Odd foods on the festive menu.

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Last night we were invited to a friends house for a drink or two( which ended up considerably more than 2), his wife laid on a buffet spread for us and whilst loading my plate with the usual sausage rolls, picled onions and crisps I rolled my eyes across some culinary delights that we rarely see, pickled walnuts, hazlett, German sauasages,cheeses that would strip paint off door frames and a mushroomy thingy that I would be confident in saying that had some been ingested, halucinations would surely follow. Makes you think what other oddities are on a supermarket shelf this time of year.
 
Sounds good too me. They must shop at Aldi :)
 
In France they like a nice cock for dinner, this is a preferred meat. Before I moved to France I had never heard of eating cock, as being true British it was always chicken or turkey for me but I can say it's not too different except the price. France is the place for culinary delights.
 
Nothing at all odd or seasonal about hazlet.
Available all year round and a regular in my work lunch buttie.
 
Graham said:
In France they like a nice cock for dinner, this is a preferred meat. Before I moved to France I had never heard of eating cock, as being true British it was always chicken or turkey for me but I can say it's not too different except the price. France is the place for culinary delights.
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I should be old enough to NOT chuckle like an idiot at that :D :P
 
mex said:
Last night we were invited to a friends house for a drink or two( which ended up considerably more than 2), his wife laid on a buffet spread for us and whilst loading my plate with the usual sausage rolls, picled onions and crisps I rolled my eyes across some culinary delights that we rarely see, pickled walnuts, hazlett, German sauasages,cheeses that would strip paint off door frames and a mushroomy thingy that I would be confident in saying that had some been ingested, halucinations would surely follow. Makes you think what other oddities are on a supermarket shelf this time of year.
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My father used to like pickled walnuts, they're obviously pickled before the shell forms. Not necessarily Christmassy fare but my parents used to like eating things like 'sweetbreads' and 'chitterlings', two examples of offal that you won't catch me eating and I guess most people have possibly not heard of them.
One of my favourite things on Boxing Day that was traditional in my parents house was serving 'bubble and squeak' with cold meat. Definitions seem to vary, but my mother used to mix leftover sprouts and potatoes with some gravy and fry it, delicious!
 
Graham said:
In France they like a nice cock for dinner, this is a preferred meat. Before I moved to France I had never heard of eating cock, as being true British it was always chicken or turkey for me but I can say it's not too different except the price. France is the place for culinary delights.
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Nothing *really* odd here, but it's nice to do something different: Greek-style lamb with sweet potatoes in smoked paprika, carrots glazed with honey & coriander and lemon-cooked miniature potatoes.

My sole eating of foods that should never be, was an andouillette in Bordeaux - trust the French to final a use for the stuff too bad to even put in pet food. ;)
 
Cartus said:
.........'bubble and squeak' with cold meat. Definitions seem to vary, but my mother used to mix leftover sprouts and potatoes with some gravy and fry it, delicious!
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Exactly what's for tea here tonight!
 
And duvet fodder in the morning!!!
 
viv1969 said:
Nothing at all odd or seasonal about hazlet.
Available all year round and a regular in my work lunch buttie.
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Ooo thats just reminded me, I've not had that in a very long time.
I just have to go get some now :)
 
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