Andrew Zimmern has a show called Bizarre Food, or some such, on the
Travel Channel. Zimmern loves to eat internal organs, testicles,
brains, etc., so that made me think of taco eaters that like heart and
brains and tripe.

Anything that would disgust the average American diner seems to give
Zommern a food orgasm.

Last Saturday, the segment was about Morocco and he visited the Jma al
Fnaa which is famous for being a huge open air market with all sorts
of stalls selling everything you can imagine.

Zimmern admired a goat carcass with the testicles still attached in
the open air butcher shop.

There are snake charmers with their vipers and cobras and dentists who
practice their extractions in public view. I once had my picture taken
by one of the snake charmers there. I passed on the cheap dental
surgery though.

A century ago, you might have seen the heads of executed criminals
exhibited on stakes in the square which was a center for trading salt.

Jimmy Stewart and Doris Day were in a movie that had a scene in the
Jma al Fnaa. It was called "The Man Who Knew Too Much". A Morrocan
gets stabbed in the back and when Jimmy Stewart touches the dead man,
it turns out that he's actually a European spy with brown makeup on
his face to make him look like a native....

Morroccans like to eat putrid meat mixed with fat for breakfast. They
have eggs with it. Zimmern gagged down a mouthful of it, and then ate
more, claiming that he had to eat it at least twice to really
appreciate it.

Tonight's segment was about Spain, and Zimmern visited Madrid and
Barcelona, where he got the chance to eat all kinds of tapas and
unusual delicacies that included bull's testicles.

He was eating a huge Mediterranean stone crab and he called the
stirred up internal organs of the crab "mustard" and was eating it
with a spoon while the restaurant owner looked on in disgust.

Later, Zimmern tasted a glass of horchata de chufas and pronounced it
disgusting.

On Monday evening, Zimmern will eat possum and either muskrat or
nutria caught in the Louisiana bayous. I can hardly wait.

A Cajun once gave me the recipe for Planked Nutria.

Nutrias are a kind of aquatic rodent that was brought in to eat exotic
water plants that choke the canals.

Now the nutrias are a nuisance.

You open up the nutria and nail it to a redwood plank.

Then you pour rum all over it, soaking the nutria and the plank.

Then you pour red wine and garlic and spices all over the nutria.

I asked the Cajun how long I should cook the nutria.

He said, "You don't eat the nutria. You throw it away and eat the
plank!"

On Mar 25, 7:30?am, Doug McDonald >
wrote:
>
> However, I did eat other things including tapir, peccary and some sort of
> large rat-like creature.

The next step up from a Guinea Pig, at least in size,
is the Agouti, with a face like the GP. It stands on longer legs and
has reddish brown fur and almost no tail.

The Galloping Gourmand wrote:
> Andrew Zimmern has a show called Bizarre Food, or some such, on the
> Travel Channel.

Last night he was in Ecuador. I went there twice too.

I did not eat guinea pig, mainly because the day our tour had it was
the last night and I wanted to go back to the restaurant we had
eaten at the first night, it was so good (and was in an old house
that was originally the home of our tour guide's grandmother.)

However, I did eat other things including tapir, peccary and some sort of
large rat-like creature. This was way way out in the boonies,
much farther out than Zimmern got, at a place called Zabalo.
(A zabalo is a fish, with a river named for it, and the town is
named for the river. The fish is delicious but perfectly ordinary.)

The tapir, despite being a semi-domesticated one fed up on grain,
was inedibly, literally inedibly, tough as grilled. As ground meat in
spaghetti sauce it was excellent and tasted quite different from
any other meat I have eaten. The peccary and rat I don't remember much about,
other than that they were good food.

I also went to a lodge similar to the one Zimmern went to (called
Kapawi) and their main food was ... gourmet quality French. However,
they served some native "treats" as side dishes, mostly vegetable
(as opposed to the Zabalo people, whose native things were mostly
meat), and mostly really bad to my taste, and I'm fairly accoustomed to
strange food.

None of this bore any relation at all to what I had in Chiapas
or Chihuahua in Mexico, nor to what I had in Chile, which was
entirely European in nature.

Doug McDonald

Same old recurring theme, huh Booger.

On Mar 25, 12:00�pm, "Gunner" <gunner@ spam.com> wrote:
> Same old recurring theme, *huh Booger.

Indigent people eating whatever they can get their hands on is a
recurring theme that is as old as the human race, perhaps two to four
million years.

Cultural and religious prejudice against certain foods is a recurring
theme as old as civilization, perhaps 11,000 years.

Radical socialism, which claims that a favored upper class is forever
oppressing a despised lower class is a recurring theme that is maybe
300 years old.

Which recurring theme were you thinking of?

"The Galloping Gourmand" > wrote in message
ps.com...
On Mar 25, 12:00?pm, "Gunner" <gunner@ spam.com> wrote:
> Same old recurring theme, huh Booger.

