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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #30 on Oct 14, 2009, 5:59pm »		[Quote]
Ketchup is just about sweet enough to put on pancakes! I don't like either one of those things very much anyway.
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« Reply #31 on Oct 15, 2009, 2:07am »		[Quote]
I make crêpes, but mine are buckwheat crêpes and involve no sugar whatsoever - they are just a local flatbread, like tortillas, though they are richer because they involve eggs and usually milk or some subsitute. I hate Western ketchup, though evidently the name derives from some Southeast Asian sauces, some of which I like very much (others are indeed too sweet).
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« Reply #32 on Oct 15, 2009, 5:11pm »		[Quote]
Thinking back at the chicken skin incident, I realized that I served grilled duck breasts on one of the days, with the thick skin and the luscious layer of fat under it, and he ate every morsel with gusto. So I'm wondering what is the difference, other than the fact that you can't pull off the duck skin no matter how hard you try -- but you can cut it off it you have to.
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« Reply #33 on Oct 15, 2009, 8:54pm »		[Quote]
Eggs on the airplane this morning. I was terrified that my seat mate would do the ketchup thing and I'd have to see and smell the nastiness - he abstained. Pheew...
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #34 on Oct 16, 2009, 4:19am »		[Quote]
I have a friend who orders his eggs sunny side up. Then he uses the softish yolks as a dip for his toast. Terrible! I don't even want to see it. I'm an 'eat- the- yolks- whole' guy myself.
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #35 on Oct 16, 2009, 4:43am »		[Quote]
I thought you were supposed to do that! Guess we'll never go to breakfast together.

When we were little, my siblings and I called sunny-side-up or over-easy eggs "dip eggs".
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #36 on Oct 16, 2009, 9:37am »		[Quote]
Yes,the dipping into the egg yolk thing is very common. I'm a bit surprised somehow hw that you deemed this odd. Even though I don't eat eggs this way very often myself. How else once the yolk starts running all over the plate is one to mop it up?
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #37 on Oct 16, 2009, 10:26am »		[Quote]
Ha!

See, my eggs don't run all over the egg because they go down the hatch just as soon as I've cut away the egg white (and eaten it). The yolk is carefully avoided when cutting ;)
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #38 on Oct 16, 2009, 10:34am »		[Quote]
;D
Now,what if it was a goose egg or another egg with a giant yolk? Oh,never mind. Don't even want to know. ;)
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« Reply #39 on Oct 16, 2009, 11:08am »		[Quote]
I would just as soon throw all of the white away and just eat the yolks. However, I was taught to eat the whole thing. That's why I don't eat eggs much.
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #40 on Oct 16, 2009, 11:10am »		[Quote]
Oeufs de pintade (guinea-hen eggs) are slightly smaller than chicken eggs, and have more yolk and less white than the regular chicken kind.
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #41 on Oct 16, 2009, 1:19pm »		[Quote]
I'm a dipper. And like kerouac, I find the white to be somewhat superfluous.

I once witnessed the practice of lifting the egg off the plate with a fork and biting the yolk out of the centre before proceeding to the white.
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #42 on Oct 16, 2009, 2:05pm »		[Quote]
I avoid the whites as much as possible. I think I am probably the most childish food wise around the issue of egg whites than any other food. Except for meringue.
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #43 on Oct 16, 2009, 2:38pm »		[Quote]
Yeah, the yolk is the entire point of the egg as far as I'm concerned. The white is useful for scrambled eggs or omelets, but simply something to be gotten out of the way in boiled or fried eggs in order to get to the gold. Why, why, why would anyone ever eat an egg white omelet?

Thinking about sticking an entire egg yolk in my mouth at one time sets off the gag reflex. That is ickier than dipping, any day. HW, you are odd! ( :-*)

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« Reply #44 on Oct 16, 2009, 6:37pm »		[Quote]
It is divine to slowly press it against the roof of your mouth and feel the yolk flowing over your tongue, Bixa. You don't know what you're missing.
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #45 on Oct 16, 2009, 6:56pm »		[Quote]

Oct 16, 2009, 6:37pm, kerouac2 wrote:
It is divine to slowly press it against the roof of your mouth and feel the yolk flowing over your tongue, Bixa. You don't know what you're missing.


I bet she... nah, better not.
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #46 on Oct 16, 2009, 7:19pm »		[Quote]
Aren't y'all adorable!
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« Reply #47 on Oct 16, 2009, 7:36pm »		[Quote]

Oct 14, 2009, 4:30pm, kerouac2 wrote:
As I child, I couldn't stand certain runny items touching other things on the plate, but I seem to be over that, except when I have a food abomination Denny's breakfast and the maple syrup gets on the bacon or the sausages.

K2, you are just wierd. ;-)

In the US, they market breakfast sausages that are maple flavored. This is a combination that works really well.

I'd dip my link sausages in the syrup if I ever had that kind of breakfast.
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #48 on Oct 16, 2009, 7:55pm »		[Quote]
Geez -- how many times are you people going to make me rearrange the place cards before we can have breakfast?!
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« Reply #49 on Oct 16, 2009, 8:32pm »		[Quote]

Oct 16, 2009, 7:36pm, kimby wrote:
I'd dip my link sausages in the syrup if I ever had that kind of breakfast.


I'm cool with with maple syrup on my sausages and bacon. And the bacon cooked sous vide in Creemore ale and maple syrup on the charcuterie plate at Nota Bene is divine.

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« Reply #50 on Oct 16, 2009, 8:36pm »		[Quote]
This thread reminds me of "Rainman".
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« Reply #51 on Oct 16, 2009, 10:49pm »		[Quote]
AA, so you're saying our quirks are borderline autistic? Interesting.
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« Reply #52 on Oct 17, 2009, 3:31pm »		[Quote]
no, nooooo! you are reading too much into my remark, Kimby.
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« Reply #53 on Oct 17, 2009, 4:20pm »		[Quote]
or perhaps you are reading too little into "Rainman" ?
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #54 on Oct 17, 2009, 4:49pm »		[Quote]
Hmmm. Maybe Kimby has a point. We probably all have little traits that others don't recognize as compulsive because they fall within the boundaries of normal. Only when the traits become repetitive and unusual, such as DonC's friend with the crumbs, do they get noticed.
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« Reply #55 on Oct 17, 2009, 6:42pm »		[Quote]
I guess I'm not a quirky eater.
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« Reply #56 on Oct 17, 2009, 7:24pm »		[Quote]
But you must have observed some!
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #57 on Oct 17, 2009, 10:20pm »		[Quote]
Yes....I have. Only yesterday my friend's partner was handed a large slice of walnut cake (with cream cheese icing) and he cut it up with a knife and fork into small pieces before he ate it. She told him 'That's not a steak you're eating'.....
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« Reply #58 on Oct 18, 2009, 5:27pm »		[Quote]
As I was lifting the over easy eggs out of the pan this morning, I was just about to put my egg on the toast (toast = Mrs I's job) when I realized the toast was, get this, RAISIN toast! What WAS she thinking?

(btw, was very gratified that none of my guests yesterday put ketchup on their eggs, home fries or meat.)
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Re: Odd table behaviour
« Reply #59 on Oct 18, 2009, 5:34pm »		[Quote]
Well, you didn't put ketchup on the table, did you? So maybe they were just being polite and thought you were remiss in forgetting to put that item at their disposal.
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