Das freut mich aber sehr. Vielen Dank und beste Grüße nach Süd-Afrika.
1 Like
When it comes to food, what I find inedible is any bits of flesh, muscle, skin, organs, intestines or anything from any type of animal, all insects and shellfish.
Just thinking about putting stuff like that in my mouth makes me retch. 
1 Like
I could never eat our National Emblem.
She is begging everyone to stop eating her relations.
2 Likes
She thanks you so much. Now if you could convince the world to stop eating Kangaroo 
1 Like
The situation isn’t in my hands… I’m The King Canute of over50’s chat 
1 Like
Nice try Strath… 
On a more general and more on topic note, a few years ago I decided that if I was going to eat the classic meat cuts then I should also eat the less classic bits. This is a personal view (insofar as I’m not trying to sell this view to anyone) that if an animal has been raised and slaughtered for our benefit then we should do the carcass justice and aim to scoff the lot. Within sensible limits.
So that meant changing a life long avoidance of offal and pretty much being willing to try anything. However, I had a second new rule - when trying something new then try it in as a good restaurant as I can find & afford. I didn’t want over-cooked or badly prepared food.
Successes: liver, kidneys, sweetbreads (lamb and calves), gizzards, heart (duck only so far), trotters (ok this last one was not a huge success), plus octopus (large and v small)
Fails: tripe, also that smelly sausage made from the small intestines of pigs, and calves head. And okra. That is my list of food that I find inedible.
Well brett if you promise to never eat our national animal [Im a Scot] then i swear i will never eat yours…deal?
2 Likes
You obviously don’t know me well enough to realise that I never get upset or take offence Frank, and I consider everyone on the forum as a friend. You seem to struggle with the English otherwise you would have figured out what I meant in our discussion. However, your English is far better than my German.
Food is not just about calories. It’s about supplying your body with all of the vitamins and minerals it needs on a daily basis. I usually buy my beef from cows that are grass fed, and not only do they provide milk and meat, they also keep the grass short and refreshed with their manure completing one of natures circle of of life.
Plant based foods are not developed and produced without cost to the planet either, and most are perfected in the lab with plenty of additives and colourings. Meat is desired by most humans, otherwise, why would plant based foods be made to replicate meat products?
I don’t know about Germany, but there are still many places to graze cattle and sheep in the UK and will be for years to come.
That is an easy compromise. Yeah for the Kangaroo.
Long live the Unicorn
1 Like
Thank you for your reply. Please do not get me wrong but I guess that it was you who did not figure out my argument in my initial post.
Let me cut the story short: The cow can produce vitamin B12 itself in one of its stomaches. Pigs and poultry produce it in their intestines (looked that word up, did not know it). Humans usually do not eat intestines afaik, so B12 has to be supplemented even by carnivores.
If you eat beef from “happy cows living on grass land” then lucky you.
Germany is the biggest customer of Brazilian soy beans and therefore responsible for the largest part of the deforestation there. Besides, Germans go mad immediately if you begin talking about reduction of meat consumption. To put it in numbers: last year the consumption of meat was reduced in Germany by 8% which is 600.000 tons(!).
Here (in Germany) people are lying in their pockets. For example, when I worked in projects and talked to collegues (they asked why I did not eat meat), they ALL said: “usually I barely eat any meat at all”. I then replied: “funny, we have lunch together from monday to friday and you ALWAYS eat meat for lunch. How is that barely any meat?”
Next fun fact is: everybody asks “what sense does it make to imitate meat by some veggie-stuff?”. Usually I wonder why they all lack the fantasy to imagine that some people do no longer be responsible by the damage the mass-meat-production makes. But still they enjoyed eating saussages, having barbeque with friends and so on. Until they realized what damage it does.
Why would anybody replace a Porsche 911 or a Ford Thunderbird with an e-car you might ask?
Is it really so difficult to imagine that some people do no longer want to be part of that? I do not think so.
No offence intended btw…
2 Likes
Thanks for you comprehensive reply Frank, and no offence taken…
2 Likes
That’s me too!
2 Likes
1 Like
I’m struggling to convince fellow Londoners not to scoff those dragon burgers…no wonder there’s not many left!
4 Likes
I have been considering your post Boot, while out running and then while having a shower and eating breakfast. And I’ve come to the conclusion that there are several things that make a vegetarian or vegan think the way they do, and especially your reaction to eating bits of an animal.
The first and most important is programming. You have been programmed to behave the way you do by someone you trust and possibly admire. Probably a parent, but it could have been a teacher, celebrity, or sportsperson. We are all programmed to some degree, but none of us are born veggie or vegan, and when we are young our minds are so impressionable and soak information up like a sponge. No wonder it’s hard to learn stuff as we age, so you must have been taught it…
Vegetarianism and veganism has become so popular over the last twenty years. I didn’t even know any vegetarians until I was 50, now I know lots.
Today’s vegetarians probably think that eating bits of an animal that resemble human bits is a bit canibal, especially in this day and age where we are being taught that killing is bad and there’s no place for a somewhat uncivilised food product. We see pictures of animals killing and tearing bits off other animals while David Attenborough takes a dim view of cruelty to animals by us humans.
We are a unique species in that we have the digestive potential to eat a wide variety of foods, and during our progress through time have had to adapt to any available food at the time. We are not good hunters. In a one to one with most animals we would lose if it were not for our ingenuity and skill at producing tools and weapons. Something that all other animals have failed to do other than at a very basic level. I mention this because the human being is a default meat eater, and when times are hard, and we don’t have the luxury of a supermarket around the corner, we can, and will, eat any available food…Look at what people ate during the war. I bet there weren’t many vegetarians around then…
1 Like
Wouldn’t eat meat or fish as I’m a vegetarian.
Scrambled egg to me is disgusting
2 Likes
I think you are wrong about me being “programmed” not to eat meat.
I would not class myself as a “vegetarian or a vegan” because I have sometimes eaten some types of fish.
When it comes to finding animal products and shellfish/seafood inedible, I am certain I was “born this way”
Animals -
If I have been “programmed” to find meat and animal products inedible, how do you explain the fact that I found the taste and texture of animal products unpalatable from my early childhood?
I was fed animal products as soon as I was weaned, as a matter of course.
I had never heard of vegetarians or vegans when I was a small child in the 1950s / 1960s. My parents, all my 7 siblings, my friends and everyone I knew enjoyed eating meat when we could afford to have it. I always hated the taste of blood, did not like the smell, taste or texture of the meat I was given and the taste and texture of animal organs made me retch.
As soon as I was old enough to be able to communicate to my Mum that I did not like that stuff and it made me feel sick, I made it clear I wouldn’t eat it - and at that tender age, I had no idea the stuff I couldn’t stomach came from other animals - I just knew it tasted horrible and made me feel sick.
Shellfish/Seafood
I wasn’t aware that I found shellfish inedible until I was much older because my childhood diet did not include such “luxuries” - I only became aware of my severe allergy to seafood/shellfish when I first tried to eat some prawns in my early twenties and ended up severely ill in hospital for 3 weeks - subsequent tests show I have a severe allergy to all types of seafood/shellfish.
Insects - yes, I agree, I probably have been programmed not to want to eat insects because I have never actually eaten any and my parents did not feed insects or grubs or maggots to their children. I think lots of people in U.K. would find it difficult to eat insects and grubs because it is not the kind of food we have been raised to eat.
5 Likes
No one has mentioned Tripe.
My Grandmother used to cook tripe for my father.
I would arrive home from school to this awful smell of boiled tripe.
Maybe it was not cleaned properly.
Another thing my father loved was dripping on toast, sickening in my view.
1 Like