Anyone up for a chat thread?

[Shane R]

Charlotte, Virginia

Charlottesville. Bishop Peter Robinson, presiding bishop of UECNA, lives about half an hour from there. He lives in Waynesboro which is the next significant city. It is on I-64 and US250 as well as US340. I visited him at his cathedral last summer and the guy is an endearing chap. He's British, unlike most Continuing bishops.

 

[The Liturgist]

I have heard of crocodile meat

I’ve had it in Ghana, imported from South Africa. There was a restaurant, sadly now closed, called the Monsoon Club, which was had first sushi bar in the country in addition to a very splendid menu of excellent South African cuts of beef, ostrich, crocodile, warthog, and other items. Another restaurant I liked served up really good steaks, and was called El Gaucho; I believe the owners were Chilean and not Argentine as the name implies, but either way it was splendid; they also had ostrich. Before the currency reform that pegged the Cedi to the dollar, these restaurants were also very inexpensive as the exchange rate was favorable, but afterwards, everything got very expensive.

 

[The Liturgist]

Charlottesville. Bishop Peter Robinson, presiding bishop of UECNA, lives about half an hour from there. He lives in Waynesboro which is the next significant city. It is on I-64 and US250 as well as US340. I visited him at his cathedral last summer and the guy is an endearing chap. He's British, unlike most Continuing bishops.

Yes you are quite right. An embarrassing typo because my great aunt and uncle, memory eternal, lived there. But traveling there on US Airways I would connect through Charlotte, adding to the confusion. But normally I flew out there on Delta.

 

[Shane R]

I've gotten ahold of kangaroo a couple of times. It makes an outstanding Cincinnati chili. For our style the leanest meat is preferable. And the kangaroo is not naturally a fatty animal.

 

[RileyG]

I've gotten ahold of kangaroo a couple of times. It makes an outstanding Cincinnati chili.

I wonder how you got it? Were you in the United States when you ate it?

 

[Shane R]

The Columbus Zoo used to have this kangaroo walk experience. My dad took my brother and I one year. You walked down a path and the kangaroos were doing their thing bouncing along beside you. But I think they had it electrified so if they tried to touch you they'd get zapped rather strongly.

 

[Shane R]

I wonder how you got it? Were you in the United States when you ate it?

Yes. There are dealers of 'exotic' meats that can source many things. (I used to be a butcher as well as fishmonger). I've gotten camel too. Some outstanding steak.

 

[Paidiske]

The Columbus Zoo used to have this kangaroo walk experience. My dad took my brother and I one year. You walked down a path and the kangaroos were doing their thing bouncing along beside you. But I think they had it electrified so if they tried to touch you they'd get zapped rather strongly.

That probably wasn't really necessary. A big male occasionally wants to make a point of his dominance (and even then seldom does more than posture), but roos are usually harmless. And quite friendly if they figure out humans will feed them.

 

[FaithT]

Yes. There are dealers of 'exotic' meats that can source many things. (I used to be a butcher as well as fishmonger). I've gotten camel too. Some outstanding steak.

Ewwww

 

[Paidiske]

I tried googling camel recipes, but the internet decided I must have meant caramel. Hmm.

 

[FaithT]

I tried googling camel recipes, but the internet decided I must have meant caramel. Hmm.

Google Search

 

[Paidiske]

Thank you. It's a bit academic, since I'm not likely to be cooking camel any time soon!

 

[FaithT]

Thank you. It's a bit academic, since I'm not likely to be cooking camel any time soon!

LOL!

 

[Shane R]

I may be the most blue collar priest in the Anglican Continuum. I have been a: janitor, butcher, fishmonger, sailor, painter, truck/lorry driver, car lot porter and occasional mechanic, and grocery stockboy. I also worked at a factory that made decks and staircases for trailers briefly. And the overnight manager of a Super 8 Motel.

 

[FaithT]

I may be the most blue collar priest in the Anglican Continuum. I have been a: janitor, butcher, fishmonger, sailor, painter, truck/lorry driver, car lot porter and occasional mechanic, and grocery stockboy. I also worked at a factory that made decks and staircases for trailers briefly. And the overnight manager of a Super 8 Motel.

We’re in the process of getting a new deck to be finished next week.

 

[Paidiske]

I may be the most blue collar priest in the Anglican Continuum. I have been a: janitor, butcher, fishmonger, sailor, painter, truck/lorry driver, car lot porter and occasional mechanic, and grocery stockboy. I also worked at a factory that made decks and staircases for trailers briefly. And the overnight manager of a Super 8 Motel.

That's a lot of valuable experience, though. You'll be able to relate to some of your parishioners in ways that many others would struggle to do.

(Since I've been in a more rural area, I've definitely been confronted with the culture gap between me and many of my parishioners!)

 

[Shane R]

I forgot I was also a cook at a bbq place. I knew I was missing something. I did the breakfast shift. They taught me how to scramble eggs by the score. 14" skillet, about 20 eggs in there. Don't let them get too brown. Fold, fold, fold, fold, whip.

 

[The Liturgist]

And the overnight manager of a Super 8 Motel.

In my youth i had an annual passport for Disneyland, and sometimes we would stay at the Super 8 (in my childhood, before annual passports were a thing, we still went a couple of times, staying at the Disneyland Hotel before it became unbelievably expensive around the same time Disney acquired it in 1988). At the time, the two Best Westerns in the Disneyland area were not that good, except for the Apollo Inn, which was acquired by Disney and demolished to make way for more parking around 1996, by which time we had been alienated by the closure of our favorite attractions like the Skyway and the Peoplemover during the Paul Pressler era.

 

[RileyG]

Yes. There are dealers of 'exotic' meats that can source many things. (I used to be a butcher as well as fishmonger). I've gotten camel too. Some outstanding steak.

That's very interesting! I don't have that much of an adventurous pilate, so I probably won't eat any "gamey" meat.

 

[RileyG]

I forgot I was also a cook at a bbq place. I knew I was missing something. I did the breakfast shift. They taught me how to scramble eggs by the score. 14" skillet, about 20 eggs in there. Don't let them get too brown. Fold, fold, fold, fold, whip.

I'm nearly 30 years old and have no idea how to separate an egg, let alone turn on an oven