So a couple of weeks ago i decided on purchasing half a lamb £70 delivered from Yorkshire.
Going down a treat at the moment.
Next on the list im thinking of going the whole hog.
Has anyone on here in the past or currently bought a whole pig or even a side of beef?
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only kidding Mrs SB
Bought an 1/8th of a steer from a local farmer friend, filled the fricking freezer up.
Meat is lovely.
falls off the bone.
The boy decided 3 weeks ago to go veggie, vegan whatever.
Met up with him today i asked him whats he having for dinner.
It was some beef thing that tastes like beef but is some veggie beef.
If i was to turn veggie ,vegan or armardilo tomorrow i wouldnt be eating anything that tastes like meat.
Id be sticking to the lettuce leaf
there is no such thing, it’s tofu in batter and chips
I find the smell of heated flesh, fat, grease and sinew quite nauseating. The stench gets in the curtains, clothes on the line, bedding, etc. Same as garden bonfires. It's all about the person doing the thing - whether cooking or burning green 'waste'; the private becomes the public and it's a stinking, antisocial nuisance that many find truly offensive.
Seen as a bit hypocritical.
Is that balanced out by calling a dead hen a chicken, or a dead pig bacon?
I'm not veggie full time but I eat veggie meals 4 or 5 times a week. dont go in for meat replacements, I prefer to have meals that either don't need meat (pizza is a great example) or stuff designed to be vegetarian (veggie tray bakes with halloumi is my favourite, butternut squash chilli is great). I also try and cut down on processed meat as much as possible particularly processed red meat such as mince. Great ways to do this is that any meal that requires mince (bolognese, chilli, lasagne) use a quarter of the amount you would usually use and make up the rest with lentils, beans, pulses, diced mushrooms or onions even grated carrot work well. Cook it all as normal. You'll get the same flavour but be so much better for you. Also wont eat meat with nitrates in (supermarket bacon is out - go to a butchers) as its horribly bad for you.
My main reasons for this are health, my dad had cancer a couple years ago and have been much more careful what I put in my body ever since. Also the environment and conservation are important and cutting down on red meat is good for this.
My issue with veggie or vegan food you get when out is that it is usually 'technically vegan' in that it contains no animal products but for me it also has to be 'vegan in spirit'. For me this is about the health benefits and also the wider environmental or conservation impacts of the food. Was it produced sustainably? Was a disproportionate amount of water used in its production?(big issue for a lot of vegan food) was it produced locally? Personally I would much rather have a meal including chicken if it had been farmed ethically and sustainably, with conservation in mind and locally than a vegan meal that was bad for the local environment overused water, didn't account for conservation and then was shipped halfway round the world.
Having said all that I am currently designing an outdoor kitchen for when I get a house complete with bbq, wood burning pizza oven and rotisserie.
Was that too dear?
Numerous times I've had to shut windows - on a hot day, when I would rather not have the windows closed - but the reeking, stomach-churning stench gets in anyway.
The odour of dead animal parts being heated makes me feel physically sick and on so many occasions over the years I have been forced to leave the house.
Cook the poor creature in the kitchen, perhaps? No! We'll do it outdoors - because we can. And sod anyone that doesn't like it. (Or, more likely, no 'Sod'. Because the BBQ maestro - often male - didn't think of the affect on others at all, ever).
A little dry, but the taste 😋
Is this reaction to the smell of a BBQ widespread amongst vegetarians / vegans? I've had plenty of BBQs with vegetarian friends, who get fish, veg, haloumi kebabs etc using a different side of the BBQ and their own tongs, who have never mentioned the impact on them of me cooking a chicken breast.
"It's all about the person doing the thing - whether cooking or burning green 'waste'; the private becomes the public and it's a stinking, antisocial nuisance that many find truly offensive."
As to veggie products labelled as being fish, chicken etc I see them as transitional foods. They help a lot of people wean themselves off their old diet and into their new one. Can’t see the harm in this personally.
The stench of whatever the meat based thing a person eats pervades the whole train carriage.
Makes me gag.