Anyways, I didn't eat this one. But I did take a bunch of pictures of him. As usual, you can find more here.
Monday, July 2, 2007
Big Bird
I often find myself looking at swans and wondering if they are edible. I mean, that's a lot of meat. I guess the fact that there are a lot around here and they have yet to show up in the grocery stores should be an indication. On the other hand, it's quite possible the I've eaten swan several times and just not known the word for it in French. Or that it comes under the infamous "escalope" umbrella, which basically means "a piece of meat". And then the waiter looks at you funny when you ask what kind.
Anyways, I didn't eat this one. But I did take a bunch of pictures of him. As usual, you can find more here.
Anyways, I didn't eat this one. But I did take a bunch of pictures of him. As usual, you can find more here.
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Swans are edible, in fact, and in the old days when you couldn't eat meat for ANY of Lent, they counted as fish and were permitted.
or so it was implied, in a book i read a billion years ago and for some reason can still remember these kind of details from.
Excellent - that gives me almost a year to find recipes...
mmmm....meat.
that sounds about as barbaric as eating horse or some baby animal. But then, I am a bit sensitive, ever since I saw a pig get butchered on a farm in Brasil. Shiver. I very seriously considered going vegetarian.
As far as I'm concerned, the key is to avoid as much of the "going from animal to food" process as possible. When they have feathers or fur or whatever, they're supposed to be played with. When they don't. they should come wrapped in plastic on a styrofoam tray. I'm really not interested in anything in between...
Unashamed denial. I like it. I've used the denial quite a bit myself but the unashamed part is useful.
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