gross food....yuck!

[fanimeboy]

Originally Posted by Kitsuneko

I'm not a fan either. Well, the natto-lovers of the world can have my share, too. More for them!

ahaha i know right. im in this school club. im new so they said initiation was eating natto. i thought i can handle anything. but wow that was an experience like nothing before. after 3 chews my mouth opened and natto came rolling out lmfao

[Trouble]

Nattoo
'Nuff said.

[Sowilu]

Originally Posted by Kitsuneko

I read somewhere that the Aztecs used to keep techichi dogs and some made use of them as traveling rations on the hoof, so to speak.

Yeah my father says that all the time when I mention to him the Xoloitzcuintli. He says that the dog was viewed as a god because it provide for them not only as a guarding but as a source of norishment. Thats where it gets the name Xolo because in Nahuatl it is a god.

Do Asian people also eat cats? I know in some places of South America they do eat cats.

[superheel]

Originally Posted by Sowilu

Yeah my father says that all the time when I mention to him the Xoloitzcuintli. He says that the dog was viewed as a god because it provide for them not only as a guarding but as a source of norishment. Thats where it gets the name Xolo because in Nahuatl it is a god.

Do Asian people also eat cats? I know in some places of South America they do eat cats.

Some asians do.

[Troo]

There are even restaurants in China which will take you to the cat cages, invite you to select your cat, and they will torture it to death for you because, allegedly, that makes the meat much nicer than just lopping its head off.

Charming, eh?

[spicytuna]

I used to hate Natto but I don't mind it anymore. I wouldn't go out and buy it for myself but I wouldn't refuse it if I was offered some.

I had some fish ovaries at a sushi-ya last year. It was lightly cooked but it was pretty nasty. Of course I found out what it was after I swallowed it.

[superheel]

Originally Posted by Troo

There are even restaurants in China which will take you to the cat cages, invite you to select your cat, and they will torture it to death for you because, allegedly, that makes the meat much nicer than just lopping its head off.

Charming, eh?

Well, I understand that. In China, they have an agressive cooking method. If you observe, you'll notice that there are always loud clangs in a Chinese restaurant kitchen. For them, the more agressive the cooking is, the better the food will taste. So I respect their beliefs if they cook a cat like that. We just need to understand other countries culture and when it comes to food, there's really no such things as torture. One thing I hate about some people in US is they will think that eating dogs or cats are evil and those people who eat it has no heart.

[Troo]

Originally Posted by superheel

Well, I understand that. In China, they have an agressive cooking method. If you observe, you'll notice that there are always loud clangs in a Chinese restaurant kitchen. For them, the more agressive the cooking is, the better the food will taste. So I respect their beliefs if they cook a cat like that. We just need to understand other countries culture and when it comes to food, there's really no such things as torture. One thing I hate about some people in US is they will think that eating dogs or cats are evil and those people who eat it has no heart.

So many things to disagree with here. I'll go with the obvious one: "We just need to understand other countries culture and when it comes to food, there's really no such things as torture".

Patent nonsense. Is it not torture purely because it's done to an animal? Or because that animal will be eaten? Where do you draw the line at torture no longer being torture?

A hundred years ago, the Victorians used to believe that black people didn't feel pain the way those proper, normal, white folks did. That doesn't mean I can't stand here and say "We just need to understand that the Victorian culture was different from ours, and that when it comes to black people there's really no such thing as torture".

Some people torture animals before killing them. Heck, even in the West we'll boil shellfish and other hard-shelled seafood to death because it's the easiest way of killing them. Can we genuinely sit here as an enlightened society and say "well, it's okay, because that's food-preparation. But if you're boiling animals to death for the fun of it, that's just not on"?

I'm not a vegetarian. I've no moral high-horse to stand on here. I eat dead animals, which have been killed in any number of inventive ways. But there's a line between killing a creature to eat and survive, and torturing something to death when we as human beings have the option not to.

Predators will catch their prey, and some will start eating it while it's still alive. Lions are happy to chew on the intestines of a still-breathing gazelle, and foxes will happily eat your pet bunny while it's squirming and squeaking. We humans like to think we're not animals (even though we are, and don't mean that in a derogatory sense), but if we really want to put aside our primitive origins and move forward we could do worse than to start eating ethically.

I'm also not American. Nor am I a non-American who is in the US. Nor did I say that eating cats or dogs was an evil act, or that those who did it had no heart. What I did was lay out the facts, then add that I thought it "charming" (in the sardonic sense). You'll also notice that earlier in this same thread I stated that I didn't think that eating dog was especially disgusting.

I'm also an avid cook, with an interest and speciality in Asian cuisine, biased toward Indian, Punjabi, Japanese and, yes, Chinese cooking. I've seen a fair few Chinese kitchens, and it would be an error to mistake noise level for aggression. It's energy, yes, but not hostile energy.

Anyway, we appear to be digressing, which I'll cease, and return to my prior claim that at the top of the list of disgusting foods available in the world is natto.

[Gwen_Goth]

good post Troo

I am Vegetarien but i don't find meat disgusting; i just dont eat it (i get sick when i do)

i'd say...

Mushrooms! bleaurgh

also, courgettes, aubergines and carrot cake soup (please, please don't ask )

[Sowilu]

Originally Posted by Troo

So many things to disagree with here. I'll go with the obvious one: "We just need to understand other countries culture and when it comes to food, there's really no such things as torture".

Patent nonsense. Is it not torture purely because it's done to an animal? Or because that animal will be eaten? Where do you draw the line at torture no longer being torture?

A hundred years ago, the Victorians used to believe that black people didn't feel pain the way those proper, normal, white folks did. That doesn't mean I can't stand here and say "We just need to understand that the Victorian culture was different from ours, and that when it comes to black people there's really no such thing as torture".

Some people torture animals before killing them. Heck, even in the West we'll boil shellfish and other hard-shelled seafood to death because it's the easiest way of killing them. Can we genuinely sit here as an enlightened society and say "well, it's okay, because that's food-preparation. But if you're boiling animals to death for the fun of it, that's just not on"?

I'm not a vegetarian. I've no moral high-horse to stand on here. I eat dead animals, which have been killed in any number of inventive ways. But there's a line between killing a creature to eat and survive, and torturing something to death when we as human beings have the option not to.

Predators will catch their prey, and some will start eating it while it's still alive. Lions are happy to chew on the intestines of a still-breathing gazelle, and foxes will happily eat your pet bunny while it's squirming and squeaking. We humans like to think we're not animals (even though we are, and don't mean that in a derogatory sense), but if we really want to put aside our primitive origins and move forward we could do worse than to start eating ethically.

I'm also not American. Nor am I a non-American who is in the US. Nor did I say that eating cats or dogs was an evil act, or that those who did it had no heart. What I did was lay out the facts, then add that I thought it "charming" (in the sardonic sense). You'll also notice that earlier in this same thread I stated that I didn't think that eating dog was especially disgusting.

I'm also an avid cook, with an interest and speciality in Asian cuisine, biased toward Indian, Punjabi, Japanese and, yes, Chinese cooking. I've seen a fair few Chinese kitchens, and it would be an error to mistake noise level for aggression. It's energy, yes, but not hostile energy.

Anyway, we appear to be digressing, which I'll cease, and return to my prior claim that at the top of the list of disgusting foods available in the world is natto.

Ditto, that is all I can say....