Grilled Worms, what the ????????

jdoe

You guys legitimately eat stuff like Fried Mars Bars and Fried Snickers in actual pubs and restaurants? Here they are a circus/fair attraction. How are we the ones always getting railed for unhealthy lifestyles (granted they are, just seems we are in good company).

Corew

Not to mention where you find all this stuff, like drippings from an old grave urn.. yeah, I'd totally eat that..

UrQuan

AlexDougherty wrote: »

Beatle Shots, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Corn Mash

I think you'll find that those are actually Beetle Shots, not Beatle Shots. Unless they're prepared by four lads from Liverpool, anyway...

Whisper292

There's an Aldmeri quest where the player has to save some stolen rotmeth ad the mammoths who are used in the manufacture of it. The Bosmer who gives the quest describes it as aged meat and some sort of bug parts (maybe thunderbug parts or maggots?) aged for several years in a mammoth's stomach. Not sure why the in-game recipe has it calling for corn mash. Maybe that's the non-Bosmer style of cooking, tehee.

And I can't even say "wasp squeezings" without cracking up.

robacooperb16_ESO

jdoe wrote: »

You guys legitimately eat stuff like Fried Mars Bars and Fried Snickers in actual pubs and restaurants? Here they are a circus/fair attraction. How are we the ones always getting railed for unhealthy lifestyles (granted they are, just seems we are in good company).

Yes. Yes I do. Of course I also regularly ski, hike, and bike in the mountains so I work off a lot of the food (and many pints) that I have at the pubs. Nutritionist recommends I try and have at least 3000 calories/day to keep a healthy weight.

zgrssd

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

Mm, last I looked at cladology, the fungus kingdom (the one mushrooms belong to) is more closely related to the animal kingdom than the plant one, to boot. Is there a mycologist in here who can describe how that works? I know part of it has to do with cell structure, and other part having to do with the way mushrooms ... "eat".

Actually we don't even need that. It is called the "green pact" after all. Not many green mushrooms around - I think (you cannot be sure in Tamriel)

Pyatra

Noswell wrote: »

Wisp floss always weirds me out.

Yeah this one freaks me out the most, I'm worried someone's going to find me digging through a Wisp's bathroom trash can to find used floss. Then it's just going to be a long awkward silence and no one likes those.

Pyatra

jdoe wrote: »

You guys legitimately eat stuff like Fried Mars Bars and Fried Snickers in actual pubs and restaurants? Here they are a circus/fair attraction. How are we the ones always getting railed for unhealthy lifestyles (granted they are, just seems we are in good company).

I live in the south... pretty sure deep fried butter sticks win murica the title back.

isengrimb16_ESO

zgrssd wrote: »

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

Mm, last I looked at cladology, the fungus kingdom (the one mushrooms belong to) is more closely related to the animal kingdom than the plant one, to boot. Is there a mycologist in here who can describe how that works? I know part of it has to do with cell structure, and other part having to do with the way mushrooms ... "eat".

Actually we don't even need that. It is called the "green pact" after all. Not many green mushrooms around - I think (you cannot be sure in Tamriel)

Well, they have ones that glow bright blue! Not sure what to make of that at all.

robacooperb16_ESO wrote: »

AlexDougherty wrote: »

Haggis and Fried Snickers are both Scottish, so be very careful there or someone will play the racism card. Actuall Haggis isn't much weirder than sausages (it essentially is a giant sausage with offal in it), and fried Snickers is actually quite nice.

Fried Mars bars are pretty popular in some East Coast pubs over here in Canada, though my favourite is the Bacon Wrapped Deep Fried Mars Bar with Ice Cream special at the Newfie bar in town. Soooooo good.

Actually here in Calgary we will pretty much deep fry anything when it comes to food (I claim it is an important link to our Scottish heritage) see: http://cs.calgarystampede.com/fun-food/food/

Well, Newfies also eat deep fried pork fat, and various other high-fat, high salt stuff. Comes from 4 or 500 years of living on a rock where you need fish heads to make enough soil to get a garden growing, I guess.

My favourite deep-fry treat is still perogies, though. Sometimes I can't get enough of those things.

jdoe

robacooperb16_ESO wrote: »

jdoe wrote: »

You guys legitimately eat stuff like Fried Mars Bars and Fried Snickers in actual pubs and restaurants? Here they are a circus/fair attraction. How are we the ones always getting railed for unhealthy lifestyles (granted they are, just seems we are in good company).

