Kabanos

[desperance]

Chaz'z adventures in food and internets, vol seventeen, chapter three: so I'm sitting here chewing on a long thin dry Polish sausage while I write (well, no, while I fight the cats off, mostly; but I'm meant to be writing), and it has this flavour that makes me go "ooh! what's that, then?" and then a second later "ooh, I know this; it's that, that seed that they flavour, you know, thingie with..." and I cannot for the life of me find the words for either the seed or the thingie, although I know exactly what I mean (I have, you understand, used the seed and cooked the thingie). So I google 'kabano', which is how the sausage was sold to me, and google is barely any help at all, and wikipedia none at all, and I'm on the edge of giving up and posting here about how frustrating it all is when I remember that (a) the thingie is Hungarian and (b) called goulash (yes, these are the kinds of words I can lose entirely, for days, weeks, decades; ask shewhomust what that phrase is, that I can never remember)(oh, yes - displacement activity, that's the one) and (c) the seed is of course caraway; and then I am smitten by inspiration (d) and google for kabanos, which the person who sold me the sausage obviously thought was the plural. And y'know what? Kabanos is frequently flavoured with a wee hint of caraway.

*feels cocky*

*also exhausted*

(Also, this isn't work. What was that phrase again...?)

Comments

[julesjones]

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Yup. But it's so much more interesting than a hoovered cat...

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

Any Work But The Work You Should Be Doing (AWBTWYSBD) works well too.

Incidentally, on another fascinating irrelevancy, "tabby" in textile terms refers to two different things: the most common is what is also called plain weave--the one thread over one thread structure you see in shirts and sheets, as opposed to twill which is what you see in jeans. The older sense is the one that gives us the cat label--it's a type of silk that's been given a watered finish, often by running the silk between rollers--this is usually what historic costumers are talking about when they describe something as a tabby silk.

[desperance.livejournal.com]

Thank you! That's just the kind of info that I was looking for, that wiki wasn't telling me...

[fidelioscabinet.livejournal.com]

You're welcome; I'm all for the propagation of nearly-useless knowledge.

Please note that while you can get an interesting effect on silk this way, it's a real mistake to run a plain cat between two rollers.