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Originally Posted by poohbear_nc
Some kind of processed meat sandwich ... probably don't want to know what it was ....
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It's probably best not to ask... We don't ask what food is until AFTER we eat. There are just waaay too many really strange things eaten on this side of the world. But we figure, people wouldn't eat them if they taste bad, right? Well, that works about 95% of the time. Some stuff we've eaten can really make you gag...
Social convention in the West says it's impolite to spit out something once it's in your mouth. But in Asia, a lot of things are added to dishes that aren't meant to be eaten. They are just there for the flavor and you MUST spit them out rather than try to chew them. Galangal is like a slice of wood, lemongrass is like a stalk of bamboo, Kaffir Lime leaves are like, well, leaves. We won't even talk about all the small bones one finds in a chicken dish. In the West we de-bone, in Asia we just chop 'em up...
No sense wasting all that good meat found on an animals face... blow it off with a high pressure water jet, mix it with some meat from the tail, neck, etc., etc., chop it all up, add some spices, and you have "lunch meat!" If they used better spices and some herbs, it could actually taste good. Certainly better than BBQd rat-on-a-stick.
Stitchawl