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24 Responses to “100 Things About Me: #1”

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1. 1 Dan Sep 18th, 2006 at 2:01 am

   Like Brussels sprouts, salmon is one of those things that lots of people cook, but no one cooks well. Salmon dries out very quickly, and that’s definitely a Bad Thing™. It takes a pretty skilled chef to keep it moist while baking or grilling.

   That having been said, I don’t particularly care for salmon, either, not even when it’s cooked properly.

2. 2 ilyka Sep 18th, 2006 at 3:13 am

   I can’t seem to acquire a taste for salmon myself but mmm, puff pastry.

   Maybe it’s all the smoking killing my taste buds, but salmon just tastes like bony red tuna to me.

3. 3 JackGoff Sep 18th, 2006 at 4:02 am

   Eww, salmon. Grotty. Now, tuna is TEH BOMB!!! It’s the only meat that I can eat nowadays.

4. 4 Hugo Schwyzer Sep 18th, 2006 at 4:26 am

   I do occasionally eat some fish (see, not a perfect vegetarian), and I loathe salmon. It’s not just the taste, it’s the texture.

5. 5 Auguste Sep 18th, 2006 at 4:53 am

   You guys are all high.

6. 6 foresmac Sep 18th, 2006 at 4:54 am

   Haha, you fucking trackbacked your own post!

   Also, I haven’t eaten any meat for 13 years, but I remember salmon being good. Maybe it was just cooked lame? I don’t know, I could ask my mom for her recipie if you want…

7. 7 Auguste Sep 18th, 2006 at 4:55 am

   Seriously friggin’ high. This Portlander is horrified. I’d say send all your salmon if you don’t want it, except that we’re already sending all our salmon to you Philistines.

8. 8 Auguste Sep 18th, 2006 at 4:55 am

   Horrified.

9. 9 Mark Sep 18th, 2006 at 5:19 am

   I don’t remember having salmon, but I am sure I have had it once in my 3 decades sometime.

   I am using the “in Indiana” pass on it… we eat cows and chicken here. :)

10. 10 Auguste Sep 18th, 2006 at 5:23 am

    Mark, I don’t have a big problem with not having eaten salmon. It’s having eaten and rejected salmon that makes the baby me cry.

    I should clarify that this only applies to Pacific Salmon. Atlantic Salmon is teh suck.

11. 11 Thomas Sep 18th, 2006 at 1:40 pm

    Wow. I’m impressed. Way to face the fear.

    BTW, I’m a fan of the swimming food, and I don’t especially like salmon. However, Salmon Wellington will always have a special place in my family. It was the last meal my mother cooked.

12. 12 Ron O Sep 18th, 2006 at 4:17 pm

    I’m not ichthycally challenged like our good host, in fact I love lots of seafood, but I do not like Salmon. It’s not just the fishiness because I like mackeral & herring and other fishy fish. It is just Salmon. Yuk.

13. 13 Linnaeus Sep 18th, 2006 at 4:42 pm

    Salmon is wonderful. Like Auguste, I am horrified.

    But that’s what living in Seattle will do to one. Let me also second Auguste and say the truly fine salmon is wild Pacific salmon. Atlantic salmon should be written as “salmon”, with the scare quotes.

14. 14 zuzu Sep 18th, 2006 at 5:33 pm

    I like it raw.

15. 15 Auguste Sep 18th, 2006 at 9:53 pm

    I like it raw.

    Zuzu, I have to tell you, there’s a small but very real possibility that statement will come back to haunt you.

    I’m just sayin’. You’d think I could be responsible for how I will use that statement in the future, but you’d be wrong.

    It’s in my bookmarks folder as we speak.

16. 16 Chris Clarke Sep 18th, 2006 at 10:05 pm

    Auguste: shhhhh. The less we try to persuade these sad, sad, deluded people that they are sadly and deludedly sad, the more salmon there is for us.

17. 17 Linnaeus Sep 19th, 2006 at 1:20 am

    And given the decline of salmon runs due to the dams and overfishing, Chris, I say let’s keep it all for ourselves.

18. 18 JackGoff Sep 19th, 2006 at 1:29 am

    Hmm, maybe it is pacific salmon that I’m missing out on…still…GROTTY! KEEP IT AWAY!

19. 19 zuzu Sep 19th, 2006 at 4:40 am

    Zuzu, I have to tell you, there’s a small but very real possibility that statement will come back to haunt you.

    I’m just sayin’. You’d think I could be responsible for how I will use that statement in the future, but you’d be wrong.

    Oh, fine, Auguste Althouse.

20. 20 Auguste Sep 19th, 2006 at 6:01 am

    Btw, Linnaeus, wish I’d known you were in Seattle on Wednesday when I was up there.

    “But why, Auguste? I have no wish to meet you, so quit being presumptuous.”

    And Zuzu:

    I’d call that Mutually Assured Destruction, except you already levelled your big guns*. Calling me Althouse? Right off the bat? What worse can you possibly do?

    * So to speak.

21. 21 Auguste Sep 19th, 2006 at 6:02 am

    Also, Talk Like a Pirate Day can go fuck itself. I still have an hour left.

    Ruin my hilarious comment, why don’t you…

22. 22 Linnaeus Sep 19th, 2006 at 5:17 pm

    T’ain’t presumptuous of ye, Auguste, sorry I missed ye.

    Shiver me timbers, I haven’t laughed so much since me days o’ raidin’ th’ Spanish Main!

23. 23 Lauren Sep 20th, 2006 at 2:21 am

    I am using the “in Indiana” pass on it… we eat cows and chicken here. :)

    You know what? This is too true. And despite all the fucking pig farms around here I don’t really eat pork unless we’re talking bacon or sausage.

    I’m wondering why my mom never made fish. Either she was intimidated or she was grossed out about getting fish in a land-locked area.

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