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Me!!!!!!!! · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 295

I tried it right after they opened and never thought the place would last but it still is going. Has anyone been there recently and what do u recommend?
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cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1801 Location: shippensburg

haven't been there recently. forgot about it. i should try it again. hum....

A Talking Horse · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 139 Location: Cove Gap

the worst!!!

Like a bad version of the Milky Way...

Better for Ice Cream than food really...
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Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2266 Location: Chambersburg

Are the sandwiches all deer meat?

A Talking Horse · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 139 Location: Cove Gap

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1801 Location: shippensburg

rofl!

hahaha...

deer the new other white meat...

(heck....is it red? i have NO idea...i won't touch the stuff...)

how about instead:

deer...the new burger....

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2266 Location: Chambersburg

I really don't care much for deer meat, which is pretty gamey and tastes livery. It's much leaner than beef, so as a steak it's almost always overcooked and tough. I guess that's why it's typically made into bologna or jerky.

I've only had it once or twice, since I don't hunt or know many people that do, but I think my deer-eating days are long over. I'll take a nice ribeye instead.

Speaking of overcooking, I've noticed a local trend is for people to order steaks (good steaks) medium-well to well. Are you people out of your minds, or am I missing something here?

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2751 Location: Chambersburg

I ate a venison burger once and puked for days. Wouldn't touch the stuff for the next 12 years ---then I had some fantastic roast at a Super Bowl party when the Falcons first made it. (Never liked the Falcons, but I wasn't the type to turn down a party.) Turned out the roast was venison and I won the pool, all-in-all, a pretty good night!

Since then, I've had a steak or two, jerky (which looked like cat poo, but was pretty delish) which were all tasty. And my deer-desperate H. has a few mason jars of chunks of venison suspended in layers of red and white 'matter' that he uses to prepare SOS. Tried it once and I will not eat it again.

What I'm trying to say, Cookie, is that venison is a natuarally lean meat and pretty darn tasty, but like most foods, preparation is key. Just don't eat my goober H.'s SOS! (And please join me in hoping he finds somewhere to hunt this year, so we can get rid of those god-awful mason jars!)
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Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2266 Location: Chambersburg

From what I understand, venison should never be ground or made into burgers since its way too lean, or some sort of supplemental fat needs to be added.

Question of the week: doubleyou tee eff is sos?

cookieclaygirl · Joined: 03 Dec 2007 Posts: 1801 Location: shippensburg

i don't think the sos is the same as that (same old ***t)

hum.....a mystery indeed!!! where is nancy drew when you need her?!

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2266 Location: Chambersburg

Oh... I thought SOS was some sort of food preparation! hahaha

Don't blame me though, I recently found out what hog maw was (and I'm still having nightmares about it).

Also, found behind the "scrapple" in the Giant butcher case... "pudding."

<shudders>

Me!!!!!!!! · Joined: 22 Oct 2007 Posts: 295

I am very picky but I love hog maw and I don't cook it in the belly. Alot of people are turned off by the sound of pig belly but it is sausage,potatoes, and cabbage. It is really yummy! You should try it once. Wink

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sassy moose · Joined: 02 Jan 2008 Posts: 250 Location: Virginia

Coppy · Joined: 28 Oct 2007 Posts: 2266 Location: Chambersburg

Well, two against one... sausage, potatoes and cabbage (the pinnacles of flavor!) stuffed into a stomach and roasted.

Let me guess; lots of salt and not much else.

.45chel · Joined: 26 Oct 2007 Posts: 2751 Location: Chambersburg

Sorry I didn't hang around.

SOS= Sh!t on a Shingle, he cooks the chunks (always overcooked IMO) makes a gravy with the drippings and serves in a bowl on top of toast. I think it would be better with another type of meat. And some seasonings, even when he adds salt and pepper it tastes kind of bland to me. Of course, I tend to mutate all of his family dishes that I attempt to prepare.

Example: Trainwreck (well that's what I've taken to calling it): uncooked bacon chopped into little pieces thrown in a skillet, once the bacon is cooked up a little, add sliced and quartered potatoes to cook in the fat. After the potatoes have reached the right texture you crack a few eggs in there and mix it all up in a big mess. mmmm, complete breakfast in one pan.
Now me, I have to go and mess up a good thing by sauteing mushrooms and throwing 'em in, adding a little Tiger Sauce, crushed pepper, cayenne pepper and colby and pepper jack cheese and whatever else I think about throwing in there...I svck.

And, yeah, what is it with people overcooking perfectly good meat?! I'm not as into still-mooing steaks as I used to be. Now, I'm more of a medium rare kinda gal, but apparently no one knows how to prepare it that way anymore.
Even burgers for crying out loud! Big thick burgers. Ask for medium rare and get well. Feed it to my dogs, who are very happy. Days later, ask for medium rare, impressing upon them what medium rare is and they give me...barely brown on the outside cold red in the middle...A-holes!

Don't. Leather. The. Meat.
hiss.
Much to my dog's disappointment, I don't go there anymore and they are stuck tricking food away from the boy.

As for the hog maw, well, um, I like sausage. And potatoes. And cabbage. Sounds like a combination with potential, though I've never tried them together. But I think I'll take them minus the vision of pork belly, Thank You Very Much.

I've eaten chitlins, isn't that enough?

Note: Ahem. My dearest stud-monkey husband prepares wonderful meals most times (we all have hits and misses.) Honestly, I think he prepares the SOS the way he does so he can eat it by himself.
And, no, he did not make me type this. I just got a whiff of the roast he has in the slow cooker and imagined what it would be like if he read this post later and cut me off! Wink

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