Post Race!

[Shaggy Hiker]

Not that they don't think I'm strange, just not stranger.

[Shaggy Hiker]

That's an odd post to start a page...

[2kaud]

Saw a hedgehog last night crossing the 'lawn' (an area of moss, clover and weeds that gets cut and looks green). Are they getting ready to hibernate already if they know that a bad winter is coming?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Perhaps it was just hedging it's bet?

[Shaggy Hiker]

Or hogging more land.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Whether hedging or hogging, it was out there.

[2kaud]

Well it was going towards a hedge

[dday9]

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[dday9]

And that's how you can bypass the min char limit.

[Delaney]

&h63

[Delaney]

&H6f

[Delaney]

&h6f

[Delaney]

&H6c

[Delaney]

&h21

[Shaggy Hiker]

Let's not go there.

Perhaps you can't call Hastur by saying his name three times....but why try?

[Delaney]

I already dealed with hastur...

[Shaggy Hiker]

That looks more like octopotamus rather than Hastur.

[dday9]

My trolling is on point today. Much pats on back.

[Delaney]

That looks more like octopotamus rather than Hastur.

Yep, I confound with Cthulhu but not a problem as long as I can accommodate it

[Shaggy Hiker]

You'd be a sucker if you ate that dish.

[Delaney]

Nice pun Frankly, I prefer small squid to octopus. I think octopus is too ruberry, so if I eat the whole dish, I'd rather be Mister Fantastic

[Shaggy Hiker]

My views on squid are mixed. I tend to like calamari, but when it comes to sashimi, squid is one of the few I dislike, while I'm a sucker for octopus. I'm not sure what part of the squid is offered up, but it tastes...odd, to me. It seems like I SHOULD like it, but I just don't.

[dday9]

Does it taste fishy?

[Delaney]

that's strange because squid and calamari are the same (at least in France).

usually you eat the body either stuffed or in fried round slice. in France you can also eat the tentacles either in salad or fried.

I like them stuffed (with rice and spice but you need a good recipe) but I usually eat them fried. I am not very fond of the tentacles but it really depends of the recipe.

[dday9]

The best calamari I've ever had was in St. Thomas at a Marriott. They were literally catching it at the dock off the main kitchen. It was phenomenal.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Yeah, squid and calamari are the same thing in the US, as well, but what you get as sashimi...I'm just not sure what part of the animal that is. For that matter, though it is called squid, since I can't recognize what part of the animal it is...I suppose it might not really be squid at all. There is no law about common names for seafood.

[Shaggy Hiker]

Another possibility is that it is like "tuna". Yeah, it's a fish, but it's actually an order of fish with many species under that umbrella term. Some tuna can be farm raised, others can't. Some are prized delicacies...others are farm raised. Perhaps the "squid" sashimi isn't the same squid used in calamari.

[Shaggy Hiker]

And then there's pig bung...

[dday9]

And then there's pig bung...

I've watched too many episodes of Fear Factor of people eating that. It looks disgusting and their reactions seem to confirm that it is.

[Delaney]

pig pung has 2 significations in France (maybe in the US too), it is a part of the pig no one want to put his finger in/on and it is a kind of sausage. I am not sure I want to know which one you are referring to

[Shaggy Hiker]

The former, unfortunately. There was a podcast where people were trying to figure out whether calamari was really calamari because they had heard of pig bung being passed off as calamari.

[Shaggy Hiker]

I suspect that if you were told you were eating pig bung, that would result in a stronger reaction than if you were told you were eating calamari.

[Shaggy Hiker]

This post is only here because I seem to be posting in threes.