Frog Legs?

[MineralMan]

I think that's amusing. While I love frog legs, I rarely make them when I have guests. They tend to make people ever so slightly uncomfortable. "What's this?," they ask when I bring out the frog legs, carefully sauteed in butter with some garlic. When I tell them, they often go untouched. People are uncomfortable with unfamiliar fare, it seems.

They're delicious, but unless you try them, you'd never know, and I've seen them get cold many times. Same with escargots. People just seem to get queasy with unfamiliar foods.

Now, I don't know. Maybe Romney is familiar with them, but they look untouched on his plate in that photo. I'm betting he's not going to even taste them. Score one for Trump. He made his guest uncomfortable, always a good starting point in a delicate negotiation.



I stopped serving them to guests. I know how good they taste, but what's the point? They're a bit fussy to prepare and are far from inexpensive, so why waste them on people who are uncomfortable with them?

Was Trump trying to discombobulate Romney? Who can say? But a lot of people have that reaction to an unfamiliar food on their plate.

Interesting...

[JHan]

1. first thing I noticed was that menu..

It was humiliation served on a plate.

my word.

[MineralMan]

2. Well, Romney sure looks nonplussed in that photo.

Perhaps it was that appetizer. Or, for Romney, that unappetizer.

[JHan]

9. meanwhile Trump relishing every humiliating moment..

gosh. LOL

[milestogo]

3. ...

[MineralMan]

5. I actually can't remember the last time I saw them

on a restaurant menu. There's a terrific oriental market near me that has them available, frozen. But my wife won't touch them. Once in a great while I'll buy some when she's out for the evening and sautee them for myself. I love 'em. But, then, I'll eat pretty much anything humans consume somewhere in the world, with a few exceptions.

If I wanted to make someone ill at ease, though, serving them would be one of my top choices.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

7. I had some at the Yearling Restaurant in the Ocala National Forest in Florida.

Admittedly they were pretty good. True to the saying, they did indeed taste like chicken.

[MineralMan]

13. They only taste like chicken if you treat them like chicken.

When I make them, they taste like frog legs. A subtle difference maybe, but a difference. The texture is completely different from chicken, too.

[Tommy_Carcetti]

18. Gotcha.

These were breaded, so they were essentially chicken wings. Would be interested to see how they tasted in another style.

The little bulbous joints at the end threw me off a bit.

[MineralMan]

19. I like them sauteed in butter with a little garlic and salt only.

Then they taste like frog legs.

[gratuitous]

4. I figured Romney could be bought

I just didn't think the price was that cheap, considering his wife's taste in t-shirts. I wonder what it takes to get him to do a bar mitzvah or a birthday party?

[C_U_L8R]

6. Probably served cold too

Trump looks like he just handed out a plate of vengeance

[madamesilverspurs]

8. Beets

Mitt's face reminds me of my brother when he was told to stop being finicky and just eat his red beets. He kept saying they made him sick, but Mom and Dad insisted. So he ate one. He wasn't lying.


.

[MineralMan]

11. Yup. It does, doesn't it?

I've seen that reaction when someone is served something about which they're uncertain.

Tastes in food are interesting. Most people hate eating anything that's unfamiliar. Romney looks queasy. Trump looks like he got a leg up on Romney. Now, if he served them to me, I'd be quite pleased.

[lunatica]

33. Romney turned up his nose at home baked cookies once

Do you remember? He was talking to some 'common' folks and they offered him cookies. He made a face and said he wasn't sure about them, even after the 'common' folk assured him they were home made.

[yallerdawg]

10. "Just one of us!"

According to the pool report, Trump, Romney and future White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus started with a young garlic soup with thyme and sautéed frog legs — because nothing says "Make America Great Again" like the food eaten by the Marquis de Lafayette as he helped us defeat the British in the revolution.

Next, the trio had a second appetizer of diver scallops with caramelized cauliflower and a caper raisin emulsion.

For their main course, Priebus and the President-elect had prime sirloin with a citrus glaze and carrots. Romney had lamb chops with the mushroom Bolognese sauce.

The pool report said all three had chocolate cake for dessert, but Vongerichten doesn't merely serve "chocolate cake" like some roadside diner. That Jean-Georges chocolate cake is the master chef's famous "molten chocolate cake," which I believe is inspired by America's crumbling infrastructure, you know, in the way it gently collapses onto itself so painstakingly slowly that you don't even notice it until it's too late.

http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/trump-running-conservative-tank-frog-leg-time-article-1.2892069

[MineralMan]

15. What a horrid thing to do to a lamb chop!

Blech...phooey!

[rzemanfl]

12. Trump is fat.

[MineralMan]

14. He said, creating a complete non sequitur...

[rzemanfl]

16. You know full well why I said that. Just making waves. n/t

[MineralMan]

17. I do? Sorry, but no, I don't.

I'm afraid I don't even recognize your screen name. Just making ripples, it looks like to me.

[rzemanfl]

21. Here you go-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8304715

Ripples are fine with me.

[MineralMan]

22. I see. Well, whatever...

Good luck to you.

[rzemanfl]

27. I didn't get your attention yesterday-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8314521

or the day before-which I admit might have been a stretch-

http://www.democraticunderground.com/?com=view_post&forum=1002&pid=8312953

This isn't Facebook, after all.

I may or may not stop now.

I was a pal of Old Leftie Lawyer a/k/a Tangerine La Bamba here some years back. I have been away during most of the eight years our nation had a dignified and honorable President.

Good luck to us all, each and every one, we will need it.

[MineralMan]

35. Why would you want to get my attention?

[rzemanfl]

36. To needle you regarding your thing about folks saying Drumpf is fat. I think you can only body

shame people who are able to experience shame.

I have a perverse sense of humor. Back during Dubyah's domestic surveillance thing I posted: "The family of the late Shirley Booth, who played a domestic on the TV series 'Hazel,' says she would have been in favor of Bush's domestic surveillance program." Eventually that got over 700 replies, many of them credulous. If only I had known then there was money in fake news....

I will leave you alone for a while.

[Oneironaut]

20. What's with Mitt's face? Is his kidnapper just off screen?

[MineralMan]

23. Nope. Sitting just across the table, it looks like.

[Oneironaut]

25. lol! Yes. Silly me.

[onethatcares]

31. the cons face reminds me of

the Rolling Stone "GoatsHead Soup" album cover.

[Warpy]

26. My mother used to bread them and fry them like shrimp

She hated cooking and wasn't very good at it, but frog legs were one of the things she did well, odd considering my dad was the Frog and she'd grown up Irish.

But yeah, I'd never serve them to guests. I'd never know who'd go green at the prospect--even fried, they look like what they are. In fact, I've decided in my adult life that Froggy should keep his legs since his numbers are dwindling across the planet.

Since the dishes in front of each man are different, I would suspect Romney ordered the frog legs to make Orange Caligula uncomfortable. It doesn't seem to have worked.

[monmouth4]

28. They are scallops on his plate. I don't see frogs legs at all.

[applegrove]

29. Though I like snails, I will never try frogs legs. Frogs are people to me. Snails not so much.

[jpak]

30. Them's ain't Frog Legs - Them's is chitterlings!

[lunatica]

32. It reminds me of that parting line of Neegan's in The Walking Dead

When, after he's taken everything from Alexandria his parting remark to Rick Grimes is, "That was me sliding my d--k down your throat." That's what both Trump and Mitt look like.

[jmowreader]

34. This is the most sinister photo I've ever seen of Trump, and I've seen quite a few

[phylny]

37. My grandmother used to make them on occasion.

I hated the smell. Never ate them