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Posted on 08/13/2006 10:05:01 AM PDT by EveningStar
My brother used to call liverwurst, "mushy meat" when my mother would buy it.
WHOLE FOODS, the popular Gourmet Market chain banned Foie Gras. It also banned Lobster because they say they can'e be sure the Lobster doesn't suffer.
Amazing how they have brainwashed a huge part of the country.
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I said crispy...
Well, it was probably crispy at one time. :)
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The only Foie Gras story I have is a number of Christmases ago, my husband (a professional chef at the time) decided to "show off a little" for the neighbors that we had invited over to our upper duplex (they lived below.)
He made foie gras, and it was quite a long process. (He did not raise the geese/ducks himself, LOL!) Anyhow, he had it beautifully molded on a platter, surrounded with fancy crackers and a sprightly sprig of fresh parsely. Very festive!
We went downstairs to the lower duplex to tell our friends that snacks and drinks were ready and to come on up, but we ended up talking and having a drink with them down there, first.
In the meanwhile their dog Laddie, a Collie, snuck up the stairway to our place and ate the entire plate of foie gras!
LOL! It's funny now, but it wasn't funny then. Except that our friends had to clean up (and I mean CLEAN UP) after their ill-mannered dog and we didn't. ;)
We still laugh about it to this day when we see them at the holidays, however my husband hasn't made foie gras since. :(
P.S. This is the same dog that used to run away all the time and my husband was the only one that the dog would listen to. One day Laddie ran away, so husband drove down the road on his motorcyle to fetch the dog as another neighbor was holding Laddie at his house. Husband drove up to our house with Laddie sitting in front of him on the cycle, his paws on the handlebars looking like the Cat that ate the Canary, LOL! Laddie finally found a nice home on a farm where he could run his little heart out and stay out of major trouble. :)
I suppose it's a distinction without any merit, but liver doesn't exactly fit in your list.
Have you ever eaten calves liver or chicken liver?
To each his own. I'm German and was raised (at least on Holidays) on German cooking. Liverwurst Pate, Bratwurst, Knackwurst, Zulze, Spikgans, Pumpernickel, Herring, you name it. Both Christmas and New Years were a feast.
Sure, one perhaps, had to acquire a taste for it. But for me, it was easy. And every New Year's Eve, I (as a kid) had my toast with Mogen David Wine. I was a part of the family.
Those are memories I'll never trade.
"I can not bring myself to eat it...it smells like it tastes bad."
Didn't you grow up in Wisconsin? I had a liverwurst and mayo sandwich in my packed school lunch EVERY day from Kindergarten through High School. Made me big und strong; like boool! ;)
But, that's what you get when your "straight off the Sauerkraut Truck" German Grandma is in charge of packing your lunch for you each day, LOL!
I also got an apple and a Twinkie. And yes, the sandwich was made using WONDERBREAD, America's Greatest Invention, as far as Grandma was concerned.
I later I LOVED living in Germany. Cold cuts, liverwurst, hard rolls and thick, black coffee for BREAKFAST? I was right at home, Baby!
I'd presume this would mean adding flavor to the corn so that the geese really like it and fatten themselves.
See Post #34. Were we separated at birth? ;)
Now I'm waiting for Chicago to ban abortions due to the inhumane way the fetus is treated. After all, don't human lives mean more than ducks or geese?
I mean, the bird is force fed, the fetus is forcefully ripped from a womb in pieces, which is more cruel?
The fried potato strips formerly known as "French Fries" are next.
I didn't think it was all that unsettling. I wouldn't eat foie gras because I ain't frenchified and "fatty liver" just isn't in my diet. But the fact that the video comes from PETA leaves me reluctant to believe that any of what is depicted in that video actually happens.
And if it does, well, I'm still not eating foie gras so I guess the only thing that video does for me is make me glad I'm not a goose.
But is it a proper role of the government to tell me that I can't eat overstuffed fatty duck livers if that's my thing? Is it a proper role of the government to tell me I can't jam a food pipe down a duck's throat if there's a market for that sort of thing?
Not hardly.
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