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Yaro
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Message 16 of 59 (271094)
12-20-2005 11:32 AM
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12-20-2005 11:27 AM


Ya, people get freaked out about this, but they forget that that's what sausage is all about. It was developed as a method for making the most out of a an animal. So they got the scrapps, and nasty bits, packed 'em in the intestine, dried it with herbs etc. Tastes good, and is more appealing than having thymus gland served on a plate

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Message 17 of 59 (271096)
12-20-2005 11:36 AM
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12-20-2005 11:32 AM


Sausage & Law
Don't watch 'em make sausages and laws.

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Message 18 of 59 (271098)
12-20-2005 11:42 AM
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12-20-2005 6:19 AM


It mentioned that brains n beans is actually a canned commodity in the south US. Is this true? Has anyone tried it? Well what I am really interested in is, has anyone ever eaten brain ever?
My grandfather liked calf brains with scrambled eggs. Another popular recipe is to deep fry the brain with a little egg squished into a kind of patty shape, and then put on a bun with mayo and a little lettuce. I'm sure it takes years off your life.
Traditionally the brain was the first part of the animal to be eaten, as its fat content was a necessity for primitive peoples.
Strangest food I'e ever eaten? Probably beaver tail. Not tasty. And I'm proud to say that I have actually eaten roadkill. In my defense, it was very very fresh, and dressed immediately after the collision. Tasty, too.

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Wounded King
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Message 19 of 59 (271100)
12-20-2005 11:44 AM
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12-20-2005 11:29 AM


Re: Volcano Chicken
There was a particularly memorable incident in Michael Palin's 'Around the world in eighty days' series when he visited a chinese restaurant which served snake. The snake he chose was brought to the table and skinned live in front of him before being taken away for cooking.
As I say ... memorable.
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WK
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Silent H
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Message 20 of 59 (271130)
12-20-2005 1:33 PM
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12-20-2005 10:30 AM


Re: alternative tentacles
sort of like a bike-tire innertube with soy sauce
I was looking for a good descriptor. Yours is more specific and accurate. If I were to get more specific (for my experience) it would be like a thin strip of chicken with bits of bike innertube inside.
It would not be surprising to learn that I was eating at a lower end restaurant. It wasn't a dive, but it wasn't classy... and it was in a redneck town.

holmes
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Silent H
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Message 21 of 59 (271131)
12-20-2005 1:37 PM
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12-20-2005 11:27 AM


They actually put them on the ingredients statement on chorizo sausage
Just this year I was introduced to chorizo susages. I thought they were pretty damn tasty. Salivary glands? uhhhhh...

holmes
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Silent H
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Message 22 of 59 (271262)
12-21-2005 5:37 AM


more brains please
So far this was pretty interesting, but it seems to have only whet my appetite. More brains please... or whatever.
I'll back that eating squirrel does not seem linked to poverty or even lack of education. When I was in college I had a dorm mate that went around shooting squirrels and cooking them up in our lounge kitchen. The guy had complete access to food so it wasn't like he was starving or something. He just really liked it and wanted to have it every week or so.
Looked like chicken to me, and didn't smell bad. I did feel it was sort of creepy for a student to be wandering around campus picking off squirrels.
If he had handed out squirrel heads, or sucked brains out of them in front other students there probably would have been a pretty big scene.
And I cannot fathom eating live animals. I have seen such things on tv, it repulses me. I am intrigued if anyone has tried that personally. Is there some added kick to doing that or something?

holmes
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Parasomnium
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Message 23 of 59 (271266)
12-21-2005 6:43 AM


An acquired taste...
In the Netherlands, there is a food called "balkenbrij", which is a kind of mixture of mainly organ meat. It's made into a stiff gelatinous mass from which slices can be cut and eaten cold or fried. I've once tried it at a traditional family party, to the horror of my table mates, because it's definitely an acquired taste. When I was asked by the hostess whether I liked it, I said very politely: "Well, I must say that I have had things that I like better", whereupon one of my cousins blurted out "Yeah, like, well... everything really."

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Dr Jack
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Message 24 of 59 (271269)
12-21-2005 7:29 AM
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12-20-2005 6:19 AM


This book is what you want: Nose to Tail Eating - it includes recipes such as Cold Lamb's Brains on Toast.

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Message 25 of 59 (271310)
12-21-2005 10:13 AM
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12-21-2005 7:29 AM


Awesome. I like this from one of the reviews...
Henderson recommends the use of a disposable Bic razor for depilating the primary ingredient in Crispy Pig Tails. And then there's Warm Pig's Head, which extreme chef Anthony Bourdain describes in his introduction as "so Goddamn amazing that it borders on religious epiphany." Here, too, are four recipes for lamb's brains, a commodity that Henderson admits is illegal in both the U.S. and England. Home chefs will encounter difficulties in obtaining other ingredients as well. Blood Cake and Fried Eggs calls for a quart of fresh pig's blood, and Soft Roes on Toast requires delicate white sacs of herring semen.
That last item reminds me that there are actually huge events held for eating testicles. Anyone care to share?

holmes
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Dr Jack
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Message 26 of 59 (271315)
12-21-2005 10:20 AM
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12-21-2005 10:13 AM


Here, too, are four recipes for lamb's brains, a commodity that Henderson admits is illegal in both the U.S. and England.
So that's why the sheep as so stupid!
(I'll get me coat)

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Scaryfish
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Message 27 of 59 (271580)
12-21-2005 9:30 PM
Reply to: Message 16 by Yaro
12-20-2005 11:32 AM


As Terry Pratchett wrote in one of his books, "There is not a lot a man with a big enough grinder can't put in a sausage." Or something like that.

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Message 28 of 59 (271581)
12-21-2005 9:41 PM
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12-21-2005 10:13 AM


There is always the New Zealand Wildfoods Festival. I've never been, myself, but they serve all kinds of things, including cows' udders, bull, lamb and goat testicles, and of course huhu grubs (a type of insect larva that lives in rotting wood).

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Message 29 of 59 (271656)
12-22-2005 10:04 AM
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12-20-2005 10:52 AM


It looked like they grabbed the thing by the ears, lowerd it into the fryer, and pulled it out. It even had a crazy grimmace on it's face.
I just can't shake this image now of a rabbit dressed as Han Solo, frozen in place as a trophy in Jabba's palace.
Oh, and your post reminds me of the time I ate chocolate-covered grasshoppers. I had one, was disgusted, and spat it out before asking my friend what it was.
The look of disbelief and resentment didn't leave my face for a few hours.

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FliesOnly
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Message 30 of 59 (271701)
12-22-2005 11:38 AM
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12-20-2005 11:42 AM


I had the opportunity to try beaver, but passed. Beaver tail sounds terrible only in that it seems you would be eating mostly connective tissue. I have had plenty of roadkill myself (assorted birds, small mammals and keep in mind that I have hit six deer with my car). Why waste perfectly good meat...I aways say.
I have also tried testicles (from bulls) and at a Christmas Party a few years back, we had boiled muskrat (it wasn't bad, I must admit).

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