Food Post!
Apr. 6th, 2012 10:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mark_asphodelI'm a happy omnivore, but I draw the line at some categories of critter.
1) Toxic. Cats count as toxic.
2) Endangered species.
3) Close genetic relatives of humans. See also "toxic," above.
4) Smarter than my army of semi-domesticated backyard squirrels, which is to say, pretty alarmingly smart.
That last category encompasses corvids (crows, jays, ravens) and parrots in addition to the great apes, whales, and monkeys already covered under #2 and #3. Also, pigs, though I fail on that one a lot. Category #4 also covers octopi. So it was with some dismay that I discovered that my soup at the sushi place tonight, a hearty seafood soondubu, contained delicate little octopi the size and shape of hyacinth blossom, their recurved arms dotted with tiny suction cups.
:/
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Last night I attended a dinner party in Flint. The main course was a chicken baked in a shell made of nine pounds of kosher salt. Pretty darned good, not to mention a real conversation piece; I should try that with potatoes some time.
1) Toxic. Cats count as toxic.
2) Endangered species.
3) Close genetic relatives of humans. See also "toxic," above.
4) Smarter than my army of semi-domesticated backyard squirrels, which is to say, pretty alarmingly smart.
That last category encompasses corvids (crows, jays, ravens) and parrots in addition to the great apes, whales, and monkeys already covered under #2 and #3. Also, pigs, though I fail on that one a lot. Category #4 also covers octopi. So it was with some dismay that I discovered that my soup at the sushi place tonight, a hearty seafood soondubu, contained delicate little octopi the size and shape of hyacinth blossom, their recurved arms dotted with tiny suction cups.
:/
-x-
Last night I attended a dinner party in Flint. The main course was a chicken baked in a shell made of nine pounds of kosher salt. Pretty darned good, not to mention a real conversation piece; I should try that with potatoes some time.
