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Re: Untasty Food

From:Lars Henrik Mathiesen <thorinn@...>
Date:Thursday, July 12, 2001, 9:59
> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2001 10:44:10 +0200 > From: Christophe Grandsire <christophe.grandsire@...> > > 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 :) ).
AFAIK, urine is usually sterile, so I wouldn't be surprised if some cultures use it for food preparation. I think that it used to be collected and processed to get saltpeter, some places in Europe.
> 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 edible...
Well, most types of meat should be hung for a few days before use or freezing, for good biochemical reasons. Poultry is the only exception I know. (And fish, if you consider them to be animals). But I think that leaving wildfowl hanging outside in the sun for a week, or until the belly turns green, before even cleaning them out is a traditional conceit, and the meat could be just as edible if the birds were cleaned and plucked and hung in a nice 12