Not only horse meat, but....................................

[Bob Wright]

The thread about horse meat reminded me of the Chinese restaurants that abound here in Memphis. I refuse to eat in any of them.

Case in point: Not too long back, a man who lived on the outskirts of Memphis, near a creek, killed a cottonmouth. He was taking it home when the owner of a Chinese restaurant bought the dead snake from him. The man was recounting his story to a Shelby County deputy sheriff. The deputy became suspicious and went to the restaurant in time to see the restaurant owner preparing the snake to add to the menu.

And another: A restaurant inspector went behind a Chinese restaurant and found the carcasses of several ducks hanging on a wire clothesline. The owner was somewhat indignant, saying duck is not good for food preparation until it begins to rot a little.

And a friend of mine told of finding some type of insect remains in his food. Turned out it was scorpion.

Cajun is as far as I go.


Bob Wright

 

[Ale-8(1)]

I recall quite a few years ago when a local small Chinese restaurant was closed after inspectors discovered a whole bunch of cheapo dog food cans in their trash. Yep, really.

I don't recall if dog food cans carry a "not for human consumption" warning or not.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

While living/working in Beijing I ate a lot of mystery meat.
One of the Engr. I worked with invited me to his apt. for Sunday dinner. It was a big deal because Fido was on the menu. :D :D Gives a whole new meaning to the Chow Chow Dog breed.
If you read the "Chronicles of Lewis and Clark" you will see that they ate a lot of Dog and horse, when game wasn't available, that they got from the Indians. Favorite Indian food was a Young Colt :wink:

 

[dougader]

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[Dan in MI]

And another: A restaurant inspector went behind a Chinese restaurant and found the carcasses of several ducks hanging on a wire clothesline. The owner was somewhat indignant, saying duck is not good for food preparation until it begins to rot a little.

Go visit China , that is how duck and chicken are displayed hanging by the neck at meat markets. I was told they aren't "good" until the neck breaks and the body falls off.

Most of the time when I asked what I was eating the answer was po-ak (pork) my response was what part of the po-ak? I'm fairly adventurous but there were couple things I passed on.

 

[Selena]

Food is food. Order roast beef in India and you are likely to get camel meat. Order bacon in Saudi Arabia and you're likely to be executed. Everyplace is different.

I remember when Dave and I had first came home and his parents came to visit. I had managed to find tame rabbit which I dressed, stuffed with rice, wild rice, pieces of rye bread and certain other secret herbs and spices. When I served them to my in-laws my father-in-law chowed down like it was his first meal in a week and his throat was getting cut the next day. My mother-in-law… (Keep in mind she never approved of me because my dad is a "common laborer") took about five bites and then in a very haughty and condescending tone asked me what it was. I shouldn't have done it… But her tone annoyed me. So I told her it was a delicacy of my homeland, kuneho na may bigas pagsisiksik. Which Dave translated as dog stuffed with rice. He has always been overly imaginative with his Tagalog translations. :(

The dinnertime conversation pretty much went downhill from there.

 

[redhawker]

And another: A restaurant inspector went behind a Chinese restaurant and found the carcasses of several ducks hanging on a wire clothesline. The owner was somewhat indignant, saying duck is not good for food preparation until it begins to rot a little.

A lot of hunters age their ducks for a few days, but not to the point of rotting.

https://www.realtree.com/timber-2-table-articles/aging-waterfowl-for-improved-flavor

 

[Tallbald]

Honestly the meat I eat is my one (that I know of) hypocrisy. And friends I'm ashamed to admit my almost liberal "behavior versus talk" fault. Yes I'm a meat eater. Especially pork and chicken. It always bothered me to harvest a deer, and as American Indians sometimes did, I always said a prayer over the deer asking forgiveness for my taking of their life, and thanking them for sustaining me and my family. Same for rabbits and squirrels. Would I eat my dog? Not unless it died from an accident. What would I do should someone try to harvest my dog? No, not allowed. Period. I support hunting and loved hunting for decades. I've told my family that in a worst case scenario I pray they would be willing to eat my lifeless body, and accept it as my final gift to them. I'm an organ donor upon my death and and listed in the bone marrow willing donor list too. Just other gifts of life I may one day be able to give.
I don't use horse hide in my leather crafting, because I don't eat horses. I don't fault anyone for what they eat. It's the culture in which they were raised.
Given the diversity of cultures on Earth too,I suppose humans can't complain either when "To Serve Man" is on the the best seller list somewhere!
Don

 

[sfhogman]

Selena, that was well done!