Yes. Yes I do. Of course I also regularly ski, hike, and bike in the mountains so I work off a lot of the food (and many pints) that I have at the pubs. Nutritionist recommends I try and have at least 3000 calories/day to keep a healthy weight.

Hah, its cool, wasn't meant as a jab. I'm just honestly more upset everyone is responding to that comment of mine, and not the one pleading for some way to have real Haggis in the States.

robacooperb16_ESO

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

My favourite deep-fry treat is still perogies, though. Sometimes I can't get enough of those things.

I can't wait until one of the pubs does their special deep-fried perogies with Brothers' pepperoni inside them again. I may have over consumed last time.

isengrimb16_ESO

robacooperb16_ESO wrote: »

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

My favourite deep-fry treat is still perogies, though. Sometimes I can't get enough of those things.

I can't wait until one of the pubs does their special deep-fried perogies with Brothers' pepperoni inside them again. I may have over consumed last time.

Oo, that does sound pretty good. I used to get some really good ones back home from this Ukranian community centre; every Friday this old guy would cook up a few batches and sell them for a few hours. Nice and fresh and hot and well-oiled, but not fried yet - but you could do that in a toaster oven in the container they came in. Best I ever had; you'd get a dozen very large perogies for $5 (but this was back in the 1990s).

In all my whirlwind travels after that, though, I haven't really found any surprising little places to eat with that special something on the menu. Please don't say "Husky".

concobar

AlexDougherty wrote: »

What is with some of the weirder recipes in this game, for example:

Grilled Worms, ingredients: Plump Worms & Dripping
RothMead, ingredients: Aged Meat & Corn Mash
Meat Muscat, ingredients: Aged Meat & Wine Grapes
Beatle Shots, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Corn Mash
Dusk Wine, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Wine Grapes

I can get my head around Rothmead and Meat Muscat being Bosmer recipes, but they shouldn't have non-meat ingredients (because of the Green Pact). I'm not sure whether Bealtle Shots & Dusk Wine are Bosmer or Khaiit recipes, but I can get my head around them nevertheless.

But Grilled Worms, you would have to be nearly dead from starvation before you could look at a bowl of worms and say "I know, I'll grill these, hmmmmm". Maybe not even then.

By the way, I'm not asking for these to be changed, I'm just opening up a thread for people to discuss the weird recipes in this game. (well hopefully)

I ate worms in the military as part of survival training.

Reivax

robacooperb16_ESO wrote: »

Fried Mars bars are pretty popular in some East Coast pubs over here in Canada, though my favourite is the Bacon Wrapped Deep Fried Mars Bar with Ice Cream special at the Newfie bar in town. Soooooo good.

Actually here in Calgary we will pretty much deep fry anything when it comes to food (I claim it is an important link to our Scottish heritage) see: http://cs.calgarystampede.com/fun-food/food/

Is the place serving this bacon wrapped Mars bar in Calgary? if so, what is the name please, I'm going to Calgary on business at end of summer, and I'd like to try one!

GreySix

concobar wrote: »

AlexDougherty wrote: »

What is with some of the weirder recipes in this game, for example:

Grilled Worms, ingredients: Plump Worms & Dripping
RothMead, ingredients: Aged Meat & Corn Mash
Meat Muscat, ingredients: Aged Meat & Wine Grapes
Beatle Shots, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Corn Mash
Dusk Wine, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Wine Grapes

I can get my head around Rothmead and Meat Muscat being Bosmer recipes, but they shouldn't have non-meat ingredients (because of the Green Pact). I'm not sure whether Bealtle Shots & Dusk Wine are Bosmer or Khaiit recipes, but I can get my head around them nevertheless.

But Grilled Worms, you would have to be nearly dead from starvation before you could look at a bowl of worms and say "I know, I'll grill these, hmmmmm". Maybe not even then.

By the way, I'm not asking for these to be changed, I'm just opening up a thread for people to discuss the weird recipes in this game. (well hopefully)

I ate worms in the military as part of survival training.

Never did that, though did eat a bowl of Raisin Bran full of squirming bo-weevils (before somebody tuned on the light and I saw my cereal moving).

Kiash

AlexDougherty wrote: »

Us British also eat Black Pudding (blood pudding to Americans) which is lovely with bacon, sausages, fried bread, etc. We also eat White pudding (also blood pudding to Americans) which is essentially the same thing, but a different colour. And we eat salad cream, which is completely different to mayonaise.

I'm gonna be honest with you, even thinking about something called blood pudding makes me queasy. It did not help when I looked it up and saw a picture. Literally churned my stomach lol.

