I mean, something you had ever heard of, ever?

I had, for the very first time today, something so decadent, so obscene, so utterly wonderful that I wish I had never seen the damn thing.

For the first time, I ate a glazed croissant.

Imagine the glaze that's on a glazed doughnut. Now imagine it on a croissant--a perfect, buttery, flaky, chewy croissant.

I wanted to be offended. I wanted to hate it. I thought to myself that no self-respecting croissant lover would be caught dead eating this creation.

But I ate it. And it was amazing. Oh. Dear. God. It was so delicious that I lack the vocabulary to describe it.

With any luck, this evil creation will never cross my path again.

What have you encountered that's new to you....and, hopefully, yummy?

no , nothing new and exciting , cept for my treat of an authentic Cambodian meals courtesy of my neighbours which I loved.

As for the glazed criossant , oh lordy , we have a grocery chain that comes up with these things under the moniker Presidents Choice and they did some up way way back in the day , I fell seriously in love , who needs doughnuts , when you can have a croissant done up sinfully?

I had mochi ice cream a couple of weeks ago, I'd never had it before:


Here's the wiki link that explains it.


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mochi_ice_cream

I had the green tea (matcha) flavor and it was yummy!

Yes, yes, yes!! I'm so excited to report that today for the first time I finally had a chance to try some Greek yogurt. It was love at first bite and I will definitely be keeping this around as a staple in my fridge. It's delicious, fat free and very creamy with lots of easily digestible protein, which is a good thing for me to have since my gastric bypass a few months ago.

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I just recently tried Fage Greek yogurt that a friend recommended. I got the fat-free kind and stirred in a little natural fruit spread. Yum.

Also, I tasted it plain before adding anything and I plan to use it as a sour creme substitute. So glad to have learned about this one.

I do wish I could find Greek yogurt around here. It's probably somewhere in Nashville, but for me that's not very hand for a carton of yogurt.

Nothing new has passed my lips recently

Smoked oysters...I made a dip from a can of these delicious treats with a little sour cream and spread them on tiny toasts, MMMMMM, delish, didn't think that I would like them but they were yummy!!!

Yes - dry roasted soynuts...yum!!! I bought some at Costco last week and I really like them. It's a great way for me to get in some of my daily protein requirement (I'm a gastric bypass person, too.) An 1/8 of a cup gives me 12 grams of protein.

I don't know exactly how to describe the flavor, but if, like me, you enjoy eating the "half-popped" kernels at the bottom of the popcorn bowl, you would probably like these soynuts...

Diva, glazed crossants are heavenly! I'm not sure if I can handle the sugar on them because of my stomach/pouch, but I used to luuuuuuv them!

Oh, boy! I'm reading this thread with interest, since I have the idea somehow that I've tried everything there is to try, though I'm sure that's not true. Haven't tried glazed croissants, but I'm not a donut person so there's no appeal for me.

Lately, though, I've been eating anchovies in some things, without trying to disguise them --- does that count?

did you say anchovies ! welcome to the world of gustatory deeelights

next , fish sauce ... if you can do fish sauce you can do anything


I forgot to mention that I tried my first boiled peanuts , meh , ok , would not walk across a fire for them

I think my recent "new taste" is probably very mundane, but pea tops are the latest rage in salad leaves here in the UK. They are the curly bits and little leaves from the pea vine (which presumably always used to be thrown away until some marketing guru decided they could be sold in upmarket food stores for quite a high price). The're also good stirred into a green pasta at the end, much as one would do to wilt spinach.

As a vegetarian of 30 years' standing I'm always happy to find something new to add to our repertoire!

The Greek yogurt you mention, Amjack, is an absolute staple for us. The photo looks identical to the one we buy but it's sold as Total in the UK, not Fage.

There is a bakery near my house that makes delicious almond croissants in house. Lovely, flaky, with a delectable almond paste filling.

The other day, I happened to arrive there a few minutes after they had taken the second batch of the day out of the oven. OMG! When still hot from the oven, they are absolutely incredible. When I took a bite, it was like the hot almond filling vaporized instantaneously, so that I experienced not only the sweet taste of the filling, but a glorious almond frangipane fragrance in the back of my nose. :-)

Now I plot obsessively about how to time my arrival so that i can get almond croissants fresh from the oven.

I am a complete sucker for the opportunity to try something new. When I first heard of yerba mate I traveled all over town till I found some in an imports store. My neighborhood Krogers now carries Fage because I I carried on so much about not wanting to drive further away for it.
My quest for taste sensation's latest resulted in purchase of some of those big red caviar eggs in a jar. I love beluga, this is not it. Acceptable as a colorful garnish I think, but that's all.

Have I eaten a new food lately?

Uh. No. Wow, my life is dull.

I do try to branch out and try new things, but hate winding up with pantry clutter.

Since it's midsummer, I'm trying to finish what I have already before I get 'adventurous' again.