Living in San Francisco, I have my choice of really good Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino and Japanese restaurants close by. All these restaurants are clean, inviting, and run by highly professional staffs. My wife and I eat there all the time. If we want good ol' non-threatening American food we got that too. Places like Original Joe's, Tommy's Joynt and others of that ilk.
Tonight it's fish and chips at the Cliff House. We'll watch the sun set into the ocean and have a couple of Manhattans...

No dog, cat, horse or sasquatch in sight...

Jeff

 

[Paul B]

Selena, that was well done!

Living in San Francisco, I have my choice of really good Chinese, Vietnamese, Filipino and Japanese restaurants close by. All these restaurants are clean, inviting, and run by highly professional staffs. My wife and I eat there all the time. If we want good ol' non-threatening American food we got that too. Places like Original Joe's, Tommy's Joynt and others of that ilk.
Tonight it's fish and chips at the Cliff House. We'll watch the sun set into the ocean and have a couple of Manhattans...

No dog, cat, horse or sasquatch in sight...

Jeff

THis is going back a way in time as I left San Francisco back in 1968. There was a little Chinese resteraunt off on a side street in Chinatown that had the best Chinese food I ever ate. If a co-worker hadn't shown me the place I'd never known it even existed. The only two good, read fancy for impressing a date places were Bimbo's 365 Club and the Fior de Italia, both in North Beach. I wonder if they're even still in business?
Paul B.

 

[1ruger]

If hungry enough you'll eat anything...I guarantee it. Dying of starvation is a very painful process with your body breaking down and absorbing your own internal organs. Two and three generations ago several of my immediate family members dies of starvation during the war and ones who survived did so by eating many terrible inedible items and occasionally when lucky on domestic pet animals...or rodents.
I'm always grateful that I can choose what I want to eat.

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Worst Chinese food is in Beijing China and we ate in the executive dinning room every day at lunch. SOOOOO in wasn't at bad places.
Best Chinese/Asian food is in Singapore. I ate with the locals I worked with everyday at lunch for about 6 months.

 

[Bob Wright]

I recall quite a few years ago when a local small Chinese restaurant was closed after inspectors discovered a whole bunch of cheapo dog food cans in their trash. Yep, really.

I don't recall if dog food cans carry a "not for human consumption" warning or not.

It is my understanding that they don't, and the contents must be edible for humans. At one time many poor folks bought pet foods to make ends meet. (Or meat.)

Bob Wright

 

[sfhogman]

Hi Paul,

Yep, Bimbo's and Fior d'Italia are still around.
When I was in college and right out of the USAF we used to eat in a dumpy little restaurant on Washington street in Chinatown. Could have been the place you are referring to. Cheap, good eats.

Jeff

 

[ChiefMuzz]

"I don't recall if dog food cans carry a "not for human consumption" warning or not."

They weren't serving the dog food to people...geesh

It was bait for the real food :)

 

[Ale-8(1)]

They weren't serving the dog food to people...

Chief, it turns out they were. Interestingly enough, the place was quite popular, serving "quite tasty specialties".

:wink:

 

[gramps]

Back in the mid 70’s I was a Public Health nurse in Chattanooga. An elderly couple that were my patients would get canned dog food, cut off a burger sized portion, fry it up and served it on a bun. It smelled good!
gramps, who was a vegetarian then!

 

[pete44ru]

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My late best friend swore off Chinese food after a local newspaper reporter found a skinned feline carcass (housecat) in a Chinese restaurant's kitchen.

(The restaurant closed soon after it was publicized).

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[Colonel Daddy]

Thanks, Bob Wright, for continuing with another thread about "exotic meats"! A cousin and I frequented a local Chinese buffet (talk about not knowing the kind of meat :D ) and they had one item we called "monkey-on-a-stick".

 

[Colonel Daddy]

I recall quite a few years ago when a local small Chinese restaurant was closed after inspectors discovered a whole bunch of cheapo dog food cans in their trash. Yep, really.

I don't recall if dog food cans carry a "not for human consumption" warning or not.

Years ago, one of our German Shepards thrived only on Alpo. We tried other foods, but he was just different when that was all he got. Anyway, on several occasions when feeding him I would look at the Alpo and wonder..........well, I do love a good beef stew! :D

 

[Rancher Will]

What people choose to eat is determined by two things.

