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@mariner4life said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
fuck i love meat. I would gladly condemn the planet if it meant i could get a primo steak when ever i wanted.
I could not live without steak and bacon. I feel so stupid though. All this time I thought because steak and bacon are both delicious, but in truth it was to get that me, Tarzan feeling.
You learn something new every day.
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Was at a barbeque once and it was pretty dark by the time we got to eat. Put what I thought was a decent sized piece of steak on my plate which when I bit into it turned out to be a huge hunk of liver. I think I understand how that guy felt in "that scene" in the crying game when he got George Gregan home .
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@jegga said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Was at a barbeque once and it was pretty dark by the time we got to eat. Put what I thought was a decent sized piece of steak on my plate which when I bit into it turned out to be a huge hunk of liver. I think I understand how that guy felt in "that scene" in the crying game when he got George Gregan home .
"Its dark & I'm hungry & no one saw it go on my plate so I'm still going to eat this, but I'll never speak of it"?
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We went to Florence last year and at a trattoria there was a couple of young Yank blokes sitting over from us. They ordered from a menu they obviously couldn't understand by pointing and making American noises and in a little while had plates of tripe in front of them. I don't think either of them even put tried it. I don't blame them. Disgusting, like a rancid dish sponge.
Liver's ok occasionally if the cook knows what they are doing, and I can take kidney in small pieces in a steak and kidney pie. Sweetbreads though... why? Anyone tried mountain oysters?
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The various livers are so different it's wrong to group them together.
Calves, lambs and chicken livers are as different in taste and texture as calves, lamb and chicken legs.
In NZ most people associate liver with over-cooked dry strongly flavoured lambs liver but wafer thin slices of calves liver dusted in seasoned flour lightly fried with sliced onions then served with fresh pasta and a sauce made by adding cider to the pan would have most of you asking for more I guarantee it.
Same with sweetbreads. Not all are the same and cooked well they are rich and creamy. Much like lambs brains which can be a thing of beauty on your plate.
Mountain oysters are not usually cooked with care so like any "weird" food its simply a case of turning your conscious brain off while you chew. I found them gamey like venison but dry and overcooked when I had them. I'd rather eat a bowl of insects but they were far from the least appealing meal I've had. That would be KFC - even the smell from out on the road makes me want to puke. I'd take balut over the Colonel any day.
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@MN5 nah bro, you are right not to touch the coleslaw for whatever reason you chose, I never had it after working there for 2 years.
Plenty of foods that you need to switch the brain off, as it is a key part of the process.
My parents made this field mushroom concoction when I was a kid, black as black, and the smell...ugh...even now, the thought of mushrooms invokes that smell, to this day I still cant have mushrooms, my wife tries to chop them up finely, I still taste (and smell in my head) them and pick them out.
I know it is an irrational thing, but it's just how it is.
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@dogmeat said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
The various livers are so different it's wrong to group them together.
Calves, lambs and chicken livers are as different in taste and texture as calves, lamb and chicken legs.
In NZ most people associate liver with over-cooked dry strongly flavoured lambs liver but wafer thin slices of calves liver dusted in seasoned flour lightly fried with sliced onions then served with fresh pasta and a sauce made by adding cider to the pan would have most of you asking for more I guarantee it.
I want you to cook me that calves liver!
I always eat what is put in front of me and am grateful but I struggle with liver and kidney. I am always willing to try though and had a mate who said he did the best lambs fry. Rubber bullets in cream on toast with bacon. Man it was hard to say 'Yum, thanks for that' but I did,
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@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga Had a mate who had a uni holiday job scraping up all of the stuff on the abattoir floor and putting it into the maccas patty machine
Your mate was talking shite.
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga Had a mate who had a uni holiday job scraping up all of the stuff on the abattoir floor and putting it into the maccas patty machine
Your mate was talking shite.
And scraping it as well....
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@Baron-Silas-Greenback said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@canefan said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
@jegga Had a mate who had a uni holiday job scraping up all of the stuff on the abattoir floor and putting it into the maccas patty machine
Your mate was talking shite.
Wow! That is a peach of an Urban Myth to grab hold of.
Of all the hygiene standards in NZ the food processing would have to be one of the most strictly enforced.
Food saftey standards aren't taken lightly at any of teh big processors
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I've always figured that if you knew too much about the story behind any food preparation you could find a reason not to eat it.
Everyone who has worked in any factory/restaurant/bakery/cafe/fast food outlet ever probably has a story - or just a view of the food production - that could be offputting to someone.
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My first job when I left school was in a bakery and my bosses were jackasses who didn't have cleaning high or food safety high on the agenda. They'd do things like make the custard squares and then leave the 20 litre bucket of custard out of the chiller for most of the day which is a superb place for bacteria to breed, they were too tight to get their own skip bin and the rubbish used to pile up , the father of one of the owners was a retired baker and he used to come in and decorate the cakes for birthdays etc. He'd have the icing bag in his hands and if it got clogged he'd put it in his mouth and suck out the blockage and then carry on icing. The place started to go under and I got two weeks notice so I slacked off a bit and one day found this lump of meat that had fallen down the back of the shelves in the chiller, when I unwrapped it the thing reeked so bad I almost dropped it so I had a bit of fun taking it up to people and asking them to sniff it to see if it was off and laughing at their reactions. The last time I did it one of the bosses was standing behind me and I didn't notice, she grabbed it off me gave it a sniff and said" meat always smells bad when its been wrapped up like that" and cut it up for sandwiches. I don't think anyone missed that place when they closed their doors for good.
A couple of years later my brother and his wife bought a lunch bar and we were getting it ready for opening and he reckoned there was something up with the wall in by the counter. We pulled off the lining and there was all sorts of cooking gear stashed in behind it covered in layers of mould and grease the previous owners had put in there and boarded over. Business was really slow after they took over because the previous owner was such a slob no one would eat there and as a last resort he'd even got a topless chick to work behind the counter which improved things for a couple of weeks till the locals got used to the sight of her boobs and avoided the place again. So to let the locals know there were new owners my brother and his wife took free lunch baskets around the local businesses and even to the gang pad down the road. Turns out the gang members avoided the place because of the filth.
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@Tim said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
LOL
Did Robert Caruso Con The Washington Press—Or Is That What The Russians Want You To Think?
The podcast they link to in that
Is a fricking great listen too, they absolutely destroy Caruso
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Wandering through Alexandria, Egypt - getting late, starving... finally found a restaurant. Couldn't understand anything on the menu, so just pointed to a couple of random things, from very different places on the menu.
Turns out the speciality of Alexandria is goddamn liver. We got two plates heaped with liver, each presumably cooked slightly differently. Absolutely nothing else. I think I forced down two pieces - maybe 1% of the 'dish'.
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@Kruse said in Alternative needed from the absolute crap of stuff.co.nz:
Fucking Alexandria - you'd have thought there'd be a few more cookbooks available.
Alexandria is one of the most disappointing places I've been. And I've been to Huntley.
I wasn't expecting a big library or anything, I just wasn't expecting it to be utterly devoid of anything...
