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[ SECRET POST #2770 ]

⌈ Secret Post #2770 ⌋

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Both are delicious! I absolutely love calf brains, it's a bit like comfort food for me as I remember my father searing some for us for lunch from time to time when I was a kid. Wonderful, wonderful food... so delicate and creamy, truly melt-in-your mouth stuff. Very light on the tongue.

And foie gras! OMG, stop mentioning delicacies when I am trying to watch my weight, you enabler! :D

Sorry, getting back to your secret: I understand some types of insects like crickets and certain types of worms are considered great snacks (full of proteins!) in some parts of world like Asia, Africa and South America. Maybe you could snack on those instead of bemoaning the fate of farm animals who wouldn't even be raised in such huge quantities if not destined to become our food? They certainly have much better lives and better treated than chickens who are trapped in the smallest possible metallic cages their whole lives, and have their beaks cut off: look at a few documentaries on this topic before you start discussing how different farm animal are treated.

Good luck, I'll let you get on that... :)

This comment is so strange. They're talking about not wanting to watch a show. Why would you suggest they eat insects? They seem perfectly happy being a vegetarian. You seem weirdly offended that someone doesn't like your favorite food.

DA but... they don't seem offended to me at all? Just overly excited about food.

I guess the suggestion that the OP eat insects (when it says right there that they're a vegetarian) seemed passive aggressive to me. Apologies if that wasn't the intent.

this comment is pretty patronizing ngl

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Yeah…that's the impression I got too. Mentioning "delicacies" and then describing how often they ate such delicacies as a child just reeks of "I'm more cultured than you are so why don't you go back where you belong and eat insects."

Of course, I think this was more a reaction to what the writer perceived to be the OP's moral superiority concerning eating brains and foie gras. People don't like to have their cultures criticized. That said, there's nothing inherently inferior about eating insects -- environmentally it's extremely sound, in fact.

I think a nerve just got hit by the secret.

Nope: calf brains are not expensive at all, as mentioned elsewhere, they're offal and a byproduct of the beef industry, and in some places are regularly consumed as a CHEAP delicacy: I am not sure why anyone would interpret it as "I am more cultured than you" instead of a normal "I am of a different culture than you, and was raised very poor so this was one of the few food delicacies my family could afford".

And of course there is nothing inferior about eating insects: I am not even sure why that idea should be inferred from my comment? I meant that some insects, (when fried) are considered delicious -in some cultures- and that the OP is unlikely to consider the cruelty inherent in killing insects to eat them? They also happen to be one of most nutritious and healthy proteins available, BTW and so are deemed a superior choice to strict vegan diets, apparently.

Yes, it seems as if more than one nerve was hit by this secret.

And that a bit of open-mindedness about other cultures would not come amiss, as you clearly understood.

You can also be open-minded to the choice of not eating animals at all.
I don't think you have to school OP and especially DA, who already mentioned it, on the topic of insect eating.
If you want to sound less patronizing, just give the info, don't address OP like this.

The calf brain memory itself was pretty interesting to me, although lyrically waxing about it when OP said they're disgusted by it? blah, rude.

I'm the anon who commented above thinking your comment was passive aggressive. I don't think there's anything inferior about eating insects and I didn't think that's what you were implying. But every vegetarian I've known considers insects meat and wouldn't eat them. And I thought it was weird you were suggesting food to the OP since they never mentioned wanting food recommendations, they were just stating their dislike of something in the show.

you said it better than I :)

Agreed, I really hope insect eating establishes itself even further!

yeah, everyone feels the need to justify/explain oneself on the topic. I just deleted my opinion about meat eating from this post as well, lol.

yyyyup.

"oh you poor thing, maybe you could eat some bugs?"

" Maybe you could snack on those instead of bemoaning the fate of farm animals who wouldn't even be raised in such huge quantities if not destined to become our food? They certainly have much better lives and better treated than chickens who are trapped in the smallest possible metallic cages their whole lives, and have their beaks cut off: look at a few documentaries on this topic before you start discussing how different farm animal are treated."

What the heck does this even mean? Animals deserve to endure factory farming because they are... destined to become our food? What. Chickens may have it bad, but so do... pretty much every other animal that is factory farmed.

I guess none of that bothers you, huh.

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