Eating Animals

[nailit]

would you eat the flesh of an animal that you have never ate before?
I happily eat pork, beef, chicken, lamb and fish but a local supermarket has started selling kangeroo, crocodile and ostrich meat (amongst other delecicies such as garlic snails). I dont know what it is but I couldnt stand the thought of eating meat, other than what Im used too. Why is that? I'll happily try anything new if its plant based....fruit, veg, salad...but feel sick at the thought of eating a crocodile burger. In the same way, I couldnt eat a duck egg but love (chicken) eggs.
Could you eat a kangeroo steak or an ostrich sandwich?

[Zacs-Master]

I've eaten kangaroo and ostrich. I'm a meat lover and would try most things

[marval]

I would be prepared to try other meat.

[Hopkirk]

My brother had steak of Thomson's gazelle once.

[kvalidir]

I've eaten all of those, I can't see the difference. I'd eat a Rat burger and it honestly wouldn't bother me. I don't like organs and eyeballs and that sort of thing though. I also prefer Duck Eggs or goose eggs to hens eggs, it's just organs I can't sand the thought of but I do like Pate, so I'm weird in that respect.

[Psybbo]

No and no to fish too!

[grasscarp]

when I have been working in Africa I have only eaten what I usually do from menu. I really liked Tilapia burgers in Zambia! but you can get Tilapia here. So sorry to report I am rather unadventurous.

[Retrochic]

I tried ostrich the other week it was on special at Aldi -did not like it it had a weird texture like sponge. Frogs legs are ok but its the garlic butter that makes them nice. Same with sweetbreads ordered them once in Paris and they were ok but it was the sauce that was nice. I would draw the line at snails, bugs and worms.

[greenrook]

Me and Mrs. G had wonderful horsemeat steaks at our friend's Paris home, but it seems you'd get lynched trying to get such meat in the UK

[EDDIE51]

Ostrich meat is great and virtually fat free. I have tried crocodile but did not like it.
Why say you will eat some animals but not others , why not eat dog and cat they do in China !
nalit I guarantee that if you were given an ostrich burger but told it was beef ,chicken or turkey you would eat it without complaint.

[AlwaysConfused]

I've not had the opportunity to taste crocodile, but have very much enjoyed kangaroo and ostrich. I love trying new things, and would pretty much eat or cook anything once. Duck eggs are lovely, nailit. So much meatier in taste.

Forget about the cuddly, cutesy pictures you see of animals when it comes to eating. I don't feel any more guilty tucking into a more exotic animal than I do a chicken. I remember feeling a pang of guilt many years ago when served meat at a dinner party, only to find out afterwards that it was horse. But the deed had been done, the food had been eaten and enjoyed.

[nailit]

Thanks for interesting replies. Ive got no moral issue with eating anything and I always like to try anything once. Its not the moral issue or the taste or anything I can put my finger on, I just cant bring myself to eat flesh that I havnt been brought up to eat. Wish I could. Tried squid a few years ago in Spain and just couldnt stomach it as part of a meal.

[grasscarp]

nailit. squid is the one thing I cannot enjoy! Everything else ever tried ok.

[nailit]

EDDIE I probably would (and probably have judging by some of the takeaways ive had after a night on the wobbly pops)
Always confused, I think a lot of us have ate horse meat unwittengly. My doctor told me to watch what I eat so I went to Ascot for the day (I'll get me coat)

[nailit]

Grasscarp, squid has to be one of the most obnoxious foods ive ever had the pleasure of trying

[AlwaysConfused]

lol, love it nailit.

[Tilly2]

They have rattlesnake burgers in Banff. I haven't tried one though.

[tonyav]

No I wouldn't, especially a rattlesnake burger.

[Jeza]

If I had to kill it I wouldn't eat meat. I have eaten horse unknowing at the time. As for frogs legs, snails, crocodile, ostrich and kangeroo not a chance. I'd prefer a jam sandwich.

[greenrook]

Squirrel is good, they sell them in a shop in Truro, and probably elsewhere

[nailit]

Greenrock, do they come stuffed with nuts?