Thai-ways beat chicken flu
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Looks pretty much like a national Belgium dish (and I'm not kidding)
Muskus Rat, or as they call it in their restautants: Water Rabit.
Muskus Rat, or as they call it in their restautants: Water Rabit.
I was thinking why we don't eat rats in the west (other than Belgium, as Wood pointed out!), and all I can think is:
1) association with bubonic plague
2) their living conditions (sewers) mean they are covered with disease.
Then I thought of a third one: are westerners more prone to catching disease from rats than oriental people? Only a Chinese mate has told me that Chinese people don't have the necessary enzymes to cope with alcohol as quickly as Anglo-Saxons. And we all know about the affect the common cold had on South America.
1) association with bubonic plague
2) their living conditions (sewers) mean they are covered with disease.
Then I thought of a third one: are westerners more prone to catching disease from rats than oriental people? Only a Chinese mate has told me that Chinese people don't have the necessary enzymes to cope with alcohol as quickly as Anglo-Saxons. And we all know about the affect the common cold had on South America.
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petewood said:
until 25 years back almost every town/village in NL had it's own horse-butcher. specially the smoked horse meat was a topper and a treat. Lots of iron in it.
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Igorian
WoodYouLike said:
You've been frequenting the Febo kiosks again haven't you? mmmmm... Frikandel
petewood said:
What, the pub?
I think with dog, it is because we have always treated them as favoured pets, almost family members. So, we don't eat them. Plus they probably taste rank.
Horse, well, despite the number of lardy bottoms in leggings I see trotting down my road on a Saturday morning, few people keep horses as pets. By the amount of poo left on my road, I am sure I am not the only one who would relish in sitting outside and eating a big juicy horseburger as the poor overloaded equines canter past. Preferably whilst shouting "Mmmmm, I love my horseburger!"
But, I guess the reason we don't eat horse (as well as the fact that we do see them as work animals not eating animals) is because it is rather tough and sinewy (I would imagine). I bet it probably tastes great if you love gamey-tastes.
It is very western of me, but the animals I refuse to eat are:
Anything outside of Class Mammalia or Class Avia (so no snails, frogs, lizard, snake etc. It doesn't taste of chicken, it tastes of lizard!)
Any primate (even if the chilled monkey brains in Indiana Jones looked so cool!)
Anything that I might consider keeping a pet (cat, dog, hamster, guinea pig, parrot are all out).
Other than that, I'll eat the lot!
Igorian said:You've been frequenting the Febo kiosks again haven't you? mmmmm... Frikandel
I'm missing the kroketten and bami-happen more
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