Path: csiph.com!weretis.net!feeder9.news.weretis.net!news.nk.ca!rocksolid2!i2pn2.org!.POSTED!not-for-mail From: D Newsgroups: comp.os.linux.misc Subject: Re: Joy of this, Joy of that Date: Wed, 4 Dec 2024 11:10:53 +0100 Organization: i2pn2 (i2pn.org) Message-ID: <33442f75-5afe-ce6b-d5b2-19efc78a72d3@example.net> References: <495550f7-796e-4414-67ae-26d3f8ba16f1@example.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII; format=flowed Injection-Info: i2pn2.org; logging-data="1214308"; mail-complaints-to="usenet@i2pn2.org"; posting-account="w/4CleFT0XZ6XfSuRJzIySLIA6ECskkHxKUAYDZM66M"; In-Reply-To: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 4.0.0 Xref: csiph.com comp.os.linux.misc:61669 On Wed, 4 Dec 2024, Robert Riches wrote: > On 2024-12-02, D wrote: >> >> >> On Mon, 2 Dec 2024, The Natural Philosopher wrote: >> >>> On 01/12/2024 19:13, rbowman wrote: >>>> On Sun, 1 Dec 2024 18:32:59 +0100, D wrote: >>>> >>>>> I read that in terms of protein, breeding snakes is the Donald Trump of >>>>> protein when it comes to price! A free business idea for this group >>>>> could be to start a snake breeding farm and sell chicken:ish, protein at >>>>> very good prices! >>>> >>>> https://amaroohills.com/collections/emu >>>> >>>> I don't know about snake but raising emus was a get rich quick scheme >>>> years ago. A company at the Arizona state fair was giving out emu burgers >>>> to attract attention. It wasn't objectionable but the idea didn't catch >>>> on. It has the 'neither fish nor fowl' problem. It doesn't taste like >>>> chicken or quite like beef. >>>> >>> Same as ostrich. It's just not very interesting as meat >>> >>> There is a huge range of meat (and fungi) that are edible, but so dull or >>> faintly obnoxious that no one does. >>> >>> Wild hare (jack rabbit) tastes and smells like jockstraps after a hard match. >>> By the time you have got rid of that flavour all the other flavour has gone >>> too. >>> >>> Same goes for the muddy taste in pond reared carp. >>> >>> Rabbit is plain dull. But in a stew with bacon and vegetables and plenty of >>> herbs, its not bad >> >> I bought some rabbit sausage the other week, and it tasted like >> tasteless chicken sausage. Perhaps a little less smooth texture. It wasn't >> bad, but definitely not something to write home about either. > > About 45 years ago, while eating in the college dorm cafeteria, I > noticed the piece of "chicken" on my plate was a little tougher > and drier than most chicken, and the arrangement of the bones did > not appear to be consistent with any piece of chicken I had ever > seen. I had eaten rabbit a few years earlier, when my uncle was > raising them, so I started to suspect the "chicken" was really > rabbit. My suspicion was confirmed when I heard a girl shriek > rather unhappily from a couple of tables away, "We're eating > BUNNIES!" How strange! How come they didn't just say that todays special was rabbit? Or maybe there was an error somewhere with the delivery and some boxed got mixed up?