Re: The carnivor thread.

[Tank]

One often gets a vegetarian thread, so I thought it might be interesting to have a thread on the different types of flesh one has consumed. Jabbles posted the following elsewhere and I thought it would make a great start.

I am certainly a fan of good food, so a good meal will put me in a good meal. That being said there aren't really specific foods that raise my mood except for Sushi. I don't get to have it too often so it's usually a mood booster.

A little off topic but I did have quite the fun food day about a year ago. Along with a few friends we decided to see how many different meats(animals) we can eat in one day. We think we may have broken some sort of record. That is certainly a mood booster. Here is out list.

Chicken
Turkey
Beef
Pork
Quail
Goat
Shrimp
Eel
Uni(Sea Urchin)
Tuna
Scallop
Octopus
Squid
Clam
Oyster
Turtle
Cuttlefish
Kangaroo
Camel
Lobster
Squab
Partridge
Muskox
Elk
Caribou
Guinea Fowl
Pheasant
Crayfish
Conch
Alligator
Venison
Water Buffalo
Ostrich
Duck
Bison
Maguey Grub (Tequila worm)
Frog
Crab
Abalone
Snail
Mussel
Rabbit
Lamb
Sea Cucumber

Not in a day but this is my list

Chicken, Y
Turkey, Y
Beef, Y
Pork, Y
Quail, Y
Goat, Y
Shrimp, Y
Eel, Y
Uni(Sea Urchin), N
Tuna, Y
Scallop, Y
Octopus, Y
Squid, Y
Clam, Y
Oyster, Y
Turtle, N
Cuttlefish, N
Kangaroo, Y
Camel, N
Lobster, Y
Squab, ?
Partridge, Y
Muskox, N
Elk, N
Caribou, N
Guinea Fowl, Y
Pheasant, Y
Crayfish, Y
Conch, N
Alligator, N but Crocodile
Venison, Y
Water Buffalo, N
Ostrich, Y
Duck, Y
Bison, N
Maguey Grub (Tequila worm), Y
Frog, Y
Crab, Y
Abalone, Y
Snail, Y
Mussel, Y
Rabbit, Y
Lamb, Y
Sea Cucumber, N

I can add:
Hedgehog
Warthog
Locust
Whelks
Herring
Cod
Salmon

[Stevil]

You ate a hedgehog?
How did you fillet it?

[Tank]

You ate a hedgehog?
How did you fillet it?

It was many years ago. You gut it and then wrap it in mud (clay is best), then bake it in fire embers for an hour or so. Then you crack the mud off and IF you have done it right the spines fall out in the mud and the hedgehog pretty much falls apart and you just pick the meat out. The mud also keeps all the fleas out of the meat. Hedgehogs are riddled with skin based parasites. Tasty and gamy flavour. Only did it myself twice.

[Jabbles]

You should have seen our original list we wanted to do. I forget the number but it was long.
I have noticed many people a weirded out by unfamiliar meats. If that applies to anyone, do you know why?

[Tank]

Personally I'd try any meat, but I would only eat something like whale or dolphin is the animal was killed by accident.

I do like raw meat and fish.

[Jabbles]

Raw meat I have not had many chances to try, simply due to food poisoning concerns. Now raw fish I am a huge fan. I am not a huge fan of salmon when cooked but raw is on of my favourites what I have sushi/sashimi.

[Stevil]

You ate a hedgehog?
How did you fillet it?

It was many years ago. You gut it and then wrap it in mud (clay is best), then bake it in fire embers for an hour or so. Then you crack the mud off and IF you have done it right the spines fall out in the mud and the hedgehog pretty much falls apart and you just pick the meat out. The mud also keeps all the fleas out of the meat. Hedgehogs are riddled with skin based parasites. Tasty and gamy flavour. Only did it myself twice.

I have seen them up close and personal and they do seem to be full of disease, you are very brave to eat one.

[Tank]

You ate a hedgehog?
How did you fillet it?

It was many years ago. You gut it and then wrap it in mud (clay is best), then bake it in fire embers for an hour or so. Then you crack the mud off and IF you have done it right the spines fall out in the mud and the hedgehog pretty much falls apart and you just pick the meat out. The mud also keeps all the fleas out of the meat. Hedgehogs are riddled with skin based parasites. Tasty and gamy flavour. Only did it myself twice.

I have seen them up close and personal and they do seem to be full of disease, you are very brave to eat one.

Most flesh, properly prepared and cooked, is perfectly edible. One odd exception is the European Magpie. If you eat too much it will give you an upset stomach and the runs.

Hedgehogs have problems with skin parasites for the very obvious reason that they can't scratch themselves, but underneath the spines there's no real problem.

[Shy]

Cow
Pig
Chicken
Turkey
Alligator

Don't like any seafood what-so-ever. Try it occasionally just to see if my taste buds change to like it, but never happened yet.

I like my meat though. Don't think I could ever replace a beef hamburger patty with black beans.

GO MEAT!!

[Tom62]

No horse meat on the list yet? I ate that occasionally in Switzerland, it is very lean and tender.

[Jabbles]

I would like to try horse but haven't had the chance. It's s bit hard to find around here.

[Tank]

I live in the UK and have never ever seen horse meat advertised.

[MariaEvri]

chicken
cow
sheep
rabbit

and fish

[Asmodean]

No horse meat on the list yet? I ate that occasionally in Switzerland, it is very lean and tender.

I ate horse...

Also, reindeer, whale, squid, snail, shark (In soup... So it only half-counts)...

...I think it would take me quite a bit of time to compile a list of all the animals I've eaten throughout my life...

[Tom62]

I live in the UK and have never ever seen horse meat advertised.

According to Wikipedia it is a kind of taboo thing in English speaking countries (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Horse_meat)