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Agreed. I live next to this czech grocery store. I had never heard of
polenta so I bought it to try. Blech! The kind of food poor country folk
eat to fill their bellies when they dont have meat. Polenta, rice,
pasta, potatoes-starch and little else.

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On 2012-05-28 02:53:08 +0000, z z said:

> Agreed. I live next to this czech grocery store. I had never heard of
> polenta so I bought it to try. Blech! The kind of food poor country folk
> eat to fill their bellies when they dont have meat. Polenta, rice,
> pasta, potatoes-starch and little else.

So polenta, rice, pasta and potatoes are all "boring, lousy texture,
practically no flavor" too, I suppose?

Maybe they'd taste better if you DID something with them that pleased
you. Certainly a lot of these things don't spring from the earth ready
to be called "dinner".

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z z wrote:

> Agreed. I live next to this czech grocery store. I had never heard of
> polenta so I bought it to try. Blech! The kind of food poor country
> folk eat to fill their bellies when they dont have meat.

Here we have a centuries old tradition of polenta and we dress it with lots
of meat: pork ribs stew, tripes in red stew, sausage stew, braised beef,
braised mushrooms... the poorest dressing is butter and grated reggiano
cheese. Poor my ass.

> Polenta, rice, pasta, potatoes-starch and little else.

And a lot of flavor

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gtr wrote:

> So polenta, rice, pasta and potatoes are all "boring, lousy texture,
> practically no flavor" too, I suppose?
>
> Maybe they'd taste better if you DID something with them that pleased
> you. Certainly a lot of these things don't spring from the earth ready
> to be called "dinner".

Egg-freaking-xactly

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"gtr" > wrote in message news:2012052720273772066-xxx@yyyzzz...
> On 2012-05-28 02:53:08 +0000, z z said:
>
>> Agreed. I live next to this czech grocery store. I had never heard of
>> polenta so I bought it to try. Blech! The kind of food poor country folk
>> eat to fill their bellies when they dont have meat. Polenta, rice,
>> pasta, potatoes-starch and little else.
>
> So polenta, rice, pasta and potatoes are all "boring, lousy texture,
> practically no flavor" too, I suppose?
>
> Maybe they'd taste better if you DID something with them that pleased you.
> Certainly a lot of these things don't spring from the earth ready to be
> called "dinner".
>

No kidding! Those "poor country folk" have survived for centuries on basic
foods like this. They've learned how to season with herbs and spices and
sauces. They've learned to make them quite flavourful. I suspect this
person has never cooked anything but TV frozen dinners.

Jill