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  1. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ I was brought up under the tutelage of a fellow who was waaaay too taken with the trappings of “success,” such that he acquired cars, boats, etc. he really couldn’t afford as soon as he could make the down payment, or finagle some other way to get his paws on the goods. (Give the devil his...
  2. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    “Tripe” also means something like “nonsense, balderdash, rubbish, BS, etc.” It’s not often heard, but it isn’t all that obscure a term, either.
  3. tonyb

    Clean Jokes

  4. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ Tripe’s flavor is mild, subtle, and takes the flavors of whatever it’s prepared with. Among my criteria for judging Mexican restaurants is the quality of their menudo, if it’s on the menu at all.
  5. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Yeah, that’s a tripe recipe. (Sounds delicious, by the way.) There may be different definitions of tripe in different places (I wouldn’t know), but around here tripe is stomach. It’s the one indispensable ingredient in a delightful Mexican dish called menudo, a tripe soup and purported hangover...
  7. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Does anyone here actually like pork chitterlings, aka chitlins? I’ve partaken maybe a couple times in my life and had difficulty choking down more than a forkful. Is there a palatable way to prepare chitlins?
  8. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    I visited there going on 20 years ago. It was a feast for the eyes. My friend Dean Wong, a photographer who worked for newspapers and has had a couple books published by the University of Washington Press, has done some traveling about the country capturing images of what remains of the...
  9. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^^ For 20 years I lived about a five-minute drive (at night, in light traffic) from Seattle’s Chinatown. I knew the district well. Took many a late-night meal there.
  10. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    When I was in third grade (it must’ve been) I got sick at school in the afternoon, after having had a liver wurst sandwich for lunch. The little illness had me missing my weekly after-school trip to the bowling alley. The experience put me off liver wurst for years afterwards.
  11. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Chicken feet ain’t bad. Had ’em at dim sum on a few occasions. Never had the duck webs, although I’m not indisposed to trying it. As to foods with faces ... Duck is among my favorite foods. Just love it, really, the fattier the better. There’s no real Chinatown here, but there is a sort of...
  13. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ I’m big on smoked ham hocks and beans, with onion, celery, carrots, etc. Real tasty. Ox tails are very flavorful as well. But, as you alluded, these foods were once deemed poor people fare, and were priced accordingly. No more, alas. I don’t even want to recall what I paid for a chuck...
  14. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    ^^^^ I’d wager that a large majority of Americans under age 80 or so don’t know what head cheese is. And many over age 80 would argue that those youngsters ought be thankful for that.
  15. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My Dear Old Ma has a weakness for pickled pigs feet and head cheese, both of which are acquired tastes. I recall her being thrilled several decades back when she came across a fellow who made in his home head cheese the way it should be made. She became among his more devoted patrons.
  16. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    Calvin Trillin wrote a piece in The New Yorker a few years back about dining on rat in China. As with most of Trillin’s efforts, it was quite amusing. He told of live rats kept in a cage, pointing to the one of his preference, and watching as the cook reached into the cage, grabbed Trillin’s...
  17. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    The Pixar flick “Ratatouille” aside (fun little movie, by the way; see it if you haven’t already, or even if you have), you really don’t want rats anywhere near you. Several years ago I did a feature on rats and the people who exterminate them. It was a fun piece (exterminators are an amusing...
  19. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    All the talk of the beauty of Seattle (entirely defensible, much of it) doesn’t change what any person who had lived there for much time at all knows: the place is rat infested — mostly Norway rats, but also black rats, aka roof rats. This can be attributed to an amenable climate; thick, lush...
  20. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    My memories of anchovy pizzas are limited and quite distant, so it is not unlikely that those recollections would be unrepresentative of the species over all. But damn, those things were SALTY! I’ve always had a healthy appetite and have never been a picky eater, but if other anchovy pizzas...
  21. tonyb

    So trivial, yet it really ticks you off.

    For the past several months the lovely missus has patronized an outfit from over Boulder way that sells grass-fed beef and other organic meats. They deliver the product, frozen, in insulated cloth carriers with a block of dry ice. It doesn’t come cheap, I’m sure, but I avoid knowing the exact...
  22. tonyb

    Most overrated movies?

    If memory serves, a couple-three of the minor characters portrayed themselves in the film. And the filmmakers used several locations where the actual events took place, including the Clutter house, where the murders occurred, and the actual courtroom, where the killers were tried and convicted...
  23. tonyb

    You know you are getting old when:

    ... you clearly remember when a million bucks seemed an impossibly large sum.

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