As for that Fage yogurt, try your local health food store. They tend to carry it, even when local markets won't. I adore the one with a small cup of greek honey off to the side. Love that honey, yum! (wish I could buy a jar of THAT, for sure!)

I went for sushi yesterday with my twin sister....we always try to get one "new" item and I'm running out of stuff to try.
Yesterday it was conch. It was good. Not as good as the Goeduck I had in Port Townsend a month or so ago, but good.

Glad you are enjoying the soy nuts, Nubka! An amazing snack.

The new food here is popped amaranth. Tastes a bit like puffed rice and puffed wheat. I don't know what to do with it yet but it has a LOT of calcium and protein. Like the texture; boiled amaranth grains turn out something like polenta, which does not sit with me, but these are yep, like puffed rice and wheat, but very tiny.

YES! My friend had me over after shopping for lunch. She bought this salami at the grocery store and I said............I don't eat salami. It's not one of my favorite things..........

She said........wait till you try this! So.........begrudgingly I did. I gotta tell you.........I kept eating another piece and then another.........
It was sooooooooo good. It was by Boar's Head. It is Bianco Doro Italian Salami with wine in it. It is dry, Italian salami that is small. The trick is also to have it cut at 1.5 width. Very thin. Fabulous. I had to go buy some for myself. It comes wrapped in white paper.

Hmm. I don't like bores any more than the next person, but I stop short of eating them. Especially the heads.

Ahem. My post was originally as above (minus the red letters and bold), but presumably got edited. The post I cited was as it appears here, and not as it currently appears. Surely posts such as mine which don't abuse the TOU should be left to stand? The policy at POL is that is you write it, you own it. Ten minute window to fix typos, that its. No going back and changing it later. This is especially important when it alters the conversation, as it did here.

I know this is a trivial example, but I don't appreciate the censorship. No violation here, so let it stand. You write it, you own it. Why shouldn't that apply to mods also?

It was a joke, laugh it off.

Oh, that's what happened!!!! I snorted iced tea all over my screen with the original exchange and a while later I looked again and the faux pas had been changed. Hmmmmm.

Bore's eh ? I dont really mind them but I couldnt eat a whole one

It was my fault. I was correcting my "spelling" of Boar's head. It wasn't about censoring. Ahem.

Yes, it was. You also edited my post and that affected the whole point of my post. That's altering the conversation and that's the reason that we don't get to edit our posts here after ten minutes! Once you say it, it has to stand. The ten minute window had closed for you--and in any case, wouldn't apply to what was in my post.

I think it was an instance of abuse of power. Posts that don't violate the TOU need to be left alone and not tweaked at a mod's whim.

Clearly, I am extremely upset to think that mods get to edit just because they want to, perhaps to save themselves a little embarrassment even though it makes someone else look like an idiot.

Do mods get more than the standard 10 minute window to make corrections? (as opposed to editing a post that may, in part, violate the TOUs)

Clearly they get more than the standard 10 minutes, check out the time stamps on Glo's original post and mine.

And no violation of TOU in my post, so it shouldn't have been edited at all!

This IDIOT spelled Boar's head incorrectly. I'm so sorry that I changed YOUR spelling. I thought it was a joke. I had NO idea that correcting spelling would offend you since it was ME that made the mistake. I wasn't trying to wield any power or abuse anybody.

Here's what happened. I found an opportunity in your post to make a mild joke. I quoted said post and the point of the joke was the misspelling.

Well after the ten minutes had passed, you went back into your own post and corrected your spelling. Then you went into MY post and altered the quoted section to make it consistent. That left my joke, such as it was, with no point. I looked foolish.

The TOU say no editing of one's posts after 10 minutes. The reason is that it affects comments down the line, as it did in this case. Far worse, you felt free to change an element within my own post that in fact was the point of that post! How can that not be censorship? And how could you have done it if you didn't have that power? That's the wielding. And did you consult me? That's the abuse. Especially since it made me look foolish as a result.

I don't see why a mod gets to edit a post on her whim, just to make herself look better. There was no violation of TOU, no cause, and it never should have happened.

BTW, you didn't correct my spelling, just the word you had misspelled in your original post. But once I quoted it, it was part of my post.

I know I have repeated what I said upthread, but it seems necessary. Far outweighing a silly mistake and a mild joke, this is a matter of principle. how can the conversation at POL be respected, if mods can alter it to suit themselves?

Would you be happy if I edited it back? I'd be happy to do so if it means that much to you.

Honestly? I'd be happier if I thought you got what I'm talking about. There's a principle involved which says that you don't go back and change what has been said. So... now you're offering to go back and fix it? Given how this thread has progressed, that would be even further alteration, a further wielding of power.

This is my point: any post that doesn't involve a violation of TOU needs to be left strictly alone by the mods. It seems so basic to me.

