Et tu? Last night I had to listen to Zodi telling me about beer battered Lutefisk because of this story. Ugh. Makes me wonder if deep frying it would create a type of mustard gas.
I have never ...experienced... lutefisk. I am told that not experiencing it is a Good Thing (however there are times, like when jmaynard stinks up up the house with black-eyed peas, that I threaten to take him to St. James for the lutefisk buffet). I don't know what deep frying it would do, but I am reasonably sure that mixing it with sauerkraut would violate at least one arms treaty.
Hey!! Leave the sauerkraut out of this! Seriously, I don't even want to go there. Too late, I'm there and it's not pretty. There's no place like home, there's no place like home. Damn, it's not working.3
I think they call things like lutefisk with sauerkraut a "binary weapon." No, wait...the ingredients of a binary weapon aren't harmful until they're mixed, so this doesn't qualify.
(I type this despite actually liking sauerkraut...and what's this about black-eyed peas?)
I like black eyed peas--especially with **gasp** a ham bone.
My family makes sauerkraut from scratch. I can't tell you how many times I have found a crockpot of the stuff merrily bubbling away under a table covered with a long table cloth.
But mixing lye, alcohol, sulpher, and acid (from the kraut) sounds rather scary to me. Not to mention deep frying beer battered lutefisk is just....wrong.
I made a big pot of black-eyed peas this pasty New Year's Day, with a ham bone, an onion, a couple of dried peppers, and a few spices here and there. Quite yummy.
I don't eat black-eyed peas enough, due to vakkotaur's irrational belief in some strange smell they allegedly give off while cooking. He's going off to a furry con over the Memorial Day weekend, and I will have some while he's gone.
I've never noticed a smell, but people's senses are different. I swear I can taste growth hormone in milk and so I buy the milk labled with no growth hormone on it.
(There are differences in people's senses. There's some gene that determines the extent to which you can taste some chemical that's in asparagus (or is it Brussels sprouts?). Homozygous dominant can't taste it at all; heterozygous can taste it somewhat; homozygous recessive can taste it really well...and since it tastes nasty to those who can taste it, homozygous recessives don't care for the stuff at all. So moms, when your kids don't like asparagus (or whatever it is), there may be a reason...)
Isn't there something similar with cilantro (coriander)? Some folks think it's great and others complain that the dishes weren't properly rinsed as the food with it tastes like soap.
Ya, know. You and Zodi need to talk. He was also talking about that about a week ago. He told me it could indicate an allergy and I shouldn't eat it. (We were talking about how I like cilantro in very small amounts, but it tastes funny in larger amounts.
Black-eyed peas, when cooking, emit this this really reallyreally foul odor. This no mere stink like from gasoline or solvents or ammonia, but a creeping stench that I suspect could be used to clear out caves and bunkers. Evidently if a person is exposed to black-eyed pea fumes when young he (or she) gains some immunity and even might consider the smell pleasant. I am unsure if this real immunity or nerve damage. "That's the smell of home cookin'!" To which I reply, "One should not cook a home."
This first time Jay prepared some, they stank up the house. I sampled some and found them to taste as they smelled, and promptly threw my plateful or bowlful out the back door - and near threw the plate or bowl with them. This year he did it again and being in a structure with more than one level did not help. The odor filled the kitchen, oozed through the dining room and roiled into the living room. It also managed to creep its way upstairs so that level wasn't safe either. It even seeped into the basement where I was trying avoid it and then trying not to gag. If he does it next year I'll either try the attic (which has a fan) or go for a long drive.
I seldom burn incense, but after those stinky beans fumigate the house, I burn incense to clear the air and make the place smell, well, less unpleasant, at least. Frankincense and myrrh do seem reasonably effective at de-stenching, which is good since they're up against a stench of biblical magnitude.
Jay claims eating black-eyed peas on New Year's day bring good luck. I maintain this is the "start the day by eating a live toad" theory of luck. After an experience that horrific, the rest of the year can't help but be an improvement.
I am assuming this was meant not as a reply to me but to rillaspins since I have read it, and the bit about charismatic Lutheran cleric Pastor Duane Gunderson (http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2004/01/peace_elusive_i.html) as well. And I guess your journal is now friends-only or else you posted somewhere else as the last visible post was made in mid-April.
Ya, that's how it was supposed to have started, but there was all kinds of public ummm discontent(?) that started the actual church. It wasn't until I was an adult that I found out the "bad" side of Martin Luther. I guess the man was really something else.
