I watched those three guys on YouTube with "...it came in a can". They tried the Surstromming & it came out about the same. Maybe they should've combined it with "deep fried whaaaa?"...
I believe I saw that too. Didn't they have open shed like buildings for hanging/drying the rotted meat? And they had to be kept so many kilometers from the city due to the stink? I'll try almost anything once and go back for more of most of the time, but I think I'd have a problem getting that down. Weird food is fine. Old, rotted "food" is not.
I'm curious about Durian. Kobe beef is good, but expensive, and I'm not sure it's worth the expense. But, i think i can make most steaks taste good.
One food you have never had... but are curious
Most other organ meats that I have tried, including the famous Belgian veal kidney dish, always tastes like the last line in the recipe tell the chef to throw a handful of rusty nails into the sauce. The foie gras tasted like I had been slapped up side my head with the most incredible fatty goodness known to mankind.i would suggest that if you like foie gras, you will like a well-prepared rabbit liver. not that they are particularly similar, i just think it must be the case!
The foie gras tasted like I had been slapped up side my head with the most incredible fatty goodness known to mankind.
Dude, they are ducks and the process is not "cruel." These movements to ban such things are led but the same people who want to get rid of ALL domestic livestock and pets and rely on hysrteria, not fact, to promote their positions. The funny part is that 22 counters in Europe have indeed bane the production of foie gras, but not the import and sale and the sales of foie gras at some retailers like Fortnum & Mason in London has increased over 50% since PETA started their campaign against them. As for me, i don't care so much because I don't anthropomorphize my food.Take some time to research how these animals are raised and treated before you go about developing a full-blown foie gras fetish. It is already being banned in some European countries now, as well as California...
Would you take your dog and confine it to a box and shove a tube down its throat and force feed it?
I don't anthropomorize my food either and I think PETA are extremists, but if an animal has to die to feed me it should be quick and as painless as possible. Its having respect for other life
Spot on. The farmers that raise the ducks and geese say that badly treated birds make for bad product and the market will not tolerate bad product at this price point. As for comparison to fatty liver disease, in humans it is typically caused by years, if not decades of alcohol abuse. In ducks and geese, it is cause by garage done for weeks, not years.Dogs' throats aren't designed to swallow large fish whole.
I'm not saying foie necessarily isn't cruel. But that doesn't mean it necessarily is, either. You cited two things, the overall treatment of the ducks, and the gavage phase (force feeding). The overall treatment varies wildly from farm to farm, and isn't that much different than how chickens are treated (there is some outrage over the treatment of chickens on certain farms, but just as in that case it comes down to knowing where your chicken comes from in order to discourage those practices).
The gavage itself is up for debate as well. Is it cruel? Some say yes, and others say that the ducks don't really care that much. Their physiology is designed to allow large objects down their esophagus, and for large quantities of food to be consumed and stored as fat for later. Fatty liver disease is bad news in people, but for ducks it's just part of how they are built to survive food shortages. Some ducks and geese in nature actually gorge themselves to a similar degree, voluntarily. So you can look at it as, we're just harvesting those ducks at the appropriate time to get foie.
Here's an interesting article about it:
http://www.seriouseats.com/2010/12/the-physiology-of-foie-why-foie-gras-is-not-u.html
Nice to see some educated opinions on foie gras, it's a refreshing change of pace from the usual well-meaning but somewhat misguided complaints that get thrown its way.
But on topic: I've always wanted to try a paw paw fruit, and also I've always wondered what those giant coconut crabs that gorge themselves on coconut fats taste like. These guys:
I don't anthropomorize my food either and I think PETA are extremists, but if an animal has to die to feed me it should be quick and as painless as possible. Its having respect for other life
Yeah, PETA are extremists, but still I believe that production of foie gras is cruel treatment. Yes, I've eaten it before I knew how it was made. Yes, it tasted damned good. But guess what? I can make a french-style chicken liver mousse with a gelatin broth topping that tastes just as good. No kidding. And it costs a whole lot less. If anyone wants the recipe, just let me know.
As quick and painless as possible; that's part of the Halal way. I'm not a muslim, but just saying that mad cow disease along with the resulting mass hysteria and mass slaughter of cows for burning would never have happened if Halal was in force everywhere.
Holy crap! Is that thing real? I'd think the aliens had invaded if I saw 1 of those crawling up the steps! I'm all for tasting a new crab though. You knock him on the head & I'll pull his legs off...
Steamed or grilled?
Regards, GF.
Yeah, PETA are extremists, but still I believe that production of foie gras is cruel treatment. Yes, I've eaten it before I knew how it was made. Yes, it tasted damned good. But guess what? I can make a french-style chicken liver mousse with a gelatin broth topping that tastes just as good. No kidding. And it costs a whole lot less. If anyone wants the recipe, just let me know.
As quick and painless as possible; that's part of the Halal way. I'm not a muslim, but just saying that mad cow disease along with the resulting mass hysteria and mass slaughter of cows for burning would never have happened if Halal was in force everywhere.
I want the recipe.
Yep, they're real. Largest living non-marine arthropod. And hey, with that much meat, why not try it both ways?
Except when you are slaughtering a goat , where maximum blood loss while the animal's heart is still pumping apparently makes for a more tender and better tasting meat. They saw at the throat much like you saw the Sunni salafists in Iraq sawing at the throat of their hostages when they cut their heads off on TV.As quick and painless as possible; that's part of the Halal way. .
Except when you are slaughtering a goat , where maximum blood loss while the animal's heart is still pumping apparently makes for a more tender and better tasting meat. They saw at the throat much like you saw the Sunni salafists in Iraq sawing at the throat of their hostages when they cut their heads off on TV.
Who would I be slandering? Even if I was, why would I care? many Muslims do not follow the reels to the letter just as many Jews do not go totally glatt kosher. Tribal/ethinic tradition si much stronger on some places once you get beyond the big taboos like pork. That which applies in Mecca does not always apply in the Horn of Africa or the Hindu Kush.Sorry, but sawing an animal's throat for slaughter is under no circumstances allowed and your text regarding the goat slaughter is slanderous unless you can present documentary evidence. If you can present documentary evidence of a muslim person doing this then there would be a really, really big problem. As said, I'm not a muslim but I do understand the faith very well and they are not hypocritical when it comes to meat. The law is quite clear and does not leave room for exceptions of this type.
Anyway, this is drifting off topic now.
New to this thread, but one thing that intrigues me is lutefisk. Im sure its been said here before, but I had to toss that in.
sorry for the potato....
New to this thread, but one thing that intrigues me is lutefisk.
Eating herring just makes me happy.
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