Camp Post#1: Monster’s Birthday Feast
Yeah, it’s been a long while since we posted here at Wandermonster. The truth is fourth grade lunch is a party…there’s far too much hanging out and goofing with friends to spend time drawing comics with your dad. The Kid doesn’t usually have enough time to finish his food, let alone a Lunch Post. So, we made the hard decision to put them on hold. But now, he’s off to sleepaway camp for the first time and is eager to have Lunch Posts show up in the mail. Or maybe we should call them “Camp Posts.” I dunno. I’m just happy he wants to revive them. I’ve added something new, too: color. I don’t know if he will follow my lead and add color, but I’m enjoying it. So, enough rambling and on to the first, test “camp post.” It’s not clear if he’ll send them back to me, or just bring them all when he comes home….
Fried rat brains: it does a monster good.
True, Matt Fahey. Traditionally, the brain is removed from the rat, but apparently not for this monster.
Actually, that’s a common misconception. The original French dish, cerveaux de rats frits, was served with the complete rat in its own sauce. The brain was fried in goat oil and was often breaded so that it would retain its moisture. The dish went out of favor for centuries after the Romans drove out most of the monsters from the area during their conquest of Celtic Gaul in 121 BC. The original name for the recipe is completely unknown, but it has been fed to monsters to placate them as recently as the 1800s in Eastern Europe!
Awesome and edumacational. Thanks, Dave Gauer.