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[returntosender]

My children are in their forties, They eat whatever they want to eat. Basically they cook or prepare the meals for themselves and their kids (my grandkids). Takeaway is unusual as are pre-prepared meals. The demand for pork medallions mentioned above came from the (grand) kids sampling in Auldi.

I have trouble understanding why you wouldn't cook for the kids. Salmon is hardly 'exotic'.

OB

Not sure why you think i didn't cook for my kids? I am the only one that cooked for them

 

[returntosender]

Actually, OB, I might disagree with you about whether salmon is exotic.

You may know my parish runs a food bank; and we get a lot of food donations from other organisations. Recently we had a whole bunch of fresh salmon fillets donated (don't ask me why, I don't know the back story).

Couldn't give them away. Food bank clients looked at me apprehensively and said, "I don't know how to cook that," "I wouldn't know what to do with that." We ended up sending a lot of the fillets home with volunteers who couldn't believe their luck, rather than throw them away.

For a lot of people, something like a simple salmon fillet is well outside their experience, either of cooking or eating.

I wonder why you and ob didn't contribute to my butter poll

 

[Paidiske]

Butter poll?

 

[Occams Barber]

Mussels in white wine sauce is an all time favourite for me. With olive bread.

Now I’m extra hungry!

I don't mind mussels but they can be a bit rubbery. I prefer oysters or scallops or cray or moreton bay bugs, or squid or octopus or ...

OB

 

[returntosender]

Butter poll?

Yes, here's a link:

Which is a staple for you? Butter or margarine?

I ask because I buy it when it's on sale but I don't eat it unless I am out of margarine. And then I cringe. Because I am afraid of how hard it is supposed to be on the heart.

www.christianforums.com

 

[returntosender]

I don't mind mussels but they can be a bit rubbery. I prefer oysters or scallops or cray or moreton bay bugs, or squid or octopus or ...

OB

Where's my vomit emoticon.

 

[Paidiske]

And now this thread really needs:

 

[returntosender]

And now this thread really needs:

 

[returntosender]

My children are in their forties, They eat whatever they want to eat. Basically they cook or prepare the meals for themselves and their kids (my grandkids). Takeaway is unusual as are pre-prepared meals. The demand for pork medallions mentioned above came from the (grand) kids sampling in Auldi.

I have trouble understanding why you wouldn't cook for the kids. Salmon is hardly 'exotic'.

OB

Everything else was https://www.christianforums.com/attachments/emoji-gif.320015/

 

[Michie]

I don't mind mussels but they can be a bit rubbery. I prefer oysters or scallops or cray or moreton bay bugs, or squid or octopus or ...

OB

Scallops. I love them. My favorite along with crab and lobster.

 

[PloverWing]

I don't mind mussels but they can be a bit rubbery. I prefer oysters or scallops or cray or moreton bay bugs, or squid or octopus or ...

OB

Okay, I've learned something today. I've heard of all the other sea critters on the list (and have eaten most of them), but I've never heard of Moreton Bay bugs. Wikipedia tells me they're related to lobsters. If they taste like lobsters too, that's pretty delicious.

One omission from your list is crabs. Blue crabs, especially, are very common where I live, and crabcakes are a local specialty. Do crabs make an appearance in Australian cuisine?

 

[Paidiske]

They do, but my impression is that fresh crab is expensive and maybe not as popular as some of the other options? (Intimidating both to cook and to eat, too). You can easily get tinned crab in the local supermarket.

 

[returntosender]

My older son rang me in the middle of all this. Somewhere in the conversation cooking came up - for two adults and three kids. He mentioned pork medallions as good value and good eating - even for a little (5 yo) kid.

I occasionally buy them, Clean (no fat) tender meat- a bit bland but responds well to sauces etc.

OB

I got it now. That's why you won't be a Christian. All that bottom feeders are not allowed.

 

[returntosender]

Okay, you sea food lovers how about starting a thread in food. It's getting into off topic to far, thanks.

 

[Robban]

Okay, you sea food lovers how about starting a thread in food. It's getting into off topic to far, thanks.

"It's better to eat in order to pray than to pray in order to eat."

(R. Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch)

 

[returntosender]

"It's better to eat in order to pray than to pray in order to eat."

(R. Menachem Mendel of Lubavitch)

That has nothing to do with the topic either.

 

[returntosender]

They'll be shutting down this one next. I'm surprised they went on this long

 

[Robban]

That has nothing to do with the topic either.

The way the OP is formulated it is more like politics.

Here is the deal, there are nations and a nation.

Christians do not have monoply on anything,

 

[returntosender]

What's your problem? Tell it to support.

 

[OldAbramBrown]

It does. Everything it states is a claim. How can it not be?

It's allusions. We got told those are claims, by those who seek to use it for their purposes. You could call them statements.

I was citing specific verses cited by 1611VET (post 53).

My point was that persons positioning themselves as public authoritative interpreters, have insufficient grasp of the meaning of statements about Holy Spirit, hence outsiders intuit that the propaganda doesn't quite hang together. Hence my answer in post 124 (middle of all the leaping salmon talk) to the question of some individuals supposedly giving up what they didn't have because it wasn't really given them.

I realise this isn't what OP wanted but I have mingled with enough enquirers and even long term insiders to be empathetic with the results of their legitimate quandaries. Usually the target responders to this enquiry are unsurprisingly in such justified refusal to take up any received terminology, that it might well be misconstrued (by some) as hostile.

140 (and subsequent discussion), 128, 124 and 11 also refer. I was commending OB's articulate reply to OP in 11.