Processed meats rank alongside smoking as cancer causes - WHO

[Ameriscot]

In Alexander McCall Smith's No. 1 Ladies Detective Agency, set in Botswana, the main character is a hefty lady and it's stated many times that if you own cattle, you are considered rich, even if it's only a few. The heroine was left some cattle as an inheritance and meals always consist of beef with some sort of yam like vegetables on the side. Same goes for places like India, when I was there, the villagers were usually good looking lovely lithe ladies, while the upper classes were chubby and rotund.

I've read all those books. And the 'traditional figure' was on its way out as attractive. The same in Uganda when we were there. In the capital city of Kampala thin was found more attractive. Larger women and traditional dress were still the most desirable in rural areas and villages.

 

[Bee]

Debby - not 'tongue in cheek', just extremely cynical. Vegetables might be sprayed with all sorts of nasty chemicals.

I like a bit of road kill deer too. I'm more than happy to butcher them. We also keep out own 'rare breed' pigs which I'll be helping to butcher in a few weeks time.

I used to enjoy a wild rabbit stew, the rabbits being caught by my son's ferret or hawk and then he moved to Belgium so I no longer have it.

 

[imp]

Not me... the rarer the better. I tell the waiter.. just cook the "moo" out of it.. that's all.. I do like it at least warm in the middle though..

I don't eat a whole lot of red meat... but sometimes NOTHING does it like a big steak! I don't intend to give that up.

QS, do you remember, or are you aware of, the Bohemian butcher shops along Cermak Road that made all their own sausage and such? One very common sausage known as "Jaternice" was made two ways: both had a base of barley, but one was white, the other brown-colored. The darker one had beef blood included in the mix when baked. Ugh. imp

 

[Ameriscot]

QS, do you remember, or are you aware of, the Bohemian butcher shops along Cermak Road that made all their own sausage and such? One very common sausage known as "Jaternice" was made two ways: both had a base of barley, but one was white, the other brown-colored. The darker one had beef blood included in the mix when baked. Ugh. imp

I actually like black pudding (also called blood pudding).

http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/black_pudding

 

[imp]

I actually like black pudding (also called blood pudding). ......

Welll,.........I hate to be persnickety, especially having eaten, at some point in my childhood, beef brains, tongue, liver,.......but blood, well,......Nah! imp

 

[Linda]

I've found this a very interesting thread. I was gone all day and I need to get off the computer and get some things done around here.

But I will say QS, that Cannibal sandwich your mom made sounds good, although I wouldn't eat raw meat today. It sounds like she had a sense of humor calling it Cannibal. I ate some raw salmon a week or so ago when our daughter wanted her dad to finally experience a tea in a nice restaurant. He thought teas were for ladies but he enjoyed it. He even ate a cucumber sandwich.

Imp, I have eaten all those things you mentioned as a child. Of the group the only one I would care to eat today is beef tongue, they make a great lean sandwich.

 

[QuickSilver]

QS, do you remember, or are you aware of, the Bohemian butcher shops along Cermak Road that made all their own sausage and such? One very common sausage known as "Jaternice" was made two ways: both had a base of barley, but one was white, the other brown-colored. The darker one had beef blood included in the mix when baked. Ugh. imp

Yes.. blood sausage. I remember... and also Duck blood soup.. Czarnina

 

[Ameriscot]

Welll,.........I hate to be persnickety, especially having eaten, at some point in my childhood, beef brains, tongue, liver,.......but blood, well,......Nah! imp

If nobody told you, you'd never know there was blood in it.