1. What is available and not available.
2. Their preconditioned mental teaching and beliefs.

I have eaten many kinds of meat in my life, including quite a few that most people will not try. One, that most people who get a chance, absolutely enjoy, is true Prime Beef. Not the beef labeled Prime in grocery stores. True Prime beef from a Prime Steer carcass is aged in the Packing House, under temperature and humidity control, for time until a film of mold is grown on the surface of the carcass. The mold is wiped off with a vinegar solution before the beef is sold and shipped to special, high price restaurants, such as exclusive hotels, etc. Only about 2 to 3 percent of beef cattle can ever be fed to Live Prime Grade.

For years my wife and I have traditionally ordered a Prime Beef Rib Roast, with the help of the Butcher in the Kroger Store where my wife shops. The Prime Rib is always ordered in late October or early November from the Wholesale Company in Denver, to get it for our New Years Dinner, our annual family New Years get-together, that is a tradition in our family. The Prime Rib is expensive but my wife enjoys roasting it, serving all of our children, Grand Children and Great Grand Children, and now our Great-Great Grand Children every New Years Day. Real, True Prime Rib, is not like any other Beef you have ever eaten.

If I can remember and list all of the kinds of meat that I have eaten, some of you here would not believe me. Some have been much better than others, some just average, and some not so good. Some of the best is not commonly thought of as good to eat by most people. However, all were edible.

 

[dougader]

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[Cholo]

I've had horse, all kinds of weird seafood, fruit bat, and the South American cuy (coo-ee; a guinea pig of sorts)... but passed on the cat and dog.

If I had to do it over again, I would pass on the cuy as well.

Cuy was really popular in Peru. I was hanging with a guy and he ordered Cuy. I passed. My daughter bought her youngest daughter 2 guinea pigs. I told her I saw Cuy tacos. They didn't think it was funny :)

 

[Wyandot Jim]

Nutria It's what's for dinner in South Louisiana :wink:

 

[Colonel Daddy]

What people choose to eat is determined by two things.

1. What is available and not available.
2. Their preconditioned mental teaching and beliefs.

I have eaten many kinds of meat in my life, including quite a few that most people will not try. One, that most people who get a chance, absolutely enjoy, is true Prime Beef. Not the beef labeled Prime in grocery stores. True Prime beef from a Prime Steer carcass is aged in the Packing House, under temperature and humidity control, for time until a film of mold is grown on the surface of the carcass. The mold is wiped off with a vinegar solution before the beef is sold and shipped to special, high price restaurants, such as exclusive hotels, etc. Only about 2 to 3 percent of beef cattle can ever be fed to Live Prime Grade.

For years my wife and I have traditionally ordered a Prime Beef Rib Roast, with the help of the Butcher in the Kroger Store where my wife shops. The Prime Rib is always ordered in late October or early November from the Wholesale Company in Denver, to get it for our New Years Dinner, our annual family New Years get-together, that is a tradition in our family. The Prime Rib is expensive but my wife enjoys roasting it, serving all of our children, Grand Children and Great Grand Children, and now our Great-Great Grand Children every New Years Day. Real, True Prime Rib, is not like any other Beef you have ever eaten.

If I can remember and list all of the kinds of meat that I have eaten, some of you here would not believe me. Some have been much better than others, some just average, and some not so good. Some of the best is not commonly thought of as good to eat by most people. However, all were edible.

Rancher Will, there is a specialty market in Pensacola, about 20-25 miles from us. We have occasionally purchased a prime roast of rib from them and in no way does a supermarket rib roast compare to what we get at the market. Wife has a special way of preparing it, different from most recipes. The market also has other exotic meats, bison, elk, camel, giraffe and more that I've tried and all were excellent. I will eat rattlesnake, but only if I kill it or a friend kills it and knows how to protect and preserve it until cooking time.

 

[Colonel Daddy]

Nutria It's what's for dinner in South Louisiana :wink:

Nutria are few and far between in our area and I've never killed one. Perhaps it's time for a trip to south Louisiana . :D

 

[blackhawknj]

Be glad they don't use Soylent Green.

 

[Ale-8(1)]

Be glad they don't use Soylent Green.

Are you sure they don't?

:wink: :shock: :shock: :wink:

 

[dougader]

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[gramps]

Prime rib, filet mignon is what BEEF is all about IMO. I also love duck, eel, and calamari.
gramps