Jew’s-ear sweet soup
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Tastes like chicken. With no milk.
No chicken milk, at least.
Well, only a political correctness fail, if you actually think that political correctness is all for the good.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae
There is an actual mushroom called a Jew’s Ear so I assume that’s what they mean.
Still…
Auricularia auricula-judae is called Jew’s ear or Judas’ ear or (preferably) Jelly ear. Accurate name, just not PC these days.
Ah, so it it 100% correct English, just that someone need to rename that mushroom.
Yes. Maybe being un-PC is funny Engrish? Maybe.
Just waiting for the PC police to go throught the dictionaries.
Sweet mushroom soup? Bleagh.
It’s okay…. we eat Haman’s ears ever Purim.
that’s funny…this soup tastes like bacon
The Jew’s Ear is more of a “fungus” than mushroom,it does not have a cap,it is short for Jewel’s ear because they look like ears with red and green polka dots that gives the jewel part. They are indeed edible and are found in the forest on rotten limbs.They are cheaper than truffles but is a delicacy like them. It has a sweet smokey flavor but it has the appearance and texture of boiled sea slug skin. Maybe with our eyes closed lol.
Jewel’s Ear??? Where did you get that from? Myth and legend link this fungus with Judas, who supposedly hanged himself from an elder tree, after betraying Jesus Christ. As a result, the tree became known as the Judas tree. This type of tree often has these little Jelly fungi sprouting out of it, which became known as Judas’s Ear. Over time, the name gradually changed to the similar-sounding Jew’s Ear.
I suggest you never enter the forest hunting for any type of fungi. The Ear fungus is a reddish-purple jelly fungus that grows on decomposing stumps. It has absolutely no flavor whatsoever, unless someone injects flavor into it; it has a tendency to take on the flavor of whatever it’s cooked with. The dried specimens available in Asian markets swell to large sluglike proportion and texture when rehydrated. I collect mushrooms all the time, and this is one on the pass-it-by-it-takes-up-bolete-room-in-the-basket varieties — not worth looking at much less eating. PLEASE do NOT go out “mushroom hunting” unless you know WHAT THE CRAP YOU ARE DOING (unless you enjoy waiting for liver and kidney transplants!)
Let me guess…this is a favorite to have around Ramadan?
Only in retribution for Syrian Mountain Oysters being deemed kosher.
Well, as long as it isn’t Jew’s harp soup.
Well, at least it’s not the nose…
Ha ha. Not.
Jew’s Ear Soup..? That figures, only one ear of jew… other races it would have been two. Except the Dutch; they would only put in one ear as well…
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Interestingly, I think you’re *all* wrong – including the folks that put up the sign.
The Chinese translates to “white wood-ear”, which is actually snow fungus (tremella fuciformis – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snow_fungus), not “black wood-ear” which is Judas’ ear fungus (auricularia auricula-judae – http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auricularia_auricula-judae). You can check the characters yourselves at the Wikipedia entries provided.
So *there*
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Please be aware that most of us can’t READ the Chinese on the sign and are going by the Engrish.
mearrin69 — I really appreciate your response. I followed your links to Wikipedia and indeed, the Mandarin letters on the sign clearly say “white wood-ear.” I don’t know Mandarin or any other Asian language but I can see the shapes of the letters and make comparisons. You’re right. This is not an Engrish mistranslation but an accurate mistranslation, in the sense of accurately translating it as a type of fungus but getting that type wrong.
I don’t know but I sure as hell wish people would stop putting straws in my ears while I’m trying to take a nap.
Most people who submit items to places like Pundit Kitchen and roflrazzi.com can’t even be bothered to use spellcheck or consult Google for definitions/spellings. Do you actually think they’ll make any effort more complicated when submitting pictures elsewhere?
I agree with you wholeheartedly, but the sad reality is that ignorant people do not care to learn.
You’d know…
yeah, seconded.
I don’t know if this is in the Bible or something someone made up later (like the myths about the devil and hell). But according to the myth, Judas got one ear cut of with a sword when he got cold feet and tried to protect Jesus from the Roman soldiers.
You’ll find it in the Apocryphia (not sure which Book, but I don’t believe it was the Book of Judas itself). From there the account made it’s way into the traditions of several minor denominations, most of which are not practised any more but whose writings preserved it for later theologists.
Ah, the blessings of a curious mind…
? I think that is sooooo made up. It isn’t in any Bible I ever read.
Actually, it was one of the soldier’s ears that was cut, and Jesus reached out and healed it.
Lighten up dork.
As has been said here already – CHECK before you post. What Bibles are you guys (not) reading?
Here’s the gen.
The Gospel of John specifies that it was Simon Peter who cut off the ear of Malchus, a servant of Caiaphas, the high priest, when the crowd came to arrest Jesus. Luke adds that Jesus healed the wound. John, Matthew, and Luke state that Jesus criticized the violent act, insisting that they should not resist Jesus’ arrest. In Matthew, Jesus says all who live by the sword shall die by the sword.
Very nice clarification, thanks! But, hey, I was reading the bible I don’t own (I am a Pagan) and was just going by what I remembered of my Sunday School mythology.
Jesus who?
Do you mean the same guy who said that whoever lacks a sword should sell his robe so that he could buy one?
Why was it “bai-mu-er” instead of simply “ying-er”? Or are they different fungi? (don’t have an IME, sorry)
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that must be an unusual flavor!