The Incredibly Comprehensive Meat Poll

[BJ Back From the Beyond]

I've always wanted to try roasted ants. I hear they're pretty popular in South America.

[Tyranicus]

I've had the pretty standard meats so far. Beef, chicken, turkey, lamb and kangaroo.

So eating kangaroo is common in Australia?

[Prince of Kitties]

Hmm. I wonder if there are any edible insects on the American market... Like, at all

[Callie]

I saw a news program once about an unusual restaurant in New York City that sells lollipops with various insects in them. They also sell lollipops with arachnids such as scorpions in them.

 

My dad has a manic-depressive cousin who usually doesn't take his meds. He rolls his own cigarettes and sometimes puts ants in them. He claims that it clears his lungs, but that he wants to die from emphysema.

[adc.]

I prefer. . . the most dangerous meat.

Spam?

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Hahahahaheaheaheyeayeahahaha!!! What a pun! You deserve more meats!

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-A

[Cairo Jim]

So eating kangaroo is common in Australia?

 

Common enough to be sold on a small, but regular basis at the supermarket.

[Alorael at Large]

I saw a news program once about an unusual restaurant in New York City that sells lollipops with various insects in them. They also sell lollipops with arachnids such as scorpions in them.

I'd completely forgotten, but I ate a cricket pop. The cricket was slightly crunchy but didn't have much flavor besides lollipop.

 

—Alorael, who didn't find the texture unpleasant. He thought the legs might be bad, but they weren't especially noticeable.

[Student of Trinity]

Does biting off a hangnail count as eating human?

[Student of Trinity]

I just remember that I've eaten skate, which is some sort of ray-like fish. It had funny flat bones. It was good, though with the kind of goodness, not uncommon in exotic seafood, in which lemon and capers play a prominent part. A goodness more socially constructed than inherent, in other words.

[Lilith]

I just remember that I've eaten skate, which is some sort of ray-like fish. It had funny flat bones. It was good, though with the kind of goodness, not uncommon in exotic seafood, in which lemon and capers play a prominent part. A goodness more socially constructed than inherent, in other words.

 

yeah skate is the meat of rays, and is somewhat similar to flake but generally considered inferior. sometimes it's passed off as flake here

[Student of Trinity]

I also once had a squid steak, which must have been a section of the usual squid body tube, cut off and laid flat. It was fairly large and nearly a quarter-inch thick, so the original squid must have been nearly a foot long, I'd estimate, to leave no visible curvature in the steak. It was bland but not rubbery, and good with lemon and capers.

 

I can recommend against giant clam sushi. Expensive and rubbery.

 

All this seafood talk reminds me of all the cooking in the game Aquaria. Apart from the absurdity of supposedly cooking underwater, that feature seemed to fit the game very well. You really felt like this expert underwater forager, seeking out all the exotic delicacies of the sea.

 

[accent=British]Not another sea loaf![/accent]

[Lilith]

Apart from the absurdity of supposedly cooking underwater

 

surely that's what hydrothermal vents are for

[Balladeer]

Hmm. I wonder if there are any edible insects on the American market... Like, at all

 

Not sure how many of these are on the 'American market' but the international 'Internet market' has a healthy stock of places to order from to have bugs and worms shipped right to your door.

 

Edit: bah... new format for links...

[The Almighty Doer of Stuff]

There's a college professor somewhere in the US who is notorious for encouraging his students, and anyone else interested, to eat cicadas. He makes them into tacos, and supposedly they're very good.

[Khoth]

You missed out zebra from your list. I assume it tastes like horse, but I don't know because I've never eaten horse.

[Trenton.]

Where is tuna?

 

 

Tuna is probably the most famous eaten fish next to crabs!

[Callie]

Where is tuna?

That would be an oily fish.

[keira]

Also crabs are not fish.

[Xaiya]

I've eaten most of the standard meats, including buffalo, but except for elk. I'd like to try elk, though. I hear it's pretty good when made into jerky.

I've had the standard assortment of fish--some whitefish, oily fish, and also a bit of crab. I don't care much at all for seafood, though.

 

I generally prefer beef (as long as it isn't too tough) or chiken. Overall, I haven't really had any exotic meat.

[Lilith]

I don't care much at all for seafood, though.

 

that will make life easier for you if you ever go on a low-crab diet

[Trenton.]

that will make life easier for you if you ever go on a low-crab diet

 

Nice one. Harehunter, you have competition. :3

[Tyranicus]

Nice one. Harehunter, you have competition. :3

Can it really be called competition when one is funny and the other is not?

[Rowen]

Can it really be called competition when one is funny and the other is not?

Don't be so mean to Lilith. I think her puns are funny even if you do not.

[Lilith]

Don't be so mean to Lilith. I think her puns are funny even if you do not.

 

aaaaa i have been burned

 

on the other hand i have been burned by someone who thinks harehunter's puns are funny so i have no real reason to take offence

[Alorael at Large]

Charred. This is a meat thread.

 

—Alorael, who should also make cracks about how your suffering is meet. So he will/has!

[Triumph]

Have you really been burned, or are you just well done?

 

Edit: Bah. Beaten the pun-ch by Alorael.

[Jerakeen]

Stop. This. Now.

[Triumph]

Was it overcooked? I thought I was in rare good form.

[Tyranicus]

 

I worried that I might be overusing this image. Then I realized that I wasn't overusing this nearly as much as y'all are overusing puns.

[Dikiyoba]

aaaaa i have been burned

 

on the other hand i have been burned by someone who thinks harehunter's puns are funny so i have no real reason to take offence

Dikiyoba assumes that Rowen was being deliberately contrary, based on the .

[Lilith]

Dikiyoba assumes that Rowen was being deliberately contrary, based on the .

 

i know, i was burning him back

[Alorael at Large]

We need pun firebreaks.

 

—Alorael, who doesn't want the conflagration to spread. He might get some on him!

[Randomizer]

If you can't stand the fire, stay out of the barbeque pit.

[Callie]

—Alorael, who doesn't want the conflagration to spread. He might get some on him!

Conflagration was such a disappointing spell. It was like trying to fight a spore monster with a bottle of RoundUp, without the spray nozzle.

[Balladeer]

With all this talk of meat puns I'm surprised no one has mentioned KoL. The best tasting meat is served with a side of knee-slapping laughter.

[nikki.]

With all this talk of meat puns I'm surprised no one has mentioned KoL. The best tasting meat is served with a side of knee-slapping laughter.

 

[snip]

 

Good enough?

[Dikiyoba]

Also, you don't eat meat in KoL, you spend it.

 

Dikiyoba's favorite game meat is the weird meat of Avernum and Nethergate. How can anyone help but not enjoy something that gross?

[The Mystic]

have tried:

beef, buffalo, pork, lamb, venison, rabbit, chicken, duck, turkey, frogs, several kinds of fish (both white and oily), scallops, clams, mussels, and shrimp.

 

would like to try:

goat, quail. goose, pheasant, oyster, crab, and lobster. Also, more out of curiosity than anything else, rattlesnake.