Indigent people eating whatever they can get their hands on is a
recurring theme that is as old as the human race, perhaps two to four
million years.

Booger, Booger, Booger, If you are going to attempt to keep up the
pseudo-intellectual airs, you have to regoogle that one. 2-4 Million
years, not even in the Ball park?

Now don't pretend you do not know what I am talking about; this childish
class warrior troll games about taco benders, It is old hat. Almost as bad
as the Mitchner style fiction ancestor stories and this this juvenile
fascination with the macabre, fuzzy little critters, guts, brains, balls
and organs.

The Galloping Gourmand wrote:
> Andrew Zimmern has a show called Bizarre Food, or some such, on the
> Travel Channel. Zimmern loves to eat internal organs, testicles,
> brains, etc., so that made me think of taco eaters that like heart and
> brains and tripe.

This guy is no Anthony Bourdain... AZ's Bizzare foods is nothing more
than a freak show and I find his antics unsavory and childish. In the
Shaman scene in Ecuador his "travel partner" translated that he wanted
him to strip down to his boxers.
How did his travel partner know he wore boxers? Hmmm... I think he likes
raw external organs too.

On Mar 26, 9:41?am, Sonoran Dude > wrote:

> This guy is no Anthony Bourdain...

I'm not a great fan of Anthony Bourdain, either, after some of the
sarcastic things that he says. The host of a travel show should always
be politically neutral.

> AZ's Bizzare foods is nothing more
> than a freak show and I find his antics unsavory and childish.

The reason I like his show is that he visits places that I went to
before the invention of tiny hand held videocams. So I get to
look at the same places and they jog my memory of what it was like to
move through the scenery.

> Hmmm... I think he likes
> raw external organs too.

His fascination with testicles and the remark that he made about
criadillas only being eaten by bullfighters led me to the same
conclusion. Bullfighters in Spain tend to attract wealthy men who
follow them around the country on tour.

On Mar 25, 10:30 am, Doug McDonald >
wrote:

> I did eat other things including tapir, peccary and some sort of
> large rat-like creature.

One of my favorite foodie memories from my young years has to do with
the time my parents and I and another family made tamales with
javelina meat (=collared peccary) that one of my dad's friends had
shot while deer hunting. They were the best tamales I can remember.

I haven't had that meat since, but I think back on it as being very
tasty. More so than the Russian Boar that's been introduced here
since. Maybe the introduced boars have driven out the javelinas.

I saw javelinas in the wild in southern Arizona in the early '60s, but
wasn't a hunter at the time, just a biologist.

BTW, Doug, I see your uiuc.edu address. I was a grad student in
zoology there in the late '60s, and stayed on to teach for a year or
two before moving on in the early '70s. I loved my time in ChamBana!

David

dtwright37 wrote:

>
> BTW, Doug, I see your uiuc.edu address. I was a grad student in
> zoology there in the late '60s, and stayed on to teach for a year or
> two before moving on in the early '70s. I loved my time in ChamBana!
>
>

You would not recognize it now. Illegal (Mexican) aliens on every corner,
selling delicious food. Really! Legal aliens too (Asian) at every
address on Green Street, selling delicious food.

Doug McDonald

On Mar 27, 9:57 am, Doug McDonald >
wrote:

> You would not recognize it now. Illegal (Mexican) aliens on every corner,
> selling delicious food. Really! Legal aliens too (Asian) at every
> address on Green Street, selling delicious food.
>
> Doug McDonald

You're right, I wouldn't. Street food on Green Street! When I was
there, the most exotic food source in either town was the Asian
grocery store. That's where I had to go to get cilantro for tacos,
since none of the mainstream stores carried it. We learned to make our
own tortillas so we wouldn't have to settle for canned, which were
worse than bad.

David

On Mar 27, 10:27 am, "dtwright37" > wrote:
> On Mar 27, 9:57 am, Doug McDonald >
> wrote:
>
> > You would not recognize it now. Illegal (Mexican) aliens on every corner,
> > selling delicious food. Really! Legal aliens too (Asian) at every
> > address on Green Street, selling delicious food.
>
> > Doug McDonald
>
> You're right, I wouldn't. Street food on Green Street! When I was
> there, the most exotic food source in either town was the Asian
> grocery store. That's where I had to go to get cilantro for tacos,
> since none of the mainstream stores carried it. We learned to make our
> own tortillas so we wouldn't have to settle for canned, which were
> worse than bad.
>
> David

BTW, how do you tell who is legal and who is not. Are all Mexicans
illegal, and are all Asians legal?

