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rodoheel said:
Is that just ground beef smoking over top of the chili? Assume you break it up and put it in the chili at the end? I'll have to try that sometime.
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4 parts ground beef to 1 part pork sausage. Seasoned, added a splash of worcestershire and then formed into a ball and smoked over the top of the chili base for 2.5 hours, until cooked through, then crumbled it up and added to the pot and cooked another couple of hours.
 
I don't cook anything interesting anymore so haven't contributed for a long time. Just too much work and money for one guy.

But I suppose this is a good time to remember those who paved the way for our contemporary culinary endeavors.

I'm not talking about chefs or innovators here. I'm talking about those (ancient heroes) who paved the way for us all and sometimes faced the ultimate sacrifice.

For instance, someone had to be the first to determine whether or not you could eat a shrimp raw. Someone had to be the first to determine you could eat pork or not. And would you need to cook it?

Granted, I imagine practically all of those endeavors were launched out of necessity and not because they wanted to perfect. But even so, someone had to do it.

Thank you to those leaders and heroes. Your sacrifice, no matter how many thousands of years ago, have led to magical things and sustenance for generations of humanity.

You'll never be forgotten, whoever you were.
 
MendotoManteo said:
I don't cook anything interesting anymore so haven't contributed for a long time. Just too much work and money for one guy.

But I suppose this is a good time to remember those who paved the way for our contemporary culinary endeavors.

I'm not talking about chefs or innovators here. I'm talking about those (ancient heroes) who paved the way for us all and sometimes faced the ultimate sacrifice.

For instance, someone had to be the first to determine whether or not you could eat a shrimp raw. Someone had to be the first to determine you could eat pork or not. And would you need to cook it?

Granted, I imagine practically all of those endeavors were launched out of necessity and not because they wanted to perfect. But even so, someone had to do it.

Thank you to those leaders and heroes. Your sacrifice, no matter how many thousands of years ago, have led to magical things and sustenance for generations of humanity.

You'll never be forgotten, whoever you were.
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I often think about this, especially with certain foods, like Kimchi.

My theory is that if one is hungry enough they will try anything.
 
I think about this sometimes in relation to the preparation of blowfish (fugu) in Japan, which if not done exactly correctly can lead to the ingestion of an incredibly lethal neurotoxin. How many people had to die learning how to do it right? And when people kept dying, how were there people like "no, I swear, there's gotta be a way to eat this thing safely, we have to keep trying."
 
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