Re: Joy of this, Joy of that

On 2024-12-02, D <nospam@example.net> wrote:

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On Mon, 2 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote:
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On 01/12/2024 19:13, rbowman wrote:

On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 18:32:59 +0100, D wrote:
 

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!

 
https://amaroohills.com/collections/emu
 
I don't know about snake but raising emus was a get rich quick scheme
years ago. A company at the Arizona state fair was giving out emu burgers
to attract attention. It wasn't objectionable but the idea didn't catch
on. It has the 'neither fish nor fowl' problem. It doesn't taste like
chicken or quite like beef.
 

Same as ostrich. It's just not very interesting as meat
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There is a huge range of meat (and fungi) that are edible, but so dull or
faintly obnoxious that no one does.
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Wild hare (jack rabbit) tastes and smells like jockstraps after a hard match.
By the time you have got rid of that flavour all the other flavour has gone
too.
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Same goes for the muddy taste in pond reared carp.
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Rabbit is plain dull.  But in a stew with bacon and vegetables and plenty of
herbs, its not bad

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I bought some rabbit sausage the other week, and it tasted like
tasteless chicken sausage. Perhaps a little less smooth texture. It wasn't
bad, but definitely not something to write home about either.

About 45 years ago, while eating in the college dorm cafeteria, I
noticed the piece of "chicken" on my plate was a little tougher
and drier than most chicken, and the arrangement of the bones did
not appear to be consistent with any piece of chicken I had ever
seen.  I had eaten rabbit a few years earlier, when my uncle was
raising them, so I started to suspect the "chicken" was really
rabbit.  My suspicion was confirmed when I heard a girl shriek
rather unhappily from a couple of tables away, "We're eating
BUNNIES!"

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