AlexDougherty

jdoe wrote: »

You guys legitimately eat stuff like Fried Mars Bars and Fried Snickers in actual pubs and restaurants? Here they are a circus/fair attraction. How are we the ones always getting railed for unhealthy lifestyles (granted they are, just seems we are in good company).

Not Pubs or Restaurants, more like Chippies (Fish and Chip shops). Also they do Deep Fried Curly Wurley and Deep Fried Pizza. But it's in Scotland, where they love this stuff.

AlexDougherty

Kiash wrote: »

AlexDougherty wrote: »

Us British also eat Black Pudding (blood pudding to Americans) which is lovely with bacon, sausages, fried bread, etc. We also eat White pudding (also blood pudding to Americans) which is essentially the same thing, but a different colour. And we eat salad cream, which is completely different to mayonaise.

I'm gonna be honest with you, even thinking about something called blood pudding makes me queasy. It did not help when I looked it up and saw a picture. Literally churned my stomach lol.

Well we don't call it Blood Pudding, we call it Black Pudding, and it's a lot nicer than it looks. Should also point out that the Spanish also have an equivalent, which translates as Blood Sausage.

It's a very sensible way to use part of the pig that would otherwise go to waste. It goes back to the Dark Ages.

kieso

worms = full O protein!

Atheus

Apparently the person in charge of recipes over at ZOS is a witch.

from Macbeth

A dark Cave. In the middle, a Caldron boiling. Thunder.

Enter the three Witches.

1 WITCH. Thrice the brinded cat hath mew'd.
2 WITCH. Thrice and once, the hedge-pig whin'd.
3 WITCH. Harpier cries:—'tis time! 'tis time!
1 WITCH. Round about the caldron go;
In the poison'd entrails throw.—
Toad, that under cold stone,
Days and nights has thirty-one;
Swelter'd venom sleeping got,
Boil thou first i' the charmed pot!
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake;
Eye of newt, and toe of frog,
Wool of bat, and tongue of dog,
Adder's fork, and blind-worm's sting,
Lizard's leg, and owlet's wing,—
For a charm of powerful trouble,
Like a hell-broth boil and bubble.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
3 WITCH. Scale of dragon; tooth of wolf;
Witches' mummy; maw and gulf
Of the ravin'd salt-sea shark;
Root of hemlock digg'd i the dark;
Liver of blaspheming Jew;
Gall of goat, and slips of yew
Sliver'd in the moon's eclipse;
Nose of Turk, and Tartar's lips;
Finger of birth-strangled babe
Ditch-deliver'd by a drab,—
Make the gruel thick and slab:
Add thereto a tiger's chaudron,
For the ingrediants of our caldron.
ALL. Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn, and caldron bubble.
2 WITCH. Cool it with a baboon's blood,
Then the charm is firm and good.

So there you have it - the recipes of Tamriel by Shakespeare.

Potenza

Should have read this AFTER my lunch. Thank you very much.

robacooperb16_ESO

Reivax wrote: »

robacooperb16_ESO wrote: »

Fried Mars bars are pretty popular in some East Coast pubs over here in Canada, though my favourite is the Bacon Wrapped Deep Fried Mars Bar with Ice Cream special at the Newfie bar in town. Soooooo good.

Actually here in Calgary we will pretty much deep fry anything when it comes to food (I claim it is an important link to our Scottish heritage) see: http://cs.calgarystampede.com/fun-food/food/

Is the place serving this bacon wrapped Mars bar in Calgary? if so, what is the name please, I'm going to Calgary on business at end of summer, and I'd like to try one!

http://www.atlantictrapandgill.com/calgary/
Just outside of downtown and along LRT line.

It's special usually offered on Fri & Sat nights.

Gwarok

j.murro2ub17_ESO wrote: »

kieso wrote: »

worms = full O protein!

Should have read this AFTER my lunch. Thank you very much.

Yum Yum Gimme Some

AlexDougherty

Gwarok wrote: »

kieso wrote: »

worms = full O protein!

Yum Yum Gimme Some

Those are mealworms, they are supposed to be quite nice, especially if made into burgers. I've seen it on a cookery show.

UrQuan

Kiash wrote: »

AlexDougherty wrote: »

Us British also eat Black Pudding (blood pudding to Americans) which is lovely with bacon, sausages, fried bread, etc. We also eat White pudding (also blood pudding to Americans) which is essentially the same thing, but a different colour. And we eat salad cream, which is completely different to mayonaise.

I'm gonna be honest with you, even thinking about something called blood pudding makes me queasy. It did not help when I looked it up and saw a picture. Literally churned my stomach lol.

