Comments on: Carnivorous Habits

By: jOhNny

jOhNny — Sat, 10 May 2008 02:00:15 +0000

Tatonka…buffalo. Tasty? Beef jerky is a gift from the heavens.

By: CL

CL — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 04:21:51 +0000

I’d try just about anything once. Things I like I’ll have um twice - Lynyrd Skynyrd.

But, all this discussion does make me wonder how spoiled we are as Americans to discuss what we would and wouldn’t eat.

Let a man (or woman) get hungry enough and they will eat anything.

By: Kate

Kate — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 16:15:50 +0000

I am a psuedo-vegitarian. I eat poultry and fish, but not beef or pork. The thing that originally inspired me to give up those products was listening to a book on tape that described the harmful environmental and economical effects of the beef and pork industries. Well, that and a lets-see-if-I-can-do it attitude. Three years later, I don’t miss it at all. I also find less of a desire to eat poultry, but not for any particular reason. If I really developed a taste for it, I might go back to eating beef, but not pork. I like that becoming a psuedo-vegitarian also made me psuedo-kosher.

I don’t have strong opinions about what others choose to eat. What I do have a strong opinion about is other people’s strong opinions. In other words, don’t be preachy. I probably agree more with vegitarians than with meat eaters, but I hate to hear people lecture others on their food habits, particularly during a meal.

Back to a topic you actually discussed…exotic meat. If I were to travel to another country with wildly different food customs, I probably would suspend my normal eating rules to experience the local culture.

By: Dave

Dave — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:23:54 +0000

I really suggest the kids book by Gary Larson, “There’s a Hair in my Dirt”. It’s about a beautiful princess that like to go for walks in the forest. She sees things like a bird singing a lovely bird song. The narrator explains that these are actually war cries. The princess goes on and waxes poetic on all things she doesn’t understand. Then she sees a snake eating a mouse so she goes and hits the snake with a stick and saves the mouse. There is a picture of her holding the mouse with a tear in her eye. Well, it turns out that she contracts a virus from the mouse which she introduced through her tear duct and died 2 weeks later after a horrible fever. Yes, there is a big difference between loving nature and understanding nature. Meat is fine.

Of course… on principle is a whole different matter.

By: chad

chad — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 21:07:39 +0000

@dani
I’ll pass the idea onto some people at work. Would at least make an interesting discussion.

By: dani

dani — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 19:10:33 +0000

You’re right, Larry, I have had frogs legs. I KNEW I was forgetting something.
And they were quite pleasant… until I bit into, I think, cartilage. Then my mouth was filled with what I can only describe as a distinctly “froggy” flavor.
Then I found two long black hairs in the dish.
And that was really it for me.

I would LOVE a try-em-all kind of place. That would be amazing. Seriously, can somebody get on that?

By: Larry

Larry — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 18:24:57 +0000

I have had grilled alligator and grilled snake (not sure of what variety). I believe you have also had frogs legs.

There is a meat shop in NYC where you can get alligator, boar, venison, and (I think) bear.

I do wonder if there is a resteraunt that caters to this sort of thing. Like a “Try-em-all” trype of place.

By: chad

chad — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 13:11:08 +0000

They serve alligator down here in Knoxville when UT plays Florida to get ready for the game. Unfortunately, I also have only found it fried. I just recently found a place that you can buy gator nuggets frozen, so I may try it on the grill this summer.

P.S. - Thanks for the post!