The Most Politically Incorrect Food, Ever
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Not only unhealthy, but guaranteed to offend somebody!
Step 1:
For fun, fry potatoes in horse fat. Yes, horse fat. (I know a certain someone who’s gonna be emailing me in horror in about two seconds…coughcollinscough). Don’t worry, it gets way more offensive. I mean, if you’re gonna eat a horse, you might as well go whole hog. And by hog I mean veal.
Step 2:
Next, dunk fries in veal gravy. Now, veal is not really the glamour child of unacceptable meats these days. Freaking out about veal is so, like, seventies. Even Peta devotes more time to J. Lo’s wardrobe than baby cows chained to crates and basically starved into that pretty pink anemia all the wienerschnitzel lovers relish. (Warning: do not, I repeat, do not click that J. booty link unless you have an iron stomach. I am no longer a vegetarian, but there’s no way I’ll ever wear fur after seeing that. It’s pretty messed up what we’ll do for fashion. What are we, Grok? Do we really need fur?)
Step 3:
Because you can, top the whole thing off with seared foie gras. In case you did not know, my gaggle of genii, foie gras is bird liver. Not just any bird liver, though - fattened bird liver. The way bird liver is fattened is through a process called gravage, which means force feeding with tubes until really awful things happen. I have a special issue with foie gras, forever known to my pals as the Foie Gras Incident of 2006, which I’ll tell you about if you’re good.
Now, being a bit of a gourmand, or maybe just a glutton, I don’t want to pick on this menu item. Besides, it’s not really logical that we’ll happily chow on burgers made from cows but freak out about horses, and I love horses. But, still: horse fat-fried, veal dunked, bird liver-topped french fries? Truly, it stunneth. The only thing missing is a fur tablecloth and Princess Leia.
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9 opinions for The Most Politically Incorrect Food, Ever
E-Ting
Jul 3, 2007 at 8:21 am
I know I’ll incur the wrath, but here we go:
What’s worse? Using the fat from a horse or a cow? A horse is raised to either be a companion animal (that’s fine, I guess), a worker (not as often), or a go-fast. In two of the three, after the animal has served its purpose, it’s put down, or sent off to a “field” where it spends the rest of its life doing nothing. After it dies, where does it go? What purpose does it serve?
A cow is raised for our consumption. Right or wrong is not the issue. I have my own lean, and enjoy playing devil’s advocate. Having just returned from a stint at an ag/dairy uni, I can say that the way cows are raised and live is not great- it’s “acceptable” to some standards, but it’s not the life of luxury.
In both cases, you have purpose bred animals. One for sport/pleasure/work; one for consumption. Which animal is more productive? Which animal is best raised? Which animal is used effectively and efficiently such that the resources spent on it (that could otherwise be used for (fill-in charity or need here)) are best reclaimed? I’m not suggesting that fries in horse fat offset the feed/time/energy spent, but it is interesting to consider the alternatives.
Sara
Jul 3, 2007 at 8:39 am
E, I’m glad you stopped by and piped up. Like the saying goes, “why do we call some animals pets and some animals food?”. So much of life is lunacy, eh? :)
E-Ting
Jul 3, 2007 at 9:51 am
Amen. Personally, I’ll try just about anything.
sarah
Jul 3, 2007 at 10:43 am
Umm o.k. So when do we start eating fries made with dog or cat fat. Like it or not, horses are pets in The US.
Sara
Jul 3, 2007 at 10:46 am
I think it’s all pretty disgusting.
a chris
Jul 3, 2007 at 1:38 pm
eating animals is barbaric and unnecessary. torturing a goose by the process that makes
its liver diseased, and promoting the concept that this product is a delicacy is bizarre.
animals were not put here for us. we only happen to have physical power over them. that doesn’t mean anything, except that we abuse that power
by depriving them of the basic neccessities both they and we desire.
Sara
Jul 3, 2007 at 1:40 pm
Thanks for your comment, a chris.
Mikeachim
Aug 19, 2007 at 6:58 am
My line isn’t where the foodstuffs become almost unbearably exotic. I like trying bizarre foodstuffs. Human beings have an almost absurd capacity for digestion (see: Western diet and: Chinese diet) (see also: Sun*y De*ight).
But I draw the line where the animal’s suffering is deliberately prolonged. We eat animals. That’s what we do. Our moral responsibility is to treat those animals as best we can. We fall short by a long way (battery hens, for example - at one time my job was to edit an online slaughterhouse practices manual, so I have insider knowledge - ain’t pretty) but the important thing is to push uphill, all the time.
Veal and foie gras….downhill. We need to live without them.
For our own sake.
Kevin
Dec 25, 2008 at 7:48 am
I love food all kinds of food, food most people don’t enjoy but myself I am French, and I’ve been brought up on most of these foods and i love Foie Gras, I know how its made but thats not going to stop me from eating it. Veal is good too yes some of it is cruel but there are worse things in the world going on, horse fat friend fries never tried it I duno maybe someday when the occasion arises.
To distinguish food from friend is based on the culture and the morals we are brought up with, Yes to us raising chicken, cows, pigs, to kill and eat is normal unless your a vegetarian but anyways we raise it to kill it and eat it, in other countries they do it too but with whats hand may it be cats or dogs, or snakes. You can train almost any animal to be a companion just like you can raise any animal to be your dinner.
Just to say its wrong to eat because you don’t like it or the way is made is not a valid point to say it should be stopped, Aslong as people enjoy it, it will be available and will be eaten.
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