Culinary question 2.
A follow up from this

Of the following meats*:

1. Beef
2. Lamb
3. Pork (including bacon and other cured varieties)

Which one would you be able to live without?

*Chicken and turkey aren't included because they are silly meats --- the vegetables of the meat world as the boyfriend puts it.
(witty_ditty has made multiple miaows since, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:41, archived)

all of them
and I have done for the past 15 years
( Jadeviper was still alive on, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:43, archived)

Ahhh - I should have posed that question to the carnivores :)

(witty_ditty has made multiple miaows since, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:44, archived)

Lamb
at a push...
( debar - Lord High Expositioner, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:43, archived)

Lamb
Doesnt taste as good as the others, incredibly fatty, and also I feel slightly* bad about eating something that young.


*as in not very bad, but more so than anything else
( comrade yannovski and then, of course, there was the schnapps monkey, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:43, archived)

Lamb
it's definitely my favourite, but it's really hard to get (and expensive) in Holland, and the other two are more important as basic meats.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:44, archived)

Lamb
Because I eat it least often.

I did vegetarianism, it was silly, and I gave that nonsense up :D
( Dekazer, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:44, archived)

Lamb.
Beef=steak
Pork=bacon
(Small Beer, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:46, archived)

Lamb
is evil
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:47, archived)

How wrong you are
grill it with rosemary and garlic, and learn what proper meat is for.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:49, archived)

It is rank
and suitable only for beered up tossers to eat out of a pitta bread.

I'm a chicken and pork man really.
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:58, archived)

If you think that there's much lamb in a takeaway kebab,
I suspect that you're sadly mistaken.

Lamb is a delicious meat, althought somewhat hard to digest (hence, it is often served with mint) - plays merry hell with my digestion system, since I all but gave up meat eating.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:02, archived)

true enough
I'm a sucker for chicken kebabs though. they even seem pretty healthy (apart from being mildly carcinogenic) - right up to the point where I drown it in coleslaw anyway.
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:04, archived)

There is this Indian Kebab shop in Wycombe
that does the best chicken tikka kebabs I have ever tasted, cooked over this big clay oven, mmmmm *drooling*

Only slight problem is its right next to the worst chaviest nightclub, so its full of complete twats all the time. Plus the Asian mafia who get served first anyway.
( comrade yannovski and then, of course, there was the schnapps monkey, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:08, archived)

Harsh :(
Get me one next time and stick it in the post would you?
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:14, archived)

I try to get there before the nightclub kicks out
its usually alright then.

Will do, hope you dont have a dog or a hungry postman.


ooh and the chili sauce, you could drink it on its own
( comrade yannovski and then, of course, there was the schnapps monkey, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:18, archived)

The only kebab I've ever eaten,
was a chicken kebab, when I was in Munich. It was actually rather nice.
Only time I bought a "lamb" kebab, I was 18 and pissed out of my skull. Got the full works, then carried it home and fed it to the dog. Only evidence in the morning, was a lovely sauce stain on my favourite coat. :¬( Had "meat'n'chips" a couple of times since, but gave it up once I'd ordered it sober - pretty minging!
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:09, archived)

I usually end up ordering a 12" jalapeno
and pepperoni pizza, eating almost all of it and waking up about 7 massively dehydrated and needing about 6 progressively nastier shits (the kind by the last 2 you are begging for a swift and merciful death and you're leaving blood on the toilet paper).

Every Saturday night.
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:16, archived)

Mmm... jalapeños. Always keep a jar of those in the fridge.
Lovely. The whole, pickled ones that you can buy, are very nice too (delicacy of northern Spain, I believe).

Maybe you should nip in to the takeaway before you get pissed, and ask them to only make you an 8" when you come back later in the evening? Afterall, it's in their interests for you not to suffer some sort of anal prolapse.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:23, archived)

6 pints later
I'd be like "Oi, fuck you Stavros - I'll have 12" and cover the whole thing in chilli sauce and then deep fry it"
( Fenris temporary Lazarus, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:25, archived)

Pfft!
In that case, your bleeding ring will get no sympathy from me!

