Hobo Jungle

[webenda]

GASP!

My heart just stopped in anticipation of another CABG.

Is that Persian in the sausage?

[Del Mar]

After 32 years of marriage, I don't think they eat sausage. Oddly enough, the left behinds export sausage casings from the old country. Sausage casings available from Tehran I have given some thought to giving Mr. Mohamad Reza Karimian a call on one of Jahan's calling cards to see just what they are up to over there, but, in more sober moments, thought better of it.

San

[webenda]

I was refering to the fennel seeds visible in the bacon/sausage roll. Persia is a big exporter of fennel seeds.
Maybe the casings exported from Persia are sheep and goat casings?

[AG]

I don't think they eat sausage if is made with pork.
But turkey or chicken one are not bad at all and healthy (somehow)
A.

[webenda]

Andre,

No one thinks that Persians eat sausage.

San presented a picture of a sausage/bacon roll. He said, “Thinking about SuperBowl food? Offered without comment or explanation. Bacon Explosion."

Well... stupid me had to comment on the fennel seed in the Bacon Explosion. Why?
Because:
1) fennel grows in Persia
2) fennel seed is one of the famous spices exported from Persia.
3) San has a Persia connection.

Now, I did not think that San actually knows where the fennel in the Bacon Explosion came from. It was just an inane comment. After all, San lives in a place he calls, "Dumber than a sack of hammers."

The Farsi word for fennel is . Past conversations with San lead me to believe that he would understand. San came back with the comment that "they" don't eat sausage but they export sausage casings. That does not mean that that San thinks that they eat sausage, but rather that he thinks it is ironic that a nation that does not eat sausage would export sausage casings.

The link San supplied said that the sausage casings were natural. Natural sausage casings are pig, lamb or goat gut. I suggested that they might be lamb or goat casings.

San was right about "...without comment..." I could take it all back, but then the conversation that followed would not make sense.


Fennel Plant (Foeniculum vulgare)


The little seed that started it all.

[The Dirt]

Masked man walks into a bank, grabs bag of money from teller, and is on his way out when someone rips his mask off.

Robber shoots him, looks around, sees the guard looking at him, and he shoots him too.

Everyone's eyes immediately look toward the ground.

Robber shouts "Did anyone else see my face?"

Old man says "I think my mother-in-law here did."

[webenda]

That's bad Dirt.

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Dis li'l conversation has been scintillating to witness, but...I'd still like to know who thehell ever first saw the guts of some animal laying around and said, "Hey,you know what, I think I'll shove some other stuff in there, cook it up, and shove it in my mouth to see if it tastes good."

I never met a sausage (though I confess I do swill in the occasional hotdog - godknows what's in them - ) I could touch, let alone suck in, but your conversation reminded me of some nice moments in my yute when I would watch my father fry up some links - some the size of fingers, and some the size of....(I'm searching here for a word....) .....flashlights, and even though I enjoyed the fragrance, I couldn't eat a-one, fully; don't know why. Does that make me a bad person? (Ask me if I used to eat Genoa Salami, though.)

I respect your right to enjoy. Bless yer li'l hearts.
Murph
By the way, are those cholesterol-rolls I saw a few replies above this one come with an angioplasty?

[Mitch]

Murph, most of the commercial sausage you would buy today uses artificial casing, unless you buy at the butcher shop. At Brestensky's meats, you can buy regular hotdogs, natural case wieners, sheep cased wieners, ham flavored hot dogs, (they're great, still come in strings), you name it you can buy it. My favorite is their fine grind extra garlic kolbasi. The kolbasi is so lean, you have to add grease to fry it; not like commercial where if you stab it with a fork 10 times and then microwave it, you end up with a saucer full of grease and water.

[2railjon]

a saucer full of grease and water.

Down south here, that's the most popular ice cream topping going.

[GP]

a saucer full of grease and water.

Down south here, that's the most popular ice cream topping going.

Why hell yes ... taste so goooooood !

GP

[MurphOnMillerAve]

Mitch, You made me laugh right out loud - keepin' it real, as the kids say; that's you all right. I love your sense of humor. There are a couple other voices here that make me roar, too. Nice.

And as far a "gun control" is concerned (your current signature line....However, a favorite of mine, which still makes me smile, is the one about a man wondering if he is still wrong even though not being heard by a woman )....I never could figure out why the average citizen should be less (like, w/ nothing but his....."good intentions"....in his hand when confronted by the "Hoodies") able to defend himself and his loved-ones than the criminals. Shouldn't we be able to do something more than just plead?)

[2railjon]

Wayne, Interesting history behind Tsingtao Beer (pronounced: Ching-Dow) When the Chinese went communist they ran the Germans off out of the country leaving behind their own brewery. So the Chinese started up operation of it and there you have Tsingtao Beer!! It's received some pretty hideous reviews, but I enjoy the taste of it. But hey, I also enjoy blueberry flavored cigars and waiving my "willie" at the neighbors.

[webenda]

...I'd still like to know who thehell ever first saw the guts of some animal laying around and said, "Hey,you know what, I think I'll shove some other stuff in there, cook it up, and shove it in my mouth to see if it tastes good."

Adam and Eve I think (after being ousted from Eden.)

Here is a description of blood sausage cooking from Homer's' The Odyssey, (700 B.C.?)

Ulysses is trying to get some sleep, but has a troubled mind...

"...he tossed about as one who turns a paunch full of blood and fat in
front of a hot fire, doing it first on one side and then on the other,
that he may get it cooked as soon as possible, even so did he turn
himself about from side to side, thinking all the time how, single
handed as he was, he should contrive to kill so large a body of men
as the wicked suitors."

[webenda]

Tsingtao Beer!! It's received some pretty hideous reviews...

Ditto with Dos Equis.