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Date: 19 May 2005 14:26 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 May 2005 14:38 (UTC)I have never ...experienced... lutefisk. I am told that not experiencing it is a Good Thing (however there are times, like when![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
jmaynard stinks up up the house with black-eyed peas, that I threaten to take him to St. James for the lutefisk buffet). I don't know what deep frying it would do, but I am reasonably sure that mixing it with sauerkraut would violate at least one arms treaty.
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Date: 19 May 2005 14:40 (UTC)MMMM black eyed peas.
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Date: 19 May 2005 14:43 (UTC)*shudder*
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Date: 19 May 2005 15:29 (UTC)(I type this despite actually liking sauerkraut...and what's this about black-eyed peas?)
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Date: 19 May 2005 15:35 (UTC)My family makes sauerkraut from scratch. I can't tell you how many times I have found a crockpot of the stuff merrily bubbling away under a table covered with a long table cloth.
But mixing lye, alcohol, sulpher, and acid (from the kraut) sounds rather scary to me. Not to mention deep frying beer battered lutefisk is just....wrong.
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Date: 19 May 2005 16:22 (UTC)I don't eat black-eyed peas enough, due to
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Date: 19 May 2005 16:39 (UTC)Irrational nothing. That stuff would gag a gas chromatograph.
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Date: 19 May 2005 16:50 (UTC)Before.
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Date: 20 May 2005 04:33 (UTC)LOVE?!?
Who's been screwing with this thing!?"
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Date: 19 May 2005 16:47 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 May 2005 18:17 (UTC)(There are differences in people's senses. There's some gene that determines the extent to which you can taste some chemical that's in asparagus (or is it Brussels sprouts?). Homozygous dominant can't taste it at all; heterozygous can taste it somewhat; homozygous recessive can taste it really well...and since it tastes nasty to those who can taste it, homozygous recessives don't care for the stuff at all. So moms, when your kids don't like asparagus (or whatever it is), there may be a reason...)
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Date: 19 May 2005 18:27 (UTC)Isn't there something similar with cilantro (coriander)? Some folks think it's great and others complain that the dishes weren't properly rinsed as the food with it tastes like soap.
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Date: 19 May 2005 19:52 (UTC)no subject
Date: 20 May 2005 04:34 (UTC)(Actually, I've heard it's determined by genetics whether a person tastes it that way or not.)
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Date: 19 May 2005 19:22 (UTC)no subject
Date: 19 May 2005 15:53 (UTC)Black-eyed peas, when cooking, emit this this really really really foul odor. This no mere stink like from gasoline or solvents or ammonia, but a creeping stench that I suspect could be used to clear out caves and bunkers. Evidently if a person is exposed to black-eyed pea fumes when young he (or she) gains some immunity and even might consider the smell pleasant. I am unsure if this real immunity or nerve damage. "That's the smell of home cookin'!" To which I reply, "One should not cook a home."
This first time Jay prepared some, they stank up the house. I sampled some and found them to taste as they smelled, and promptly threw my plateful or bowlful out the back door - and near threw the plate or bowl with them. This year he did it again and being in a structure with more than one level did not help. The odor filled the kitchen, oozed through the dining room and roiled into the living room. It also managed to creep its way upstairs so that level wasn't safe either. It even seeped into the basement where I was trying avoid it and then trying not to gag. If he does it next year I'll either try the attic (which has a fan) or go for a long drive.
I seldom burn incense, but after those stinky beans fumigate the house, I burn incense to clear the air and make the place smell, well, less unpleasant, at least. Frankincense and myrrh do seem reasonably effective at de-stenching, which is good since they're up against a stench of biblical magnitude.
Jay claims eating black-eyed peas on New Year's day bring good luck. I maintain this is the "start the day by eating a live toad" theory of luck. After an experience that horrific, the rest of the year can't help but be an improvement.
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Date: 19 May 2005 15:43 (UTC)no subject
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Date: 19 May 2005 17:33 (UTC)I am assuming this was meant not as a reply to me but to![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
rillaspins since I have read it, and the bit about charismatic Lutheran cleric Pastor Duane Gunderson (http://iowahawk.typepad.com/iowahawk/2004/01/peace_elusive_i.html) as well. And I guess your journal is now friends-only or else you posted somewhere else as the last visible post was made in mid-April.
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Date: 19 May 2005 17:43 (UTC)yeah it went that way to avoid problems with ex wives and that sort ot thing
to much drama.
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