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Eating at Mexican restaurants
In article > , dsi1
@spamworld.com says...
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> T wrote:
> > In article >,
> > says...
> >> notbob wrote:
> >>> On 2009-03-08, sf > wrote:
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> >>>> of butt in a huge vat of water....
> >>>> pork is tender, he drains it well....
> >>> Well, there goes most of the pork flavor.
> >> My auntie, told me to boil pork and then drain the water. Her reason,
> >> she said, was because pork is a "dirty" meat. I don't do this myself but
> >> it's likely that the rational for doing this goes far back to when men
> >> first started eating pork. My guess is that the Jews considered pork a
> >> dirty meat too - except that draining the cooking liquid could not
> >> redeem it.
> >>> nb
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> > Part of the problem in biblical days was that they didn't necessarily
> > cook the meat thoroughly. This meant a whole host of little parasites
> > were along for the ride.
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> I guess most of the restrictions of classes of food were based on the
> observation that some food tended to make folks sick or dead. Our pork
> is a lot safer these days. OTOH, folks in the old days had the advantage
> of not living that long.
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> >
> > And consider, pigs of that time are very different from pigs today. Pigs
> > today are bred for high protein and low fat purposes.
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> I did not know this. In the future there will probably be a market for
> high priced, extra-fatty pig meat. Yummy!
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> >
There already is a market, hence the heirloom pig.
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