The Mudcat Café TM
Thread #35315   Message #481503
Posted By: RangerSteve
12-Jun-01 - 08:17 AM
Thread Name: BS: BS. Vegetarians - do not read .
Subject: RE: BS: BS. Vegetarians - do not read .
re: peas, etc. that taste like snot: or make them in the shape of dinosaurs, worms, cartoon characters. Getting back to human meat, the stuff needs another name, just like veal for cute little baby cows, escargot for slimy vermin that most people just step on, head cheese for crud scraped off of a cows face, sweetbreads for parts you never new existed, prairie/mountain oysters for bull testicles, and in the middle Atlantic states, Scrapple for ground up pork snouts, tails, ears mixed with corn meal. Apparently, people will buy anything if the name is entirely unrelated to the actual product. I'd also like to recommend "unmentionable Cuisine, a cook book that's fascinating, even if you don't use the recipes. Ethnic and regional recipes for everything from cow brains to barnacles, with stops along the way for dog, cat, mice, with detailed explanations for why people eat that stuff. Highly recommended.