Ever Eaten Cat?

okay, so i went to a chinese reasturaunt today, and i asked for Burbon chicken, she repeated, "burbon chicken?" and i said yes, and when she gave it to me, she told me that it was burbon chicken, and the sauce was burbon..but uhm..that was not chicken.
It did not look like pork either. and beef has a really distinct taste to me...
I have no idea what it was...
The people at the reasturaunt are fishy to me (i have sceen them smoking in the back of the kitchen). Dont as me why i went there, i was just craving it, and they have food for 5$...
and ovcourse, in the middle of me eating it i showed my dad, and he sat there and went, "meow! rawr. woof"
so...now im kinda creaped out..

yuck! i'd never eat cat or dog.

snake on the other hand...*licks lips*

I tried dog when I was in the Army and we went to Thailand. I threw up after the first bite.

My mom and sister ate what they thought was dog in mexico. It was some rundown stand and they said the meat was really stringy!!

yeah. i think i would've puked if i knew it was another animal for sure, but i dont, so i just have to sit here and feel icky about it. ick. see, even if it is pork, i would be really ticked off, i will only eat chicken, turkey, and duck...i wont eat beef or pork, so i would be major ticked either way.....if i knew for sure

Ever eat rat?
http://www.snopes.com/photos/food/rats.asp

ewwww. i'll stick to feeding rats to my snakes thank you. lol.

Not intentionally - but people are funny with food taboos I realize.

On my two year stint in Thailand I consumed a variety of strange meats including

dog (both jerky, and freshly cooked);
cat (I didn't know it at the time, but found out afterward);
bat (deep fried, you eat the whole thing including bones, not bad really);
rat (captured from rice paddies, prepared and roasted on bamboo skewers);
raw spiced pork strips and entrails with raw pig blood poured on top (not recommended);
almost every insect and arachnid you could imagine fried, and some pickled;
along with all the "normal" foods - squid, octopus, etc.

I am always willing to try something once, and I'm glad I did. Most of the above meats were actually pretty good given that they were prepared well. The only things that I avoided were those that I knew were illegally gotten/killed like turtle, snake and other native wildlife, most of which are protected by laws that are not enforced very heavily.

-Evan

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Originally Posted by Evan Jamison

On my two year stint in Thailand

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Were you anywhere neat Phuket or Pattaya? Was there and Hong Kong that I expanded my palette lol.

wow. braver than i. I am pretty accepting of most food, sushi, frog's legs, escargo (sp?), cavier, all of that i can do, but idk about bugs, rats, and things of that nature.

wow. sounds like you guys are avid travelers. I would love to go out of the US (i have been to like every state in the US, and some of the islands that are out of the US, but never to anywhere like China, but i am only 16, so i have plenty of time. :))

I ate lamb, pork, worms, beek, fish, turkey, chicken, alligator/crocadile wich was verry good. I would never try dog,cat,rats or bugs.

i have never had croc/alligator. I was in the everglades, and it was offered to me, but i really was not so keen on trying it.

It is very very good. I thought it would be gross but once I tried it I wanted more!

that's what everbody said, but i kept thinking that i was going to come across a scale or something, and i just couldn't do it. haha.

haha yeah it was pure meat! no scales in mine!

lol. i think i would've thrown up if there as a scale, and i was with new friends, and really didnt want to do that. lol.

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Originally Posted by lillyorchid

Ever eat rat?
http://www.snopes.com/photos/food/rats.asp

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A freind of my mothers family had a big get together and they ordered alot of KFC chicken.Long story short my moms freind took a bite and noticed hair.It was a deep fried chicken breaded RAT :8: :8: :8: .I know someone who bought a McDonalds chicken sandwich and had a few little white fly larvae in the mayo:P .I could go on but a few stories are way to graphic:colbert:

oh ick!!! i dont think i will be eating out. ever. haha

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Were you anywhere neat Phuket or Pattaya? Was there and Hong Kong that I expanded my palette lol.

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I want to go to Phuket so bad!

I'm jealous

anyway.. this is why I don't eat meat :p

Ive eaten kangaroo , witchetty grubs and loads of various insects when i out travelling through australias east coast :)

Yup. when my mom and dad were in Australia, they had king cobra and kangaroo.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Were you anywhere neat Phuket or Pattaya? Was there and Hong Kong that I expanded my palette lol.

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I spent time in Bangkhae, Lamluga, and Bangkapi which are parts of Bangkok. Most of my culinary exploration was up-country though in Ubon, Phitsanulok, and Chiang Mai. I would love to go back and dive around Phuket though. Thailand just has so many things to do and see (and eat :D)!

-Evan

I think we're all so mental about food , Look at us as a nation cow's are sacred in india and we practicaly live off of them here. Also while Asian's look alot less musucular or full ,they are alot more healthy and live longer than us on their diet's. Hay I havn't made it a priority but I think I'll try most of all that stuff one day. Rat's etc.(In an Asian country) Gotta go where they know how to make it.

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Originally Posted by Emilio

they are alot more healthy and live longer than us on their diet's.

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Are Okinawans still on the top of that list? I saw a special at some point on the past on diet and overall caloric intake as it relates to longevity and I think they had the highest (oldest) life expectancy.

I have a really hard time with escargot and grubs though raw fish seems to be no problem lol. Go figure!

grubs i dont know if i could handle escargot i can. raw fish isnt a problem either. I remember when i was like 5, we were at a reasturaunt, and instead of ordering chicken fingers like every other kid, i ordered muscles. I have always been a curious eater.

I don't see anything wrong with it, other than misrepresentation.. if they say it's chicken, and it's not.. they should be shut down, fined, and put out of business.

yeah. i'll have to see...
this is what it looked like
http://i129.photobucket.com/albums/p...hinesefood.jpg

Probably eaten cat and/or dog through unknown food - and I'm not too concerned about it. I'd rather not eat cat, that is to say, I don't think I could ever eat it intentionally.

Dog meat, sure...when in Rome. I work with a Korean who says that chow chow is a delicacy in Korea...so, if I was there, I'd have to try it.

Weirdest things I've knowingly eaten: buffalo (quite tasty!) and possum (long story).

Weird things I love that most people don't: all the really ooky sushi things (sea urchin, salmon eggs, scallops), raw oysters (only eaten when I smell the ocean cuz otherwise, it can't be fresh), anchovies (YUM!).

Normal things most people LOVE and I can't STAND!!!:
milk
bananas

Both should rot in hell - YECH!

I Love seafood of most types.. mmmm. Even caviar. But I don't as a general rule eat anything raw; I am too scared of food poisoning after seeing my mom nearly die from it, and contracting mild cases of it myself over the years.. but yet why is it OK in my mind.. to lick the cake batter made with raw egg.. b/c it tastes good like chocolate!!

I like bananas, but i have this thing where i cant hear people chewing, it is just so gross to me, i dont know what it is. I hate eating with people now...and with bananas, oh my lord, grossest thing to hear somebody chew. I can't even eat them anymore it grosses me out to hear that noise.
oh well...i'll have to get over it one day...babies eating baby food is no diffrent than eating a banana....

oh, and make sure that you have plenty of calcium if you wont drink milk. You know the white lines in nails? it can be caused by a calcium diffiency, or so i've heard...

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Originally Posted by cassandra

Normal things most people LOVE and I can't STAND!!!:
milk
bananas

Both should rot in hell - YECH!

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With you on both of those - the texture/phlegm factor in those just ain't "right"

Right up there with orange juice right after brushing your teeth.

oh ewey i hate that taste.
mint+orange juice is nassttyyy

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Originally Posted by Amy1217

okay, so i went to a chinese reasturaunt today, and i asked for Burbon chicken, she repeated, "burbon chicken?" and i said yes, and when she gave it to me, she told me that it was burbon chicken, and the sauce was burbon..but uhm..that was not chicken.
It did not look like pork either. and beef has a really distinct taste to me...
I have no idea what it was...
The people at the reasturaunt are fishy to me (i have sceen them smoking in the back of the kitchen). Dont as me why i went there, i was just craving it, and they have food for 5$...
and ovcourse, in the middle of me eating it i showed my dad, and he sat there and went, "meow! rawr. woof"
so...now im kinda creaped out..

