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Old 9 January 2018, 11:23 PM   #1
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Am I the only one on TRF that like............................

.....smoked eel?
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:24 PM   #2
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:27 PM   #3
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Hmm, I knew I was one of the few on the forum with good taste but really, the only one?
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:35 PM   #4
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Mon I’ve eaten lots of strange things and I’ll try anything pretty much but eel, probably not.
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:38 PM   #5
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:39 PM   #6
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:41 PM   #7
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Smoked eel is good when done well. Otherwise, the cat won’t even eat it.
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:43 PM   #8
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When I was a kid, we would go fishing in Rockaway Bay (NYC). We used to catch eels. I would bring them home and my grandparents would eat them. But not me.

Don’t ask me what kind then were. I don’t remember what I had for dinner last night.
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:47 PM   #9
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I heard it taste just like chicken.

Or was that frog legs?

I can’t remember.
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:48 PM   #10
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I heard it taste just like chicken.

Or was that frog legs?

I can’t remember.
More like Bald Eagle.
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:48 PM   #11
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Smoked eel is good when done well. Otherwise, the cat won’t even eat it.
If flat smoked = butterflied I guarantee the cat would eat it.
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:51 PM   #12
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More like Bald Eagle.

Ah, the other other white meat.

I like dark meat.

Is eel dark or white meat?
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:54 PM   #13
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Ah, the other other white meat.

I like dark meat.

Is eel dark or white meat?
Golden brown (when smoked).
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Old 9 January 2018, 11:54 PM   #14
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Fried frog legs taste just like fried chicken wings except they have a more bones and less meat. Unless you get lucky with an oversized frogs, I don't know any beefing up frogs with steroids like they do chicken.

Unagi (eel with teriyaki sauce) over rice, served at Japanese restaurants, is delicious

I did not like Zebra when I tried it in Paris.

Balut is also disgusting. I still remember the first time I tried it when I could feel the light prickle of the fetus' hair and then a crunch when I bit down on the beak.
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Fried frog legs taste just like fried chicken wings except they have a more bones and less meat. Unless you get lucky with an oversized frogs, I don't know any beefing up frogs with steroids like they do chicken.

Unagi (eel with teriyaki sauce) over rice, served at Japanese restaurants, is delicious

I did not like Zebra when I tried it in Paris.

Balut is also disgusting. I still remember the first time I tried it when I could feel the light prickle of the fetus' hair and then a crunch when I bit down on the beak.
You get better legs from frogs gigged at the edge of rice fields. Giant legs on those bad boys.

I didn’t like zebra, buffalo, or wildebeast. Strongly gamey.

I dont know where you buy your chicken, but the world’s largest producers don’t use steroids. Urban myth propegated by the criminally uninformed.
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Fried frog legs taste just like fried chicken wings except they have a more bones and less meat. Unless you get lucky with an oversized frogs, I don't know any beefing up frogs with steroids like they do chicken.

Unagi (eel with teriyaki sauce) over rice, served at Japanese restaurants, is delicious

I did not like Zebra when I tried it in Paris.

Balut is also disgusting. I still remember the first time I tried it when I could feel the light prickle of the fetus' hair and then a crunch when I bit down on the beak.
I’ve eaten monkey and that tasted like stringy beef, but maybe that was more because of that particular monkey.

I was in Korea but I don’t think I ever ate dog. Besides even though they ate dogs there weren’t that many dogs.

I was in Australia but i’m pretty sure I didn’t eat any Kangaroo’s. Although the time I was there, there was an incident where someone had shipped Kangaroo meat instead of cow to the States. I know had it been me I would have been hopping mad.
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You get better legs from frogs gigged at the edge of rice fields. Giant legs on those bad boys.

I didn’t like zebra, buffalo, or wildebeast. Strongly gamey.

I dont know where you buy your chicken, but the world’s largest producers don’t use steroids. Urban myth propegated by the criminally uninformed.
Does KFC count? Maybe that's terrible assumption on my part, I usually cook my own so it's not a huge issue for me, I was just trying to paint a picture with the comparison. But seriously, some drumsticks can get pretty damn big in Chinatown..
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Does KFC count? Maybe that's terrible assumption on my part, I usually cook my own so it's not a huge issue for me, I was just trying to paint a picture with the comparison. But seriously, some drumsticks can get pretty damn big in Chinatown..
It's because it's dog wings.
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I’ve eaten monkey and that tasted like stringy beef, but maybe that was more because of that particular monkey.

I was in Korea but I don’t think I ever ate dog. Besides even though they ate dogs there weren’t that many dogs.

I was in Australia but i’m pretty sure I didn’t eat any Kangaroo’s. Although the time I was there, there was an incident where someone had shipped Kangaroo meat instead of cow to the States. I know had it been me I would have been hopping mad.
Eating monkeys are legal? Do they kill the monkey for consumption? Seems kind of cruel and brutal when thinking about a monkey..even the one that tried stealing my damn bag of chips in the monkey park in Thailand
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It's because it's dog wings.
Eating a chicken's ass is a thing in some cultures I promise
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Eating a chicken's ass is a thing in some cultures I promise
Well, we eat eggs that comes out of there so why not?
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Does KFC count? Maybe that's terrible assumption on my part, I usually cook my own so it's not a huge issue for me, I was just trying to paint a picture with the comparison. But seriously, some drumsticks can get pretty damn big in Chinatown..
Production chicken has been bred over the last 75 years to put a lot of meat on very quickly. It is breeding, not chemical intervention, that makes for big chickens. The difference between a big chicken in the store and a small chicken in the store will be the age of the bird at slaughter. A 6 pound bird might be 48 days old and an 8 pound bird 65 days old.
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Production chicken has been bred over the last 75 years to put a lot of meat on very quickly. It is breeding, not chemical intervention, that makes for big chickens. The difference between a big chicken in the store and a small chicken in the store will be the age of the bird at slaughter. A 6 pound bird might be 48 days old and an 8 pound bird 65 days old.
If there is no chemical intervention with these chickens then I am going to have a talk with Costco. They have been tricking me all these years putting the Organic chicken breasts right next to the non organic breasts.

By the way your name looks familiar. I think I voted for your bald head to cover up that lesion that made me laugh
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Well, we eat eggs that comes out of there so why not?
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If there is no chemical intervention with these chickens then I am going to have a talk with Costco. They have been tricking me all these years putting the Organic chicken breasts right next to the non organic breasts.

By the way your name looks familiar. I think I voted for your bald head to cover up that lesion that made me laugh
Organic is different. That means the feed is all organic, non GMO.

A BC huckle is good now and again.
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.....smoked eel?
Not something I would want. But I saw a documentary on a family in one of the Scandinavian countries that fishes for them and makes them, showed how they go about it. Was interesting.
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I prefer octopus but i wouldn't mind trying that. Well i eat everything with a pulse less humans and i - most probably - already had cats and dogs on these dodgy kabab shops in the UK.
Am i also one of a kind?
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Old 10 January 2018, 02:15 AM   #28
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I prefer octopus but i wouldn't mind trying that. Well i eat everything with a pulse less humans and i - most probably - already had cats and dogs on these dodgy kabab shops in the UK.
Am i also one of a kind?
Dog is ok, but cat is nasty. Way worse than monkey. Almost as bad as skunk.
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Dog is ok, but cat is nasty. Way worse than monkey. Almost as bad as skunk.
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Old 10 January 2018, 02:22 AM   #30
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It's an aquired taste but I enjoy it very much.

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