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Another lighten the day post.....I have always picked out that little white goober that is ever present when you crack open an egg to fry/scramble.
What is that thing? It looks like someone with a cold hawked up a goober into the pan. Hehehe.
What's your weird food preparation quirk?
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The white goober in an egg is the unfertilized embryo would turn into a chicken if it was fertilized and hatched.
My own habit? I'm a dunker. Over-easy eggs get the toast or meat dunked into the yolk. Coffee and donuts? The donut gets wet before I eat it. Another one is having been raised with relatives who butchered their own pigs and chickens, I've never had an aversion to things other people think of as inedible - kidneys or hearts or what have you. Bring on the haggis!
Things I don't like: Yams/sweet potatoes, beets, and stewed okra. Yecchh.
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Sorry Cam, it's not the embryo part... Chalazae: the cord looking thing hanging from the egg is the chalazae. The fresher the egg the stronger or pronounced the chalazae. That's a Greek word that means hailstone. What's important is that it's essentially a rope of egg white that twists itself into being as the egg travels from the ovary to the nest. Its sole purpose is to keep the yolk centered in the egg.
The things I ABSOLUTELY will not put in my mouth: beer (even the smell of it makes me gag), capers, curry, olives, bananas, yogurt and blue cheese or and of the really smelly, icky cheeses (brie, cambazolla, gorgonzolla, etc.)
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When I was a kid warm milk over graham crackers. Eat it quick or it looks disgusting. My kids loved it also. C,mon Kimberly give beer another try! My favorite, http://www.leinie.com/splashscreen.asp
-------------------- Wright Signs Wyandotte, Michigan Posts: 2785 | From: Wyandotte, MI USA | Registered: Jan 1999
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I was eating breakfast one morning....scrambled eggs and some pancakes. I wouldn't use the real maple syrup (although I do now) and my dad asked why I wouldn't use it.
I said, "I'm not eating anything that came out of a tree!"
My dad laughed and said, "But you'll eat something that comes out of a chicken's butt?!"
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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This is my brother Kevin's quirk, and it is really weird. He eats a slice of pizza or a piece if pie from the biggest end inward, claiming that it is "backwards" to do it the other way around like most normal folks.
The only quirk that I can think of which I do is when I peel a banana, I make sure to remove all the "strings" and also pinch off that one end that goes down into the stem. And I will never eat a banana that has black speckles...I prefer em almost green.
As for preferences, they are not really quirks, but who among us enjoys these? A piece of American cheese wrapped around a banana A peanut butter and banana sandwich on white bread smashed flat Salt on cantaloupe Butter spread on those windmill-shaped cookies Grape jelly on a hard-fried egg Hominy with cheese melted on it Limburger cheese spread on saltines and washed down with beer
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I'm also one of those people who usually eats all of one item on the plate before moving to the next...going from the one I like least to the one I like most.....I'm working on quiting this habit.
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I like my eggs "soft boiled", ie: firm eggwhite, runny yolk! My mom and dad like 'em the same way, maybe it's just how I grew up with 'em.
Peanut butter and banana sammich pancaked flat rules! Sprinkle a little sugar on there too. Unfortunately I don't eat much of that anymore on my new healthier lifestyle.
Jill, I my nanners the same way - no strings attached and that stem part ends up in the trash - 'cept I like 'em just when the speckles start popping up. If they last long enough to go completely brown they end up in a banana nut bread.. 'cept I havent had one of those in 6 months either.
Peanut butter or cream cheese on celery sticks and carrots.
My grandma told me that when my mom was a little girl, she used to take her bread and build "walls" on her plate to keep the different foods from mixing together. Mom doesn't know I know this... hehehe.
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slice bananas lengthwise, blob on crunchy peanut butter, top with mayonaise, real good! dress it up, arrange on a bed of chopped iceberg lettuce.
keep raw almonds in freezer, take some out, cut LENGTHWISE(very inmportant), then cut into 3 to 5 cross cuts, add to cereal, yog. etc.
Keep as many condiments as possible, homemade relishes, pickles, small company ones, BE the King of Kondiments!
John Lennig / charter member of the Slow Food Movement(eating, at least!) chew and enjoy, or be fated to "shovel it in, it's a job that's gotta be done, quick!"
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I like to Dip Nacho-Doritoes in my Maccaroni & cheese
When eating hot-wings, I prefer the drumstick to the wing
-------------------- Phil Steffen, 29 Van Rensselaer St City of Saratoga Springs DPW Saratoga Springs NY 12866 Posts: 563 | From: beautiful Saratoga Springs NY | Registered: Aug 2001
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100% expensive olive oil on warm italian bread....a little garlic powder, salt and pepper... WONDERFUL but fatnin! steamed califlower....diped into same olive oil with salt & pepper...AWESOME flavor! marinated TOFU fried in a wok.....then diped in a peanut sauce....once you eat this you will lov it!!! si's recipe for HUMUS.....on rice crackers!!!!!
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Angel hair pasta with HOMEMADE tomatoe juice and a little parmesan sprinkled on top is my comfort food. When I am down and need "pampering". My Grandma used to make it for me. She also made me white bread with butter and sugar on it. At least I outgrew that! Speaking of the egg/chicken butt thing.... when you really think about it, there are a bunch of foods that you wonder who the first person was that said, "Hey, lets eat this!" Shrimp or Lobster or oysters (look at 'em!) mushrooms (FUNGUS, as my middle son calls them!) Blue cheese (I LOVE it, but it IS mold!) I'm sure there are LOTS more.
