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On 2/5/2016 9:06 AM, Checkmate, DoW #1 wrote:
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>> On 2/4/2016 11:41 PM, Checkmate, DoW #1 wrote:
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>>>> On 2/4/2016 9:26 AM, Checkmate, DoW #1 wrote:
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>>>>>> On 2/4/2016 9:10 AM, Checkmate, DoW #1 wrote:
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>>>>>>>> On 2/3/2016 11:03 PM, Dave Smith wrote:
>>>>>>>>> About a year ago I was out with my son for the day and we stopped for a
>>>>>>>>> late lunch at a Vietnamese place. I had never had Vietnamese food before
>>>>>>>>> and had some expectation that if would be similar to Chinese and/or
>>>>>>>>> Thai, being in the same general area. I was really disappointed. It was
>>>>>>>>> not horrible, but it wasn't very good.
>>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>>> M wife is away for the week so he called up and asked if I would like to
>>>>>>>>> go out for supper with him and he suggested I give Vietnamese another
>>>>>>>>> try because there was a good one near his place. He said they had
>>>>>>>>> similar dishes, but that this place is much better. He was right. It
>>>>>>>>> was quite good. It is not only tasty, but it is downright cheap. Their
>>>>>>>>> entrees were about the same price most places charge for an appetizer.
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>>>>>>>>> My big mistake was having a Vietnamese coffee. The waitress explained
>>>>>>>>> that they do it the old fashioned way, using a drip filter gizmo that
>>>>>>>>> drained into a glass that had about half a can of sweetened condensed
>>>>>>>>> milk. It was good, but way too sweet for me. As I sit here three hours
>>>>>>>>> after my regular bed time I realize how potent that coffee was. He told
>>>>>>>>> me after I ordered it that it would probably keep me up all night, but
>>>>>>>>> he has issues with caffeine issues and never drinks coffee in the evening.
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>>>>>>>> When I wuz in Nam, them gooks ate any kinda shit that moved. Fuskin'
>>>>>>>> spiders and shit like that.
>>>>>>>> Gooks!
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>>>>>>> They were probably serving rat tartar sandwiches, known as a "Cannibal
>>>>>>> sandwich".
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>>>>>> Those be forest rats. They aren't like the filthy sewer rats over here.
>>>>>> They taste like chicken.
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>>>>> They're still filthy creatures that shit on themselves.
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>>>> No, they don't. If you were there you wood know.
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>>> I was there, and we didn't eat rats.
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>> no, we didn't eat them directly, but the *******s were everywhere.
>> Vietnamese ate whatever they could find and I've seen rats on a
>> contraption like you'd cook a whole package of hotdogs on. fur and
>> all. my pal says they were nutrias and I say mousemeat. Viets ate dog
>> before mousemeat...and the dogs knew it and treated the locals
>> accordingly. I took a bit once so I knew I COULD eat it if I HAD to
>> but I didn't so I DIDN'T. balut maybe...1000yr old eggs...I'd die
>> first. I'd use fish eyes to catch a whole fish...but I do understand
>> you eat what is available or you don't eat. I had a messhall and they
>> didn't. who was better off? who knows. time for breakfast...here
>> kitty kitty.
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> Balut is an egg with an almost fully grown embryo in it... usually duck
> eggs. Filipinos love them. They also like anchovy sauce, which is made
> from totally rotten fish, and smells absolutely horrid. I don't know
> how they can eat it without dying of food poisoning. Then there's the
> dried rotten fish. When they cook that shit, it'll stink up the entire
> house for a week.
>
bought duck eggs for my 'date' one lovely evening in Saigon....when she
started on em I started quacking like a duck and for a moment thought
she'd choked. amazing how they can judge the age of the embryo. the
Thais had a fish sauce as well but it was manageable I suppose it was
all like the kim-chee in Korea. ya's got to do something to give rice
some kinda taste. pee-yew

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