λοπαδοτεμαχοσελαχογαλεοκρανιολειψανοδριμυποτριμματοσιλφιοκαραβομελιτοκατακεχυμενοκιχλεπικοσσυφοφαττοπεριστεραλεκτρυονοπτοκεφα-λλιοκιγκλοπελειολαγῳοσιραιοβαφητραγανοπτερύγων
transliterated as
lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimupotrimmatosilphioliparomelitoaktakexhumenokichlepikossuphophattoperis-teralektruonoptopiphallidokinklopeleioplagoosiraiobaphetragalopterugon .
This 171 word is the name of a dish compounded of all kinds of dainties, fish, flesh, fowl, and sauces.
The dish was a fricassée, with at least 16 sweet and sour ingredients, including the following:
- Fish slices
- Fish of the Elasmobranchii subclass (a shark or ray)
- Rotted dogfish or small shark's head
- Generally sharp-tasting dish of several ingredients grated and pounded together
- Silphion "laserwort," apparently a kind of giant fennel
- A kind of crab, shrimp, or crayfish
- Honey poured down
- Wrasse (or thrush)
- Was topped with a kind of sea fish or Blackbird
- Wood pigeon
- Domestic pigeon
- Chicken
- Roasted head of dabchick
- Hare, which could be a kind of bird or a kind of sea hare
- New wine boiled down
- Wing and/or fin
for more information (but not much because I cut-and-pasted most of the article): Lopado...pterygon
No pastrami?
ReplyDeleteWho would waste pastrami by mixing it with the other stuff?
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DeleteI am even hungrier now than I was before I read this post. I'm heading out to raid the refrigerator. Unfortunately, I don't have any pastrami.
ReplyDeleteOf course you don't have pastrami. Alaska doesn't have pastrami.
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