or other robust white fish.

The pigs ear. Probably depends how its cooked. Cold in a broth and its going to be manky ang gelatinous. But it can also be crumbed and deep fried like a snitzel - delicious when done right. There's a Irish chef in Oz, he's on MyKitchenRules if anyoen has seen the show, who is know for snout to tail philosophy - some thing I think hunters are quicker to agree with.

Offal and odd bits don't bother me - but only if there's a way to make it tasty. ie I'm not going to drink blood for sustenance, but more than happy to eat black pudding. I'd need to be stranded a few months bore I think the 10calories from an eyeball would save me.

Had snails in a french restaurant. Just like tough mussels, no flavour, just and excuse for a bowl of garlic butter.

Worst thing hands down was some questionable durian fruit from a market in thailand. Durian stinks and is banned from hotels. I was tole told the taste makes up for the smell. It didn't, (may have been a rotten piece also)

So we have amongst us one who has eaten the stink fruit!Been described as like" eating custard in a sewer."Foul enough fresh so it would be hard to tell is it off.

Snails,meh...better done in a kind of pie than the shells.But still a rubbery bit of nothing that tastes of garlic.

Marlin is an excellent fish and whoever prepped if sounds like they had no clue on how to cook it or it was an old piece.

Uinseann_16

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

So we have amongst us one who has eaten the stink fruit!Been described as like" eating custard in a sewer."Foul enough fresh so it would be hard to tell is it off.

Snails,meh...better done in a kind of pie than the shells.But still a rubbery bit of nothing that tastes of garlic.

Marlin is an excellent fish and whoever prepped if sounds like they had no clue on how to cook it or it was an old piece.

Ive picked and eaten winkles and baineachs (limpets) id assume the snails would be very similar in taste to winkles:p
Alot of older people here in the west think of winkles as a delicacy

Feisar

Uinseann_16 wrote: »

Ive picked and eaten winkles and baineachs (limpets) id assume the snails would be very similar in taste to winkles:p
Alot of older people here in the west think of winkles as a delicacy

Snails are pointless after the sauce wears off and yer still chewing and start getting an earthy taste. I had them once, wouldn't bother again.

My Granny used to go mad for winkles and dillisk.

Uinseann_16

Feisar wrote: »

Snails are pointless after the sauce wears off and yer still chewing and start getting an earthy taste. I had them once, wouldn't bother again.

My Granny used to go mad for winkles and dillisk.

I grew up eating dilisk and baineachs and winkles and wrasse pollock etc
Winkles need to be boiled first then pan fried in butter with some black pepper and a few herbs

Feisar

Uinseann_16 wrote: »

I grew up eating dilisk and baineachs and winkles and wrasse pollock etc
Winkles need to be boiled first then pan fried in butter with some black pepper and a few herbs

I take it you had yer share of Carrageen Moss Pudding as well?

Feisar

Mellor wrote: »

Sounds like the swordfish was just badly cooked tbh. Should be a meaty fish, like tuna steak or other robust white fish.

Yea thinking back on it, it was either off or badly cooked. I spend the rest of the day burping and getting a fishy taste in my mouth, ugh.

BattleCorp

Feisar wrote: »

Snails are pointless after the sauce wears off and yer still chewing and start getting an earthy taste.

I've only had snails once and they felt kind of rubbery. Sort of like chewing on a rubber band. They didn't taste of anything much to be honest so I'd agree with you on your point about the sauce being the main ingredient.

Feisar

BattleCorp wrote: »

I've only had snails once and they felt kind of rubbery. Sort of like chewing on a rubber band. They didn't taste of anything much to be honest so I'd agree with you on your point about the sauce being the main ingredient.

Yea basically a rubber band, sort of pointless.

Grizzly 45

Uinseann_16 wrote: »

Winkles need to be boiled first then pan fried in butter with some black pepper and a few herbs [

Sounds a lot better than the usual fare we got them in Limerick off street vendors of a certain minority. A brown paper bag with a pin and pick out what basically looked like a decent nose booger out of its crash helmet.:eek:

Uinseann_16

Feisar wrote: »

I take it you had yer share of Carrageen Moss Pudding as well?

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

Uinseann_16 wrote: »

Sounds a lot better than the usual fare we got them in Limerick off street vendors of a certain minority. A brown paper bag with a pin and pick out what basically looked like a decent nose booger out of its crash helmet.:eek:

I have indeed had a bit of that

The picking them out of their shells was the job for the kids with a sewing needle and alot of accidentaly stabbed finger tips
Theyd all be put into a pot for pan frying
Same process with baineachs but they fall out of their shell when boiled you just have to de back them :pac:

Birdnuts

BattleCorp wrote: »

I've only had snails once and they felt kind of rubbery. Sort of like chewing on a rubber band. They didn't taste of anything much to be honest so I'd agree with you on your point about the sauce being the main ingredient.

