Doghead's Cosmic Bar

Well, some foods were created as delicacies by some king's chef who was trying to figure out a food the king wasn't bored with already. Stuff like caviar, peacocks under glass, etc. They used to make food sculptures, some of which had little fountains of wine in them.

I don't care how "highbrow" caviar is, eating fish eggs just seems pathetic to me.

Of course I'd assume some other dishes were created due to lack of food, but I read some book or other on the middle ages that mentioned the food sculptures and so on.

There's a difference between the dark blackish caviar which is considered "highbrow" and normal fish-eggs. I also thought the snob-caviar came from lobsters, but I might be wrong.

I love caviar, the binkish kind. I never tried the black stuff. In Norway they sell pink caviar in tubes and it's very nomal to put it on your bread. It tastes delicious.
We usually mash cod-egs and roll in into a kind of sausage. Then you cut it into slices and fry it (for dinner). It's very tasty, and when you catch the fish yourself it's free

I've always found it fascinating how foods that we are prepared to eat in one country are disgusting in another. For example, eating horsemeat is perfectly acceptable in France but not here, yet it's not so far away. When my teacher asked me why I wouldn't eat horse, I couldn't give a proper answer - it just seemed, well, wrong. But who decides these things? Who decides we can eat pigs and cows but not horses and dogs?

And we think people in India are weirdos for not wanting to eat beef. O.o

At least the people in India have a reason not to eat beef. We won't eat cats and dogs because they're "cute".

This discussion makes me wonder: what do you all think about eathing whale-meat?

I thought they were endangered.

Oh yeah, and bout horse-meat. When I was younger, I wouldn't eat it. Now I only want to eat meat from animals that have been slaughtered in a humane way. If someone put a cat to sleep in a nice way, I still wouldn't want to eat it, though.

The trouble with the thought of eating a cat is that I think about MY cat and all the other cats I have had.

But I've never had a horse. I've never even wanted a horse. So why do I think it's wrong? It's an interesting issue.

I think historically horses were not eaten because they were more useful alive.

Good point. I suppose traditions like that become embedded through the years until we reach the stage where we don't know why we do things apart from the fact that millions of dead people can't be wrong. (I'm still not going to eat a horse though)

I wouldn't eat an endangered animal knowingly...I mean, we ruin the world enough as it is, I don't want to contribute to it.

My mom refuses to eat Peking duck because it still has eyeballs and she feels like it's staring at her.

I bet a lot of us would refuse to eat animals if we had to be the one to kill them. I enjoy a good hamburger as much as anyone, but I don't think I could stand to kill a cow.

And as for horses, I presume another reason they weren't eaten in some cultures was because they were also really valuable. Eating a horse would be sort of like dismantling your nice new BMW and making sculptures out of the parts.