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You also get this reaction if you declare having eaten what I would call secondary meats (rabbit, duck, lamb).
Interesting! Is this US-specific?
When I lived in NL, I took a trip to Maastricht which is a beautiful place right in the South and tried a popular local dish - Zoervleis[0] which is traditionally horse meat. It was delicious. It always amuses me that when I tell this story, it's often met with disgust - even by meat-eaters! "But, how could you eat horse! They're so nice!". Yeah... you eat beef, have you ever met a cow up close? They're also lovely c…
When I lived in NL, I took a trip to Maastricht which is a beautiful place right in the South and tried a popular local dish - Zoervleis[0] which is traditionally horse meat. It was delicious. It always amuses me that when I tell this story, it's often met with disgust - even by meat-eaters! "But, how could you eat horse! They're so nice!". Yeah... you eat beef, have you ever met a cow up close? They're also lovely c…
Oh my. We had some tears that day.
For a species that has given so much and has been pivotal in the development of humanity, it's time we repaid the debt and granted them freedom in perpetuity.
Long ago I tried horse meat salami in France. It wasn’t terrible, but I prefer pork, or rather that’s what I was/am used to. Americans are surprised to hear when I talk about eating rabbit (again in France when I was a kid.) Those cute furry animals are delicious :)
Rabbit is eaten in the states, but it's kind of like venison: it's just not something you'll usually find in any store or restaurant, unless those places are specifically going out of their way to cater to either hunters or an "old world European" aesthetic. I can regularly get rabbit at either cheap redneck holes in the sticks or expensive German restaurants in the city. People outside of the cities, and ethnic encl…
I'll take your word for it but I'm not tempted. After BSE and the outbreak of variant CJD which resulted, I wouldn't consider it worth the risk. I've wondered what brain tastes like, though. It's used in a few of Apicius's recipes. I substituted corned beef from BSE free Argentina when I cooked those.
When I lived in NL, I took a trip to Maastricht which is a beautiful place right in the South and tried a popular local dish - Zoervleis[0] which is traditionally horse meat. It was delicious. It always amuses me that when I tell this story, it's often met with disgust - even by meat-eaters! "But, how could you eat horse! They're so nice!". Yeah... you eat beef, have you ever met a cow up close? They're also lovely c…
You also get this reaction if you declare having eaten what I would call secondary meats (rabbit, duck, lamb).
https://www.npr.org/sections/thesalt/2013/03/25/175296454/wh...
Lamb and duck in particular are very common here in Australia. Personally, we seem to eat them more often than chicken.
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Similar quirk that irks me in English is 'horseback riding': it's just 'riding' - or 'riding on horseback', 'horse riding' - the whole thing's coming! 'horseback riding' to me sounds like it's supposed to be a humourous phrase along the lines of 'driving a desk' (a sort of blue-collar self-deprecation for having moved up from driving whatever vehicle) - like you're still in training and haven't been given a live hors…
> it's just 'riding' You can ride other things beside horses: bikes, motorcycles, scooters...
Even if they did, 'a ride' is ambiguous at least over horse and bicycle. I didn't claim it was unambiguous either.
Yum. Horse is in every Swiss supermarket. At least in the French part.
For a species that has given so much and has been pivotal in the development of humanity, it's time we repaid the debt and granted them freedom in perpetuity.
The finer foal cuts are really some of the best meat I have ever tasted. Highly recommend.