mmm, maple syrup..

But gravy. Life without gravy is not life. Gravy should include both cream and butter. And of course stock. Whereas any type of flour in gravy is a deadly sin, and will lead the responsible cook directly into hell. I will lie to anoretic women about the ingredients, so they can relax and enjoy it. I will reduce the stock for hours to achieve the right colour and texture.
Gravy is the best part part of eating. Actually I dont really like meat, but without meat there would be no gravy... Potatoes are really good, because you can mash them in the gravy. mmm

mmmmm this girl loves her chicken (freshly sacrificed is best) Chicken n dumplins, chicken pot pie, southern fried chicken, jerked chicken, chicken salad, blackened chicken, baked chicken, barbeque chicken. etc, etc, etc... never met a chicken I didnt like.
here is my chicken song (sung to the tune of "pictures of lilly" by the who
peices of chicken make my life so wonderful
peices of chicken help me sleep at night
peices of chicken
chicken oooo chicken
peices of CHICKEN!

ok ok I will get off the drugs

You buggers, you just made me grill a trout!
(garlic butter with a hint of worcester' sauce on a hunk of granary bread... mmmmmmm)
I'd call that unadorned.

Take 1 freshly caught and cleaned rainbow trout.

Place 2 slices of lemon inside the fish.

Lightly oil a sheet of alfoil, place the fish on the foil, grind some black pepper over it, wrap it in the foil and place it on a barbecue or over a fire for a few mins. Turn it once.

Eat it.

Sign up to whatever form of religion suits the moment (one of them will).

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Dtread, stay outta Taiwan, sis, and how...come over here, you'll learn a whole new way to feel The Love That Dare Not Cluck Its Name...guys on the street making chicken shwarma, another popular item is whole chicken breasts (bone in but de-nippled, thank Gawd), coated in all these outside Chinese spices and herbs, then deep-fried [wipe drool], they got chicken rolls, like spring rolls, except the outside is like chopped chicken, and the best, the ultimate, is TKK (Ti Kua Kua), or Muscle Chicken, as we call it, Taiwan's OWN chicken chain, the Fastigium of Frychicken Arts...house specialities include not potato fries, but SWEET potato (like yam) fries, and little doodads comprising sticky rice wrapped up in chicken skin, coated, and deep fried...your arteries closed off yet???

More trouble...

I have a thing for traditional English meat pies, and I have become convinced that the only way to eat them is with lashings of Worcetershire sauce. Howver, it must be Lea and Perrins and nothing else!

Ahhh Taiwan I hear you calling.

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Ahhh Taiwan I hear you calling.

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Gimme a call when you get here...one thing you do need to be careful about is the somewhat decreasing tendency to leave the heads on our poulticious friends when roasting or barbecueing...
Nothing like having your lunch look at you and say HOWDY...

More trouble...

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not potato fries, but SWEET potato (like yam) fries,

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W00t w00t baby's found a use for her brand-new deep fryer!!

(With the French Fry Salt. Trust me on this. Gotta have the French Fry Salt.)

Can you tell I haven't eaten dinner yet?

Yelena

Twisting this topic a bit sideways, can we discuss food that comes with its own edible packaging? Pitas most obviously, but I've never found a taste for those pita pocket abominations since I use whole pitas (unsliced/unopened) for pizza bases, myself (What? What?! So I like a thin crust. And your problem with this is what, exactly?), but stuff like samosas (inordinately favoured and always in plentiful supply at the ethnically diverse workplace I'm employed by), Jamaican patties (always a staple at the local subway station, when last I lived in Mississauga), etc., etc. Of course, there's always the filled doughnuts, or the Fruit Explosion muffins at Tim Horton's, or sweet treats, but I'm talking about the dinner-on-the-run, grab-it-and-go, no napkins, cutlery or even plate required, yet still providing you with most of your nutritional requirements. (Paradoxically, also providing you with your lifetime supply of cholesterol and saturated fats in an easy-to-use single-serving size, but not everything can be perfect, now can it?)

Stuffed bread and bread-like pastries. Discuss!

The great Australian meat pie! Eaten with tomato sauce (not ketchup).

Not to mention spring rolls (either the deep-fried type or the wonderful Vietnamese cold ones.

Also nori rolls.

Isn't that the thing RobW lost his citizenship over?

No, not the nori rolls.

Speaking of which. Nori qualifies as a condiment in my book. You sometimes get it in a little separate package over here. And you're not supposed to eat it by itself, but you end up doing it anyway, because it's good.

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You have to give up.

Well, that was part of it, but they'd had their eye on me for a while. Taking no interest in cricket was probably the clincher.

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not potato fries, but SWEET potato (like yam) fries,

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W00t w00t baby's found a use for her brand-new deep fryer!!

