On 10/29/2010 8:26 PM, Michael O'Connor wrote:
> On Oct 29, 7:52 pm, > wrote:
>> On 10/29/2010 3:55 PM, Kate Connally wrote:
>>
>>> Well, that might be putting it a tad strongly in some cases.
>>
>>> 1.Beef on Weck - Rare roast beef and horseradish on a caraway-flecked
>>> kummelweck roll. From Western New York.
>>
>>> Love rare roast beef. Don't like horseradish. Hate caraway.
>>
>> I'd eat this right now. I'll take your share.
>
> I tried a Beef on Weck when I visited Buffalo about 20 years ago; next
> to Buffalo Wings it is the second most famous food dish synonymous
> with Buffalo as you can get a Beef on Weck just about anywhere in
> Buffalo. I like horseradish in small doses; when I make Beef on Weck
> at home (with shaved Prime Rib) I prepare a horseradish sauce with
> sour cream to cut the taste somewhat. I also can't get Weck rolls in
> South Carolina so I have to improvise and make my own using Kaiser
> rolls and using some cornstarch and water and brushing the tops of the
> rolls and scattering carraway seeds on top.
>
>>> 2.Caviar Sandwich - Caviar, cream cheese or sour cream, and grated onion
>>> on rye bread. Eaten through Scandinavia and in Russia and Eastern Europe.
>>
>>> Wouldn't touch raw fish eggs (or raw seafood of any sort for that
>>> matter) with a 100-foot pole. Hate rye bread. I'll take the cream
>>> cheese though.
>>
>> Sounds too gooey for me.
>
> I can't eat raw fish either; the thought of eating sushi would make me
> puke. I did try caviar once while on a cruise ship; didn't care for
> it and if it weren't free I never would have tried it

Yeah, I tasted caviar once - nearly made me puke. It tastes like way
too salty rotten fish and the texture is disgusting.

>>> 3.Cream Cheese with Lox - Cream cheese and smoked salmon server either
>>> in a bagel or on rye or whole meal bread. Jewish-American deli food.
>>
>>> See above. Now real smoked salmon and cream cheese would be good
>>> on a bagel. Hold the rye.
> .
>> I've always wanted to try this but not sure about smoked salmon. I've
>> only had it once, on a cruise ship. It was yummy but I found myself
>> tasting it for hours after.

I love hot-smoked salmon - the kind that is smoked over a fire and is
therefore cooked! Lox and the other kind of cold-smoked salmon is
basically raw fish, which has a disgusting texture.

> Cream Cheese and Lox is delicious; only had it a couple times.
>
>>> 4.Lampredotto - Boiled tripe from 4th stomach served in crusty roll with
>>> salsa verde and red salsa picante. From Florence, Italy.
>>
>>> You're kidding, right? Tripe? I don't care which stomach it's
>>> from - it ain't going in my stomach.
>
> Unless it's something like cornbread or biscuits, I wouldn't eat
> anything the Beverly Hillbillies would eat, and that includes gizzards
> and innards.

As a kid I loved gizzards and used to fight my uncle for the turkey
gizzard at T-day dinner. Now I won't touch them. I like liver.
I used to eat calves liver a lot but haven't had it in years. And
the only way I like chicken livers is it rumaki or in pate. I don't
eat any other kinds of liver like pork liver, or any beef liver except
for calves liver. Oh, I do like goose liver pate. Yum.

>>> 5.Marmite Sandwich - Marmite yeast extract and butter on bread. British
>>> from 1902. Frequently made for children’s packed lunches and parties.
>>> Aussie version, Vegemite, from 1922.
>>
>>> Marmite, vegemite - it's all slimy, moldy stuff. Not happening.
>>
>> I'm with you on these two.
>
> Never tried it, but from what I have heard vegemite has a consistency
> and look reminiscent of something between Molasses and Motor Oil. I
> always enjoyed Men at Work (who referenced a Vegemite Sandwich in the
> song Down Under) but it was never enough to get me to try one. I think
> I would pass on this.
>
>>> 6.Muffaletta - A large round loaf, 10" in diameter, hollowed out and
>>> filled with many layers of olive salad (olives, cauliflower, celery,
>>> carrots, oil vinegar), cured meats (salami, mortadella, cappicola), and
>>> cheese (emmenthaler, provolone) and wrapped in waxed paper. From New
>>> Orleans, 1906.
>>
>>> Well, this actually sounds good except for the "olive salad". I guess
>>> if you leave that off it's not a muffaletta, huh? What about just the
>>> oil and vinegar? How about other *good-tasting* veggies - green
>>> peppers, tomatoes, cucumbers, etc.?
>>
>> Olive salad is a gift from heaven. This is my favorite sandwich in the
>> world.
>>
>
> I don't like Olives; never liked them, can't stand anything with
> olives in it. This might be good if you remove the olive salad and
> put on more sub-type veggies like the aforementioned onions and
> lettuce and tomato.
>
>>> 7.Pastrami on Rye - Pastrami (cured brisket) on rye bread, cucumber
>>> pickles served on the side. Jewish-American food from mid-19th century.
>>
>>> Never cared for pastrami but could probably choke it down if it were
>>> on white bread. Hate rye!
>>
>> i'm sensing a theme.

What? That I don't care much for rye bread? I don't know what
would make you think that.

> I love Pastrami, which is similar in many ways to Corned Beef. The
> only way to eat it is on rye with Swiss Cheese and a spicy brown
> mustard. I have had Pastrami Reubens before, with kraut and either
> Russian Dressing or Thousand Island, which were very good. In the
> south they often serve a Reuben with mustard instead of dressing; I
> personally prefer dressing but it's all good.

Ew! I like mustard in certain things but in general I don't like
mustard in sandwiches. The only exception is the hot roast beef
sandwich. Probably because that's the way my mother always made them
when I was growing up. I don't know of anyone else who puts mustard
on a hot roast beef sandwich. She would put yellow mustard on one slice
of bread and then put the beef and the other slice on and then put them
on a baking sheet and bake them until they were nice and hot and the
bread was toasted. Then serve them drowned in her good homemade beef
gravy. Yum. Now I'm all hungry for one!

>>> 8.Peanut Butter and Jelly - Layer of peanut butter with layer of jelly
>>> (classically grape but strawberry also permissible) on white sandwich
>>> bread. A variant is the CJ (cream cheese and jelly). From USA.
>>
>>> Maybe I don't really hate this but I've never eaten one. Ever.
>>> I just didn't think it sounded good. I suppose I could choke one
>>> down if my life depended on it.
>>
> Never eaten a PB&J or a CJ? I have never tried a CJ, but if it were
> the right Jelly I think it would be tasty. I can't imagine somebody
> who has never eaten a PB&J, unless they had a peanut allergy or
> something.

Nope, never had a CJ either, although that sounds a lot better than
the PB&J. I may give it a try some day. And nope, no allergies.
I love peanuts. I love peanut butter. I love Thai and Indonesian
foods with the peanut sauce, and all that sort of stuff. And I think
a fluffernutter sounds really good.

Kate

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Kate Connally
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