THE INDIGNITY OF PHO CONSUMPTION.......





Dining, alone, slurping down some Vietnamese Quasi-Vegetarian Pho....rice noodles cooked in a fish sauce broth with dried peanut worms, cloves, star anise, cilantro and cardamom......The Pho leads, immediately, to a slimy, watering nose, so...its better devoured in relative privacy....or behind an extended palm, lest any onlookers be grossed out by having watched others' sucking this stuff down, then blowing their noses and wiping their tearful eyes......


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add some of these delicious, if slimy, accoutrements........Sipunculus Nudus....after, of course, , dissicating it for a few years....first......or, if you dare, just dumping the freshl-chopped unsegmented worms into your Pho.............


I'm 'on' to the next 'thing'.......how about some Fish Sperm Sacs.....Sapporo style? I'm having some smoked eel sushi and Vidalia onion tempura for 'sunrise' b'fast.......having 'done' the traditional North Alabama New Year's foods a couple of days early.......Japanese buckwheat noodles with sesame oil and wasabi paste are washing out all the largesse of traditional American X'mas Fare's caloric overload.......New Year's Day will see sheep's pancreas, cooked in herbed butter, French style, with thin, crunchy asparagus sticks......that I've not had in a few years.......much tastier than bags of fish sperm or thin-sliced fowl gizzards in peanut sauce, Zimmern-style.......eaten, sentimentally, with Lilburn Carre' and Troy Ellis' old abalone shell-inlaid lacquered chopsticks, from Phyllis Rix's old Canton bowls........for End of 2025 'nostalgia'.......







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