Meat?

[Sdajii]

A couple of blokes I'd studied with years ago told me they tucked into the scrub turkey running around in their backyard. They told me it tasted a bit wild but filling nonetheless!

I haven't tried eating them, but I've heard they taste awful.

Has anyone tried rat? Delicious!

 

[newbie trader]

Has anyone tried rat? Delicious!

Again, when/where did you eat a rat and how/with what was it cooked.

NT

 

[Wysiwyg]

Has anyone tried rat? Delicious!

Yeah they are my favourite. What you may find shocking though is that I prefer to let the cat catch and eat the rat first.

 

[Whiskers]

Just when I was getting excited again about eating meat.

THE Western Australian construction union has hit out at a ban on building workers eating ham sandwiches and meat pies at the building site of a $70 million mega-mansion.

Tradesmen and labourers working on the property have been told by Indian-born billionaire Pankaj Oswal and his socialite wife Radhika, that any food containing meat must not be consumed on the site.


Mrs Oswal has previously accused the meat industry of "raping the earth".

"Meat eating is creating bad karma and you are also creating a vicious cycle," she said.

"It's destroying us environmentally, economically and socially. I'm putting my money where my mouth is. I've always been a vegetarian so I have always felt strongly about it.

http://www.news.com.au/business/bil...on-building-site/story-e6frfm1i-1225846500573

I suppose the same could be said for vegetarians, couldn't it?

 

[nioka]

A couple of blokes I'd studied with years ago told me they tucked into the scrub turkey running around in their backyard. They told me it tasted a bit wild but filling nonetheless!

It is all in choosing the right turkey. The young ones are OK. You have to shoot them from behind, thatway you can look up their birth date.

Then there is the cooking. They must be boiled not baked. You add an onion, a teaspoon of salt and a stone weighing half a kilo. You boil until you can put a fork into the stone. You then throw away all but the stone as the stone will be the tastiest morsel in the pot.

Seriously now. They are good tucker. You do boil then for 20 minutes with an onion then put into the oven to bake using a little dripping in the pan. Another way is ,after the boiling bit,peel off the flesh,dip into egg,coat with breadcrumbs and deep fry until brown.
Yet a better way, coat unplucked bird with mud, wrap in waterlily leaves,place in a pit of coals,cover with 6inches of soil and leave for 3hours. When you dig it up and break off the mud the skin and feathers come off with the mud leaving very tasty gourmet poultry.

Happy hunting. (Dont worry about conservation as the scrub turkey numbers are definitely at "sustainable harvesting" levels.)

 

[newbie trader]

Got some nice hamburger steak - black angus beef marbled to perfection - from our local butcher. It is the best out of all the steak, dare I say it, king of the steaks.

N.T

 

[Muschu]

Just when I was getting excited again about eating meat. ...........

The Oswals' new "home" has a great deal to return to the earth in terms of the energy consumed and pollution caused.

I imagine there are quite a few vegetarians on ASF and have no problem with people who choose such a diet.

But to impose it on visitors strikes me as righteous and arrogant.

 

[Sdajii]

Again, when/where did you eat a rat and how/with what was it cooked.

NT

I've eaten rat several times in several places. The first time I ate rat was in 2007 after a beer or two too many at a friend's house in Brisbane. My friend was thawing some rats to feed to his pet snakes, and I said I had handled thousands of rats, I have an interest in trying new foods, yet I had never eaten them. So, I skinned and gutted a few rats (I think there is a video of it on YouTube actually, along with me using the dressed carcasses as puppets doing the can-can) then popped them on the barbecue next to the snags and steaks. They were quite good, and I even managed to entice the host of the barbecue to try one, which he agreed was quite good.

There are plenty of recipes for rats, they are quite versatile as the meat is reasonably bland, somewhat like chicken without much flavour (I imagine old or wild rats would be more gamey).


So, what's next? Insects are quite good, as are arachnids.

 

[akkopower]

Got some nice hamburger steak - black angus beef marbled to perfection - from our local butcher. It is the best out of all the steak, dare I say it, king of the steaks.

N.T

Sounds amazing. NOT BEING SARCASTIC.

I get my rib fillet from the local butcher for $33per kg (cheap) and it is amazing if cooked properly. Yours must be super dooper amazing.

I have got the cooking process down pat now.

Need a fancy frying pan, nice weight and perfect distribution of heat.

salt both sides and pepper side B, allow to warm for 30mis or so on bench.

Crank the gas stove top to full throttle. wait till it gets hot enough to evap away my pipette of water in a couple of secs. Throw a single steak on the pan, side A down, 2'45'' on side A, 2'25'' on side B. let it settle for 5 mins. gives the perfect red zone in the centre.

