Re: Untasty Food
| From: | Sally Caves <scaves@...> |
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| Date: | Thursday, July 12, 2001, 16:38 |
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You know, most red meat has to "age." Beef is hung up
up for something like forty days, and we don't get it in
the supermarket until it's just about to turn. Then it's
considered tender enough.
What is it about pheasant that is unedible if eaten too
early? What about turkeys? They're pheasants.
And chickens? They're also "pheasants." All part
of the same family. Are they also aged?
Sally Caves
scaves@frontiernet.net
----- Original Message -----
From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...>
To: <CONLANG@...>
Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2001 4:44 AM
Subject: Re: Untasty Food
> En réponse à Keith Gaughan <kmgaughan@...>:
>
> > Ok, here's disgusting. I was talking to a guy from Iceland once and
> > he told be that, and I can't recall the name given to it, shark,
> > which has been urinated upon and then left to rot for a week or so
> > is considered a delicacy there. Personally, I found it difficult to
> > believe him, but he was pretty serious about it.
> >
>
> Indeed, I saw that in Lonely Planet a while ago, when it was about
Iceland.
> Indeed, rotten shark is considered a delicacy, but they didn't mention
that it
> should be urinated on, only that it was hanging out to rot, and then cut
into
> cubes and eaten as accompaniment with a drink. Well, I'm not allowed to
eat
> shark anyway (the doctor forbid it :) ).
>
> Well, you know, pheasant is quite a delicacy here in France, and yet in
order to
> simply be edible you have to let it rot for a few days. Fresh pheasant is
not