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Post by Denis-NFA on Dec 19, 2013 5:44:46 GMT 7
NFA, I agree that Lechon is an amazing delicacy when properly prepared. But those charts exaggerate the no. of persons..and since Lechon is a baby or small pig, I wonder about the weight. Not sure what you pay but we pat 190/kg off the bone at the market and about 120-130 pesos/kg live weight bought whole. Yeah, similar pricing here. And I agree... lechon baboy is bloody yum! Not that I have looked into it but it seems to me that the biggest problem is feed costs. I'll probably stir myself one day and check out who controls the feed industry.
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Post by ding on Dec 21, 2013 9:01:00 GMT 7
If you ate the chickens maybe it would stop them fighting - and free up some space to grow stuff...
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Post by Banjo on Dec 21, 2013 10:16:00 GMT 7
Wash your mouth out, the sacred fighting chicken only becomes soup after losing a match.
Cock fighting would rank with boxing as the top sports in the Philippines, they like a little blood on the floor. I suppose if you had to be reborn a chicken and was given the choice between a being fighting cock or an Ingham's battery hen...
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Post by ding on Dec 22, 2013 6:14:12 GMT 7
Haha. Yes, first time in Manila I was walking down a lane, past a row of the neighbour's tethered chooks. I smiled politely at the neighbour, and made a comment to the gf that involved the chooks and rice and tonight's dinner. She reminded me that 'we all speak English here', and quickly dragged me out of sight. The day after that on my daily walk around town I took the shortcut through the lane. I made a point of saying hello politely to the first three chickens. "Hi brekky, hi dinner, hi lunch".
I did the same for a couple of days, then one morning there was a group of very dark, stocky men, the sort you wouldn't look forward to meeting in a blind alley on a dark night. They were all sitting chatting with the owner of the chooks. I smiled politely as usual, then greeted the chooks as usual. I could still hear them laughing a block away.
Next day they approached my gf and rattled off something in tagalog. I had been invited to a cock fight.
Strange people :-)
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Post by Denis-NFA on Mar 7, 2014 19:43:59 GMT 7
I finally got to eat some jack fruit yesterday... neighbours tree.
plus I get asked "do you have this in Australia?" and when I say no then I get heaps of whatever.
One thing that I have eaten in Australia that is completely different in the Philippines is Sweet Potato. It is actually sweet here.
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Post by chris on Mar 9, 2014 11:37:03 GMT 7
If you ate the chickens maybe it would stop them fighting - and free up some space to grow stuff... We have 70 birds in training, but we don't own most of them. The owner is coming from the USA, 25th March, and since we are a not so well kept secret, he usually takes the birds to other arenas. Serious business here, 10,000 peso minimum bet in the bigger arenas. We should get some good winners as the birds are mature and had top nutrition with supplements etc for almost a year...I'm betting, but will roll the bet, so I can pull out early if losing.
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Post by chris on Mar 9, 2014 11:39:37 GMT 7
Frugle living: went out on the bike this AM, did 46km, and stopped in a roadside carinderia. Fried rice, a small order of fried pork, mixed vegetables, a litre of Mountain Dew, coffee....120 pesos....and as I was telling NFA, the waitress...wow...
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Post by Banjo on Mar 9, 2014 14:20:43 GMT 7
I think we'll put cockfighting in the same category as sex tourism for this forum's purposes. The less we hear of it the better.
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Post by Denis-NFA on Mar 9, 2014 17:59:30 GMT 7
I grew up in the same area as the coach of Australia's first Olympic marathon winner and used to go for a run with that coach and his then training team but long distance was not my specialty.
I focused on the long jump and actually held a record that I set when I was 7 that, apparently, I held for over 30 years. When I was 15 I equaled a long jump record in serious competition and was being encouraged to go further.
I thrilled when Lionel Rose won a world boxing championship and whenever an Australian won a tennis championship. When Evonne Goolagong won Wimbledon in 1971 it was particularly thrilling for my Mother and her family because they grew up with the Goolagongs in Barellan, NSW.
England introduced The Humane Act in 1835 which banned the use of animals for sport.
I have been to one cock fight in my life and that was here in The Philippines, and I will never do it again.
I think that Spain has left some terrible legacies in their former colonies and I note that they are still baiting bulls to this day.
So no Chris, I cannot abide the use of any animal for sport.
And I am not sure where or when you told me about any waitress and I have no time for anyone that uses another human being whether they be male or female.
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Post by chris on May 24, 2014 8:46:17 GMT 7
Australia has never had an Olympic Marathon winner, Deek De Castella won Boston and 2 Commonwealth Games Golds. Derek Clayton earlier held the World Record, but never won Gold. You might be talking about Pat Clohessy, based in the ACT, and I ran with them (or near them), a few times at Stromlo. Lisa Martin did win a Commonwealth Games Gold, no Olympic. Deek actually won a World Championship race in Finland, 1983, but it was not the Olympics.
Yes Rose beat Ruben Olivares in the USA, the 2nd Aussie to win a world title on foreign soil. Name the first one.
Cock fighting is actually not my thing, but my Filipino relos have birds in training.
As for my waitress comment, you would have to quote or reference it in or out of context.
I'm a Level 1 Triathlon Coach, recently did a Tri and can send you the report. Did a MTB race the week before, and yes, I know something about sports.
EDIT: Deeks first wife Gaylene Clews was not my classmate, but her brother Mark was, and I played cricket and rugby with him. Bit foggy on the memory there, not sure if he was her brother or relative, but Clews was a known name at Lyneham HS, ACT.
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Post by bangalorebiker on May 25, 2014 5:56:27 GMT 7
I finally got to eat some jack fruit yesterday... neighbours tree. plus I get asked "do you have this in Australia?" and when I say no then I get heaps of whatever. One thing that I have eaten in Australia that is completely different in the Philippines is Sweet Potato. It is actually sweet here. 0f course we get jack fruit in ozzi, obviously you have never been living in the NT ( no offense meant mate) and sweet spuds taste the same to me in ozzi as they do here in PR,
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Post by Deleted on May 25, 2014 6:27:45 GMT 7
Jackfruit in Central Qld as well, in fact pretty much everything...same as Thailand. I just can't afford to eat fruit in Oz. Oops, guess that's off topic. Cheers bear
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Post by Banjo on May 25, 2014 6:53:48 GMT 7
Many varieties of sweet potato as well, I ate fried cassava root in the Philippines and thought it was sweet potato and it is very common in Thailand. A better cheap potato substitute than sweet potato, it fries and mashes well.
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