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Post by DE Sinclair on Aug 13, 2014 15:32:37 GMT -5
Many areas have Scottish festivals, sometimes called Highland Games, where you can sample Scottish food, music, sports, etc. Though a large part of my ancestry is Scottish, I've never been to Scotland, but I've had haggis. Not bad, somewhat similar in taste to liverwurst. My daughter is nearly obsessed with it. Our local megamart, Woodmans, also carries it frozen at about $12.50 a pound. As to the Scottish being adverse to eating healthy, we do seem to be genetically predisposed to deep frying things. After all Scotland is the country who invented deep frying candy bars. I've told my daughter it's just God's way of making sure we don't take over the world. We're either too content with bellies full of fried food & haggis, or we die early from heart disease. Either way, the world is safe. I could probably do some research and find if there is a festival or restaurant that has Scottish cuisine, I just haven't done it. I did however find that I liked Indian food from a booth at a renaissance fair held her once a year. I'm really afraid to get a bad first impression of it if it isn't done by someone who knows how to cook it, you know, someone Scottish. I feel it might be like tripe or chitlins, if it's not right it can be very bad. I would eat haggis, even canned (yes, you can get it in cans) all day long rather than either of those. And this may not go over well with our Southern friends like Dan, but I can't stand grits either. Avoided them like the plague when I lived down south. Thank God I never encountered banana grits.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 16:11:37 GMT -5
For some reason a digital subscription to Back Issue is $200 on their app but about 1/10 of that on their site.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 16:37:29 GMT -5
I could probably do some research and find if there is a festival or restaurant that has Scottish cuisine, I just haven't done it. I did however find that I liked Indian food from a booth at a renaissance fair held her once a year. I'm really afraid to get a bad first impression of it if it isn't done by someone who knows how to cook it, you know, someone Scottish. I feel it might be like tripe or chitlins, if it's not right it can be very bad. I would eat haggis, even canned (yes, you can get it in cans) all day long rather than either of those. And this may not go over well with our Southern friends like Dan, but I can't stand grits either. Avoided them like the plague when I lived down south. Thank God I never encountered banana grits. Not a particular fan of grits, really, but I don't mind them or anything; they'd just never be one of my choices for breakfast (or any other meal). Shrimp & grits are quite good, though. So are grits with cheese & garlic ... but then cheese & garlic probably improves just about anything. Well, maybe not bananas.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 16:46:18 GMT -5
Grits are real good.
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Post by Cei-U! on Aug 13, 2014 16:46:56 GMT -5
Well, the antibiotic they prescribed failed to knock down the infection so tomorrow it's back to the doctor and another round of will-they-hospitalize-me-or not. I'm hoping not but if I disappear for a day or two that's likely why.
Cei-U! Curses! Foiled again!
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 17:07:43 GMT -5
Well, hell. Sorry to hear that, Kurt.
If it's any consolation (in a misery-loves-company kind of way, of course), a Crohn's flare-up had me pretty miserable Monday & Tuesday -- first time that's happened on consecutive days in I don't know how long ... quite possibly not since the '90s. It's laying rather low today, but it's not completely gone.
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Post by Rob Allen on Aug 13, 2014 17:36:17 GMT -5
Good luck with Round 2, Kurt!
And Dan, have you ever found any slippery elm powder? I know we talked about it long ago, on CBR.
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Post by Jesse on Aug 13, 2014 18:27:56 GMT -5
Has Proboards stopped sending out daily email notices? I haven't received any in awhile. I still get the you've been quoted emails though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 19:12:06 GMT -5
I still get daily emails
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Post by dupersuper on Aug 13, 2014 21:35:05 GMT -5
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Post by Deleted on Aug 13, 2014 22:21:34 GMT -5
-M
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 13, 2014 23:16:09 GMT -5
Kurt, good luck, buddy.
Dan, good that you're knowledgeable about the family pre-disposition. Knowledge is a huge plus to have on your side.
Pip, glad your review went well. My oldest daughter just graduated with her Master's and will be practicing soon.
Didn't think I'd like grits, growing up most of my life in Iowa and Nebraska, but my wife makes a wicked good breakfast casserole with cheese grits and sausage. In fact, she took it up North on a visit one time to my family and they devoured it. I've also grown to enjoy corn bread, okra and black-eyed peas.
My wife follows all this celebrity news pretty closely, and I guess he was having a very hard time with his third marriage and had just come out of rehab again. Despite all the fame and success, it's hard for regular people like us to really understand.
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Post by hondobrode on Aug 13, 2014 23:35:30 GMT -5
Susan and I went to an employment attorney today and moving ahead with suing my ex-employer for terminating me on the grounds of missing too much work without acknowledging it was 90% due to my kidneystone and triple fusion surgery. They also failed to address FMLA (Family Medical Leave Act) and refused to work with me after I nearly tripled their sales in a year.
Going to focus my marketing on becoming a sales manager, something I've avoided in the past as I just wanted to be responsible for my own actions and not having to babysit others, but now feel I'm ready for.
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Post by zryson on Aug 13, 2014 23:36:06 GMT -5
Having a nice quiet day (the kind I love!)
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Aug 14, 2014 9:27:47 GMT -5
I watched AVP Requiem last night. We'll kind of. I was reading at the same time, but I didn't seem to miss much. Quite a disappointment from AVP, which I thoroughly enjoyed, which seems to be a minority opinion. There were enjoyable parts but I think the desire to 1-up AVP in violence was the only reason the movie was made. As if he fault of AVP was it not being rated R. I would have liked a better focus on the alien/predator hybrid than people getting killed in grotesque ways. But hey I didn't have a whole lot of expectations.
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