[edit: the idea of you demanding 12" from a man called Stavros, fills me with barely concealed delight.]
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:32, archived)

Probably lamb.
I don't like it any less than the other two, but I do eat less of it.
Bit of a moot point, to be honest, as I'm gradually turning vegetarian, anyway.

Anyone see that BBC2 prog about abbatoirs, last night? I only got as far as the sight of a pig being stunned and having a large knife rammed in its throat, before I had to switch over to something else.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:49, archived)

Me
I watched all of it. I think my comment afterwards was something along the lines of it hadn't put me off eating meat, but it had put me well and truly off the working classes.

;)
( Dekazer, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:54, archived)

I agree with this.
It was faskinating though.
I'm pretty sure I couldn't do it, now. Which annoys me.
( baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:57, archived)

Someone I spoke to
once put forward the opinion that "if you're not prepared to kill and prepare it yourself, you shouldn't eat it." I'd like to agree with him (there's no way I could slaughter and butcher my own pig - I can't even gut a fish without wanting to throw up), but my weak willpower means that I can't - animals just taste too damned nice! So, assuaging my guilt in the middle class way, I kid myself that organically reared animals don't mind being killed for my benefit.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:57, archived)

I believe I have put forward this theory to you
in a debate about meat eating. I subscribe to it. This is why I only eat spiders, wasps and hookers.
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:03, archived)

Quite probably,
although I was thinking of a skinny, bald fellow that I met at a wedding, last year.

I find hookers to be awfully tough, and like nothing better than tucking in to a nice juciy nerd - the fatter, the better.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:06, archived)

unless it was a fat, bald fellow
it weren't me. although considering the number of weddings I was at last year, it's more than likely ... perhaps I was having a "slim" day ;)
( the mighty badger Aphrodite, on a bar stool, by your side, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:08, archived)

You're not a geordie, are you?
Like all other geordies I've ever met, he was skinny and bald. I think they must all have an overactive metabolism, to cope with all the brown ale.
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:11, archived)

Pffft!

( Nimble Colin camera-wrangling, globe-trotting whisky enthusiast, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:06, archived)

I agree with this theory
However, social services have pointed out to me that the willingness to kill ones food need only be theoretical.
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:08, archived)

Yeah, the cow having it's throat slit
was hard going. They seemed very interested in the workers. The chap who was the cleaner seemed to be OK.
(Small Beer, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:57, archived)

Both the cleaners
seemed alright actually. Scary the number of the young guys who had had a parent die.

It made me sad. I did not come away from it worrying about the animals though.
( Dekazer, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:09, archived)

Lamb.
And, in answer to a question you have yet to ask, cream crackers.
( baldmonkey a frothy foul-smelling vaginal discharge, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:52, archived)

Is the as yet unasked question,
what do you keep in your wallet?
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:54, archived)

or
what's that under your foreskin?
( Flapjack I spay a little mare for you, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:57, archived)

At a push, lamb
because it's an occasional luxury. The other two are ingredients of loads of things.
I use chicken much more often than beef though.
( Newington, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:56, archived)

Lamb
I couldn't cope without my pork products! (I don't really like roast pork, but give me bacon, sausage, ham, gammon, pork pies, crackling, scratching, black pudding etc etc any day of the week).
And roast beef with yorkshire puds and all the other trimmings is just gorgeous.
( Fergburger, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 14:56, archived)

Don't like roast pork?!
Not even a traditional hog roast, with a slice off the roatating carcass, served in a sandwich with some nice apple sauce? Madness...
( monster munch person, man, woman... camera... TV?, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:04, archived)

Lamb
Bacon, and a nice rare steak win every time

Although a nice lamb stew with tender meat can be unbelievbly tasty
(Naughty Tortoise, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:06, archived)

Lamb
Bacon, and a nice rare steak win every time

Although a nice lamb stew with tender meat can be unbelievable tasty
(Naughty Tortoise, Tue 5 Jul 2005, 15:06, archived)