The Pass Pub: The High-End Off Topic Thread

[Cal Weldon]

Aha, I found you Evan. I see you took the last two spots in the 15 song thread.

Be afraid Evan, be very afraid.

Lock your doors and leave the lights on tonight.

Wait, did you hear that? Nah, must be your imagination playing tricks on you...



...or was it?



Hee hee hee hee.

 

[evanc]

The door is open. Don't knock. I'll let the 120 pound canine alarm decide if you can come in.

 

[evanc]

with all honesty if anyone even remotely interested in what I'm doing stopped by it would make my year.

 

[Cal Weldon]

I'll come visit. What is it you're doing?

 

[evanc]

Not all that interesting at the moment. Wife is out for the night, music is a little louder then if she were home. Cleaned up from dinner with my 2 girls and a couple of their friends. Sitting on the back deck enjoying a beer and relaxing.

 

[brianco]

evanc............

That work of yours looks to be very high quality. Worthy praise.

 

[evanc]

thank you.. I try

 

[jacco vermeulen]

Conch?

Our national food, the kroket : Croquette - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Also a standard snack in the Dutch Antilles, but there they have a variety with a queen conch filling, aka as kroket di karko.
In the Netherlands, I know of two places where I can get a conch kroket, one at a hundred miles distance.
I always stop by for one when I'm in the neighborhood, the queen conch turned out highly addictive for a foodie as myself.

[shrimp (dutch ones) or crawfish krokets, homemade ones by myself, come second]

 

[evanc]

A few years ago my wife and I got to go snorkeling off the coast of Belize. The local who took us out was picking conch off the sea floor and giving us the inedible part to bait the sharks and rays. The best part of the day was when he cooked the conch on a hotplate in his tiny boat with coconut milk hot sauce and lime juice. Served on white bread...texture was like a giant scallop. I have had conch many times since but it never matches my memory of that day.

 

[wrenchone]

Jacco - a former colleague at work that spent some time in the Netherlands working for Philips described a somewhat utilitarian attitude of the Dutch towards food ("food as fuel"). Maybe I should revise that estimate. Maybe he overlooked the influence of the colonies, as is the case with "British cusine". I'm reminded of the old joke of "Euro Heaven" vs. "Euro Hell".
Maybe my colleague never had a rijstaffel...

 

[jacco vermeulen]

a somewhat utilitarian attitude

No, that's actually quite true, the larger part still consumes cat food all week.

(the upper half is protestant zone, the calvinistic way)

 

[brianco]

.........and a common case of death is from falling off the window sill whilst licking their ars*s.

 

[jacco vermeulen]

District 9 Clip: Tires & Cat Food - Video Dailymotion

 

[scott wurcer]

I have had conch many times since but it never matches my memory of that day.

Live conch are quite readily available here in New England, quite nice as sashimi too.

 

[scott wurcer]

No, that's actually quite true, the larger part still consumes cat food all week.

(the upper half is protestant zone, the calvinistic way)

The sales force always brought us back to Belgium for meals, never had a chance to sample the local cuisine.

 

[Gyuri]

Death is a sad thing.
In particular, if it pointless.
"Listening to Happy makes me HAPPY": Tragic driver's Facebook post about hit song seconds before fatal crash - Mirror Online

 

[jacco vermeulen]

Shame she was not stupid enough to take a selfie the moment she was hit by the truck.
Having enough stupid people around is the point.

 

[Gyuri]

No matter how incredible is, probably this stupid one was loved by someone.
And they certainly expected her to come home.

 

[stajo]

I am smokin hot

 

[Zen Mod]

I am Smoke