Stewed corn? That is to mask its finest properties. Maybe there's another big continental divide to be observed over stews. I've had plenty of vague, European stews involving courgette during long, sad winters.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Monday, 6 June 2016 19:59 (seven years ago) link
stewed aubergine def a thing in lebanese &c cuisine
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:05 (seven years ago) link
if you've not had baba ghanoush then frankly you can't say anything about aubergines
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:12 (seven years ago) link
Ratatouille is a type of stew! How have you not heard of that?
― emil.y, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:21 (seven years ago) link
I always feel a bit of a fraud posting on food threads as I don't know shit about food and don't really care about it, but considering stews and stew-like soups (or "stewps") are the only thing I can cook I feel like I can speak more assuredly on this matter.
― emil.y, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
staidinterface
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:24 (seven years ago) link
i lump stews, chowders, soups together in my head i guess. i've had ratatouille but always thought it was baked so i never have thought of it as a stew
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:34 (seven years ago) link
All of this said, I did once make a Bamia pizza (like a Middle Eastern okra stew, but on a pizza base), so I don't think I can be critical of any food combination. 'Stewp' sounds marketable.
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:40 (seven years ago) link
I saw a woman pour ketchup all over her pastrami sandwich in a noted Jewish deli. I found it offensive, and I think a rabbi should rule it traif.
― socka flocka-jones (man alive), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:41 (seven years ago) link
i don't think i've ever encountered the word 'courgette' before today
― riverine (map), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:47 (seven years ago) link
I would have guessed it meant "little cougar"
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:49 (seven years ago) link
phonetically speaking, zucchini might beat courgette, although the endings are problematic for both - zucchini looks like a singularised plural and courgette seems to use the feminine diminutive that so benights the french language
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:50 (seven years ago) link
however, nobody on this earth could convince me that 'eggplant' is a more euphonious name than 'aubergine'
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
courgette is probably a better name than zucchini. aubergine is definitely a better name than eggplant.
lol xp
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
Totally agree w/ imago (xp and wins!). Though I have no real problem with -ette being appended to things, as opposed to people.
― emil.y, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:53 (seven years ago) link
zucchini and egg plant are both the native american names iirc
― dynamicinterface, Monday, 6 June 2016 20:54 (seven years ago) link
agree that 'aubergine' as a word is vastly superior to 'eggplant'
― riverine (map), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:55 (seven years ago) link
white aubergines totally look like eggs tho!
http://www.khiewchanta.com/images/small-white-eggplant.jpg
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:56 (seven years ago) link
wow
― riverine (map), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:57 (seven years ago) link
I have to assume that whoever named them was looking at those and not the common purple ones
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
round yellow courgettes are even more mindblowing (and really nice)
http://www.growfruitandveg.co.uk/grapevine/attachments/fruit-vegetable-showcase/31807d1346881803-virtual-show-2012-pair-courgettes-voting-100_0490.jpg
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:58 (seven years ago) link
shit that is huge, sorry
i will start using 'zucchino' in penance
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
I prefer "zucchinus"
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Monday, 6 June 2016 20:59 (seven years ago) link
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CgmOs10W4AIG6kg.jpg
― riverine (map), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:01 (seven years ago) link
thundercrack.gif
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
for all my bemoaning of the french feminine diminutive i've actually been frightfully androcentric in my assumption of 'zucchino'; it transpires the original was 'zucchina'
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:02 (seven years ago) link
no wait the plot has thickened
Zucca is the Italian word for pumpkin/squash and zucchino/zucchina (zucca + ina = little) are diminutive forms, becoming zucchini/zucchine in the plural. Zucchino, the masculine form (zucchini in the plural), is the first form to be documented in writing.[2] An Italian dictionary called lo Zingarelli 2015, Zanichelli Editore, gives both forms, as does the Devoto-Oli published by Le Monnier, but the Accademia della Crusca, the most important research institution on Italian language, defines zucchino as the preferable form.[2] The Treccani, Istituto dell'Enciclopedia italiana, another highly respected linguistic authority, gives zucchina as the main Italian word, and the masculine form as Tuscan dialect.
