I Want To Try New Meat
By Susan Mercedes. Filed in Food, Friends |
I had dinner with some friends the other night. And by “had dinner”, I mean they cooked for me! I almost fell in love. It was that good. But describing the food will only make my mouth water and it takes me away from my story.
One of the friends, Amy (<~ link to her Twitter account) opened my eyes to the world. She’s from Australia. You can’t really tell that from her Twitter account that she’s not American except for the occasional misspelled word (behaviour, colour, honour, analyse).
Amy shared with us all sorts of animals that were native to Australia. Names I had never heard of. Animals that looked so strange to me.
The only question I kept asking was “Can you eat that?” I’m all about food. And when I’m exposed to the world, I want to eat it’s meat.
Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 10:24 am
http://www.flickr.com/photos/erinealberty/2004414861
Susan Mercedes Reply:
July 24th, 2009 at 5:51 am
Erin: Your travels continue to be adventures. Dog meat? I wonder if the menu items could be translated as Fido’s Feast, Duke’s Dish, Skippy’s Skewers, etc.
Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 2:18 pm
@Erin we don’t really eat dogs, however dogs have been known to eat Australians: http://bit.ly/U0Udp
@Susan I know you said you don’t like lamb, but what if it looked like this and was served with Chilean Merlot: http://bit.ly/VtUIY ?
Susan Mercedes Reply:
July 24th, 2009 at 5:52 am
Amy: That looks amazing, Could we substitute the lamb with pork? Or just get me totally wasted first?
Thursday, July 23rd 2009 at 4:29 pm
I’m not even going to touch this one. it’s just too easy to make the inappropriate comment.
Susan Mercedes Reply:
July 24th, 2009 at 5:53 am
Kel: I’m a meat lover. What can I say?
Friday, July 24th 2009 at 9:55 am
In Chicago recently I tried Cevapcici (‘che-vap-che-che’) a Balkan sausage of lamb, pork and beef, with a red pepper & eggplant sauce, pretty tasty!
Did I hear you don’t like lamb, whaa? In the meat arena there are a lot more unsavory choices than what anyone brought up here, when you get into,
uh, ‘organ meats.’
‘Now on your frozen food aisle: Unsavory Choices. From the people who brought you Healthy Choice, only not.’
Susan Mercedes Reply:
July 28th, 2009 at 2:16 pm
Brian: Lamb isn’t my favorite. I’ve eaten it. I’ll continue to try it. But you won’t catch me ordering it off the menu as my main course.
Organ meat…yuck. That’s all I’ve got to say.
The meat you tried in Chicago actually sounds pretty good.