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On the menu: Kosher guineafowl, locust
Zvi Singer
Published: 25.07.10, 07:56
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1. That's just utterly GROSS!!!! - EWWWW!!!!
Talula ,   Israel   (07.25.10)
2. The idea of locusts being kosher...
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv   (07.25.10)
... is probaby the smartest thing in the whole kosher dietary code. Thing about it. When locusts swarm, crops are destroyed and there is nothing to eat. But the locusts. The original not seething calves in their mother's milk was kind-spirited too, but the OCD development of it in the Diaspora seemed a spiteful exercise to make things difficult.
3. To #1
M. Hartley ,   Atlatna, US   (07.25.10)
At least the article didn't mention prairie oysters and boiled okra! Talk about EWWWWWWWWWWWW!
4. Presented on TV, I almost gagged in
miri ,   israel   (07.25.10)
disbelief. Pray tell, what is the sense in this ?
5. My previous TB - I hadn't read the
miri ,   israel   (07.25.10)
article - I now see it is a OneTime thing - idiotic !
6. to #1 and #3 it's all in the cultur and its taboo
ghostq   (07.25.10)
I mean it's no different than to drink taquila with worm inside, or to eat fish eggs, or to eat liver or to eat any eggs. I think you r not that open minded, and when it come to starving like we see in china people get creative, so before you say EWWWWWWWWWWU some people really like to eat those things. in afrika they really love the grasshopers, they eat them like snackes, good proteins source, they don't kill them, really amazing to watch them.
7. Since when is swordfish on the menu? It's
Rachel ,   Tel Aviv, Israel   (07.25.10)
a threatened species in the US and it is banned from sale or import there. Not to mention the warnings on its consumption by pregnant, breast-feeding or women of child-bearing years due to its high mercury content. Buffalo is one thing. It is widely farmed and is grown domestically, but to promote the consumption of a threatened or endangered species of animal or fish just so someone can have a gastronomical oddity on their plates is irresponsible journalism.
8. To #6
M. Hartley ,   Atlanta, US   (07.25.10)
Growing up during WWII, I ate all sorts of garbage, not to mention split pea soup with more black bugs in it than peas and all our mother's suggestion to pretend they're little pieces of meat didn't make that stuff more appealing. Then again, my son, about 3, eating big, fat rain worms off the garden walk, and proudly showing off all the "red basghetti" he had caught, wasn't any better. If push came to shove, holding my nose and closing my eyes, no telling what I'd eat to stay alive. As times are not quite that bad, I'll pass on the prairie oysters, grasshoppers, "red basghetti," and boiled okra, the latter looking for all the world like lumpy, green glue, the mere sight of which in a while dish spoiling one's appetite for whatever real goodies are on the table. I suspect that okra was created primarily for Creole and Cajun cuisine. Hidden among the tasty ingredients, it gives that delicious gumbo and jambalaya just the right "cohesion" aka glues it together. Since my daughter went to the U of NO, I've been there, seen it, eaten it, and have the mardi gras souvenirs to prove it. BTW, do you know what prairie or mountain oysters are? If you did, you may want to pass on that bit of somebody's culture :-)
9. #3 Prarie Oysters are kosher, and okra is...
Dorothy Friend ,   Tel Aviv, israel   (07.26.10)
...available at every vetegable stand in Israel. And speakingof those Prarie Oysters, my Yemanite cookbook has a recipe for something euphamistically called "geed". Ask around.
10. to #8 wow good amazing story
ghostq   (07.26.10)
thank you, you just made my day! I had a classmate she came from Hungary, not many people know it but in the communism era there was a serious years oh hunger, people were starving, and line to recieve food were long, very long people nearly killed each other for peice of bread, so the more cheap alternative to meat was, cat food, from a can, I don't have to tell you what it contain, it basically the fish or crabs or shrimps parts no human eats, but that was cheap and in hand reach, she told me that childhood experience from the 80's. unbelieveable.
11. To #9
M. Hartely ,   Atlanta, US   (07.26.10)
I love that okra fried. As for those "oysters," maybe they'd do, if I were starving. I'll get back to you on the geed. When I ask about it, will someone laugh, turn green in the face or call me a vile name? :-)
12. No. 10 ghostq
NYC Girl   (07.26.10)
Actually, it might surprise you to learn there were elderly people in America eating cat food also. Of course, it was scandalous that in a country like this people should have been reduced to eating pet food, but there are a lot of people who lived below the poverty line and it seemed to be their only alternative. Fortunately, we don't hear about that happening too much these days, but with the state of our economy now, it wouldn't surprise me if it's becoming more common again.
13. Have a kosher vegetarian feast!!!!!!!!!!
Noa   (07.27.10)
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