Comments on: I’d answer your question

By: BrewfanGRB

BrewfanGRB — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 04:10:24 +0000

I knew him when I first saw and I realized it today…but someone beat me to it. Drat!

By: C

Fri, 10 Jul 2009 21:48:36 +0000

Jamie Dimon

By: I Like Peanut Butter

I Like Peanut Butter — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 14:30:23 +0000

Is that *gulp* or another sucking sound?!?!? Then it’d def be lost for enternity, I think the midget from Austin Powers is still stuck in there!!!

By: Eric-in-STL

Eric-in-STL — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 05:40:36 +0000

They had to stop interviewing Monica Lewinsky with those because she kept trying to deep throat them. You don’t want to know what Paris Hilton did with them. Let’s just say the reporter didn’t get it back. *gulp*

By: meglet

meglet — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 02:40:49 +0000

I thought they were the same? dunno

By: AAA

AAA — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 23:16:31 +0000

Jaime Dimon

By: Hurgh :I

Hurgh :I — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 20:45:18 +0000

Who still uses a mircophone like that? What is this, the Mexican news?

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:31:18 +0000

They do look similar, but it looks like the batter is different. Now, if they could use our sausages with their batter, man, that would be a winner!

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:27:49 +0000

They’re alot like the American Indians, including getting shafted by the government.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:23:28 +0000

No, don’t fry the egg first, but do make sure the yolk is broken. Then the egg gets poured over the top and you toss it in the oven.
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At least that’s the way it’s done here.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 19:19:58 +0000

Yep, the meat pies are very similar to pot pies, but much tastier and quite a bit smaller. What makes them different is the crust is a bit thicker, which makes it easier to pick up and eat.

By: Sud_Vicious

Sud_Vicious — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 17:33:37 +0000

That is Jamie Dimon, not Diamond.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:47:25 +0000

“marmite (less intense)”

British or Aussie Marmite?

By: AC

AC — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:46:20 +0000

Hmmm, very interesting, O all knowing one…
But I can’t say that: my friend’s family owns the chippie…

By: Emily

Emily — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 15:18:23 +0000

This is JP Morgan Chase CEO Jamie Diamond

By: dissimilitude

dissimilitude — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 14:14:53 +0000

Know what’s really awesome, though? Make a salad with a variety of baby greens, some mushrooms, a little crumbled blue cheese, dried cranberries, bacon, and sweet/spicy glazed pecans, then top it with a balsamic vinaigrette and a poached egg. Salad heaven.

By: meglet

meglet — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:10:16 +0000

marmite (less intense), promite (sweeter) are OK
Vegemite = too far

By: meglet

meglet — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:07:48 +0000

The thing that always amazes me is how self-sustained the aboriginal population were… they were nomadic and populated some of the most ‘uninhabitable’ parts of Aus

By: meglet

meglet — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 13:03:20 +0000

by the by, eddie, you should go to a local show/carnival/fair and get a pluto pup, basically the same thing
Or so wiki and my 1/2 yankee friend tell me…

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:05:20 +0000

I normally like my eggs sunny side up, but I thiink this idea calls for them easy over (like an egg roll, which is exactly what it sounds like)!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 12:01:17 +0000

Yes, fired separately and then placed on the pizza. I think what you’re doing is a baking technique.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:58:58 +0000

A good indication that your local chippies don’t keep the oil in the friers hot enough. If they did, the bread wouldn’t absorb that much fat because the surface would seal in the first few seconds.

By: The Steve

The Steve — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:58:47 +0000

Eggs are awesome, I don’t have any problem with slapping a fried egg on top of my burger, while you’re at it toss in some lettuce and tomato and you have a BLT with a cheeseburger in it. I bet that would be pretty good, but beets? WTF.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:24:50 +0000

Fried egg on pizza? As in fried in a pan then placed on the pizza?

I really like pizza with egg on, but it’s oven-cooked with the pizza then – gets a particular texture. Or maybe I mean surface. Very coagulated, at least.

By: AC

AC — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 11:17:57 +0000

I’ve never been able to eat deep-fried pizza. Watching people prepare to eat it by holding it vertical so that a river of grease runs out just puts me off.
A deep-fried favourite of my mother’s is ice-cream…

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:57:06 +0000

The key to pizza with a fried egg on it is to get a good pizza in the first place, then note that you will have to eat the pizza with knife and fork.

Not even vaguely Aussie; I was introduced to the idea about 20 years back by Michael Winner (yes the director. No I’ve never met him, but he used to write a food column in my Sunday paper).

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:51:19 +0000

Personally I’m not keen on the idea of beets or dill pickles on burgers, but then I don’t happen to like either of them in the first place. I’m fine with the idea of pickles made from something I do like, such as a proper (not most store-bought then) onion pickle, sweetcorn relish…

By: e

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:42:19 +0000

Dammit, it’s 3:30 am and I am wondering if I could whip up a quick meat pie… not that I know how to make one or anything…

I get envious when I read about people eating meat pies (usually in Pratchett, yes – they can keep the pea soup and ketchup, though) and though I’ve looked high and low, the closest I can find here is pot-pies, which are of course too drippy to eat as meat pies are described. I just know that I’m going to spend my life yearning for a meat pie and when I’m 87 and decrepit, I’ll finally get to try one, and it’ll be nasty, and I’ll die a bitter, broken soul.

