What a wasted day. Sweety and I accomplished nothing. The boys aren’t here this weekend. BB had a baseball game today at one (right under the angry sun) and after that our day was open. I talked Sweety into going to eat Korean food for dinner and it was GREAT!
We usually eat at this restaurant for lunch and have a little boxed lunch, but for dinner you get all of these side dishes. I pink puffy heart (as Patti would say!) Korean side dishes. I’m pretty good about eating of bit of everything but there was this one bowl of something that we couldn’t identify. It looked like thinly sliced, fried onions with black sesame seeds dotting it. I like onions! I took a bite and realized that it was a bunch of tiny, whole fish. I do not like whole fish.
I recognized the taste as soon as it was in my mouth. When I was a kid, we used to get these bags of dried fish (little bitty fish) and I would eat them like popcorn. One day, I got to thinking that the fish were too tiny to have been gutted. And that there was probably a dried fish brain behind the dried fish eyes. So I asked my Mom and she confirmed that the fish were dried whole. The idea of eating fish guts and brains was just too much for me and that ended my dried fish eating career. Until today.
We were too stuffed to do anything after eating so we waddled on home. I stripped down and got a soft blanket and Tiny Dog and I took a nap on the couch while things digested. A nice way to catch your second wind.
Singing online (though I had to hide my face) has been a bit freeing. I’ve spent the past couple of days belting out the first line of Little Petter Cotton Tail whenever the mood hits. (I’ve thought about looking up the rest of the lyrics to the song but I don’t want the whole damn thing stuck in my head.) Sweety actually yelled at me today and told me to shut the fuck up. I think his intense hangover made him super sensitive. You have to be ready to enjoy my singing. Tiny and he shared some Crown Royal and ginger ale last night. They were both needy beings until they finally went to sleep. Stinky Dog and I were relieved when they did. We raided the pantry together.
I spent many minutes last night dinking with the template here. I think I’m finally pleased and will leave things alone. I like that the categories in the sidebar are now rolled up. That really pleases me. If you happen to go through the archives, you will now see that all of the old posts have a space between the paragraphs and I didn’t have to go through 1000+ posts and put them in by hand. It was just a bit of coding! Yay! It doesn’t take much to make my day.
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Back in the early 90′s when I was in Korea, I was eating some kind of soup that tasted pretty good. I looked down into the bowl and there were all these really teeny tiny fish heads with their little tiny fish eyes staring up at me as they floated around in my soup. I stopped eating immediately.
I was okay until I caught them looking at me.
Now I am wondering if these were the same tiny fish?
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October 11th, 2008 10:30 pm
Perhaps. These were small. They looked like waterlogged toothpicks with black dots for eyes. The ones that I ate as a kid were a bit bigger but tasted the same.
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October 11th, 2008 10:32 pm
I don’t think I could ever have gotten past the idea of all those guts still in these little fish…And, The Eyes! OY! I can never get past the eyes staring out of a Fish Head. One of my father’s favorite dishes was Fish Heads! It was because that was all his mother could afford to buy when he was a kid….So, even much much later when he could afford to eat anything he wanted—-HE still wanted Fish Heads! LOL!
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October 11th, 2008 10:52 pm
I have never eaten Korean food – but the thought of little fish (whole) does not sound the least bit appetizing. Good luck with that!
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October 11th, 2008 10:52 pm
Lady of the Hills – The eyes weren’t too bad. I remember poking them out when I was a kid and they were like dust. Couldn’t get past the guts though.
Isn’t it funny how we still want food that reminds of of “home”, even when we grow older? There are things that I eat only when I’m at my Mom’s house because it just seems right.
Marie – I liked them when I was a kid because they were so salty. I just didn’t look at them as I munched while watching Sesame Street.
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October 11th, 2008 11:03 pm
I’m picturing you and Stinky Dog rolling your eyes at each other until the other two finally fell asleep and left both of you to your own devices.
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October 12th, 2008 9:45 am
You’re picturing it pretty much spot on. Stinky isn’t an eye roller though. She’d wake up, open one eye and point it towards them and then let it slam shut. When she realized that we were alone, she got up and tap danced around.
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October 12th, 2008 12:38 pm
I don’t eat anything that was once alive whole. You never know what you might be ingesting.
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October 12th, 2008 5:26 pm
I’m not sure that I have ever eaten Korean food. I may have, but I’m not sure.
There is a Vietnamese restaurant near my office, and I love it. I’m okay with pretty much anything that isn’t staring back at me when I eat. I just don’t ask what’s in the bowl – except to clarify that there are no shrimp. (I’m allergic)
My “awful” childhood food is seasoned, fried tripe. It reminds me of Gram Irish. The fact that it’s the lining of a cow’s stomach should probably bother me. It doesn’t.
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October 12th, 2008 6:44 pm
Don’t think I could have eaten those, I’ve always been a picky eater and anything that has eyes would probably gag on it.
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October 12th, 2008 7:07 pm
Oooh I feel like a celebrity! Feeling the luv! :)
I am completely undone at the thought of eating anythings guts or brains, dried or otherwise. Ack. That is what put me off of sardines though as a kid i’d scarf em’ down!
My sis and I are dying to go back to Thai By The Sea at Oak Island, NC. That was the best Thai i’ve ever ate. Totally worth the 3 hour ride.
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October 13th, 2008 3:45 pm
Midwestern City Boy – That’s my rule too. I just don’t like the idea of eating an entire organism in one bite.
Renn – If you ever get the chance to eat Korean – get bulgogi (thinly sliced, seasoned beef) and turnip kimchi. Oh! And gimbap or kimbap rolls! Good stuff! I can eat anything that isn’t chewy. I like to be able to easily swallow something.
Never eaten tripe. I always figured it would be chewy.
Shover Robot – If I’d have known what they were, I would have left them in the bowl. They really did look like onions til I tasted them and took another look.
Patti – You are a celebrity! :) I could never eat sardines. I liked to play with them in the can because I thought it was cute but their eyes were always too big for me to eat when I was a kid.
I’ve never had Thai food. I’ve heard that it’s good though.
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October 13th, 2008 4:20 pm
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