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[Get Real!]

The jar has been sitting, unopened, in our fridge for the past couple of weeks.

What should we do?

Take them to Kafenes! He’ll eat the little birdies, the jar, and if you stick around long enough he’ll even eat you.

[bill cobbett]

Thanks for the advice on the birds, boys. They're going to get munched this weekend.

[kafenes]

The jar has been sitting, unopened, in our fridge for the past couple of weeks.

What should we do?

Take them to Kafenes! He’ll eat the little birdies, the jar, and if you stick around long enough he’ll even eat you.

Sorry to disappoint you GR but I don't eat birds at all. When I used to hunt I gave the birds to my mum who would cook them for herself. Since she turned vegetarian 6 years ago I also decided to give up hunting. The real reason I gave up hunting was not because of killing birds but because some (or even majority) of the birds which didn't get a clean kill. It must be terrible to know they are injured and will die a slow death somewhere. Hunters, please think about this.

[Nikitas]

Bucksboy has a point. You get the same scene her in Greece too, especially around tourist areas where cooking is sort of industrial.

The other day I went to a seminar organised by the Cyprus embassy in Athens and a lady, Marilena Ioannidou, lectured on traditional Cyprus food. As I suspected, back in the "old days" ie before 1965, beef was never eaten, and animals the size of lamb or pig were slaughtered once or twice a year. The rest of the year people ate chicken, fish and lots of vegetables. Yet today wherever you go the first thing offered is either lamb kleftiko or pork.

Whatever happened to the places called "mageireia" or "maeirka"? Dont they exist anymore in Cyprus? They were working peoples eateries and served one or two dishes per day, usually some kind of bean. There was one near the Pantjaros Hani in Nicosia and I remember seeing the largest serving of boiled beans served as a salad there. It was a platter of beans swimming in olive oil with fresh cut tomatoes and parsley on top served with a side dish of spring onions, olives and salty anchovies. Now that is Mediterranean cooking but I wonder how the tourists would take to it.

[DT.]

Bucksboy has a point. You get the same scene her in Greece too, especially around tourist areas where cooking is sort of industrial.

The other day I went to a seminar organised by the Cyprus embassy in Athens and a lady, Marilena Ioannidou, lectured on traditional Cyprus food. As I suspected, back in the "old days" ie before 1965, beef was never eaten, and animals the size of lamb or pig were slaughtered once or twice a year. The rest of the year people ate chicken, fish and lots of vegetables. Yet today wherever you go the first thing offered is either lamb kleftiko or pork.

Whatever happened to the places called "mageireia" or "maeirka"? Dont they exist anymore in Cyprus? They were working peoples eateries and served one or two dishes per day, usually some kind of bean. There was one near the Pantjaros Hani in Nicosia and I remember seeing the largest serving of boiled beans served as a salad there. It was a platter of beans swimming in olive oil with fresh cut tomatoes and parsley on top served with a side dish of spring onions, olives and salty anchovies. Now that is Mediterranean cooking but I wonder how the tourists would take to it.

Just in old nicosia..the magirka i know are Zannetos, Mattheos, Stoa tou Demitri, Athineon, Kathodon tou Saki...there's plenty more but i don;t remember them now.

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[Oracle]

Thanks for the advice on the birds, boys. They're going to get munched this weekend.

No bill, give them a decent burial.

[DT.]

Thanks for the advice on the birds, boys. They're going to get munched this weekend.

No bill, give them a decent burial.

Eat them muahaha

[Oracle]

Thanks for the advice on the birds, boys. They're going to get munched this weekend.

No bill, give them a decent burial.

Eat them muahaha

Silence .... you lamb!

[DT.]

Thanks for the advice on the birds, boys. They're going to get munched this weekend.

No bill, give them a decent burial.

Eat them muahaha

Silence .... you lamb!

think you'll find that I am known as Boar now.

[purdey]

The birds are delicious,eat by themselves to get the full flavour.
I tried pickling them in the UK,they were horrible.