Greencloud reminds me...
Almost ten years ago (Christ, I feel old...) I happened to spend a night at a Masai settlement. Apparently pretty much their whole diet consists of a mixture of milk and cow blood.

It curdles.

It looks like baby poo.

I refrained from trying it and stuck to my honky-food.
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:37, 9 replies)

you should've just gone to Spain
and eaten chips in a British boozer. You wuss.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:41, closed)

I've had human breast milk
My brothers missus. Not from the source but from a glass. It was creamy and a bit like condensed milk. Her blood, I will leave to him.
(bazmorningstar efil4nat3b, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:42, closed)

Masai
I think it were they who featured in th doco, but it was certainly a goat they bled. I can still hear the poor little fucker bleating in my mind - it's like silence of the lambs in my cranium just thinking of it.
(Greencloud Wanted to go fishing on, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:42, closed)

Cow, goat
You say "Tomato", I say "Tomato".


That doesn't work so well in print, does it?
( Enzyme is powered by sunlight, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:43, closed)

I recently read a book based on Gengis Khan
and Mongolian nomads do a similar thing with their horses. If they are away from camp & feel peckish, they will nick a small vein in the horses neck, drink a few mothfulls then slap a handful of wed mud on the wound. Yum.
( Colonel Dracula Two manky hookers and a racist dwarf, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:46, closed)

^
Probably because it tastes a damn sight better than Mongolian cheese and Mongolian tea.
( crackhouseceilidhband Fuck off back to Mumsnet, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:47, closed)

More importantly....
How do you know what baby poo looks like : )
( girlinthehole, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:50, closed)

Generally
Anything from Mongolia tastes like shite. I pity them.


Now let me get back to my Rustlers Burger....
( whenanimalsattackhumans clad in global hypercolour, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 15:51, closed)

Moo
They do generally tend to bleed cows (more to do with the social value of cows, rather than the quality of the blood in comparison to the goats).

And oh boy, it does curdle. Which would explain why they drink it like there's no tomorrow.
(Hanargh, Mon 11 Aug 2008, 18:18, closed)