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Beachcomber posted:I'd really like to try horse, but horse eating countries are rather inconveniently located on the other end of long flights. Canada and France are two places I can think of that aren't too far from the US where you can get horse meat in a regular grocery store... It's not bad.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Pigs will eat you if they get a chance. Most animals will eat you given a chance 
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FrozenVent posted:Canada and France are two places I can think of that aren't too far from the US where you can get horse meat in a regular grocery store... Horse-riding, caring and exhibition is a big thing here in Spain (both economically and culturally), but you can also find places that sell horse meat. It's rarer to find it on a general grocery store though, but meat shops specializing in horse do exist. People insist it's delicious.
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Jan 28, 2017 11:01
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Japan has horse sashimi in restaurants. I didn't like it.
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Regular people didn't use to eat horse meat not because they thought horses were noble creatures, but because it wasn't economically feasible. They were expensive, owned mostly by the rich, and you weren't going to slaughter them for meat unless they had really outlived their usefulness (in which case the meat probably wasn't going to be very good). The tradition of eating horse meat in places like France didn't really start until the 19th century, when horses started getting replaced by machines and had become less effective in warfare. The reason that the same thing never thing never happened in a country like the UK is probably because the Ancien Régime has never really disappeared there, it is still a class society where the aristocracy holds much of the power, and horses were and are linked to the upper classes - at least in their role as a companion animal and status symbol. As for the US, it has historically taken its cues from the UK in more ways than they'd like to admit. On top of that, horses are linked to frontier romanticism there. For me personally, there is nothing that stops me from enjoying a good horse steak. I come from a line of peasants-turned-proletarians and it's unlikely that any of my ancestors ever owned horses, maybe a single draft horse at most. Phlegmish has a new favorite as of 12:50 on Jan 28, 2017 |
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Jan 28, 2017 12:37
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Horse meat is actually a common staple in the UK
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Jan 28, 2017 13:27
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slave aunt jemima serving her owners also:  
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Jan 28, 2017 13:46
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bitterandtwisted posted:Horse meat is actually a common staple in the UK Well, at least the false advertising is a legitimate reason to get angry.
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Jan 28, 2017 13:54
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How Imgur posters write dialogue.
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Jan 28, 2017 14:05
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Phlegmish posted:Regular people didn't use to eat horse meat not because they thought horses were noble creatures, but because it wasn't economically feasible. They were expensive, owned mostly by the rich, and you weren't going to slaughter them for meat unless they had really outlived their usefulness (in which case the meat probably wasn't going to be very good). The tradition of eating horse meat in places like France didn't really start until the 19th century, when horses started getting replaced by machines and had become less effective in warfare. Actually horse meat was openly sold and consumed in parts of the UK in the 19th-early 20th century (Yorkshire and Aberdeen among others I think?), marketed as "kicker" or "Cheval". It was never nationwide, but its drastically oversimplifying to just say "The uk never ate horse because class system", especially as until probably until the 50s the vast majority of horses in the UK were working animals, and if you think that a mine owner wouldnt try and squeeze every penny out of a pit pony even after it died in harness I dont know what to tell you. It was really WW2 that did for horse-eating in the UK.
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A misanthrope posted:slave aunt jemima serving her owners Those worked though. Yeah, they're racist as gently caress, but they sure did move pancakes.
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SiKboy posted:Actually horse meat was openly sold and consumed in parts of the UK in the 19th-early 20th century (Yorkshire and Aberdeen among others I think?), marketed as "kicker" or "Cheval". It was never nationwide, but its drastically oversimplifying to just say "The uk never ate horse because class system", especially as until probably until the 50s the vast majority of horses in the UK were working animals, and if you think that a mine owner wouldnt try and squeeze every penny out of a pit pony even after it died in harness I dont know what to tell you. It was really WW2 that did for horse-eating in the UK. Sure. I'm not denying any of that. But if a specific conception of man's relation to horses (as said, a companion animal and status symbol, literally noble creatures, rather than purely utilitarian) became dominant in the UK after WWII, I think it's very likely that the class system is involved in some way.
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Phlegmish posted:Sure. I'm not denying any of that. But if a specific conception of man's relation to horses (as said, a companion animal and status symbol, literally noble creatures, rather than purely utilitarian) became dominant in the UK after WWII, I think it's very likely that the class system is involved in some way. If anything I would be more like to assume it was the UK taking cultural cues from the US; Post war cinema (and later TV) would have a huge american influence nationwide, so the US idea that "horses are noble companion animals who represent the untamed freedom of the frontier" could just as easily have been spread by the lone ranger. Again, regional thing as in many regions of the UK horse eating never caught on full stop, but I think its a reach to assume that a farmer in rural aberdeenshire wouldnt butcher a horse that passed its point of usefulness in the 50s when he would have in the 30s because of the class system.
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FrozenVent posted:Canada and France are two places I can think of that aren't too far from the US where you can get horse meat in a regular grocery store... france is kinda far from the US, or at least i would consider it a long flight away from anywhere in the US
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Jan 28, 2017 15:33
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Do what Australia does and just eat your national animals, duh.
