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Default 6-11-21, Friday Night Dinner

On 2021-06-14 2:30 p.m., US Janet wrote:
> On Mon, 14 Jun 2021 14:16:46 -0400, Sheldon Martin >
> wrote:


>> No rule says everyone needs to have the same tastes in food, I just
>> don't like the taste or stench of lamb. I don't like venison either.
>> Years ago at a fancy hotel in Canada I took the waiters advice and
>> ordered bison stew, it was awful, the fat was as congealed and sticky
>> as lamb fat. I don't like crab either, I'll eat lobster but I don't
>> love it like so many seem to... I'm also not a big fan of shrimp, I
>> think it's tasteless unless drowned in some piquant sauce.
>> I happen to like liver but many don't. I like liverwust too. I also
>> like chicken liver, chopped chicken liver is a favorite. A lot of
>> foods I liked years ago are no longer readily available, not easy to
>> find smoked whitefish anymore. I used to love Chinese restaurant
>> food, but it's not been the same for 40 years, I no longer like what's
>> produced nowadays. Good Chinese restaurant food went the way of the
>> kosher deli, long gone. It's no longer easy to find a real knish,
>> hardly anyone knows what's a k'nish. I'm one of the few people
>> remaining
>> who knows how to make kasha, let alone a kasha knish. I won't even go
>> into the variations of blintzes.

>
> I'm surprised that the bison stew had congealed fat. Bison is a
> really lean meat.
> It must be the way they cooked it.



Bison meat is much leaner than meat. Perhaps they foisted something else
on Sheldon knowing that he would not know the difference.