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[Hivemind]

They're dwarfs. They don't use the toilet, clean pools of blood and vomit or change their clothes until ordered to. Of course they don't flinch at eating eyes or intestines, in fact they're almost Scottish.

Well that explains my "What are you all bitching about, I'd at least try it" response in my head.

[Cocoprimate]

Where I live (Uruguay, in between Argentina and Brazil), sweetbread is often eaten grilled at barbacues (we call them asados and they are way more hardcore than your vanilla BBQs). They are actually delicious, and not at all disgusting, unless you're such a pussy that you can't get around the fact that you're eating an organ/gland.

The texture is extremely tender, and they take on a yellowish brown colour when properly grilled. They taste great. I would go as far as saying that they are the best tasting of all other offals ordinarily consumed (kidney, liver, intestines, brains and heart). Too bad they are so fatty.

Here's a pic

[yaklin]

The only organ I have trouble understanding why anybody would eat is the liver and kidney, the kidney because it is the bloods filtering system, the liver because it makes the stuff that goes into your stomach to make food dissolve.

[Qwernt]

Never been big on eating organs and such, maybe because my dad thought Rocky Mountain Oysters were good. You may want to say no thanks...

[Quietust]

In Dwarf Fortress, sweetbread is made from the pancreas.

[peterix]

the kidney because it is the bloods filtering system

This. It just smells bad. Also any kind of nerve tissue due to the possible prion disease.

[Assassinfox]

That looks delicious, cocoprimate! 

I've never really had the opportunity to try any organs other than liver, which I hated.  My only other body part rule, after visiting Thailand, is "Never eat anything with tentacles."

[SkyRender]

 Ahh, modern sensibilities are so amusing sometimes.  We scoff at the idea of eating certain body parts, as food is plentiful enough that we can afford to be picky.  Quite a different situation from back in medieval times, when tossing perfectly edible (if not particularly tasty) butchery items was often an open invitation to starvation.

[Lagslayer]

Did somebody mention eating brains?

Warning: you may find this video disturbing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32qmeMSIeY

Yes, there are cultures that do this.

[KillerClowns]

Did somebody mention eating brains?

Warning: you may find this video disturbing

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j32qmeMSIeY

Yes, there are cultures that do this.

And yet the first thing I notice is that monkey is a rhesus macaque... a dwarvern delicacy, though I think I prefer the dwarves' more merciful method of eating them.  (Never thought I'd describe anything dwarvern as "merciful.")

[rephikul]

Did somebody mention eating brains?
Yes, there are cultures that do this.

They actually taste better when cooked, usually we fry brains with chicken eggs or boil them in soup. The consumption of fresh monkey brain as seen in the video is no difference then the much practiced method of skinning an apple alive and devouring the innards. Or crushing innocent grapes then fermenting and drink its blood. All are activities we do to obtain enjoyable meals. Survival > satisfaction > the rest

This is a mockery of many things but vegetable treatment is more likely one of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gD8nV8RlPU

[Sutremaine]

Who'd turn down a steak and kidney pie?

Kidneys taste like old wee.

[Lagslayer]

Did somebody mention eating brains?
Yes, there are cultures that do this.

They actually taste better when cooked, usually we fry brains with chicken eggs or boil them in soup. The consumption of fresh monkey brain as seen in the video is no difference then the much practiced method of skinning an apple alive and devouring the innards. Or crushing innocent grapes then fermenting and drink its blood. All are activities we do to obtain enjoyable meals. Survival > satisfaction > the rest

This is a mockery of many things but vegetable treatment is more likely one of it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1gD8nV8RlPU

I understand your point, and I'm not against eating animal products or anything (don't lump me in with the activists), but this irked me. Probably why I don't have a job in the meat industry.

[Girlinhat]

Being a vegetarian, and a rather ardent one at that since the smell of cooking meat makes me woozy, I'm always generally disgusted by the idea of what my dwarves are doing with butchered animals, and the general details of non-Americanized meat products, like brain and eyes.

However, it's purely personal for me to be vegetarian, as long as an animal is cared for in captivity and not inhumanely kept in a 2 foot cage and force-fed to death, then it's no real issue for me, except that I don't want to be eating meat.  You can do whatever you want in your own home, and I'll do what I want in mine.

I must say though, at least other cultures are USING the animal.  Perfectly edible bits are tossed out in common American establishments, or else ground into paste and sold as byproducts that sit on store shelves collecting dust as the oddity food that's only sold once a year when you get that strange person who comes in asking for pigs feet (I worked in a grocery store, I know that these things don't sell!).  If you're gonna eat an animal, go all the way with it!  I try to use the most of the veggies I eat.

[Lagslayer]

Pigs feet sell very well where I live, along with stiff like tripe and chitlins.