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breadnatty08

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A few years ago I read this great book (highly recommend!) called The Devil's Picnic.
It talks about different "banned" or "taboo" foods and other things around the world. Just here eating a poppyseed bagel (one of the "taboos"), and feeling okay. :)
What is taboo where you live? Foods, practices, family convos?
 
For some reason everyone gets their panties in a bunch whenever there is talk of eating horse meat. I know its illegal here in the US but id be up for trying it.
 
My favorite Mexican restaurant where I attended college was closed down for serving horse meat. Was a shame. They fixed it well... super good stuff.
Taboo yes.. good YES!
 
Hmm... I've never had any 'taboo' food, but then again, I've never had broccoli either :p

I think in France they server horse, but to let you know, they have a fake (or real, can't remember) horse head outside the door. No joke, I heard that on TV once.
 
I'm not sure if it's taboo but I have ate Mountain Oysters before and man they were delicious! Cut in strips, batter with flour, deep fried with hot sauce. For those who don't know, bull nuts.
 
dreadnatty08 said:
I would definitely try those. Not sure if I'd like em, but I know they are quite popular out west.
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You will not be disappointed.. mmmmm!

Consider how it was once taboo to have a tattoo for main stream US people. Look at us now.

It was once taboo to have premarital sex. Look at us now.

What's taboo today will likely be accepted tomorrow. It evolves to suit our desires. Kind of handy.
 
olbriar said:
My favorite Mexican restaurant where I attended college was closed down for serving horse meat. Was a shame. They fixed it well... super good stuff.
Taboo yes.. good YES!
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My favorite Mexican restaurant where I attended college was closed down for having dog meat in the kitchen!!! They couldn't prove that it had been served to customers, but the fact that we used to joke that they must be rounding up stray dogs to be able to sell so much meat for so little kinda speaks for itself. :smokingsomb:

I've heard that eating poppy seeds can make you fail a drug test, and an early Mythbusters episode concluded that there was some truth to the rumor IIRC. But taboo? I never heard of that.

BTW, that's calf nuts, not bull nuts. They castrate calves before they can grow into bulls so they can make steers for beef cattle. The castrated males put on more weight. Although it's not unheard of to castrate a bull, for example to make a former rodeo bull more docile, the delicacy that we called "calf fry" in Texas usually comes from when the feeder calves are castrated en masse prior to being sent to the feed lot for fattening.

Bon apetit! :D

 
Speed Daemon said:
BTW, that's calf nuts, not bull nuts. They castrate calves before they can grow into bulls so they can make steers for beef cattle. The castrated males put on more weight. Although it's not unheard of to castrate a bull, for example to make a former rodeo bull more docile, the delicacy that we called "calf fry" in Texas usually comes from when the feeder calves are castrated en masse prior to being sent to the feed lot for fattening.

Bon apetit! :D
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Yes, I know. I used to work at the stockyards and you are correct, they come from calves. But bull nuts & nut fry sounds better!
 
saptech said:
I'm not sure if it's taboo but I have ate Mountain Oysters before and man they were delicious! Cut in strips, batter with flour, deep fried with hot sauce. For those who don't know, bull nuts.
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I've had them prepared the same way at an Oktoberfest party in Montana years ago. They referred to them as Rocky Mountain Oysters. The taste reminded me of liver.
 
Horse meat is by no means taboo in Japan. But its not even that great tasting.

I cant even think of any food that is "taboo" here. Maybe dogs?

I personally never feel strongly against eating anything.
 
Considering I have bigger balls than most men, I rarely feel too inhibited by a topic perhaps being taboo to worry about bringing it up. :idea:

I CAN control myself when necessary, though. For example, at my last job one of our clients was an anti-abortion organization. I could've vetoed them as new clients, what with my pro-choice beliefs and all, but I didn't. I could have let the contact person have an earful, but I didn't. I acted professionally and set my personal desire to dig in aside. I'm not saying it was easy, but I did it. :)

I use every possible opportunity to educate people about subjects they don't understand, or that they're hiding their heads in the sand on, such as the heinous abuse of sentient beings in the meat industry, or HIV/AIDS transmission, or why it's so important to have pets spayed or neutered, etc. Anything I feel strongly about, I'll discuss. When people squirm, it's almost always because the truth hurts. :rolleyes:
 
dreadnatty08 said:
A few years ago I read this great book (highly recommend!) called The Devil's Picnic.
It talks about different "banned" or "taboo" foods and other things around the world. Just here eating a poppyseed bagel (one of the "taboos"), and feeling okay. :)
What is taboo where you live? Foods, practices, family convos?
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I'm a southern gal, and people back home eat crawdads. Now of course this is a personal banned taboo food for me, and I refuse to eat anything that even remotely looks like a bug. YUCK!!!


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Ha, Petrah, the town I'm from in NC has a baseball team called the Hickory Crawdads. Not sure if they ate them there. All I know is I'm not interested.
 
I've tried eating crawdads but just can't get past the taste. Alot of people eat it. Popeye's Chicken sell it at times. Nuggets style.
 
Petrah said:
I'm a southern gal, and people back home eat crawdads. Now of course this is a personal banned taboo food for me, and I refuse to eat anything that even remotely looks like a bug. YUCK!!!
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Too late. The USDA and other inspection organizations allow a certain percentage of your food to contain things like inscect and rodent filth.

How Many Insect Parts and Rodent Hairs are Allowed in Your Food?

From the above link:

CITRUS FRUIT JUICES, CANNED

"Insects and insect eggs: 5 or more Drosophila and other fly eggs per 250 ml or 1 or more maggots per 250 ml . . ."

I do not mind bugs and associated bug parts in my food as long as they taste good.

I was off the canned chili for awhile when I learned that the little red strings you sometimes see in a can of chili are the animal's blood vessels. I could go on about this topic but it might cause some of you to stop eating.

What does concern me is the large concentrations of Dihydrogen Monoxide in our nations water and food supply. Scary stuff.
 
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