And, as the first episode of "Due South" reminded us, there's pemmican (meat, fat and, I believe, berries). um, yum?
Inara: So. Would you like to lecture me on the wickedness of my ways? Book: I brought you some supper, but if you'd prefer a lecture, I've a few very catchy ones prepped. Sin and hellfire... one has lepers.
'Serenity'
Literary Buffistas 3: Don't Parse the Blurb, Dear.
There's more to life than watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer! No. Really, there is! Honestly! Here's a place for Buffistas to come and discuss what it is they're reading, their favorite authors and poets. "Geez. Crack a book sometime."
Toddson - Dec 20, 2011 5:02:50 am PST #17056 of 28287
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
DavidS - Dec 20, 2011 5:06:44 am PST #17057 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Good one, Todd. Pemmican is definitely travel food in narratives set in the frontier.
I always wanted to try some. Yeah, it involved berries.
Consuela - Dec 20, 2011 6:29:41 am PST #17058 of 28287
We are Buffistas. This isn't our first apocalypse. -- Pix
One of the key foods for sailors in the Age of Sail was salted meat: it's one of the reasons the Portuguese became so powerful, because they cornered the cod fisheries in the North Atlantic, and cod salts up really well.
The enormous reliance on salt cod and salt pork and whatever gave rise to scurvy, hence the use of limes, and hence the term "limey" to refer to a British sailor.
P.M. Marc - Dec 20, 2011 7:53:03 am PST #17059 of 28287
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
For reasons that I have yet to figure, we always had pilot bread (hardtack) in the house as a kid.
So I'd eat it while pretending to be on a ship, or otherwise adventuring.
juliana - Dec 20, 2011 8:24:24 am PST #17060 of 28287
I’d be lying if I didn’t say that I miss them all tonight…
Pemmican is actually pretty tasty, IMHO. I mean, I wouldn't want to live off of it, but I would snack on it now and again as a kid.
DavidS - Dec 20, 2011 8:30:53 am PST #17061 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
For reasons that I have yet to figure, we always had pilot bread (hardtack) in the house as a kid.
Yeah, it's big in Canada (esp. Newfoundland) and Alaska. Apparently you need it for some Canadian meal called "fish and brewis" which also requires something called "scrunchions."
Toddson - Dec 20, 2011 8:33:58 am PST #17062 of 28287
Friends don't let friends read "Atlas Shrugged"
Scrunchions - is that what they make scrunchies out of?
Jesse - Dec 20, 2011 8:43:07 am PST #17063 of 28287
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Now I want bacalhau.
DavidS - Dec 20, 2011 8:47:11 am PST #17064 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Scrunchions - is that what they make scrunchies out of?
Yes! If you make your scrunchies out of fried bits of salt pork.
DavidS - Dec 20, 2011 8:48:03 am PST #17065 of 28287
"Look, son, if it's good enough for Shirley Bassey, it's good enough for you."
Now I want bacalhau.
It's traditional for Christmas and does use salt cod.