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This is where we can share the marvels of the human brain.... particularly the spectacularly bad ideas it throws up some times
Exhibit 1:
Yes, it seems someone not only thought of it, they continued to think and arrived at the conclusion that this was a good idea. They then wrote to Clooney for his permission....
SERIOUSLY??
Sweat flavoured tofu?.....YUCK 
okaaay....
so where's the lady flavoured tofu?
and how do you know it tastes like Clooney? do you get one free lick of him to compare?
Maybe he tastes like he looks....
*shrug*
Well seeing that the smell of sweat only comes from bacteria breeding in it, why (for goodness sake) would you want to eat that....
hahahaha
Now if it was Jennifer Hawkins for instance, that would be a different matter entirely..
Here we go....
BLEH
What??....where you goin..?..
Haven't we had this discussion before?
Several times?
I've never discussed George Cloonie's sweat before!
But you can never get enough of Jennifer Hawkins! (Arthur will back me up on that one)
Yes but you girls never seem to understand the point so Andro has to keep banging on about these things...
Well said writ, Arthur!
Blah blah blah...
So, back to Clooney
And 'Our Jen'....
Where are the gals when I need em?
hmmm...so it's a choice of Clooney or Barbie Girl sweat?
don't go much on either of those...
Monty, it doesn't matter, I'm not eating tofu no matter what it tastes like
i suppose i should find out what it is....
doesn't sound that good....no wonder they're resorting to extreme measures.
I lurrrve tofu!
Especially the fresh ones you get in Asian wet markets. nom nom
I'll also be having tofu curry tonight. That is the grand plan for the day
I miss the spicy tofu I used to get for lunch each day. Tofu can be nice, depending on the type and the way it's cooked. Otherwise it can be disgustingly foul.
I've very rarely had bad tofu... then again, I've never had smelly tofu
That is so messed up in so many ways, I mean what the hell, really what were they thinking!?!?!? I bet someone would buy it too, and not as a gag. What has our world come to. Clofu is a disturbing thought.
I don't understand stuff like Tofu. As a basic food it taskes like nothing. If you fry it it tasts of fried oil, if you spice it, it tastes of the spices. I'm told it's available in lots of different flavours, like chicken or fish or something. Why not eat chicken or fish with some tasty vegetables?
But tofu has it's own taste!! And it's yummy!
AD, I think people that eat tofu either are vegetarians or use it as a cheap substitute for meat. And then there's dekrazee who apparently likes it.
Yeah... to my mind it's a meat substitute for people who don't want to eat real meat for whatever reason.
Just looked up what it's made of... it's essentially what you get if you apply the cheese-making process to soy milk. I find this slightly less objectionable than the reprocessed 'mycoprotein' used to make Quorn.
For those not familiar with Quorn, you do not want to be familiar with Quorn.
Something like a vegetarian equivalent of a Mcdonalds burger...
See, that's cos you are all living in Western countries.
I be grown up in Asian country. It be a staple. It be YUMMY
Yeah, I'm with you dek, I love it too.
I always thought that Quorn was a little town in South Australia....at least that's what it was when I was there!
But I will give the tofu a miss, due to it's lack of flavour..
It doesn't lack flavour!!
Does so too!!
No, seriously, it doesn't!!
A bit like saying that tyres don't taste of rubber.
well...i've never tried it and there's nothing been said here that will convince me to either.
Don't listen to em Sir M.... they ain't got a clue
fortunately i wouldn't know where to get any from, even if i wanted some.
You can buy it in supermarkets, asian grocery shops and delicatessens here in Aust..
next time you're in a Chinese restaurant, just order a dish with em in it!
Yeah just ask for any dish that tastes like (either) shit or nothing...
I will have to take all of you to my favourite Japanese takeaway place in Sydney. They make the best spicy tofu. So good I ate it practically every day for lunch.
mmmm... spicy tofu...
Dek, Japanese Kitchen, upstairs in the hunter connection, off hunter street. Please post me some.
LOL!
I LOOOVE tofu. the silken egg tofu that comes served on a sizzling plate on chinese restaurants? Those have HEAPs of taste. and the spicy sambal tofu my grandma used to make...i could it eat that forever.
I'm curious about quorn...although i'm too scared to google it up myself...:s somebody shed some light on it please.
Oh my yes... you talking abt the silken tofu which has like a fried layer? They look like hockey pucks (in shape)?
I'd kill for that right now
i just had that yesterday....divine!!!
Hmmm.... I have some silken tofu in the fridge at the moment....
i need some food in my system now
I be so jealous
nevermind, I have paneer curry waiting at home for me
Apart from being the name of a small town in South Aust,Quorn is the name of a meat substitute..(Don't think I'll try it)
Ohhhh
Hey, those can be really really good.
Esp the ones we get in Singapore. The fresh ones, not the tinned variety we get here
no dek...quorn is HARDLY what you are talking about...blech!
*reads article again*
Oh... right... oops
So much for speed reading
Ok so here is the challenge. Assuming I live 'till then I will be in Sydney in December 2010 (and for a couple of days after new year 2011 I think, who knows!) Anyway, Dek has already promised me the finest cuisine Sydney has to offer (I'm assuming it's not that Scottish range of restaurants or that outfit headed by some idiot Confederate Colonel - or similar). Anyway, other than the latter unmentionables (and sushi and tofu). Back to the challenge. Dek or Morgan has to find a restaurant (I'm not accepting any home cooked crap ) that does tofu that I will eat and enjoy.
You are so on!
Heh... didn't realise I had already promised, but get over here!!!
I guess you make promises to all the guys... It's ok, I'm too old and ugly to be offended.
Don't think I've made promises to anyone else....
