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I always thought it tasted like someone put thier cigerette out in it.

Do you really WANT a burger medium rare from a joint like this?

Sounds like a one way ticket to pinworm amongst a whole host of others.

Potted meat food product.

In Israel the primary usage I was exposed to was it's steeped in olive olis and the bread is dipped in the oil that it's plavored with as part of the mezzehs you'd get with a meal.. Somtimes it was lightly sprinkled on top of the strained yogurt (labneh).

A little goes a long way. I still have some I picked up in Jerusalem a few years back.

What's to dig into? Buy the ticket and take the ride, I did. Cambodia, all of SE Asia , Vietnam, you can get a visa at the Vientien AP same with Cambodia.

Why the guilt? Go spend your tourist dollars there instead of Europe or the Caribeean for a change.

Sheesh!

Cooking the heck out of pork...especially nowadays when a case of Trichnosis would actually be a case study for most inspection crews it's so rare.

And all those food things as a kid about not finishing your meal etc. In my household growing up there was nine of us and basically it was a "You snooze you lose, eat or be eaten (or your portion was!)" scenario so it just wasn't an issue.

And my kids knew that with this father (primary family cook day to day) there was NO sympathy and no need to tell them ever what the rules were, this is when and what we're eating and that's that... as far as thier mother was concerned though that was another thing entirely. She didn't (an only child dontcha know!) exactly share that line of thought so if they had thier hissy fit or played picky it was a game they played with her not moi!

I've only had it in Ethiopia at a few coffee rituals when invited into a few homes and the only concern or issue ever was making sure you were close to a bathroon;-)) There was just something a tad different in the way THAT coffee reacted to your gut.

That and the time thang some of those rituals were a couple of hours long!

Scrapple is actually called "Ponhaus" and should be nothing but pork trimmings (similar to the way ground beef is produced) and cornmeal.

May brother worked for a scrapple company and saw it production and always said "What's to fear from something that's been cooked a few times already before YOU fry it in a pan?" The only question is if you like it cut thick or thin? Some folks like it with ketchup or hot sauce I prefer just fresh ground black pepper.

I love all that stuff and recently just this summer an Amish market stand has opened up near work here once a week and I get to stock up every week now! Lately I've been buying their grass fed milk yogurt...and it aint lowfat that's for sure but it's so friggin good...that and whatever baked goods and produce catches my eye at any given time.

Have fun and don't be scared to try any of it. Scrapple rules my kids used to beg me for some when I made it just for my self and I would torture them and say "Nah this is for me you have your bacon!"

They're die hard now as young adults.

Funny, simon is a holier than thou hippy fighting against the "man".

All fast food is in reality is a food distribution concept. He doesn't drive a car either! He rides a horse, works out of the house and homeschools too, so the rest of you need to get with the "program" if you all want to live with the same amount of virtue.

Anyway who cares, free will and all, we all go around once and if a Big Mac floats your boat more power to you, don't let the "Self superior, pat themselves on the back" crowd get you down, if they choose to deprive themselves of all that life has to offer good or bad that's on them.

On a far more disturbing level to see the degree to which society and it's denizens get thrown for a loop by something so relativly benign as Salmonella throws into stark focus how utterly screwed the vast proportion of society will be if and when something truly worthy of concern (SARS, Avian flu, small pocks, MERSA, yet to be determined) comes rolling down the pike.

After spending as much time as I do in the 3rd world I have a little message for you all in light of this tomato incident. Start taking your vitamins and steeling up folks because if think this is bad you aint seen nothing yet, that or just take some comfort in the fact that at this point in the game there isn't a darm thing you can do because you're all doomed.

You all seriously disappoint me :-(

Hit them with something they'll never see coming, it's unique, takes the punch bowl to a whole new level (especially in a clandestine context!) turn that party upside down!

Stroh 80!

http://www.internetwines.com/struhrum160p.html

You can thank me later;-))

What will all those Lonely planeteers do now?

They'll go to Laos and smoke opium, or dissolve it in tea or go to Myanmar.

In Phnom Pen I remember there was something called *Space shuttle* which was vodka steeped with cannabis. A poor mans absinthe if you will.

How about the Black hat chef.

Boy was he awful but it was like watching a train wreck I couldn't turn away.

Graham Kerr , well done! Good memory, how about that English sot Floyd doing a local gig that Bourdain has lifted the Two fat ladies! Yes!

The irony is you folks love to grouse but you can't take your eyes away from that channel! There is so much better out there but you have to watch PBS instead. True some of PBS's stuff is horrid (MA Esposito? How do you say PB+J in Eyetalian?) and *Everyday food*? for a Prozac nation perhaps.

The bitterness heaped upon Ms. Lee is laughable, the only thing that would make you ladies detest her more and send her rating through the roof would be to put her in a bikini or less lol!