F. A. Nettelbeck: unloved and unphased

[Ambreen]

Nope, you got that wrong. I eat fish, mussels, shark, calamari, shrimps,
snails and the odd roasted bug.

Black Swan, you're worrying me... :D

 

[bospress.net]

sliders. yechhh. is there a less appetizing term for a food item?

Yes, NOW THAT YOU MENTION IT, that brings up a picture of them being digested and sliding out your asshole....

Bill

 

[d gray]

that's really funny cause i wasn't even thinking that far ahead. i just picture a greasy burger covered with grease on a greasy bun that's so greasy it just slides down your throat without needing to chew...

but i love that when it's called a hamburger.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Rocky Mountain Oysters? Oh sorry; you said food item.

 

[d gray]

speaking of not needing to chew, i forgot about oysters as a repulsive "food" item.

had this recently and almost couldn't keep it down:

 

[bospress.net]

is that marrow?

 

[d gray]

yup

 

[Bruno Dante]

I've had White Castle, but still prefer In N' Out. I don't know, my uncle lives in New York and still says Jack In The Box tacos are what keep him visiting California every other month! So there's that.

Coincidentally I watched 'American Splendour' last night and White Castle features in it briefly. I'd never heard of the place before reading this thread the other day. 'Sliders' though? Wtf?

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Only knew about White Castle from the 1974 Creem overview of burger joints. Going to their website I see "slyder" was trademarked as of 1994.

Local toon network replayed the Futurama movie, Bender's Game. Near the end the group goes to "Wipe Castle" for food and, uh,....

"A sack of six with both" sounds excessive. Lester Bangs suggested having milk with the burgers. With my lactose intolerance that could be bad, very bad.

(Oh yeah, I was looking at a coupon from a Vancouver, BC, restaurant chain: White Spot. They advertise "sliders" as well. Me, I just go for the Triple O sauce. Sort of.)

 

[mjp]

"A sack of six with both" sounds excessive.

No, no, they are very small. You have to eat them by the dozen. Preferably when quite drunk. And young enough to deal with the consequences of 18 White Castles swimming around inside of you.

It wasn't uncommon for a few of my friends and I to order 50 or 60 of them at two or three AM on certain wobbly nights (25 years ago). You may not eat all of them, but they have to be there, just in case.

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Rocky Mountain Oysters? Oh sorry; you said food item.

Recipe for the above. Remember, you need a knife, a sharp knife.

 

[nervas]

As I just found out, from a girl at work eating them in the break room, they also have them in a microwaveable form? She said they're good. I don't know if I believe that, she didn't share. But for those not within any reasonable vicinity, I guess you could try heating some up...

 

[mjp]

It's just not the same.

Would you eat frozen Rocky Mountain Oysters or fine steak? No, of course you wouldn't. We are not savages.

 

[Erik]

Now where the heck would savages get hold of frozen food?
Unless they were eskimo savages, or Norwegian savages, or Minnesotan savages...

Real savages eat raw food, and I'm not talking about sushi.

 

[Bukfan]

Real savages eat raw food, and I'm not talking about sushi.

LOL - You mean, real savages have'nt invented the fire yet? :D

 

[Digney in Burnaby]

Steak tartare?

Our Governor-general (Queen's representative to Canada) got in international hot water for going north and having raw seal heart when it was offered to her.

So my tribe of savages is still connected to the inbred, backstabbing aristocracy of far too many centuries and this other tribe of savages can survive, and have survived, thousands of years in a place where white people go to freeze and die.

I tend to like my meat well-done but if you got to eat to live, well then eat it raw. And get picky back in the south when the line up for a greasey burger is three deep.

 

[Rekrab]

Well done only for me. Waiters cringe when I order an expensive steak and insist on well done. Gray inside. No pink. Pink hamburger makes me want to gag.

 

[Bukfan]

Well done only for me.

Same here! I can accept a slightly pink spot in the center of a hamburger but that's it.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

Steak tartare?

My wife had that as an appetizer at our wedding dinner (just her and myself) in Vegas a couple of years ago. It's brought to the table on a very nice plate; the finest ground beef you can find, with a raw egg cracked in the middle of it. Served tableside and mixed by a pretentious man who'd rather be boinking his sister.

