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fandomhigh2022-08-12 05:05 am
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ACTUAL Ancient Food Crimes; Friday, First Period [08/12].
"Morning, everyone," Summer greeted everyone from the front of the classroom with her usual pre-torture grin on her face. "Hope your stomachs enjoyed getting a little break from weird ass foods of antiquity last week, thanks to me being a squirrel. Which, by the way, has historically been on the menu for thousands of years, but out of....I don't know....respect? for our nosy little rodent plague, I kindly decided to skip that particular food this semester.
"That said, something about spending a week as a squirrel also made me a little more reluctant about making stuffed doormouse for this class this week, which was definitely on the agenda, because the ancient Romans looooved that shit, but, there was one incongruously present fauna on this island that showed up on a lot of ancient tables that we will be sampling today. No, not the porgs, I'm not a monster, but instead, flamingos.
"Specifically," she continued, moving to reveal the dish, "their tongues.
"Now, eating bird tongues seems to have really gone out of fashion in the last centuries, with the occasional exception of duck tongues, which I've also made today so you can compare, but I assure you, no Fandom ducks or flamingos were harmed in the production of today's offerings. They also were fond of flamingo meat, as well as parrot, so I've got a little roasted flamingo for you to try, as well.
"Please note," she added, "that flamingo tongue the dish shouldn't be confused with flamingo tongue snails, which are honestly super adorable and pretty, but, I'd be hard pressed to mention snails without also mentioning that ancient Romans also really liked snails. Especially this Apicius guy. Which, I mean, you know, definitely stuck around in modern times, escargot is a thing, but I also decided to bring to you guys his recipe for milk-fed snails, which is basically sponging snails with milk so much that they get so fat they can't retreat into their shells any more, so you then fry them up and eat them, which, if anything, should open up a nice discussion on if some of the real crimes involved with some foods we eat have to do with what's done to the animals it comes from. Why do I have no problem frying up bird tongues and gorging snails on dairy, but balk at stuffing dormice and squirrel stew and frying porgs? Why did mid-century Americans feel it was okay to slather mayonnaise onto literally everything? What about modern hipsters and bacon? I think, if anything, it just comes to show that today's trends are tomorrow's culinary crimes, and that's just really somethng interesting to think about...
"Anyway!" She beamed at them after a bit of a pause for, you know, tossing in some actual philosophical discussion or whatever at everyone that morning. "Bon appétit!"
"That said, something about spending a week as a squirrel also made me a little more reluctant about making stuffed doormouse for this class this week, which was definitely on the agenda, because the ancient Romans looooved that shit, but, there was one incongruously present fauna on this island that showed up on a lot of ancient tables that we will be sampling today. No, not the porgs, I'm not a monster, but instead, flamingos.
"Specifically," she continued, moving to reveal the dish, "their tongues.
"Now, eating bird tongues seems to have really gone out of fashion in the last centuries, with the occasional exception of duck tongues, which I've also made today so you can compare, but I assure you, no Fandom ducks or flamingos were harmed in the production of today's offerings. They also were fond of flamingo meat, as well as parrot, so I've got a little roasted flamingo for you to try, as well.
"Please note," she added, "that flamingo tongue the dish shouldn't be confused with flamingo tongue snails, which are honestly super adorable and pretty, but, I'd be hard pressed to mention snails without also mentioning that ancient Romans also really liked snails. Especially this Apicius guy. Which, I mean, you know, definitely stuck around in modern times, escargot is a thing, but I also decided to bring to you guys his recipe for milk-fed snails, which is basically sponging snails with milk so much that they get so fat they can't retreat into their shells any more, so you then fry them up and eat them, which, if anything, should open up a nice discussion on if some of the real crimes involved with some foods we eat have to do with what's done to the animals it comes from. Why do I have no problem frying up bird tongues and gorging snails on dairy, but balk at stuffing dormice and squirrel stew and frying porgs? Why did mid-century Americans feel it was okay to slather mayonnaise onto literally everything? What about modern hipsters and bacon? I think, if anything, it just comes to show that today's trends are tomorrow's culinary crimes, and that's just really somethng interesting to think about...
"Anyway!" She beamed at them after a bit of a pause for, you know, tossing in some actual philosophical discussion or whatever at everyone that morning. "Bon appétit!"
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“I really like the snails,” he decided after he had sampled what was on offer. He paused, "I never really thought about where the food came from, I just ate it," he admitted, "I suppose it just wasn't really an option we could consider growing up,"
It was the closest he was willing to talk about Wolf Den in class.
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"I think I'm going to pass on eating the food this week," she said apologetically.
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"The flamingo tasted better than I thought it would," he admitted.
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He gave them a try and shrugged. "I don't think I would ask for it but it's fine."
The snails had a texture he wasn't entirely sure he cared for but there also wasn't anything wrong with them so he moved on to the roast flamingo. "Doesn't really taste like other birds. But that I might eat again."
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He also realized that probably no one should tell Summer about ortolans.
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