I have seldom felt more peckish…

Out with the lass for a snack yesterday lunchtime and saw the pub menu claimed all their stack came from happy, outdoor grazing cattle.
Bet they weren't so happy when they had their throats cut.

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Originally Posted by holnrew

Foie gras is evil, but unless you don't eat other cruelly produced food it's a bit hypocritical to judge.

Glass houses and all that.

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Fairish point ... although there is humane slaughter and giving the livestock a happy and healthy life.

Or there's torturing animals for their entire lives before killing them.

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Originally Posted by Bezzer

Fairish point ... although there is humane slaughter and giving the livestock a happy and healthy life.

Or there's torturing animals for their entire lives before killing them.

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Originally Posted by Bezzer

Fairish point ... although there is humane slaughter and giving the livestock a happy and healthy life.

Or there's torturing animals for their entire lives before killing them.

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Well yes. I'd prefer it if it didn't happen, and I applaud anybody switching to more humanely reared meat.

But there's always something more you can do and somebody to judge you. Which is my point... I think...

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Originally Posted by frankieMART

I wouldn't touch any of that stuff.

Looks like overpriced, pompous snacks that somehow pass for main meals to me.

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Originally Posted by Skodster

Give me a T-bone any day. I get more than that stuck between my teeth after a meal!

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Originally Posted by Brio

You don't really understand the concept of tapas do you?

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I understand it and I reject it. I am paying for food - not foam or cubes of jelly! I actually like leaving a restaurant feeling like I have eaten something other than air (which appears to be a large portion of what they are selling)

Ooh.. Foam. That's a contentious one for me. I was strongly on the "it's pointless and extravagant" side of the fence until this year, when I had a lobster foam on a risotto in Dubai. It was amazing. Now I'm conflicted.

So yeh, foam.

Not that its going to change anybodys mind but heres a nice bit of Foie Gras

http://projectdrela.files.wordpress....uck1.jpg?w=584

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Originally Posted by stickyfiddle

Ooh.. Foam. That's a contentious one for me. I was strongly on the "it's pointless and extravagant" side of the fence until this year, when I had a lobster foam on a risotto in Dubai. It was amazing. Now I'm conflicted.

So yeh, foam.

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Foam for taste- meh.

Give me a pie any day (with real chips though). Deep fried and lathered in chippy sauce and salt mmmmmmmmm.

Foie Gras is utterly amazingly delicious. Must remember to get some next time I'm in France. Fresh Foie Gras lightly fried in Armanac or Calvados is the food of gods.

As for Michellin stars, the trick is to eat lunch as it is generally a lot cheaper.

As to the "I'd rather eat a burger, pie ect" fine. It's just like saying I only like music if its been on the X factor. A lovley combination of ignorance and inverted snobbery, and ever so English....

nice bit of casual racism there mags.