Author Topic: The Official TBR Silliness Thread---2023 (Read 243210 times)

catfish1957 · « **Reply #1754 on:** April 10, 2023, 07:50:42 am »

Quote from: Kamaji on April 10, 2023, 07:11:55 am

That one made me laugh.

If I were to guess, I am thinking that its purpose was to make 10 day old horse meat edible at the time.

Wingnut · « **Reply #1755 on:** April 10, 2023, 08:02:38 am »

Quote from: catfish1957 on April 10, 2023, 07:50:42 am

That one made me laugh.

If I were to guess, I am thinking that its purpose was to make 10 day old horse meat edible at the time.

Well that, and to cover the whip marks.

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #1756 on:** April 10, 2023, 08:34:18 am »

Quote from: Kamaji on April 10, 2023, 07:11:55 am

Although I suspected it may have been invented by a sutler to cover the flavor of less than well preserved meat...

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In 1824 Henderson William Brand, a chef to King George IV of the United Kingdom, created the original sauce on which A.1. is based.[5] A popular myth has it that the king declared it "A.1." and the name was born.[

DCPatriot · « **Reply #1757 on:** April 10, 2023, 08:40:56 am »

Are you sure you guys aren't just 'reaching' here?

I'm sure a lot of families in those days didn't have spices like salt, pepper, basil or oregano...or cooking oil.

Having a jar of flavored sauce that keeps without being refrigerated?

I bet they "...put that sh*t on everything!!"

Wingnut · « **Reply #1758 on:** April 10, 2023, 09:13:53 am »

Later settlers, conscious of climate change, switched to Heinz 57 Sause.

Kamaji · « **Reply #1759 on:** April 10, 2023, 09:24:10 am »

@Kamaji

Lookit that guy throw that horse!

He is wasting his time there!

He needs to get into Pro-Rasslin!

Smokin Joe · « **Reply #1760 on:** April 10, 2023, 10:14:38 am »

Quote from: Kamaji on April 10, 2023, 09:24:10 am

Yeah...that bomb disposal job offer would be looking pretty good about then.

sneakypete · « **Reply #1761 on:** April 10, 2023, 10:51:20 am »

Quote from: DCPatriot on April 10, 2023, 08:40:56 am

Are you sure you guys aren't just 'reaching' here?

I'm sure a lot of families in those days didn't have spices like salt, pepper, basil or oregano...or cooking oil.

Having a jar of flavored sauce that keeps without being refrigerated?

I bet they "...put that sh*t on everything!!"

@DCPatriot

I seriously doubt anyone but POSSIBLY Eskimos were without salt and pepper at any time past the caveman. Salt was used to keep meat from rotting,preserve animal hides,and most likely several other things I can't remember.

Pepper has probably been used just as long,probably to help cover the taste of rotting food.

Don't know about the others,but salt and pepper were basics since the day they were discovered.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #1762 on:** April 10, 2023, 12:26:32 pm »

Quote from: Smokin Joe on April 10, 2023, 08:34:18 am

Although I suspected it may have been invented by a sutler to cover the flavor of less than well preserved meat...

To what end? If it is ganky it will make you sick, and you'll likely huck it up anyway. That has not changed in the last couple hundred years.

I will never understand that idea - That somehow the means of preservation has changed so much. Yes, we have modern nitrites... But powdered celery does the same thing. Bacon and summer sausage is much the same.

What hasn't changed is that if the meat has turned, you throw it out.

roamer_1 · « **Reply #1763 on:** April 10, 2023, 12:35:33 pm »

Quote from: DCPatriot on April 10, 2023, 08:40:56 am

Are you sure you guys aren't just 'reaching' here?

I'm sure a lot of families in those days didn't have spices like salt, pepper, basil or oregano...or cooking oil.

@DCPatriot

Of course they did. But they used tallow or bacon grease, preferred to butter or ghee... Do you know why? Because cooking with tallow or bacon grease makes food a thousand times more tasty.

I would wager their food tasted BETTER than yours. And I have had coon cooked across days in a pot over a fire - Let me tell you something - That's really good eating.

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