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OT- New State Fair food
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Bozo
2018-07-19 13:44:58 UTC
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Wagnerian or Bruckernian dimensions ?

The " Pickle Popper " sounds great , with a good lager and perhaps some J. Strauss ?

https://www.iowastatefair.org/food/whats-new/
HT
2018-07-19 15:30:52 UTC
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Post by Bozo
Wagnerian or Bruckernian dimensions ?
The " Pickle Popper " sounds great , with a good lager and perhaps some J. Strauss ?
https://www.iowastatefair.org/food/whats-new/
The "Poffertjes" at least look eatable. Here they are dipped in butter and sprinkled with powdered sugar. Too sweet for my taste. To eat them with strawberries isn't a bad idea!

Henk
Bozo
2018-08-09 14:36:53 UTC
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Cookie dough spaghetti with chocolate meatballs , if you're carb levels are too low after a long day walking about the fairgrounds :


https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/2018/08/08/iowa-state-fair-cookie-dough-spaghetti-possibly-weird-food-2018-weird-odd-dipped-chocolate/938594002/
HT
2018-08-09 16:29:46 UTC
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Post by Bozo
https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/entertainment/2018/08/08/iowa-state-fair-cookie-dough-spaghetti-possibly-weird-food-2018-weird-odd-dipped-chocolate/938594002/
It certainly is the weirdest food! <g>

Henk
Bozo
2018-08-16 12:47:32 UTC
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Winners of Best New Fair Food of 2018 :

1st Place : Apple egg rolls dusted with cinnamon sugar andserved with caramel dipping sauce
2nd Place : Brown sugar pork belly on a stick
3rd Place : Belly up Burger

https://tinyurl.com/y7t4eljd

2nd Place item would not seem to be for the faint of heart, at least per its picture.

https://tinyurl.com/y7t4eljd
Frank Berger
2018-08-16 13:57:27 UTC
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Post by Bozo
1st Place : Apple egg rolls dusted with cinnamon sugar andserved with caramel dipping sauce
2nd Place : Brown sugar pork belly on a stick
3rd Place : Belly up Burger
https://tinyurl.com/y7t4eljd
2nd Place item would not seem to be for the faint of heart, at least per its picture.
https://tinyurl.com/y7t4eljd
No guts, no glory,
HT
2018-08-16 15:01:43 UTC
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Post by Bozo
2nd Place item would not seem to be for the faint of heart, at least per its picture.
https://tinyurl.com/y7t4eljd
Hmmm. It's clear that food no longer needs to look tastfeful at the Iowa State Fair to win a prize.

Henk
Frank Berger
2018-08-16 15:52:26 UTC
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Post by HT
Post by Bozo
2nd Place item would not seem to be for the faint of heart, at least per its picture.
https://tinyurl.com/y7t4eljd
Hmmm. It's clear that food no longer needs to look tastfeful at the Iowa State Fair to win a prize.
Henk
The first person to eat a lobster must have been really, really hungry.
O
2018-08-16 19:52:50 UTC
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Post by Frank Berger
Post by HT
Post by Bozo
2nd Place item would not seem to be for the faint of heart, at least per its picture.
https://tinyurl.com/y7t4eljd
Hmmm. It's clear that food no longer needs to look tastfeful at the Iowa
State Fair to win a prize.
Henk
The first person to eat a lobster must have been really, really hungry.
Not to mention the difficulty of primitive man to find the following
tools:

nutcracker
tiny fork
plastic bib with picture of lobster on it

-Owen
Bozo
2018-08-16 20:19:51 UTC
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Post by O
Not to mention the difficulty of primitive man to find the following
And trying to determine : " Current market price-ask your Waiter."
Frank Berger
2018-08-17 01:38:16 UTC
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Post by Bozo
Post by O
Not to mention the difficulty of primitive man to find the following
And trying to determine : " Current market price-ask your Waiter."
Apologies if I told this story here before:

About 40 or more years ago I was eating at a Hungry Tiger restaurant in
Los Angeles or San Diego with my father and uncle. I ordered a live
Main lobster and mentioned that it didn't have much flavor. To my
embarrassment my uncle called over the waiter and complained and he
brought me another lobster which had the same blah taste. Then the
manager came over and after a bit of small talk told us that by the time
you ate a "live" Maine lobster in California it had been in transit for
many hours and in a declining state of health and would never be as good
as a fresh lobster on the East Coast. He suggested a California
lobster, which would taste great though lacking the big claw. He
brought me one and it was delicious. I'm pretty sure that was the last
lobster I ate, since my wife and I decided to eat strictly kosher not
long thereafter.

