You can find canabalism pic's on rotten dot com, if you like to take 'animal' consumption to the next level. As Robin Williams once joked, "Donner ... party of 20?" The moral of the story ... it's good to be at the top of the food chain, (but don't swim with the sharks) and it's a very diverse world we live in.
Ever watch that crazy chef who goes around the world trying all kinds of weird foods? Some of the foods in SE Asia are not anything you would eat here. Insects, brains, etc.In Mongolia, they kill a goat, take out the entrails, restuff it with hot rocks and entrails, cook it over a fire and serve it after burning off the hair. Looks like one big Haggis (if you know what Haggis is). The head is a delicacy, especially the eyes. Last night, as I was eating dinner, I turned on the TV and this guy had just taken a cooked rat by the tail out of the fire, and had pulled out the steaming entrails to eat. My stomach turned over, and I had to turn it off. Why they show such stuff around dinnertime is beyond me. Outrageous. But that's what gets ratings, by their nutty Nielson standards.
I was at a dinner at a family friends house several years ago... they are from Punjab, and are practicing Sikhs... Amarjit made a feast for us, and one of the dishes was lambs eyes in yogurt (evidently, it is a bit of a pricy dish as well)... I didn't have any... the chicken, rice, and roti were wonderful...
Eyeballs were never food when I was growing up... and to tell you the truth Bra, I was a bit unnerved with that pan of white sauce all looking at me eat...
I like eating Beaver. Get it nice and hot where as the meat is still nice and pink. mmmmm boy it is mouth watering, finger licking good.
I like eating my words ... apparently. (sigh) That's why I too - say stupid / idiotic things that people remember for ever. Yep, you can't un-ring the bell. Oh, and I eat a lot of crow too. Goes good with desert: humble pie.
The Packer case was the first, and possibly the only incident of cannibalism tried in the U.S. court system. This part might get the thread moved ...and I thought partisanship was out of hand these days. Packer was rumored to have become a vegetarian before he died.
Ok, so in one breath you suggest that roaming animals (i.e.: HERD animals, like cows) are likely to pick up exotic diseases by running wild. And in the next breath, you downplay the overcrowded, cesspool conditions most cows in the US are kept in, where they are treated with mega-doses of antibiotics and are likely to develop resistant forms of known diseases... All of which is to say you must be OK wilth getting a disease which is known but can't be treated, vs one which is unknown and could be treatable... And this makes you better than Chinese astronauts somehow - when's the last time YOU were in outer space, Mr. Bigshot? :lol:
Dog meat One of the reasons I love this place... there will always be such interesting counter questions...
IMO Space programs were and are basically research and development for ICBMs, and star wars missile defense. Thus we have recent Iranian and Chinese space programs.
Things take a nasty turn: Dog meat (Definition) n. a dead person. (Typically in a threat.) Â Make one move, and you're dog meat. Origin?
Tom, It might help if you read more carefully - I did say conditions of livestock in the US were not that good, nor did I care for dogfighting...so how are you concluding I think US culture is superior? I saw an article and linked it in a thread...even if I attempted to anticipate some of the responses, there would be flames. I find it strange on the internet that anytime someone disagrees they ARE a bigshot or egomaniac, etc. If this was a face-to-face gathering, Tom, you would be looking all night trying to find that "egomaniac". Actually there was another Tom that after a serious disagreement on the net, we met in person, definitely under the impression it was resolved, then was more vicious than ever, yet was timid meeting me....on the net made this 180 lbs guy sound like a 350 lbs tatooed motorcycle gangster. In regards to your last post made late at night, my question to you is was that after several beers or is that your normal people skills? Hope it's the former - it's easier to recover from.