I managed to scarf a taste before she put that away like a dirty napkin. Quite nice really, at $18.99 a shot. :rolleyes:

I had the escargots en croute with butter and garlic. EVEN PURPLE STICKPIN HAS AN ASSHOLE! See - maybe I am him.

But I can't eat much rare meat anymore. It goes through me like a spoonful of castor oil and the bathroom actually smells like a rare but now rancid steak within 30 minutes. So I go medium-rare nowadays.

To those who prefer well done, just stay at home and chew on an old shoe. ;)

 

[1fsh2fsh]

Many,many (many) years ago, in Detroit, tripping my balls off on a small blue tab of LSD. a friend of mine bought 20 (5 cents a piece) white castle burgers and brought them into the car. the grease was actually soaking through the little box's that they were in. I remember hanging out the window and puking from the rancid smell of them. not a fun experience.

 

[mjp]

They aren't greasy at all. The onions and buns are steamed...they are more watery than greasy.

But who am I to doubt the memory of someone tripping their balls off. ;)

You can't cook any kind of meat without fat congealing somewhere.

 

[1fsh2fsh]

watery,greasy, whatever. Those fuckers stink!

 

[mjp]

They are an acquired taste, there's no doubt about that. Cooking shrimp smells like boiling a kettle of week-old piss to me, so I know what you're saying.

 

[Purple Stickpin]

I've only had frozen White Castle burgers (thawed, you knuckle-heads), and even though they weren't the genuine article, they sure tasted good to me. Food meant to be consumed whilst wasted. Not that that's a bad thing.

I love me some high-end food, and some low-end food. Shit in the middle isn't so compelling.

And mjp: you need to marinate your shrimp in citrus (any kind), and then dry them profusely, then sear the fuck out of them in a high flash-point oil. 2-3 minutes total for both sides. A quick dredge in flour will also help.

The piss-smell is the slow evolution of the oils dissolving in the water surrounding the shrimp and then escaping into your domicile. Dry those fuckers better, dredge them, and sear the piss outta them.

 

[Gerard K H Love]

spoken like a true bio chemist Purple.

If you eat rare meat use plenty of spices to chemically cook it, just like the wasabi with your sushi.

 

[number6horse]

And so, back to the original topic of this thread, F.A. Nettlebeck. I just read some of the bio information from his website and thought I'd share a couple of highlights.

Did you know he broke into storage sheds and took items to sell for beer money as a teenager ? Why, yes he did.

Did you know that as an adult he continued that tradition by raiding Goodwill boxes of donated clothing/items for the truly needy (not "bohemian artist-wannabes-too-lazy-to-support-themselves). Right again! Of course, I shouldn't be too hard on him. He only did this when his parents and family were apparently unable/unwilling to cover for their 20-something budding young genius.

But here's something else. Throughout the writings of F.A.N.(including a posting or two here), you will read many references to guns and violence - some of a military nature. Given that he is of the Vietnam-era generation, you might assume that his dark visions and haunted musings are a direct result of that conflict. Here's where you'd be wrong. He avoided the draft by faking mental illness instead of going for CO status or moving to Canada. But remember - TODAY he wants to casually maintain that illusion of "Crazy Genius PTSD GUY.

Indulge him, won't you ?

Not me. I think he's a fraud of an artist and a fraud of a human being.

 

[mjp]

Every time I see "F. A." I can't help but think of another great American with those initials:

Hey hey hey! It's Faaaaaat Albert!

Nah nah nah, gonna have a good time!

...raiding Goodwill boxes of donated clothing/items for the truly needy...

If you read BUG SPRAY you will clearly see that he implicates Goodwill along with the pope and his mommy, for putting him under the incredible pressure that forced him to steal from Goodwill to get his pennies for cheap beer and skunk weed.

BUG SPRAY is a stinging indictment of an oppressive world that exists solely to crush the spirit of the truly creative - of the world's geniuses, like FA. Contemporary of Pol Pot, Charles Manson and Richard Nixon, a man ahead of his time, unappreciated, maligned, his final judgment will be by history! Not a gaggle of jealous mortals.

 

[mjp]

Oh the Chipotle talk has my mouth watering, I think I'll head over there for lunch today and have one of them big ole flavorful burritos.

Buy one get one free...

 

[Gerard K H Love]

Wow, mjp hangs out on Facebook for coupons.

 

[bospress.net]

Buk would hate you...