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:04 (seven years ago) link
got to go with lo zingarelli 2015
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:07 (seven years ago) link
/lo italopop zing cru
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:08 (seven years ago) link
rolling zingarelli
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:09 (seven years ago) link
without this threadbump we'd never have discovered the bitter italian academic war to sex the courgette so thanks dayo basically
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
"Sex the Courgette" sounds like an obscure Sugarcubes b-side
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:12 (seven years ago) link
speaking of which, I've realised that they were cucumbers in thundercrack!
― mario vargis loosa (wins), Monday, 6 June 2016 21:14 (seven years ago) link
corn chowder is great, pennsylvania dutch classic
― kind of lolth but mostly strahd (los blue jeans), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 00:57 (seven years ago) link
I'm still lolling about the picture of the all-too-familiar corn casserole Sufjan G. posted upthread
― every day, be sure you're woke (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:12 (seven years ago) link
also this
Spicy corn in a cup is a thing in South Asian neighbourhoods in London and it's only about a pound or £1.50 per serving.― jedi slimane (suzy), Monday, June 6, 2016 7:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― jedi slimane (suzy), Monday, June 6, 2016 7:42 PM (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― every day, be sure you're woke (bernard snowy), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:13 (seven years ago) link
Despite my terrible joke, I would eat about 500 helpings of spicy corn. One of my go-to "recipes" when I was a kid learning to cook was steamed corn with cracked red peppercorns.
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 01:29 (seven years ago) link
https://uproxx.files.wordpress.com/2014/11/bendertheoffender.jpg?quality=90
TAKE THAT YOU STUPID CORRRNNN
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 03:09 (seven years ago) link
I just eat prawns with the tail on most I the time, unless it's particularly big you can usually just crunch it up. I stop at sucking the juices out the head like someone I know does....
― Pingu Unchained (dog latin), Sunday, July 14, 2013 4:43 AM (2 years ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
???ppl really eat the shrimp tails? other ppl do this??
― slam dunk, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 03:25 (seven years ago) link
A coworker did. He was lactose intolerant and said the tails gave him calcium.
I ate a shrimp head accidentally once (misjudged the teeth/shrimp intersection) and it didn't taste any different than the shrimp body.
― nickn, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 04:54 (seven years ago) link
I wouldnt care for it but people eat soft shell crab, so *shrug*
― Stoop Crone (Trayce), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 06:57 (seven years ago) link
If the shrimp have been properly fried, go for it and crunch the shell; otherwise, you may prefer the packaging your carry-out came in.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 07:09 (seven years ago) link
the juices from the head of the prawn are amazing! certain types of frying make it p easy to eat more of the prawn in its entirety. in spain you see people sucking the shrimp head p much everywhere.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 08:13 (seven years ago) link
glad dan is presumably in bed as i posted that.
― japanese mage (LocalGarda), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 08:14 (seven years ago) link
Decided to cook creamed corn tonight. What is it traditionally eaten with in the U.S.A? If it goes wrong, I'll just order a pizza (and put it on that).
― It certainly is punk of the Church of England to think that way (tangenttangent), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 10:43 (seven years ago) link
i heard it was traditionally eaten with a full seafood paella
― And the cry rang out all o'er the town / Good Heavens! Tay is down (imago), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 10:46 (seven years ago) link
in my experience creamed corn is mostly a southern thing so it's typically eaten w/ traditional southern foods.
― dynamicinterface, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 12:33 (seven years ago) link
lol LG
― STOP KILLING ANIMALS, THEY'RE MINT (DJP), Tuesday, 7 June 2016 13:08 (seven years ago) link
the creamed corn is in the oven. this is not a drill.
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:51 (seven years ago) link
have settled on 'whipping post' (fillmore versh) as soundtrack for this occasion
― imago, Tuesday, 7 June 2016 20:52 (seven years ago) link