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There's a penguin island episode of a podcast called The Dollop you may be interested in.
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Camel is loving amazing and I wish you could find it in the US.
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Jul 30, 2017 18:12
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hyperhazard posted:Camel is loving amazing and I wish you could find it in the US. Honestly I'll eat just about any animal you put in front of me. Not any part of the animal, just any animal.
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Jul 30, 2017 19:33
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Horse is delicious and am a bit surprised when British people went up in arms over Horsegate.
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Jul 30, 2017 21:06
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Horse is delicious but if my packet of beefsteak turned out to be made of horse i'd be wondering what else they hosed up about it.
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Jul 30, 2017 21:15
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Like Ikea meatballs with horse accidentally in them aren't going to be made out of finest Kyushu basahi, they're going to be made out of last month's euthanized racetrack failures.
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Jul 30, 2017 21:18
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chitoryu12 posted:Honestly I'll eat just about any animal you put in front of me. Not any part of the animal, just any animal. Greenland Shark? It has to ferment in the open, and then it still might have the aftertaste of pee
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Jul 30, 2017 21:19
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Nebakenezzer posted:Greenland Shark? Please. Hákarl is fermented in the ground (traditionally, anyway), and then hung in the open for drying. You have to cut the crust off after hanging before you eat it. Hákarl is vile.
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Jul 30, 2017 21:30
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Reiterpallasch posted:Horse is delicious but if my packet of beefsteak turned out to be made of horse i'd be wondering what else they hosed up about it. I'm not eating horse nor dog, unless it's a survival scenario.
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Jul 30, 2017 21:45
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I will eat a haunch of horse if it's called that on the menu. If someone does the cow/horse switcheroo, I can never trust what's on the menu again.
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Jul 30, 2017 22:04
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hyperhazard posted:Camel is loving amazing and I wish you could find it in the US. C'mon up to Minnesota. I live in a suburb and there's a place that sells it a mile away. MisterOblivious fucked around with this message at 01:56 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 30, 2017 22:43
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hyperhazard posted:Camel is loving amazing and I wish you could find it in the US. The one time I ate camel it was incredibly greasy and not good. Kangaroo, on the other hand, is fantastic.
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Jul 30, 2017 22:45
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Gator is really nice, and you can even get it legally.
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Jul 30, 2017 23:03
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Furious Lobster posted:Horse is delicious and am a bit surprised when British people went up in arms over Horsegate. It's mostly mislabeling that puts people on edge. If I bought a tub of Crisco and I opened it up and found it full of delicious ice cream, I'd definitely be put off edge. There were also concerns because the horses that had been butchered weren't raised for their meat, they were workhorses that had recently been taken off of the streets of Romania and had various drugs in them that might've been unsafe for human consumption. Other than that, a lot of people these days have a lot of weird hangups about eating various meats because they're so far removed from animals that their main image of them are cuddly little cartoon critters or treasured pets.
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Jul 30, 2017 23:17
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I stopped eating eggs as a kid after seeing an old cartoon where someone was candleing their eggs to make sure they didn't have a chick in them. Chicken was still fine.
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Jul 30, 2017 23:43
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Prism posted:Please. Hákarl is fermented in the ground (traditionally, anyway), and then hung in the open for drying. You have to cut the crust off after hanging before you eat it. If you're going to Iceland, may as well have some whale.
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Jul 31, 2017 00:00
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Prism posted:Please. Hákarl is fermented in the ground (traditionally, anyway), and then hung in the open for drying. You have to cut the crust off after hanging before you eat it. There was a greenland shark on River Monsters the other day, I ended up reading a bit about them, Sexual maturity comes at ~120 years, sort of a Ur-goon in fish form What I want to know is how Hákarl got started in the first place. Were the Norse really that bored they had to find a way to eat an inedible fish? Was this some sort of dare food for dark winter drinking sessions? I mean blood pudding makes sense if you have literally no other seasonings
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Jul 31, 2017 00:09
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Nebakenezzer posted:What I want to know is how Hákarl got started in the first place. Were the Norse really that bored they had to find a way to eat an inedible fish? Was this some sort of dare food for dark winter drinking sessions? Desperation? I mean, it's not completely inedible; IIRC you can eat it if you boil the hell out of it with multiple changes of water. If you had no other options you might try to 'clean' it that way and then find out it worked. No idea as to why you'd ferment it, though, or who was the first person willing to eat it afterwards. Prism fucked around with this message at 00:52 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 31, 2017 00:50
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Nebakenezzer posted:There was a greenland shark on River Monsters the other day, I ended up reading a bit about them, Sexual maturity comes at ~120 years, sort of a Ur-goon in fish form Oysters are like this for me. "Hey, maybe there's meat inside this rock from the ocean." How does that even happen, the first guy to crank one of those open?
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Jul 31, 2017 01:02
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hyperhazard posted:Camel is loving amazing and I wish you could find it in the US. There's a high end burger place near me that occasionally has camel for their burgers. among other things.
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Jul 31, 2017 01:08
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Grand Fromage posted:There's a penguin island episode of a podcast called The Dollop you may be interested in. (White People Disease is when you can't be in society without yelling "whooooo!" at least every five minutes.)
