rabbit


apologies to those who have heard this story before...............


some years ago we came here for hols with some Floridian friends

she insisted that real paella came with the rice on the side - not all cooked together like they do here

after all - that's 'the american way'



we persuaded her to try paella valenciana eventually


then told her she'd just eaten bugs bunny

I used to go to rabbit restaurants out in the sticks in Tenerife.
After gutting and skinning they simply chopped up whole rabbits into chunks with a big cleaver and cooked it in a big pot with a lovely sauce before placing it in the middle of the table c/w teeth, eyes, head and all.
There was usually a stampede for the eyes, even amongst the British ladies as they were always said to be especially good for the complexion.

I've never been really squeamish, foodwise


good job really, having been in the hotel & restaurant business - although I was pretty shocked walking into the larder of the country hotel I worked in during my 20's to see a deer with its head lolling off the counter



don't think I could eat eyes though

Yes, I haven't a clue what I'm eating when they call it veal, beef or pork!

That one's easy to answer. Post the reconquest, when the Inquisition was given free rein to torture kill or imprison anyone suspected of heresy, eating pork publically was an excellent way to signal that you weren't Jewish or Islamic. Given the horrific consequences of them even suspecting you weren't 100% committed to Catholic Christianity, it is hardly surprising that the population as a whole made pork its main meat.

That's it. After reading through this awful thread, I'm going to be a vegan.

Pathetic.

aren't you

Jesus H Christ, some of you people are just a short step away from cannibalism.

Well I'm not sure about cannibalism, but........

I'm not sure it's a national thing, nor cultural necessarily, maybe it's just the way we've been brought up individually. I was brought up with animals both as pets and to rear to sell and to rear to kill & eat. Have killed, plucked, drawn, etc., and eaten a kid goat, and so on. To some who've been brought up eating from supermarket vacuum packs most or all of their life, that may come as a distasteful notion. Doesn't mean they should be criticised for their parents' inability to teach them the facts of food.... and that inability may, of course, have arisen from the parents' parents' upbringing, etc. I would venture to suggest, though, that there are many side issues in this topic. Whether eating suckling pig is acceptable morally/ethically; whether we should all accept our own hypocrisy regarding meat/fish eating; whether children should receive a rounder education on nutrition in all its gory detail, being just a few.

Unless of course you did that during lent or on a friday
I realise that it's a bit of a shock for people who have lived all their lives insulated from "real" food supplies, but since we never stop learning it's just another lesson that living in Spain has to teach us. It doesn't change the meat - just 'cos you're shown were it comes from.

You´re a chicken. Visit a matanza for the real deal, best meat I´ve ever had.

Pathetic because I don't cringe when I see a picture of a pig on a packet of pork chops perhaps? Making a fuss about a picture of an animal on the packaging really is pathetic.
I had suckling pig on Christmas day. It's no big deal. It's perfectly natural to eat dead animals and accept that, that is what you are doing. Rejecting what is natural human behaviour is very strange and truly pathetic.

I´ve attended a class in marketing, where they´ve given a funny example how marketing can go horribly wrong.

A company producing babyfood had a picture of a wealthy, well nourished (white) baby on their cans with powder for babymilk. The Africans were really put off buying it, because they we´re thinking the cans contained babymeat.

It’s not natural human behaviour to eat animals, It’s only ignorant humans that think so. Fortunately, the tide is turning, and the ignorant are being driven back to the caves where they belong.