| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/13/2008 4:38:12 PM | HaHaHa I know what you are thinking and I said "cut" of meat for that reason.
Yes, I am one of "those" people. I love ALL the pieces of meat on an animal. I know most of you gross out and think many of them are weird, but I grew up eating them in one scrumptious form or another and I am not about to stop now.
Liver, I love it, but we can do better than that.
Sweetbreads, I can take em or leave em. They are the pancreas, or the thymus, either.
Tongue, BEST meat in the world. I have won a few BBQ contests with lamb/goat tongue hehehe, but beef is GOLDEN too.
Heart, my kids favorite with green rice, but I am ok with it.
Fries/oysters/scrotum, these are pretty darn good, but even better on the lamb and goat than the bull.
That part in front of the scrotum (the P word), I have only had it in deer and elk, was okay, but I understand the Chinese do wonders with it in all animals! In fact, I just saw a series of Andrew Zimmern on it.
Brains, OH BABY, excellent, can't live without it.
Kidney, it is okay.
Tripe and intestine, are actually pretty darn good when someone knows how to cook them.
Oxtails and Oxlips, also very good.
Ears, trotters, snouts, very good as well.
Heads, like beef, pork, lamb, fish and shrimp are quite excellent.
What have I left out??? WOW, now I am hungry and my creativity is returning.
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/13/2008 5:14:26 PM | Not necessarily love but.... poutry gizzards, kidney..... They aren't bad.
Speaking of Zimmerman, just saw the episode where he was in Beijing, China. There's a restuarant that only serves animal penis. Yeah...that was a little too over the top for me to watch....  | |
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/13/2008 7:06:24 PM | This thread makes me think of my grandmother. I remember when I was about 15 she was cooking something in a huge pot, it smelled really good so I lifted the lid. It was a pig's head!!!
A complete pig's head, eyes and everything...OMG! It looked right at me!
She ate everything off of it she could...ears, tongue, the brains she cooked with scrambled eggs, I still have nightmares over that. She tricked me into eating rabbit, squirrel and turtle by telling me it was something else (they would tell me later). Needless to say...I became a little leery of eating there. | |
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/13/2008 10:40:01 PM | Oh you poor thing. I wish people would never do that to children. I have never and would never lie to a child...Well, I actually never lie to anyone, it never made much sense to me, but...
As far as children go, lying makes them insecure and untrusting. It really does affect them for their entire lives. I never even told my children there was a Santa Claus. Instead of tricking them, I taught them all of the tricks. It is a lot more fun that way 
If your grandmother had not tricked you, you might have been willing to try some of these things. | |
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/13/2008 11:05:24 PM | I can't say that I've tried all those parts but I can say that almost nothing grosses me out as long as its presented in an appetizing way. Except that Bizarre Foods episode with the chicken uterus. That was weird.  Oh...and rats. I don't like rats. They would gross me out.
I have heard of stories about monkey brains being served in China but I suspect it's an urban myth. | |
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/13/2008 11:57:17 PM |
I have heard of stories about monkey brains being served in China but I suspect it's an urban myth.
Actually I don't think it is. It's a delicacy in southern parts of China I've heard. And the entire procedure from what I've heard is very very disturbing. Involves boiling water and live monkey. You do the math.
And of course AIDS was started from the African tribes people eating the green monkeys right?
And there's always the Koreans eating dogs and Vitnamese eating cats stories....
I always thought it's absolute hilarious when Zimmerman eats something and makes this strange face and proclaim it's the worst thing he's ever tasted.  | |
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/14/2008 12:41:14 AM | LOL oooooooooo I love this, you guys have me going. I didn't mean to imply that I would eat anything that crawls on this earth.
I always say, I will eat anything except kidney beans and monkey brains.
To be honest, I won't eat most insects either, but grasshoppers are GREAT, ants aren't bad.
The monkey brains thing is real. I am sure there are several ways they are eaten in Asia, but the way I know of isn't China, but some other small Asian country that keeps changing names. The LIVE monkey is clenched by the head in a table and the top of his head is removed, still alive, and while he screams, you literally eat the living brains out of his bowl-like head. NO, NO, and NOOOOOOO. Too inhumane. And by the way, there isn't a creature on earth that isn't eaten somewhere.
I am primarily a wild game and wild vegetation eater, when at all possible. I know many, many hundreds of wild game recipes. I am a hunter and I strongly believe in conservation and preservation, but I would NEVER kill an endangered species, or kill an animal in an inhumane way, or let one suffer. I can't get a good shot, they walk. I ask myself often what is really the best way to kill a fish, or let it die. A bullet to larger game is much more humane. I never let the fish monger electrocute my fish, or beat it in the head. I am sure a fast sharp knife is best.
I know, I will get a thousands pieces of hate mail now. It is a good thing you PETA vegetarians (LOL right) never saw my young children slit the throat of a lamb or goat, drain the blood, skin it and carve it in 10 minutes flat without batting an eye. Ooops, did I say that?? | |
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/14/2008 5:26:30 AM | | Though I have sampled most exotic cuts of meat, with the exception of monkey anything..my absolute favorites are tripe and Dinuguan (a recipe that includes various organ meats, chorizo and pork blood) | |
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Posted: 3/14/2008 6:23:16 AM | Well a girl after my own heart. (no receipt included)
I have travelled the Canadian Arctic extensively, and have enjoyed their cuisine. Believe
me when you track an animal all day in minus 40 temperatures, the only part of the animal that doesn't get eaten is its shadow.
I have never turned up my nose at any meal, but really monkey. Too close to cannibalism for me. | |
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Posted: 3/14/2008 7:39:27 AM | I enjoy the oyster on the bottom of the turkey. Most people ignore it cuz it's on the underside. It's between just under the wing & the backbone. Bout the size of a 50 cent piece. Delish.
