For Thanksgiving: foods that would/could have been present at the 1621 feast we commemorate on Thanksgiving:
- Deer
- Trout
- Turkey
- Squash
- Maize (“you call it…corn.”)
- Oysters
- Pork
For Thanksgiving: foods that would/could have been present at the 1621 feast we commemorate on Thanksgiving:
- Deer
- Trout
- Turkey
- Squash
- Maize (“you call it…corn.”)
- Oysters
- Pork
- Lobsters
Which was not considered a high-class food back then.
I honestly didn’t think it was an obscure category. Much less so than some of the others we’ve had. But to each his own.
For Thanksgiving: foods that would/could have been present at the 1621 feast we commemorate on Thanksgiving:
- Deer
- Trout
- Turkey
- Squash
- Maize (“you call it…corn.”)
- Oysters
- Pork
- Lobsters
- Cod
For Thanksgiving: foods that would/could have been present at the 1621 feast we commemorate on Thanksgiving:
- Deer
- Trout
- Turkey
- Squash
- Maize (“you call it…corn.”)
- Oysters
- Pork
- Lobsters
- Cod
- Clams
[QUOTE=Little Nemo]
- Lobsters
Which was not considered a high-class food back then.
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Far from. It was considered food for the poor, slaves, and indentured servants (who were essentially slaves until their indenture term expired). There were some indentured servants who had it in their contracts they would not be fed lobster any more often than their masters were.
For Thanksgiving: foods that would/could have been present at the 1621 feast we commemorate on Thanksgiving:
- Deer
- Trout
- Turkey
- Squash
- Maize (“you call it…corn.”)
- Oysters
- Pork
- Lobsters
- Cod
- Clams
- Seal
And a previous thread I startedasking how it tastes that got a surprising number of informed responses. The answer in four words seems to be “like oily fishy beef”.
Eh, I feel your pain. I started one way back on Game of Thrones characters, it took days and days to populate. What could be less obscure you’d think than a high rated HBO series and bestselling book series whose threads in Cafe Society got hundreds of responses? But, as Old Lodge Skins observed, “Sometimes the magic works, sometimes it doesn’t”.
Well, it is basically “ocean cockroach”.
For Thanksgiving: foods that would/could have been present at the 1621 feast we commemorate on Thanksgiving:
- Deer
- Trout
- Turkey
- Squash
- Maize (“you call it…corn.”)
- Oysters
- Pork
- Lobsters
- Cod
- Clams
- Seal
- Eels
For Thanksgiving: foods that would/could have been present at the 1621 feast we commemorate on Thanksgiving:
- Deer
- Trout
- Turkey
- Squash
- Maize (“you call it…corn.”)
- Oysters
- Pork
- Lobsters
- Cod
- Clams
- Seal
- Eels
- Berries
Next: Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
- Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
- Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
- Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatice)
WTF is pompatice anyway?
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
- Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
- Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatice)
WTF is pompatice anyway? It’s “pompatus”, sweetie - The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
- Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
- Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
- The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
- Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
- Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
- Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
- The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
- Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
- Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
- Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
- Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
- The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
- Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
- Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
- Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
- Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
- Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
- The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
- Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
- Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
- Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
- Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
- Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
- Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
- The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
- Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
- Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
- Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
- Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
- Don Henley, “Drivin’ With Your Eyes Closed” (Rimbaud)
Nice puns:
Some guys were born to Rimbaud / (ramble)
*Some guys breathe Baudelaire *(bottled air)
Popular songs that contain one or more words you wouldn’t expect to find in a popular song (with word)
- Janis Ian, “At Seventeen” (debentures)
- Steve Miller Band, “The Joker” (pompatus)
- The Eagles “Hotel California” (colitas)
- Kesha, “Grow a Pear” (phonics, as in “I’m just not hooked on your phonics”)
- Live, “Lightning Crashes” (placenta)
- Blink 182, “What’s My Age Again?” (sodomy)
- Motorhead, “Motorhead” (parallelogram)
- Don Henley, “Drivin’ With Your Eyes Closed” (Rimbaud)
- Gordon Lightfoot, “Canadian Railroad Trilogy” (muskeg)