Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 12/3/24 4:13 AM, D wrote:

  On Tue, 3 Dec 2024, 186282@ud0s4.net wrote:
 

On 12/2/24 9:02 AM, D wrote:

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On Mon, 2 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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On 01/12/2024 17:32, D wrote:

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On Sun, 1 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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On 30/11/2024 20:54, D wrote:

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On Sat, 30 Nov 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:

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Well pie it with bacon mushroom and a white wine white sauce. Or curry the bugger.
Or buy a chicken from someone who keeps them around the back yard eating worms and stuff. THEY have taste

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After christmas, this is exactly the experiment I am embarking upon. The wife will buy a chicken from a free range farm, and we'll see how it compares. My bet is it will be better, but not good enough to get me to enjoy chicken breast.
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I would concur with that. Chicken is cheap protein. Expecting it to be more is nuts. All reptiles - and birds evolved from reptiles - 'tastes like chicken'.

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I read that in terms of protein, breeding snakes is the Donald Trump of protein when it comes to price! A free business idea for this group could be to start a snake breeding farm and sell chicken:ish, protein at very good prices!
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Then there's also insect protein. I do not know how it compared with snake protein.
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In S Africa Locusts and crickets were known as 'pParkhurst prawns'
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Edible if you wanted.

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Fascinating to think about that, given the enormous amount of locusts which plague them from time to time. Huge amounts of protein there, just for the taking!

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 Yea ... if you're down with locusts  :-)
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 There IS a vocal segment that basically want to FORCE
 everybody to eat insects almost entirely as "meat".

 This is not good. I have nothing against the free and voluntary consumption of insects. If you're into it, be my guest! I am against forced consumption. But, given the amount of famine and starving children in africa, it would be interested to see if something could be done with the locust swarms to get cheap protein for the people.
 If I did not have food, I'd welcome insect food over nothing at all. In fact I've had grass hopper (deep fried) and it was actually quite good. I also had scorpion when I went to china once, and it tasted like a crunchy shrimp.
 

 Sorry, I like my meat to have had a moo or cluck or
 squeal .......
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 Oh, avoid deer/moose meat now ... there's a lot of
 something like Mad Cow prion going around. NO cure
 for that. Bear meat - only WELL done as they tend
 to be full of parasites (bear meat isn't that good
 anyway).

 In sweden deer/moose is ok at the moment I think (and hope). The only thing you need to be careful with is boar and if you fish in a plluted lake. That is, definitely do _not_ eat anything from central stockholm where for many decades heavy industry poured out its filth into the water.
 It's improving, but still not good enough. If you're 30 minutes away by boat from the center, then you can start to eat an occasional fish or two.

   The prion problem seems localized to north America
   at the moment. You're probably OK in Sweden, for now.
   Alas, the way 'conservationists' tend to move-around
   species .......
   Bear ... it's really kinda yuk.
   Wild boar, anywhere, STILL tend to carry nasty
   parasites. Always cook well-done.