But stay away from the Popes' nose. (tail) | |
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Posted: 3/14/2008 10:26:54 AM | pupdaddy, to be truly honest, I have a few true dislikes...kidney beans, wax beans, sweet and sour anything, especially vinaigrette, monkey brains (on merritt), raw sushi mixed with any sauce (I love it plain raw), only a few years ago did I learn to like green beans, so three bean salad is totally out, and chicken is still on shakey ground, but I am learning to love it in some forms (especially dark meat bbq and I love all of it smoked, the liver and gizzard are great!), green bell peppers, I am not a pasta fan either especially with any kind of chunky sauce (Smooth sauce rocks. I really dislike chunky sauces.). There, now you know my food secrets. I am extremely picky about how any food is cooked.
Flsmiles, I meant to add blood to that list and cartilage. Vietnamese cartilage soup is very good. I don't know what your Dinuguan is, but I bet it is good. I think I have had it once a long time ago.
Canoist, I love tofu with aminos that taste like soy mmmmm
Gerard, I read your profile, you're a keeper. Though, I have wondered if I can stomach whale blubber, especially fermented. Have you tried it?
Spumoni, love the ice cream by the way, turkey anything is good. You will NEVER taste or find a better stock/broth than that made with turkey tails. OMG turkey tails/broth, Jerusalem artichokes and kale soup...that would bring a dead man back to life in the dead of winter.
You guys are great! | |
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/14/2008 11:24:38 PM | Whew... not for me. I'm not eating any part that some critter's been thinking, breathing, sexing, digesting, pooping, or peeing with. Not that I haven't tried them... just not my taste or choice when it comes to dining.
But the odd or different that I would go out of my way for... Rattlesnake- fried, steamed, baked wonderful however it's made. Eel is good too, kinda like fishy snake  Gator and croc isn't terrible, but tough when I had it, and the Kangaroo steaks were too gamey and tough- bad cooking I suppose. I'd try the 'roo again, but only if I cook it MY way. | |
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/14/2008 11:29:49 PM | Ahhhhhhhhh rattlesnake.
Had some many years ago. I won't say it tasted like chicken, but I think it was similar. I probably liked it better.
Being a wild game semi-expert here, I always feel guilty when there is something I haven't tried in a long while. Now I have to put rattlesnake back up there. LOL
I have to say, I STILL haven't tried anaconda, but that is probably going to have to wait until I get a ways out of school, a normal life again and a well planned vacation. To the Amazon, of course. I understand on the coast where the Amazon flows into the sea, there are so many kinds of fish in the markets there that many of them do not have names and are not even known by scientists. This I GOTTA SEE.
Secretly, I am dying for some Indonesian brackish water eel.
Hey Charon, I saw your post in time to edit this one. Yeah, eel is great. I have always wanted to try kangaroo. I have never had a tough gator, or croc. I do not really dislike them, but I am not too crazy about them because to me they taste, smell and look too much like another food I don't like at all....dirty, muddy, channel catfish. Gag. I don't like very many fresh water fish, shellfish and lizards LOL Except FROG! and turtle. Now, there you would think I was old time French. That is some good eating. | |
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Posted: 3/15/2008 11:52:31 AM | I'll NEVER  say I loved it - but this was an unusual banquet put on by the Fish and Game Club we happened to have been invited to. Didn't quite know what to expect but here are some of the dishes we were served:
Beaver (the animal kind that actually lives in the wild) too greasy!
Cougar (was made into casarole)  not bad
Linx (little critter happened to try for the hens that day bout the same as Ms Cougar
Deer bit dry - but each to their own
Moose very gamey and yuk!
Ostridge yeah, ok, but all dark meat
bear - the cassarole was ok - don't think I'd have tried it plain - hmm
And a lot of grouse, pheasant..etc...etc...
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| Let's shake things up: Most unusual cut of meat you love?
Posted: 3/15/2008 11:14:41 PM | Gerard.... LOL ok, you may now message me.
Mountainmur...you are a chef, so a little bad boy charm is built in. What is that delicious looking drink you have in your pic? I am curious about agent....
BlueEyedMinnow....I love all these fish names, by the way. Anyway, I am soooo jealous. I have never had cougar, or linx. I sure wish I had. Beaver, yeah like many similar animals that live in water, oily, but can be good if done right. Anything can, except those Monkey brains! LOL Deer is easy to dry out if the chef doesn't know what to do with the right cut. Moose, I have to disagree. It is in my top 6 favotites. But the taste of wild game depends #1 on what it has been eating, #2 on how it is cooked and prepared. Sounds like they cooked the waste animals for your group, with a chef that doesn't know wild game. Ostrich, LOVE IT. I can't tell the difference in it and prime beef, except it is better. Bear is good, yeah I like it. Grouse and phesant, well what could be wrong? Yes, I have to get back in to these conservation clubs....Gotta do it. | |
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Posted: 3/16/2008 4:38:51 PM | SmilingSalmon:
I can't say that I LOVE it, but I have tried blackened alligator and, it wasn't too bad, but I can't say that I would order it or even fix it myself, as a rule.
I have had curried goat and enjoyed that, but that was in Jamaica; although, my neighbors are Jamaican and from time to time send over a container of it to me which is nice.
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Posted: 3/16/2008 4:42:51 PM | I forgot..I once had an ostrich meat burger a very long time ago too. I am not sure if I liked it or not....lol...I just plain can't remember...LOL
And, I have had a buffalo meat burger, but thought it was a bit gamey tasting for me.
~~Beth~~ | |
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