November 27, 2014

Flavors

It's interesting the flavors people do, and do not, like.

Pixy says he doesn't like cranberries. Interesting. I do like them, but there are things I despise, too. I really hate the flavor of raw celery and raw cucumbers. I hate walnuts and and I hate filberts. ("Filbert" == "Hazelnut" in some places.)

And there are flavors which go together, too, IMHO. I always eat grilled cheese sandwiches with ketchup. Done it my whole life, and grilled cheese sandwiches alone seem bland and uninteresting.

Chicken goes well with nutmeg, did you know that? When we had chicken-and-dumplings at my grandmother's house, we always sprinkled nutmeg on it.

Why is it that chocolate goes really well with peppermint, but the idea of chocolate and spearmint is nauseating? Darned if I know.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste in Weird World at 10:11 PM | Comments (10) | Add Comment
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1 Brussel Sprouts in any form are terrible, yet Momzerduck loved them.  I'm fond of lima beans, but I discovered today that Ph.Duck loathes them.

Posted by: Wonderduck at November 28, 2014 12:32 AM (jGQR+)

2 I can pretty much eat anything, (Seriously, Andrew Zimmern is a wimp.) But I can't stand balut. (My wife says that's just because I got a bad one.) Sea cucumber leaves me cold, but that's more a matter of texture, it really doesn't have much taste.
The Brussels sprouts thing is genetic, transmitted on the male line. It's so cleanly genetically determined that, back in the 30's, no kidding, whether or not you liked Brussels sprouts was considered an effective paternity test.
So, congratulations, Wonderduck: You know your mom wasn't cheating with a guy who liked Brussels sprouts.

Posted by: Brett Bellmore at November 28, 2014 04:30 AM (L5yWw)

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I don't even know what balut is.

And I don't think I've ever had brussel sprouts.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 28, 2014 06:29 AM (+rSRq)

4 Balut consists of fertile duck eggs steamed after they've developed for some period. Very popular street food in the Philippines. I like eggs well enough, but prefer them without bones and feathers.
Apparently you've got about a 50-50 chance of liking or hating Brussels sprouts, knowing nothing about your genetics. You probably wouldn't be ambivalent about them, though.

Posted by: Brett Bellmore at November 28, 2014 07:14 AM (L5yWw)

5 Re Balut, I'll pass. Thank you just the same.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 28, 2014 08:22 AM (+rSRq)

6 You can only imagine my face when I first heard of balut.

Posted by: Wonderduck at November 28, 2014 10:26 AM (jGQR+)

7 Balut was used as an insulting nickname by one character for the heroine in Hanasaku Iroha, and the actual name (Rune Balut) for the heroine in Mardock Scramble (many chars had egg related names, which was weird for a dark anime).

Posted by: muon at November 28, 2014 08:11 PM (XIprt)

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"balut" has an entirely different meaning, in Russian, though maybe spelled slightly differently in roman letters.

In the movie 2010, the Soviet space ship does aerobraking in the atmosphere of Jupiter using something they call a "balut", basically big balloons, connected around the outside of the ship.

Posted by: Steven Den Beste at November 28, 2014 11:21 PM (+rSRq)

9 Yes, in Russian it's a combination of "balloon" and "parachute".

Posted by: Brett Bellmore at November 29, 2014 04:47 AM (L5yWw)

10 As far as I know, there's no such word in Russian, even now. The "балют" has appeared, but it means "phillipinean fertilized egg dish". The word "ballute" is an original English word that describes a baloon-shaped supersonic parachute, and it was not directly borrowed by Russians, again, to the best of my knowledge. Note that Russians used non-ballute shaped, traditional drogue chutes on their Venus probes.

Posted by: Pete Zaitcev at November 29, 2014 08:10 AM (RqRa5)

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