Bad Bungle
Tutti but not Frutti.
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A Gourmet club tried squirrel a number of years ago, I remember the Telegraph headline: Nuts put squirrel on Menu.
Why would they taste so different? Unless that's a rumour deliberately being circulated to put people off eating red squirrels? As if they need that, because it may be illegal.The rumour I heard is that Grey Squirrel tastes OK, but Red Squirrel tastes horrible, so there's hope that eating them might help get Grey populations down in the UK.
Slightly different diets, different metabolism, all sorts of possible reasons. They're not that closely related to the introduced Grey Squirrels, or even the American Red Squirrel.Why would they taste so different? Unless that's a rumour deliberately being circulated to put people off eating red squirrels? As if they need that, because it may be illegal.
Or, as you say, it might just be propaganda put about by the Woodland Trust or somebody.
I take it you were listening to "No Such Thing as a Fish" this week.
No, actually, what's that?I take it you were listening to "No Such Thing as a Fish" this week.
Unless that's a rumour deliberately being circulated to put people off eating red squirrels? As if they need that, because it may be illegal.
I read about it on an old post on an home-brewing forum, I should check out the podcast though, it sounds like something I'd be interested in.It's a podcast that spent rather a lot of time in its most recent episode discussing cock ale. Seems an odd thing to just come up twice by coincidence.
Seems like a fairly obvious solution to the wild boar problem here, too.Grey squirrels are a destructive invasive pest species. Fortunately, they are also delicious.
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Grey squirrels are a destructive invasive pest species. Fortunately, they are also delicious.
I just can't imagine you eating squirrels like Cletus from The Simpsons.
Tinned hot-dogs, cooked by the direct application of electricity.
It smells like burning human flesh!
Big Clive compares regular Princes brand hot-dogs with their fatter American-style cousins.
Enough to turn anyone Vegan!
Tinned hot-dogs, cooked by the direct application of electricity.
It smells like burning human flesh!
Big Clive compares regular Princes brand hot-dogs with their fatter American-style cousins.
Enough to turn anyone Vegan!
Pale, soggy meat and a pile of bones in a mess of gelatinous goop.
If you can bear to relive the trauma, there are a number of Youtube videos in which intrepid eaters unleash these canned alien forms.
The nearest thing I can recall eating was a tinned Chicken Supreme, which lacked the joy of the mucosal jelly but substituted a phlegmy white custard. The flavour was not very different from cream of chicken soup in a can but the texture was horrid and it resisted all attempts to enliven it with paprika etc. I suspect these sorry things are made from old laying fowl, which will tenderize only at the high temperatures possible in a canning plant! :sherlock:
Latest internet craze is eating Mukbangs, which in practice is just overeating of junkfood on Youtube.
The word MUK probably comes from what chicken nuggets are made of.
Examples:
Actually, it's a Korean thing, which started as a way for people who live alone to have company while eating, just by putting on a YouTube video. It's been kind of co-opted by American YouTubers as easy content, where usually more than one of them, or sometimes just one, talk about what's happening in their life while they eat. It's not always junk food, either, it depends on who you're watching, but a lot of people do go with mukbangs themed by a specific restaurant, or a sponsor's products.
So are most of the ones I see from American YouTubers, it's just an excuse to talk about relatively mundane stuff that might not otherwise fit into their normal content. They do, as I said, sometimes do themes with the food, or highlight a particular restaurant, but they mostly talk about other things.The Korean ones, as you say, are about far more than eating food on camera. It sounds absurd, but the food is really incidental, they could be doing almost anything universal to Korean society. It's just that eating meals with a family is so central to life on the peninsula. When you don't have it, many feel, there's a bit of a modern hole in your life.
(RE: Guinea Pigs)