Stuck for something 'different' to make for dinner?

I really don't know how people can stomach putting that stuff in their mouths, like black pudding...BLACK PUDDING I ask you!!! It's pigs blood and dripping man, just coagulated, what you eating that for? Uggghh,uuggghh,uuggghh :smiley11:

ditto Dawn's comment - foul stuff [smilie=na!.gif]

[quote:901a01e316="Dawn Marron"]I really don't know how people can stomach putting that stuff in their mouths, like black pudding...BLACK PUDDING I ask you!!! It's pigs blood and dripping man, just coagulated, what you eating that for? Uggghh,uuggghh,uuggghh :smiley11:[/quote:901a01e316]

Well, I just love a bit of tasty fried black pudding, but would agree that some of it is pretty disgusting. Perhaps it's the German part of my upbringing that's accountable with all the weird wursts I've digested in the past. And they eat raw minced meat with raw chopped onions, too, which is what's referred to as steak tartare' . I must admit I stopped at that one although I witnessed it being eagerly consumed by others.

I?d have thought black pudding would be very good for mankind to eat (apart from the chunks of fat if you?ve got cholesterol issues) as, being cooked blood, it should be full of iron. If we only knew half of what went into the food we eat these days, I think we?d all become vegetarians. That wouldn?t suit me though as veggies, on their own, just bloat me right up.

I'd like to say I was vegetarian but well, I'm not. Nearly though, I only eat chicken and turkey breast, no other meat at all or meat products. I don't like fish either, never have so I'm nearly vegetarian. :icon_biggrin:

Black pudding yum! haggis yum!
A nice bit of fried liver - yum!
I've yet to try sweetbreads and brains though.

Have had eels - rather nice

Anyone tried ostrich meat? A friend of mine bought some for me once but I was too chicken (excuse the meat pun :icon_rolleyes: ) to try it.

I am far from a vegetarian but admit to trying not think about where my meat originated from whilst I am eating it, especially since we now have a few cows on our land which will eventually be sent to the slaughterhouse (not our cows - the local farmer is just making use of our land).

Saying that, I don't think it would bother me if I never ate meat again - give me a yummy plate of roast veggies any day. These days though, I just avoid the processed foods (burgers, sausages, etc) and stick to fresh cuts of meat.

Ostriche meat is gorgeous. It has a firmer texture than chicken, and a flavour slightly reminiscent of a very fresh very lean prok chop

[quote:8bece4e45b="moggy"]Black pudding yum! haggis yum!
A nice bit of fried liver - yum!
I've yet to try sweetbreads and brains though.

Have had eels - rather nice[/quote:8bece4e45b]

What! You are off your head Moggy! Black pudding - congealed pigs blood [smilie=sick.gif] Haggis - I'm Scottish and even I wouldn't eat a sheeps stomach emptied of it's bile and undigested contents and stuffed with fresh undigestable contents [smilie=sick.gif] Liver is just blah and it looks like exactly what it is - entrails [smilie=sick.gif] And as for sweetbreads - what the hell do you want to eat knackers for? Come to think of it - eat a blokes knackers and get your hankering for sweetbreads and brains over in one swallow :044:

[quote:0bd196da23="moggy"]Ostriche meat is gorgeous. It has a firmer texture than chicken, and a flavour slightly reminiscent of a very fresh very lean prok chop[/quote:0bd196da23]

Sounds good to me. I?d heard reports of a particular restaurant serving ostrich meat and wanted to try it. When we got there, however, it didn?t appear on the menu and we deemed it too difficult to try to ask for it and to have to describe what an ostrich was to an Arab.

When you hear what people in some countries are forced to eat or even choose to eat and they survive in spite of this, I don?t worry too much about eating nicely presented bits of meat. If it tastes OK and doesn?t make you sick (that?s not including thinking you?ll be sick if you eat it), where?s the harm in it? The rest is down to personal taste. There?s some things I wouldn?t care to eat (like sheep?s eyeballs ? managed to escape that one so far [smilie=na!.gif] ), but if someone else is happy to do so, let them carry on. In that way, there?s enough food to go round, which there wouldn?t be if we all ate the same stuff and rejected the rest. Waste not, want not.

If you take into account all the chemicals that are pumped into modern-day food, they are probably much more harmful to us than if we ate unfamiliar or unattractive pieces of offal, for example. Chemicals are more acceptable as they appear to be ?clinical? or ?sterile? and haven?t been part of a living creature, but they still don?t really belong in the food chain naturally.

The only thing about meat being natural and not man-made is that most of the beasts are pumped full of chemicals anyway, growth hormones, hormones to make them more muscular, chemicals to make them bigger, antibiotics to make them less susceptible to disease...and the rest. Vegetarian food isn't much better unless you just mean veggies and fruit grown organically, grains are a man-made invention that have only been in our diet for about the last 10,000 years, a mere drop in the ocean in evolutionary terms. Apparently, according to something I was reading we should all be eating more of a caveman diet, natural, wild foods that should be easily accessible to everyone and not sold to us at a premium price by a huge conglomerate. Typically, they latch on to something basically necessary, latch on to it and then make us buy it back, like water for eg.... don't get me going on that one!!! :icon_confused: