Alabama sues taco bell; alleges 'taco filling' is less then 35% beef - by Bluegrime
Renzatic on 28/1/2011 at 22:02
A friend of mine went to Korea once. While there, he somehow managed to land himself in a situation where he had no other choice but to eat a Collie, lest he offend.
...said it was surprisingly good. I guess much like anything, it all depends on how it's prepared.
demagogue on 28/1/2011 at 22:04
Quote Posted by SD
You can't tell a tale like that without letting us all know what dog tastes like.
That's the beauty of it. If I did eat it, I never knew. :cool:
More truthfully, a restaurant like that wouldn't have it. Actually I doubt that's something you could find in any neighborhood walk-in restaurant, and not in Seoul. Probably have to go way out in the countryside or some hick's home, if not back in time a few decades to find people seriously eating dog, AFAIK. It might still go on in some back corner places though; anything's possible (Edit: and SE's & Renzatic's stories show that it does still go on), but I never saw it or heard about it in my entire time there, anyway.
Raw horse (gamey), roast silkworms (you can smell it 3 blocks away), sea urchins, fermented bean curds (euch), yes ... in Korea and Japan. But no dog. My circle was pretty westernized & the neighborhood middle-class though, so it's not surprising.
My favorite dish from that restaurant BTW was a spicy orange tofu soup with small clams still in the shell. I don't know what it was about it, soaking up the spicy soup with the tofu and digging the clams out of the shells, but I loved it, and haven't found it with the clams still in the shells since.
While we're on the topic, in Vietnam I did see plenty of snake and all the stuff on that Cambodian table. Going to an open market was a riot with all the animals and critters you could buy, many of them live in cages. Some of the most massive markets were on boats on the Mekong river. You row up to them and they hoist over the goods on long poles.
Sg3 on 29/1/2011 at 11:44
Well, I won't touch a live insect, with a very few exceptions. I practically require tongs to pick up a spider, live or dead. And then I throw away the tongs. So there's no way that I would ever intentionally put a bug in my mouth. But, yeah, this phobia is mostly irrational and I don't understand why many people (such as myself) loathe the thought of eating insects.
By the way, that picture is pretty much proof that there is a Hell.
SubJeff on 29/1/2011 at 12:59
Quote Posted by demagogue
fermented bean curds (euch)
Are you talking about hot food here or the stuff you get in jars? Because the jar stuff, the pickled fermented tofu, is the best. thing. ever.
Seriously guys it might be a little bit of an acquired taste but once you acquire it omg that stuff is the best freaking thing and I'm sad the last batch I got from Taiwan has run out :(
If you mean stinky tofu then errr, it's also an acquired taste that I'm not that fond of
unless it's in ma la chou tofu (numbing hot stinky tofu) when it's fantastic.
demagogue on 29/1/2011 at 16:22
I started conflating Korea & Japan there, since I was going back and forth a lot, and was talking about natto, which is the very stinky sticky stuff.
Actually, probably the worst part about it is just its reputation. I might have given it more of a chance, except every early encounter I had with it was like some Westerner saying "Oh man, this stuff will seriously make you vomit. Here, just smell it." and they shove it in my face. That's not the way to introduce someone to a new food.
Edit: Now pickled tofu, like kimchi, I like.
Renzatic on 29/1/2011 at 18:25
People, I'm about to do something I will sorely regret. Something you've all driven me to. I write this post as the last will and testament of my tastefulness.
For in 5 minutes, I go to Taco Bell for lunch.
I want a grilled stuffed steak burrito.
Pray for me.
As thus spake upon this, a new page.
PeeperStorm on 29/1/2011 at 19:45
Quote Posted by demagogue
Edit: Now pickled tofu, like kimchi, I like.
Kimchi is like cheese: There's a zillion different kinds. And most of them are fermented rather than pickled.
demagogue on 29/1/2011 at 19:47
Quote Posted by PeeperStorm
Kimchi is like cheese: There's a zillion different kinds. And most of them are fermented rather than pickled.
It's a good thing I was talking about fermented foods the entire time then.
Edit: I think the punchline of that back and forth was that fermented food with a "pickled" edge, like the tart tofu and kimchi, is better than the stinky kind of fermented, like natto (talking just about soy and Asian food at least, and just for me and SE, if not the Western palate generally if you took a poll, if that's something you can generalize fairly). That's what I was trying to say.
Edit2: Although I do admittedly like some stinky cheeses.
Probably a double-standard, but milk != soybeans.
Bluegrime on 30/1/2011 at 21:08
Not to derail a thread about food but heres the beef on what Taco Bell's CEO has to say..
Quote Posted by Greg Creed
At Taco Bell, we buy our beef from the same trusted brands you find in the supermarket, like Tyson Foods. We start with 100 percent USDA-inspected beef. Then we simmer it in our proprietary blend of seasonings and spices to give our seasoned beef its signature Taco Bell taste and texture. We are proud of the quality of our beef and identify all the seasoning and spice ingredients on our website. Unfortunately, the lawyers in this case elected to sue first and ask questions later — and got their “facts” absolutely wrong. We plan to take legal action for the false statements being made about our food.
I'm not sure what to make of this. Either Tyson Foods is supplying the meat-soy-dextrose (and possibly selling it on the consumer level as well) or Mr. Creed left out an important step in the creation of their slurry.
