2 posts tagged “cuisine”
Is there a website dedicated to grotesquely oversized treats or homemade versions of store bought junk? Yes! Thanks to Pimp That Snack, you can make your own Gummy Worm of Death, an enormous DIY Twix bar, or your own giant Cadbury-style creme egg.
Beware! Mysterious British treats and ingredients abound, and the recipes use a curious base 10 calculation system styled "metric". There is also an unhealthy obsession with jelly/jello based confections. I believe this is characteristic of the British though. They'll jelly anything much the same way that Scots and Americans will deep fry anything.
If you are moved to pimp your own snack, document it properly and post it to the site so the world can admire your culinary chops.
I can't decline any Latin verbs anymore - but the one thing from Latin class that I'll never forget is discovering that the Romans enjoyed dormice. As food!
Here is a recipe for pork-stuffed dormice and so much more.
The Romans also insisted on drowning almost everything they ate in garum, which is a fish sauce. While apparently okay-tasting, it was made by pickling any spare bits of fish and then letting them rot until liquified for a few months. There are still many modern cuisines (including Thai) in which fish sauce plays a very important role. However dormice have gone considerably out of style.
