The F Word

[morph]

I watched the first episode on sky plus last night. I was proper gagging when someone tasted chinese delicacies........poached chickens feet, ducks tongue and fish eyeball!!!!!!!!

It makes me gag now, just thinking about it...lalalala

[wendy]

Yuk....

[Citrine]

...cheers Morph, and jsut in time for lunch, too!!

I have sky+ it, and will watch it later - maybe I'll skip this bit!!!!!

[morph]

you have to watch it Citrine - it's so gross it's funny!!!!!!

[saint-spoon]

Did Mr Ramsey swear at any point?

[New to all this]

I saw that as well - I t was the lad from Gavin and stacey! I love that programme. I really did think he was going to be sick.

On Great British Menu the other week one of the chefs had cooked a cockerels crest - MINGING, and rather uncalled for in my opinion

[Richard]

They probably think the same about our MacD-thingys !!

[wafflycat]

I own up to having chicken feet and ducks' feet (amongst other delicacies) in a Chinese restaurant in Newcastle upon Tyne years ago (over twenty years ago..) called the Kwok Man IIRC.. I used to go on a Sunday lunchtime for Dim Sum. My brother, a friend & I would be the only European faces in the place.

Ducks' feet were much tastier than chicken feet - more meat on them. But I enjoyed both. Also had sliced bulls' testicles in some sort of sauce which were good. Then there was a type of glutinous rice done all smokey wrapped in lotus leaves. Quite delicious. I couldn't quite bring myself to eat poached pig skin though.

As for cooking a cockerel's crest - why not, if the bird is already dead. Indeed it's a very old ingredient in English cooking. It's a relatively recent thing that weve become quite fussy about which bits of an animal we'll eat. Quite wasteful really (I'm just as bad as anyone else). How much more *economical* and *frugal* to make the most of as much of the food as possible even though I doubt those two attributes were high on the list in the Great British Menu programme. And it's also an entirely cultural thing as to what animals we'll eat. Whilst we Brits are known for our delicious roast beef, you won't be getting a Hindu to join you in the feast... Many won't eat rabbit (cuddly bunnies and all that), yet they formed a staple part of the diet for many a family during WWII, being kept in the garden for just that purpose.

Having had an uncle who was a POW in a Japanese camp in WWII, he opened my eyes as to what really is edible, with a little thought as to the preparation.

[Citrine]

...the other thing which puts people off of Rabbit, is mixymotosis (sp). Yet another man made horrendous thing.....

[morph]

I think I'll stick to being a vegetarian!

[wafflycat]

...the other thing which puts people off of Rabbit, is mixymotosis (sp). Yet another man made horrendous thing.....

Myxomatosis is not man-made. 'Myxi' is a naturally occurring virus. It was first spotted in South America in the 19th Century. Admittedly it was deliberately introduced into Australia in an attempt to control the rabbit population, but the disease itself is not man-made.

[Citrine]

http://www.myxomatosis.org.uk/Welcome.html

...think you might want to change your mind.

Yes, its a naturally occuring disease, but man adapted it to control rabbits.

[wafflycat]

http://www.myxomatosis.org.uk/Welcome.html

...think you might want to change your mind.

Yes, its a naturally occuring disease, but man adapted it to control rabbits.

Yes, a naturally occuring disease: *not* man-made. As I already said in my post, man deliberately introduced it into rabbits in Oz (& elsewhere) to control rabbit populations, but it's a mistake to state that myxi is "another man made horrendous thing" Man didn't make it.

And even rabbits are not native to the UK, but were introduced by man back in approx 11th century - they be described as "another man made horrendous thing" using that logic?

[Citrine]

whatever

[wendy]

This getting abit here.
Wendy