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*doesn't want to go to France anymore*

I think every culture has some nasty food and some good food. :P

Hey, get your facts straight. There's nothing at all "diseased" about foie gras. It's just FATTENED goose liver. And how they get it? Hey, guess what? The ducks eat whatever the hell they're fed in whatever amounts.

Frog legs taste kinda like chicken. And butter & garlic taste good, which is what escargot mainly tastes like so I'm told (as I've yet to try it).

Get your facts straight on food dood :V. Elsewise ya come across as ignorant to people who actually know food :3. Not tryin to much to be a dick, just trying to corrct mistakes and wrong opinions.

really? your in a cullinary program? and yes, IF the ducks werent being FORCE FED food! and i'm sorry that came out wrong. they induce liver disease! it gets up to ten times it's normal weight, stops working properly, and sometimes they'll have a very hard time breathing cause the organs are pressed up against the lungs. i'm not saying ban peta, i'm just saying what the fuck people?!

did you know the french also created squab? guess what squab is. it's BABY PIGEON! yeah, who looks at a baby rat with wings and goes "yummy..."

I was, I'm a graduate now with a degree. And even if they weren't force fed, they'd still eat like little waterproof winged gluttons. The force feeding may look disquieting, and it is. But they breathe through their tongues, so it doesn't choke them or anything.

As for squab? It's DOMESTICATED pigeon. And so what? People eat everything here in the US, from gator and raccoon, to wolf, deer, possum, and more. Stoneth put it more nicely than I did. Yer being an ignorant xenophobe for no reason I can tell other than "Ewww people eat different things." Expand your mind and worldview duder. Don't be like the Neocons :D

i know they breathe through their tongue.... but since your a graduate answer me something.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8IWN8UGDyC0
what in here is false. is this a peta prank?

do you not understand that it ISN'T what we're eating, it's HOW we're harvesting it? we kill BABY pigeons, we kill BABY cows, then we eat em!

and yes, there are more natural foie gras farms. however, apparantly the yield isnt as big, so that's a good enough of a reason to do what is apparantly done on that video i showed you.

I ain't watching it cuz I have other things to do, and the drone of the narrator is annoying.

And uhh... I do understand, quite well. Remember, I have a degree in this sort of thing :3. I have no problem with squab or veal, especially since they're from prevalent species. Eating an endangerd species is dumb tho. But I have no problem with hunting either, especially since say, deer, are considered pest animals in some states.

And as for Bourdain's book, it also goes into local delicacies at times. All of his books are good for that matter.

oh, well ok. in a nutshell, they take the male ducks only, gas the female ducklings to death, kill one or two of the smallest ducks there every 2 or three days, keep them penned in what lookes like a cage the size of a breadbox. they dont move, and are force fed anywhere from 1 lb to a 2 lbs of food a day (mostly cause they digest about half that). for a duck, that's a hell of a lot. when they harvest the ducks, they cram them seven or so to a crate, which is built for maybe 3 or 4 ducks comfortably. then they're hung upside down and gone through an electric bath. it goes over their head, killing them, but over half the time it misses and the ducks are still alive when they puncture their jugular and just let them bleed to death flapping and squawking. what of this is false? trying not to be ignorant, kinda hard when my professor is VERY against foie gras. eh...

i love to hunt. and i love deer meat. good stuff. veal and squab.... i just don't know. it's not that i dont want to try, it's that they're just new to the world, then bam, 20 bucks a pound.

i'll look into his books, he looks interesting to say the least :P

The ducks are free range. If they're kept in boxes somewhere, that's just needless cruelty. They come freely and willingly to be fed, by the same person usually.

i knew it, WHORES OF PETA!! they do it over and over and i just never learn...

And knowing is half the battle.

G.I. JOOOOOOOOEEEEEEEE

There's a fine line between saying you don't like a particular food and insulting an entire culture with arrogant opinionated statements. So the French eat fattened goose liver, frog legs and rabbits. By the way, you neglected to mention ortolan, but obviously you haven't done your research enough to learn about that particular piece of controversial cuisine. Have you even tried foie gras to know whether or not you like it or are you too put off by the thought to even try it before you bad mouth it?

