• Letstakealook@lemm.ee
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    10 months ago

    A family friend once invited us over to celebrate a promotion. To celebrate, they prepared an expensive meal and had expensive alcohols. The star of the meal was a thinly sliced piece of raw horsemeat. It was not particularly interesting, though it was very tender. I think it was more intended to “share the wealth” than for its actual appeal and flavor profile, though I was a kid and there was a cultural difference, so maybe I’m wrong. Either way, it was an interesting experience.

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      10 months ago

      Horse meat is pretty good. There is a social taboo about it in the US, and it’s all but illegal here, but horses raised for meat aren’t bad.

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    10 months ago

    growing up in back country Montana I had a lot of things. hunting/trapping/fishing is still a way of life for folks, less so now but growing up I had bison, squirrel, gopher, wild turkey, grouse, beaver, bear, deer, elk, moose, antelope once when we visited the other side of the state, basically all species of fish, even snake a few times.

    I think the most exotic of all of it was probably the beaver tail. it’s really fatty/oily. it wasnt bad but I wouldnt eat very often even if it was readily available. venison or bison is more my style, or smoked brook trout.

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    10 months ago

    “Exotic” meat’s meaning animals besides the “normal” ones, are generally not great. They are novel, but the quality of the meat is low since normally the quantity of that kind of meat is low. Also there is a reason the meat is “exotic” in the first place. If it were particularly good, it would be mass produced since you can grow meat in a lot of places and the costs don’t really vary that much.

    I’d say if you want “exotic” meat, as in high quality beef or whatever, go for it. If you want "exotic’ meat like elephant meat or something like that, it’s not worthwhile.

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      10 months ago

      You are leading to the fact that initially the choice for the mass food industry was the choice of duck or chicken, the choice of chicken… That’s how it happened.

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        10 months ago

        Duck isn’t really exotic though. At many super markets you can get duck meat just like you would chicken, and duck eggs. I’d say duck is also mass produced, just obviously not as much as chicken.