On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 19:54:10 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:57:17 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:46:13 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:05:59 -0700, Jim Thompson
wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 17:03:43 -0500, flipper wrote:

On Wed, 27 Jun 2012 07:11:04 -0700, John Larkin
wrote:

On Tue, 26 Jun 2012 19:00:00 -0700, "Artemus"
wrote:

A post in SED refers to this.
Originally published on Feb 1,1988.
Art




Squid burgers sound pretty good to me. I made a fried abalone burger
once and it was really good.

1988? Give it time.

The cartoon may be more a testament to 'marketing'.

Maybe you don't market "squid burgers" to the squeamish U.S. but,
instead, sell "Calamari Burgers."

http://www.katysplacecarmel.com/calamari.html

Calamari Jack Burger
The most popular Burger at Katy's with:
Gourmet Calamari filet, lightly breaded and grilled with Jack cheese,
tartar sauce
$14.95

Squid, or Calamari, is rather popular in many parts of the world.

Yep. I have calamari in some form or another probably once a week.

I used to be able to get abalone, but it seems to have vanished,
victim of endangered species restrictions.

Got to admit, though, squid neither sounds nor looks all that great to
eat

I also often joke that the first 'caveman' to eat lobster must have
been very, very, very, hungry to imagine that nasty bug looking thing
was edible.

...Jim Thompson

I think the first American's to eat lobster were prisoners in New
England.

Lobster being 'poor man's food' is a very popular story, along with it
being salmon, but culinary historians dispute it's validity because
there aren't any records to that effect. It seems to be a 'nostalgic'
story invented in the 19'th century when lobster and salmon were
becoming more scarce. You know, like the modern nostalgia of "I
remember when gasoline was 25 cents a gallon," etc. (While
'technically true' the problem with the later is it doesn't equate the
purchasing power of 25 cents 'back then' with current value.)


I have a pot big enough to boil 6 at a time, on the side burner on my
barbie... on the left side in this photo...

http://www.analog-innovations.com/SED/bbq.jpg

Domed covers on the right are warmers that I made from Sam's Club
stand warmers (the "canned heat" variety). I cut up the stand to
frame an opening in the counter and added propane burners
underneath... so potent I can boil water in the reservoirs... I need
to throttle those down some ;-)

Pretty impressive!


...Jim Thompson

But I DO remember when gasoline was 19 cents/gallon ;-)

Bought it in Boston when I was a student at MIT.

And I can also remember a Cadillac pulling up beside my Renault
Dauphine and the driver saying, "Sonny. What's that car going to be
when it grows up?"

...Jim Thompson
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