A lot of things Americans consume could be considered "freaky". To cultures who revere cattle, our beef eating industry could be considered freaky. Some people find the practice of raising and consuming veal to be utterly barbaric. Some cultures find pork to be an unclean thing to eat. As for me, many people from my own country eat iguana especially during Lent. Do you plan on blindly insulting my culture because of that?

*sigh* first off. i dont eat organs. i've tried heart, liver, kidney.... no, not my dish. second, what's the last thing i asked? what horrid american delicacies do we have? i know we got some freaky shit, i just dont know what. oh yeah, rocky mountain oysters. calm the hell down.

second off, there IS a difference between cattle harvesting and foie gras harvesting. the veal thing? never gonna touch it because it's just... it'd just feel weird. eating a baby.... yum. and you for iguana? hell no. i'm not gonna insult your people cause of that. why would i? do you do something controversial that would make it bad? like how americans do veal and the french do foie gras?

I am very calm. It's just that you come off as insensitive prick who masks his fear of foreign culture by insulting it. I see it a lot from Americans who come to my country. All you had to say that the idea of foie gras does not appeal to you. You didn't have to call the cuisine of a culture you don't understand freaky, creepy and wrong.

If anything, foie gras is more humane than veal since the geese are force fed 12−18 days before slaughter unlike veal calves which are raised for about 18-20 weeks. In any case, the animal is going to be slaughtered and consumed anyway, so it's not like the French expect the goose to live a long healthy life with a fat liver.

Oh and if you want horrid American delicacies, look at this.

http://www.oobject.com/category/15-.....merican-foods/

I leave you with a thought: A nation's diet speaks more about it than its art or history ever could. During the time of the Roman Republic, the nation was fed by its farmers. During the time of the Roman Empire, the nation was fed by its slaves.

*gags* thank god i dont eat out much anymore... hey, i do admit it. american delicacies have the weirdest stuff! bull nuts, baby cow, squirrel brains, kaolin (edible clay), chitterlings.... blech.... who looks at this and goes "i bet we could call it edible and charge out the ass for it!" bah...

and PETA probably did it again with the video's i watched. with them being caged and stabbed and bled out... beaten... female ducklings gassed. oh well. and yes i came off as an insensitive prick because i was so pissed off that people would do this, whether it's real or people like PETA doing it to try and get foie gras banned. either way, i was pissed watching it.

PETA is one of the most extremist groups out there. Not only do they oppose the consumption of animals and use of animal products, but they also oppose zoos, circuses, dog shows, seeing eye or hearing or assistance dogs for the disabled, pets in general, and animal medical research (the latter of which has produced the majority of all cures and treatments for the diseases we get). PETA also supports vandalism and destruction of animal research centers and animal shelters. PETA also ultimately kills the majority of the animals that they "liberate" from animal research centers and animal shelters, unlike the Humane Society who actually works on adoption, education, and assistance of local shelters.

In the world of PETA, you can't so much as sneeze on an animal without becoming a target of them. They love to use shock tactics that mask the real issue. Don't take anything that they put on video seriously.

On a sort of related note, I suggest you pick up and read Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations" which is a wonderful book on this sorta subject. And Bourdain is a rad guy.

i watched his positive light on foi gras. the episode he did showed a more natural foie gras farm, which i would have no problem with if they did it like this everywhere. i'm not peta freak, in fact i want to fire bomb peta... i just think it's not ok to do this.

If you're concerned about cruelty to animals, your average industrial battery chicken that is raised in a 10-inch cage for its entire life with its beak cut off, dosed full of hormones and drugs and its feathers ripped out to become your cheap eggs and your Chicken McNuggets is far, far, FAR more cruelly treated than any expensive foie gras goose raised on a boutique farm somewhere. Foie is expensive and not eaten all that much, even by rich people. Millions upon millions of eggs and mcnuggets are eaten every day.

Buy free range and organic where possible, and directly from the farmer is even better. It's all about knowing where your food is from.

merf, grades B and C... wiat how can a beakless chicken eat?

You don't wanna know.

The only food I shy away from is.. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Century_egg
Yeah, no thanks.. I like a lot of chinese cuisine but that..? no, just no.. 8C (then again I hate eggs in general)
And awwh that list left off the peanutbutter energybar smoothie thing from also jamba juice, I think.. ti hasl ike over 1600 calories, I think.