Poll results

[urbpan]

Here's the unscientific analysis of my meat poll:

1) You people eat too much damn beef.

2) Most people would prefer to get their meat from local farms.

3) I still think seafood is nasty.

Comments

[cottonmanifesto.livejournal.com]

I'm glad the poll was enlightening for you ('specially point number 3 on your list there).

[badnoodles.livejournal.com]

Moo, moo, moomoomoo.

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

Does it help if you think of seafood as bugs of the sea?

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Um, it doesn't make me want to eat them more, if that's what you mean.

Actually, crustaceans don't bother me so much, it's those living clots of foul-smelling mucus that people eat that turn my stomach: bivalve mollusks.

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

See, you just seem like someone who'd be willing to eat a bug :D And I mean that as a compliment.

Mollusks are disgusting. Anything that slimy is just wrong. Even deep-frying them doesn't do much to improve them, and deep-frying will make almost anything yummy.

[urbpan.livejournal.com]

Believe it or not, I haven't "gone there" with eating bugs yet. Ecologically, it's the best source of animal protein we have, but the cultural barriers are pretty strong. I have the beginnings of a library on the subject (including several copies of "the food insects newsletter").

Deep fried clams almost look like food, but there's nothing grosser than a big pile of reeking mussels, with their orange flesh agape and steaming.

[miz-geek.livejournal.com]

I recommend Dining with Headhunters by Richard Sterling for strange food stories.

[http://users.livejournal.com/purplebunnie_/]

I love beef. A'course, I was raised on homgrown beef, venison, and rabbit... it's too good!

I'm with you on the seafood. I like what fish I do from rivers, usually trout. Except for oysters. I love me some smoked oysters!

[richmackin.livejournal.com]

Dude, I don't want to hear you talk about your meat pole!

(titter)

[gigglingwizard.livejournal.com]

Shhh, he's busy analyzing it. Heheh

Hey, I looked at a few of the letters on your website, and they reminded me of one of the funniest books I've ever read. Tell me, did this guy rip off your idea, was it the other way around, or is this coincidence simply evidence that writing such letters is an art form hardwired into our brains through millions of years of natural selection?

[richmackin.livejournal.com]

I forget when that came out- I started on my own, realized Laszlo Toth did it first, have seen some other people who do it, too, and was ripped off by Jerry Seinfeld (who "discovered" Ted Nancy)

[izzy23.livejournal.com]

I did not answer your survey because I already know I eat too damned much beef, and was ashamed to admit it, alas.

But seafood? I'm good with that. Healthy and (potentially) sustainable (though not the way most of it's procured now).

[vampyrusgirl.livejournal.com]

You should publish this! ;)