What are you eating?

[jimmy olsen]

Oh God, I ate so much I'm going into shock.

Fried chicken, two helpings of stuffing, mashed potatoes, sausage, cheese, pumpkin soup and pumpkin pie...washed down by rum and coke.

[fhdz]

I made it out without going back for seconds. Turkey, brussels sprouts, stuffing, mashed taters, corn, green bean casserole, a roll, a piece of pecan pie (because pumpkin equals hurl), one cup of coffee (with the pie), and about 592 glasses of a nice, strong, peppery Zinfandel. After all the eating, my essentially-brother-in-law and I watched football and played cribbage. I have to work today though

[Caliga]

I am about to eat two foreign desserts.  One is some sort of cookie called a jumble that apparently comes from St. Croix; Princesca brought it home from a holiday party... a chick who she works with used to live there.  The other one is a Canadian thing called a butter tart that her friend's mother who lives in Vancouver mailed to us.

[Caliga]

........

[Razgovory]

The number 1 killer of Hungarians.

[Ed Anger]

I am about to eat two foreign desserts.  One is some sort of cookie called a jumble that apparently comes from St. Croix; Princesca brought it home from a holiday party... a chick who she works with used to live there.  The other one is a Canadian thing called a butter tart that her friend's mother who lives in Vancouver mailed to us.

Butter tarts are faboo.

[Caliga]

It's delicious but... I was told to wait an hour to eat the jumble in order to avoid going into sugar shock.  It had raisins in it... weird but good.

[jimmy olsen]

I am about to eat two foreign desserts.  One is some sort of cookie called a jumble that apparently comes from St. Croix; Princesca brought it home from a holiday party... a chick who she works with used to live there.  The other one is a Canadian thing called a butter tart that her friend's mother who lives in Vancouver mailed to us.

Jubilee Jumbles?

The cherry ones

[Savonarola]

I'm back in the D for the Holidays.  CB and I went to a Fresh-Off-the-Boat Yemeni restaurant.  I had never been to a Yemeni restaurant before; there food is similar to Arab, but uses spices more common to India.  They even serve a sort of chutney with their meals.  I had the lamb stew (Mandeh) and CB had a chicken sandwich (Gaballah) both were delicious.

[Savonarola]

I had a clementine for breakfast; it sort of tasted like the bitter orange Cubans use in their cooking.  I really should know better than to buy citrus here in Michigan.  In Florida I've found that Michigan staples like apples and cherries have little flavor, but cheap-o supermarket oranges are better than what you can find at gourmet shops in Michigan.

[Ed Anger]

I popped a couple of tarts.

[Liep]

Julebolle. Mmmmm, one of the many good things about Christmas.

[Caliga]

I'm back in the D for the Holidays.  CB and I went to a Fresh-Off-the-Boat Yemeni restaurant.  I had never been to a Yemeni restaurant before; there food is similar to Arab, but uses spices more common to India.  They even serve a sort of chutney with their meals.  I had the lamb stew (Mandeh) and CB had a chicken sandwich (Gaballah) both were delicious.

Is it similar to Ethiopian food?  To me Ethiopian tastes like a cross between Middle Eastern and Indian.

[Savonarola]

I'm back in the D for the Holidays.  CB and I went to a Fresh-Off-the-Boat Yemeni restaurant.  I had never been to a Yemeni restaurant before; there food is similar to Arab, but uses spices more common to India.  They even serve a sort of chutney with their meals.  I had the lamb stew (Mandeh) and CB had a chicken sandwich (Gaballah) both were delicious.

Is it similar to Ethiopian food?  To me Ethiopian tastes like a cross between Middle Eastern and Indian.

In terms of spice it was similar; but they use more saffron.  They don't have as many bean dishes, rice is more the staple, and their bread is the Middle Eastern pita style bread. 

The Ethiopian food I've had has come from westernized restaurants; while everyone at the cafe we were at yesterday was a recent immigrant so it's hard for me to make an informed comparison.

[Ed Anger]

I want some Beef Stroganoff.