Strange foods that taste good

[jeepster]

Nothing strange about anything mentioned here, with the exception of the chocolate covered silverskin onions. The idea of combining sweet and savoury flavours is perfectly logical, and most people do it everyday without thinking about it, it's only when someone discovers that a bit of chocolate can liven up a chilli, or apricots make a flipping good tagine even better than anyone bothers remarking on it. For the record, I never put chocolate, or cocoa or anything similar in a regular chilli, Mole Poblano is where chocolate belongs

[Zigs]

I've just eaten a whole octopus

[corydoras]

or apricots make a flipping good tagine

Can one make a tagine without apricots? That would be like roast pork without apple sauce!

[chevin]

Presumably they were visiting you rather than the other way around 'cause no American at home would use anything other than Welch's grape jelly.

 

 

Neither they were based at the HEH Navel Base at Exmouth. They had all things American in the PX to choose from, but their choice was strawberry jam or strawberry jelly as they call it.

[Steve Walker]

I've just eaten a whole octopus

 

I hope you chewed it!

[Newt]

"but their choice was strawberry jam or strawberry jelly as they call it."

 

Was it jam or jelly? I much prefer strawberry jam and can't remember the last time I bought strawberry jelly.

[ColinW]

"Vegemite" on toast.This product was developed after WW1 to make a tasty dish from de-bittered Brewer's Yeast by a Aussie Chemical Warfare Expert.It has a shelf life of over100yrs but we Aussies love it dearly

 

Colonial upstarts! Proper Marmite was invented by the British in 1902.

[Ken L]

Proper Marmite was invented by the British in 1902.

 

Presumably it was developed as a tyre adhesive and was about to be abandoned before some fool with half a tongue and no sence of smell decided to try spreading it on bread.

[n4lly]

Colonial upstarts! Proper Marmite was invented by the British in 1902.

 

Funny that, just had a promotional pack of Marmite Toothpaste delivered through the door

[Zigs]

I hope you chewed it!

 

cooked it ln the oven for 2 & half hours, was still very tough, going to cook up the next one & then put it in a hay box overnight, see if that tenderises it any more.

 

Anyone else failed to cook this particular cephalopod ? Any tips ? other than basting in marmite.