What's the last thing you ate or are currently eating?

[Solus]

Jumbo..

Thanks for reminding me that I, too, liked German food while I was over there.  I'll see if there are any local places that might come close.

Also, since you spent time there, I have been trying to remember the name of a liquor.  I did not like Steinhager - tasted like 90 proof pine needles, and I Jagermeister tasted like 90 proof Vicks Formula 44.  I did like Escorial and used to get it here, but they changed the bottle and it never tasted the same after that...they claim they did not change anything else but that was a lie. 

Now, what I am trying to think of was brown in color like the Jagermeister, but with a taste I much preferred over JM...

Any recollections?

[Timothy]

Turkey and bacon grinder/hogie/sub...

[Big Frank]

Jumbo..

Thanks for reminding me that I, too, liked German food while I was over there.  I'll see if there are any local places that might come close.

Also, since you spent time there, I have been trying to remember the name of a liquor.  I did not like Steinhager - tasted like 90 proof pine needles, and I Jagermeister tasted like 90 proof Vicks Formula 44.  I did like Escorial and used to get it here, but they changed the bottle and it never tasted the same after that...they claim they did not change anything else but that was a lie. 

Now, what I am trying to think of was brown in color like the Jagermeister, but with a taste I much preferred over JM...

Any recollections?

I always thought Jägermeister tasted like Vick's Formula 44 too. You can't tell by the taste that it has 56 herbs and spices. One time I saw a guy in a bar in Germany drinking something green. When I asked what it was he said roctopus, which I later thought must be an American corruption of Ratzeputz, and he gave me a shot. I smelled Absorbine Jr. once and this stuff tasted the same as Absorbine Jr. smelled. It was the same color too. Now I see that Ratzeputz is brown and tastes like ginger, so I don't know what the heck that shot was.

Chartreuse liqueur would be about the same color but by the description I read its taste is much different. Carthusian Monks have made it since 1737 according to the instructions set out in a manuscript given to them by François Annibal d'Estrées in 1605. It has 130 herbs, plants and flowers, and everything under the sun but the kitchen sink.

Wikipedia says widely sold liqueur brands are Riga Black Balsam, Jägermeister, Killepitsch, Kuemmerling, Schierker Feuerstein, Schwartzhog, Wurzelpeter, and Underberg (Germany), Altvater (Austria), Becherovka (Czech Republic), Unicum (Hungary), as well as Bénédictine and Chartreuse (France). In Italy, amaro ("bitter") liqueurs include Cynar and Ramazzotti. Any of those ring a bell? I had Underberg in little paper wrapped bottles a couple of years ago. It's supposed to be good for your digestion.

P.S. Me and my roommate used to go to a little restaurant in Germany where we usually got Jägerschnitzel and french fries. The mushroom gravy on fries is good too. A couple of times the owner, an old guy name Pete, brought out a bottle of Yugoslavian schnapps. The 3 of us had shots and the term firewater is a perfect description. It was clear and it burned going down. It may have been distilled from fruit, like Rakia or Slivovitz, but tasted like 100 proof lighter fluid. Real schnapps is nothing like the syrupy, typically 30-40 proof flavored liqueurs we call schnaps here. It's distilled from whatever they want to make it from and doesn't have flavors added to it. It's more like grain alcohol than our schnaps.

[Big Frank]

Turkey and bacon grinder/hogie/sub...

Where's the beef? As Crocodile Dundee might say, that's not a sub, THIS is a sub.


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[PegLeg45]

Finished the last of the cheesecake. 

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[Big Frank]

I probably would have finished that cheesecake 2 days ago. That's why I can't buy it. When I saw a variety cheesecake with every slice a different flavor on sale I was tempted. Fruitstand cheesecakes like this are good if you like fruit swirled into your cheesecake. I love sweet stuff that's too sweet for a lot of people and this would only be 3 servings for me.

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I'm eating roasted garlic chicken smoked sausage on a roll with some sharp white cheddar on the side. I didn't know they make a good tasting sausage from chicken. I microwaved the roll before I put the sausage in. I like it better than just slapping a sausage in a cold stiff roll.

[Solus]

...Any of those ring a bell? ...

Thanks for all the research...but it's been a bit over 50 years and it might have faded. 

I'll have to do it the the hard way and take your list and try them all.  Oh well, another cross to bear.   

[Big Frank]

2 smoked turkey breast and American cheese sandwiches on 100% whole wheat flatbread. And sweet southern heat BBQ kettle chips. I forgot mayo and will get that now for my 1.5 sandwiches.

[PegLeg45]

Me and the littlest granddaughter had pancakes with butter and syrup. She had maple and I chose to have cane syrup from a local maker.
I remember as a child that cane syrup was all my grandmother ever ate with biscuits and sausage. I never cared for the cane syrup because it has such a strong flavor (less mellow than maple), but I guess tastes change as we age.

[Big Frank]

When I was a kid one of my neighbors ate his biscuits with sorghum molasses. And I know a guy who puts Karo corn syrup on his pancakes. He also eats cornbread with buttermilk on it. Both guys are from the south.

I have a couple of bites left of a Lemon Sesame & Ginger Tuna with mayo on whole wheat sandwich. In a few minutes I'll nuke a bowl of Sweet Corn and Roasted Poblano soup.