Black pudding is delicious. The perfect Sunday breakfast:
Black Pudding
Bacon
Sausages
Fried Eggs
Fried Bread
Fried Tomato
Of course, you use the same pan to fry all of this (maybe the eggs go separately if you want), so everything gets that amazing bacon fat flavour. The bread, in particular, really benefits from this.

ZeroInspiration

AlexDougherty wrote: »

What is with some of the weirder recipes in this game, for example:

Grilled Worms, ingredients: Plump Worms & Dripping
RothMead, ingredients: Aged Meat & Corn Mash
Meat Muscat, ingredients: Aged Meat & Wine Grapes
Beatle Shots, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Corn Mash
Dusk Wine, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Wine Grapes

I can get my head around Rothmead and Meat Muscat being Bosmer recipes, but they shouldn't have non-meat ingredients (because of the Green Pact). I'm not sure whether Bealtle Shots & Dusk Wine are Bosmer or Khaiit recipes, but I can get my head around them nevertheless.

But Grilled Worms, you would have to be nearly dead from starvation before you could look at a bowl of worms and say "I know, I'll grill these, hmmmmm". Maybe not even then.

By the way, I'm not asking for these to be changed, I'm just opening up a thread for people to discuss the weird recipes in this game. (well hopefully)

Are you aware that many cultures eat worms, ants, beetles and other insects? I'd say that most countries eat some type of insect so I don't know why it surprises you.

elorei

isengrimb16_ESO wrote: »

Mm, last I looked at cladology, the fungus kingdom (the one mushrooms belong to) is more closely related to the animal kingdom than the plant one, to boot. Is there a mycologist in here who can describe how that works? I know part of it has to do with cell structure, and other part having to do with the way mushrooms ... "eat".

Easy answer? no photosynthesis.

UrQuan

ZeroInspiration wrote: »

AlexDougherty wrote: »

What is with some of the weirder recipes in this game, for example:

Grilled Worms, ingredients: Plump Worms & Dripping
RothMead, ingredients: Aged Meat & Corn Mash
Meat Muscat, ingredients: Aged Meat & Wine Grapes
Beatle Shots, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Corn Mash
Dusk Wine, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Wine Grapes

I can get my head around Rothmead and Meat Muscat being Bosmer recipes, but they shouldn't have non-meat ingredients (because of the Green Pact). I'm not sure whether Bealtle Shots & Dusk Wine are Bosmer or Khaiit recipes, but I can get my head around them nevertheless.

But Grilled Worms, you would have to be nearly dead from starvation before you could look at a bowl of worms and say "I know, I'll grill these, hmmmmm". Maybe not even then.

By the way, I'm not asking for these to be changed, I'm just opening up a thread for people to discuss the weird recipes in this game. (well hopefully)

Are you aware that many cultures eat worms, ants, beetles and other insects? I'd say that most countries eat some type of insect so I don't know why it surprises you.

I'd say that every single country eats insects... It's just that not all of them do it intentionally. I do hear that locusts are quite tasty. I'll have to try them one day.

AlexDougherty

Ur-Quan wrote: »

ZeroInspiration wrote: »

AlexDougherty wrote: »

What is with some of the weirder recipes in this game, for example:

Grilled Worms, ingredients: Plump Worms & Dripping
RothMead, ingredients: Aged Meat & Corn Mash
Meat Muscat, ingredients: Aged Meat & Wine Grapes
Beatle Shots, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Corn Mash
Dusk Wine, ingredients: Dusk Beatles & Wine Grapes

I can get my head around Rothmead and Meat Muscat being Bosmer recipes, but they shouldn't have non-meat ingredients (because of the Green Pact). I'm not sure whether Bealtle Shots & Dusk Wine are Bosmer or Khaiit recipes, but I can get my head around them nevertheless.

But Grilled Worms, you would have to be nearly dead from starvation before you could look at a bowl of worms and say "I know, I'll grill these, hmmmmm". Maybe not even then.

By the way, I'm not asking for these to be changed, I'm just opening up a thread for people to discuss the weird recipes in this game. (well hopefully)

Are you aware that many cultures eat worms, ants, beetles and other insects? I'd say that most countries eat some type of insect so I don't know why it surprises you.

I'd say that every single country eats insects... It's just that not all of them do it intentionally. I do hear that locusts are quite tasty. I'll have to try them one day.

Yeah, quite worrying when you find out that food has maximum amounts of insect, but you get over it.

cygnus_royb14_ESO

Gagh is always best served live.