Comments on the manager's explanation?
O
2018-08-17 15:11:04 UTC
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Post by Frank Berger
Post by Bozo
Post by O
Not to mention the difficulty of primitive man to find the following
And trying to determine : " Current market price-ask your Waiter."
About 40 or more years ago I was eating at a Hungry Tiger restaurant in
Los Angeles or San Diego with my father and uncle. I ordered a live
Main lobster and mentioned that it didn't have much flavor. To my
embarrassment my uncle called over the waiter and complained and he
brought me another lobster which had the same blah taste. Then the
manager came over and after a bit of small talk told us that by the time
you ate a "live" Maine lobster in California it had been in transit for
many hours and in a declining state of health and would never be as good
as a fresh lobster on the East Coast. He suggested a California
lobster, which would taste great though lacking the big claw. He
brought me one and it was delicious. I'm pretty sure that was the last
lobster I ate, since my wife and I decided to eat strictly kosher not
long thereafter.
Comments on the manager's explanation?
Are you sure it was live, not frozen? Did they have a lobster tank in
the restaurant?

40 or more years ago, it would have been almost impossible to regularly
ship live lobsters coast to coast. Now they can ship them on dry ice
and they'll arrive in 24 hours. That's about the maximum for live
lobsters to live on just ice.

Places like Legal Seafood in Boston (and sundry much cheaper places)
will ship live lobster to the 48 contiguous States. For cooking, I
recommend steaming the lobster for 20 minutes (put in large pan with
boiling water only about 1-2 inches deep and cover). Add sea salt to
the water before boiling. Yum.

When in Maine and looking for good steamed lobster, I recommend the
Ogonquit Lobster Pound, or the Lincolnville Lobster pound. Both will
get you a great tasting lobster. (In case you're ever tempted to cheat
on that kosher diet, Frank!)

-Owen
Frank Berger
2018-08-17 16:06:43 UTC
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Post by O
Post by Frank Berger
Post by Bozo
Post by O
Not to mention the difficulty of primitive man to find the following
And trying to determine : " Current market price-ask your Waiter."
About 40 or more years ago I was eating at a Hungry Tiger restaurant in
Los Angeles or San Diego with my father and uncle. I ordered a live
Main lobster and mentioned that it didn't have much flavor. To my
embarrassment my uncle called over the waiter and complained and he
brought me another lobster which had the same blah taste. Then the
manager came over and after a bit of small talk told us that by the time
you ate a "live" Maine lobster in California it had been in transit for
many hours and in a declining state of health and would never be as good
as a fresh lobster on the East Coast. He suggested a California
lobster, which would taste great though lacking the big claw. He
brought me one and it was delicious. I'm pretty sure that was the last
lobster I ate, since my wife and I decided to eat strictly kosher not
long thereafter.
Comments on the manager's explanation?
Are you sure it was live, not frozen?
That is what I recall.

Did they have a lobster tank in
Post by O
the restaurant?
Pretty sure.
Post by O
40 or more years ago, it would have been almost impossible to regularly
ship live lobsters coast to coast.
Now we'll have to verify that.

