[geeks] Am I getting too old or something.....

[Kris Kirby]

On Thu, 18 Jul 2002, Jonathan C. Patschke wrote:
> > Three ingredients; pig blood, flour and some pig fat. Mix it until it's
> > easy to form. Cut slices. Fry in a buttered pan. Serve with fried bacon

*shudder*. That sounds less than delectible.

> Wow.  That could very-well kill me, and with the word "pudding" the name,
> I was expecting something edible.

Yeah, me too. :)

> It used to not always be that bad.  My family eats lots of pork, and about
> the time I was 10 or 11, I noticed that I got stomach-sick quite often.
> Within a couple of months, I had it figured out.  Back then, it was only
> fresh pork that made me ill; I could still eat cured pork, salt-pork, and
> pressed-ham.  Now I cannot eat any of it, and even the smell of bacon
> cooking makes me nauseous.

I just stay away from it in general. I don't know why any more, I just do
it.

> Damn, but I do miss the taste of fresh pork chops.  And just -try- living
> in the southern United States unable to eat pork.  I've finally had to
> tell some people that I'm Jewish because a lot of people will try to sneak
> it in, thinking that it's all in my head, and I won't notice.  Figure
> that; tell people that something makes a you sick, and they serve it
> anyway because they think you're rotten in the head; tell them that you
> believe eating it will make you ritually unclean, and they listen.
> *sigh* People!

Well, most [Southern] people aren't so in tune with thier digestive
systems; eating things that cause them to have most vocifierous and
oderiferous bowel movements doesn't bother them at all. So shitting your
brains out just doesn't matter to them; they already do it themselves.

And some do anyway because they drink to excess[1].

> My family tried to serve me pork (sneaking it in beans and veggies[2], as
> well as making it the "mystery meat" in soups) damn-near up until two
> years ago.  They kept forgetting.  But then, my own mother has forgotten
> my birthday on at least one occasion, so perhaps I just have an
> eccentrically absent-minded family.

It's slightly more than a little embarrassing for me; I don't want to eat
at a friend's house because I have had food allergies in the past. One
time I was over at a friends house and his mother was cooking strip steak
or something and cooked up some extra thinking I'd stay. I *hate* to
impose (particularly since I learned that some of my friends from high
school came from much lower income brackets than my family did, and I
didn't want to be seen as a greedy guest), so I trundled on right before
they ate, heading home knowing that not a damn thing would be cooked
there. Sure enough, I ate some damn thing out of the cabinet.

> [2] WTF is the deal with pork in veggies?  The damned things are perfectly
>     tasty without any help.  Add butter and salt if you must, but leave
>     the hogs out of it!

Chris Rock had something on that at one time. Poke this and poke that...
Poke salad, etc.... (`Poke' is my approximation on his pronounciation of
pork.)

[1]: Reason #24353 why I hate legal drugs; the illegal stuff doesn't do
     this to you unless you already know about it (herion!)[2]
[2]: Best case I ever heard on this was some old men making moonshine. The
     DEA dropped by and made an amicable deal -- one bottle per man on the
     chopper, and they'd forget about the other twenty-five bottles (these
     were gallon jugs or larger!). When they had initially made contact,
     the agents asked them what they were doing and if they were
     moonshining. One of the coots (Alabama Coot, thank you) said: "We
     don't want none of that gubmit whisky -- it sucks!"

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