Have to say I'm a big fan of snails in garlic sauce(and French cuisine in general) . Apparently a growing demand here too with Irelands first snail farm down in Offaly going from strength to strength since starting back in 2016

Cass

Anyone tried Surströmming?

Is it as bad as they say?

tudderone

Cass wrote: »

Anyone tried Surströmming?

Is it as bad as they say?

Is that the fish thats been piddled on ?

Cass

The fermented stuff. Smells like death and apparently doesn't taste much better. Classed as the world's smelliest food.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nJZYieU6Cgw

tudderone

Cass wrote: »

The fermented stuff. Smells like death and apparently doesn't taste much better. Classed as the world's smelliest food.

I think i'll swerve that to be honest. It was Icelandic Hakarl i was thinking of, rotten shark meat.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MEk6cKaIbqs

Mellor

Feisar wrote: »

Snails are pointless after the sauce wears off and yer still chewing and start getting an earthy taste. I had them once, wouldn't bother again.

I definitely wasn't chewing them. Swallowed whole with the butter. Like an oyster.

I get that this foods all had time and a place where they made sense. But honestly no idea why anyone would choose snails with shellfish readily available.
Similarly, not sure why anyone would choose fermented, pisss-fish, when modern refridgeration exists.

Grizzly 45

Apparently a growing demand here too with Irelands first snail farm down in Offaly going from strength to strength since starting back in 2016

In 1986, fresh out of school and Ag college with a green cert and with all the piss& vinegar of a youngster willing to take on the world. Me and a mate of mine had this idea of snail farming, as there was a demand for them even back then on the Continent. Doesn't require a huge amount of space, and is not very labour intensive either, and just some patience and basic knowledge of snails and their wily ways. All of which we had, just needed some cash to get it operational to source the markets.

Our idea was as well-received as the first bottle of Ballygowan water was received by Gay Bryne on the Late late show by everyone in Ireland who was in charge of money or farming and food exports...:(:mad:

35 years later... Always said it.it takes about 30 to 35 years for Ireland to catch up with anything everyone else has been doing for decades.:rolleyes:

tudderone

Grizzly 45 wrote: »

In 1986, fresh out of school and Ag college with a green cert and with all the piss& vinegar of a youngster willing to take on the world. Me and a mate of mine had this idea of snail farming, as there was a demand for them even back then on the Continent. Doesn't require a huge amount of space, and is not very labour intensive either, and just some patience and basic knowledge of snails and their wily ways. All of which we had, just needed some cash to get it operational to source the markets.

Our idea was as well-received as the first bottle of Ballygowan water was received by Gay Bryne on the Late late show by everyone in Ireland who was in charge of money or farming and food exports...:(:mad:

35 years later... Always said it.it takes about 30 to 35 years for Ireland to catch up with anything everyone else has been doing for decades.:rolleyes:

In fairness, in the ireland of the 80's, paying for water to drink was liable to get you certified as a card carrying nutter.

tudderone

Haim Eshed, former head of Israeli security services, says the Earth has made contact with the little green men from Mars, its been known a while and Donald Trump was on the verge of blabbing about it.

I for one welcome our new overlords


https://meaww.com/haim-eshed-ex-space-security-chief-boss-israel-aliens-exist-galactic-federation-contact-touch-us


He continued, “Trump was on the verge of revealing, but the aliens in the Galactic Federation are saying: Wait, let people calm down first. They don’t want to start mass hysteria. They want to first make us sane and understanding.” Eshed further said, “There’s an agreement between the US government and the aliens. They signed a contract with us to do experiments here. They, too, are researching and trying to understand the whole fabric of the universe, and they want us as helpers. There’s an underground base in the depths of Mars, where their representatives are, and also our American astronauts.”

Grizzly 45

Ooookaaaayyyy...Keep taking them tablets there General...Be grand in no time!:eek: Otherwise the two lads in the white coats and the big butterfly net will be calling around again!

tudderone

Ok, something more realistic, and worrying, another mystery illness in India.


https://www.news.com.au/technology/science/300-hospitalised-by-mystery-illness-in-eluru-in-andhra-pradesh-india/news-story/c4facf5b9c57ce42a5980c71809023aa