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Len posted:I don't know how that process works but isn't it just they do an ultrasound and go "hey there's a little penis"? Like are there any hormone differences between male and female fetus? This was several pages back, but yes there are hormonal differences between male and female fetuses (at least, after a certain point early in development). They are part of sexual differentiation. Whether any of that would really be measurable in the mother's urine is a different story. Afaik any at-home tests that claim to predict a baby's gender are bullshit, and companies that make gender prediction "tests" have been sued over it. Intelligender, one of those companies, lost a class action lawsuit for claiming their product was 90% accurate. I think they also got yelled at for lying and saying the test was FDA approved. I guess that counts as a dumb move in marketing? I feel really off topic now though, since everyone has moved on to talking about eating horses.
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Croccers posted:Do what Australia does and just eat your national animals, duh. America's national bird was almost the turkey, an animal as stupid as it is tasty. Instead we got the bald eagle, which is basically a pointier seagull.
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Bertrand Hustle posted:America's national bird was almost the turkey, an animal as stupid as it is tasty. Instead we got the bald eagle, which is basically a pointier seagull. They're regal and majestic you communist terrorist.  say 10 Hail Reagan's and your sins will be forgiven.
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Jan 28, 2017 18:09
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Wild turkeys are pretty smart, it's only the dumbfuck domestic ones that are infamous for being stupid.
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Jan 28, 2017 18:15
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I'll just make the sound of a red-tailed hawk, shall I?
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Len posted:They're regal and majestic you communist terrorist. 
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Jan 28, 2017 18:29
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No, you must make a seagull noise and then beat the poo poo out of your neighbors for the food that they worked for, before returning to your treetop. Just like the majestic Bald Eagle would do
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Bald eagles sound like gulls, so they are inevitably overdubbed with the cry of a red‐tailed hawk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PQ2uMauyBow&t=35s
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ToxicSlurpee posted:You can buy bullets coated in pig fat as well as pig fat gun lubricant in America right now for very similar reasons. That, however, is a clever move in marketing; stupid, racist rednecks apparently buy that poo poo up like crazy. quote:THIS PRODUCT IS FOR USE ON ARMED MUSLIM TERRORISTS ONLY.
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Jan 28, 2017 19:25
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GWBBQ posted:I don't remember that one from Sunday school. First result: "I will carry out great vengeance on them and punish them in my wrath. Then they will know that I am the LORD, when I take vengeance on them." So basically, Samuel L. Jackson's speech from Pulp Fiction.
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Jan 28, 2017 19:28
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Philistines, Muslims, you know, basically the same thing. These are the same people that point to passages in the Koran about warring tribes to argue that Muslims worship violence.
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That's different because Jesus, and also
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bitterandtwisted posted:Horse meat is actually a common staple in the UK
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https://twitter.com/Jolly_Rancher/status/824670216647036928 Jolly Rancher still doesn't realize that their slogan is bad. That or they do know, but "no publicity is bad publicity!"
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holy poo poo they're actually using prison rape in their advertising
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I expected some dumb misguided allusion to poorly chosen sexual humor when i clicked on that tweet. I didn't expect to see straight up porn when i scrolled down. So uh, beware of that when you're in a public place i guess
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I like that as you scroll down someone retweeted the ad only it's flagged as sensitive and you have to confirm you're willing to see it. Also I'm probably naive but I thought about Shawshank Redemption before prison rape.
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Pretty sure they intended the Shawshank thing first and then thought prison rape theme was just outrageous enough to go viral.
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So the blue razz(?) has to suck the giant jolly rancher that smashed a hole in the wall to get free? The new candy shot and killed his wife and the lover she was having an affair with?
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Jan 30, 2017 00:43
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GrandpaPants posted:Japan has horse sashimi in restaurants. I didn't like it. Nay?
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Jan 30, 2017 00:48
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Phanatic posted:Nay? Good post, take the rest of the night off, you've earned it.
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Phanatic posted:Nay? Neigh.
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ToxicSlurpee posted:You can buy bullets coated in pig fat as well as pig fat gun lubricant in America right now for very similar reasons. That, however, is a clever move in marketing; stupid, racist rednecks apparently buy that poo poo up like crazy.  The only thing I can think of when I read this poo poo is "stop throwing bakon at me!"
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AA is for Quitters posted:
I wonder if there is some "CRAZY TRICK AMERICANS DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW!" dietary poo poo ISIS tells its followers to use on the US. Like, wrap your bullets in lettuce overnight so they can't go to Infidel Heaven. Maybe it's a rainbow colored anything. Wedding cake especially. Just having a photo of one, or a rainbow colored American flag?
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Cowslips Warren posted:I wonder if there is some "CRAZY TRICK AMERICANS DONT WANT YOU TO KNOW!" dietary poo poo ISIS tells its followers to use on the US. Like, wrap your bullets in lettuce overnight so they can't go to Infidel Heaven. Buy your bullets from a proxy in a Western country with sane gun control laws. Get shot by Australian bullets, you don't get into 2nd Amendment Heaven.
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