(With the French Fry Salt. Trust me on this. Gotta have the French Fry Salt.)

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Just be forewarned, technique-wise, you have to make 'em pretty big, large steak-fries size, since they don't quite have the integrity that potatoes do, and, commensurately, that they are filling as jeez, much moreso than regular fries, so don't over-make. Or, you know, do. Enjoy.

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Twisting this topic a bit sideways, can we discuss food that comes with its own edible packaging?
Stuffed bread and bread-like pastries. Discuss!_

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More over-here stuff.
Since Taiwanese people eat anywhere, anytime (walking down the street, riding their scooters in heavy traffic, at work, in meetings, anywhere, I have this vision of the 6 judges on the Taiwan Supreme Court hearing cases while slurping noodles), there is a proliferation of the self-delivery nosh here.
Of course, dumplings kind of define this principle, and there is a host of different kinds here, but also a ball of rice with pickled veg and dried meat in the middle, lots of different steamed bread deals, also containing inner goodness, all kinds of stuff.

Colin, word on the nori love. It's starting to get popular here as a kind of snack all on its own, and there are different varieties, accordingly, the one with embedded wasabi is a personal favorite.
As well, sometime try nori with peanut butter on it.
Way yum.

More trouble...

Nori with peanut butter.

Now that sounds like a new taste sensation.

I'll have to mention it to my wife... or maybe not, I don't like it when she looks at me like I'm from another dimension entirely.

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You have to give up.

I got news for you pal...there's a reason why she (they) looks at you (us) that way...

More trouble...

Naaw. Usually she just looks at me like I'm from a different planet. Only light years away, foreign biochemistry, possibly toxic, but still, somehow, homey.

I suggest nori plus peanut butter, she's going to look at me like I'm not a part of this space time continuum. "My matter does not share the same parameters with your matter, mister! I'm not even sure if it's matter at all. You are not a part of the quarky goodness that is my home universe!" That sort of thing.

I'll sneak some after she goes to sleep. That's the plan.

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You have to give up.

mmm nori and plum paste or nori and uni.

I used to like celery sticks with salt sprinkled on 'em. Break, rinse, sprinkle, repeat.

Celery with peanut butter is more involved, but lovely, nonetheless. So much to do, with a canoe.

We have nori in the cabinet, although I rarely think to grab some. My son, 'though, 13, loves it.

Now, with peanut butter, do you roll it up like one of those pirouline cookie straws? (I doubt, somehow, that one can maintain the hole down the middle, unless another bit of nori is laid on top, pre-roll.

But what would one drink with it?

(strictly speaking, it's not self-contained, unless you find a way to eat the knife)

Ian also likes to eat uncooked ramen; kind of like La Choy fried-noodle sprinkles for chow mein (which, thankfully, I haven't eaten since leaving home). He usually eats ~1" block off the corner when cooking up a pot. An aside...

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I used to like celery sticks with salt sprinkled on 'em. Break, rinse, sprinkle, repeat.

Celery with peanut butter is more involved, but lovely, nonetheless. So much to do, with a canoe.

We have nori in the cabinet, although I rarely think to grab some. My son, 'though, 13, loves it.

Now, with peanut butter, do you roll it up like one of those _pirouline_ cookie straws? (I doubt, somehow, that one can maintain the hole down the middle, unless another bit of nori is laid on top, pre-roll.

But what would one drink with it?

_(strictly speaking, it's not self-contained, unless you find a way to eat the knife)_

Ian also likes to eat uncooked ramen; kind of like La Choy fried-noodle sprinkles for chow mein (which, thankfully, I haven't eaten since leaving home). He usually eats ~1" block off the corner when cooking up a pot. An aside...

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Ian is On the Job there, bub.
Here, eating dry ramen as a snack is so popular that you can buy spiced and flavored bags of it just to be eaten in this manner.
Also, you can get, like, a big cup of little hockey pucks of formed and flavored ramen, each a little bigger than a scallop.
The delivery of the nori/PB unit is a little tricky, one usually attempts to roll it, and one usually fails, such that one is pretty much left with a flat surface, eaten like toast.
Cold strawberry or blueberry milk is preferred, or Pudding Milk in a pinch.
Yeah, this doesn't really qualify, both because it isn't self-contained, and because there's only about 3 guys in the world who eat it.
Until Colin and Ian jern up.
Then it's a movement.

Oh, yeah, when I was a kid in the summer Ma used always put out the celery and PB, and with Cheez Whiz, too.

More trouble...

I actually did mention it to my wife, and she just rolled her eyes and said "oh yeah, you've been talking to weirdos on the internet again haven't you."

Now if there was just some peanut butter in the house I could get on with starting a movement.

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You have to give up.