Before I learned about the sentience level of octopodes, yeah, I've eaten them.
When I was a kid, my mother was on a veal kick as a diet measure, but I won't touch the animals now because of the way they are raised.
Finding /real mutton/, not LAMB, would make my decade!
I've eaten roasted grubs, roasted scorpion (bland as paper, in both cases), cabesa (cow brains), but stopped that during the last mad cow disease scare. Chicken livers were a staple menu item when I was a kid, and I occasionally indulge in them deep fried, but usually in Cajun style dirty rice. I've had rabbit twice, but can't find a reliable source for it.
One of the dishes that youngest enjoys is steak and kidney pie, which appears on the menu here every few months.
Goat is delicious, and there was a local halal food truck that served it on weekends here. My kids don't balk at things like head cheese or braunschweiger. Yet, there's a delightful vegetarian/vegan restaurant that I am DETERMINED to taste through the entire menu available to me sans allergens.
Oddly, the issue of horse meat illustrates my biggest problem with the food chain in America today: I have involuntarily eaten it because certain fast food chains were proven to have meat which contained horse. Frankly, I may or may not be willing to try it voluntarily, since I do love buffalo, but I resent to the ends of the Earth the fact that I wasn't given a choice in the matter.
I haven't made any decisions about the relative intelligence of horses, but I'm pretty okay with pigs as food animals... even as I find the idea of eating whale or dolphin as upsetting as human cannibalism.
So, yeah, there's bias in there, all tangled up with observed versus unexplored assumptions. I love conversations that make me THINK about those assumptions.
Foods and preferences
When I was a kid, my mother was on a veal kick as a diet measure, but I won't touch the animals now because of the way they are raised.
Finding /real mutton/, not LAMB, would make my decade!
I've eaten roasted grubs, roasted scorpion (bland as paper, in both cases), cabesa (cow brains), but stopped that during the last mad cow disease scare. Chicken livers were a staple menu item when I was a kid, and I occasionally indulge in them deep fried, but usually in Cajun style dirty rice. I've had rabbit twice, but can't find a reliable source for it.
One of the dishes that youngest enjoys is steak and kidney pie, which appears on the menu here every few months.
Goat is delicious, and there was a local halal food truck that served it on weekends here. My kids don't balk at things like head cheese or braunschweiger. Yet, there's a delightful vegetarian/vegan restaurant that I am DETERMINED to taste through the entire menu available to me sans allergens.
Oddly, the issue of horse meat illustrates my biggest problem with the food chain in America today: I have involuntarily eaten it because certain fast food chains were proven to have meat which contained horse. Frankly, I may or may not be willing to try it voluntarily, since I do love buffalo, but I resent to the ends of the Earth the fact that I wasn't given a choice in the matter.
I haven't made any decisions about the relative intelligence of horses, but I'm pretty okay with pigs as food animals... even as I find the idea of eating whale or dolphin as upsetting as human cannibalism.
So, yeah, there's bias in there, all tangled up with observed versus unexplored assumptions. I love conversations that make me THINK about those assumptions.