other peoples’ stomachs
The French Canadians have a weird national dish called “poutine”, invented a mere forty years ago, made of cheese curds, brown gravy and French fries, good for settling hangovers.
In other words, it is their version of the floater. Soup dish. Pie, smartly inverted and stabbed with both a tomato sauce and a vinegar dispenser. Thick green pea soup all over the lot. Looks like something from the Cthulhu mythos, tastes like.. something from the Cthulhu mythos. Sometimes, lurching around a strangely empty Victoria square, drunk, cold and nutshrivelled in the most chilling petrol-scummed city winds in all of Australia, the Cthulhu mythos is what you need.
I used to wonder where the floater came from. One day I stumbled wet, miserable and freezing off the moors into a West Yorkshire pub and there it was..
There’s a lovely post about poitine at Idle Words.
July 29th, 2004 at 10:30 am
An elaborate panade?
Might need to fix that link to idle words.
July 29th, 2004 at 10:58 am
The poms love their mushy peas – my parents and grandparents used to get them from the fish shop. Yuk.
July 29th, 2004 at 1:17 pm
fixed Anthony – thanks…
July 29th, 2004 at 10:30 pm
I remember having my first (and last) pie floater at the Pie Cart near the railway station during one boozy night. All I can remember is the pea soup having a strange green Phospherence.