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it probaby was cat. 4 chinese resturants in 2 years were shut down because frozen dog and cat carcasses were fiund in the freezer. i used to work next to a chinese resturant and id see humane and killing traps in the back to catch strays

I personally would not eat something I’ve owned as a pet or most predators. I don’t eat felines (wild or domesticated), canines (wild or domesticated), reptiles of any kind, horse, sharks in any sense, and I’m sure there are others not listed.

I’ll eat most herbivorous animals excluding horse and most cuts of beef. I’d try a rat or a squirrel if offered. I don’t eat fish because I don’t like it. I LOVE calamari but nobody can cook it right around here (including me) so I rarely get it. I'd like to try eel.

I think my favorite meat is elk however. Those are just so tastey I can hardly stand it. And chicken, I loooove chicken.

As it is I mostly eat veggies, fruit, and breads/pasta.

Caribou in jerky sauce = awesome
Alligator = good..tastes like chicken
Ostrich = tasty
Calamari (squid) = fantastic if prepared properly I don't care too much for deep fried suckers, you chew forever and then get hardly any taste.

I almost ordered horse steak when I was in Germany, didn't quite realize it was horse at the time. I probably would have tried it if i'd been there longer.

Hey Evan, did you try tarantula? They roast them over in Asia.

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Originally Posted by Smulkin

Are Okinawans still on the top of that list? I saw a special at some point on the past on diet and overall caloric intake as it relates to longevity and I think they had the highest (oldest) life expectancy.

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my husband takes classes in okinawan kempo and weaponry--with some of the things they do to eachother i wouldn't think they'd be the longest lived!


i've probably had cat and/dog. i've eaten some pretty mysterious looking and tasting meats...ew. i don't really eat out of the ordinary things normally though. i ate a groundhog/squirrel/possum burger one time--didn't know that's what it was until afterwards, but it was grilled over charcoal and not too bad really.

bananas, ew. raisins, ew. regular milk...ok occassionally if rice milk isn't available, but definitely not preferred.

I LOVE milk!! I will go through 3 gallons a week by myself (the wife doesn't care for it).

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Originally Posted by Schlyne

Hey Evan, did you try tarantula? They roast them over in Asia.

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I had fried and roasted tarantula, as well as fried scorpion. Neither were as tasty as the other terrestrial arthropods I had. I didn't think to identify them before eating them, but I think that the tarantulas were Haplopelma albostriatum, and the scorpions were defintely Heterometrus sp.

-Evan

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Originally Posted by uro1001

it probaby was cat. 4 chinese resturants in 2 years were shut down because frozen dog and cat carcasses were fiund in the freezer. i used to work next to a chinese resturant and id see humane and killing traps in the back to catch strays

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well. that sucks. It was really good. I don't want to believe it was probably kitty :( . And my dog ate a whole bunch of it too....
oh well.

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Originally Posted by cassandra

Probably eaten cat and/or dog through unknown food - and I'm not too concerned about it. I'd rather not eat cat, that is to say, I don't think I could ever eat it intentionally.

Dog meat, sure...when in Rome. I work with a Korean who says that chow chow is a delicacy in Korea...so, if I was there, I'd have to try it.

Weirdest things I've knowingly eaten: buffalo (quite tasty!) and possum (long story).

Weird things I love that most people don't: all the really ooky sushi things (sea urchin, salmon eggs, scallops), raw oysters (only eaten when I smell the ocean cuz otherwise, it can't be fresh), anchovies (YUM!).

Normal things most people LOVE and I can't STAND!!!:
milk
bananas

Both should rot in hell - YECH!

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Cass, I think you would thrive here in south jersey where we enjoy all things from the ocean and some furry things like muskrats and raccoons. sorry no cat.

okay...so this stuff is good. haha. i just got more of the chinese food...and wanted to know before i ate it all if there is a way that i can ID it..