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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2009 4:57:46 GMT
Out of curiosity ~~ Deyana, you never had S'mores before?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2009 5:06:23 GMT
In Southwest France, a lot of people gobble fritons de canard with apéritif.  |
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2009 5:15:50 GMT
Is that duck crackling?
Back before I started being Good, I used to make chicken crackling. Duck would be better.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2009 5:17:50 GMT
Yes, that's what it is.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2009 18:18:28 GMT
Out of curiosity ~~ Deyana, you never had S'mores before? You know, I don't think I ever have. I just liked the way the roasted marshmallows tasted, in combination with the graham crackers and chocolate. I have a very sweet tooth. Another reason why I need to work out so much ;D |
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2009 20:07:59 GMT
I wondered, because it's a treat that's been around forever. I think I learned about it in Brownies or Girl Scouts. There is a whole Wikipedia entry about it, which contains this:
While the origin of this popular campfire dessert is unclear, the first recorded version of the recipe can be found in the Girl Scout Handbook of 1927.[3] The recipe is credited to Loretta Scott Crew, who reportedly made them by the campfire for the scouts.
Didn't know there'd been s'mores for over 80 years!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 22, 2009 20:17:06 GMT
I have never heard of s'mores.
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Post by bixaorellana on Aug 22, 2009 21:59:07 GMT
Maybe you had them and didn't know what they were called. Much as I hate marshmallows and anything marmallowy, I like s'mores. There's just something about setting your food on fire .................. whatscookingamerica.net/Cookie/Smores/Smores.htm |
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Post by Deleted on Aug 23, 2009 15:51:31 GMT
Nope, I have never eaten such a thing.
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Post by traveler63 on Aug 23, 2009 20:01:28 GMT
I forgot to finish my previous post. My fourth was chocolate and it probably should be #1.  Oh, Smores!!!!!!! Started those when I was a Brownie and then a Girl Scout. I think they are the #1 dessert for campers. You can make them gourmet by using different chocolates. However, the original chocolate was Hershey's. |
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Post by lagatta on Aug 24, 2009 0:36:36 GMT
I saw some sacks of meta-junk the other day. Some kind of crisps or extruded salty snack in flavours reminiscent of Burger King. Think one was a burger, the other onion rings or summin. No, I did not buy a bag.
I haven't had smores either, but I confess fritons de canard tempt me more. No, not planning on eating any soon.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 8, 2017 14:16:28 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Jun 9, 2017 6:29:24 GMT
My fav junk food is a Mitraillette (yes sub machine gun).
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Post by lagatta on Jun 9, 2017 8:10:53 GMT
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Post by whatagain on Jun 9, 2017 17:15:53 GMT
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Post by lagatta on Jun 10, 2017 12:40:10 GMT
Then there is the (in)famous friet oorlog... in the Netherlands and Belgium. I was looking at the menu passing by a local friet stand and said "War fries?" WTF is that?  My Dutch is fairly rudimentary but I'd been to the Amsterdam Resistance Museum. Oorlog stuck in my brain as it is utterly different from either the German or English words for war. |
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Post by whatagain on Jun 10, 2017 18:03:53 GMT
Yes. But I've never heard of a 'friet oorlog' - will have to google it. Anyway, no reason to have a war. The best fries are belgian. Full stop. Beer : Belgium Fries : Belgium Wine : France Cheese : France Whisky : Scotland Champagne : France Hamburgers : US Vodka : Poland Sangria : Spain Paella : Spain Grappa : Italy Ham : Spain Sauekraut : Germany Curry Wurst : Germany Couscous : Algeria Cigars : Cuba What else ? Where does NL fit in ? Tulips ? I doesn't get drunk or eaten - maybe smoked.. And : best woman : Belgium - and I married her. |
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 10, 2017 20:08:10 GMT
Yes Lagatta. Bread, sauce, meat, fries, more sauce. Turkish/Greek kebab sandwiches are also full of frites, at least in France. |
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Post by whatagain on Jun 10, 2017 20:21:27 GMT
I would not call Kebap junk food - at least not in Turkey.
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 10, 2017 20:28:07 GMT
It is the #1 junk food in France, well ahead of the famous hamburger chains. And it certainly isn't good for you.
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 10, 2017 20:29:53 GMT
Grilled meat and salad? Isn't that good for you?
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 10, 2017 20:38:02 GMT
Wouldn't we like to believe that! Meat laced with a ton of fat... (The grilled fat is what makes it taste so delicious!)
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Post by mickthecactus on Jun 10, 2017 20:43:21 GMT
I have kofta not doner.
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Post by bixaorellana on Jun 11, 2017 21:05:11 GMT
I went into a Nepalese restaurant the other day & ordered a beer while I waited for food to take away. The beer came with some kind of very pale mystery puffed flat things. I tried one and instantly decided I never had to do that again.
When I got home with my order, I found that they'd generously included a fresh hot batch of the flat things. I tried one to see if freshness improved it and also to try to figure out if it actually had a flavor. It was vaguely fishy. Are these the famous "prawn crisps" one reads about people from this odd little isle eating?
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Post by lagatta on Jun 11, 2017 21:43:28 GMT
Champagne by law can only be made in Champagne, in northeastern France. So it isn't a matter of the "best" Champagne. There are other excellent sparking wines nowadays though.
Hmm I'd say France has the largest range of good to great wines. There are top-flight wines in quite a few wine-producing countries.
The same applies to cheeses, as France has cool-climate and hot-climate cheeses. There are wonderful British cheeses, for example, but they are the cooler-climate types. I lived in Italy for some time, and they have wonderful cheeses as well, but not many "runny" ones.
My Moroccan friends would challenge "best couscous" in Algeria, but the main difference is that Morocco has so many different tagines... their cuisine seems to be more varied than Algerian cuisine.
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Post by rikita on Jun 26, 2017 15:35:52 GMT
well i haven't had algerian couscous, but the ones i had in morocco were pretty good. as were most tagines. and pastilla, i liked pastilla. but all that does not really fit the junk food thread ...
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Post by kerouac2 on Jun 27, 2017 12:38:44 GMT
Those would be popadums. They do indeed take come getting used to, but I rather like the pepper version compared to the plain kind.
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Post by onlyMark on Jun 27, 2017 13:26:08 GMT
I bet Bixa means prawn crackers, and they are made mostly out of cassava.
I doubt they were popadums/papadums/papads. Only she can tell us.
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Post by kerouac2 on Oct 13, 2021 18:04:55 GMT
I must have been deprived of junk food for an excessive period of time because just about all of this looks good to me.
I actually had fried Snickers in Dallas, delivered to the motel room where I was staying with my mother before hauling her to France to die.
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Post by lagatta on Nov 1, 2021 16:23:43 GMT
Prawn crackers are very popular in the Netherlands, an adaptation of a snack that was originally Indonesian - Questa should remember which island.
They are the kind of junk I like as I rarely like sweets; they are salty, seafoody and fried in oil.
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