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decemberlov
8-30-12, 1:18pm
I'll be attending a dinner tonight hosted by a friend of mine. She works in the food industry, creating recipes for a company, doing research etc. She often has dinner parties to try out new recipes they are thinking of using and it's always a good time. I'm always game for trying new things but this one has me a little worried :laff:
Here's the menu for tonight. The meat is specifically what it a little strange to me...I've had duck but have not had any of the others. Hopefully I don't get sick from meat my body isn't use to. Have any of you tried any of these and what can you tell me about them?
Paleo Experiment Dinner:
-the official menu will be a BLIND tasting of: Python, Lion, Kanagroo and Duck
-Fun fact will be provided about each
-Side Veggies will be Sweet Potato Fries cooked in Avacado Oil with rosemary ketchup and Roasted Brussel Sprouts with Pecans
-Pate will be served with raw veggies and !BACON (pork)!
-Dessert will be homemade Blueberry Chai Icecream and Gluten Free (but not paleo) Chocolate Cake
-BYO for me and for you : )Sorry for the bold type, I copied & pasted the menu from FB and can't get the top portion to change.
Well, that certainly is an interesting menu!:0! I would think kangaroo would be like a giant rabbit, but I'm sure it's really in how she prepares it. For some reason I would think it might be tough, but I can't tell you why I think that. I've had duck and again, it must be prepared properly. Duck can be greasy, but done right, divine, with very crispy skin.
The python and lion are something else! I know many people eat snakes, at least the snakes we have in the states, like rattler, (although I do believe python is rapidly becoming a snake of North America, unfortunately!:() Maybe one of those folks will weigh in on the taste of snake.
The lion is, to me, rather a strange thing to eat. First of all, they are meat eaters and we don't normally eat other meat eaters, unless you are talking fish or lobster/shrimp. Plus, aren't they protected or something? I wonder where she got the lion meat, whether it was raised just for that purpose. I don't think, considering their diet, it would be an efficient meat to raise just to eat. How weird! Can you refuse to try one or more of the meats? I'd try it all except maybe the lion. The sides sound really yummy!
Whatever, it does sound like you will have a most interesting time! Please please do let us know how it went, what you ate and how it tasted!
decemberlov
8-30-12, 2:08pm
Well, that certainly is an interesting menu!:0! I would think kangaroo would be like a giant rabbit, but I'm sure it's really in how she prepares it. For some reason I would think it might be tough, but I can't tell you why I think that. I've had duck and again, it must be prepared properly. Duck can be greasy, but done right, divine, with very crispy skin.
The python and lion are something else! I know many people eat snakes, at least the snakes we have in the states, like rattler, (although I do believe python is rapidly becoming a snake of North America, unfortunately!:() Maybe one of those folks will weigh in on the taste of snake.
The lion is, to me, rather a strange thing to eat. First of all, they are meat eaters and we don't normally eat other meat eaters, unless you are talking fish or lobster/shrimp. Plus, aren't they protected or something? I wonder where she got the lion meat, whether it was raised just for that purpose. I don't think, considering their diet, it would be an efficient meat to raise just to eat. How weird! Can you refuse to try one or more of the meats? I'd try it all except maybe the lion. The sides sound really yummy!
Whatever, it does sound like you will have a most interesting time! Please please do let us know how it went, what you ate and how it tasted!
I'm wondering all of these things as well. Including are there any risks involved with eating something that is a meat eater? Also I'm very curious as to where she found everything. I will definitely let you know the answers to all of these questions. To me the snake meat sounds the most unappealing of them all. I'm guessing since it's noted that it's a "blind" tasting I won't have much of a choice and will be sampling everything :|(
ApatheticNoMore
8-30-12, 2:11pm
This is the point where you declare: I am a vegetarian!
Is it okay to gag at a dinner like this? :~)
decemberlov
8-30-12, 2:16pm
Is it okay to gag at a dinner like this? :~)
I responded to the invite on face book and asked "do you need us to bring anything?" I had to restrain my self from adding " you know, like maybe a barf bag?" at the end of my sentence :laff:
This is the point where you declare: I am a vegetarian!
funny I was thinking I may actually walk out of this dinner party a vegetarian :~)
Tussiemussies
8-30-12, 5:08pm
I am vegetarian and those meat choices sicken me worse than I normally am about meat!
I'll take the OP's place at the dinner table. I like adventursome eating. "Lion" is the only thing to give me pause, it is a big kitty, after all.