*thinks hard*
It's not you Mr Dent, it's me memory... you should know that by now
It's no good, I'm still sulking...
S'ok.... You won't be sulking any more when you get here and have yummy food and England win the Ashes
Good. I still don't think you'll find tofu that I like. I will be awkward and I won't admit liking it unless it is something special but I am an honest bloke where food is concerned and if I enjoy it I will say so...
It all depends though Dent... who with all these cracks about being old I'm tempted to start calling Dentures... Antipodean food has certain aspects that you won't find in the UK for the most part - or at least not find easily. Don't get me wrong, I'm a great lover of great British food, but I'd prefer maybe a third of the salt.
Also we have a very strong Asian-Pacific influence here, and much better access to fresh fruit and vegetables. So we tend to lean toward more sweet and crisp notes in our mains then you would be used to.
Dentures HAAHAHAHAHAHA
Can't believe no one has thought of it before!
Hey Mr Dent, it's hard to say, not knowing what you've had before. What is it abt tofu you don't like?
It's tasteless, has no texture, has no, well, nothing apart from whatever it's flavoured with.
*Puppy* I don't know why you think it relevant to make a compariso between British food and Antipodean food. I don't see the relevance of the salt comment. Fresh fruit and vegetables, including those "unique" to Asia Pacific" are available all the year round anywhere in Europe! Asia Pacific food is freely available anywhere in Europe - ingredients, restaurants or takeaways. I don't know how you know you can say that you (presumably in Australia) tend to lean toward more sweet and crisp notes than I would be used to and even if it were true, what relevance has that got to tofu?
I'm basing it upon mainly discussions with Toby Puttock and Andrew Sankey, two chefs that I have the greatest admiration for. Given both of their experiences I suggest they probably demonstrate what the differences are between Australia and the UK in relationship to food. I'm not talking from my own experience, but relying upon the opinion of these two gentleman.
As I said though I'm a great lover of British food. At the same time as I'm sure you'd like to come over the Sydney and sample what we have to offer over here, I'd love to travel to the UK and France and see what you have over there. I never have had a Michelin star meal and until I get over there I'm not likely to ever have one until I'm in your neck of the woods. And you couldn;'t even begin to understand how envious I am of the fact that for you to be able to have a Michelin star meal you need to get a 30 minute cab ride, whereas I have to take a 24 hour flight (or however long it is now...)
Oh - I should mention that the salt comment was mine, but that was based on me using a lot of recipes from British cookbooks and finding that I've had to reduce the salt that I've used in recipes to make it more to the taste that I'm used to.
Well, that could be due to the difference in salt.
Like Singapore salt is way saltier then Sydney salt
Mr Dent - Ok, now I know what I have to work with. Good tofu definitely ain't tasteless. It should taste like soy beans at least
And then that taste is enhanced by the flavourings of the dish
all this talk had made me decide on having spicy tofu with rice for lunch. Hee!!
I hate you
*takes a bite of her lowly croissant*
croissant? hahahah! pfft!
*washes the lunch down with tea*
HAH! I haz cawfeee!!!
but you haz no tofu! *say it like Mr Miyagi*
GRRRRRR
And here's me just roasting a chicken with butter, parsley and marjoram stuffed under the skin on a slow roast so the meat stays extremely moist and tender but cooks through evenly...
Gosh. I literally drooled at that, and I don't even know what marjoram is....
Hey PupRad, you should check this forum out!! http://www.tangler.com/forum/recipes
There a few restaurants in the area where I live who have chefs that have worked in Michelin Starred restaurants but I don't think that any of them are actually starred. There may be the odd country club. Colchester is famed for it's oysters (annual festival etc...) and I know there are lots of starred restaurants who insist on using the oysters.
In any case I can cook better than most of them and at a tiny fraction of the cost.
Hey Mr Dent, if I blow your mind with good tofu, will you cook for me?
I have tried the food in Australia. Mainly in Perth, Melbourne, Brisbane, Sydney and Adelaide (I wonder what they have in common!). Also in the Townsville area and some crummy little hole called Hobart. I have to say that the type of food, quality and standards of service in the restaurants are no different to most other countries I've been to (including the UK). In other words, they vary from hopeless through to excellent. Apart from the sunshine and additional airco, there is not much difference between Aussie and UK in terms of eating out. Ok there are different fresh foods on the menu but most of it is down to naming conventions for stuff which is fairly similar in taste and texture. Summary; as good or as bad as anywhere else.
Agreed
In fact, within a 30 minute taxi ride of my house I can get food cooked by chefs from the following backgrounds; British, Irish, Pakistani, Bangadeshi, Sri-Lankan, Indian (British and real Indian), Chineese, Malaysian, Indonesian, Thai, French, Italian, Greek, Dutch, German, Nepalese, Australian, Austrian, Various Eastern European, Egyptian, Turkish, Spanish, Portugese, Belgian, Argentinian, North American, Mexican, Peruvian, Japanese etc etc etc. Most of them serve up stuff that they would do in a restaruant in their home towns. Again, the variation in quality applies.
The Nepalese is my current favourite. The Ghurkas are based in Colchester Garrison and they are not shy about opening take-aways or restaurants in the area when they retire.
Lurrve Nepali food. Have only had it a few times, but each occasion was superb.
Never gotten into Nepali... starting to get into su:t at the moment, even though I can't pronounce it... easier to call it Korean barbecue
Oh, nom nom!
OHH yeah...i like nepali food as well. My current favourite is their dumpling like thing called Momo. don't be fooled by its funky name...it's awesome with the special sauce that goes with it. mmmm....
mmmmm Momo.....
I recently had Burmese dumplings. Also mucho yummy