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Jul 31, 2017 03:25
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Shooting Blanks posted:Oysters are like this for me. "Hey, maybe there's meat inside this rock from the ocean." How does that even happen, the first guy to crank one of those open? Saw an animal crack and eat one?
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Jul 31, 2017 03:39
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Prism posted:Desperation? I mean, it's not completely inedible; IIRC you can eat it if you boil the hell out of it with multiple changes of water. If you had no other options you might try to 'clean' it that way and then find out it worked. No idea as to why you'd ferment it, though, or who was the first person willing to eat it afterwards. Like everything else from back then, fermenting it killed all the bacteria and such. Fermenting and curing were about all you could do to preserve meat.
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Jul 31, 2017 03:40
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wallaka posted:Like everything else from back then, fermenting it killed all the bacteria and such. Fermenting and curing were about all you could do to preserve meat. Right. Fermenting food to preserve it makes sense even if a lot of it is not to my taste. But who wanted to be the first one to check if hákarl was poisonous once it was fermented, given it was when they put it in and now it smells like ammonia? Most people reflexively gag when they try it the first time; your brain is desperately trying to get you to not eat that. I will accept that it doesn't taste quite as bad as it smells, though. Prism fucked around with this message at 07:25 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 31, 2017 07:20
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Shooting Blanks posted:The one time I ate camel it was incredibly greasy and not good. Kangaroo, on the other hand, is fantastic. Roo is good poo poo. One of the guys in gbs was saying he sous vide'd it to good results
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Jul 31, 2017 09:26
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Jul 31, 2017 09:33
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The answer to "why did they start eating this gross thing?" is always "they were starving to death." Later eating it became a way to memorialize those times. Then it became a part of the general culture.
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Jul 31, 2017 09:53
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Prism posted:Right. Fermenting food to preserve it makes sense even if a lot of it is not to my taste. modern humans are kind of enormous pussies
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Jul 31, 2017 10:53
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Cumslut1895 posted:modern humans are kind of enormous pussies This is what always makes me laugh about the Paleo diet. "To be healthy, you have to eat what you're evolutionarily adapted to eat!" And then, it's like an avacado and chicken burrito with lettuce instead of a tortilla, instead of like, a frog that you picked up directly from the ground and probably killed before unceremoniously eating it whole.
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Jul 31, 2017 16:06
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deadly_pudding posted:This is what always makes me laugh about the Paleo diet. I say we should use CrossFitters as draft animals. \/\/ Then I can steal their apples at the same time, so bonus. \/\/ Suspect Bucket fucked around with this message at 20:46 on Jul 31, 2017 |
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Jul 31, 2017 20:08
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They'll do anything if you let them do it while balancing on a Bosu Ball. If you need your fence painted, just line a few of 'em up in front of it with a paint can beside each one.
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Jul 31, 2017 20:12
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Scratch Monkey posted:The answer to "why did they start eating this gross thing?" is always "they were starving to death." Later eating it became a way to memorialize those times. Then it became a part of the general culture. As I recall of the Icelandic history I read ages ago, they were indeed starving. Iceland got swapped between Denmark and Sweden(?), each of which forbade them from trading with anyone else and then just decided not to trade with Iceland because they didn't have anything. That led to the Iclandics eating rotten shark and puffin and all kinds of stuff. The WW2 happened and, Iceland declared independence, and everyone was too busy dealing with Nazis to bother with them.
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Scratch Monkey posted:The answer to "why did they start eating this gross thing?" is always "they were starving to death." Later eating it became a way to memorialize those times. Then it became a part of the general culture. Every culture also has a food they keep around just to trick outsiders into eating, like that Bourdain episode where the tribesmen feed him a raw warthog rear end in a top hat and say "Oh, yeah, this is totally a rite of passage for us. You're not a man until you eat a pig's rusty balloon knot."
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I'm fairly sure they didn't eat the shark out of any kind of "well we eat either this or Old Man Thorsson next door" desperation. The Greenland shark weighs upwards of a literal ton and fermenting fish under pressure is a traditional way of preserving large fish in the region, cf. Norwegian rakfisk. This is the same region that thinks ammonium chloride is a candy, remember. 
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Aug 1, 2017 17:21
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Trying to make an inedible thing edible is just a matter of trying hard enough, but what I want to know is how could people possibly have kept trying to eat deadly poisonous things like fugu.
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SlothfulCobra posted:Trying to make an inedible thing edible is just a matter of trying hard enough, but what I want to know is how could people possibly have kept trying to eat deadly poisonous things like fugu.
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They Ate It So You Don't Have To : The Horribly Poisoned Ancestors Food Thread (seriously digging this derail though)
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Aug 2, 2017 02:51
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JacquelineDempsey posted:They Ate It So You Don't Have To : The Horribly Poisoned Ancestors Food Thread Speaking of... is anybody else still using salt beef and salt pork, or is that just Newfoundland Hard tack is still available as well, though they took lard out of the recipe, old people still complain
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Nebakenezzer posted:Speaking of... Ham? Bacon?
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I'm in the US and I can go to the store and pick up salt pork whenever I want.Nebakenezzer posted:Hard tack is still available as well, though they took lard out of the recipe, old people still complain Wouldn't any kind of fat significantly reduce the keeping power of hardtack and kind of defeat the point?
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