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Could You Eat An Elephant?
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Fergus Henderson and Jeremy Lee are two of the UK's most daring chefs. Both are at the frontline of 'nose to tail' eating, which literally means that everything is on the menu. Now they are being sent on an epic culinary journey across Europe, Asia and Africa to truly test their own limitations. The duo attempt to eat their way up through the ladder of animals considered taboo for consumption in Britain but very much part of the daily diet in other parts of the world. (From the UK) (Documentary) M (A) CC WS


i stumbled across this last night on SBS & got to where they had just started eating snakes, followed by cheese maggots, rats, dogs, monkeys & finally an elephant....i thought the footage of skinning a monkey was a bit off though, the chefs didn't eat everything, they tried dog & when they saw the 'kennel' they came from they said they wouldn't have tried it had they known, as for rat they could handle 'free range' rats in rice fields etc but when some were caught in sewers they declined


so could you eat
snakes,
cheese maggots (deliberately letting flies drop into the cheese)
rats,
dogs,
monkeys
or
elephants ????

i would presume snails & other 'delecacies' were on earlier in the show.....as for me i couldn't eat any of these aniMALs

bayman wrote:i would presume snails & other 'delecacies' were on earlier in the show.....as for me i couldn't eat any of these aniMALs

Doubt they'd include snails...not exactly 'taboo' food. Don't like them much myself...always too much garlic for me...but they're quite common on menu's in restaurants all over UK/Europe.

Regards
JAS

JAS wrote:

bayman wrote:i would presume snails & other 'delecacies' were on earlier in the show.....as for me i couldn't eat any of these aniMALs

Doubt they'd include snails...not exactly 'taboo' food. Don't like them much myself...always too much garlic for me...but they're quite common on menu's in restaurants all over UK/Europe.

Regards
JAS

as i said i didn't see the start but they had mentioned that they started this journey in france, so i automatically thought snails , as for 'taboo' food well that's what they were doing going through the different species that get eaten all over the world yet in england it is taboo & it'd be taboo with me as well

I could eat a snake - I've eaten frog and alligator which to me is sort of similar. I could eat cheese maggots and possibly a rat. I could not eat a dog, a monkey or an elephant.

I love eating Skippy and thinking of eating Bambi .tried Buffalo met-wurst /salami
Elephant maybe
Dog/rat nope
Monkey once heard an SAS survival expert say .they learnt to eat every thing in the jungles of Borneo.The only problem was with monkey once skinned they looked human .so no I wouldn't try it.

Seen a couple of UK shows with American Red Squirrel (pest in the uk) caught killed .And cooked on sticks LMAO and PSML .Not for me either

Also seen one of the same people eat Calf's testicles yuk not for me either

Mickyj wrote:I love eating Skippy and thinking of eating Bambi .tried Buffalo met-wurst /salami
Elephant maybe
Dog/rat nope
Monkey once heard an SAS survival expert say .they learnt to eat every thing in the jungles of Borneo.The only problem was with monkey once skinned they looked human .so no I wouldn't try it.

Seen a couple of UK shows with American Red Squirrel (pest in the uk) caught killed .And cooked on sticks LMAO and PSML .Not for me either

Also seen one of the same people eat Calf's testicles yuk not for me either

Do try Bambi Micky if you get the chance...probably one of the most expensive native meats here but my god it's soooo delicious

Btw it's the Yankie grey squirrel that's over here killing our native red squirrels. Because, once caught/trapped, it's illegal to re-release a grey one as they are officially pests/vermin there are quite a few chefs and even MP's calling for them to be sold as meat for eating...I'd definitely give them a try.

Although available here at a ludicroius, trendy, celeb chef price I'm hoping to try some skippy and maybe emu while I'm over in Adelaide. I did try ostrich when I was in Prague...had it tartare (raw) too so it was a bit tasteless but I'd try it again cooked.

I think I'd be willing to try most meats as long as they had been farmed/hunted/butchered in what we think of as a humanitarian way. I'd draw the line at insects,bugs and grubs I think.

Regards
JAS

Regards
JAS

I reckon I ate bush-rat on many occasions when in West Africa. Locals would grill up skewers of odd-looking meat from the roadside and serve it in bread with fried potatoes and onions. For a few cents it made a cheap breakfast or lunch, though a good flossing was usually needed afterward.

Recently, while on a bike trip through rural Laos, we stopped at in a small village to get a feed. As we sat down, our cook walks out to a bloke on a motorbike holding up two dead rats by the tail. She pays him, takes the rats and walks back into the kitchen. I loaded my rat-meat foe with chilli paste that day!

Just watched it on the SBS website. Thanks...er, sort of amp;

I don't mind my middle class sensibilities being shaken a little but seeing two guys laughing at animal cruelty (snake skinned alive, eating its beating heart, ripping out the teeth of live rats with pliers etc) with quaint Looney Tunes music in the background was a bit much personally.

The creepy looking guy was a special guest on Masterchef wasn't he?

No thanks.

I couldn't eat a whole one...

Im on the Atkins Diet - yes - all of it

I could but not all in one sitting. It would take a while to get through!

While in Kruger National Park I tried several varieties of Biltong [dried raw meat] - Elephant, Buffalo, Impala, Kudu.
None of them really excited me as food, but the Kudu Poike - a local stew recipe - was pleasant.
I do prefer my elephants etc. cooked...

I am tipping that plenty of people have eaten horse meat in various brands of meat pies without ever knowing it! "meat" being a generic term at some bakeries?