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Offline Jeff Wrangler

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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #40 on: December 18, 2009, 11:01:44 pm »
Probably. Because you wouldn't be thinking about how you were eating a ... TAIL.

Remember, I come from people who eat the pig's stomach. Eating the tail wouldn't faze me a bit. In fact I think I'd rather eat the tail than the stomach!
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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #41 on: December 18, 2009, 11:21:36 pm »
Remember, I come from people who eat the pig's stomach. Eating the tail wouldn't faze me a bit. In fact I think I'd rather eat the tail than the stomach!

All right, then, I'm heading over right now with a plate of tails!







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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #42 on: December 19, 2009, 12:30:53 am »
All right, then, I'm heading over right now with a plate of tails!

Ox tail is a frequent feature on menus in Soul Food and Jamaican restaurants. Good stuff.
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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #43 on: December 19, 2009, 02:24:58 am »
All right, then, I'm heading over right now with a plate of tails!





That top photo makes them look hardly worth the bother of eating.  :-\
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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #44 on: December 19, 2009, 04:21:06 am »
Yet another reason people immigrated to the New World.  ;) :laugh:


Ten years ago I would have completely agreed with you :laugh:.

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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #45 on: December 19, 2009, 11:09:06 am »
That top photo makes them look hardly worth the bother of eating.  :-\

There's lots of good nutrients in the bony parts!
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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #46 on: December 19, 2009, 11:45:53 am »
There's lots of good nutrients in the bony parts!

I remember my great-grandparents sucking the marrow out of the bones of various cuts of meat and poultry when I was a kid. I do it myself sometimes. But I wouldn't suggest doing it in a restaurant.
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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #47 on: December 19, 2009, 11:52:19 am »
I remember my great-grandparents sucking the marrow out of the bones of various cuts of meat and poultry when I was a kid. I do it myself sometimes. But I wouldn't suggest doing it in a restaurant.

I suck marrow out of beef soup bones.  It's yummy.  Yeah, despite having very little meat on them, I can see the attraction of eating ox-tail.  People still use neck bones for soup and stock and the meat is very tasty, what little there is of it.  My favorite tamales are made out of the meat you scrape from the head of a pig.

Poor atz, guess she's averting her eyes now at this thread.  :-* 

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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #48 on: December 19, 2009, 12:08:03 pm »
Poor atz, guess she's averting her eyes now at this thread.  :-* 

 :laugh:

I can understand her aversion. I'm not grossed out so much by what sorts of animals we eat, or which parts of their bodies. But I am appalled if I think too much about what we put the animals through.


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Re: Horse is falling off the menu in France
« Reply #49 on: December 19, 2009, 12:40:04 pm »
Re ox tail: I bought ox tail soup today - and it's all your fault :laugh:.
When reading this thread, I got a hankering for it.  :)