what a dumb F***. I shouldn't even dignify it with a reply, however to put
the record straight. Foie Gras is only the liver part of the fowl, true
it's force fed to enlarge the liver. Where in the post did you see me
condone this practice? For whatever reason the French so, the entire goose
is used, feathers, fat et al - none is wasted. For the second point, the
geese are reared and - in particular the Foie Gras de D'oie flock are
government regulated and the birds are usually what is termed 'free range'.
The dolphins are wild and if the culling at this rate continues, it will be
wiped out. I would not be suprised that you folks misundertand the delights
of Foie Gras, when the cheesebugger is considered the daily staple.



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"Musashi" wrote in message
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Actually, what I failed to mention earlier is that porpoise/dophin is
NOT
a
KNOWN JAPANESE FOOD.
In other words, if you go walking into a Japanese restaurant and ask for
Flipper don't be surprised if you
get laughed at.


I had a similarly stupid discussion the other day on Craigslist, with a
nit
who asked what the 'Asian culture's opinion' was on eating dog meat.
After
explaining that there was no Asian culture opinion since most Asians don't
eat dogs, and that some South Koreans liked dog whereas some did not and
fought against the sale of dog meat, the same person asked me pretty much
the same question again.

Why is this a stupid discussion? Because Chef would never ask what is it
with the American attitude towards the murder of geese for foie gras.
There
is no American opinion. Very few people eat foie gras, some people think
it's wrong to do so, and some people would eat it even if you held a gun
to
their heads and told them to stop. The same with the American attitude
towards milkfed veal, or the American attitude towards eating crawdads.
There are Orthodox Jews in my town, and the last thing I looked, they were
al American. If I asked them what I thought of veal in cream sauce, or of
crawfish etoufee, would their opinion really signify anything? For that
matter, do the taste buds of a Louisianian reall reflects what someone
from
wisconsin thinks of a food he may never well have tasted, and is fairly
obscure?
A better example would be possum, which is considered a delicacy in
certain
parts of the rural South. If I took a picture of a possum getting shot on
the internet along with a story of how possum is sometimes found in cans
and
jars along the backroads of Georgia, Chef would probably not call this
reflective of the American attitude towards members of the rodent family
or
wonder aloud what we thought of said attitudes. I can tell you
faithfully,
as a new Yorker, I have never tasted possum in my life, although I am
pretty
sure my granddaddy did. I also have no opinion on the Black American
attitude towards the bizarre practice of eating a pig's intestines after
scouring them and cooking them on the stove without stuffing them first-
since I have never had hog maws and chitlins in my life, as I did not grow
up on a farm and do not wear overalls to work. My black American friends
from a Caribbean have even less of an opinion.