Urchin sounds good

It is. It is the gonads of a prickly sea creature that is like a living, spindly coconut. The gonads taste very...oceany. Almost like mussels or scallops. They have a combination of flavors: sweetness of shrimp, salty shellfish like taste of lobster with the texture of octopus. They have a kind of deep, cream-orange-brown color to them. If there is a gaiminess of the sea, though, urchin can often have it.

Yeah. Sounds good.

Good. Try it if you ever get the chance. Be sure to have it with salmon roe.

If it comes up yeah.

In Texas, there tend to be good sushi restaurants. You might come across it if you ever go to Dallas/Austin/San Antonio.

I'll have to. My wife loves sushi. I haven't had occasion. Most new stuff I eat is an incidental - it's there and I'm like "oh cool" or "sure why not"

There has been occasion where things go badly and I try it anyway. Like when I wanted Mediterranean and would up eating soup that smelled like a rotted foot that had been boiled for 3 days.

With the sock on it.

Lybian food I think it was.

Had Jamaican goat curry that way too lol

Both disgusting

Yes. Never mind that I just don't think they have real cuisines, their restaurants are likely run the way every other third worlders' ventures are.

Yeah. The shit third world erstwhile eat is obviously necessity

3rd worlders*

Yes.

I still can't place a reason for head cheese tho.

Me either. I have never had it but, I never really understood why it was even called that. Is it a lard product or is it actual cheese?

It's a pickled meat type made of fat and face meat from calves or pigs. Horrible.

Not dairy lol

Well if you count the calf maybe it's dairy lol

Oh my. Why do our cousins across the pond come up with this shit. I wonder if it is meant to be some kind of cooking product?

Perhaps something like tallow?

Sliced like bologna

It's freakish

Yes. It sounds that way. Perhaps it was also a necessity? Once we could manage to eat better things, we did. It only lasted due to tradition and the memories of youth among the old?

Perhaps yeah. Food and culture are close IMO

They certainly are.

The three windows of a culture are cuisine, literature and music.

Yeah.

Some of the food tho...

Some it is cruel

Almost like it was preserved to punish the childrenz for not having the same challenges.

Lol good way to see it then. Would also explain why what americand eat is so tasty

Well the appropriated food that is

We like our fried food but we also like it at high, American quality. Well, the smart ones do anyway.

Lol yeah. I'm not a huge fan of frying tbh. If I can grill, roast or bake I will.

I avoid it cause its...horrible

LOL actually brett said it earlier: lard is patriotism

Maybe you just never had it from someone who knows how to keep the grease from overpowering the food? Also, and I got shit for this ever since I started cooking, I drain and blot my fried foods. Grilling and roasting are good too. I rather like a nice grilled anything. Meat, eggplant, corn, bread, lobster. I actually prefer charcoal. I like to taste the meat AND the heat.

Yeah. Definitely