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Originally Posted by NhlNut
Rush,
Are you eating Mexican or Spanish paella?
Mexican = bleh
Spanish = nomnomnom
My first response is:
"I ain't eatin' NONE of it."
The only paella I have had is Spanish paella. I really didn't even know there was such a thing as Mexican paella.
The original, Valencian paella sounds fine by me: chicken, duck, pork, snails, beans and rice. I would eat that all day long.
Seafood paella also sounds ok: shrimp, fish, clams, etc, hold the beans. OK.
But when you find a mussel and a piece of veal or lamb on your fork at the same time, I call timeout and huddle up, or call an audible and ask for the roast suckling pig Segovia style. The rest of the table can marvel at the wonders of the paella compost heap before them, washing it all down with fruit-laced red table wine.
Maybe I doth protest too much, but hey, there you have it.
It probably doesn't help that I really don't care much for rice.
I mean seriously, if you love food, doesn't paella seem about as unrefined a dish as you can find? What is your palate supposed to think when it is chewing a piece of calamari and a hunk of veal at the same time?