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[V-Adore]

This thread has basically convinced me that I'll never be worthy to eat again.

[Doc]

This thread has basically convinced me that I'll never be worthy to eat again.

Or at least nothing I ever cook will be worth eating, like I make an elaborate souffle or such and just stare at it because it is innately terrible to the point that when I eventually give it to my dog in disgust she won't even look at it.

[V-Adore]

Or at least nothing I ever cook will be worth eating, like I make an elaborate souffle or such and just stare at it because it is innately terrible to the point that when I eventually give it to my dog in disgust she won't even look at it.

Yeah, that's pretty much it. I can make myself a nice pork chop, say, but it will be all wrong because it's real pork I bought at Giant Eagle on the criterion of "priced reasonably, looks fresh and okay," and therefore endless misery on a level my mind cannot fathom went into this individual pork chop. If I cook it and eat it, and especially if I enjoy either of these processes, I am personally adding to the suffering of the world, and I am keeping myself in this hideous slavery because of it. Every time I buy food, prepare it, and consume it, some part of the soul of the Earth shrivels to nothing, and when the Judgment Day comes it will be my burden to bear before God. Plus, it's probably shitty, because obviously I don't understand food well enough to cook it, and if I think it's good that only indicate what delusional mental slavery I have succumbed to.

Maybe I should get into mycoprotein, or possibly sustenance purely by respiration. It worked for the saints, didn't it?

[side_show]

V, what you need to do is go out, get a nice fresh quail, roast it up and eat it while you hear it in your head whimpering "Thou shalt not eat meeeee!'  If you can conquer this, you will know you've got ovaries, and you will over come all your angst.

Also: Quail eggs - WTF?  Who eats those things?  Who fries up a tiny little quail egg and serves it with tiny bacon and tiny hashed browns?  Whoever does this is a smarmy show off whom I am embarrassed for.

[Doc]

Oooh quail's legs are tasty. I ate some once without realising what they were, do you suppose everything cute is also delicious? Because that's going to have a big influence on my future eating habits.

[wombat]

Ballet, eggs and linguistics are not so very easily molded into a stereotype.

Food and linguistics often go together in my experience, actually.  But ballet....uh, not so much.

[Choop]

food + ballet = WAR AMONGST THE SENSES


Quail eggs are so yummy. They're like super-awesome to soft-boil and smear across a piece of buttered wheat toast. It's heaven in your hand.

[slink]

Indeed, Quail eggs are the tastiest eggs of all, even just as little hard boiled things of wonder, served with some good parma ham, bread and tomatoes in fine olive oil.
Duck eggs are damned fine too, a richer egg than a chicken egg, and even better as soft boiled.
Was it here that the Penguin egg was brought up? If not, apparently when hard boiled, the white remains transparent, leaving you with a floating yolk. They do however, logically, taste a little giraffey... Very good for you though.

[jaydub]

Ostrich >> Chicken > Quail



Edit for lame BBCode table:

Dia	Vol (cc)	Bird
15 cm	1770	Ostrich
4.6 cm	50	Chicken
2.7 cm	10	Quail

                   
I'm sure this comes as a surprise to no one (and the table was way more trouble than its worth).

[theinevitable]

I have been told that Ostrich eggs are hell of tasty.

I want some soft-boiled eggs so much. I might do this soon.

But... this will involve having to go shopping. Last time it ended up taking me around 3 hours to get to Target and back. Target is NOT THAT FAR AWAY.

I will have to look up how to soft-boil. I feel like it's similar to hard-boiling, but you take the eggs out earlier?

edit: yes, it is. I will do this soon.

[Carlos del Vaca]

I have been told that Ostrich eggs are hell of tasty.

I've seen them used on various Food Network shows.  You have to saw those fuckers open.

[slink]

I've seen them used on various Food Network shows.  You have to saw those fuckers open.

And they're enough for about five people!

[theinevitable]

my grandparents gave my parents ostrich eggs to put in our house. I swear they had a little hole in them because they had been drained.

Apparently, however, one of them violently exploded in the middle of the night (the insides had rotted) and covered our living room with rotten yolk.

[Muse_Of_Fire]

Bah... I eat supermarket and "convenience" foods just as often (although I try to make as healthy choices as possible). While I would love to be able to only eat organically-raised food that has been raised on holy wafers and massaged by virgins every day on its way to the peaceful euthanasia it experiences under choirs of angels before making it to my fridge, it's not always possible. I'm a busy person with a demanding full-time job and a demanding part-time job, so about half the time dinner is a matter of throwing a couple of factory-raised (cringes, knowing this will likely upset linnea) supermarket chicken breasts under the broiler and tearing into a bag of pre-mixed green salad. Reality compels me to do it this way until I am in an income bracket where buying the happy local food 100% of the time isn't prohibitive, and where I have the luxury of having the free time to prepare it well.

Until then, I try to maintain a balance and support the local responsible farms as much as I can within the framework of my life as it currently stands. But it's by no means the entirety of my pantry.

Food is spiritual to me, sure; but if I can extend the analogy--I'm not one of those religious folks who looks down on others for having different beliefs. Whatever works for you, it's cool.

I so don't mean to come across as a food snob. *frets*

My apologies if I've done so.

Here's an egg question for all y'all:

How do you scramble your eggs? There are lots of ways to do this. What's your preferred method? Oil or butter? Scramble in the pan or in a bowl first? Low heat or a higher heat? Etc.

[linnea]

Dude...Muse, I'm not knocking you for eating that way. The system is set up for everyone to eat that way. Unless you've got a ton of money, it's difficult to get healthy food or avoid factory farmed meat. It's really sad, but it's true.

The post-industrial society that we live in means that there's a huge disconnect between the end consumer and where stuff actually comes from. It comes with the territory, but I just think that's weird. I remember reading in a Childcraft book when I was like 6 years old, and it said that flour came from wheat. I was confused. I thought, "what the hell is wheat?" It sounds funny now because we're in the Information Age and I could probably pull up a bazillion photos of wheat and flour milling operations in half a second, but in 1984 I had never seen wheat before, and I had no idea how it became flour.

I mean...isn't our crazy agribusiness model the reason why the US had so much food, but Russia had hardly any? Americans were getting clogged arteries from Wonder Bread and pork and processed cheez food, and Russians had to stand in line for days to get a loaf of bread? All that stuff is going to come at a price, sooner or later. Maybe we'll invent a way out of the hole we're digging for ourselves? For example, trawling the oceans might produce high profits and high yields now, but by 2048 when there's no more wild seafood to be had and all the benthic habitats are destroyed...well, people might sing a different tune by then. Have fun with your farm-raised salmon with sea lice.