I am in my mid 20's starting to get a bit of cash and never had quality steak until 6 months ago, we are still honeymooning. My mouth is watering after thinking abt that again, it really is.

My 16 month old daughter loves it too. One of the classic meals I cook is meat, boiled veg and oven baked chips. Pork sausgae, chicken schnitzel, lamb cops, T bone, WOW's roast chicken (2nd greatest food ever invented) and the rib fillet are my choices of meatmeats of choice

So i cut up some of the meat and put it on my daughters plate, when it is WOW's roast chook or the rib fillet my daughter will eat all the meat first then attack her vegies. When we have the other meats she has no order to her eating. Well maybe she is just copying me.... nooo she loves the rib fillet.

 

[wayneL]

I'm shocked nobody has mentioned Whichitty Grubs.

 

[nunthewiser]

MEAT IS MURDER!

 

[awg]

"Tradesmen and labourers working on the property have been told by Indian-born billionaire Pankaj Oswal and his socialite wife Radhika, that any food containing meat must not be consumed on the site."

Bad idea mate.

Construction workers are well known for taking a ****, in the bowels of the house anyway.

I would be leaving meat bones and prawn heads in some impossible cavities.

So much for Karma!

 

[Sdajii]

MEAT IS MURDER!

Murder is delicious!

 

[Tatts]

I once ate a chicken curry in asia but i'm pretty sure it was made from rat. The pieces of meat were suspiciously small with tiny bones. i later saw an email with a series of photos of rats showing the process of making a curry that looked identical to what i ate. was nice though.

Also had a turtle-burger when i was younger. that was yum too.

Has anyone had Zebra before???

http://www.news.com.au/business/fast-food-outlet-becomes-first-in-uk-to-sell-zebra-pizzas/story-e6frfm1i-1225846706501

That is definately a different pizza topping.

 

[Sdajii]

I once ate a chicken curry in asia but i'm pretty sure it was made from rat. The pieces of meat were suspiciously small with tiny bones. i later saw an email with a series of photos of rats showing the process of making a curry that looked identical to what i ate. was nice though.

Also had a turtle-burger when i was younger. that was yum too.

Has anyone had Zebra before???

http://www.news.com.au/business/fast-food-outlet-becomes-first-in-uk-to-sell-zebra-pizzas/story-e6frfm1i-1225846706501

That is definately a different pizza topping.

I have always wanted to eat zebra, don't ask me why. I'm sure I have eaten horse, apparently it's fairly common in pies and other processed meat products, but either labelled as "meat" or fraudulently labelled as beef. Amusing that people cry about zebras being eaten but happily tuck into their lamb chops and salmon steaks!

A couple of people posted that series of rat pictures to me a few years ago, but I have since lost them and can't find them. They look delicious. Do you have a link to them? Rats and mice are popular food in a lot of the world. I'm sure if deprived of meat, dairy, eggs, etc for a few months, many Australians would be very excited about the opportunity to eat them, and they really are very good. In Africa you can buy cooked mice on sticks from sellers a lot like our doughnut and ice-cream vans. Give me a mouse kebab over doughnuts or ice-cream any day.

Grasshoppers also go fairly well on pizza, as do mealworms, and no doubt many other insects I haven't tried on pizza.

 

[Tatts]

i don't have a link, was an email but at an old job. sorry.

I watched a show a while ago 'cooking in the danger zone'. In one episode the guy was in India and was spending time with some super poor people. These people were 'allowed' (employed doesn't really fit here) by farmers to dig up nests of rats on there land. The payment/reward for this was that they got to eat the rats. Even though this was one of there only sources of food they still shared them with the guy after roasting them on a fire.

Back to the comments about cats, i saw and article about a chef, i think in the UK or maybe europe, who said on a tv show that cats were nice (to eat) and there was a bit uproar about it. haha

 

[Sdajii]

Just found a copy. It doesn't have the comments, but basically, they are gutted, the fur is burned off, they're cut up (supposedly in an attempt to resemble chicken pieces) and cooked.

Just found them on snopes.com too, with the comments, and with Snopes' story which is more along the lines of what I'd have expected - they're rats being cooked at a restaurant for people wanting to eat rats. Apparently rat meat is more expensive than chicken, beef or pork in some parts of Asia.

http://www.snopes.com/photos/food/rats.asp

 

[Tatts]

The one i saw was similar, but it was a curry instead of crispy pieces so the final result was a bit different.
I wonder if they fry up the tails and have em as a crispy snack?

 

[Whiskers]

Roll up, roll up... special, rabbit $12.00 each at Ken's Kepnock Butchery (Bundaberg) this week.

Humm... $12.00 wabbit or ready roasted chook wingets at $8.00/kg from another butcher for supper.