I imagine snake to be like turtle: sweet and dense, sort of like beef tonque. Duck is, well, duck--alays greasy.
Not my idea of paleo. Pass the soyburgers...
Only the animals on this list, and maybe the rosemary, are actually paleo! If the pig is a modern breed, it's also not paleo. It always cracks me up to see the hoops through which humans can put their minds!
Sad Eyed Lady
9-3-12, 11:10am
Stick with the veggies!
I am a vegetarian as well but it's not my place to judge what others eat. However, python, kangaroo and duck are not all endangered animals. While the lion is classified as vulnerable but not endangered, this animal has existed for 2.5 million years and I certainly wouldn't want to be eating something that is on the road to extinction.
I wouldn't eat any of it but I certainly wouldn't eat lion. I wouldn't go to the dinner bc of this fact. I'd want my hostess (at least) to know I am not ok with attending a dinner where a vulnerable classified species is being served. My attendance at such a dinner could be seen as a tacit acknowledgement that I think it's ok to eat lion. She or others attending might think the only reason I'm not eating lion is that I think it's too gross. I certainly wouldn't attend, not eat what was served and then loudly proclaim why I wasn't partaking. That would be gauche.
If I were an omnivore and feeling open to something new and lion wasn't on the menu, I'd attend and try the foods. Otherwise, I'd give her my regrets and skip the event.
Edit: The Asian Python is also Near Threatened. With that (2 species off my list) I don't see how I could make this dinner work. I actually see this idea as kind of repugnant.
Oh my goodness...I'm also curious if lions are protected! ..eating kangeroos...yikes! I've never heard of such of thing. Will you be willing to ask if they are protected...and if they are specifically raised for food? I'm curious to know too. I hope you do leave there deciding to be a vegetarian. :) I agree with sad-eyed-lady...stick with the veggies!
Oh...and that's a great question about if your body can handle it. I'm a vegetarian and my doctor told me once you stop eating meat, your body loses the enzymes to digest it...so I wonder if since you've never had lion, kangeroo or snake...if you body will see that as a foreign substance having not ever eaten it before...or will your body just say it's just meat...hmmmmm.
Oh my goodness...I'm also curious if lions are protected! ..eating kangeroos...yikes! I've never heard of such of thing. Will you be willing to ask if they are protected...and if they are specifically raised for food?
Minz: I think in Australia kangaroos are raised for meat. Not certain, though. Also, I don't know if I believe that whole "you lose the enzymes necessary to digest meat," line. I've heard this myself but wonder whether it's real or urban myth. Did an actual knowledgeable physician tell you this? Did he learn at some nutritional conference or did he just "hear" it? I know that in the US physicians generally know virtually nothing about nutrition. Most physicians have like one afternoon of nutritional instruction the entire time they're in medical school. I'd just want to know the source of that info.
ApatheticNoMore
9-3-12, 12:36pm
I wonder how many Paleo humans went around hunting lion for meat? I don't know but if I had to guess, I'd think: not many! The lion does sound like the worst thing on the menu, the other meats might be ok but lion - yuck. I suppose they might have found a dead one here or there, but that's risky too (in Paleo times how did a lion meet it's death, does it have natural predators? if not then it's just disease, oh yummy diseased animal food).
Losing the enzyme to digest meat sounds ridiculous. I mean since we're on the Paleo conversation, that seems to make little sense evolutionarily that you would lose the enzyme to digest something so basic. I think what the real issue is is probably that gut flora at any given time, needs time to adapt to a new diet (in any direction).
Minz: I think in Australia kangaroos are raised for meat. Not certain, though. Also, I don't know if I believe that whole "you lose the enzymes necessary to digest meat," line. I've heard this myself but wonder whether it's real or urban myth. Did an actual knowledgeable physician tell you this? Did he learn at some nutritional conference or did he just "hear" it? I know that in the US physicians generally know virtually nothing about nutrition. Most physicians have like one afternoon of nutritional instruction the entire time they're in medical school. I'd just want to know the source of that info.
It was my actual doctor who told me this so I assume it's a good source...but I didn't think to ask him where he heard it. Who knows if it's true but I'm not willing to test it. :) I've also heard that doctors get very little to no training in nutrition which is too bad.
Who knows if it's true but I'm not willing to test it. :)
No, I don't think I'll test it either. Not this week, anyway.
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