Regional foods

[grommet]

Not really. Deer around me are very wary about houses. I have an unfenced garden near the house and no critters have ever bothered it. My friends who live near Traverse City where deer are not hunted have them coming into their yards and munching on vegetation unmolested.

Where I grew up mule deer would come into the neighborhood and eat the flowers and from the gardens. There was no hunting there.

 

[grommet]

NOBODY wants prions. Remember to never eat the brains of your dead relatives.

I used to eat cow brains but then they made it illegal where I am. I did not think they were very good but they were okay.

 

[grommet]

Could well be given the tall ears. We have both desert cottontail rabbits and hares in the same ecosystem, just outside my apartment. Also squirrels, quail, owls, an occasional coyote and lots of great basin collared lizards that at times seem indifferent to humans. Though California king snakes and more elusive rattlesnakes tend to stay away from us two-legged folks.

Where I grew up we had lots of snakes, mostly rattlesnakes but also Garter. So many kinds go animals. Possums, skunks, rats, mice, rabbits, more snakes. Lots of birds too. We had turkey vultures and Red-tailed which I loved watching when I was a kid. Everything stayed away when the hawks were around but we also had a mated pair of Golden eagles.

It was always noisy and busy in the valley behind our house. It never stopped. But sometimes it would feel weird and I did not know why. Then I would realize there was no sound. I looked and nothing was flying. On the telephone lines all the birds were sitting. The Golden eagles were up. Everything landed when they were flying. Even the Red-tailed hawks. It was like the Twilight Zone out there, you could not hear anything.

 

[Judge]

Where I grew up we had lots of snakes, mostly rattlesnakes but also Gardner. So many kinds go animals. Possums, skunks, rats, mice, rabbits, more snakes. Lots of birds too. We had turkey vultures and Red-tailed which I loved watching when I was a kid. Everything stayed away when the hawks were around but we also had a mated pair of Golden eagles.

It was always noisy and busy in the valley behind our house. It never stopped. But sometimes it would feel weird and I did not know why. Then I would realize there was no sound. I looked and nothing was flying. On the telephone lines all the birds were sitting. The Golden eagles were up. Everything landed when they were flying. Even the Red-tailed hawks. It was like the Twilight Zone out there, you could not hear anything.

Snakes. Oh my...one of the things I recalled as a kid living briefly in the Pacific Northwest. So many non-poisonous snakes compared to Virginia.

 

[grommet]

Snakes. Oh my...one of the things I recalled as a kid living briefly in the Pacific Northwest. So many non-poisonous snakes compared to Virginia.

Did you know the poisonous ones from the ones that were not? We only had rattlesnakes, everything else was not venomous as far as I know. The Garter snakes were fun, I could pick them up. I was afraid of the rattlesnakes, I did not know how to handle them. We also had gopher snakes and some others, I was afraid of them.

 

[Judge]

Did you know the poisonous ones from the ones that were not?

Not when living in Washington. But then I never encountered any poisonous species there. Mostly just scary numbers of garter snakes. Even more going through Western Oregon.

But in Virginia all the kids in the neighborhood knew a poisonous snake by noticing the eyes. Lots of cottonmouths there, especially in the southern part of the state.

 

[JayLapointe]

We have the entire range in Aus. Pronounced "donair" but spelled Doner Kebab is the eastern Mediterranean version, Turkiye, Syria, Lebanon, etc. In Greece it's called a Yiros. Move a little further west and in regions around Hungary it's known as a Souvlaki.

They're all basically the same thing but with different meats and slight variations in the sauces and flavours.

Yeah nowadays folks are a little more sophisticated in their palate and we've got the full range as well in the bigger Cities. Not in my small town. Cumin is still exotic where I'm at, jk. But our donair, and the sauce in particular is 100% unique to our region.

 

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Yeah nowadays folks are a little more sophisticated in their palate and we've got the full range as well in the bigger Cities. Not in my small town. Cumin is still exotic where I'm at, jk. But our donair, and the sauce in particular is 100% unique to our region.

We did a similar thing here with what we call the Halal Snack Pack, or HSP. Started in the kebab shops, it's hot chips (not fries, actual chips) topped with cheese, kebab meat and garlic barbecue and chilli sauces.

Unique to Australia, apparently.
Tasty and cheap though.

 

[grommet]

We did a similar thing here with what we call the Halal Snack Pack, or HSP. Started in the kebab shops, it's hot chips (not fries, actual chips) topped with cheese, kebab meat and garlic barbecue and chilli sauces.

Unique to Australia, apparently.
Tasty and cheap though.

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That looks incredibly good.

 

[WhitewaterWoman]

Where I grew up we had lots of snakes, mostly rattlesnakes but also Garter. So many kinds go animals. Possums, skunks, rats, mice, rabbits, more snakes. Lots of birds too. We had turkey vultures and Red-tailed which I loved watching when I was a kid. Everything stayed away when the hawks were around but we also had a mated pair of Golden eagles.

It was always noisy and busy in the valley behind our house. It never stopped. But sometimes it would feel weird and I did not know why. Then I would realize there was no sound. I looked and nothing was flying. On the telephone lines all the birds were sitting. The Golden eagles were up. Everything landed when they were flying. Even the Red-tailed hawks. It was like the Twilight Zone out there, you could not hear anything.

If you don’t mind saying, where did you grow up? A pair of golden eagles. That must have been something.

 

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That looks incredibly good.

 

[grommet]

I do not recognize his accent. I wonder if he lived in several places when he was young.

I thought he would like the food more. It looks so good to me I think I would eat all of it at once and be so full.

 

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I do not recognize his accent. I wonder if he lived in several places when he was young.

I'm not sure where he's from but he's also done videos in China and he's currently in England. He got quite a following here, he always seems so nice and polite.