I’m going to the NADWCON this year; I wonder if any vendors there will have meta pies? Maybe I can get to the “bitter broken soul” part before I leave 40…

By: e

Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:37:39 +0000

this has probably been said up there already, but an Australian friend of mine said that beets on burgers is the same concept as the American practice of pickles on burgers – something crunchy* and a bit tangy to add a bit to the meat/bread combination. She finds the notion of pickles on burgers as gross a I find the notion of beets on burgers, but apparently we’re actually doing the same thing.

*In theory. I’ve *heard* of crunchy pickles on burgers, but…

By: fw

fw — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 09:00:32 +0000

Ugh, the greatest mistake I ever made while visiting Australia was saying “yes” when asked if I wanted “the lot” on my cheeseburger. Seriously, I thought I’d get lettuce, onion. pickle…you know, the lot! Got all that AND beets and egg and all sorts of nasties. I died a little on the inside that day.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:04:19 +0000

That’s ok. Loving Marmite and/or Vegemite is fine, as long as you don’t expect me to eat them. Hating them is fine too. There’s something very suspicous about people who claim to be ambivolent about them though!

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 08:02:14 +0000

The transportation was a life sentence, but it was usually something like 10 years imprisonment, and then the rest of your life as a free colonist unless you got caught thieving againt.

By: paws4thot

paws4thot — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:59:04 +0000

Interesting thought; I do fusion, but I’m not sure how well guacamole and pickling vinegar would go together.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:10:05 +0000

Oh, and the guy who got sent for life for two socks…. /Sigh. England in those days, eh?

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:02:45 +0000

Brisbane and Norfolk are possibles, but I wouldn’t know off hand. I do know that Port Arthur in Tasmania was a pretty big prison.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 07:01:15 +0000

Sorry, yes it’s marmite.. I don’t know why I was calling it marmalite. Anyway, yuck.. if it’s like vegemite (which it sounds like it is), I’ll take a pass. I just can’t get used to the taste.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:59:37 +0000

I thought* it was Norfolk Island and then also Brisbane? Maybe you had three? You crazy people.

*) I blame Douglas Adams.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:54:29 +0000

I can imagine, lace was probably a bastard to make back then. Also, did you know that Australia had their own penal colony? It was on Tasmania and if you got sent there, you were one bad S.O.B.

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:49:40 +0000

I love Kiwi and Aussie accents, Eddie. Did you know in Australia, when England was using it as a prison, people were sent there for life for stealing “three yards of lace”?

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:47:05 +0000

I agree.. but to be honest, I don’t hear Aussie and American accents anymore. I work with a guy that’s American and it took me 10 minutes to realize he didn’t have an Aussie accent. I’m guessing that’s because most of the TV is American. I can tell the difference between an Aussie accent and a Kiwi now though..

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:45:07 +0000

I can relate to Mexican, I was raised on it. Plus lot’s of German food that I can’t possibly pronounce. But yeah, Mexican was #1 in our house and it was all homemade.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:42:47 +0000

Oh, and as for the type of meat, it’s usually steak or chicken. But there’s a lot of variations of each. You can steak & mushroom, steak & onion, steak & cheese, chicken & curry (which I detest), chicken & mushroom, etc, etc, etc.

By: eddiepscetti

eddiepscetti — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:40:22 +0000

I can honestly say I haven’t had a floater pie, but I’ve had lot’s of meat pies, they’re like a staple here. The conversation usually goes, “What do you want for lunch?” “Maccas (McD’s)?” “Nah.. how about KFC?” “Nah.. how ’bout a pie?” “Yeah, sounds good.. what kind do you want?” Then you have another 10 minutes of trying to decide. But, the key is you better be getting it by 12:30 or you won’t have much of a selection or they will be completely gone.
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@Meglets: The first time I had a 4&20 and I was hooked. Then I discovered that the pies from either Brumby’s or Baker’s Delight were HEAPS better. Now I go to the bakery around the corner.

By: Danbala

Danbala — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:29:07 +0000

Nope, that is not part of our food culture.

I actually didn’t deliberately eat the quacamole and the herring together, but they were certainly sharing the same plate (with Other Things(tm) as a barrier between them. ;p)

By: Tyler

Tyler — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:18:35 +0000

Plus the accents. Those are sexy.

By: Sud_Vicious

Sud_Vicious — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 06:08:26 +0000

mmmmmmmm Corn Dogs

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:51:25 +0000

You are correct!

Still, the first guy to eat it was definitely very, very hungry.

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:50:01 +0000

Sorry, I just threw up in my mouth a little bit.

Um, Finns and Swedes don’t eat Gefeltefisk, do they? ‘Cause that would be just wrong…

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:48:47 +0000

What kind of meat in the pie (drooling)?

By: PortlandMark

PortlandMark — Tue, 07 Jul 2009 05:47:40 +0000

I tried a fried Snickers bar last year at the Oregon State Fair; I was disappointed. It was just a big, gooey mess.

I use to work at a place that did fried cheesecake, though, and it was excellent: wrap the cheesecake filling in a flour tortilla and freeze it until it’s hard as a rock. Fry it until the tortilla is cooked; the cheesecake will be similar to ice cream at this point. Top it with dulce de leche, fried plantains, fried sugared tortilla strips, and hand whipped cream. It was so good I couldn’t sell it! Guests would start out excited, but by the time I was done describing it they’d say “No, no, I couldn’t possibly eat something that rich!”