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

[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.