The smell of meat

[koolking1]

"Pork and chicken both are

extremely likely to poison you if you don't cook them thoroughly".

True enough in the USA. I have eaten

raw pork in north eastern Thailand where it's commonly served as a dish called "lob". Aside from many other

ingredients it's somewhat cooked by the addtion of lime juice. The Thais feed their free range pigs rice hence

they don't have the toxins that our pigs have. And, Thai rice is the best in the world. It's readily available

in the supermarkets here in the USA and very easy to cook. I recommend Nishon Brand, Thai Jasmine Rice, try it once

and you'll see what I mean.

Horse meet is available and legal to eat in Quebec Canada. I've had it

bbq'd by some old Laotian refugee friends that live there, not bad at all. In SE Asia they don't eat just any old

dog, it has to be a certain type and it won't be the family pet, a poodle or dachshund would never be eaten.



Over the past many years I've really cut back my consumption of all meats, particularly red meat but I

still eat it once in a while, mainly in tacos. Sue and I eat seafood for the most part of our diet. It's best to

stick to the smaller species such as cod, haddock, salmon and to avoid the larger species such as shark, swordfish,

and tuna which have higher mercury content due to their size. Tilapia, which is getting quite popular, are a

vegetarian fish. The real name for it is Nile Perch and it was imported into the USA from Africa to help control

the abundant vegetation in the Texas power plant lakes which are quite warm watered lakes. They reproduce like

proverbial "bunnies". Unfortunately, it's way overpriced in the stores and should be priced more like chicken,

it's that abundantly available. As time goes on, it's likely to become more of a staple as it grows well in fish

farm tanks.

Pineapple juice is the best thing of all to drink if you want to produce better tasting semen.

Coffee and beer are bad in that regard.

Lastly, I have to agree 100% with the posters who are more

tolerant of other culture's eating habits. It' not our place to judge that aspect of another's culture and if

you don't judge and are in some other country, you are more apt to enjoy the people and their culture, you might

even get invited out to a great feast and make a lot of new friends. When I took Sue to Thailand last year she

discovered she liked eating fried grubs and she was a hit with the locals because she didn't shy away from it.

Protein!

[belgareth]

Lastly, I

have to agree 100% with the posters who are more tolerant of other culture's eating habits. It' not our place to

judge that aspect of another's culture and if you don't judge and are in some other country, you are more apt to

enjoy the people and their culture, you might even get invited out to a great feast and make a lot of new friends.

When I took Sue to Thailand last year she discovered she liked eating fried grubs and she was a hit with the locals

because she didn't shy away from it. Protein!

My older sister's inlaws are Japanese and her husband was a

very good friend of mine. As a result I was exposed to their culture. Yuki, his mother, was a fine cook but I

learned to never ask what I was eating until I had tried it.

Since those days I have been around many cultures

and have been enriched by every one of them. We westerners are often arrogant and spoiled. Reality is that these

people have their own cultures, many of them thousands of years older than our own and all of them worthy of

respect. I'd get pretty pissed if somebody came in and tried to tell me to change my way of life to suit them. I'd

fight back too and it wouldn't be much prettier than what you see on the news now.