Let’s face it, I love meat. If I worked at Woolworths, it would be in the meat department (another good name for a gang). So I must apologise in advance to any vegan, vegetarian or ovo-lactarian readers out there.
It’s just that animals are so very, very tasty. Some hold that ‘the cuter the beast, the greater the feast’. I myself abide by the maxim ‘a happy animal is a delicious animal’. In this vein, I make every effort to source my meat (ooh err etc) from sensitive, metrosexual, new age butchers.
Now I do not shy away from the plain facts about meat, and – by and large – am prepared to eat creatures with heads still attached (provided they are BBQ’d or roasted; no boiling). Oh, and I don’t like tearing the heads off king prawns. The shifty little buggers stare at you like you’ve just farted or something. I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could spit ‘em.
Anyway, to the question!
It’s just that animals are so very, very tasty. Some hold that ‘the cuter the beast, the greater the feast’. I myself abide by the maxim ‘a happy animal is a delicious animal’. In this vein, I make every effort to source my meat (ooh err etc) from sensitive, metrosexual, new age butchers.
Now I do not shy away from the plain facts about meat, and – by and large – am prepared to eat creatures with heads still attached (provided they are BBQ’d or roasted; no boiling). Oh, and I don’t like tearing the heads off king prawns. The shifty little buggers stare at you like you’ve just farted or something. I wouldn’t trust them as far as I could spit ‘em.
Anyway, to the question!
For your money, what do you think is the world’s tastiest animal?
If you just can’t bring yourself to gobbling up the World’s fauna, or you just can’t admit it, which vegetable is most likely to turn your head?
[We’ve had a good run this week, the response has been pretty good, but please don’t forget that all the previous questions are open for answers. Whether it is accents, gangs, flags or movie stars, you still have time! I shall be back on board to crunch the numbers and feedback the key learnings NEXT WEEK.]
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You know, the constant barrage of soul-baring questions has me convinced you now know me better than you should. It's a bit exhausting, to tell you the truth. I begin to fear the consequences...
Although it's still a second to vension/deer.
I want my meat without heads, and preferably not resembling the animal it came from (hence no wings or drumsticks or those overpriced little, whole fish for me), although I'll make an exception for octopus with the suckers still on, mainly because it looks so cool.
And if you would like to know about vegies...potato has it for mine...for the same reason as the chook...versatility.
I would like to say crocodile, but I’ve only had that twice, and although I enjoyed it both times very much, it probably isn’t representative enough.
Which probably leaves me with two: baby cows and chicken. I’ll have to go with the versatility of the good old chook.
I like fried chicken (not the stuff called "chicken" at the fast food joints) and it has to be fried on a hot stove in an iron skillet with real white lard.
You know, "lard," the stuff that plugs up your vitals and kills you deader than a doornail.
People used to have five gallon cans of lard in their houses and used it to fry everything in.
Even baked pies with lard and cakes and nobody had problems with cholesterol.
Nobody belonged to a weight watchers group either.
Absolute favorite vegetable? I'll have to get back to you. For all its versatility, it might just have to be the mundane potato.
I'm a chook girl but really do love ham and bacon - nothing else piggy though. The worst thing about being pregnant was not eating ham...
p.s. thanks for visiting my chicago blog :)