David again

On Mar 27, 3:12 pm, "dtwright37" > wrote:
> On Mar 27, 10:27 am, "dtwright37" > wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
> > On Mar 27, 9:57 am, Doug McDonald >
> > wrote:
>
> > > You would not recognize it now. Illegal (Mexican) aliens on every corner,
> > > selling delicious food. Really! Legal aliens too (Asian) at every
> > > address on Green Street, selling delicious food.
>
> > > Doug McDonald
>
> > You're right, I wouldn't. Street food on Green Street! When I was
> > there, the most exotic food source in either town was the Asian
> > grocery store. That's where I had to go to get cilantro for tacos,
> > since none of the mainstream stores carried it. We learned to make our
> > own tortillas so we wouldn't have to settle for canned, which were
> > worse than bad.
>
> > David
>
> BTW, how do you tell who is legal and who is not. Are all Mexicans
> illegal, and are all Asians legal?
>
> David again

And, once again, how do you know that all the people you think are
illegals are Mexicans?

I think I'll stop thinking about Green Street now.

David

dtwright37 wrote:

>
> And, once again, how do you know that all the people you think are
> illegals are Mexicans?
>
> I think I'll stop thinking about Green Street now.
>
> David
>
>

Good point

It appears that the "Galloping Gourmet's" recipe dumps in
uk.food+drink.misc arren't stirring up the hornet's nest he hoped for.

They do provide some insight into his motives for those still
undecided.

On Apr 2, 8:30 pm, The Daily Sun
> wrote:
> It appears that the "Galloping Gourmet's" recipe dumps in
> uk.food+drink.misc arren't stirring up the hornet's nest he hoped for.
>
> They do provide some insight into his motives for those still
> undecided.

I haven't seen anything in alt.food.mexican-cooking from a "Galloping
Gourmet," so I'm at at a loss for what you mean.

There is someone here who assumes the name, "The Galloping Gourmand,"
for whatever reason I don't know, and he/she does like to stir things
up without really discussing the food of interest. Yes, it could be
the same person, but we don't know that, do we?

David

dtwright37 wrote:
> On Apr 2, 8:30 pm, The Daily Sun
> > wrote:
>> It appears that the "Galloping Gourmet's" recipe dumps in
>> uk.food+drink.misc arren't stirring up the hornet's nest he hoped for.
>>
>> They do provide some insight into his motives for those still
>> undecided.
>
> I haven't seen anything in alt.food.mexican-cooking from a "Galloping
> Gourmet," so I'm at at a loss for what you mean.
>
> There is someone here who assumes the name, "The Galloping Gourmand,"
> for whatever reason I don't know, and he/she does like to stir things
> up without really discussing the food of interest. Yes, it could be
> the same person, but we don't know that, do we?
>
> David
>
I went and looked at those posts... I don't think booger wrote those..
looks more like the old Magic Chef dude that likes to paste recipes from
a cook book. I haven't seen the GG around lately... starting to miss his
ego.

"Sonoran Dude" > wrote in message
. ..
> dtwright37 wrote:
>> On Apr 2, 8:30 pm, The Daily Sun
>> > wrote:
>>> It appears that the "Galloping Gourmet's" recipe dumps in
>>> uk.food+drink.misc arren't stirring up the hornet's nest he hoped for.
>>>
>>> They do provide some insight into his motives for those still
>>> undecided.
>>
>> I haven't seen anything in alt.food.mexican-cooking from a "Galloping
>> Gourmet," so I'm at at a loss for what you mean.
>>
>> There is someone here who assumes the name, "The Galloping Gourmand,"
>> for whatever reason I don't know, and he/she does like to stir things
>> up without really discussing the food of interest. Yes, it could be
>> the same person, but we don't know that, do we?
>>
>> David
>>
> I went and looked at those posts... I don't think booger wrote those..
> looks more like the old Magic Chef dude that likes to paste recipes from a
> cook book. I haven't seen the GG around lately... starting to miss his
> ego.

David, try Kursty Kritter about a year to a year and a half back before
he was GG , same MO, same Oscar and Felix Relationship between Monterey and
Santa Barbara. Clueless, I tell ya.

The Galloping Gourmand wrote:
> On Mar 26, 9:41?am, Sonoran Dude > wrote:
>
>> This guy is no Anthony Bourdain...
>
> I'm not a great fan of Anthony Bourdain, either, after some of the
> sarcastic things that he says. The host of a travel show should always
> be politically neutral.
>
>> AZ's Bizzare foods is nothing more
>> than a freak show and I find his antics unsavory and childish.
>
> The reason I like his show is that he visits places that I went to
> before the invention of tiny hand held videocams. So I get to
> look at the same places and they jog my memory of what it was like to
> move through the scenery.
>
>> Hmmm... I think he likes
>> raw external organs too.
>
> His fascination with testicles and the remark that he made about
> criadillas only being eaten by bullfighters led me to the same
> conclusion. Bullfighters in Spain tend to attract wealthy men who
> follow them around the country on tour.
>
>

What happened? I hope tho old coot is ok... I would have expected some
long drawn out soliloquy if this was indeed his last post.