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post #1 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:25pm
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Ever notice that some foods are probably not going to be served in thirty to forty years? I was reading a cookbook from the fifties the other day and the amount of gelatinized meat was truly revolting. Other staples probably headed down that road, for various reasons:

Salmon Soufflee
Liverwurst
Fried Gizzards
Chicken salad
Jello
Bananas
Sea Bass
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post #2 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:29pm
Bananas? Really? Why do you say that? I see a huge shelf of bananas every time I go to the grocery store. I've seen a lot of banana farms in South America. They are huge.

I actually like liverwurst, and it seemed pretty common in Germany last time I was there.

What is wrong with chicken salad?
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post #3 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:30pm
It's so hard to tell. I mean, look at what's coming back. Offal, charcuterie, oxtails, pig trotters, etc. Who would have thought?
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post #4 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:31pm
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Originally Posted by Piobaire View Post
It's so hard to tell. I mean, look at what's coming to pretentious food snobs in America. Offal, charcuterie, oxtails, pig trotters, etc. Who would have thought?

FTFY

Liverwurst, bananas, and sea bass aren't going anywhere. Salmon souffle sounds seriously sickening.
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post #5 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:32pm
I was reading an article a year or so ago about how bananas are likely going extinct before too long. Not sure whether the facts were exaggerated, but I'd hate to someday be without them.

Same goes for sea bass, though I eat that less frequently than bananas. Is there an overfishing problem there?

Not sure why we'd lost chicken salad. Can you elaborate?
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post #6 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:32pm
But I made a liverwurst sandwich for lunch. It was delicious.
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post #7 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:33pm
Terrapin. Read descriptions of banquets from the 1890s through the 1920s.

By the same token, things like possum, squirrel and other varmints that used to be eaten without eyebrows raised are also just about extinct as foodstuffs in the US.
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post #8 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:33pm
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FTFY

Yep, I priced oxtails about a week ago. Ridiculously expensive. The shank slices for osso bucco were cheaper and meatier.
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post #9 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:34pm
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I was reading an article a year or so ago about how bananas are likely going extinct before too long. Not sure whether the facts were exaggerated, but I'd hate to someday be without them.

Same goes for sea bass, though I eat that less frequently than bananas. Is there an overfishing problem there?

Not sure why we'd lost chicken salad. Can you elaborate?

I'm really curious about the bananas now. Does anyone have a link about this?
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post #10 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:35pm
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I'm really curious about the bananas now. Does anyone have a link about this?

http://www.snopes.com/food/warnings/bananas.asp
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post #11 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:36pm
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Yep, I priced oxtails about a week ago. Ridiculously expensive. The shank slices for osso bucco were cheaper and meatier.

Why is this guy familiar already?

Why, nothing pretentious about peasant food. In fact, quite the opposite.
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post #12 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:37pm
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Why is this guy familiar already?

Why, nothing pretentious about peasant food. In fact, quite the opposite.

I think he meant the "coming back" part was for the pretentious, as it shouldn't have ever "left" in the first place.
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post #13 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:38pm
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Originally Posted by why View Post
FTFY

Liverwurst, bananas, and sea bass aren't going anywhere. Salmon souffle sounds seriously sickening.
Do you mean that some of us have always eaten them, or that nobody but food snobs in America would want to? My guess is the first.
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post #14 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:40pm
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Why, nothing pretentious about peasant food. In fact, quite the opposite.

Please. I saw head cheese at Dean and Deluca for $17.00/lb. My grandmother could get 10 pig heads for the price of a single pound of that stuff.

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Do you mean that some of us have always eaten them, or that nobody but food snobs in America would want to? My guess is the first.

Yes, the former.
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post #15 of 122
1/31/10 at 10:40pm
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I think he meant the "coming back" part was for the pretentious, as it shouldn't have ever "left" in the first place.

I have a long theory about that. Think I went over it before. The Reader's Digest version is, it takes two things to make peasant food taste good:

1) Skill
2) Time

Modern society affords most people small chance to have the right combination of those two things, hence, it has become mainly the purview of true food lovers and better eateries. Just a theory.
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