OT - Have you ever eaten any 'exotic' meat?

Chickens are chickens. I can't an wont accept eating of family pets is in anyway acceptable based on an arguement that chickens or pigs could be pets.

I have no issue with people living in the back of beyond eating anything.. But a race of people eating something widely acknowledged to not be very nice to keep a tradition I find repulsive. As I find it repulsive eating whale. Or shark fin soup. Just because its tradition doesn't make it acceptable. Unless you are an Inuit where eating whale is just about acceptable.

Dogs should not be eaten end of.

We can breed things to eat far more economically with lots of meat on them is cows and pigs.. So why eat dog? It's wrong and you should be ashamed of yourself for trying it.. Perhaps you should go on holiday to a pacific island where it's traditional to be cannibals.

 

Brilliant thread, Albert.

I worked in the Far East for a while and could have been eating almost anything but I had sea slug in Hong Kong (looked like cellophane and tasted like it, too) and snake and squirrel in Thailand.

Caribou was good in Canada and the reindeer steaks from LiDL are excellent.

A friend was served mouse in Saudi. Not whole - mouse steaks!

If you're ever visiting Gloucestershire, there's a pub called The Golden Heart at Nettleton Bottom on the A417 at the Glos end which sells a variety of African meats, though not of the endangered type.

Halfords the Butcher in Tewkes sells kangaroo, wild boar and wildebeest burgers.

There's no way on Earth I'd eat a cat or a dog, as sweatband says, they're slaughtered under the most inhumane conditions imaginable.

 

Not ashamed of myself, when in Rome and all that... I love how angry you are getting, its really quite funny...

Shark fin and whale are two more things which are illegal internationally and I wouldn't expect to see them, and would automatically know they were illegal, so wouldn't touch them. I am making an assumption when trying something new that it is legally produced, obviously that can't be guaranteed but you can be sensible.

Thanks for the suggestion, maybe I will go to Papua New Guinea for a nice bit of human meat. Yum yum

 

I'm not angry. I find you repulsive. I also find your arguement flawed.

 

Sea slug sounds fascinating, if not particularly appetising. Squirrels probably a good idea to eat here, given that they are routinely killed as vermin anyway.

I guess what I'm saying isn't popular re cats and dogs. To play devils advo-CAT (see what I did there?), would you look at them as food if they were slaughtered under the same conditions as other livestock.

My frustration is that there don't seem to be rational responses here, merely emotional repostes along the lines of 'its cruel', 'they are pets' etc etc.

 

That much is obvious by insinuating I am a closet cannibal.

Fair play. I can't pretend that my argument is exactly popular, but I thought I'd get into the spirit of things on this thread. Agree to disagree on this one I guess...

 

I wasn't insinuating you were a cannibal. More you should go there and be eaten as its traditional.

There are some things which just shouldn't be eaten. Regardless of whether they're treated humanely.

 

Where is this butcher?? I live in Worcester and would pop down to get some wild boar.. I've always wanted to try it but its never in season when I go to Spain.

 

It's an interesting debate re-picking-which-animal-to-eat.

Personally I'd say we've domesticated animals which are either useful for catching other foods or don't taste as good as others, which we typically breed for slaughter because they're tasty and pretty useless. Obviously, I don't know this as fact, because I haven't tasted dog etc, but I'm looking at the manky family dog shaking away in the corner right now, and to be honest I wouldn't eat the poor old beast... Looks thin on meat and pretty gruesome.

I guess I've just assumed we've culturally selected livestock apart from pets in some kind of obviously logical manner, but to be fair when you see a blind old dog licking it's balls all day, really makes you wonder if we just have some teenage-girl-on-McFly-like attachment to certain types...

 

Dogs are great. Mine is lay next to me on the sofa .. I have a bitch so don't have to endure the ball licking.. Though she does fart a lot.. And do that thing where their back legs lift up and drag her arse across the carpet.

 

My girlfriend has a dog who is scared of anything that makes a noise, so almost anything in existence (usually instigated by him pawing or nosing it first ). Upon hearing an "ominous" sound, he proceeds to run up the stairs with a genuine look of terror on his face, and lie quaking at the top of the stairs... An extraordinary performance which makes me cackle evilly whenever he does it. So glad I have those old nerf guns at her house

 

Dogs are generally entertaining things.. I can't imagine life without mine.. She's ace. She sounds like a tonton from Star Wars .

How people can be cruel to the things let alone eat em is beyond me.

Went to a house party last night, a terrible one, they had this mad little terrier which I spent the entire night winding up.. Had the thing running out the room I was in then running back in taking a running jump at me snarling to bite my hand then run off and do it again. Was hilarious.

 

Dude, I work in Gloucester (longlevens).
The hot stone place is the old pub next to the cheapo shop (opposite and diwn a bit from Prezzos).

I'll check out the other place.

Nice one neighbour..

 

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You need to take up golf! We could have a round.. Both dressed as hitler.

 

I hope ACS isn't jewish, nobody at the golf club would want to see a hole in one!





*getting my coat

 

If he is I will bring my zyklon gas.

 

Been working a lot and just lurking as opposed to posting...

As for the whole would you/wouldn't you debate on what is OK to eat. Sweat band, your semi-racist argument is far from sound. Its fine that you personally see certain animals as edible and others as not but don't forget that we come from a culture of animal lovers. Our culture is no more right or wrong than theirs in terms of what we deem 'lovable'. I think its disgusting that any animal is subjected to cruelty, whether its fluffy and cute or covered in feathers and ugly as ****. A few people have pointed out that dogs are treated horrendously in Korea - I agree, as are chickens, pigs, cows, ducks etc. etc. - our food standards and animal cruelty laws make for far better lives than Asian (and indeed even American animals) but just 'cause one is cuter doesn't make it any more or less cruel!

I personally don't think I'd eat dog because I, like you, love dogs. But to be honest with you, the people I find most abhorrent - those who can see/hear about a child starving to death, or dying because they don't have clean water and not batter an eyelid, but **** the bed and write an open cheque for an animal charity that shows a dog (with its own natural fur coat) sitting out in the rain! That in my eyes is truly ****ing disgusting!

 

If I can dress in the White suit it's a deal. 19th hole?

 

I'm not. But me and sweats both move in similar geographical circles.