Now they can ship them on dry ice
Post by O
and they'll arrive in 24 hours. That's about the maximum for live
lobsters to live on just ice.
Why no dry ice 40 years ago???
Post by O
Places like Legal Seafood in Boston (and sundry much cheaper places)
will ship live lobster to the 48 contiguous States. For cooking, I
recommend steaming the lobster for 20 minutes (put in large pan with
boiling water only about 1-2 inches deep and cover). Add sea salt to
the water before boiling. Yum.
When in Maine and looking for good steamed lobster, I recommend the
Ogonquit Lobster Pound, or the Lincolnville Lobster pound. Both will
get you a great tasting lobster. (In case you're ever tempted to cheat
on that kosher diet, Frank!)
-Owen
O
2018-08-17 16:38:00 UTC
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Post by Frank Berger
Post by O
Post by Frank Berger
Post by Bozo
Post by O
Not to mention the difficulty of primitive man to find the following
And trying to determine : " Current market price-ask your Waiter."
About 40 or more years ago I was eating at a Hungry Tiger restaurant in
Los Angeles or San Diego with my father and uncle. I ordered a live
Main lobster and mentioned that it didn't have much flavor. To my
embarrassment my uncle called over the waiter and complained and he
brought me another lobster which had the same blah taste. Then the
manager came over and after a bit of small talk told us that by the time
you ate a "live" Maine lobster in California it had been in transit for
many hours and in a declining state of health and would never be as good
as a fresh lobster on the East Coast. He suggested a California
lobster, which would taste great though lacking the big claw. He
brought me one and it was delicious. I'm pretty sure that was the last
lobster I ate, since my wife and I decided to eat strictly kosher not
long thereafter.
Comments on the manager's explanation?
Are you sure it was live, not frozen?
That is what I recall.
Did they have a lobster tank in
Post by O
the restaurant?
Pretty sure.
Post by O
40 or more years ago, it would have been almost impossible to regularly
ship live lobsters coast to coast.
Now we'll have to verify that.
Let me amend that to say it would have probably been prohibitive, cost
wise.

There is also a difference between hard shell and soft shell lobsters,
with the former being by far tastier, IMHO.
Post by Frank Berger
Now they can ship them on dry ice
Post by O
and they'll arrive in 24 hours. That's about the maximum for live
lobsters to live on just ice.
Why no dry ice 40 years ago???
They had dry ice. They just didn't have reliable means of getting
lobsters across country in 24 hours like we have today. It's the time
spent outside the tank that's the difference.

-Owen

Frank Berger
2018-08-17 16:21:15 UTC
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Post by O
Post by Frank Berger
Post by Bozo
Post by O
Not to mention the difficulty of primitive man to find the following
And trying to determine : " Current market price-ask your Waiter."
About 40 or more years ago I was eating at a Hungry Tiger restaurant in
Los Angeles or San Diego with my father and uncle. I ordered a live
Main lobster and mentioned that it didn't have much flavor. To my
embarrassment my uncle called over the waiter and complained and he
brought me another lobster which had the same blah taste. Then the
manager came over and after a bit of small talk told us that by the time
you ate a "live" Maine lobster in California it had been in transit for
many hours and in a declining state of health and would never be as good
as a fresh lobster on the East Coast. He suggested a California
lobster, which would taste great though lacking the big claw. He
brought me one and it was delicious. I'm pretty sure that was the last
lobster I ate, since my wife and I decided to eat strictly kosher not
long thereafter.
Comments on the manager's explanation?
Are you sure it was live, not frozen? Did they have a lobster tank in
the restaurant?
40 or more years ago, it would have been almost impossible to regularly
ship live lobsters coast to coast. Now they can ship them on dry ice
and they'll arrive in 24 hours. That's about the maximum for live
lobsters to live on just ice.
Places like Legal Seafood in Boston (and sundry much cheaper places)
will ship live lobster to the 48 contiguous States. For cooking, I
recommend steaming the lobster for 20 minutes (put in large pan with
boiling water only about 1-2 inches deep and cover). Add sea salt to
the water before boiling. Yum.
When in Maine and looking for good steamed lobster, I recommend the
Ogonquit Lobster Pound, or the Lincolnville Lobster pound. Both will
get you a great tasting lobster. (In case you're ever tempted to cheat
on that kosher diet, Frank!)
-Owen
I just read an article about the lobster market. It said California
spiny lobsters actually are sweeter than Maine lobsters, but are harder
to harvest and almost all of them are exported to China because the
Chinese prefer them. This makes them very expensive. So I guess it's a
good thing then technology allows the Maine lobsters to be shipped and
stay in good shape.
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