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[Jackrabbit]

It's 'cause the name makes it sound like it's made out of zealots.

Also I've never tried it, but need to.

[Jakkarra]

Veal?

Yeah, it's hated though, as apparantly they keep the calves in conditions that epitomise SUCK such as not being able to move much due to being tied to stakes to keep the meat tender.

Apparantly, i've never been to a farm for Veal, so meh.

[Jackrabbit]

Oh! I mixed it up with venison. What a silly mistake.

[Jakkarra]

Ah, i thought you might have done, but i dislike questioning such things, as sometimes i get it wrong, and people decide i must be a massive retard and begin to treat me as such.

But i guess that's just how my life goes...

[DJ]

Victoria Market sells sheep brain, but I've never been a fan of foods with a texture like that.

Do yourself a favour and buy some. Coat them in eggs and bread crumbs, fry for a bit, serve with lemon wedges. It's really really great. Well, at least cow and pig brains are, dunno about sheep.

Anyway, weirdest thing I've eaten is pig eyeballs. They didn't taste all that good, but not terrible either. The worst part is how creepy it is when you lift a fork towards you and the eye on the fork is looking straight at you.

[JoshuaFH]

I say this with a straight face as well. One of my co-workers invited me out to a restaurant for Bosintang (보신탕) or "invigorating soup" if you will, which one of the ingredients is dog meat. While technically illegal for dog meat to be sold in South Korea there are still quite a few places which do sell it. In fact the one I went to is right next to my school.

And it was that which I ate tonight. And it was, well, gamey. Like rabbit or duck, but not as good as duck I think. Except for the dog meat the soup was actually pretty good. But not something I would have again.

Marlowe? Is that you? How many South Korean teachers could be on this forum?

[Psyco Jelly]

I live in Alabama, where you can find all sorts of strange foods that are considered normal here. My dad really likes pork brains, which come in cans, and there are also jars of pickled pig's feet. I have tried neither of these, but I really really like alligator. We get it from a restaurant that serves it with some really awesome orange Cajun sauce.

Around here, pork brains are more common than non-iced tea.

[Footkerchief]

Do yourself a favour and buy some. Coat them in eggs and bread crumbs, fry for a bit, serve with lemon wedges. It's really really great. Well, at least cow and pig brains are, dunno about sheep.

Do you get those canned or fresh from the butcher?

Brains are probably the only organ meat I'd be squeamish about trying.  It just seems deeply wrong for reasons I admit aren't rational.

[Nadaka]

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Brains are probably the only organ meat I'd be squeamish about trying.  It just seems deeply wrong for reasons I admit aren't rational.

There are rational reasons to avoid brain. While rare, nervous tissue is the most common source of prion diseases.

[Jackrabbit]

Unfortunately, the brains come in a ziplock fresh plastic container, and I always view those with suspicion.

[Mr Tk]

Marlowe? Is that you? How many South Korean teachers could be on this forum?

Um, no. I'm Michael. There are over 17,000 foreign english teachers in South Korea, so I'm sure I'm not the only one who visits this forum.


Now I just have to see if I can handle live octopus!

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No.

[DJ]

Do yourself a favour and buy some. Coat them in eggs and bread crumbs, fry for a bit, serve with lemon wedges. It's really really great. Well, at least cow and pig brains are, dunno about sheep.

Do you get those canned or fresh from the butcher?

Brains are probably the only organ meat I'd be squeamish about trying.  It just seems deeply wrong for reasons I admit aren't rational.

Fresh, of course. I take it the canned ones have been pickled, which I think would just ruin the taste.

[Vester]

Now I just have to see if I can handle live octopus!

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No.

I'd never eat octopus. They're too... intelligent.

Now squid, I could eat without a twinge of conscience. Not because they're not as intelligent as octopi, but because they're bastards.

[nil]

I had donkey meat once.  They served it cold in thin slices, with fried mint leaves on the side; not bad, lot like roast beef.  I'd decided I wanted to try it ever since I saw "Sweet Ass Meat" advertised in another restaurant earlier on the trip and vainly struggled to explain how hilarious that was to our native Chinese companions.

The next day I saw one of them eat a whole chicken uterus, complete with attached embryonic eggs of assorted sizes.  He plucked it from a bowl of whole chicken soup on a dare.  For the westerners, the dare was because it was gross; for the Chinese it was because traditionally that particular morsel is recommended for infertile women (or something like that, I don't speak Mandarin so I got all my info second-hand).

[LegoLord]

Now I just have to see if I can handle live octopus!

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No.

I'd never eat octopus. They're too... intelligent.

Now squid, I could eat without a twinge of conscience. Not because they're not as intelligent as octopi, but because they're bastards.

The structure of the squids eye is unusually similar to ours for something that isn't related to us.
How's it taste?