Comments on: NOT fish fingers a la Portuguese

By: >^..^< Josie and the LOLcats

>^..^< Josie and the LOLcats — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:15:00 +0000

Susie I’m impressed at the size of your family. So far it looks like you’ve got about five older sisters. Lucky you (or not?)

Next time we have a Talents get together can it be at your NYC pad?

Porky scratchings include every bit of the piggy skin including the bits you’d rather not think about. Yum. Black pudding anyone?

By: susie

susie — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 22:05:16 +0000

Hee, family gathering!

Nicky: KARTOFFELPOOFER! I’ve no idea what it was but it does sound familiar. And those menus were fab: highlight of many a summer holiday.

Tina: maybe you were so unimpressed by it that he’d given up cooking it by the time we came around? It sounds fairly horrible though. He did make some mean sprats for us on Saturdays for a while, I remember. But not ones he’d found on a French beach…

Josie: yes, I’m living in NYC in a fabulous Manhattan apartment, sipping lattes by day and Cosmos by night. I just pretend at a more mundane existence so the rest of you don’t feel so bad. :P (Do pork scratchings really include ears? I mean, it’s not like I imagine deep fried pigskin to be especially nice, but the concept of it being ears is quite icky.)

By: Tina

Tina — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 20:39:35 +0000

Nicky how can you have forgotten eating FFAP. Dad used to occasionally make them for himself for breakfast! There was some kind of tomatoey sauce (not the ketchup sort – real tomatoes and onions and stuff) that you poured over the fishfingers – as I remember the original version had bits in and we didnt like them and made dad sieve it! I have no idea what was particularly portuguese about it though.
I don’t remember the Kartoffelpoofer but I do remember him cooking some shellfish he had found on a french beach and then him carrying them around the campsite in a sandcastle making type of bucket and trying to persuade someone to eat them. Don’t remember anyone queuing up outside our tent for a sample!

Please can I not have any piggy ears – bleurch

By: >^..^< Josie and the lolcats

>^..^< Josie and the lolcats — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:56:00 +0000

btw Susie, why is your clock wrong? Are you secretly living in America?

By: >^..^< Josie and the lolcats

>^..^< Josie and the lolcats — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 14:51:46 +0000

floating soggy ears and fatty skin not good. However, if you deep fry them and call them ‘pork scratchings’ then you can sell them in pubs. yum yum.

Kartoffelpoofer sounds lovely.