fell meatFollow

sugar cane = rum
cactus = tequila
coffee = kahlua

mmmm...booze

Yeah, but Starbucks is de debil.

Just kidding, though I thought it was amusing when, in Tanya Huff's third Keeper book A Long, Hot Summoning, the protagonist discovers a Starbucks in what is essentially an alternate dimension and makes a comment about how they really are moving in everywhere.

For my preferences, Starbucks coffee is pretty bitter. It tastes overroasted or something. Here in Portland we have a chain called Coffee People that run drive thrus called MotorMoka. Their coffee tastes much more mellow and less bitter, and how can you not love a chain whose slogan, at one time, was "Good coffee, no backtalk."

The Swedes have a traditional fermented herring dish. Basically, salted herring is sealed in a can for up to year to ferment.

It is traditionally opened outdoors (due to the smell). Let me assure you, it is VERY obvious when the time of year rolls around and folks start opening their rotten-fish cans. It's probably one of the foulest smells I've ever had the displeasure of experiencing.

The nastiest fermented meat award, IMHO, should go to Iceland where they ferment a particular species of shark with high levels of ammonia and uric acid in it's bodily fluids. The dish is called Hakarl.

I've seen the preperation on a travel/food show some time ago and it was revolting. There was a man showing the host how it was made and the clip had the guy in a little shack with shark meat strung up on these racks. The meat was this odd pinkish-greyish-blueish color and there were holes poked in the flesh to allow the liquid to escape. Around these perforations this viscous liquid oozed out and collected in pans on the floor. Utterly disgusting.

That and who wants to eat something that stinks of pee-pee, though admittedly I'd probably try it should I ever venture to Iceland. I hear they have great golf there.



Edited, Thu Oct 20 16:33:05 2005 by Jacobsdeception