And to answer your question directly, it does mean that much to me, but not in that sense. It's not the joke, it's the principle of free speech, open conversation, and respect for others' rights to their own posts.

I am sure that Glorious gets what you are saying. I am equally sure she regrets doing it. It seems you are not at ease with the apology offered - that is a shame.

Perhaps she does regret , and she probably meant no big thing however , I do not see an actual apology , what am I missing here ?

I am only interested due to wondering how far things can be alterered on whims? The rest of us are honestly stuck in it for posterity , we accept that , we also accept that mods have special editing features for obvious reasons but I can see why this would be a worrying thing.

I'm sorry to belabor the point, but I didn't really get an apology for censoring my post, nor one that acknowledged what I've been trying to say. Tone counts. Glo's last post in fact indicated a willing to persist.

I know I hope all the mods understand the major principle involved.

So sorry for the interruption, but I had Deviled Ham for the first time today! On wheat bread with lettuce and mayo. Where has this stuff BEEN all of my life??! ;-)

....but back to new foods...


I am currently grooving on HAAGEN-DAZS's flavor GREEN TEA. It couldn't be more simple--- just the flavor of sweet cream and green tea--- yet it is addicting and fascinating!

My X husband ate Deviled Ham practically everyday if I didn't make tuna fish. HE loved it. I never did. It's been around forever.

I bought a pack of morcilla (blood) sausage at a Spanish deli on Saturday and will try some tonight with some baked eggs. I've had Irish blood sausage, German blood sausage, so this is the first time I'll be having the blood of Spanish pigs. Ole.

The one new food I'm looking forward to is raw cow's milk, unpasteurized, unhomogenized. It's contraband so I'm waiting to hear back from the sellers where to pick up a pint.

After years of avoidance, Mrs. T has discovered sashimi - and has dragged me along for the ride. I liked sushi the last few times I had it, but it never took for her and I dropped it from my repetoire. Well she has found sashimi - and a good place for it - and it has stuck. It was troublesome to come back to it after all these years, but after my first beer I got back into the swing of it.

yay sushi!

I grew up eating the Porguguese version , by a similar name , though it is tasty I cannot bring myself to eat it these days.

Enjoy the contraband , some of us have to go without ya know , am jellis.

I ate a Boor's foot once ...

It was during the Boer's War ...

Gotta say that I love soybeans.........maybe I should try the roasted soynuts and I JUST CAME from Costco today!! Where are they in Costco? Are they by the pistacio's and the almonds?

For the love of God, woman - have you no mercy?? I already broke my left foot 5 years ago falling at a buffet where I was trying to get the last croissant before the waiters took it away ... (Hangs head in shame) and now you tell me they make 'em glazed!

I hope you don't have to go to a bad neighborhood to get hooked up for the milk.....



Deme, you're a woman after my own heart. I would stab you in the hand with a fork for the last croissant.

I'm off to the Land of Croissants tomorrow - yippee! Can't beat the ones from the village baker who got up at 4am to bake them, but you have to remember to buy the "beurre" for the full effect! Can't be doing with the non-butter ones.

I must take back what I said a few days ago about buying Greek yogurt where we live. On the shelf in the local supermarket this morning, I found plenty of OIKOS organic Greek yogurt

From Texas to the stomach, Doctor Kracker Seeded Spelt Flatbread. Tastiest spelt product I've had to date.

I was raised on such a thing. You just pluck out the odd fly and the odd Jersey tail-hair from the surface, and you're good to go. If the vet has tested your cow, ye got nothin' to worry about. You and your cow's calf can share the milk... which the cow will be glad about, 'cause she produces so much that the calf can't drink it all, and her udder begins to ache, being so full. She has to be milked twice a day... at sunrise and at sundown. If she has been eating green grass, good, for it will impart a lovely flavor (and color) to the cream; not so good if she has been eating oak-leaves from low-hanging branches, for that will bestow a curious flavor to the milk...

Pour it, unskimmed, over Rice CHEX with blueberries and a heaping tablespoonful of sugar-- so much that it leaves a sand at the bottom of the bowl--- lumps of yellow cream coalescing on top, and you're in Nirvana.

Dear Rasputin, thanks for your memories and tips. I've been reading Nina Planck and the Weston Price Foundation's writings on the incomparable flavor and health benefits of raw milk. They've suggested checking pet food stores, but I'd like to be certain that the cow that produced the milk only eats grass. I already buy unhomogenized whole milk with a layer of cream on top, and it's nice stuff, but I want to taste what I've been missing!

jaded, sated, nothing new. I need a new thing!

At a British pub -- Banoffee pie. It's got a shortbread crust, toffee filling and sliced bananas on top. The waitress at the pub asked if I wanted it topped with pouring cream, custard or ice cream. A heart attack on a plate and sickeningly sweet, but I ate every bit of it. I don't think I could eat a slice more than once a year, though.

champagne grapes.