Aquired tastes

[Guest]

Blood oranges with gingersnaps, habenaro peppers, chai tea, sushi and pistachio ice cream.

 

[Munachi]

People eat guinea pigs?

Yes. that's what people started first breeding them for. They have been eating them for probably thousands of years, in the Andes... They usually live in the kitchen, just on the floor, right next to the place they later get cooked at... And they are a delicacy, usually prepared for holidays etc. The idea that they might be pets is quite ridiculous to most Peruvians, Bolivians, etc. - only the Europeans invented this, probably after not being able to figure out, what these little animals were there for.

 

[Huckleman2000]

Yes. that's what people started first breeding them for. They have been eating them for probably thousands of years, in the Andes... They usually live in the kitchen, just on the floor, right next to the place they later get cooked at... And they are a delicacy, usually prepared for holidays etc. The idea that they might be pets is quite ridiculous to most Peruvians, Bolivians, etc. - only the Europeans invented this, probably after not being able to figure out, what these little animals were there for.

You don't have to breed guinea pigs - all you have to do is ignore them.

when he was a preschooler, my nephew decided to take his pet guinea pig into the bath with him. They can't swim.

 

[MissBri]

 

[Munachi]

*innocent whistle*

that's the first one I ever ate, btw...

 

[cantdog]

What a cool image. Awesome. Do they taste like rat on a stick?

 

[Munachi]

What a cool image. Awesome. Do they taste like rat on a stick?

well people there keep joking about that i should check whether they have a tail... but really, i find they taste a bit like rabbit, but better...

 

[BlackShanglan]

I remember reading, under a sort of "weird science news" website, that there's work going on at one US university to breed bigger, faster-fattening guinea pigs for the use of those who eat them.

I'm not sure I'd care to, myself. I've had them as pets. I don't object to others eating them, but once I've taken something in as a pet, I feel that I've promised to fulfill a certain role in relationship to them. I'll eat nearly anything and love trying exotic dishes and foods, but I don't think I could violate the promise I've made to dogs, cats, horses, and other pet animals.

 

[CharleyH]

Ab's coffee thread got me to thinking about things that are considered delacacies or top shelf.

I always think of guiness extra stout as one of my aquired tastes. Why I tried it a second time I'll never know.

I was wondering if, in your opinion, these things are actually so good or if they are just expensive and thus reckoned to be better?

My own aquire tastes are few. i like guniess and Single malt scotch, that's about it. Never tired a gourmet coffee I liked batter than just plain ole A & p brand or a food that is considered something special that just blew me away.

How bout you guys? Is it all much ado about nothing? Or is there something to it? What tastes do you have that are usually labled aquired?

In coffee the Blue Mountain blend has a sweet taste, as does (slighty) the Continental bean - blend. French roast is bitter and strong and I love it. Alchohol? I know wines as an enthusiast, but am alergic to the tannins of red, yet love red and well ... am a dummy about white... I have yet to have a blind vodka taste test to tell the difference, yet I can tell Kahlua from a fake coffee or Grand Marnier from Cointreau or Triple Sec. As a milk afficianado - I can also, on a sip, tell the difference between a skim, 1% - 2% homo, soy and YUK goats milk?

 

[Munachi]

oh, I have seen some huge ones there. Though I must say, it is the lack of fat I like, so I am not sure fatter ones will be better - and people take pride in when they are from their own breeding and say the ones you can buy from mass breeding aren't good...

Hm, I have had them as pets and don't really mind eating them.

I must admit, I have eaten horse - but to my defence - I was a child and didn't know. My parents only recently told me that they sometimes gave us horse meat when I was little.

I have had lambs as pets, and while I protested against eating "my" lamb Isabelle, I had no problem with eating her brothers, which belonged to my brothers, and which I had known as well, of course. And we did eat the rabbits we had as pets - though we weren't all that close to them anyway, so not sure they count as pets...

 

[Huckleman2000]

oh, I have seen some huge ones there. Though I must say, it is the lack of fat I like, so I am not sure fatter ones will be better - and people take pride in when they are from their own breeding and say the ones you can buy from mass breeding aren't good...

Hm, I have had them as pets and don't really mind eating them.

I must admit, I have eaten horse - but to my defence - I was a child and didn't know. My parents only recently told me that they sometimes gave us horse meat when I was little.

I have had lambs as pets, and while I protested against eating "my" lamb Isabelle, I had no problem with eating her brothers, which belonged to my brothers, and which I had known as well, of course. And we did eat the rabbits we had as pets - though we weren't all that close to them anyway, so not sure they count as pets...

This sort of gets to the issues of animal husbandry in general. And also raises the question, what of animal wifery? Very soon, we're into a Marx Bros. bit.

I still don't want to eat a guinea pig. "fluffy" should describe a lemon chiffon pie, not be the name of the carcass on the skewer.

 

[Pure]

'Grasscutters', woodchuck-like rodents of about 20 lbs are prized as a meat source in parts of Africa. Here's quite a substantial fellow:

http://www.bornefonden.dk/site/img/2459/404-lån-grasscutter4.jpg


I haven't yet had one or acquired the taste.

Munachi

that's the first one I ever ate, btw...
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I have the feeling a large rodent tried to run through the flames, and ended up on the plate.

 

[MissBri]