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Post by Becster79 on Aug 23, 2006 17:27:30 GMT 7
Dog was served at a banquet in my last school. I actually asked what it was before I tried it, and thought 'hey, you should try everything at least once!'. Wasn't too bad, kind of like roast beef but very very dry, could have done with some gravy ;D
I draw the line at bungy jumping though!
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Post by Justashooter on Oct 5, 2006 19:25:03 GMT 7
kagogi = dog soup. same words in chinese, korean, and japanese, basically.
good stuff.
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Post by Vegemite on Oct 8, 2006 22:26:12 GMT 7
I'm tempted to join in this thread but promised Mr Nobody that I would keep all my tastes and indulgences quiet ... however, I can say that I don't like dog. I tried it once in Tahiti - it was actually okayish until I discovered what it was. I couldn't finish it. Up here, I've been offered it a few times but each time managed to change the subject and get different food ordered. The last time this happened I wondered if I'd made the right choice. I was wondering around a nature reserve with some government workers and I could hear them discussing what we were going to eat for lunch and I could hear the word dog. I (hopefully) politely talked about what sort of food we eat and don't eat in NZ, without trying to appear to make any judgment. Finally they offered us a choice ¨C dog or traditional Mongolian steak. I opted for the steak. However, when we were seated in the restaurant out came the steak and it was sheep innards! The third time I've had this delicacy. Thankgoodness it wasn't all piled on one big platter like a previous lot ¨C this one had different plates, one plate of veins, another of stomach, another of heart, lungs, head etc...so the presentation looked a bit better to my 'Western' eyes. The vein was ugh ¨C I couldn't even finish the small portion I had taken, however the stomach was actually edible, even tasty. I had two helpings of that. But, next time I'm offered Mongolian steak I'll smile graciously and try and steer the conversation in another totally different direction...and not dog. Mongolian hotpot is superb so if people want us to eat traditional food I'll go for that. As to how the Mongolian steak is made, I've also found out how to do it. So, if any of you are keen it really is very easy to do. Grab a sheep, slit it's stomach and then pull out all it's innards ¨C everything: heart, lungs, intestines, gut, veins, etc, everything and prepare it for cooking. Chop the head off and then scrub out the inside of the sheep, add some burning hot rocks to the now empty sheep and a few herbs then chuck everything back inside, and sew the sheep back up again. Burn off the wool, baste the sheep and then use a torch to scorch the skin. Once it's all crisp just occasionally baste it and turn it ¨C let it cook slowly from the inside. After several hours open the sheep again, pull out the innards and eat. Yum! As to cat, yep, it's eaten up here. At our local corner store, the family offered to share their meal with us one night - it was cat. We had the perfect excuse that we'd just eaten, thank goodness. At our favourite restaurant the owner offered to cook our dog for us in winter...at first we thought she was joking but she's serious. And eating fetus, I haven't heard of that - the placenta, though, is another story...
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Post by AMonk on Oct 9, 2006 1:25:08 GMT 7
I have it from a reliable source that unborn (fetal) lamb, goat or calf is very good.
I have also been advised to avoid "long pork" (person) no matter how it is prepared!
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Post by Mr Nobody on Oct 9, 2006 6:05:59 GMT 7
Grain fed long pork apparently taste better. The cannibals of Far North Queensland a bit over 100 years ago during the Palmer River gold rush used to prefer the local Chinese working in the gold mines since they didn't smoke tobacco or drink rum or eat a lot of meat.
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Post by teleplayer on Oct 9, 2006 6:44:36 GMT 7
Goes without saying, what the game eats determines it's platability for the gathering. If you or your family hunt or fish there are preferences, ways to soak, marinate, infuse with herbs to get rid of the gamey," etc. For white tail in North America, so many feed on corn and soybeans as well as acorns, I would find it hard to ever call them gamey. This Baiju swilling, cheap beer drinking, with over half the crowd smoking, half eathing vegemite, saloonites have little to fear from cannabals as long as there is a viable alternative choice.
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