There are no bad meals in Milan...

[JJ]

[alanp]

Wow.  I love Italy....

Thanks JJ

[Rough Edge racing]

 Top row of photos on the right.....The dish near the bottom, is that tentacles ?

[Lannis]

Top row of photos on the right.....The dish near the bottom, is that tentacles ?

If it has tentacles, it qualifies (in my book) as "A Bad Meal", I don't care what their intentions were!!   

Lannis

[Bill Owens]

  In general, there are no bad meals in Italy.

[pebra]

I don't see any tentacles in the top right photo, only vongole.
Small, lovely clams.

[ITSec]

A close look at the full-size image on imagebb shows there are suckers on those 'clams'. Looks to me like octopus, a popular dish throughout the Mediterranean...

[JJ]

Top row of photos on the right.....The dish near the bottom, is that tentacles ?

Yes, it is Piovra or "Octopus" - wonderful!

[Tom]

Delicious when prepared "Italian" style.  Even sea urchin gonads with olive oil as a dip with bread.

[Damnyankee]

Important to keep a bottle of Montenegro on hand!

[JJ]

Important to keep a bottle of Montenegro on hand!

I usually like Limoncello after a big, distending meal, but a friend told me to try Amaro Montenegro, so I did, and I liked it!

[Lannis]

Delicious when prepared "Italian" style.  Even sea urchin gonads with olive oil as a dip with bread.

You're not helping the "bad meal" vibe ....   

[JJ]

You're not helping the "bad meal" vibe ....   

The Greeks also make Octopus this way...sauteed in a little olive oil with lemon. 

In Japan, it's call "Tako" and is also quite good as is the squid...."Ika in Japan, and of course, Calamari in Italy!    

You should try it sometime!

[arveno]

...Were you at Biffi restaurant?

[Lannis]

The Greeks also make Octopus this way...sauteed in a little olive oil with lemon. 

In Japan, it's call "Tako" and is also quite good as is the squid...."Ika in Japan, and of course, Calamari in Italy!    

You should try it sometime!

The contingency is remote .....   

[azguzzirep]

🎶You're going to get fa-at 🎶🎶!

I too, like to era Italian in Italy! So-o good!

[Tom]

This to make Lannis sicker.  Ika and tako are also snack foods.  Smoked sliced tako and/or dried ika seasoned with honey & cayenne with beeru Sapporo.  Oishi!    

I guess sashimi or Hawaiian poke is out of the question. 

[Lannis]

This to make Lannis sicker.  Ika and tako are also snack foods.  Smoked sliced tako and/or dried ika seasoned with honey & cayenne with beeru Sapporo.  Oishi!    

I guess sashimi or Hawaiian poke is out of the question. 

Octopus tentacles, raw uncured fish, baluts, and non-aquatic insects are off my list (as a matter of fact that sounds a bit like the Leviticus "kosher" list).

I guess that the edgiest stuff I have enjoyed are badger tenderloins, squirrels (we kill and eat a lot of those), smoked cured salmon, cured uncooked ham, and pickled chicken livers.

So I can be talked into stuff.   But scorpions, unhatched chicks, centipedes, and octopods ... no.   Not unless I hadn't eaten for about 3 weeks ....

Lannis

[Tom]

'ey....no sweat.  To each their own. 

[JJ]

Milano sunset last night...prosciutto with mozzarella...classi c Italian "dolce" - tartufo and limon glaze cake...and of course...Limoncello (Note the cool little glass!)    I will miss Italy!

Off to Budapest Hungary, then Warsaw Poland, then Frankfurt, then HOME March 3rd ("WHEW!!")

[JJ]

...and finally, these are from Orio Airport in Bergamo, Italy.  When is the last time you saw this kind of food at an airport!










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