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HOMIENY...its like corn that mated with a garbonzo bean..YUK!!!! hehehehehhe faye when i ate meat, KILBASI AND SAURKRATE, BAKED!!! to die for. HAL-OP-KEE, PE-ROG-HE...filled with saurkrate and onion, and how many ever ate KISHKA???? the old homade stuff was awesome!!!!!
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Hi folks. This may be a quirky "male" thing, but how many times have you guys ordered something in a restaurant, and suddenly your female companion gets the urge to "taste" something off your plate. Wife and daughter both have this habit, and I sometimes wonder why they didn't simply order whatever it was that I'm having. Last time this occurred, the wife had ordered a baked potato, while I opted for fries. As soon as the waitress had set the plates down, she reached over to "taste" a fry. Sometimes I've even considered ordering them a side dish of whatever they elect to "taste". Perhaps it's just another of those gender things, but it does bug me.
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Ken, Have your wife order first and then order whatever she is having. I had a son who did the same thing so I just let him order and then followed his order. Problem solved!
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For dinner tonight ... wife made Burgers and potato salad ... dump baked beans over whole thing and cover in mustard.(garbage plate) Not unusual if your from around here.
My "quirk" ... I need something in my mashed potatos (corn, peas, meatloaf) to eat.
My kids look at me funny when I make tuna and Spaghetti-O's on toast.
Love the banana and peanut butter sandwiches ... on a hot dog bun, BRILLIANT, gonna try that!
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My grandma used to diligently pick out that goober in the egg, and she'd make sure her egg didn't get mixed up with the other ones in the pan. She told me it was rooster sperm to fertilize the egg. Thanks for clearing that up for me Kimberly!
Suelynn
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You're welcome SueLynn, I'm just a wealth of fairly useless information.
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Karyn, were you baked when you figured out the M&M thing? That falls directly in with what Jane said.. what were people thinking when they decided to eat some of these things. I love lobster, but have always wondered what the thought process was of the first person to look at a lobster & say "hey, let's eat that"
I'm with Mark on having to have something in my mashed taters.
My things:
Mush cholocate ice cream up into a softserve version, then dip bar-b-que potato chips in it. Has to be bar-b-que. Pretzels work well in a pinch.
Saltines MUST be dipped into a cup of heavily-sugared hot tea.
Eggs must be eaten with salt, pepper & ketchup. Either for scrambled or over-hard. (I can't stand those runny eggs, cook mine please)
-------------------- Chris Welker Wildfire Signs Indiana, Pa Posts: 4254 | From: Indiana, PA | Registered: Mar 2001
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I cannot believe I didn't think of the mashed potato's thing. I too mix my corn (and roast beef if that's accompanying the taters) with my mashed potato's. But strictly corn...no peas or carrots.
-------------------- Todd Gill Outside The Lines Potterville, MI Posts: 7792 | From: Potterville, MI | Registered: Dec 2001
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Tonite I had fried alligator for supper....Thursday night a bunch of my friends and I get together for a "supper" This week is pounce.....otherwise known as stuffed pork belly....the stuffing is basically smoked pork sausage....I don't know anyone who eats the belly
-------------------- Mark Perkins Performance Signs & Graphics Eunice, Louisiana "The heart of Cajun Country" Posts: 506 | From: Eunice Louisiana 70535 | Registered: Nov 1998
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SPAM...I love Spam...I will eat it out of the can...I don't like anything on it like mustard mayo or the like I will eat it on bread (preferably wheat) I also like it at breakfast fried with eggs...or alone.
It is especially good as a (ham) Spam Salad.
Besides that the can is perfect for holding Floppy discs. and great for mixing paint in.
If you want to keep me quiet at a meet...just put a spam sandwich in my hand.
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Menudo Cabeza Lengua Tripas and Buche All these are parts of an animal normally thrown away or end up on Fear Factor
I also love: Spam Musubi (from my time in Hawaii) Fried pork fat...or Chicharon con Carne (soft fried pork rinds) It might be all bad for me, but my grand father was raised on it and lived to 100 and my grandmother was 99
-------------------- Rick Chavez Hemet, CA Posts: 1538 | From: Hemet,CA U.S.A. | Registered: Jun 2001
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Monte, you are right about the <A TITLE="Click for more information about spam" STYLE="text-decoration: none; border-bottom: medium solid green;" HREF="http://search.targetwords.com/u.search?x=5977|1||||spam|AA1VDw">spam</A> and the can!
Tell Patsy to try this trick my Mom taught me. Slice a can of spam(after opening it ) and flour each slace. Then dip in an eggwash (milk & egg) and flour it again. Fry it in a pan with oil and it it soooooo good. Even people who don't eat spam like it.
(Edited for my quirk) I just love to put diced onion in bleau cheese salad dressing and eat it with chips. Good, but not good breath.
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Large flour tortilla, heat it on grille, butter it up and shake a mixture of cinnamon and sugar over it, roll up and eat it. Mexican french toast.....
Really like kimchi and fish eyes, in a noc ma sauce, good, very good. Maybe on a bed of rice, if so desired.
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in a blender--raw liver,ice cubes,a teaspoon of instant coffee with either banana or strawberries depending on the season
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A piece of American cheese wrapped around a banana
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Unfortunately I don't eat much of that anymore on my new healthier lifestyle.
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